1 00:00:01,741 --> 00:00:04,301 First Creative Union 2 00:00:06,144 --> 00:00:11,004 Filmov Studio Barrandov Allianz Filmproduction Zepoli Filmove 3 00:00:12,608 --> 00:00:16,060 Alexander Pushkin 4 00:00:17,857 --> 00:00:21,114 Boris Godunov 5 00:00:23,323 --> 00:00:29,044 Written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk 6 00:00:30,639 --> 00:00:34,029 Cinematography by Vadim Yusov 7 00:00:35,530 --> 00:00:39,140 Production Design by Vladimir Aronin 8 00:00:40,973 --> 00:00:43,459 Costume Design by Lidiya Novi 9 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,934 Original Music by Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov 10 00:00:55,057 --> 00:00:57,563 Director: Igor Petrov 11 00:00:59,473 --> 00:01:02,694 Sound by Alexander Pogosyan 12 00:01:04,518 --> 00:01:08,475 Make-up: Tamara Gaidukova Director: Roman Tsurtsumiya 13 00:01:09,871 --> 00:01:13,064 Production Director: Valery Malkov 14 00:01:33,406 --> 00:01:37,549 Cast: Vyacheslav Butenko, Yelena Bondarchuk, Gennady Mitrofanov 15 00:01:37,669 --> 00:01:43,618 Valeriy Storozhik, Yuri Lazarev, Vladimir Sedov 16 00:01:43,738 --> 00:01:49,594 Georgi Burkov, Vadim Aleksandrov, Irina Skobtseva 17 00:01:49,714 --> 00:01:54,929 Kira Golovko, Lyudmila Korshakova, Fyodor Bondarchuk 18 00:01:55,049 --> 00:02:00,728 Khenek Mahalitsa, Olgerd Lukashevich, Marian Dziedziel 19 00:02:00,848 --> 00:02:06,677 Vladimir Novikov, Viktor Yakovlev, Oleg Mikhajlov 20 00:02:06,797 --> 00:02:12,070 Boris Khimichev, Aleksandr Titorenko, Norbert Kuchinke 21 00:02:12,190 --> 00:02:18,015 Viktor Smirnov, Yuriy Sherstnyov, Vladimir Ferapontov 22 00:02:18,135 --> 00:02:23,666 Yura Matyukhin, Valeri Sheptekita, Galina Dyomina 23 00:02:23,786 --> 00:02:29,485 Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Yerofeyev, Aleksandr Sajko 24 00:02:29,605 --> 00:02:33,218 Wladyslaw Komar, Volodya Latnik 25 00:02:38,692 --> 00:02:43,845 One last tale... 26 00:02:43,965 --> 00:02:47,448 and my chronicle is finished 27 00:02:47,568 --> 00:02:53,470 My duty to God is now fulfilled. 28 00:03:50,827 --> 00:03:54,477 February 20, 1598 29 00:03:55,342 --> 00:03:59,587 To keep the city's peace, that is the task entrusted to us twain 30 00:03:59,707 --> 00:04:05,548 but you forsooth have little need to watch; Moscow is empty 31 00:04:05,668 --> 00:04:09,664 What if our ruler be sick in very deed of cares of state 32 00:04:09,784 --> 00:04:14,565 And hath no strength to mount the throne? What say'st thou? 33 00:04:14,822 --> 00:04:20,467 I say that in that case the blood in vain Flowed of the young tsarevich, 34 00:04:20,587 --> 00:04:24,880 that Dimitry might just as well be living. 35 00:04:25,492 --> 00:04:28,111 Fearful crime! 36 00:04:28,231 --> 00:04:31,164 Is it beyond all doubt Boris contrived The young boy's murder? 37 00:04:31,284 --> 00:04:36,602 Who besides? Who else bribed Chepchugov in vain? 38 00:04:36,722 --> 00:04:40,005 Who sent in secret The brothers Bityagovsky with Kachalov? 39 00:04:40,125 --> 00:04:42,653 Monstrous misdeed! 40 00:04:42,773 --> 00:04:47,407 Listen; I warrant you Remorse already gnaws the murderer; 41 00:04:47,527 --> 00:04:51,306 Be sure the blood of that same innocent child Will hinder him from mounting to the throne. 42 00:04:51,426 --> 00:04:57,114 That will not baulk him; Boris is not so timid! 43 00:04:57,234 --> 00:05:01,482 What honour for ourselves, ay, for all Russia! 44 00:05:01,602 --> 00:05:06,359 A slave of yesterday, a Tartar, son By marriage of Maliuta, of a hangman, 45 00:05:06,479 --> 00:05:11,590 Himself in soul a hangman, he to wear The crown and robe of Monomakh! 46 00:05:12,301 --> 00:05:15,532 You are right; he is of lowly birth; we twain can boast a nobler lineage. 47 00:05:15,652 --> 00:05:16,642 Indeed we may! 48 00:05:16,762 --> 00:05:21,328 Let us remember, Shuisky, Vorotinsky Are, let me say, born princes. 49 00:05:21,448 --> 00:05:24,645 Yea, born princes, And of the blood of Rurik. 50 00:05:24,765 --> 00:05:32,119 Listen, prince; Then we, 'twould seem, should have the right to mount Feodor's throne. 51 00:05:32,731 --> 00:05:36,090 - Rather than Godunov. - In very truth 'twould seem so. 52 00:05:36,210 --> 00:05:39,806 And what then? If still Boris pursue his crafty ways, 53 00:05:39,926 --> 00:05:43,948 Let us contrive by skilful means to rouse The people. Let them turn from Godunov; 54 00:05:44,068 --> 00:05:50,629 Princes they have in plenty of their own; Let them from out their number choose a tsar. 55 00:05:51,056 --> 00:05:55,796 He is inexorable! He thrust from him Prelates, boyars, and Patriarch; 56 00:05:55,916 --> 00:06:02,350 in vain prostrate they fall; the splendour of the throne affrights him. 57 00:06:02,610 --> 00:06:09,189 - O, my God, who is to rule us? - O, woe to us! 58 00:06:09,309 --> 00:06:13,729 See! The Chief Minister is coming out to tell us what the Council has now resolved. 59 00:06:13,849 --> 00:06:21,146 Silence! Silence! He speaks, The Minister of State. Hush, hush! Give ear! 60 00:06:21,266 --> 00:06:26,738 The Council have resolved for the last time To put to proof the power of supplication 61 00:06:26,858 --> 00:06:30,012 Upon our ruler's mournful soul. 62 00:06:30,132 --> 00:06:38,000 We all will go to pray once more the queen to pity fatherless Moscow, 63 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:44,109 and to consecrate Boris unto the crown. 64 00:06:44,337 --> 00:06:53,190 Pray; and to Heaven shall rise The heart's petition of the orthodox. 65 00:08:32,093 --> 00:08:35,637 To plead with the tsaritsa in her cell Now are they gone. 66 00:08:35,757 --> 00:08:40,520 Thither have gone Boris, The Patriarch, and a host of boyars. 67 00:08:49,074 --> 00:08:55,522 - What news? - Still is he obdurate; yet there is hope. 68 00:08:55,642 --> 00:09:01,230 Drat you! Stop crying, or else the bogie-man will carry you off. 69 00:09:01,543 --> 00:09:04,591 Can't we slip through behind the fence? 70 00:09:04,711 --> 00:09:08,918 Impossible! No chance at all! Not only is the nunnery crowded; 71 00:09:09,038 --> 00:09:11,053 What is that noise? 72 00:09:11,173 --> 00:09:14,484 Listen! What noise is that? 73 00:09:14,604 --> 00:09:23,944 The people groaned; They fall like waves, row upon row... again... again... 74 00:09:24,250 --> 00:09:30,564 Now, brother, 'tis our turn; Be quick, down on your knees! 75 00:09:36,035 --> 00:09:39,181 - Why are they wailing? - How can we know? 76 00:09:39,301 --> 00:09:43,430 The boyars know well enough. It's not our business. 77 00:09:44,618 --> 00:09:50,227 Now, what's this? Just when It ought to cry, the child stops crying. 78 00:09:50,511 --> 00:09:53,510 I'll show you! Here comes the bogie-man! 79 00:09:55,712 --> 00:09:58,982 Cry, cry, you spoilt one! 80 00:10:00,997 --> 00:10:04,962 That's right, that's right! 81 00:10:06,319 --> 00:10:10,297 As everyone is crying, We also, brother, will begin to cry. 82 00:10:10,417 --> 00:10:15,527 - Brother, I try my best, but can't. - Nor I. 83 00:10:15,647 --> 00:10:20,545 Have you not got an onion? 84 00:10:20,665 --> 00:10:25,512 No; I'll wet my eyes with spittle. 85 00:10:31,829 --> 00:10:34,345 What's up there now? 86 00:10:34,465 --> 00:10:40,548 The crown for him! He is tsar! He has yielded! 87 00:10:40,668 --> 00:10:45,621 Boris! Our tsar! Long live Boris! 88 00:12:25,037 --> 00:12:34,890 ...Belovered son, our sovereign, tsar and great prince 89 00:12:35,010 --> 00:12:47,990 Boris Feodorovich, potentate of all Russia by our Lord's will and providence 90 00:12:51,246 --> 00:13:00,348 Our Lord, protect him within your sacred creation 91 00:13:00,468 --> 00:13:09,898 Uphold his empire in Your favor 92 00:13:10,018 --> 00:13:23,609 May his reign shine with truth and much peace 93 00:13:25,390 --> 00:13:31,001 This globus cruciger is the sign of your sovereignty 94 00:13:31,121 --> 00:13:38,218 May your hands hold tight onto this orb 95 00:13:38,338 --> 00:13:53,142 Crowned by God, esteemed by God, chosen by God, and loved by God 96 00:13:53,262 --> 00:14:00,330 accept from God this sceptre 97 00:14:00,450 --> 00:14:09,830 and the khorugv banners of the great Russian tsardom 98 00:14:11,797 --> 00:14:17,870 Preserve and protect it 99 00:14:17,990 --> 00:14:26,550 Great is thine force, tsar 100 00:14:55,332 --> 00:15:01,431 Thou, father Patriarch, all ye boyars! 101 00:15:01,551 --> 00:15:05,734 My soul lies bare before you 102 00:15:05,854 --> 00:15:14,349 ye have seen with what humility and fear I took this mighty power upon me. 103 00:15:14,469 --> 00:15:18,421 Ah! How heavy My weight of obligation! 104 00:15:18,541 --> 00:15:25,245 I succeed the great Ivans; succeed the angel tsar! 105 00:15:25,365 --> 00:15:29,820 O Righteous Father, King of kings, 106 00:15:29,940 --> 00:15:34,588 look down from Heaven upon the tears of Thy true servants, 107 00:15:34,708 --> 00:15:40,990 And send on him whom Thou hast loved, whom Thou exalted hast on earth so wondrously, 108 00:15:41,110 --> 00:15:46,575 Thy holy blessing. 109 00:15:46,902 --> 00:15:52,355 May I rule my people in glory, 110 00:15:52,475 --> 00:15:57,018 and like Thee be good and righteous! 111 00:15:57,202 --> 00:16:00,574 To you, boyars, I look for help. 112 00:16:00,694 --> 00:16:04,552 Serve me as ye served him, 113 00:16:04,672 --> 00:16:11,587 what time I shared your labours, Ere I was chosen by the people's will. 114 00:16:11,707 --> 00:16:17,230 We will not from our plighted oath depart. 115 00:16:18,175 --> 00:16:22,561 We will not from our plighted oath depart. 116 00:16:22,681 --> 00:16:26,803 Now let us go to kneel before the tombs 117 00:16:26,923 --> 00:16:32,477 Of Russia's great departed rulers. 118 00:16:49,345 --> 00:16:51,729 - You rightly guessed. - Guessed what? 119 00:16:51,849 --> 00:16:56,458 - Why, you remember, the other day, here on this very spot. - No, I remember nothing. - When the people flocked to the Virgin's Field, thou said'st... 120 00:16:56,578 --> 00:16:59,807 'Tis not the time for recollection. There are times when I should counsel you not to remember, but even to forget. 121 00:16:59,927 --> 00:17:10,449 And for the rest, I sought but by feigned calumny to prove thee, the truelier to discern thy secret thoughts. 122 00:17:10,569 --> 00:17:20,724 But see! The people hail the tsar My absence may be remarked. I'll join them. 123 00:17:21,122 --> 00:17:24,442 Wily courtier! 124 00:19:36,279 --> 00:19:40,731 Ever the selfsame dream! Is 't possible? 125 00:19:40,851 --> 00:19:45,539 For the third time! Accursed dream! 126 00:19:45,710 --> 00:19:49,478 Wakest thou, brother? 