1 00:00:00,810 --> 00:00:02,395 Part Two 2 00:00:26,637 --> 00:00:28,370 Tsarevich! 3 00:00:29,490 --> 00:00:31,197 'Tis she. 4 00:00:44,032 --> 00:00:47,472 Dimitry! Is it thou? 5 00:00:49,859 --> 00:00:54,178 Is it thou, at last? Is it thou I see, 6 00:00:54,298 --> 00:00:58,978 alone with me, beneath the roof of quiet night? 7 00:01:03,198 --> 00:01:08,264 O, if it be only for one short hour, Forget the cares and troubles of my fate! 8 00:01:08,384 --> 00:01:12,798 O, listen to the prayers of love! Grant me to utter all wherewith my heart is full 9 00:01:12,918 --> 00:01:15,268 Prince, this is not the time; Thou loiterest, 10 00:01:15,388 --> 00:01:18,557 and meanwhile the devotion of thine adherents cooleth. 11 00:01:18,677 --> 00:01:22,224 already dubious rumours are current, novelty already takes the place of novelty 12 00:01:22,344 --> 00:01:27,157 - and Godunov adopts his measures. - What is Godunov? 13 00:01:27,277 --> 00:01:31,397 Is thy sweet love, my only blessedness, Swayed by Boris? 14 00:01:31,517 --> 00:01:36,197 Nay, nay. Indifferently I now regard his throne, his kingly power 15 00:01:36,317 --> 00:01:40,223 Thy love, without it what to me is life, And glory's glitter, and the state of Russia? 16 00:01:40,343 --> 00:01:44,143 On the dull steppe, in a poor mud hut, Thou wilt requite me for the kingly crown 17 00:01:44,263 --> 00:01:47,050 - Thy love... - For shame! 18 00:01:47,170 --> 00:01:50,876 Forget not, prince, thy high And sacred destiny 19 00:01:50,996 --> 00:01:56,343 thy dignity should be to thee more dear than all the joys of life and its allurements 20 00:01:56,463 --> 00:01:59,690 It thou canst not with anything compare 21 00:01:59,810 --> 00:02:04,757 Not to a boy, insanely boiling, captured by my beauty but to the heir 22 00:02:04,877 --> 00:02:11,635 of Moscow's throne give I my hand in solemn wise, to the tsarevich rescued by destiny 23 00:02:11,755 --> 00:02:12,628 Say... 24 00:02:13,236 --> 00:02:20,233 if blind destiny had not assigned me a kingly birth 25 00:02:20,353 --> 00:02:24,692 if I were not indeed son of Ivan, 26 00:02:24,812 --> 00:02:29,513 were not this boy, so long forgotten by the world... say, 27 00:02:30,644 --> 00:02:33,002 then wouldst thou have loved me? 28 00:02:33,122 --> 00:02:36,761 Thou art Dimitry, and aught else thou canst not be 29 00:02:36,881 --> 00:02:39,775 it is not possible for me to love another 30 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:43,883 Nay! I have done with counterfeiting, 31 00:02:44,003 --> 00:02:48,586 and will tell the truth. Know, then, 32 00:02:48,864 --> 00:02:53,077 thy Dimitry long ago perished, 33 00:02:53,197 --> 00:02:56,950 was buried - and will not rise again 34 00:02:57,525 --> 00:03:00,736 And dost thou wish to know what man I am? 35 00:03:00,949 --> 00:03:03,573 Well, I will tell thee. 36 00:03:04,896 --> 00:03:09,034 I am - a poor monk. 37 00:03:09,781 --> 00:03:15,839 Grown weary of monastic servitude, I pondered 'neath the cowl my bold design, 38 00:03:15,959 --> 00:03:20,298 Made ready for the world a miracle... And from my cell at last fled 39 00:03:20,418 --> 00:03:26,186 I showed myself to you. I called myself Dimitry, 40 00:03:31,716 --> 00:03:36,452 What say'st thou, proud Marina? 41 00:03:36,804 --> 00:03:42,585 Art thou content with my confession? Why dost thou keep silence? 42 00:03:43,663 --> 00:03:47,001 O shame! 43 00:03:48,185 --> 00:03:50,873 O woe is me! 44 00:03:51,012 --> 00:03:54,991 O whither hath a fit of anger led me? 45 00:03:55,780 --> 00:03:58,575 Idiot, what have I done? 46 00:03:58,695 --> 00:04:01,508 I see, I see 47 00:04:01,628 --> 00:04:06,383 thou art ashamed of love not princely; so pronounce on me the fatal word 48 00:04:06,503 --> 00:04:10,233 my fate is in thy hands. 49 00:04:10,510 --> 00:04:12,025 Decide 50 00:04:12,334 --> 00:04:14,191 I wait. 51 00:04:17,082 --> 00:04:21,402 Rise, poor pretender! 52 00:04:23,056 --> 00:04:26,970 prone at my feet I've seen knights and counts nobly born 53 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:32,623 but not for this did I reject their prayers, that a poor monk... 54 00:04:32,743 --> 00:04:36,121 Scorn not the young pretender 55 00:04:36,241 --> 00:04:42,329 noble virtues may lie perchance in him, virtues well worthy of Moscow's throne, 56 00:04:42,449 --> 00:04:45,806 even of thy priceless hand... 57 00:04:45,926 --> 00:04:49,209 Say of a shameful noose, insolent wretch! 58 00:04:49,891 --> 00:04:56,217 I swear to thee that thou alone wast able to extort my heart's confession 59 00:04:56,337 --> 00:04:58,909 I swear to thee that never, nowhere, 60 00:04:59,029 --> 00:05:02,307 shall my tongue give away these weighty secrets. 61 00:05:02,427 --> 00:05:06,606 Thou swearest! Then I must believe. 62 00:05:06,726 --> 00:05:09,144 Believe, of course! 