1 00:00:25,518 --> 00:00:31,238 'Armenfilm' Studio Productions 2 00:01:58,843 --> 00:02:07,648 We are Our Mountains 3 00:05:14,904 --> 00:05:16,624 Avag! 4 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:20,600 Avag... When did these get mixed up? 5 00:06:10,365 --> 00:06:13,685 - We're going to eat meat... - I'm sleepy... 6 00:06:13,967 --> 00:06:16,887 Are local and pedigree breeds really any different? 7 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,957 Ishkhan... How many states are there in the world? 8 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,000 Well, there is us, Germany... who else? Turkey... 9 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,320 ...USA, France... 10 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,120 ...and Austria, Hungary, the Czechs... 11 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,040 ...India... so there'd be about a hundred. 12 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,840 But the most important is us and America, no? 13 00:06:33,099 --> 00:06:34,219 Austria! 14 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,080 It's us and America that's important! 15 00:06:37,176 --> 00:06:38,976 Austria is a small country... 16 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,120 The small ones have it easy... 17 00:06:42,363 --> 00:06:45,483 I'm just sorry for us and America... 18 00:06:46,039 --> 00:06:48,879 Small countries just laze about... 19 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,560 We keep sheep here... 20 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:57,120 - And why did they kill that poor Kennedy? - Why do you care? 21 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:00,800 Good evening! 22 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:03,680 What're we going to eat, man? 23 00:07:04,586 --> 00:07:07,313 Give us yogurt if you've got it, if not, then we won't eat barbecue... 24 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:08,800 Will it poke your belly? 25 00:07:23,784 --> 00:07:25,944 Say... if he governed poorly... 26 00:07:26,216 --> 00:07:28,496 ...they should've fired him from that job... 27 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,560 Why did they go and kill that man? 28 00:07:31,632 --> 00:07:33,952 As in "you're not doing what we want"... 29 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,120 Eh... he had an Armenian's luck... 30 00:07:38,183 --> 00:07:40,863 Pavle can skin a sheep in five minutes. 31 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:43,720 He can't! 32 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,280 It's what I've seen, and he say's he can't! 33 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,840 What're we going to eat Pavle? 34 00:08:11,064 --> 00:08:12,944 I can't be bothered... 35 00:08:17,568 --> 00:08:22,288 Coz a stray sheep got mixed in with the herd. 36 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,840 I thought if I cast it out, the wolves will eat it... 37 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,360 It's native... fat...! 38 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,280 And we still got those skewers from Ando... 39 00:08:38,904 --> 00:08:40,184 Ok then! 40 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:41,760 The skewers! 41 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:43,880 Salt, water, wood! 42 00:08:44,088 --> 00:08:45,488 Fire! 43 00:08:51,136 --> 00:08:53,303 I said I can't be bothered... 44 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:24,120 Come here... 45 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,040 Whoever's gonna eat the most, raise their hand! 46 00:09:46,576 --> 00:09:50,616 Stop jabbering son, if you gonna butcher it, then do it. 47 00:09:57,496 --> 00:09:59,776 It tortured me the whole day... 48 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,625 He who doesn't have an appetite, raise their hand! 49 00:10:05,664 --> 00:10:08,198 No, that won't do Zaven! Artistically please! 50 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:11,000 Artistically... The "Aleppo"... 51 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:13,120 The "Aleppo"...! 52 00:10:15,064 --> 00:10:16,424 Yes! 53 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,023 [Quoting from Shakespeare's 'Othello'] "Once upon a time in Aleppo..." 54 00:10:20,230 --> 00:10:21,430 "...Aleppo..." 55 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:22,988 "...Aleppo..." 56 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:25,560 "...Aleppo..." 57 00:10:27,248 --> 00:10:28,968 "...fifty Turks..." 58 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,280 "...were beating a Venetian and cussing the Republic..." 59 00:10:33,255 --> 00:10:37,396 "So I grabbed that circumcised dog's throat and cut it..." 60 00:10:37,458 --> 00:10:39,458 "...just like this..." 61 00:10:42,088 --> 00:10:44,523 Aleppo, Aleppo, Aleppo... 62 00:10:44,588 --> 00:10:46,351 Yes... Aleppo... 63 00:10:46,952 --> 00:10:49,992 Aleppo must be in Poland, near Lodz, no? 64 00:10:51,282 --> 00:10:53,379 Aleppo is in Arabia! 65 00:10:54,089 --> 00:10:56,104 Around that way... 66 00:10:56,848 --> 00:10:58,188 Don't know... 67 00:10:58,666 --> 00:11:00,666 Polish girls are pretty... 68 00:11:01,283 --> 00:11:02,354 How would you know? 69 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:04,542 Should I say they're not pretty when they are? 70 00:11:04,582 --> 00:11:06,942 Don't stir up Avag's pain. 71 00:11:07,192 --> 00:11:09,066 Avag? 72 00:11:09,304 --> 00:11:11,705 It's not decent, man! 73 00:11:19,102 --> 00:11:21,459 Revaz? What are you doing? 74 00:11:21,557 --> 00:11:23,209 Me? 75 00:11:32,576 --> 00:11:35,096 - What are you doing? - I'm eating barbecue. 76 00:11:48,154 --> 00:11:49,874 You call that five minutes? 