127 00:19:50,123 --> 00:19:55,870 Honoured father, give me thy blessing. 128 00:19:56,686 --> 00:20:02,891 May God bless thee on this day, Tomorrow, and for ever. 129 00:20:03,174 --> 00:20:06,006 Year 1603 130 00:20:15,792 --> 00:20:21,811 All night long thou hast been writing and abstained from sleep, 131 00:20:21,931 --> 00:20:31,640 While demon visions have disturbed my peace, the fiend molested me. 132 00:20:32,259 --> 00:20:36,316 Honoured father, long Have I desired to ask thee 133 00:20:36,436 --> 00:20:42,130 of the death of young Dimitry, the tsarevich; 134 00:20:42,250 --> 00:20:46,090 thou, 'tis said, wast then at Uglich. 135 00:20:47,420 --> 00:20:50,911 Ay, my son, I well remember. 136 00:20:51,031 --> 00:20:55,323 God it was who led me To witness that ill deed, 137 00:20:55,443 --> 00:20:59,498 that bloody sin. 138 00:21:21,056 --> 00:21:27,220 Oh horrible, unrivaled tragedy! How we have angered God by our sin! 139 00:21:27,340 --> 00:21:32,928 The murderer of tsar - we made our sovereign 140 00:21:33,048 --> 00:21:39,435 - How many summers lived the murdered boy? - Seven summers; he would now... 141 00:21:40,030 --> 00:21:47,668 Since then have passed ten years... nay, more... twelve years 142 00:21:47,788 --> 00:21:55,137 He would have been of equal age to thee, And would have reigned; but God deemed otherwise. 143 00:21:55,257 --> 00:22:00,002 This is the lamentable tale wherewith My chronicle doth end; 144 00:22:00,122 --> 00:22:05,336 Since then I little Have dipped in worldly business. 145 00:22:05,634 --> 00:22:13,485 Brother Gregory, thou hast illumed thy mind by earnest study; to thee I hand my task. 146 00:22:13,605 --> 00:22:23,588 For me 'tis time to rest and quench my lamp. 147 00:22:27,455 --> 00:22:32,342 But hark! The matin bell. 148 00:22:33,725 --> 00:22:38,928 Bless, Lord, Thy servants! 149 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:18,037 Boris, Boris, before thee all tremble; 150 00:23:18,157 --> 00:23:21,303 none dares even to remind thee of what befell the hapless child; 151 00:23:21,423 --> 00:23:27,731 meanwhile here in dark cell a hermit doth indite thy stern denunciation. 152 00:23:27,851 --> 00:23:30,779 Thou wilt not escape the judgment even of this world, 153 00:23:30,899 --> 00:23:36,359 As thou wilt not escape the doom of God. 154 00:23:38,271 --> 00:23:40,866 And he has run away, Father Abbot? 155 00:23:40,986 --> 00:23:45,661 He has run away, holy sovereign, now three days ago. 156 00:23:45,781 --> 00:23:50,613 Accursed rascal! What is his origin? 157 00:23:50,733 --> 00:23:53,064 Of the family of the Otrepievs, of the lower nobility of Galicia; 158 00:23:53,184 --> 00:23:57,253 in his youth he took the tonsure, no one knows where, finally arrived at my Chudov fraternity 159 00:23:57,373 --> 00:24:01,218 And he was very learned, read our chronicle, 160 00:24:01,338 --> 00:24:04,310 composed canons for the holy brethren; 161 00:24:04,430 --> 00:24:08,921 but, to be sure, instruction was not given to him from the Lord God 162 00:24:09,041 --> 00:24:12,965 Ah, those learned fellows! 163 00:24:13,085 --> 00:24:18,800 What a thing to say, "I shall be tsar in Moscow." 164 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,279 Ah, he is a vessel of the devil! 165 00:24:21,399 --> 00:24:26,166 However, it is no use even to report to the tsar about this; why disquiet our father sovereign? 166 00:24:26,286 --> 00:24:31,882 It will be enough to give information about his flight to the Secretary Smirnov or the Secretary Ephimiev. 167 00:24:32,002 --> 00:24:36,255 What a heresy: "I shall be tsar in Moscow!"... 168 00:24:36,375 --> 00:24:43,487 Catch, catch the fawning villain, and send him to Solovetsky to perpetual penance. 169 00:24:45,055 --> 00:24:49,587 But this, is it not heresy, Father Abbot? 170 00:24:49,707 --> 00:24:54,110 Heresy, holy Patriarch; downright heresy 171 00:24:58,913 --> 00:25:00,718 Where is the sovereign? 172 00:25:00,838 --> 00:25:04,244 In his bed-chamber, Where he is closeted with some magician. 173 00:25:04,364 --> 00:25:09,017 Fain would I know What 'tis he would foretell. 174 00:27:49,110 --> 00:27:53,841 I have attained the highest power. 175 00:27:53,961 --> 00:27:58,440 Six years Already have I reigned in peace; 176 00:27:59,251 --> 00:28:04,815 but joy dwells not within my soul. 177 00:28:04,935 --> 00:28:08,388 In vain the wizards promise me 178 00:28:08,508 --> 00:28:13,679 length of days, days of dominion Immune from treachery 179 00:28:13,799 --> 00:28:18,590 not power, not life gladden me 180 00:28:21,614 --> 00:28:28,169 I forebode the wrath of Heaven and woe. 181 00:28:29,654 --> 00:28:33,268 For me no happiness. 182 00:28:33,784 --> 00:28:39,233 I thought To satisfy my people in contentment, 183 00:28:39,353 --> 00:28:42,795 In glory, gain their love by generous gifts, 184 00:28:42,915 --> 00:28:47,062 But I have put away that empty hope; 185 00:28:47,241 --> 00:28:52,350 The power that lives is hateful to the mob, 186 00:28:52,816 --> 00:28:57,706 Only the dead they love. 187 00:28:58,928 --> 00:29:05,862 We are but fools when our heart vibrates to the people's groans and passionate wailing. 188 00:29:06,030 --> 00:29:09,510 Lately on our land God sent a famine; 189 00:29:09,630 --> 00:29:12,616 perishing in torments The people uttered moan. 190 00:29:12,736 --> 00:29:17,211 The granaries I made them free of, scattered gold among them, 191 00:29:17,331 --> 00:29:23,217 Found labour for them; furious for my pains they cursed me! 192 00:29:23,337 --> 00:29:29,603 Next, a fire consumed their homes I built for them new dwellings 193 00:29:30,193 --> 00:29:34,091 then forsooth they blamed me for the fire! 194 00:29:34,211 --> 00:29:39,949 Such is the mob, such is its judgment! Seek its love, indeed! 195 00:29:42,553 --> 00:29:47,685 I thought within my family to find solace; 196 00:29:47,822 --> 00:29:53,534 I thought to make my daughter happy by wedlock. 197 00:29:53,955 --> 00:29:58,718 Like a tempest Death took off her bridegroom 198 00:29:58,887 --> 00:30:05,020 and at once a stealthy rumour Pronounced me guilty of my daughter's grief 199 00:30:05,140 --> 00:30:09,393 Me, me, the hapless father! 200 00:30:09,635 --> 00:30:14,199 Whoso dies, I am the secret murderer of all 201 00:30:14,319 --> 00:30:17,466 I hastened Feodor's end, 202 00:30:17,586 --> 00:30:25,686 'twas I that poisoned my sister-queen, the lowly nun, all I! 203 00:30:26,866 --> 00:30:31,398 Ah! Now I feel it 204 00:30:31,567 --> 00:30:38,427 naught can give us peace mid worldly cares, 205 00:30:38,547 --> 00:30:45,888 nothing save only conscience! 206 00:30:46,008 --> 00:30:53,464 Healthy she triumphs over wickedness, Over dark slander; 207 00:30:53,584 --> 00:31:07,969 but if in her be found a single casual stain, 208 00:31:08,089 --> 00:31:10,593 then misery. 209 00:31:10,713 --> 00:31:18,749 With what a deadly sore my soul doth smart; My heart, with venom filled, 210 00:31:18,907 --> 00:31:22,879 doth like a hammer beat in mine ears reproach 211 00:31:22,999 --> 00:31:26,577 all things revolt me, and my head whirls, 212 00:31:27,315 --> 00:31:31,066 and in my eyes are children dripping with blood; 213 00:31:31,186 --> 00:31:38,137 and gladly would I flee, but nowhere can find refuge, horrible! 214 00:31:38,257 --> 00:31:48,510 Pitiful he whose conscience is unclean! 215 00:31:55,935 --> 00:31:59,096 With what shall I regale you, my reverend honoured guests? 216 00:31:59,216 --> 00:32:03,922 With what God sends, little hostess. Have you no wine? 217 00:32:04,042 --> 00:32:08,422 As if I had not, my fathers! I will bring it at once. 218 00:32:10,245 --> 00:32:15,936 What is it that makes you so fond of Lithuania! Here are we, Father Missail and I, a sinner, 219 00:32:16,056 --> 00:32:20,889 when we fled from the monastery, then we cared for nothing. 220 00:32:22,933 --> 00:32:27,043 Was it Lithuania, was it Russia, was it fiddle, was it dulcimer? 221 00:32:27,163 --> 00:32:31,658 All the same for us, if only there was wine. That's the main thing! 222 00:32:32,005 --> 00:32:37,106 - Well said! - There you are, my fathers. Drink to your health. 223 00:32:39,024 --> 00:32:42,070 Thanks, my good friend. God bless thee. 224 00:33:19,142 --> 00:33:21,418 Why don't you join in the song? 225 00:33:21,538 --> 00:33:25,148 - I don't wish to - Everyone to his liking - But a tipsy man's in Heaven, Father Missail! 226 00:33:25,268 --> 00:33:29,606 We will drink a glass to our hostess. 227 00:33:30,870 --> 00:33:34,256 Still, Father Missail, 228 00:33:34,376 --> 00:33:39,037 when I am drinking, then I don't like sober men 229 00:33:39,446 --> 00:33:46,677 tipsiness is one thing--but pride quite another. If you want to live as we do, you are welcome. 230 00:33:46,797 --> 00:33:50,748 No? Then take yourself off, away with you 231 00:33:50,868 --> 00:33:52,670 a mountebank is no companion for a priest 232 00:33:52,790 --> 00:33:57,215 Drink, and keep your thoughts to yourself, Father Varlaam! 233 00:33:57,335 --> 00:34:02,010 You see, I too sometimes know how to make puns. 234 00:34:07,515 --> 00:34:12,231 - But why should I keep my thoughts to myself? - Let him alone, Father Varlaam. 235 00:34:12,351 --> 00:34:15,577 But what sort of a fasting man is he? 236 00:34:15,697 --> 00:34:21,689 Of his own accord he attached himself as a companion to us; no one knows who he is, no one knows whence he comes 237 00:34:21,809 --> 00:34:27,790 and yet he gives himself grand airs; perhaps he has a close acquaintance with the pillory. 238 00:34:41,581 --> 00:34:47,589 - Whither leads this road? - To Lithuania, my dear, to the Luyov mountains 239 00:34:48,405 --> 00:34:51,632 Hallo, comrade! 240 00:34:52,093 --> 00:34:56,150 You've been making up to mine hostess. 241 00:34:56,270 --> 00:35:00,352 To be sure you don't want vodka, but you want a young woman. 242 00:35:00,472 --> 00:35:04,594 All right, brother, all right! 243 00:35:04,714 --> 00:35:08,809 Everyone has his own ways, 244 00:35:08,929 --> 00:35:17,411 and Father Missail and I have only one thing which we care for: we drink to the bottom, 245 00:35:18,859 --> 00:35:23,232 we drink; turn it upside down, and knock at the bottom. 246 00:35:24,075 --> 00:35:27,961 Well said, Father Varlaam. 247 00:36:02,271 --> 00:36:08,778 - Hostess! Is there another room in the cottage? - No, my dear 248 00:36:09,094 --> 00:36:11,807 I should be glad myself to hide. 249 00:36:11,927 --> 00:36:17,551 But they are only pretending to go their rounds; but give them wine and bread, and Heaven knows what... 250 00:36:17,671 --> 00:36:21,951 May perdition take them, the accursed ones! May... 251 00:36:22,214 --> 00:36:24,875 Good health to you, mine hostess! 