63 00:05:09,264 --> 00:05:14,552 But may I learn by what thou swearest? 64 00:05:14,873 --> 00:05:19,609 Is it not by the name of God, as suits the Jesuits' devout adopted son? 65 00:05:19,729 --> 00:05:21,976 Or by thy honour as a high-born knight? 66 00:05:22,096 --> 00:05:28,611 Or, maybe, by thy royal word alone As a king's son? Is it not so? Declare. 67 00:05:34,466 --> 00:05:39,874 The phantom of the Terrible hath made me his son 68 00:05:40,749 --> 00:05:46,295 from out the sepulchre hath named me Dimitry, 69 00:05:46,594 --> 00:05:52,278 hath stirred up the people round me, 70 00:05:52,716 --> 00:05:59,190 And hath consigned Boris to be my victim 71 00:05:59,926 --> 00:06:04,950 I am tsarevich. Enough! 72 00:06:05,153 --> 00:06:12,270 'Twere shame for me to stoop before a haughty Polish dame. 73 00:06:13,036 --> 00:06:16,481 Farewell for ever 74 00:06:17,548 --> 00:06:20,523 the game of bloody war, 75 00:06:20,790 --> 00:06:24,598 The wide cares of my destiny, 76 00:06:25,462 --> 00:06:31,787 will smother, I hope, the pangs of love 77 00:06:32,833 --> 00:06:35,030 Now I leave thee 78 00:06:35,616 --> 00:06:41,611 ruin, or else a crown, awaits my head in Russia 79 00:06:41,731 --> 00:06:45,134 Whether I meet with death as fits a soldier in honourable fight, 80 00:06:45,254 --> 00:06:49,195 or as a miscreant upon the public scaffold 81 00:06:50,785 --> 00:06:55,670 thou shalt not be my companion, 82 00:06:57,633 --> 00:07:03,350 nor shalt share with me my fate 83 00:07:15,805 --> 00:07:24,914 But what if I expose beforehand thy bold fraud to all men? 84 00:07:29,213 --> 00:07:36,157 Dost thou think I fear thee? 85 00:07:41,340 --> 00:07:48,071 Think'st thou They will believe a Polish maiden more 86 00:07:52,572 --> 00:07:56,060 Than Russia's own tsarevich? 87 00:07:56,274 --> 00:08:03,932 Know, proud lady, That neither king, nor pope, nor nobles 88 00:08:04,625 --> 00:08:09,830 trouble whether my words be true, 89 00:08:13,424 --> 00:08:16,539 whether I be Dimitry 90 00:08:18,032 --> 00:08:20,496 or another. 91 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:26,064 What care they? 92 00:08:28,208 --> 00:08:37,521 But I provide a pretext for revolt and war 93 00:08:39,035 --> 00:08:43,227 and this is all they need 94 00:08:43,729 --> 00:08:54,292 and thee, rebellious one, believe me, they will force to hold thy peace 95 00:08:56,084 --> 00:08:58,057 Farewell. 96 00:09:02,378 --> 00:09:05,151 Tsarevich, stay! 97 00:09:05,353 --> 00:09:11,967 At last I hear the speech not of a boy, but of a man. 98 00:09:12,905 --> 00:09:18,185 It reconciles me to thee. 99 00:09:19,572 --> 00:09:26,206 Prince, I forget thy senseless outburst, see again Dimitry. 100 00:09:26,601 --> 00:09:28,702 Listen... 101 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,352 now is the time! 102 00:09:33,843 --> 00:09:36,467 Hasten, delay no more, 103 00:09:36,819 --> 00:09:40,381 lead on thy troops quickly to Moscow, 104 00:09:41,370 --> 00:09:45,895 purge the Kremlin, take thy seat upon the throne of Moscow 105 00:09:46,194 --> 00:09:49,585 then send me the nuptial envoy 106 00:09:49,841 --> 00:09:57,329 but, God hears me, until thy foot be planted on its steps, 107 00:09:57,511 --> 00:10:01,724 Until by thee Boris be overthrown, 108 00:10:04,188 --> 00:10:08,103 I am not one to listen to love-speeches. 109 00:10:17,257 --> 00:10:20,873 Ah, serpent! Serpent! 110 00:10:21,097 --> 00:10:26,740 'Twas not for nothing that I trembled. She well-nigh ruined me 111 00:10:30,772 --> 00:10:33,300 but I'm resolved 112 00:10:33,791 --> 00:10:37,258 At daybreak I will put my troops in motion 113 00:11:05,737 --> 00:11:08,659 There, there it is 114 00:11:14,183 --> 00:11:17,607 there is the Russian frontier! 115 00:11:18,001 --> 00:11:25,126 Fatherland! Holy Russia! I am thine! 116 00:11:27,057 --> 00:11:32,806 With scorn from off my clothing now I shake the foreign dust, 117 00:11:32,926 --> 00:11:37,403 and greedily I drink new air; it is my native air. 118 00:11:37,523 --> 00:11:40,716 O father, thy soul hath now been solaced 119 00:11:40,836 --> 00:11:47,323 in the grave thy bones, disgraced, thrill with a sudden joy! 120 00:11:49,052 --> 00:11:51,815 Brave knight, I envy thee! 121 00:11:51,935 --> 00:11:57,031 The son of Kurbsky, nurtured in exile, Forgetting all the wrongs borne by thy father, 122 00:11:57,151 --> 00:11:59,794 Redeeming his transgression in the grave, 123 00:11:59,914 --> 00:12:03,645 Ready art thou for the son of great Ivan To shed thy blood, 124 00:12:03,765 --> 00:12:08,509 to give the fatherland its lawful tsar. 125 00:12:08,629 --> 00:12:13,981 Righteous art thou; thy soul should flame with joy. 126 00:12:14,429 --> 00:12:17,895 And dost not thou likewise rejoice in spirit? 127 00:12:18,205 --> 00:12:22,824 There lies our Russia; she is thine, tsarevich! 