77 00:11:51,164 --> 00:11:53,124 It took an hour, you buggers. 78 00:13:14,485 --> 00:13:16,365 Was this your barbecue...? 79 00:13:16,890 --> 00:13:20,610 Come back tomorrow too, there's two more sheep. 80 00:13:22,572 --> 00:13:24,612 - Good night. - Good night. 81 00:13:41,904 --> 00:13:43,264 "Guys!" 82 00:13:44,815 --> 00:13:47,541 "Guys, I forgot to say, I've lost four black sheep..." 83 00:13:47,590 --> 00:13:48,790 Native ones? 84 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:53,969 "Native ones, with the left ears cut off... four dark sheep..." 85 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,747 "Two of them four years old, the others – two..." 86 00:13:56,825 --> 00:13:59,465 "Three ewes and one ram – castrated..." 87 00:13:59,628 --> 00:14:00,851 Come again? 88 00:14:00,906 --> 00:14:04,217 "I'm saying I've lost some sheep, have you seen them?" 89 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:05,928 "One castrated and three ewes...." 90 00:14:05,994 --> 00:14:07,045 Come again? 91 00:14:07,098 --> 00:14:11,742 "I'm saying I've lost one castrated ram and three ewes... have you seen them?" 92 00:14:12,101 --> 00:14:13,148 Say what? 93 00:14:13,214 --> 00:14:16,054 "Sheep... I've lost sheep, have you seen them...?" 94 00:14:16,432 --> 00:14:17,921 Speak louder! 95 00:14:18,024 --> 00:14:20,888 - "I'm saying... did you hear that?" - Yes! 96 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:22,935 "The sheep... did you hear?" 97 00:14:23,014 --> 00:14:24,654 The sheep what? 98 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,488 Cut it out, can't you hear he's saying he's lost some sheep? 99 00:14:27,539 --> 00:14:30,819 - And what was that you were eating? - Call him over. 100 00:14:31,103 --> 00:14:33,183 - But should I? - Yeah... 101 00:14:41,943 --> 00:14:44,303 Come, come. I've got something to say. 102 00:14:56,819 --> 00:14:58,936 You're not hungry still are you, Revaz dear? 103 00:14:58,991 --> 00:15:01,848 - No, I'm full. Why? - We're also full, dear Revaz. 104 00:15:01,896 --> 00:15:03,188 So you're happy then? 105 00:15:03,242 --> 00:15:06,248 I've lost my sheep... been on my feet all day in the mountains... 106 00:15:06,310 --> 00:15:09,480 But why do you need sheep, why do you keep sheep? 107 00:15:10,095 --> 00:15:14,895 Revaz... this barbecue... it was probably your sheep... 108 00:15:16,654 --> 00:15:18,094 You've really screwed up... 109 00:15:18,181 --> 00:15:20,588 Yeah, brother. We're guilty and you're the judge. 110 00:15:20,635 --> 00:15:22,566 Now tell us how we've screwed up. 111 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,102 You stole something and ate it. That's how you've screwed up. 112 00:15:25,145 --> 00:15:27,505 Wow...! Isn't he a real judge! 113 00:15:27,870 --> 00:15:29,990 Watch it, or I'll bash you in. 114 00:15:30,823 --> 00:15:32,262 Who's the thief, you bastard? 115 00:15:32,301 --> 00:15:33,381 Really? 116 00:15:33,767 --> 00:15:37,970 You slaughter my sheep and then shout at me as if I'm the thief! 117 00:15:38,032 --> 00:15:40,672 Well, it's just dumb Pavle, what does he know? 118 00:15:41,022 --> 00:15:43,870 Instead of saying sorry... or it was dark... 119 00:15:43,934 --> 00:15:45,494 ...or we didn't notice... 120 00:15:45,735 --> 00:15:48,575 Instead of saying something decent, you want me to beg... 121 00:15:48,865 --> 00:15:50,951 Go on your way, go! We haven't seen them! 122 00:15:51,016 --> 00:15:53,109 But that's not right Othello! 123 00:15:53,162 --> 00:15:55,241 This man is good. This man isn't complaining, 124 00:15:55,288 --> 00:15:56,864 you wanna force him to complain? 125 00:15:56,919 --> 00:16:00,410 - ...31 [rubles]... here, take that and go. - Well, I'm trying be decent with these... 126 00:16:00,470 --> 00:16:02,270 - Go, go... - Wait, wait! 127 00:16:03,344 --> 00:16:05,664 You go, go... he's coming. 128 00:16:06,265 --> 00:16:08,085 You were calling from over there, no? 129 00:16:08,179 --> 00:16:09,906 You were asking if we'd seen your sheep, right? 130 00:16:09,957 --> 00:16:10,583 Yeah... 131 00:16:10,616 --> 00:16:13,402 So go and ask again, and we'll say we haven't seen them. 132 00:16:13,464 --> 00:16:15,610 Go on your way, you'll find your sheep. 133 00:16:15,652 --> 00:16:18,879 - The world is... - Othello! Wait! 134 00:16:18,925 --> 00:16:20,734 - Othello! - That won't do... 135 00:16:20,788 --> 00:16:22,799 Go away, you're not here! 136 00:16:23,104 --> 00:16:25,463 - It was just him that was here! - Be good Othello! 137 00:16:25,511 --> 00:16:27,987 I'm here, you're here, we're all here. 138 00:16:28,026 --> 00:16:30,365 We've slaughtered and eaten two of your sheep, 139 00:16:30,404 --> 00:16:32,531 and we'll eat the other two tomorrow if you let us. 140 00:16:32,576 --> 00:16:36,535 Got it? There's forty of us. We could pull off your pants and put you in new ones. 141 00:16:36,569 --> 00:16:38,503 And you're one of us, so take your money and go! 142 00:16:38,566 --> 00:16:39,870 - C'mon, go! - Yeah, go... 143 00:16:40,946 --> 00:16:41,923 Revaz...! 144 00:16:42,752 --> 00:16:44,952 Couldn't you wait til autumn? 145 00:16:45,345 --> 00:16:49,323 We'd have given you some honey, wheat and stuff... so the kids could eat... 146 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:52,360 Four sheep? 147 00:16:54,223 --> 00:16:55,143 No... 148 00:16:56,592 --> 00:16:58,432 Black ones... 149 00:17:02,695 --> 00:17:04,055 What's a sheep again? 150 00:17:07,735 --> 00:17:08,895 Ah... 151 00:17:09,368 --> 00:17:11,008 Sheep! 152 00:17:11,571 --> 00:17:13,851 No, they weren't ours. 153 00:17:14,807 --> 00:17:18,026 Back in grandpa's days, there were about a thousand... 154 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:19,560 Wait! 155 00:17:20,408 --> 00:17:22,168 I'm a mechanic myself, 156 00:17:22,765 --> 00:17:25,520 tractor and combine driver... 157 00:17:25,605 --> 00:17:26,885 That's it! 158 00:17:27,383 --> 00:17:29,503 That's a photo camera. 