252 00:36:25,033 --> 00:36:28,748 You are kindly welcome, dear guests. 253 00:36:28,868 --> 00:36:34,056 Ha, there's drinking going on here; we shall get something here. 254 00:36:40,379 --> 00:36:42,052 Who are you? 255 00:36:42,843 --> 00:36:46,874 We are two old clerics, humble monks 256 00:36:46,994 --> 00:36:53,329 we are going from village to village, and collecting Christian alms for the monastery 257 00:36:56,582 --> 00:36:58,966 - And thou? - Our comrade. 258 00:36:59,111 --> 00:37:05,657 A layman from the suburb; I have conducted the old men as far as the frontier; from here I am going to my own home. 259 00:37:07,896 --> 00:37:11,479 Hostess, bring some more wine, 260 00:37:11,599 --> 00:37:17,828 and we will drink here a little and talk a little with these old men. 261 00:37:20,555 --> 00:37:25,428 Well, my fathers, how are you getting on? 262 00:37:25,718 --> 00:37:30,776 Badly, my sons, badly! 263 00:37:33,647 --> 00:37:39,956 The Christians have now turned stingy 264 00:37:42,077 --> 00:37:47,294 they love their money; they hide their money. 265 00:37:48,150 --> 00:37:53,472 They have all devoted themselves to commerce, to earthly cares 266 00:37:55,422 --> 00:38:00,590 they think of worldly wealth, not of the salvation of the soul. 267 00:38:02,594 --> 00:38:10,926 All earthly beings have befallen to great sin 268 00:38:11,215 --> 00:38:13,112 God pardon and save you! 269 00:38:13,284 --> 00:38:19,291 You walk and walk; you beg and beg; sometimes in three days begging will not bring you three half-pence. 270 00:38:19,411 --> 00:38:21,846 What a sin! 271 00:38:22,044 --> 00:38:26,681 A week goes by; another week; you look into your bag, 272 00:38:26,801 --> 00:38:33,978 and there is so little in it that you are ashamed to show yourself at the monastery. 273 00:38:34,453 --> 00:38:37,627 What are you to do? From very sorrow you drink away what is left 274 00:38:37,747 --> 00:38:46,350 Ah, it is bad! It seems our last days have come... 275 00:38:53,237 --> 00:38:56,162 Why do you look at me so fixedly? 276 00:38:56,306 --> 00:38:58,638 This is why: 277 00:38:59,823 --> 00:39:05,970 from Moscow there has fled a certain wicked heretic, Grishka Otrepiev. 278 00:39:06,090 --> 00:39:09,018 Have you heard this? 279 00:39:09,914 --> 00:39:14,430 - I have not heard it. - Not heard it? Very good. 280 00:39:14,866 --> 00:39:21,334 And the tsar has ordered to arrest and hang the fugitive heretic. 281 00:39:22,625 --> 00:39:25,865 Do you know this? 282 00:39:29,066 --> 00:39:32,350 I do not know it. 283 00:39:33,347 --> 00:39:39,070 It seems to me that this fugitive heretic, thief, swindler, is thou. 284 00:39:39,631 --> 00:39:44,044 I? Good gracious! What are you talking about? 285 00:40:33,266 --> 00:40:35,835 More wine! 286 00:40:38,864 --> 00:40:44,608 Now, my dear guests. The final draught! 287 00:40:45,095 --> 00:40:47,848 Read the prayer, boy. 288 00:40:47,968 --> 00:40:55,672 For our monarch we pray, By Thee appointed, for our pious tsar, 289 00:40:55,792 --> 00:40:59,953 Of all good Christians autocrat, we pray. 290 00:41:00,073 --> 00:41:04,207 Preserve him in the palace, on the field of battle, 291 00:41:04,327 --> 00:41:08,264 on his nightly couch 292 00:41:08,384 --> 00:41:11,505 grant to him victory o'er his foes 293 00:41:11,625 --> 00:41:15,061 from sea to sea may he be glorified 294 00:41:15,181 --> 00:41:18,855 may all his house blossom with health, 295 00:41:18,975 --> 00:41:24,809 and may its precious branches o'ershadow all the earth 296 00:41:24,929 --> 00:41:31,329 to us, his slaves, may he, as heretofore, be generous. 297 00:41:31,449 --> 00:41:35,216 Gracious, long-suffering 298 00:41:35,336 --> 00:41:38,812 Long live our mighty sovereign! 299 00:41:43,527 --> 00:41:50,753 Farewell, dear guests. I thank you that ye scorned not my bread and salt. Farewell 300 00:41:51,032 --> 00:41:52,671 good-night 301 00:42:23,346 --> 00:42:25,071 Hardly could they tear themselves away 302 00:42:25,191 --> 00:42:29,919 indeed, prince Vassily Ivanovitch, I began to think that we should not succeed in getting any private talk 303 00:42:34,279 --> 00:42:37,955 You there, why do you stand gaping? Always eavesdropping on gentlemen! 304 00:42:38,075 --> 00:42:41,656 Clear the table, and then be off. 305 00:42:47,953 --> 00:42:51,325 - What is it, Athanasius Mikailovitch? - Such a wondrous thing! 306 00:42:51,445 --> 00:42:55,435 A message was sent here to me today From Cracow by my nephew Gabriel Pushkin. 307 00:42:55,555 --> 00:43:02,356 'Tis strange news my nephew writes. The son of the Terrible... But stay... 308 00:43:09,086 --> 00:43:16,686 - The royal boy, who murdered was by order of Boris - But these are no new tidings. - Wait a little 309 00:43:17,516 --> 00:43:20,651 Dimitry lives. 310 00:43:21,745 --> 00:43:25,657 So that's it! News indeed! Dimitry living!... 311 00:43:25,868 --> 00:43:28,857 Really marvelous! And is that all? 312 00:43:28,977 --> 00:43:31,558 Pray listen to the end; Whoe'er he be, 313 00:43:31,678 --> 00:43:38,104 whether he be Dimitry rescued, or else some spirit in his shape, some daring rogue, some insolent pretender, 314 00:43:38,224 --> 00:43:40,001 In any case Dimitry has appeared. 315 00:43:40,121 --> 00:43:42,899 And what say men of this bold fellow? 316 00:43:43,019 --> 00:43:47,575 'Tis said that he is wise, Affable, cunning, popular with all men. 317 00:43:47,695 --> 00:43:53,383 He has bewitched the fugitives from Moscow, the Catholic priests see eye to eye with him. The King caresses him, 318 00:43:53,503 --> 00:43:57,770 and, it is said, has promised help. 319 00:43:58,218 --> 00:44:03,948 All this is such a medley That my head whirls. 320 00:44:04,068 --> 00:44:10,098 Beyond all doubt this man is a pretender, but the danger is, I confess, not slight. 321 00:44:10,218 --> 00:44:20,070 This is grave news! And if it reach the people, then there'll be a mighty tempest 322 00:44:26,327 --> 00:44:33,546 Such a storm that hardly will Tsar Boris contrive to keep the crown upon his clever head 323 00:44:33,666 --> 00:44:38,986 and losing it will get but his deserts! He governs us as did the tsar Ivan of evil memory. 324 00:44:39,106 --> 00:44:41,740 What profits it that public executions have ceased, 325 00:44:41,860 --> 00:44:46,060 that we no longer sing in public hymns to Christ Jesus on the field of blood 326 00:44:46,180 --> 00:44:48,423 that we no more are burnt in public places, 327 00:44:48,543 --> 00:44:52,330 or that the tsar no longer with his sceptre rakes in the ashes? 328 00:44:52,450 --> 00:44:54,986 Is there any safety in our poor life? 329 00:44:55,106 --> 00:45:00,417 Each day disgrace awaits us; The dungeon or Siberia, cowl or fetters, 330 00:45:00,537 --> 00:45:03,091 And then in some deaf nook a starving death, or else the halter. 331 00:45:03,211 --> 00:45:07,437 And are the people The better off? Ask them. 332 00:45:07,557 --> 00:45:13,668 Let the pretender but promise them the old free right of transfer, then there'll be sport. 333 00:45:16,922 --> 00:45:19,910 Thou'rt right Pushkin 334 00:45:20,373 --> 00:45:26,129 but be advised; Of this, of all things, 335 00:45:27,117 --> 00:45:31,675 for a time we'll speak no word. 336 00:45:31,795 --> 00:45:37,523 Assuredly, keep thine own counsel. Thou art a person of discretion; always I am glad to commune with thee; 337 00:45:37,721 --> 00:45:42,977 and if aught at any time disturbs me, I endure not to keep it from thee 338 00:45:45,874 --> 00:45:54,304 and, truth to tell, thy mead and velvet ale today have so untied my tongue... 339 00:45:55,884 --> 00:45:59,151 Farewell then, prince. 340 00:46:02,233 --> 00:46:05,921 Brother, farewell. 341 00:46:08,477 --> 00:46:10,123 Farewell 342 00:46:37,533 --> 00:46:40,747 My dear bridegroom, comely son of a king, 343 00:46:40,867 --> 00:46:47,333 not to me wast thou given, not to thy affianced bride, but to a dark sepulchre in a strange land 344 00:46:47,453 --> 00:46:51,298 never shall I take comfort, ever shall I weep for thee. 345 00:46:51,418 --> 00:46:57,739 Eh, tsarevna! A maiden weeps as the dew falls; the sun will rise, will dry the dew. 346 00:46:57,859 --> 00:47:02,323 Thou wilt have another bridegroom, and handsome and affable. 347 00:47:02,443 --> 00:47:07,539 My charming child, thou wilt learn to love him, thou wilt forget Ivan the king's son. 348 00:47:07,659 --> 00:47:12,927 Nay, nurse, I will be true to him even in death. 349 00:47:53,878 --> 00:47:57,961 What, Ksenia? What, my sweet one? 350 00:47:58,172 --> 00:48:03,691 In thy girlhood Already a woe-stricken widow, 351 00:48:04,323 --> 00:48:08,907 ever bewailing thy dead bridegroom! 352 00:48:09,105 --> 00:48:17,034 Fate forbade me To be the author of thy bliss. 353 00:48:17,443 --> 00:48:20,327 Perchance I angered Heaven 354 00:48:20,447 --> 00:48:24,424 it was not mine to compass thy happiness 355 00:48:24,544 --> 00:48:29,681 Innocent one, for what art thou a sufferer? 356 00:48:30,405 --> 00:48:35,951 Forgive me, my friend, may God give you comfort 357 00:48:46,951 --> 00:48:51,785 And thou, my son, With what art thou employed? What's this? 358 00:48:51,996 --> 00:48:56,171 A chart of all the land of Muscovy; our tsardom from end to end. 359 00:48:56,291 --> 00:48:59,398 Here you see; there is Moscow, there Novgorod, 360 00:48:59,518 --> 00:49:01,678 there Astrakhan. Here lies the sea, 361 00:49:01,798 --> 00:49:06,510 here the dense forest tract of Perm, and here Siberia. 362 00:49:09,146 --> 00:49:13,177 And what is this Which makes a winding pattern here? 363 00:49:13,297 --> 00:49:16,944 - That is The Volga. - Very good! 364 00:49:17,129 --> 00:49:20,211 Here's the sweet fruit of learning. 365 00:49:20,409 --> 00:49:25,452 One can view as from the clouds Our whole dominion at a glance 366 00:49:25,572 --> 00:49:28,552 its frontiers, its towns, its rivers. 367 00:49:29,047 --> 00:49:31,198 Learn, my son 368 00:49:31,318 --> 00:49:37,070 'tis science which gives to us an abstract of the events of our swift-flowing life 369 00:49:37,770 --> 00:49:41,511 Some day, perchance soon, 370 00:49:41,631 --> 00:49:46,937 all the lands which thou so cunningly today hast drawn on paper, 371 00:49:47,057 --> 00:49:51,863 all will come under thy hand. 372 00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,289 Learn, therefore, 373 00:49:55,409 --> 00:50:01,887 and more smoothly, more clearly wilt thou take, my son, upon thee the cares of state. 