128 00:12:22,944 --> 00:12:26,434 There thy people's hearts Are waiting for thee, 129 00:12:26,554 --> 00:12:31,335 there thy Moscow waits, thy Kremlin, thy dominion. 130 00:12:31,455 --> 00:12:37,031 Russian blood, o Kurbsky, first must flow! 131 00:12:38,225 --> 00:12:42,012 Thou for the tsar Hast drawn the sword, thou art stainless 132 00:12:42,132 --> 00:12:47,014 but I lead you against your brothers; I am summoning Lithuania against Russia 133 00:12:47,134 --> 00:12:52,101 I am showing to foes the longed-for way to beauteous Moscow! 134 00:12:52,221 --> 00:13:01,917 But let my sin fall not on me, but thee, Boris, the regicide! Forward! Set on! 135 00:13:02,216 --> 00:13:05,779 Advance! And woe to Godunov. 136 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:13,746 Is it possible? An unfrocked monk against us leads rascal troops, 137 00:13:13,866 --> 00:13:17,469 a truant friar dares write threats to us! 138 00:13:17,693 --> 00:13:22,013 Then 'tis time to tame the madman! 139 00:13:22,133 --> 00:13:23,556 Three months shall not pass, 140 00:13:23,676 --> 00:13:27,166 Sire, ere even rumour's tongue Shall cease to speak of the pretender 141 00:13:27,286 --> 00:13:31,573 aged in iron, like a wild beast from oversea, we'll hale him into Moscow, 142 00:13:31,693 --> 00:13:32,850 I swear by God. 143 00:13:32,970 --> 00:13:37,640 Shchelkalov! In every district to the governors send edicts, 144 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:43,827 that they mount their steeds, and send the people as of old on service 145 00:13:43,947 --> 00:13:48,281 The heretic Grishka Otrepiev, unfrocked monk 146 00:13:48,401 --> 00:13:54,490 former young monk, a cleric of the Russian land 147 00:13:54,610 --> 00:13:58,778 defiled the image of a monk 148 00:13:58,898 --> 00:14:03,567 be damned 149 00:14:03,687 --> 00:14:07,610 anathema 150 00:14:14,510 --> 00:14:20,332 To our great sovereign 151 00:14:20,452 --> 00:14:25,004 Boris Feodorovich 152 00:14:25,207 --> 00:14:30,368 whole Russia's autocrat 153 00:14:30,488 --> 00:14:35,755 many years of life 154 00:15:15,660 --> 00:15:20,759 seditious whispers to and fro Pass in the market-places 155 00:15:21,165 --> 00:15:23,341 minds are seething 156 00:15:23,461 --> 00:15:26,338 We needs must cool them 157 00:15:26,861 --> 00:15:30,829 gladly would I refrain from executions, 158 00:15:31,202 --> 00:15:35,235 but by what means and how? That we will now determine. 159 00:15:35,355 --> 00:15:40,568 Holy father, Thou first declare thy thought. 160 00:15:41,048 --> 00:15:45,774 The means thereto God hath Himself supplied. 161 00:15:46,041 --> 00:15:50,126 Know, sire, six years Since then have fled 162 00:15:50,246 --> 00:15:57,390 'twas in that very year when to the seat of sovereignty the Lord anointed thee 163 00:15:58,254 --> 00:16:07,690 there came to me one evening a simple shepherd, a venerable old man, 164 00:16:07,978 --> 00:16:12,590 Who told me a strange secret. 165 00:16:12,906 --> 00:16:17,439 "In my young days," He said, "I lost my sight, 166 00:16:17,559 --> 00:16:23,146 and thenceforth knew not Nor day, nor night, till my old age 167 00:16:23,266 --> 00:16:27,967 in vain I plied myself with herbs and secret spells 168 00:16:28,087 --> 00:16:33,930 Bathed my dark eyes in vain with healing water from out the holy wells 169 00:16:34,050 --> 00:16:37,089 The Lord vouchsafed not Healing to me. 170 00:16:37,209 --> 00:16:43,970 Once in deep sleep I hear a childish voice; it speaks to me: 171 00:16:44,090 --> 00:16:49,815 `Arise, grandfather, go to Uglich town, To the Cathedral of Transfiguration 172 00:16:49,935 --> 00:16:57,890 There pray over my grave. The Lord is gracious - And I shall pardon thee.' 173 00:16:58,434 --> 00:17:02,349 `But who art thou?' I asked the childish voice. 174 00:17:02,469 --> 00:17:05,774 `I am the tsarevich Dimitry, 175 00:17:05,894 --> 00:17:10,405 whom the Heavenly Tsar hath taken into His angel band, 176 00:17:10,525 --> 00:17:14,925 and I am now a mighty wonder-worker. 177 00:17:16,366 --> 00:17:18,297 Go, old man.' 178 00:17:18,417 --> 00:17:21,176 I woke, and pondered. 179 00:17:21,296 --> 00:17:28,568 What is this? Maybe God will in very deed vouchsafe to me belated healing. 180 00:17:28,688 --> 00:17:33,432 I will go. I bent My footsteps to the distant road. 181 00:17:33,552 --> 00:17:40,184 I reached Uglich, repair unto the holy minster, hear mass, 182 00:17:40,408 --> 00:17:43,150 And when the people began to leave, 183 00:17:43,270 --> 00:17:49,187 to my grandson I said: `Lead me, Ivan, to the grave of the tsarevich Dimitry .' 