159 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,640 But sheep? No! 160 00:17:33,823 --> 00:17:36,983 And how to explain, citizen Revaz... 161 00:17:37,204 --> 00:17:40,800 that your wife's sheep were stolen, when you didn't own any sheep? 162 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,440 - Perhaps this lady isn't your wife? - No! 163 00:17:44,848 --> 00:17:46,208 She's not my wife. 164 00:17:46,895 --> 00:17:48,055 I don't remember... 165 00:17:48,472 --> 00:17:51,192 - I don't have a wife. - So whose wife is she? 166 00:17:51,247 --> 00:17:52,447 Who knows? 167 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,680 And why're you shouting at me? 168 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,526 Maybe she's Churchill's! 169 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:01,200 Do you know that by withholding evidence you're considered the fifth offender? 170 00:18:03,631 --> 00:18:04,671 They were mine! 171 00:18:07,256 --> 00:18:10,009 I sold them, and I'm not complaining! 172 00:19:58,065 --> 00:19:59,678 Hello guys! 173 00:19:59,744 --> 00:20:03,824 Ah, welcome comrade lieutenant! Good to see you! 174 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,480 Comrade lieutenant! Will you take our photo? 175 00:20:08,712 --> 00:20:10,552 Why not? I will. 176 00:20:16,279 --> 00:20:17,519 Come round, come! 177 00:20:24,742 --> 00:20:26,182 Once more! 178 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:34,764 I'm going up to the mountains... 179 00:20:34,816 --> 00:20:37,542 Your people have butchered some sheep or something... 180 00:20:41,572 --> 00:20:43,876 They would, they would, comrade lieutenant, 181 00:20:43,924 --> 00:20:46,252 they're thieving, good-for-nothing people! 182 00:20:48,166 --> 00:20:51,006 Be careful lieutenant! They also slaughter people. 183 00:20:53,657 --> 00:20:56,497 The cat farted and he listens! 184 00:21:46,249 --> 00:21:48,431 - Why're you just standing there? - What should I do? 185 00:21:48,466 --> 00:21:50,346 What should you do? Blow your horn! 186 00:21:51,143 --> 00:21:53,223 Come and help! Hold it by the horns. 187 00:21:53,305 --> 00:21:54,704 - Do you have a long rope? - I do. 188 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,080 - Where is it? - Where? In my pocket! 189 00:21:58,527 --> 00:22:00,527 But it'll be easier with a long rope... 190 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:02,520 Right, right... 191 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:18,800 Pull! 192 00:22:23,416 --> 00:22:27,176 I was pulling a log, then it stopped and wouldn't go any further. 193 00:22:28,703 --> 00:22:31,226 Khndzor [Apple] the ox refuses to move... 194 00:22:31,784 --> 00:22:34,544 Khndzor, my bro... 195 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,270 He's been poisoned... 196 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,048 Will you be able to hold it? 197 00:22:45,368 --> 00:22:46,488 Just a sec... 198 00:22:48,712 --> 00:22:50,619 Hold it, hold... 199 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:54,360 How was he poisoned? 200 00:22:54,866 --> 00:22:56,066 Don't know... 201 00:22:56,353 --> 00:22:59,233 He's tired of this hard life... wants to die. 202 00:22:59,289 --> 00:23:02,007 The anti-revolutionaries have poisoned him. 203 00:23:04,358 --> 00:23:07,641 I'm doing this for your sake, coz you can't hold down an ox. 204 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,920 He accidentally ate some poisonous grass... 205 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,360 - Are you Ishkhan or Avag? - Hold tight. 206 00:23:19,658 --> 00:23:20,858 Oxie dear... 207 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:22,800 My bro... 208 00:23:33,392 --> 00:23:34,752 Oxie dear... 209 00:23:37,418 --> 00:23:38,978 I'm Ishkhan. 210 00:23:40,155 --> 00:23:43,195 - Did you butcher some sheep? - Damn right we did. 211 00:23:43,632 --> 00:23:45,552 - Revaz's sheep? - Revaz's. 212 00:23:45,985 --> 00:23:48,517 - Has he complained? - That's not important. 213 00:23:48,596 --> 00:23:50,851 And you just got up and came over? 214 00:23:53,595 --> 00:23:54,910 Well... 215 00:23:56,622 --> 00:23:59,326 Well, it's good that you've come. 216 00:23:59,489 --> 00:24:02,889 You think it's easy to turn over an ox by oneself? 217 00:24:03,551 --> 00:24:06,391 A single man can't even turn over a woman... 218 00:24:07,478 --> 00:24:09,278 ...let alone an ox... 219 00:24:10,959 --> 00:24:14,879 Consider this ox the police force's gift to the Antaramej village society. 220 00:24:30,433 --> 00:24:33,273 So the gasses will pass through the pipe? 221 00:24:34,479 --> 00:24:36,476 That was the idea... 222 00:25:03,656 --> 00:25:06,155 - And what'll happen now? - What? 223 00:25:08,022 --> 00:25:12,502 I'm saying the ox is now useless. How will you bring the log down? 224 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,545 As long as you and I are on our feet... 225 00:25:14,751 --> 00:25:16,576 Two healthy men... 226 00:25:40,224 --> 00:25:42,024 What about the yoke? 227 00:25:42,185 --> 00:25:43,968 ...And the oxes... the chain...? 228 00:25:44,057 --> 00:25:46,886 - What about them? - They'll be stolen. 229 00:25:46,968 --> 00:25:48,137 Pft... 230 00:25:50,183 --> 00:25:52,955 Then how did Revaz's sheep get stolen? 231 00:25:53,704 --> 00:25:57,677 I slaughtered Revaz's sheep, we ate them, paid him and he left. 232 00:25:58,160 --> 00:25:59,711 He left a little reluctantly... 233 00:25:59,796 --> 00:26:04,304 But if I said my axe costs one kilo of gold, would you believe me? 234 00:26:06,071 --> 00:26:09,071 - How much did he want? - He wanted his sheep back. 235 00:26:09,401 --> 00:26:11,091 But you'd slaughtered the sheep... 