374 00:50:02,835 --> 00:50:06,615 What news hast thou for me, Semyon Nikitich? 375 00:50:06,735 --> 00:50:12,898 Today at dawn the butler of Prince Shuisky And Pushkin's servant brought me information. 376 00:50:13,018 --> 00:50:16,349 - Well? - In the first place Pushkin's man deposed 377 00:50:16,469 --> 00:50:20,433 that yestermorn came to his house from Cracow a courier, 378 00:50:20,553 --> 00:50:24,872 who within an hour was sent without a letter back. 379 00:50:24,992 --> 00:50:28,653 - Arrest the courier. - Some are already sent to overtake him. 380 00:50:28,773 --> 00:50:30,695 And what of Shuisky? 381 00:50:30,815 --> 00:50:35,635 Last night he entertained his friends; the Buturlins, both Miloslavskys, 382 00:50:35,755 --> 00:50:42,800 and Saltikov, with Pushkin and some others. They parted late. 383 00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:47,529 Pushkin alone remained closeted with his host 384 00:50:47,649 --> 00:50:50,861 and talked with him a long time more. 385 00:50:50,981 --> 00:50:53,587 For Shuisky send forthwith. 386 00:50:53,707 --> 00:51:00,121 - Sire, he is here already. - Call him hither. 387 00:51:09,979 --> 00:51:14,708 Dealings with Lithuania? What means this? 388 00:51:15,130 --> 00:51:18,358 I like not the seditious race of Pushkins, 389 00:51:18,478 --> 00:51:27,091 Nor must I trust in Shuisky, obsequious, But bold and wily... 390 00:51:29,002 --> 00:51:32,176 Prince, I must speak with thee. 391 00:51:32,439 --> 00:51:37,919 But thou thyself, it seems, hast business with me, and I would listen first to thee 392 00:51:38,130 --> 00:51:41,924 Yea, sire. It is my duty to convey to thee grave news. 393 00:51:42,044 --> 00:51:45,362 - I listen. - But, sire... 394 00:51:45,482 --> 00:51:51,593 The tsarevich may learn whate'er Prince Shuisky knoweth. 395 00:52:00,551 --> 00:52:02,070 Speak. 396 00:52:04,726 --> 00:52:07,348 My liege, from Lithuania there have come tidings to us... 397 00:52:07,468 --> 00:52:10,614 Are they not those same tidings Which yestereve a courier bore to Pushkin? 398 00:52:10,734 --> 00:52:16,029 Nothing is hidden from him!... Sire, I thought thou knew'st not yet this secret 399 00:52:16,149 --> 00:52:18,000 Let not that trouble thee, prince 400 00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:23,564 I fain would scrutinise thy information, else we shall not learn the actual truth 401 00:52:23,684 --> 00:52:28,330 I know this only, Sire In Cracow a pretender hath appeared 402 00:52:28,450 --> 00:52:31,125 The king and nobles back him. 403 00:52:31,245 --> 00:52:34,168 What say they? And who is this pretender? 404 00:52:34,288 --> 00:52:41,913 - I know not. - But wherein is he dangerous? 405 00:52:44,807 --> 00:52:48,029 Verily thy state, my liege, is firm; 406 00:52:48,149 --> 00:52:52,964 by graciousness, zeal, bounty, thou hast won the filial love of all thy slaves 407 00:52:53,084 --> 00:52:54,876 but thou thyself dost know 408 00:52:54,996 --> 00:53:00,381 The mob is thoughtless, changeable, rebellious, credulous, 409 00:53:00,501 --> 00:53:04,837 lightly given to vain hope, Obedient to each momentary impulse, 410 00:53:04,957 --> 00:53:09,634 To truth deaf and indifferent 411 00:53:09,971 --> 00:53:14,672 it feedeth on fables; shameless boldness pleaseth it. 412 00:53:14,792 --> 00:53:20,798 So, if this unknown vagabond should cross the Lithuanian border, 413 00:53:20,918 --> 00:53:30,466 Dimitry's name raised from the grave will gain him a whole crowd of fools. 414 00:53:30,861 --> 00:53:38,890 Dimitry's? What? That child's? Dimitry's? Withdraw, tsarevich. 415 00:53:39,172 --> 00:53:41,833 He flushed; there'll be a storm! 416 00:53:41,953 --> 00:53:46,523 - Suffer me, Sire... - Impossible, my son; Go, go! 417 00:53:46,839 --> 00:53:50,356 - Dimitry's name! - Then he knew nothing. 418 00:53:50,476 --> 00:53:58,128 Listen: take steps this very hour that Russia be fenced by barriers from Lithuania 419 00:53:58,248 --> 00:54:05,084 That not a single soul pass o'er the border, That not a hare run o'er to us from Poland, 420 00:54:05,204 --> 00:54:08,734 Nor crow fly here from Cracow. Away! 421 00:54:08,854 --> 00:54:11,078 - I go. - Stay! 422 00:54:13,344 --> 00:54:21,261 Is it not a fact that this report Is artfully concocted? 423 00:54:22,644 --> 00:54:32,036 Hast ever heard that dead men have arisen from their graves to question tsars, 424 00:54:32,589 --> 00:54:42,100 legitimate tsars, appointed, chosen by the voice of all the people, 425 00:54:42,220 --> 00:54:48,226 crowned by the great Patriarch? Is't not laughable? 426 00:54:48,436 --> 00:54:52,927 Eh? What? Why laugh'st thou not thereat? 427 00:54:53,047 --> 00:54:55,062 I, Sire? 428 00:54:55,182 --> 00:54:59,001 Hark, Prince Vassily 429 00:55:00,779 --> 00:55:06,654 when first I learned this child had been 430 00:55:07,287 --> 00:55:15,229 this child had somehow lost its life, 'twas thou I sent to search the matter out. 431 00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:25,490 Now by the Cross and God I do adjure thee, Declare to me the truth upon thy conscience 432 00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:33,578 Didst recognise the slaughtered boy; was't not a substitute? Reply. 433 00:55:33,698 --> 00:55:35,567 I swear to thee 434 00:55:35,687 --> 00:55:40,573 Nay, Shuisky, swear not, but reply 435 00:55:42,074 --> 00:55:44,143 - was it Indeed Dimitry? - He. 436 00:55:44,263 --> 00:55:49,691 Consider, prince. I promise clemency 437 00:55:49,811 --> 00:55:53,600 I will not punish With vain disgrace a lie that's past. 438 00:55:53,759 --> 00:55:59,226 But if thou now beguile me, 439 00:56:00,082 --> 00:56:07,190 then by my son's head I swear: an evil fate shall overtake thee, 440 00:56:10,606 --> 00:56:22,526 Requital such that Tsar Ivan Vasilievich Shall shudder in his grave with horror of it 441 00:56:26,859 --> 00:56:31,812 In punishment no terror lies, the terror doth lie in thy disfavour 442 00:56:31,932 --> 00:56:34,434 in thy presence dare I use cunning? 443 00:56:34,554 --> 00:56:41,573 Could I deceive myself So blindly as not recognise Dimitry? 444 00:56:41,823 --> 00:56:46,973 Three days in the cathedral did I visit His corpse, escorted thither by all Uglich. 445 00:56:47,145 --> 00:56:52,809 Around him thirteen bodies lay of those Slain by the people, 446 00:56:52,929 --> 00:56:58,249 and on them corruption already had set in perceptibly. 447 00:56:58,499 --> 00:57:06,258 But lo! The childish face of the tsarevich Was bright and fresh and quiet as if asleep 448 00:57:06,482 --> 00:57:14,412 The deep gash had congealed not, nor the lines of his face even altered. 449 00:57:15,070 --> 00:57:23,317 No, my liege, there is no doubt; Dimitry sleeps in the grave. 450 00:57:23,646 --> 00:57:27,610 Enough, withdraw. 451 00:58:07,130 --> 00:58:12,790 I choke!... let me get my breath! 452 00:58:16,095 --> 00:58:23,932 So that is why for thirteen years together I have dreamed ever about the murdered child 453 00:58:24,261 --> 00:58:28,924 Yes, yes... 'Tis that!... now I perceive. 454 00:58:29,044 --> 00:58:34,087 But who is he, my terrible antagonist? Who is it opposeth me? 455 00:58:34,207 --> 00:58:39,856 An empty name, a shadow. Can it be a shade shall tear from me the purple, 456 00:58:39,976 --> 00:58:43,557 A sound deprive my children of succession? 457 00:58:43,677 --> 00:58:49,906 Fool that I was! Of what was I afraid? Blow on this phantom--and it is no more. 458 00:58:50,026 --> 00:58:53,330 So, I am fast resolved; I'll show no sign of fear, 459 00:58:53,450 --> 00:58:58,020 but nothing must be held in scorn. 460 00:59:00,261 --> 00:59:02,382 Ah! 461 00:59:03,936 --> 00:59:10,549 Heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh! 462 01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:08,061 I, Dimitry, son of Ivan Vasilievich and Rurikovich 463 01:00:08,181 --> 01:00:12,263 believe in all which is prescribed by the saint Roman Catholic church 464 01:00:12,383 --> 01:00:15,963 especially the primacy of the Pope of Rome 465 01:00:16,083 --> 01:00:22,365 prince of apostles, St-Peter's heir, vicegerent of Christ on Earth 466 01:00:22,602 --> 01:00:25,553 - So help you God - So help me God 467 01:00:27,265 --> 01:00:29,031 and His holy scriptures 468 01:00:31,046 --> 01:00:34,190 upon which I place my hand 469 01:01:05,533 --> 01:01:11,052 May Saint Ignatius aid thee When other times shall come. 470 01:01:11,381 --> 01:01:18,550 Meanwhile, tsarevich, hide in thy soul the seed of heavenly blessing 471 01:01:18,995 --> 01:01:26,055 Religious duty bids us oft dissemble Before the blabbing world; 472 01:01:26,331 --> 01:01:34,499 the people judge thy words, thy deeds; God only sees thy motives. 473 01:01:34,723 --> 01:01:36,712 Amen. 474 01:01:42,706 --> 01:01:48,238 They have come to beg for sword And service with your Grace. 475 01:01:51,597 --> 01:01:54,930 Welcome, my lads. 476 01:01:56,076 --> 01:02:00,067 But tell me, Pushkin, who Is this fine fellow? 477 01:02:00,187 --> 01:02:01,911 Prince Kurbsky. 478 01:02:02,031 --> 01:02:04,572 A famous name! 479 01:02:05,718 --> 01:02:08,010 Art kinsman to the hero of Kazan? 480 01:02:08,130 --> 01:02:10,197 - His son. - Liveth he still? 481 01:02:10,317 --> 01:02:12,399 Nay, he is dead. 482 01:02:12,519 --> 01:02:17,877 My father led the remnant of his life On lands bestowed upon him by Batory 483 01:02:18,061 --> 01:02:23,883 Hapless chieftain! How brightly shone the dawn of his resounding and stormy life! 484 01:02:24,003 --> 01:02:28,757 Glad am I, noble knight, that now his blood is reconciled in thee to his fatherland. 485 01:02:28,877 --> 01:02:35,212 The faults of fathers must not Be called to mind. 486 01:02:35,332 --> 01:02:38,083 Peace to their grave. 487 01:02:38,715 --> 01:02:41,652 Approach Kurbsky 488 01:02:42,983 --> 01:02:45,604 Give me thy hand! 489 01:02:49,795 --> 01:02:55,353 Is it not strange? The son of Kurbsky to the throne is leading - whom? 490 01:02:55,473 --> 01:02:59,107 Whom but Ivan's own son? 491 01:02:59,227 --> 01:03:03,625 All favours me; People and fate alike... 492 01:03:04,191 --> 01:03:07,893 - Say, who art thou? - Sobansky, a free noble. 493 01:03:08,013 --> 01:03:11,212 Praise and honour Attend thee, child of liberty. 494 01:03:11,332 --> 01:03:15,388 Give him a third of his full pay beforehand. 495 01:03:15,508 --> 01:03:18,312 Who are these? 