184 00:17:49,307 --> 00:17:52,004 The boy led me... 185 00:17:52,124 --> 00:17:56,803 and I scarce had shaped before the grave a silent prayer, 186 00:17:56,923 --> 00:17:59,602 When sight illumed my eyeballs 187 00:17:59,722 --> 00:18:06,702 I beheld the light of God, my grandson, and the tomb." 188 00:18:39,057 --> 00:18:43,729 That is the tale, Sire, which the old man told. 189 00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:52,657 This is my counsel: to the Kremlin send the sacred relics, 190 00:18:53,009 --> 00:18:59,259 place them in the Cathedral of the Archangel 191 00:18:59,408 --> 00:19:07,376 clearly will the people see then the godless villain's fraud 192 00:19:07,496 --> 00:19:14,502 the might of the fiends will vanish as a cloud of dust. 193 00:19:31,528 --> 00:19:35,085 What mortal, holy father, knoweth the ways 194 00:19:35,205 --> 00:19:39,311 of the All-Highest? 'Tis not for me to judge Him. 195 00:19:39,431 --> 00:19:44,057 This is no time to vex the people's minds With aught so unexpected, grave, and strange. 196 00:19:44,177 --> 00:19:50,511 I myself see 'tis needful to demolish the rumour spread abroad by the unfrocked monk 197 00:19:50,631 --> 00:19:55,550 But for this end other and simpler means Will serve. 198 00:19:55,716 --> 00:19:59,065 Therefore, when it shall please thee, Sire, 199 00:19:59,185 --> 00:20:04,761 I will myself appear in public places, I will persuade, exhort away this madness, 200 00:20:04,881 --> 00:20:09,507 And will expose the vagabond's vile fraud. 201 00:20:13,090 --> 00:20:15,384 So be it! 202 00:20:27,270 --> 00:20:32,785 My lord Patriarch, I pray thee Go with us to the palace, 203 00:20:33,425 --> 00:20:37,755 where today I must converse with thee. 204 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,443 Woe, woe! 205 00:21:33,563 --> 00:21:37,656 The Tsarevich! The Poles! There they are! There they are! 206 00:21:37,776 --> 00:21:42,723 Whither, whither? Allons! Go back! 207 00:21:43,555 --> 00:21:47,885 You go back, if you like, cursed infidel. 208 00:21:48,005 --> 00:21:49,550 Quoi, quoi? 209 00:21:49,838 --> 00:21:55,373 Kva! kva! You like, you frog from over the sea, to croak at the Russian tsarevich 210 00:21:55,651 --> 00:21:58,157 but we - we are orthodox. 211 00:21:59,373 --> 00:22:02,776 Qu'est-ce a dire "orthodox"? 212 00:22:03,352 --> 00:22:07,224 Sacres gueux, maudite canaille! Mordieu, mein Herr, j'enrage 213 00:22:07,344 --> 00:22:09,593 on dirait que ca n'a pas de bras pour frapper, 214 00:22:09,713 --> 00:22:11,830 it only has legs to get the hell out of there. 215 00:22:11,971 --> 00:22:14,425 Es ist Schande. 216 00:22:52,966 --> 00:22:54,897 Goodness, it's hot there! 217 00:22:55,017 --> 00:22:57,261 That devil "Pretender," as they call it, 218 00:22:57,381 --> 00:22:59,494 is a guy, who has hair on his ass? 219 00:22:59,614 --> 00:23:03,462 - What do you think, my Herr? - Oh yeah. 220 00:23:07,335 --> 00:23:10,621 See now, see now! 221 00:24:13,384 --> 00:24:16,104 Ha! Here are our Germans. 222 00:24:16,224 --> 00:24:17,662 Gentlemen! 223 00:24:17,782 --> 00:24:22,035 Mein Herr, tell them to mock each other and, damn it, let's charge! 224 00:24:22,155 --> 00:24:23,859 Sehr gut. 225 00:24:24,552 --> 00:24:26,451 Halt! 226 00:24:26,643 --> 00:24:28,094 Marsh! 227 00:24:28,265 --> 00:24:29,886 Hilf Gott! 228 00:26:10,248 --> 00:26:13,800 Cease fighting. We have conquered. Enough! 229 00:26:14,632 --> 00:26:21,011 Spare Russian blood. Cease fighting. 230 00:26:23,747 --> 00:26:27,928 The heretic Grishka Otrepiev, unfrocked monk 231 00:26:28,048 --> 00:26:32,888 former young monk, a cleric of the Russian land 232 00:26:33,008 --> 00:26:36,355 defiled the image of a monk 233 00:26:36,475 --> 00:26:38,990 be damned 234 00:26:42,649 --> 00:26:44,633 Will the tsar soon come out of the cathedral? 235 00:26:44,753 --> 00:26:47,022 The mass is ended; now the Te Deum is going on. 236 00:26:47,142 --> 00:26:49,475 What! Have they already cursed him? 237 00:26:49,595 --> 00:26:52,730 Let him curse to his heart's content 238 00:26:52,850 --> 00:26:55,653 the tsarevich has nothing to do with the Otrepiev. 239 00:26:55,773 --> 00:26:58,309 But they are now singing mass for the repose of the soul of the tsarevich. 240 00:26:58,429 --> 00:27:00,862 What? A mass for the dead sung for a living man? 241 00:27:00,982 --> 00:27:03,493 They'll suffer for it, the godless wretches! 242 00:27:03,729 --> 00:27:07,430 Hist! A sound. Is it not the tsar? 243 00:27:14,172 --> 00:27:18,461 No, it is the idiot. 244 00:27:21,047 --> 00:27:24,834 Nick, Nick, iron nightcap! 245 00:27:25,090 --> 00:27:28,856 Let him be, you young devils. 246 00:27:28,976 --> 00:27:33,934 Innocent one, pray thou for me a sinner. 247 00:27:36,323 --> 00:27:40,057 Give, give, give a penny. 248 00:27:41,315 --> 00:27:47,288 There is a penny for thee; remember me in thy prayers. 249 00:27:56,828 --> 00:28:00,804 The moon sails on, 250 00:28:02,477 --> 00:28:07,221 The kitten cries, 251 00:28:09,473 --> 00:28:15,105 Nick, arise, 252 00:28:15,908 --> 00:28:21,497 Pray to God. 253 00:28:21,617 --> 00:28:24,381 How do you do, Nick? 254 00:28:29,091 --> 00:28:31,148 How it rings! 