236 00:26:11,265 --> 00:26:14,303 He knew we were in a tough spot, that's why he wanted more. 237 00:26:14,856 --> 00:26:17,989 - And you didn't give him a good beating? - That would be shameful... 238 00:26:29,672 --> 00:26:31,872 How many children do you have Ishkhan? 239 00:26:32,580 --> 00:26:36,197 I got four kids. The eldest is a reporter in the city. 240 00:26:36,448 --> 00:26:38,833 He writes this and that... earns money... 241 00:26:41,432 --> 00:26:43,831 This government is very uneconomical... 242 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,760 It gives out money to anyone... 243 00:26:54,552 --> 00:26:55,752 Ishkhan... 244 00:26:57,264 --> 00:26:59,744 - How're we gonna do this then? - What? 245 00:27:02,232 --> 00:27:03,525 I don't know... 246 00:27:05,121 --> 00:27:07,285 It's a log, and we're just carrying it... 247 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,119 There's foot and mouth disease from Ghazakh... 248 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,122 It'd be good if it rained... 249 00:27:20,698 --> 00:27:22,778 The hay would be spoiled. 250 00:27:23,737 --> 00:27:25,683 How much are your son's wages? 251 00:27:26,224 --> 00:27:29,264 Well, it's the city... the moment he gets them, they're gone. 252 00:27:30,042 --> 00:27:33,700 If my son didn't drink... his wages would be enough... 253 00:27:33,911 --> 00:27:37,071 But it's the city, what else is there to do? 254 00:27:37,856 --> 00:27:41,005 The World... and fire... 255 00:27:42,264 --> 00:27:45,604 ...and wood, and God... 256 00:27:45,828 --> 00:27:48,508 ...and women, and clouds... 257 00:27:49,744 --> 00:27:53,024 ...and cold, and wheat... 258 00:27:53,288 --> 00:27:56,648 ...who created it... the World? 259 00:27:58,632 --> 00:28:02,512 The world full of fire! The planet is turning, 260 00:28:02,694 --> 00:28:05,396 and shows you its ass! 261 00:28:09,603 --> 00:28:11,843 Ok, get up, get up now! 262 00:28:12,646 --> 00:28:14,850 Guys, since we're all here, lets make a decision, 263 00:28:14,905 --> 00:28:16,709 and work out why this man has come? 264 00:28:16,770 --> 00:28:18,731 Comrade lieutenant? 265 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,248 Comrade lieutenant, you're from the city, I've got a question and if you answer it, 266 00:28:22,310 --> 00:28:24,400 I'll butcher a sheep for you. 267 00:28:24,535 --> 00:28:26,826 When was Columbus's trip? 268 00:28:27,602 --> 00:28:30,278 Dude, even I don't know that, how would the lieutenant know? 269 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,020 He's here on the matter of the sheep. 270 00:28:33,099 --> 00:28:34,259 - Revaz's? - Revaz's. 271 00:28:34,575 --> 00:28:35,899 The ones we paid for and then he left? 272 00:28:35,961 --> 00:28:38,585 No, the Revaz that we didn't pay and who didn't leave. 273 00:28:38,656 --> 00:28:40,366 Well, if he's here, he's here... 274 00:28:40,426 --> 00:28:42,355 Let's decide since we're together. 275 00:28:42,424 --> 00:28:44,582 This man has come all the way from the city. 276 00:28:44,692 --> 00:28:46,697 Well, we paid the price for the sheep. 277 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,903 He's right. We gave him the money and he left. 278 00:28:48,970 --> 00:28:50,528 We even paid city rates! 279 00:28:50,594 --> 00:28:53,354 Why're you getting involved? Who asked you? 280 00:28:53,472 --> 00:28:56,335 But I also ate the meat and butchered one of the sheep... 281 00:28:56,841 --> 00:28:58,865 And how many sheep were there? 282 00:28:58,931 --> 00:29:00,544 - One! - Eeeh, you're mixed up. 283 00:29:00,635 --> 00:29:02,833 You butchered one, and didn't you butcher the other Pavle? 284 00:29:02,911 --> 00:29:05,351 Now, now! Pavle has five kids! 285 00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:07,632 Don't involve him. He's got five kids! 286 00:29:07,698 --> 00:29:10,585 Why shouldn't we? We want to remember who butchered them. 287 00:29:10,642 --> 00:29:14,522 Pavle did. He's the best butcher among us, he did it. 288 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,226 Whatever. I was tired, otherwise I'd have skinned it in three minutes! 289 00:29:18,290 --> 00:29:21,147 You can't even take your clothes off in three minutes! 290 00:29:21,202 --> 00:29:24,069 He can butcher it. You remember when the reporter was here? 291 00:29:24,143 --> 00:29:26,303 The reporter was blown away! 292 00:29:28,218 --> 00:29:30,938 What kind of people are you? 293 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,315 This man has come from the city...! 294 00:29:33,474 --> 00:29:35,474 He's tired and beat. 295 00:29:35,545 --> 00:29:38,945 There were four sheep. We butchered two and left the others for later. 296 00:29:39,088 --> 00:29:41,044 So what say you? Make a decision! 297 00:29:41,123 --> 00:29:43,123 Let's give this man an answer. 298 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,123 Why is he tired and beat? 299 00:29:46,224 --> 00:29:49,144 - We carried down a log together. - Why, are the oxen lost? 300 00:29:49,208 --> 00:29:52,693 No... ox Kndzor got poisoned, I pricked his belly. 301 00:29:52,777 --> 00:29:55,577 - Where is the vet? - In Jerusalem or somewhere. 302 00:29:55,885 --> 00:29:58,932 This is grass, and this is a scythe. 303 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,760 The scythe cuts the grass, the cow eats it, 304 00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:05,159 the cow gives milk. 305 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,640 Alik drinks the milk, 306 00:30:08,049 --> 00:30:10,249 grows up, and learns his lessons. 307 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,924 'G' – grass. 308 00:30:13,086 --> 00:30:15,846 Where is it? 309 00:30:16,337 --> 00:30:19,817 'G' – grass... 310 00:30:20,217 --> 00:30:22,057 Grass... 311 00:30:22,286 --> 00:30:25,446 "Well, they didn't complain about each other at the time." 312 00:30:25,496 --> 00:30:29,176 "And do you know what happened after you returned, inspector Hakobyan?" 