496 01:03:19,511 --> 01:03:25,557 On them I recognise the dress Of my own country. These are ours. 497 01:03:25,677 --> 01:03:27,562 - Who art thou? - A Cossack 498 01:03:27,682 --> 01:03:32,125 from the Don I am sent to thee, from the free troops, from the brave hetmen 499 01:03:32,245 --> 01:03:34,699 From upper and lower regions of the Cossacks, 500 01:03:34,819 --> 01:03:42,365 To look upon thy bright and royal eyes, And tender thee their homage. 501 01:03:43,476 --> 01:03:45,618 Well I knew the men of Don 502 01:03:45,738 --> 01:03:49,412 I doubted not to see The Cossack hetmen in my ranks. 503 01:03:49,532 --> 01:03:53,790 We thank our army of the Don. 504 01:03:55,696 --> 01:03:57,593 These are ours. 505 01:03:57,713 --> 01:04:01,993 Yea, Sire, our father; we are thralls of thine, devoted and persecuted 506 01:04:02,113 --> 01:04:04,699 we have fled from Moscow, disgraced, to thee our tsar, 507 01:04:04,819 --> 01:04:07,459 and for thy sake are ready to lay down our lives 508 01:04:07,579 --> 01:04:14,335 our corpses shall be for thee steps to the royal throne. 509 01:04:19,022 --> 01:04:27,176 Take heart, innocent sufferers. Only let me reach Moscow, 510 01:04:27,296 --> 01:04:31,404 and, once there, Boris shall settle some scores with me and you. 511 01:04:31,524 --> 01:04:35,562 Forward! Long live Dimitry! 512 01:04:35,682 --> 01:04:42,639 Forward, forward! Long live Dimitry, the great prince of Moscow! 513 01:05:33,798 --> 01:05:37,552 Now then, is it ready? 514 01:05:41,148 --> 01:05:42,755 Cannot you make haste? 515 01:05:42,875 --> 01:05:46,733 I pray you first to make the difficult choice 516 01:05:46,853 --> 01:05:53,991 Will you the necklace wear of pearls, or else the emerald half-moon? 517 01:05:54,111 --> 01:05:58,061 My diamond crown. 518 01:06:02,698 --> 01:06:05,477 Splendid! 519 01:06:07,427 --> 01:06:14,630 Do you remember that you wore it When to the palace you were pleased to go? 520 01:06:15,317 --> 01:06:18,809 They say that at the ball your gracious highness shone like the sun 521 01:06:18,929 --> 01:06:24,130 men sighed, fair ladies whispered... 522 01:06:24,841 --> 01:06:28,985 'Twas then that for the first time young Khotkevich beheld you, 523 01:06:29,105 --> 01:06:32,930 he who after shot himself. 524 01:06:34,602 --> 01:06:40,332 And whosoever looked on you, they say That instant fell in love. 525 01:06:40,452 --> 01:06:43,467 Can't you be quicker? 526 01:07:10,537 --> 01:07:14,384 that business looks dreadfully like marriage. 527 01:07:14,504 --> 01:07:21,430 Now confess, didst ever think my daughter would be a queen? 528 01:07:25,625 --> 01:07:27,432 'Tis wonderful... 529 01:07:27,552 --> 01:07:32,049 And, Mnishek, didst thou think my servant would ascend the throne of Moscow? 530 01:07:32,169 --> 01:07:34,615 And what a girl, look you, is my Marina. 531 01:07:34,735 --> 01:07:40,268 I merely hinted to her: "Now, be careful! Let not Dimitry slip" -- and lo! 532 01:07:40,388 --> 01:07:44,628 Already he is completely tangled in her toils. 533 01:07:48,255 --> 01:07:51,321 What can Dimitry see in her? 534 01:07:51,441 --> 01:07:53,401 How say you? She is a beauty. 535 01:07:53,521 --> 01:08:00,668 Yes, a marble nymph; Eyes, lips, devoid of life, without a smile. 536 01:08:00,788 --> 01:08:04,728 He is not handsome, but his eyes are pleasing, 537 01:08:04,848 --> 01:08:08,228 And one can see he is of royal birth. 538 01:08:08,415 --> 01:08:09,815 When will the army march? 539 01:08:09,935 --> 01:08:13,069 When the tsarevich orders it, we are ready 540 01:08:13,189 --> 01:08:18,535 but 'tis clear the lady Mnishek and Dimitry mean to keep us prisoners here 541 01:08:18,655 --> 01:08:21,255 A pleasant durance. 542 01:10:31,582 --> 01:10:33,022 End of Part One 543 01:10:34,810 --> 01:10:36,395 Part Two 544 01:11:00,637 --> 01:11:02,370 Tsarevich! 545 01:11:03,490 --> 01:11:05,197 'Tis she. 546 01:11:18,032 --> 01:11:21,472 Dimitry! Is it thou? 547 01:11:23,859 --> 01:11:28,178 Is it thou, at last? Is it thou I see, 548 01:11:28,298 --> 01:11:32,978 alone with me, beneath the roof of quiet night? 549 01:11:37,198 --> 01:11:42,264 O, if it be only for one short hour, Forget the cares and troubles of my fate! 550 01:11:42,384 --> 01:11:46,798 O, listen to the prayers of love! Grant me to utter all wherewith my heart is full 551 01:11:46,918 --> 01:11:49,268 Prince, this is not the time; Thou loiterest, 552 01:11:49,388 --> 01:11:52,557 and meanwhile the devotion of thine adherents cooleth. 553 01:11:52,677 --> 01:11:56,224 already dubious rumours are current, novelty already takes the place of novelty 554 01:11:56,344 --> 01:12:01,157 - and Godunov adopts his measures. - What is Godunov? 555 01:12:01,277 --> 01:12:05,397 Is thy sweet love, my only blessedness, Swayed by Boris? 556 01:12:05,517 --> 01:12:10,197 Nay, nay. Indifferently I now regard his throne, his kingly power 557 01:12:10,317 --> 01:12:14,223 Thy love, without it what to me is life, And glory's glitter, and the state of Russia? 558 01:12:14,343 --> 01:12:18,143 On the dull steppe, in a poor mud hut, Thou wilt requite me for the kingly crown 559 01:12:18,263 --> 01:12:21,050 - Thy love... - For shame! 560 01:12:21,170 --> 01:12:24,876 Forget not, prince, thy high And sacred destiny 561 01:12:24,996 --> 01:12:30,343 thy dignity should be to thee more dear than all the joys of life and its allurements 562 01:12:30,463 --> 01:12:33,690 It thou canst not with anything compare 563 01:12:33,810 --> 01:12:38,757 Not to a boy, insanely boiling, captured by my beauty but to the heir 564 01:12:38,877 --> 01:12:45,635 of Moscow's throne give I my hand in solemn wise, to the tsarevich rescued by destiny 565 01:12:45,755 --> 01:12:46,628 Say... 566 01:12:47,236 --> 01:12:54,233 if blind destiny had not assigned me a kingly birth 567 01:12:54,353 --> 01:12:58,692 if I were not indeed son of Ivan, 568 01:12:58,812 --> 01:13:03,513 were not this boy, so long forgotten by the world... say, 569 01:13:04,644 --> 01:13:07,002 then wouldst thou have loved me? 570 01:13:07,122 --> 01:13:10,761 Thou art Dimitry, and aught else thou canst not be 571 01:13:10,881 --> 01:13:13,775 it is not possible for me to love another 572 01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:17,883 Nay! I have done with counterfeiting, 573 01:13:18,003 --> 01:13:22,586 and will tell the truth. Know, then, 574 01:13:22,864 --> 01:13:27,077 thy Dimitry long ago perished, 575 01:13:27,197 --> 01:13:30,950 was buried - and will not rise again 576 01:13:31,525 --> 01:13:34,736 And dost thou wish to know what man I am? 577 01:13:34,949 --> 01:13:37,573 Well, I will tell thee. 578 01:13:38,896 --> 01:13:43,034 I am - a poor monk. 579 01:13:43,781 --> 01:13:49,839 Grown weary of monastic servitude, I pondered 'neath the cowl my bold design, 580 01:13:49,959 --> 01:13:54,298 Made ready for the world a miracle... And from my cell at last fled 581 01:13:54,418 --> 01:14:00,186 I showed myself to you. I called myself Dimitry, 582 01:14:05,716 --> 01:14:10,452 What say'st thou, proud Marina? 583 01:14:10,804 --> 01:14:16,585 Art thou content with my confession? Why dost thou keep silence? 584 01:14:17,663 --> 01:14:21,001 O shame! 585 01:14:22,185 --> 01:14:24,873 O woe is me! 586 01:14:25,012 --> 01:14:28,991 O whither hath a fit of anger led me? 587 01:14:29,780 --> 01:14:32,575 Idiot, what have I done? 588 01:14:32,695 --> 01:14:35,508 I see, I see 589 01:14:35,628 --> 01:14:40,383 thou art ashamed of love not princely; so pronounce on me the fatal word 590 01:14:40,503 --> 01:14:44,233 my fate is in thy hands. 591 01:14:44,510 --> 01:14:46,025 Decide 592 01:14:46,334 --> 01:14:48,191 I wait. 593 01:14:51,082 --> 01:14:55,402 Rise, poor pretender! 594 01:14:57,056 --> 01:15:00,970 prone at my feet I've seen knights and counts nobly born 595 01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:06,623 but not for this did I reject their prayers, that a poor monk... 596 01:15:06,743 --> 01:15:10,121 Scorn not the young pretender 597 01:15:10,241 --> 01:15:16,329 noble virtues may lie perchance in him, virtues well worthy of Moscow's throne, 598 01:15:16,449 --> 01:15:19,806 even of thy priceless hand... 599 01:15:19,926 --> 01:15:23,209 Say of a shameful noose, insolent wretch! 600 01:15:23,891 --> 01:15:30,217 I swear to thee that thou alone wast able to extort my heart's confession 601 01:15:30,337 --> 01:15:32,909 I swear to thee that never, nowhere, 602 01:15:33,029 --> 01:15:36,307 shall my tongue give away these weighty secrets. 603 01:15:36,427 --> 01:15:40,606 Thou swearest! Then I must believe. 604 01:15:40,726 --> 01:15:43,144 Believe, of course! 605 01:15:43,264 --> 01:15:48,552 But may I learn by what thou swearest? 606 01:15:48,873 --> 01:15:53,609 Is it not by the name of God, as suits the Jesuits' devout adopted son? 607 01:15:53,729 --> 01:15:55,976 Or by thy honour as a high-born knight? 608 01:15:56,096 --> 01:16:02,611 Or, maybe, by thy royal word alone As a king's son? Is it not so? Declare. 609 01:16:08,466 --> 01:16:13,874 The phantom of the Terrible hath made me his son 610 01:16:14,749 --> 01:16:20,295 from out the sepulchre hath named me Dimitry, 611 01:16:20,594 --> 01:16:26,278 hath stirred up the people round me, 612 01:16:26,716 --> 01:16:33,190 And hath consigned Boris to be my victim 613 01:16:33,926 --> 01:16:38,950 I am tsarevich. Enough! 614 01:16:39,153 --> 01:16:46,270 'Twere shame for me to stoop before a haughty Polish dame. 615 01:16:47,036 --> 01:16:50,481 Farewell for ever 616 01:16:51,548 --> 01:16:54,523 the game of bloody war, 617 01:16:54,790 --> 01:16:58,598 The wide cares of my destiny, 618 01:16:59,462 --> 01:17:05,787 will smother, I hope, the pangs of love 619 01:17:06,833 --> 01:17:09,030 Now I leave thee 620 01:17:09,616 --> 01:17:15,611 ruin, or else a crown, awaits my head in Russia 621 01:17:15,731 --> 01:17:19,134 Whether I meet with death as fits a soldier in honourable fight, 622 01:17:19,254 --> 01:17:23,195 or as a miscreant upon the public scaffold 623 01:17:24,785 --> 01:17:29,670 thou shalt not be my companion, 624 01:17:31,633 --> 01:17:37,350 nor shalt share with me my fate 625 01:17:49,805 --> 01:17:58,914 But what if I expose beforehand thy bold fraud to all men? 626 01:18:03,213 --> 01:18:10,157 Dost thou think I fear thee? 627 01:18:15,340 --> 01:18:22,071 Think'st thou They will believe a Polish maiden more 628 01:18:26,572 --> 01:18:30,060 Than Russia's own tsarevich? 629 01:18:30,274 --> 01:18:37,932 Know, proud lady, That neither king, nor pope, nor nobles 630 01:18:38,625 --> 01:18:43,830 trouble whether my words be true, 631 01:18:47,424 --> 01:18:50,539 whether I be Dimitry 632 01:18:52,032 --> 01:18:54,496 or another. 