255 00:28:35,911 --> 00:28:39,743 But I have got a penny. 256 00:28:40,307 --> 00:28:43,464 That's not true; now, show it. 257 00:28:50,965 --> 00:28:53,789 They have taken my penny, 258 00:28:54,532 --> 00:28:58,150 they are hurting Nick. 259 00:29:00,036 --> 00:29:03,236 The tsar, the tsar is coming! 260 00:29:17,928 --> 00:29:20,129 Boris, Boris! 261 00:29:20,249 --> 00:29:23,350 The boys are hurting Nick. 262 00:29:24,908 --> 00:29:27,451 Give him alms! 263 00:29:33,117 --> 00:29:35,847 What is he crying for? 264 00:29:37,921 --> 00:29:42,323 The boys are hurting me... 265 00:29:43,143 --> 00:29:50,510 Give orders to slay them, as thou slewest the little tsarevich. 266 00:29:53,813 --> 00:29:56,833 Go away, fool! Seize the fool! 267 00:29:56,953 --> 00:29:59,760 Leave him alone. 268 00:30:12,611 --> 00:30:18,968 Pray thou for me, Nick. 269 00:30:20,789 --> 00:30:23,221 No, no! 270 00:30:24,202 --> 00:30:28,374 It is impossible to pray for tsar Herod 271 00:30:33,895 --> 00:30:37,762 the Mother of God forbids it. 272 00:33:31,896 --> 00:33:34,192 - Where is the prisoner? - Here. 273 00:33:34,380 --> 00:33:36,582 Call him before me. 274 00:33:44,084 --> 00:33:45,706 Who art thou? 275 00:33:45,826 --> 00:33:48,581 Rozhnov, a nobleman of Moscow. 276 00:33:48,701 --> 00:33:51,764 - Hast long been in the service? - About a month. 277 00:33:51,884 --> 00:33:56,830 Art not ashamed, Rozhnov, that thou hast drawn the sword against me? 278 00:33:56,950 --> 00:33:59,236 What else could I do? 'Twas not our fault. 279 00:33:59,356 --> 00:34:01,438 Didst fight beneath the walls of Seversk? 280 00:34:01,558 --> 00:34:03,716 'Twas two weeks after the battle I came from Moscow. 281 00:34:03,836 --> 00:34:05,329 What of Godunov? 282 00:34:05,449 --> 00:34:09,067 The battle's loss, Mstislavsky's wound, hath caused him much apprehension 283 00:34:09,187 --> 00:34:11,601 Shuisky he hath sent to take command. 284 00:34:11,721 --> 00:34:13,632 Well, how go things in Moscow? 285 00:34:13,752 --> 00:34:15,398 All is quiet, thank God. 286 00:34:15,518 --> 00:34:17,361 Say, do they look for me? 287 00:34:17,481 --> 00:34:21,439 God knows. They dare not talk too much there now. 288 00:34:21,559 --> 00:34:24,759 Of some the tongues have been cut off, of others even the heads. 289 00:34:24,879 --> 00:34:28,394 Each day an execution. All the prisons are crammed. 290 00:34:29,393 --> 00:34:32,695 Well! Of me what say they in your camp? 291 00:34:33,933 --> 00:34:38,857 Your graciousness they speak of; say that thou, 292 00:34:39,215 --> 00:34:45,043 Sire, (be not wrath), Art a thief, but a fine fellow. 293 00:34:45,820 --> 00:34:48,866 Even so I'll prove myself to them in deed. 294 00:34:52,696 --> 00:34:57,330 My friends, we will not wait for Shuisky 295 00:34:57,450 --> 00:35:01,401 I wish you joy; Tomorrow, battle. 296 00:35:01,521 --> 00:35:04,934 Long life to Dimitry! 297 00:36:04,399 --> 00:36:07,234 Again doth flash our old ancestral sword, 298 00:36:07,354 --> 00:36:10,150 This glorious sword - the dread of dark Kazan! 299 00:36:10,270 --> 00:36:13,075 This good sword - servant of the tsars of Moscow! 300 00:36:13,195 --> 00:36:16,019 Now will it revel in its feast of slaughter, 301 00:36:16,139 --> 00:36:19,672 Serving the master of its hopes. 302 00:36:22,297 --> 00:36:23,892 Come to me! 303 00:36:26,947 --> 00:36:28,867 A horse for me! 304 00:38:14,304 --> 00:38:16,847 My poor horse! 305 00:38:17,709 --> 00:38:19,910 he is dying. 306 00:38:21,045 --> 00:38:23,554 what to do? 307 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,582 Take off the bridle, and loose the girth 308 00:38:32,607 --> 00:38:36,370 Let him at least die free. 309 00:38:38,393 --> 00:38:40,765 Good day to you, gentlemen! 310 00:38:40,901 --> 00:38:43,744 How is't I see not Kurbsky among you? 311 00:38:43,864 --> 00:38:46,560 He fell on the field of battle. 312 00:38:48,687 --> 00:38:53,321 Honour to the brave, And peace be on his soul! 313 00:38:53,441 --> 00:38:58,116 And where shall we now spend the night? 314 00:39:00,189 --> 00:39:02,224 Why, here, in the forest. 315 00:39:05,039 --> 00:39:09,164 Why not this for our night quarters? 316 00:39:09,284 --> 00:39:14,471 At daybreak we'll take the road, and dine in Rilsk. Good night. 317 00:39:17,152 --> 00:39:20,403 A pleasant sleep, tsarevich! 318 00:39:21,776 --> 00:39:26,393 Smashed to bits, Rescued by flight alone, 319 00:39:26,931 --> 00:39:30,310 he is as careless as a simple child 320 00:39:30,864 --> 00:39:34,559 'tis clear that Providence protects him, 321 00:39:34,833 --> 00:39:40,183 and we, my friends, will not lose heart. 322 00:39:43,988 --> 00:39:48,554 He is vanquished, but what profit lies in that? 323 00:39:48,852 --> 00:39:52,009 We are crowned with a vain conquest 324 00:39:52,129 --> 00:39:54,711 he has mustered again his scattered forces, 325 00:39:54,831 --> 00:39:57,692 and anew threatens us from the ramparts of Putivl. 