313 00:30:29,344 --> 00:30:33,431 "One smashed the other's head with a bottle and cussed at his wife". 314 00:30:33,512 --> 00:30:35,552 "Let's just say... sit," 315 00:30:36,544 --> 00:30:37,704 "and listen!" 316 00:30:37,969 --> 00:30:40,480 "- Whatever I say, respond yes. - Yes." 317 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:44,440 "Here's something that happened to me. Meaning I did the questioning myself." 318 00:30:44,706 --> 00:30:48,306 "There was a couple. A man and wife. They lived together for 20 years." 319 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:50,902 "They were husband and wife for 20 years." 320 00:30:50,959 --> 00:30:52,399 "One body and soul." 321 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,440 "And then this man took his wife's ring and sold it," 322 00:30:55,514 --> 00:30:57,514 "and used the money to get drunk." 323 00:30:58,033 --> 00:31:00,513 "What is this man doing now, huh?" 324 00:31:00,615 --> 00:31:03,862 "He's doing social work." 325 00:31:03,953 --> 00:31:06,513 "Meaning, he mines stone in a labor camp." 326 00:31:06,608 --> 00:31:08,531 "- Ask why? - Why?" 327 00:31:08,616 --> 00:31:12,882 "His wife only had one ring. After that one theft, there was no more ring." 328 00:31:13,112 --> 00:31:17,676 "His wife had one coat. After another theft, that would be gone too." 329 00:31:17,824 --> 00:31:20,251 "And what would he steal next, do you think?" 330 00:31:20,347 --> 00:31:22,827 "If there were no more ring or coat, I remind you." 331 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,960 "He would've had to steal my wife's ring," 332 00:31:26,031 --> 00:31:28,734 "your wife's ring, society's ring..." 333 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:34,120 "...the Government's ring! Meaning: big crimes start from small ones." 334 00:31:34,192 --> 00:31:37,511 "Meaning – there are no small crimes!" 335 00:31:37,806 --> 00:31:40,883 "You sat together and partied!" 336 00:36:20,065 --> 00:36:21,385 "Sister!" 337 00:36:22,345 --> 00:36:24,625 "Where is the head of the village committee?" 338 00:36:38,848 --> 00:36:40,840 He'd be on the pastures most likely. 339 00:36:44,665 --> 00:36:46,105 What do we do then? 340 00:36:47,064 --> 00:36:48,624 About what? 341 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,541 We have to call someone down from the mountain. 342 00:36:53,698 --> 00:36:55,778 - About a police matter? - Yeah. 343 00:37:06,250 --> 00:37:09,926 To tell the truth, I could call them... 344 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,160 What for? 345 00:37:12,522 --> 00:37:14,562 - There's an issue... - What issue? 346 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,760 - They've butchered some sheep. - Who? 347 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,640 Aval Hovhannisyan, Ishkhan Antonyan... Pavle, Zaven... 348 00:37:24,264 --> 00:37:26,784 Have you got nothing better to do? 349 00:37:27,450 --> 00:37:31,920 I was last here in 19... What's that? A bee sting? 350 00:37:31,983 --> 00:37:33,343 Yes, they got me. 351 00:37:33,856 --> 00:37:35,998 - Has he filed a complaint? - It doesn't matter. 352 00:37:36,088 --> 00:37:38,482 It's us and our Revaz. Why would he complain? 353 00:37:38,568 --> 00:37:40,553 Well, that's how it is, dear. 354 00:37:40,777 --> 00:37:42,830 Wait, what I'm telling you now is my own experience. 355 00:37:42,868 --> 00:37:44,661 Meaning I investigated it personally. 356 00:37:44,936 --> 00:37:47,976 A husband and wife. They lived together for 20 years. 357 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,224 They slept together in one bed, had kids... 358 00:37:51,347 --> 00:37:55,467 But the husband was a bit of a drunkard, he liked to drink. It happens. 359 00:37:56,081 --> 00:37:59,721 One time, there was no money, so he took his wife's ring. 360 00:37:59,856 --> 00:38:05,056 It's his wife. The ring is his wife's. So the ring is practically his own. 361 00:38:05,231 --> 00:38:08,791 What right do we have to get between their fingers and their ring? 362 00:38:09,154 --> 00:38:13,994 But it turns out that we do have the right, and this man is now in a labor camp. 363 00:38:18,024 --> 00:38:20,384 - It's tough. - It's not easy. 364 00:38:20,514 --> 00:38:24,822 But maybe Revaz didn't own any sheep, so which sheep could we have butchered? 365 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,088 No dear... Everything from the journals of the village 366 00:38:28,129 --> 00:38:30,807 committee to the journals of the UN shows us, 367 00:38:31,050 --> 00:38:34,300 that Revaz Movsisyan had four black sheep, 368 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:35,775 and he doesn't have them anymore. 369 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,690 - Something else might've happened. - What? 370 00:38:39,736 --> 00:38:42,416 There could've been some sheep, but they weren't with us. 371 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:44,745 - If so, then how did you butcher them? - Butcher what? 372 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,105 - The sheep. - What sheep? 373 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:47,678 The ones you butchered and ate. 374 00:38:47,743 --> 00:38:50,239 - What's this about butchering and eating? - 20 of you ate them. 375 00:38:50,292 --> 00:38:51,776 What 20 people? 376 00:38:52,424 --> 00:38:55,344 Stop annoying me, you're a grown man! 377 00:38:57,345 --> 00:38:59,805 So if 20 of us ate, why did you only bring me in? 378 00:38:59,871 --> 00:39:03,618 The sheep got mixed in with your herd. You took them, butchered them and ate them. 379 00:39:03,696 --> 00:39:06,656 I'm not aware of that. I'm completely unaware. 