633 01:18:55,840 --> 01:19:00,064 What care they? 634 01:19:02,208 --> 01:19:11,521 But I provide a pretext for revolt and war 635 01:19:13,035 --> 01:19:17,227 and this is all they need 636 01:19:17,729 --> 01:19:28,292 and thee, rebellious one, believe me, they will force to hold thy peace 637 01:19:30,084 --> 01:19:32,057 Farewell. 638 01:19:36,378 --> 01:19:39,151 Tsarevich, stay! 639 01:19:39,353 --> 01:19:45,967 At last I hear the speech not of a boy, but of a man. 640 01:19:46,905 --> 01:19:52,185 It reconciles me to thee. 641 01:19:53,572 --> 01:20:00,206 Prince, I forget thy senseless outburst, see again Dimitry. 642 01:20:00,601 --> 01:20:02,702 Listen... 643 01:20:04,440 --> 01:20:07,352 now is the time! 644 01:20:07,843 --> 01:20:10,467 Hasten, delay no more, 645 01:20:10,819 --> 01:20:14,381 lead on thy troops quickly to Moscow, 646 01:20:15,370 --> 01:20:19,895 purge the Kremlin, take thy seat upon the throne of Moscow 647 01:20:20,194 --> 01:20:23,585 then send me the nuptial envoy 648 01:20:23,841 --> 01:20:31,329 but, God hears me, until thy foot be planted on its steps, 649 01:20:31,511 --> 01:20:35,724 Until by thee Boris be overthrown, 650 01:20:38,188 --> 01:20:42,103 I am not one to listen to love-speeches. 651 01:20:51,257 --> 01:20:54,873 Ah, serpent! Serpent! 652 01:20:55,097 --> 01:21:00,740 'Twas not for nothing that I trembled. She well-nigh ruined me 653 01:21:04,772 --> 01:21:07,300 but I'm resolved 654 01:21:07,791 --> 01:21:11,258 At daybreak I will put my troops in motion 655 01:21:39,737 --> 01:21:42,659 There, there it is 656 01:21:48,183 --> 01:21:51,607 there is the Russian frontier! 657 01:21:52,001 --> 01:21:59,126 Fatherland! Holy Russia! I am thine! 658 01:22:01,057 --> 01:22:06,806 With scorn from off my clothing now I shake the foreign dust, 659 01:22:06,926 --> 01:22:11,403 and greedily I drink new air; it is my native air. 660 01:22:11,523 --> 01:22:14,716 O father, thy soul hath now been solaced 661 01:22:14,836 --> 01:22:21,323 in the grave thy bones, disgraced, thrill with a sudden joy! 662 01:22:23,052 --> 01:22:25,815 Brave knight, I envy thee! 663 01:22:25,935 --> 01:22:31,031 The son of Kurbsky, nurtured in exile, Forgetting all the wrongs borne by thy father, 664 01:22:31,151 --> 01:22:33,794 Redeeming his transgression in the grave, 665 01:22:33,914 --> 01:22:37,645 Ready art thou for the son of great Ivan To shed thy blood, 666 01:22:37,765 --> 01:22:42,509 to give the fatherland its lawful tsar. 667 01:22:42,629 --> 01:22:47,981 Righteous art thou; thy soul should flame with joy. 668 01:22:48,429 --> 01:22:51,895 And dost not thou likewise rejoice in spirit? 669 01:22:52,205 --> 01:22:56,824 There lies our Russia; she is thine, tsarevich! 670 01:22:56,944 --> 01:23:00,434 There thy people's hearts Are waiting for thee, 671 01:23:00,554 --> 01:23:05,335 there thy Moscow waits, thy Kremlin, thy dominion. 672 01:23:05,455 --> 01:23:11,031 Russian blood, o Kurbsky, first must flow! 673 01:23:12,225 --> 01:23:16,012 Thou for the tsar Hast drawn the sword, thou art stainless 674 01:23:16,132 --> 01:23:21,014 but I lead you against your brothers; I am summoning Lithuania against Russia 675 01:23:21,134 --> 01:23:26,101 I am showing to foes the longed-for way to beauteous Moscow! 676 01:23:26,221 --> 01:23:35,917 But let my sin fall not on me, but thee, Boris, the regicide! Forward! Set on! 677 01:23:36,216 --> 01:23:39,779 Advance! And woe to Godunov. 678 01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:47,746 Is it possible? An unfrocked monk against us leads rascal troops, 679 01:23:47,866 --> 01:23:51,469 a truant friar dares write threats to us! 680 01:23:51,693 --> 01:23:56,013 Then 'tis time to tame the madman! 681 01:23:56,133 --> 01:23:57,556 Three months shall not pass, 682 01:23:57,676 --> 01:24:01,166 Sire, ere even rumour's tongue Shall cease to speak of the pretender 683 01:24:01,286 --> 01:24:05,573 aged in iron, like a wild beast from oversea, we'll hale him into Moscow, 684 01:24:05,693 --> 01:24:06,850 I swear by God. 685 01:24:06,970 --> 01:24:11,640 Shchelkalov! In every district to the governors send edicts, 686 01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:17,827 that they mount their steeds, and send the people as of old on service 687 01:24:17,947 --> 01:24:22,281 The heretic Grishka Otrepiev, unfrocked monk 688 01:24:22,401 --> 01:24:28,490 former young monk, a cleric of the Russian land 689 01:24:28,610 --> 01:24:32,778 defiled the image of a monk 690 01:24:32,898 --> 01:24:37,567 be damned 691 01:24:37,687 --> 01:24:41,610 anathema 692 01:24:48,510 --> 01:24:54,332 To our great sovereign 693 01:24:54,452 --> 01:24:59,004 Boris Feodorovich 694 01:24:59,207 --> 01:25:04,368 whole Russia's autocrat 695 01:25:04,488 --> 01:25:09,755 many years of life 696 01:25:49,660 --> 01:25:54,759 seditious whispers to and fro Pass in the market-places 697 01:25:55,165 --> 01:25:57,341 minds are seething 698 01:25:57,461 --> 01:26:00,338 We needs must cool them 699 01:26:00,861 --> 01:26:04,829 gladly would I refrain from executions, 700 01:26:05,202 --> 01:26:09,235 but by what means and how? That we will now determine. 701 01:26:09,355 --> 01:26:14,568 Holy father, Thou first declare thy thought. 702 01:26:15,048 --> 01:26:19,774 The means thereto God hath Himself supplied. 703 01:26:20,041 --> 01:26:24,126 Know, sire, six years Since then have fled 704 01:26:24,246 --> 01:26:31,390 'twas in that very year when to the seat of sovereignty the Lord anointed thee 705 01:26:32,254 --> 01:26:41,690 there came to me one evening a simple shepherd, a venerable old man, 706 01:26:41,978 --> 01:26:46,590 Who told me a strange secret. 707 01:26:46,906 --> 01:26:51,439 "In my young days," He said, "I lost my sight, 708 01:26:51,559 --> 01:26:57,146 and thenceforth knew not Nor day, nor night, till my old age 709 01:26:57,266 --> 01:27:01,967 in vain I plied myself with herbs and secret spells 710 01:27:02,087 --> 01:27:07,930 Bathed my dark eyes in vain with healing water from out the holy wells 711 01:27:08,050 --> 01:27:11,089 The Lord vouchsafed not Healing to me. 712 01:27:11,209 --> 01:27:17,970 Once in deep sleep I hear a childish voice; it speaks to me: 713 01:27:18,090 --> 01:27:23,815 `Arise, grandfather, go to Uglich town, To the Cathedral of Transfiguration 714 01:27:23,935 --> 01:27:31,890 There pray over my grave. The Lord is gracious - And I shall pardon thee.' 715 01:27:32,434 --> 01:27:36,349 `But who art thou?' I asked the childish voice. 716 01:27:36,469 --> 01:27:39,774 `I am the tsarevich Dimitry, 717 01:27:39,894 --> 01:27:44,405 whom the Heavenly Tsar hath taken into His angel band, 718 01:27:44,525 --> 01:27:48,925 and I am now a mighty wonder-worker. 719 01:27:50,366 --> 01:27:52,297 Go, old man.' 720 01:27:52,417 --> 01:27:55,176 I woke, and pondered. 721 01:27:55,296 --> 01:28:02,568 What is this? Maybe God will in very deed vouchsafe to me belated healing. 722 01:28:02,688 --> 01:28:07,432 I will go. I bent My footsteps to the distant road. 723 01:28:07,552 --> 01:28:14,184 I reached Uglich, repair unto the holy minster, hear mass, 724 01:28:14,408 --> 01:28:17,150 And when the people began to leave, 725 01:28:17,270 --> 01:28:23,187 to my grandson I said: `Lead me, Ivan, to the grave of the tsarevich Dimitry .' 726 01:28:23,307 --> 01:28:26,004 The boy led me... 727 01:28:26,124 --> 01:28:30,803 and I scarce had shaped before the grave a silent prayer, 728 01:28:30,923 --> 01:28:33,602 When sight illumed my eyeballs 729 01:28:33,722 --> 01:28:40,702 I beheld the light of God, my grandson, and the tomb." 730 01:29:13,057 --> 01:29:17,729 That is the tale, Sire, which the old man told. 731 01:29:18,540 --> 01:29:26,657 This is my counsel: to the Kremlin send the sacred relics, 732 01:29:27,009 --> 01:29:33,259 place them in the Cathedral of the Archangel 733 01:29:33,408 --> 01:29:41,376 clearly will the people see then the godless villain's fraud 734 01:29:41,496 --> 01:29:48,502 the might of the fiends will vanish as a cloud of dust. 735 01:30:05,528 --> 01:30:09,085 What mortal, holy father, knoweth the ways 736 01:30:09,205 --> 01:30:13,311 of the All-Highest? 'Tis not for me to judge Him. 737 01:30:13,431 --> 01:30:18,057 This is no time to vex the people's minds With aught so unexpected, grave, and strange. 738 01:30:18,177 --> 01:30:24,511 I myself see 'tis needful to demolish the rumour spread abroad by the unfrocked monk 739 01:30:24,631 --> 01:30:29,550 But for this end other and simpler means Will serve. 740 01:30:29,716 --> 01:30:33,065 Therefore, when it shall please thee, Sire, 741 01:30:33,185 --> 01:30:38,761 I will myself appear in public places, I will persuade, exhort away this madness, 742 01:30:38,881 --> 01:30:43,507 And will expose the vagabond's vile fraud. 743 01:30:47,090 --> 01:30:49,384 So be it! 744 01:31:01,270 --> 01:31:06,785 My lord Patriarch, I pray thee Go with us to the palace, 745 01:31:07,425 --> 01:31:11,755 where today I must converse with thee. 746 01:32:04,520 --> 01:32:07,443 Woe, woe! 747 01:32:07,563 --> 01:32:11,656 The Tsarevich! The Poles! There they are! There they are! 748 01:32:11,776 --> 01:32:16,723 Whither, whither? Allons! Go back! 749 01:32:17,555 --> 01:32:21,885 You go back, if you like, cursed infidel. 750 01:32:22,005 --> 01:32:23,550 Quoi, quoi? 751 01:32:23,838 --> 01:32:29,373 Kva! kva! You like, you frog from over the sea, to croak at the Russian tsarevich 752 01:32:29,651 --> 01:32:32,157 but we - we are orthodox. 753 01:32:33,373 --> 01:32:36,776 What does “orthodox” mean? 754 01:32:37,352 --> 01:32:41,224 Sacred beggars, damned scoundrel! Mordieu, mein Herr, I'm angry 755 01:32:41,344 --> 01:32:43,593 it looks like it doesn't have arms to strike, 756 01:32:43,713 --> 01:32:45,830 it only has legs to get the hell out of there. 757 01:32:45,971 --> 01:32:48,425 Es ist Schande. 758 01:33:26,966 --> 01:33:28,897 Goodness, it's hot there! 759 01:33:29,017 --> 01:33:31,261 That devil "Pretender," as they call it, 760 01:33:31,381 --> 01:33:33,494 is a guy, who has hair on his ass? 761 01:33:33,614 --> 01:33:37,462 - What do you think, my Herr? - Oh yeah. 762 01:33:41,335 --> 01:33:44,621 See now, see now! 763 01:34:47,384 --> 01:34:50,104 Ha! Here are our Germans. 764 01:34:50,224 --> 01:34:51,662 Gentlemen! 765 01:34:51,782 --> 01:34:56,035 Mein Herr, dites-leur donc de se raillier et, sacrebleu, chargeons! 766 01:34:56,155 --> 01:34:57,859 Sehr gut. 767 01:34:58,552 --> 01:35:00,451 Halt! 768 01:35:00,643 --> 01:35:02,094 Marsch! 