326 00:39:57,812 --> 00:40:00,974 Meanwhile what are our heroes doing? 327 00:40:01,094 --> 00:40:02,856 They stand at Krom, 328 00:40:02,976 --> 00:40:08,043 where from its rotten battlements a band of Cossacks braves them. 329 00:40:08,163 --> 00:40:14,204 There is glory! No, I am ill content with them 330 00:40:16,252 --> 00:40:20,843 thyself I shall despatch to take command of them 331 00:40:20,963 --> 00:40:25,459 I give authority not to birth, but brains 332 00:40:25,579 --> 00:40:29,180 Their pride of precedence, let it be wounded! 333 00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:33,402 The time has come for me to hold in scorn The murmur of distinguished nobodies, 334 00:40:33,522 --> 00:40:35,836 And quash pernicious custom. 335 00:40:36,305 --> 00:40:40,376 Ay, my lord Blessed a hundredfold will be that day 336 00:40:40,496 --> 00:40:44,932 When fire consumes the lists of noblemen With their dissensions, their ancestral pride 337 00:40:45,052 --> 00:40:47,705 That day is not far off 338 00:40:58,948 --> 00:41:06,150 let me but first subdue the insurrection of the people. 339 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:12,379 Why trouble about that? The people always Are prone to secret treason 340 00:41:12,499 --> 00:41:18,028 even so the swift steed champs the bit; so doth a lad chafe at his father's ruling 341 00:41:18,148 --> 00:41:19,341 But what then? 342 00:41:19,461 --> 00:41:25,792 The rider quietly controls the steed, The father sways the son. 343 00:41:26,253 --> 00:41:29,590 Sometimes the horse Doth throw the rider, 344 00:41:29,710 --> 00:41:35,273 nor is the son at all times quite 'neath the father's will 345 00:41:39,735 --> 00:41:49,105 we can restrain the people only by unsleeping sternness 346 00:41:52,672 --> 00:41:59,037 So thought Ivan, sagacious autocrat And storm-subduer 347 00:41:59,532 --> 00:42:03,492 so his fierce grandson thought. 348 00:42:09,076 --> 00:42:13,326 No, no, kindness is lost upon the people 349 00:42:13,446 --> 00:42:18,284 Act well - it thanks you not at all 350 00:42:18,404 --> 00:42:22,893 extort and execute - 'twill be no worse for you. 351 00:42:23,738 --> 00:42:25,256 What now? 352 00:42:31,368 --> 00:42:34,310 The foreign guests are come. 353 00:42:35,705 --> 00:42:39,043 I go to welcome them. 354 00:42:39,809 --> 00:42:45,602 Basmanov, wait, stay here 355 00:42:46,784 --> 00:42:53,355 I still have need to speak... a word with thee. 356 00:42:55,589 --> 00:43:00,849 A great thought within his mind has taken birth; it must not be suffered to grow cold 357 00:43:00,969 --> 00:43:05,550 What a career for me when the ancestral horn he breaks of the nobility 358 00:43:05,670 --> 00:43:12,005 I have no rivals in war. I shall stand closest to the throne 359 00:43:12,187 --> 00:43:15,538 And it may chance... 360 00:44:02,323 --> 00:44:07,750 - Fetch a physician! - Quickly to the Patriarch! 361 00:44:08,790 --> 00:44:11,115 A confessor! 362 00:44:13,959 --> 00:44:19,388 The tsar is ill, the tsar is dying. 363 00:45:42,068 --> 00:45:47,783 Tsarevich, fetch the tsarevich! 364 00:46:04,601 --> 00:46:11,938 Let all depart - alone leave the tsarevich with me. 365 00:46:41,351 --> 00:46:43,766 I am dying 366 00:46:47,117 --> 00:46:49,884 Let us embrace. 367 00:46:54,130 --> 00:46:57,221 Farewell, my son 368 00:46:57,987 --> 00:47:03,013 this hour thou wilt begin to reign. 369 00:47:04,039 --> 00:47:11,662 O God, my God! This hour I shall appear before Thy presence 370 00:47:11,831 --> 00:47:15,429 And have no time to purge my soul with shrift. 371 00:47:15,549 --> 00:47:22,663 But yet, my son, I feel thou art dearer to me than is my soul's salvation, be it so 372 00:47:23,208 --> 00:47:30,144 A subject was I born; it seemed ordained That I should die a subject in obscurity 373 00:47:30,264 --> 00:47:35,923 Yet I attained to sovereignty; but how? Ask not. 374 00:47:36,043 --> 00:47:40,053 Enough that thou art innocent. 375 00:47:40,173 --> 00:47:44,070 In justice now thou'lt reign 376 00:47:44,872 --> 00:47:50,150 and I alone am answerable for all to God 377 00:47:53,910 --> 00:47:55,573 Give ear... 378 00:47:55,693 --> 00:48:01,599 Firstly, select a steadfast counsellor, Of cool, ripe years, 379 00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:09,747 loved of the people, honoured mid the boyars for birth and fame, even Shuisky. 380 00:48:09,867 --> 00:48:14,812 The army craves today a skilful leader 381 00:48:14,932 --> 00:48:22,136 Basmanov send, and firmly bear the murmurs of the boyars. 382 00:48:22,838 --> 00:48:32,279 change not procedure. Custom is the soul of states. 