380 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,211 - Really? - Yeah... 381 00:39:08,312 --> 00:39:10,592 - And if the expertise confirms it? - Who confirms it? 382 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,000 - The expertise. - Ooh, I'm so scared. 383 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:14,520 I'm really scared! 384 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,401 What d'ya want? We butchered them, paid the price and he left. What d'ya want? 385 00:39:18,455 --> 00:39:20,510 - Tell me the truth in detail. - I won't! 386 00:39:20,558 --> 00:39:22,558 - Sit down! - Just who are you trying to scare? 387 00:39:22,665 --> 00:39:23,427 You. 388 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,780 40 of us ate them, why have you only called me? 389 00:39:25,857 --> 00:39:27,319 You started it. 390 00:39:28,298 --> 00:39:32,338 I was in the mountains, true? When it hailed I was in the mountains, right? 391 00:39:32,519 --> 00:39:36,083 Then when the sheep came, I was still in the mountains. But you weren't there. No? 392 00:39:36,144 --> 00:39:38,504 And when we butchered them, then you got up and came, true? 393 00:39:38,608 --> 00:39:40,768 You came after we butchered them... 394 00:39:40,888 --> 00:39:44,448 You should've come before and told us not to butcher them! 395 00:39:44,681 --> 00:39:47,076 - So you did butcher them. - Damn right we did! 396 00:39:47,145 --> 00:39:49,545 I don't regret it! You should've come and prevented it. 397 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,936 - Who did the butchering? - One of them was me. 398 00:39:52,072 --> 00:39:55,752 - Right, who else? - Me, me again! 399 00:39:56,001 --> 00:39:58,601 - You ate four sheep by yourself? - Yeah! 400 00:39:58,744 --> 00:40:01,344 I overate, would you like me to throw up? 401 00:40:03,056 --> 00:40:04,953 Well, if you ate them, you ate them. 402 00:40:05,048 --> 00:40:08,203 The others will avoid prison and you'll take the responsibility. 403 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,706 You don't have an ounce of humanity in you. 404 00:40:12,816 --> 00:40:14,536 I swear... 405 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:49,945 There's nothing to think about. 406 00:40:50,016 --> 00:40:52,696 Sign it, so we can let it rest. 407 00:40:53,728 --> 00:40:56,811 Beat me. Until you beat me, I won't say a thing. 408 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,991 Soviet police are against beatings, 409 00:40:59,045 --> 00:41:01,123 beatings are not allowed in the Soviet police. 410 00:41:01,186 --> 00:41:03,659 - If you won't beat me, what else is there? - Sign it and go. 411 00:41:03,713 --> 00:41:05,971 I'm illiterate. Don't recognize the letters. 412 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,185 Come back! 413 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,785 Why're you shouting? You shout and call yourself 'Soviet'! 414 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,098 I'm Soviet! What kind of Soviet are you? 415 00:41:15,392 --> 00:41:18,072 I herd sheep, shear wool, cut hay! 416 00:41:18,232 --> 00:41:21,552 Avag is Soviet, who doesn't have a wife and doesn't have the time to get one! 417 00:41:21,689 --> 00:41:23,740 I make cheese and butter, 418 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:27,480 - bathe sheep... - And butcher the sheep of others! 419 00:41:27,744 --> 00:41:29,705 And what was that Soviet Avag doing? 420 00:41:29,776 --> 00:41:33,016 Yeah, and I butcher others' sheep! You bet! What's it to you? 421 00:41:33,176 --> 00:41:35,403 You steal and call yourself 'Soviet'. 422 00:41:35,488 --> 00:41:37,328 You bet. What business is it of yours? 423 00:41:37,473 --> 00:41:40,273 What theft, what sheep? I was in the city that day. 424 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,040 Go and prove it! 425 00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:44,760 I keep 800 sheep... 426 00:41:50,194 --> 00:41:54,554 They got mixed up... But it's not theft, coz we didn't sell them. So it's not theft. 427 00:41:54,841 --> 00:41:57,824 Pavle can prep the meat in five minutes, but we bet that he couldn't... 428 00:41:57,904 --> 00:42:00,824 So then we gave it a try... Thus, it's not theft! 429 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,440 - And then Zaven... - So Pavle butchered them first. 430 00:42:03,912 --> 00:42:06,072 - Yes, Pavle butchered them... - Right, and then? 431 00:42:06,147 --> 00:42:08,505 - What then? We butchered them and ate. - You said Zaven... 432 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,120 I said Zaven? Ah... yes, I said Zaven... 433 00:42:11,209 --> 00:42:12,471 But I've forgotten now... 434 00:42:12,735 --> 00:42:14,905 Forgot what? Maybe you'll remember through questioning? 435 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,635 Zaven was reciting... "Once... someplace... a bastard Turk..." 436 00:42:18,714 --> 00:42:21,714 "traduced my nation...", I forgot where that place was... 437 00:42:21,832 --> 00:42:23,462 What's the name roughly? We'll work it out. 438 00:42:23,509 --> 00:42:24,903 A city, nearby. 439 00:42:24,976 --> 00:42:26,335 - Tbilisi. - Nah... 440 00:42:26,401 --> 00:42:27,841 Berlin then... 441 00:42:27,921 --> 00:42:29,841 - Paris or Rome? - Neither Paris, nor... 442 00:42:29,897 --> 00:42:31,200 - What did you say? - Rome... 443 00:42:31,264 --> 00:42:33,264 Rome... Rome..., nah. 444 00:42:33,682 --> 00:42:35,562 Never mind. It's not important. 445 00:42:35,801 --> 00:42:37,601 What was Avag doing then? 446 00:42:37,728 --> 00:42:39,928 Everybody was doing something, who remembers? 447 00:42:39,984 --> 00:42:42,624 - But what was Avag doing? - Would you remember if it was you? 448 00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:44,440 I would, if it was a major incident. 449 00:42:44,503 --> 00:42:47,103 How was I to know if it'd be a big enough incident to remember it? 450 00:42:47,231 --> 00:42:49,226 But you were butchering another man's sheep... 