769 01:35:02,265 --> 01:35:03,886 Hilf Gott! 770 01:36:44,248 --> 01:36:47,800 Cease fighting. We have conquered. Enough! 771 01:36:48,632 --> 01:36:55,011 Spare Russian blood. Cease fighting. 772 01:36:57,747 --> 01:37:01,928 The heretic Grishka Otrepiev, unfrocked monk 773 01:37:02,048 --> 01:37:06,888 former young monk, a cleric of the Russian land 774 01:37:07,008 --> 01:37:10,355 defiled the image of a monk 775 01:37:10,475 --> 01:37:12,990 be damned 776 01:37:16,649 --> 01:37:18,633 Will the tsar soon come out of the cathedral? 777 01:37:18,753 --> 01:37:21,022 The mass is ended; now the Te Deum is going on. 778 01:37:21,142 --> 01:37:23,475 What! Have they already cursed him? 779 01:37:23,595 --> 01:37:26,730 Let him curse to his heart's content 780 01:37:26,850 --> 01:37:29,653 the tsarevich has nothing to do with the Otrepiev. 781 01:37:29,773 --> 01:37:32,309 But they are now singing mass for the repose of the soul of the tsarevich. 782 01:37:32,429 --> 01:37:34,862 What? A mass for the dead sung for a living man? 783 01:37:34,982 --> 01:37:37,493 They'll suffer for it, the godless wretches! 784 01:37:37,729 --> 01:37:41,430 Hist! A sound. Is it not the tsar? 785 01:37:48,172 --> 01:37:52,461 No, it is the idiot. 786 01:37:55,047 --> 01:37:58,834 Nick, Nick, iron nightcap! 787 01:37:59,090 --> 01:38:02,856 Let him be, you young devils. 788 01:38:02,976 --> 01:38:07,934 Innocent one, pray thou for me a sinner. 789 01:38:10,323 --> 01:38:14,057 Give, give, give a penny. 790 01:38:15,315 --> 01:38:21,288 There is a penny for thee; remember me in thy prayers. 791 01:38:30,828 --> 01:38:34,804 The moon sails on, 792 01:38:36,477 --> 01:38:41,221 The kitten cries, 793 01:38:43,473 --> 01:38:49,105 Nick, arise, 794 01:38:49,908 --> 01:38:55,497 Pray to God. 795 01:38:55,617 --> 01:38:58,381 How do you do, Nick? 796 01:39:03,091 --> 01:39:05,148 How it rings! 797 01:39:09,911 --> 01:39:13,743 But I have got a penny. 798 01:39:14,307 --> 01:39:17,464 That's not true; now, show it. 799 01:39:24,965 --> 01:39:27,789 They have taken my penny, 800 01:39:28,532 --> 01:39:32,150 they are hurting Nick. 801 01:39:34,036 --> 01:39:37,236 The tsar, the tsar is coming! 802 01:39:51,928 --> 01:39:54,129 Boris, Boris! 803 01:39:54,249 --> 01:39:57,350 The boys are hurting Nick. 804 01:39:58,908 --> 01:40:01,451 Give him alms! 805 01:40:07,117 --> 01:40:09,847 What is he crying for? 806 01:40:11,921 --> 01:40:16,323 The boys are hurting me... 807 01:40:17,143 --> 01:40:24,510 Give orders to slay them, as thou slewest the little tsarevich. 808 01:40:27,813 --> 01:40:30,833 Go away, fool! Seize the fool! 809 01:40:30,953 --> 01:40:33,760 Leave him alone. 810 01:40:46,611 --> 01:40:52,968 Pray thou for me, Nick. 811 01:40:54,789 --> 01:40:57,221 No, no! 812 01:40:58,202 --> 01:41:02,374 It is impossible to pray for tsar Herod 813 01:41:07,895 --> 01:41:11,762 the Mother of God forbids it. 814 01:44:05,896 --> 01:44:08,192 - Where is the prisoner? - Here. 815 01:44:08,380 --> 01:44:10,582 Call him before me. 816 01:44:18,084 --> 01:44:19,706 Who art thou? 817 01:44:19,826 --> 01:44:22,581 Rozhnov, a nobleman of Moscow. 818 01:44:22,701 --> 01:44:25,764 - Hast long been in the service? - About a month. 819 01:44:25,884 --> 01:44:30,830 Art not ashamed, Rozhnov, that thou hast drawn the sword against me? 820 01:44:30,950 --> 01:44:33,236 What else could I do? 'Twas not our fault. 821 01:44:33,356 --> 01:44:35,438 Didst fight beneath the walls of Seversk? 822 01:44:35,558 --> 01:44:37,716 'Twas two weeks after the battle I came from Moscow. 823 01:44:37,836 --> 01:44:39,329 What of Godunov? 824 01:44:39,449 --> 01:44:43,067 The battle's loss, Mstislavsky's wound, hath caused him much apprehension 825 01:44:43,187 --> 01:44:45,601 Shuisky he hath sent to take command. 826 01:44:45,721 --> 01:44:47,632 Well, how go things in Moscow? 827 01:44:47,752 --> 01:44:49,398 All is quiet, thank God. 828 01:44:49,518 --> 01:44:51,361 Say, do they look for me? 829 01:44:51,481 --> 01:44:55,439 God knows. They dare not talk too much there now. 830 01:44:55,559 --> 01:44:58,759 Of some the tongues have been cut off, of others even the heads. 831 01:44:58,879 --> 01:45:02,394 Each day an execution. All the prisons are crammed. 832 01:45:03,393 --> 01:45:06,695 Well! Of me what say they in your camp? 833 01:45:07,933 --> 01:45:12,857 Your graciousness they speak of; say that thou, 834 01:45:13,215 --> 01:45:19,043 Sire, (be not wrath), Art a thief, but a fine fellow. 835 01:45:19,820 --> 01:45:22,866 Even so I'll prove myself to them in deed. 836 01:45:26,696 --> 01:45:31,330 My friends, we will not wait for Shuisky 837 01:45:31,450 --> 01:45:35,401 I wish you joy; Tomorrow, battle. 838 01:45:35,521 --> 01:45:38,934 Long life to Dimitry! 839 01:46:38,399 --> 01:46:41,234 Again doth flash our old ancestral sword, 840 01:46:41,354 --> 01:46:44,150 This glorious sword - the dread of dark Kazan! 841 01:46:44,270 --> 01:46:47,075 This good sword - servant of the tsars of Moscow! 842 01:46:47,195 --> 01:46:50,019 Now will it revel in its feast of slaughter, 843 01:46:50,139 --> 01:46:53,672 Serving the master of its hopes. 844 01:46:56,297 --> 01:46:57,892 Come to me! 845 01:47:00,947 --> 01:47:02,867 A horse for me! 846 01:48:48,304 --> 01:48:50,847 My poor horse! 847 01:48:51,709 --> 01:48:53,910 he is dying. 848 01:48:55,045 --> 01:48:57,554 what to do? 849 01:48:58,160 --> 01:49:01,582 Take off the bridle, and loose the girth 850 01:49:06,607 --> 01:49:10,370 Let him at least die free. 851 01:49:12,393 --> 01:49:14,765 Good day to you, gentlemen! 852 01:49:14,901 --> 01:49:17,744 How is't I see not Kurbsky among you? 853 01:49:17,864 --> 01:49:20,560 He fell on the field of battle. 854 01:49:22,687 --> 01:49:27,321 Honour to the brave, And peace be on his soul! 855 01:49:27,441 --> 01:49:32,116 And where shall we now spend the night? 856 01:49:34,189 --> 01:49:36,224 Why, here, in the forest. 857 01:49:39,039 --> 01:49:43,164 Why not this for our night quarters? 858 01:49:43,284 --> 01:49:48,471 At daybreak we'll take the road, and dine in Rilsk. Good night. 859 01:49:51,152 --> 01:49:54,403 A pleasant sleep, tsarevich! 860 01:49:55,776 --> 01:50:00,393 Smashed to bits, Rescued by flight alone, 861 01:50:00,931 --> 01:50:04,310 he is as careless as a simple child 862 01:50:04,864 --> 01:50:08,559 'tis clear that Providence protects him, 863 01:50:08,833 --> 01:50:14,183 and we, my friends, will not lose heart. 864 01:50:17,988 --> 01:50:22,554 He is vanquished, but what profit lies in that? 865 01:50:22,852 --> 01:50:26,009 We are crowned with a vain conquest 866 01:50:26,129 --> 01:50:28,711 he has mustered again his scattered forces, 867 01:50:28,831 --> 01:50:31,692 and anew threatens us from the ramparts of Putivl. 868 01:50:31,812 --> 01:50:34,974 Meanwhile what are our heroes doing? 869 01:50:35,094 --> 01:50:36,856 They stand at Krom, 870 01:50:36,976 --> 01:50:42,043 where from its rotten battlements a band of Cossacks braves them. 871 01:50:42,163 --> 01:50:48,204 There is glory! No, I am ill content with them 872 01:50:50,252 --> 01:50:54,843 thyself I shall despatch to take command of them 873 01:50:54,963 --> 01:50:59,459 I give authority not to birth, but brains 874 01:50:59,579 --> 01:51:03,180 Their pride of precedence, let it be wounded! 875 01:51:03,300 --> 01:51:07,402 The time has come for me to hold in scorn The murmur of distinguished nobodies, 876 01:51:07,522 --> 01:51:09,836 And quash pernicious custom. 877 01:51:10,305 --> 01:51:14,376 Ay, my lord Blessed a hundredfold will be that day 878 01:51:14,496 --> 01:51:18,932 When fire consumes the lists of noblemen With their dissensions, their ancestral pride 879 01:51:19,052 --> 01:51:21,705 That day is not far off 880 01:51:32,948 --> 01:51:40,150 let me but first subdue the insurrection of the people. 881 01:51:41,080 --> 01:51:46,379 Why trouble about that? The people always Are prone to secret treason 882 01:51:46,499 --> 01:51:52,028 even so the swift steed champs the bit; so doth a lad chafe at his father's ruling 883 01:51:52,148 --> 01:51:53,341 But what then? 884 01:51:53,461 --> 01:51:59,792 The rider quietly controls the steed, The father sways the son. 885 01:52:00,253 --> 01:52:03,590 Sometimes the horse Doth throw the rider, 886 01:52:03,710 --> 01:52:09,273 nor is the son at all times quite 'neath the father's will 887 01:52:13,735 --> 01:52:23,105 we can restrain the people only by unsleeping sternness 888 01:52:26,672 --> 01:52:33,037 So thought Ivan, sagacious autocrat And storm-subduer 889 01:52:33,532 --> 01:52:37,492 so his fierce grandson thought. 890 01:52:43,076 --> 01:52:47,326 No, no, kindness is lost upon the people 891 01:52:47,446 --> 01:52:52,284 Act well - it thanks you not at all 892 01:52:52,404 --> 01:52:56,893 extort and execute - 'twill be no worse for you. 893 01:52:57,738 --> 01:52:59,256 What now? 894 01:53:05,368 --> 01:53:08,310 The foreign guests are come. 895 01:53:09,705 --> 01:53:13,043 I go to welcome them. 896 01:53:13,809 --> 01:53:19,602 Basmanov, wait, stay here 897 01:53:20,784 --> 01:53:27,355 I still have need to speak... a word with thee. 898 01:53:29,589 --> 01:53:34,849 A great thought within his mind has taken birth; it must not be suffered to grow cold 899 01:53:34,969 --> 01:53:39,550 What a career for me when the ancestral horn he breaks of the nobility 900 01:53:39,670 --> 01:53:46,005 I have no rivals in war. I shall stand closest to the throne 901 01:53:46,187 --> 01:53:49,538 And it may chance... 902 01:54:36,323 --> 01:54:41,750 - Fetch a physician! - Quickly to the Patriarch! 903 01:54:42,790 --> 01:54:45,115 A confessor! 904 01:54:47,959 --> 01:54:53,388 The tsar is ill, the tsar is dying. 905 01:56:16,068 --> 01:56:21,783 Tsarevich, fetch the tsarevich! 906 01:56:38,601 --> 01:56:45,938 Let all depart - alone leave the tsarevich with me. 907 01:57:15,351 --> 01:57:17,766 I am dying 908 01:57:21,117 --> 01:57:23,884 Let us embrace. 909 01:57:28,130 --> 01:57:31,221 Farewell, my son 910 01:57:31,987 --> 01:57:37,013 this hour thou wilt begin to reign. 911 01:57:38,039 --> 01:57:45,662 O God, my God! This hour I shall appear before Thy presence 912 01:57:45,831 --> 01:57:49,429 And have no time to purge my soul with shrift. 913 01:57:49,549 --> 01:57:56,663 But yet, my son, I feel thou art dearer to me than is my soul's salvation, be it so 914 01:57:57,208 --> 01:58:04,144 A subject was I born; it seemed ordained That I should die a subject in obscurity 915 01:58:04,264 --> 01:58:09,923 Yet I attained to sovereignty; but how? Ask not. 916 01:58:10,043 --> 01:58:14,053 Enough that thou art innocent. 