383 00:48:32,399 --> 00:48:38,474 Of late I have been forced to reinstate Bans, executions--these thou canst rescind 384 00:48:38,594 --> 00:48:44,903 At the same time, little by little, tighten anew the reins of government 385 00:48:45,023 --> 00:48:49,370 now slacken; But let them not slip from thy hands. 386 00:48:49,812 --> 00:48:55,123 Be taciturn 387 00:48:55,331 --> 00:49:02,084 The royal voice must never lose itself Upon the air in emptiness, 388 00:49:02,204 --> 00:49:06,239 but like a sacred bell must sound but to announce 389 00:49:06,359 --> 00:49:11,510 some great disaster or great festival. 390 00:49:17,295 --> 00:49:19,400 Dear son, 391 00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:25,877 thou art approaching to those years when woman's beauty agitates our blood. 392 00:49:26,033 --> 00:49:36,553 Preserve, preserve the sacred purity Of innocence and proud shamefacedness 393 00:49:37,422 --> 00:49:44,578 Of thy household be always head 394 00:49:45,384 --> 00:49:52,553 show honour to thy mother, But rule thy house thyself 395 00:49:52,673 --> 00:49:56,825 thou art a man and tsar to boot. 396 00:49:59,513 --> 00:50:05,130 Be loving to thy sister 397 00:50:05,889 --> 00:50:11,730 Thou wilt be left of her the sole protector. 398 00:50:12,217 --> 00:50:15,690 No, no; live on, my father, and reign long 399 00:50:15,810 --> 00:50:19,672 Without thee both the folk and we will perish 400 00:50:22,967 --> 00:50:29,876 All is at end for me, mine eyes grow dark, 401 00:50:30,876 --> 00:50:37,214 I feel the coldness of the grave 402 00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:41,006 Who's there? 403 00:50:45,227 --> 00:50:52,499 'tis the vestment! The holy tonsure 404 00:50:53,395 --> 00:51:00,513 The hour has struck. The tsar becomes a monk, 405 00:51:00,772 --> 00:51:07,448 And the dark sepulchre will be my cell. 406 00:51:12,748 --> 00:51:18,293 Wait yet a little, my lord Patriarch, 407 00:51:27,327 --> 00:51:33,586 I still am tsar. Listen to me, boyars: 408 00:51:33,873 --> 00:51:43,444 To this my son I now commit the tsardom Do homage to Feodor. 409 00:51:43,564 --> 00:51:50,403 Basmanov, thou, and ye, my friends, on the grave's brink I pray you 410 00:51:50,523 --> 00:51:54,171 to serve my son with zeal and rectitude! 411 00:51:54,301 --> 00:52:02,860 As yet he is both young and uncorrupted. Swear ye? 412 00:52:03,509 --> 00:52:05,873 We swear. 413 00:52:10,250 --> 00:52:11,938 We swear. 414 00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,834 I am content. 415 00:52:19,729 --> 00:52:25,924 Forgive me Both my temptations and my sins, 416 00:52:26,314 --> 00:52:30,821 my wilful and secret injuries. 417 00:52:32,490 --> 00:52:40,670 Now, holy father, Approach thou; I am ready for the rite. 418 00:55:00,902 --> 00:55:05,733 Here enter, and speak freely. So to me he sent thee. 419 00:55:05,853 --> 00:55:10,590 He doth offer thee his friendship and the next place to his in the realm of Moscow. 420 00:55:10,710 --> 00:55:13,772 But even thus highly by Feodor am I already raised 421 00:55:13,892 --> 00:55:17,314 The army I command; For me he scorned nobility of rank and the wrath of the boyars 422 00:55:17,434 --> 00:55:18,863 I have sworn to him allegiance. 423 00:55:18,983 --> 00:55:22,300 To the throne's lawful successor Allegiance thou hast sworn 424 00:55:22,420 --> 00:55:25,550 but what if one more lawful still be living? 425 00:55:25,670 --> 00:55:30,629 Listen, Pushkin: enough of that; tell me no idle tales! I know the man. 426 00:55:30,749 --> 00:55:34,118 Russia and Lithuania Have long acknowledged him to be Dimitry 427 00:55:34,238 --> 00:55:36,303 But, for the rest, I do not vouch for it. 428 00:55:36,423 --> 00:55:40,874 Perchance he is indeed the real Dimitry Perchance but a pretender 429 00:55:40,994 --> 00:55:47,510 only this I know, that soon or late the son of Boris will yield Moscow to him. 430 00:55:47,630 --> 00:55:52,446 So long as I stand by the youthful tsar, so long he will not forsake the throne. 431 00:55:52,566 --> 00:55:56,004 We have enough of troops, thank God! With victory I will inspire them. 432 00:55:56,124 --> 00:56:02,446 with you I'll not dissemble, but, Basmanov, dost thou know wherein our strength lies? 433 00:56:02,566 --> 00:56:10,161 Not in the army, no. Nor Polish aid, but in opinion 434 00:56:10,281 --> 00:56:14,732 yes, in popular opinion. 435 00:56:15,252 --> 00:56:19,680 Nay Basmanov, it is too late to blow on the cold embers of this dispute 436 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:24,589 with all thy wits and firmness thou'lt not withstand him. 437 00:56:24,709 --> 00:56:28,990 Were't not better for thee To furnish to our chief a wise example, 438 00:56:29,110 --> 00:56:34,753 Proclaim Dimitry tsar, and by that act Bind him your friend for ever? 439 00:56:34,873 --> 00:56:36,355 How thinkest thou? 440 00:56:37,601 --> 00:56:42,189 - Tomorrow thou shalt know. - Resolve. - Farewell. 441 00:56:44,666 --> 00:56:48,419 Ponder it well, Basmanov. 