451 00:42:49,272 --> 00:42:50,819 Here we go again... 452 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:56,480 This other man was with us, he ate with us. So they weren't another man's at the time! 453 00:42:56,809 --> 00:42:59,329 Ok. Who else was there? 454 00:42:59,704 --> 00:43:01,704 - Everyone was there. - Everyone meaning who? 455 00:43:02,346 --> 00:43:04,323 - Me, one of them was me. - And the next? 456 00:43:04,401 --> 00:43:07,963 - Pavle, Zaven, Avag and Vasil? - No! 457 00:43:08,072 --> 00:43:10,072 No. Not in my opinion. 458 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:18,560 Avoyan Asatur of Gevorg, Abovyan Yeghish of Grigor, 459 00:43:18,630 --> 00:43:20,696 - Should I say the dates of birth too? - No! 460 00:43:20,969 --> 00:43:24,049 Abovyan Harutyun of Artavazd, Abovyan Mikael... 461 00:43:24,121 --> 00:43:25,835 ...Mikael! Of Geovrg... 462 00:43:25,898 --> 00:43:29,449 Abovyan Vachik of Levon, Abovyan Manuk... Note it down, I'm serious. 463 00:43:29,551 --> 00:43:32,231 Abovyan Ashot of Vagharshak, Antonyan Ishkhan... 464 00:43:33,248 --> 00:43:36,848 That's me... Ishkhan of Sahak, Barseghyan Sahak of Sargis, 465 00:43:36,944 --> 00:43:39,681 I'm saying what happened. I can't make things up. 466 00:43:39,775 --> 00:43:41,443 Although, I respect you a lot. 467 00:43:41,808 --> 00:43:45,394 Barseghyan Toros of Takvor, Badaghyan Bagrat of Matevos, 468 00:43:45,456 --> 00:43:49,360 Brutyan Margar of Tigran, Minoyan Asatur of Arakel, 469 00:43:49,424 --> 00:43:52,150 Gevorgyan Varazdat of Gevorg... 470 00:43:52,228 --> 00:43:54,047 and Movsesyan Revaz – a gift for you. 471 00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,330 Stick around in our village five months, 472 00:43:56,385 --> 00:43:58,830 try and confirm that 40 people, plus Revaz Movsisyan 473 00:43:58,896 --> 00:44:02,896 ate two sheep, and will eat another two after shearing and invite you over. 474 00:44:03,825 --> 00:44:06,335 Very well. I'll sit here for five months 475 00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,730 and prove that the sheep got mixed in with your herd. 476 00:44:08,785 --> 00:44:12,691 - And then you gave them up for slaughter. - The herd isn't mine. It's the farm's! 477 00:44:13,006 --> 00:44:17,287 Excuse me? You gave them up for slaughter, you held their legs, Avag butchered them, 478 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,523 Zaven held their legs and Pavle butchered them. 479 00:44:19,593 --> 00:44:21,976 That's four of you and that's enough. 480 00:44:22,056 --> 00:44:25,416 The rest will go about their business, you will go to a labor camp. 481 00:44:26,185 --> 00:44:28,496 No! Pavle butchered them, Toros got the skewers, 482 00:44:28,543 --> 00:44:30,722 Sahak stuck the meat on, Sako marinaded it, 483 00:44:30,771 --> 00:44:32,954 Vasil paid for it, Vanik lit the fire, I ate, 484 00:44:33,002 --> 00:44:36,576 all of us ate, Revaz ate, Revaz said thank you. 485 00:44:36,849 --> 00:44:40,587 But they got mixed in with your herd, you held their legs, Avag butchered them, 486 00:44:40,651 --> 00:44:43,371 Pavle butchered the other while Zaven held its legs. 487 00:44:43,696 --> 00:44:48,136 And Revaz got diarrhea, Sako said thanks, while Barsegh ate his full. 488 00:44:48,785 --> 00:44:51,585 It was Avag and Pavle who butchered them! 489 00:44:51,768 --> 00:44:56,328 You're weird! If Pavle is our best butcher, who else was to do it? 490 00:44:57,135 --> 00:44:58,884 With your knife... 491 00:45:00,121 --> 00:45:03,321 Damn... really... damn... 492 00:45:06,312 --> 00:45:07,912 Hey, smart ass... 493 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,880 Was I supposed to use your knife? 494 00:45:11,984 --> 00:45:14,064 You were in the city, 495 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,869 I butchered with this knife, coz I didn't have your gun. 496 00:45:19,931 --> 00:45:21,945 What am I to sign? Let's see. 497 00:46:19,639 --> 00:46:20,839 Darn... 498 00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,240 I didn't have the heart for this... 499 00:46:23,928 --> 00:46:26,288 You got up and died... 500 00:46:26,783 --> 00:46:28,743 Lucky me... 501 00:46:49,908 --> 00:46:52,330 Where have you put the darn keys? 502 00:47:52,625 --> 00:47:55,345 Why the hell aren't you working? 503 00:48:14,145 --> 00:48:15,345 Ishkhan... 504 00:48:15,696 --> 00:48:18,696 - Would you soap my back? - That man is waiting, Avag. 505 00:48:19,218 --> 00:48:21,077 - Which man? - The inspector. 506 00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:22,800 Ah... yes... 507 00:48:23,071 --> 00:48:25,071 It's impolite... 508 00:48:38,512 --> 00:48:40,440 Man... you could've waited till the evening, 509 00:48:40,491 --> 00:48:42,443 I would've told the wife to give you a bath. 510 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,280 Harder, harder! 511 00:48:44,687 --> 00:48:46,927 Well done! 512 00:48:47,528 --> 00:48:50,888 Well then? Is he a good person? 513 00:48:52,696 --> 00:48:54,856 Ishkhan, Ishkhan! 514 00:48:55,433 --> 00:48:59,639 I'm serious. Let's find a wife for this house... 515 00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,778 That wretch, she went and died on me... 516 00:49:06,009 --> 00:49:09,089 Man, can't you see it's cold! Careful! 517 00:49:11,344 --> 00:49:14,184 Hello! Welcome! 518 00:49:14,823 --> 00:49:17,268 I'm really grateful to you! 519 00:49:17,342 --> 00:49:21,822 If you hadn't called me in, I'd never have bothered getting a bath. 520 00:49:25,976 --> 00:49:27,394 Mmm... 521 00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,480 This water isn't going to be enough. 522 00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:54,960 More... 523 00:50:26,113 --> 00:50:29,081 But she's really young, Avag. With two kids in tow too. 524 00:50:29,194 --> 00:50:30,547 You need a barren woman, 525 00:50:30,602 --> 00:50:33,852 and Haykanush is still the most fitting, but she's groom-shy. 526 00:50:33,921 --> 00:50:36,002 How do you know Haykanush won't give birth? 