917 01:58:14,173 --> 01:58:18,070 In justice now thou'lt reign 918 01:58:18,872 --> 01:58:24,150 and I alone am answerable for all to God 919 01:58:27,910 --> 01:58:29,573 Give ear... 920 01:58:29,693 --> 01:58:35,599 Firstly, select a steadfast counsellor, Of cool, ripe years, 921 01:58:35,719 --> 01:58:43,747 loved of the people, honoured mid the boyars for birth and fame, even Shuisky. 922 01:58:43,867 --> 01:58:48,812 The army craves today a skilful leader 923 01:58:48,932 --> 01:58:56,136 Basmanov send, and firmly bear the murmurs of the boyars. 924 01:58:56,838 --> 01:59:06,279 change not procedure. Custom is the soul of states. 925 01:59:06,399 --> 01:59:12,474 Of late I have been forced to reinstate Bans, executions--these thou canst rescind 926 01:59:12,594 --> 01:59:18,903 At the same time, little by little, tighten anew the reins of government 927 01:59:19,023 --> 01:59:23,370 now slacken; But let them not slip from thy hands. 928 01:59:23,812 --> 01:59:29,123 Be taciturn 929 01:59:29,331 --> 01:59:36,084 The royal voice must never lose itself Upon the air in emptiness, 930 01:59:36,204 --> 01:59:40,239 but like a sacred bell must sound but to announce 931 01:59:40,359 --> 01:59:45,510 some great disaster or great festival. 932 01:59:51,295 --> 01:59:53,400 Dear son, 933 01:59:53,520 --> 01:59:59,877 thou art approaching to those years when woman's beauty agitates our blood. 934 02:00:00,033 --> 02:00:10,553 Preserve, preserve the sacred purity Of innocence and proud shamefacedness 935 02:00:11,422 --> 02:00:18,578 Of thy household be always head 936 02:00:19,384 --> 02:00:26,553 show honour to thy mother, But rule thy house thyself 937 02:00:26,673 --> 02:00:30,825 thou art a man and tsar to boot. 938 02:00:33,513 --> 02:00:39,130 Be loving to thy sister 939 02:00:39,889 --> 02:00:45,730 Thou wilt be left of her the sole protector. 940 02:00:46,217 --> 02:00:49,690 No, no; live on, my father, and reign long 941 02:00:49,810 --> 02:00:53,672 Without thee both the folk and we will perish 942 02:00:56,967 --> 02:01:03,876 All is at end for me, mine eyes grow dark, 943 02:01:04,876 --> 02:01:11,214 I feel the coldness of the grave 944 02:01:12,240 --> 02:01:15,006 Who's there? 945 02:01:19,227 --> 02:01:26,499 'tis the vestment! The holy tonsure 946 02:01:27,395 --> 02:01:34,513 The hour has struck. The tsar becomes a monk, 947 02:01:34,772 --> 02:01:41,448 And the dark sepulchre will be my cell. 948 02:01:46,748 --> 02:01:52,293 Wait yet a little, my lord Patriarch, 949 02:02:01,327 --> 02:02:07,586 I still am tsar. Listen to me, boyars: 950 02:02:07,873 --> 02:02:17,444 To this my son I now commit the tsardom Do homage to Feodor. 951 02:02:17,564 --> 02:02:24,403 Basmanov, thou, and ye, my friends, on the grave's brink I pray you 952 02:02:24,523 --> 02:02:28,171 to serve my son with zeal and rectitude! 953 02:02:28,301 --> 02:02:36,860 As yet he is both young and uncorrupted. Swear ye? 954 02:02:37,509 --> 02:02:39,873 We swear. 955 02:02:44,250 --> 02:02:45,938 We swear. 956 02:02:49,120 --> 02:02:51,834 I am content. 957 02:02:53,729 --> 02:02:59,924 Forgive me Both my temptations and my sins, 958 02:03:00,314 --> 02:03:04,821 my wilful and secret injuries. 959 02:03:06,490 --> 02:03:14,670 Now, holy father, Approach thou; I am ready for the rite. 960 02:05:34,902 --> 02:05:39,733 Here enter, and speak freely. So to me he sent thee. 961 02:05:39,853 --> 02:05:44,590 He doth offer thee his friendship and the next place to his in the realm of Moscow. 962 02:05:44,710 --> 02:05:47,772 But even thus highly by Feodor am I already raised 963 02:05:47,892 --> 02:05:51,314 The army I command; For me he scorned nobility of rank and the wrath of the boyars 964 02:05:51,434 --> 02:05:52,863 I have sworn to him allegiance. 965 02:05:52,983 --> 02:05:56,300 To the throne's lawful successor Allegiance thou hast sworn 966 02:05:56,420 --> 02:05:59,550 but what if one more lawful still be living? 967 02:05:59,670 --> 02:06:04,629 Listen, Pushkin: enough of that; tell me no idle tales! I know the man. 968 02:06:04,749 --> 02:06:08,118 Russia and Lithuania Have long acknowledged him to be Dimitry 969 02:06:08,238 --> 02:06:10,303 But, for the rest, I do not vouch for it. 970 02:06:10,423 --> 02:06:14,874 Perchance he is indeed the real Dimitry Perchance but a pretender 971 02:06:14,994 --> 02:06:21,510 only this I know, that soon or late the son of Boris will yield Moscow to him. 972 02:06:21,630 --> 02:06:26,446 So long as I stand by the youthful tsar, so long he will not forsake the throne. 973 02:06:26,566 --> 02:06:30,004 We have enough of troops, thank God! With victory I will inspire them. 974 02:06:30,124 --> 02:06:36,446 with you I'll not dissemble, but, Basmanov, dost thou know wherein our strength lies? 975 02:06:36,566 --> 02:06:44,161 Not in the army, no. Nor Polish aid, but in opinion 976 02:06:44,281 --> 02:06:48,732 yes, in popular opinion. 977 02:06:49,252 --> 02:06:53,680 Nay Basmanov, it is too late to blow on the cold embers of this dispute 978 02:06:53,800 --> 02:06:58,589 with all thy wits and firmness thou'lt not withstand him. 979 02:06:58,709 --> 02:07:02,990 Were't not better for thee To furnish to our chief a wise example, 980 02:07:03,110 --> 02:07:08,753 Proclaim Dimitry tsar, and by that act Bind him your friend for ever? 981 02:07:08,873 --> 02:07:10,355 How thinkest thou? 982 02:07:11,601 --> 02:07:16,189 - Tomorrow thou shalt know. - Resolve. - Farewell. 983 02:07:18,666 --> 02:07:22,419 Ponder it well, Basmanov. 984 02:07:37,014 --> 02:07:39,793 He is right. He is right. 985 02:07:39,913 --> 02:07:42,768 Everywhere treason ripens; what shall I do? 986 02:07:42,888 --> 02:07:47,054 Wait, that the rebels may deliver me In bonds to the Otrepiev? 987 02:07:47,174 --> 02:07:52,184 Had I not better forestall the stormy onset of the flood, myself 988 02:07:52,304 --> 02:07:58,041 But to forswear mine oath! Dishonour to deserve from age to age! 989 02:07:58,275 --> 02:08:03,652 The trust of my young sovereign to requite with horrible betrayal! 990 02:08:03,772 --> 02:08:07,709 'Tis a light thing for a disgraced exile to meditate sedition and conspiracy, but I? 991 02:08:07,829 --> 02:08:09,716 Is it for me, the favourite of my lord? 992 02:08:09,836 --> 02:08:18,457 But death... but power... the people's miseries... 993 02:09:25,464 --> 02:09:28,114 The tsarevich a boyar hath sent to us. 994 02:09:28,438 --> 02:09:32,283 Let's hear what the boyar will tell us. 995 02:09:32,464 --> 02:09:34,841 Hither! Hither! 996 02:09:35,075 --> 02:09:38,568 Townsmen of Moscow! 997 02:09:39,490 --> 02:09:44,412 The tsarevich bids me convey his greetings to you. 998 02:09:45,191 --> 02:09:51,217 Ye know how Divine Providence saved the tsarevich from out the murderer's hands 999 02:09:51,337 --> 02:09:58,269 he went to punish his murderer, but God's judgment hath already struck down Boris 1000 02:09:58,389 --> 02:10:02,347 All Russia hath submitted unto Dimitry 1001 02:10:02,467 --> 02:10:05,624 with heartfelt repentance Basmanov hath himself led forth 1002 02:10:05,744 --> 02:10:08,334 his troops to swear allegiance to him 1003 02:10:08,454 --> 02:10:13,100 In love, in peace Dimitry comes to you 1004 02:10:13,220 --> 02:10:17,437 Would ye, to please the house of Godunov, uplift a hand 1005 02:10:17,557 --> 02:10:21,528 Against the lawful tsar, against the grandson of Monomakh? 1006 02:10:21,648 --> 02:10:23,983 Not we. 1007 02:10:26,113 --> 02:10:28,853 Townsmen of Moscow! 1008 02:10:29,191 --> 02:10:34,996 The world well knows how much ye have endured under the rule of the cruel stranger 1009 02:10:35,116 --> 02:10:41,332 ban, dishonour, executions, taxes, hardships, hunger... 1010 02:10:41,452 --> 02:10:44,502 all these ye have experienced. 1011 02:10:44,622 --> 02:10:48,802 Dimitry is disposed to show you favour 1012 02:10:48,922 --> 02:10:55,737 But he himself is coming to his ancestral throne with dreadful escort. 1013 02:10:55,857 --> 02:11:04,430 Provoke not ye the tsar to wrath, fear God And swear allegiance to the lawful ruler 1014 02:11:05,023 --> 02:11:13,076 What is to be said? The boyar spake truth. Long live Dimitry, our father! 1015 02:11:15,390 --> 02:11:21,190 People! To the Kremlin! To the Royal palace! 1016 02:11:21,450 --> 02:11:26,299 The whelp of Boris go bind! 1017 02:11:26,419 --> 02:11:30,974 Perish the race of Godunov! 1018 02:11:31,094 --> 02:11:36,753 Bind, drown him! Hail Dimitry! 1019 02:12:18,366 --> 02:12:25,886 Give alms, for Christ's sake Give alms, for Christ's sake 1020 02:12:28,587 --> 02:12:32,925 Go away; it is forbidden to speak to the prisoners. 1021 02:12:33,045 --> 02:12:40,310 Go, old man, I am poorer than thou; thou art at liberty. 1022 02:12:45,275 --> 02:12:50,093 - Brother and sister - Poor children, like birds in a cage. 1023 02:12:50,213 --> 02:12:53,353 Are you going to pity them? Accursed family! 1024 02:12:53,473 --> 02:12:56,456 The father was a villain, but the children are innocent. 1025 02:12:56,576 --> 02:13:02,392 The apple does not fall far from the apple-tree. 1026 02:13:09,307 --> 02:13:11,827 Dear brother! 1027 02:13:12,879 --> 02:13:17,788 Dear brother! I think the boyars are coming to us. 1028 02:13:24,594 --> 02:13:31,737 That is Golitsin, Mosalsky. I do not know the others. 1029 02:13:38,893 --> 02:13:44,335 Ah! Dear brother, my heart sinks. 1030 02:13:44,581 --> 02:13:49,503 Make way, make way; the boyars come. 1031 02:13:56,241 --> 02:13:57,955 - What have they come for? 1032 02:13:58,075 --> 02:14:04,269 - Most like to make Feodor Godunov take the oath. - Very like. 1033 02:15:45,467 --> 02:15:47,181 We will go up! 1034 02:15:55,615 --> 02:15:59,200 The doors are fastened 1035 02:16:00,992 --> 02:16:10,395 People! Maria Godunov and her son Feodor have poisoned themselves. 1036 02:16:10,515 --> 02:16:14,563 We have seen their dead bodies. 1037 02:16:23,912 --> 02:16:27,535 Why are ye silent? 1038 02:16:29,119 --> 02:16:37,710 Cry, Long live the tsar Dimitry Ivanovich! 1039 02:17:05,890 --> 02:17:09,384 Actors appearing in mass folk scenes 1040 02:17:18,391 --> 02:17:21,469 Episodic appearances 1041 02:17:43,340 --> 02:17:51,944 The Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Conductor Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov 1042 02:17:55,030 --> 02:17:56,926 Crew 1043 02:19:19,329 --> 02:19:23,861 The End Copyright (C) Mosfilm Studio, 1986