442 00:57:03,014 --> 00:57:05,793 He is right. He is right. 443 00:57:05,913 --> 00:57:08,768 Everywhere treason ripens; what shall I do? 444 00:57:08,888 --> 00:57:13,054 Wait, that the rebels may deliver me In bonds to the Otrepiev? 445 00:57:13,174 --> 00:57:18,184 Had I not better forestall the stormy onset of the flood, myself 446 00:57:18,304 --> 00:57:24,041 But to forswear mine oath! Dishonour to deserve from age to age! 447 00:57:24,275 --> 00:57:29,652 The trust of my young sovereign to requite with horrible betrayal! 448 00:57:29,772 --> 00:57:33,709 'Tis a light thing for a disgraced exile to meditate sedition and conspiracy, but I? 449 00:57:33,829 --> 00:57:35,716 Is it for me, the favourite of my lord? 450 00:57:35,836 --> 00:57:44,457 But death... but power... the people's miseries... 451 00:58:51,464 --> 00:58:54,114 The tsarevich a boyar hath sent to us. 452 00:58:54,438 --> 00:58:58,283 Let's hear what the boyar will tell us. 453 00:58:58,464 --> 00:59:00,841 Hither! Hither! 454 00:59:01,075 --> 00:59:04,568 Townsmen of Moscow! 455 00:59:05,490 --> 00:59:10,412 The tsarevich bids me convey his greetings to you. 456 00:59:11,191 --> 00:59:17,217 Ye know how Divine Providence saved the tsarevich from out the murderer's hands 457 00:59:17,337 --> 00:59:24,269 he went to punish his murderer, but God's judgment hath already struck down Boris 458 00:59:24,389 --> 00:59:28,347 All Russia hath submitted unto Dimitry 459 00:59:28,467 --> 00:59:31,624 with heartfelt repentance Basmanov hath himself led forth 460 00:59:31,744 --> 00:59:34,334 his troops to swear allegiance to him 461 00:59:34,454 --> 00:59:39,100 In love, in peace Dimitry comes to you 462 00:59:39,220 --> 00:59:43,437 Would ye, to please the house of Godunov, uplift a hand 463 00:59:43,557 --> 00:59:47,528 Against the lawful tsar, against the grandson of Monomakh? 464 00:59:47,648 --> 00:59:49,983 Not we. 465 00:59:52,113 --> 00:59:54,853 Townsmen of Moscow! 466 00:59:55,191 --> 01:00:00,996 The world well knows how much ye have endured under the rule of the cruel stranger 467 01:00:01,116 --> 01:00:07,332 ban, dishonour, executions, taxes, hardships, hunger... 468 01:00:07,452 --> 01:00:10,502 all these ye have experienced. 469 01:00:10,622 --> 01:00:14,802 Dimitry is disposed to show you favour 470 01:00:14,922 --> 01:00:21,737 But he himself is coming to his ancestral throne with dreadful escort. 471 01:00:21,857 --> 01:00:30,430 Provoke not ye the tsar to wrath, fear God And swear allegiance to the lawful ruler 472 01:00:31,023 --> 01:00:39,076 What is to be said? The boyar spake truth. Long live Dimitry, our father! 473 01:00:41,390 --> 01:00:47,190 People! To the Kremlin! To the Royal palace! 474 01:00:47,450 --> 01:00:52,299 The whelp of Boris go bind! 475 01:00:52,419 --> 01:00:56,974 Perish the race of Godunov! 476 01:00:57,094 --> 01:01:02,753 Bind, drown him! Hail Dimitry! 477 01:01:44,366 --> 01:01:51,886 Give alms, for Christ's sake Give alms, for Christ's sake 478 01:01:54,587 --> 01:01:58,925 Go away; it is forbidden to speak to the prisoners. 479 01:01:59,045 --> 01:02:06,310 Go, old man, I am poorer than thou; thou art at liberty. 480 01:02:11,275 --> 01:02:16,093 - Brother and sister - Poor children, like birds in a cage. 481 01:02:16,213 --> 01:02:19,353 Are you going to pity them? Accursed family! 482 01:02:19,473 --> 01:02:22,456 The father was a villain, but the children are innocent. 483 01:02:22,576 --> 01:02:28,392 The apple does not fall far from the apple-tree. 484 01:02:35,307 --> 01:02:37,827 Dear brother! 485 01:02:38,879 --> 01:02:43,788 Dear brother! I think the boyars are coming to us. 486 01:02:50,594 --> 01:02:57,737 That is Golitsin, Mosalsky. I do not know the others. 487 01:03:04,893 --> 01:03:10,335 Ah! Dear brother, my heart sinks. 488 01:03:10,581 --> 01:03:15,503 Make way, make way; the boyars come. 489 01:03:22,241 --> 01:03:23,955 - What have they come for? 490 01:03:24,075 --> 01:03:30,269 - Most like to make Feodor Godunov take the oath. - Very like. 491 01:05:11,467 --> 01:05:13,181 We will go up! 492 01:05:21,615 --> 01:05:25,200 The doors are fastened 493 01:05:26,992 --> 01:05:36,395 People! Maria Godunov and her son Feodor have poisoned themselves. 494 01:05:36,515 --> 01:05:40,563 We have seen their dead bodies. 495 01:05:49,912 --> 01:05:53,535 Why are ye silent? 496 01:05:55,119 --> 01:06:03,710 Cry, Long live the tsar Dimitry Ivanovich! 497 01:06:31,890 --> 01:06:35,384 Actors appearing in mass folk scenes 498 01:06:44,391 --> 01:06:47,469 Episodic appearances 499 01:07:09,340 --> 01:07:17,944 The Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Conductor Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov 500 01:07:21,030 --> 01:07:22,926 Crew 501 01:08:45,329 --> 01:08:49,861 The End Copyright (C) Mosfilm Studio, 1986