527 00:50:36,076 --> 00:50:39,276 Well, she's a woman of 50, 55. Her time's passed. 528 00:50:39,355 --> 00:50:41,235 Eeeh, but she doesn't have any hips! 529 00:50:41,297 --> 00:50:44,464 He wants a wife, he wants her barren, and wants her with the goods too! 530 00:50:44,538 --> 00:50:46,698 You want her with the goods, huh? 531 00:50:51,073 --> 00:50:53,544 How old is this woman with two kids that you say is too young? 532 00:50:53,610 --> 00:50:56,490 She has two kids under ten, 533 00:50:56,568 --> 00:50:58,356 and Avag is 58. 534 00:50:58,456 --> 00:51:01,256 She'd be 30 then. That's ok for marriage overseas. 535 00:51:01,768 --> 00:51:05,368 Overseas, a 60-year-old can marry a 20-year-old girl. 536 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,800 Aren't they ashamed? That's indecent! 537 00:51:09,056 --> 00:51:11,016 I think it's OK if she's from another village. 538 00:51:11,104 --> 00:51:14,224 Well, she'll come and have two or three kids with him, 539 00:51:14,576 --> 00:51:18,096 then kids again at this age, getting clothes and things again... 540 00:51:18,720 --> 00:51:20,526 If so, then finish and I'll tell you. 541 00:51:20,614 --> 00:51:21,774 What is it? 542 00:51:25,784 --> 00:51:28,624 There is a prim woman working at the savings bank. 543 00:51:28,830 --> 00:51:30,830 She's not married, and she's barren. 544 00:51:30,990 --> 00:51:34,110 She'd be coy because of the village, but she can be convinced. 545 00:51:34,191 --> 00:51:37,111 I'll do the convincing, once we wrap up this business. 546 00:51:37,176 --> 00:51:38,496 What business? 547 00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:40,331 The sheep business... 548 00:51:40,410 --> 00:51:43,970 - There'll be a case opened regarding the sheep? - How else is a case opened? 549 00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,920 I'm freezing! Bring some water! 550 00:52:14,911 --> 00:52:18,071 I'm really grateful to you, comrade lieutenant. 551 00:52:18,606 --> 00:52:22,246 Wait til I find you a good wife. You can thank me then. 552 00:52:23,088 --> 00:52:26,648 - When we wrap up this case... - The sheep case? 553 00:52:26,873 --> 00:52:28,353 The sheep case... 554 00:52:28,457 --> 00:52:29,937 Revaz's? 555 00:52:31,049 --> 00:52:32,569 Revaz's. 556 00:52:36,242 --> 00:52:38,922 Should I tell you what Ishkhan told you to say? 557 00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,227 That you don't have any information. 558 00:52:41,330 --> 00:52:44,890 - Why? Don't I have a tongue of my own? - I know you guys well enough. 559 00:52:46,032 --> 00:52:47,592 Ishkhan, leave. 560 00:52:48,752 --> 00:52:50,152 It's just procedure... 561 00:52:50,584 --> 00:52:53,664 By law, I have to question you all separately. 562 00:53:01,882 --> 00:53:03,562 What's this? 563 00:53:03,664 --> 00:53:07,024 - Are you questioning me? - It turns out that I am. 564 00:53:09,788 --> 00:53:11,269 Don't lie down. You're falling asleep. 565 00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:14,181 Eh, I'm not sleeping. C'mon, ask away. 566 00:53:14,240 --> 00:53:16,240 Surname, name, patronymic? 567 00:53:17,049 --> 00:53:20,089 Hovhannisyan Avag of Hovsep. 568 00:53:20,824 --> 00:53:21,843 That's correct. 569 00:53:21,938 --> 00:53:24,418 You're a shepherd, 58 years old, a widower. 570 00:53:24,913 --> 00:53:26,873 Were you at the scene on the day of the incident? 571 00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:28,400 What incident? 572 00:53:29,199 --> 00:53:31,279 The day the sheep were slaughtered. 573 00:53:31,841 --> 00:53:34,183 - I slaughtered them myself. - Very well. 574 00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:38,520 - On whose instructions? - We butchered Revaz's sheep and ate them. 575 00:53:39,497 --> 00:53:42,377 I know that, but it has to be detailed. 576 00:53:42,513 --> 00:53:44,353 Detailed how? 577 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,901 How did the sheep get to you? How many? 578 00:53:46,952 --> 00:53:49,954 Who saw them first? Who said to butcher them and who said not to? 579 00:53:50,016 --> 00:53:52,282 Who took them out of the herd? Who butchered them? 580 00:53:52,338 --> 00:53:55,378 Who held their legs? Briefly – the order it happened. 581 00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,360 Don't lie down! You're falling asleep! 582 00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,965 I butchered Revaz's sheep, we ate them, 583 00:54:04,048 --> 00:54:07,608 - paid Revaz and Revaz left. - Ok then. 584 00:54:08,144 --> 00:54:09,864 I'll ask, you answer. 585 00:54:11,265 --> 00:54:12,705 What were you doing that day? 586 00:54:12,784 --> 00:54:14,704 - I was herding sheep. - More specifically. 587 00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,240 - I was herding sheep... - I'm reminding you... 588 00:54:17,512 --> 00:54:19,352 You were bathing the sheep. 589 00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:23,180 We were bathing, shearing, mowing too... 590 00:54:23,253 --> 00:54:25,253 also milking... yeah... 591 00:54:25,617 --> 00:54:28,497 So you were bathing them. Then what happened? 592 00:54:29,329 --> 00:54:33,363 I slaughtered Revaz's sheep... we ate... 593 00:54:33,460 --> 00:54:37,860 ...we paid him... the price... he left. 594 00:54:39,023 --> 00:54:41,383 To remind you. Pavle butchered one of them. 595 00:54:41,438 --> 00:54:43,156 You the other? 596 00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:46,773 When you butchered them, Ishkhan held their legs? 597 00:54:46,870 --> 00:54:49,630 And when Pavle was butchering them, Zaven held their legs? 598 00:54:51,944 --> 00:54:55,598 Pavle's good at butchering... he'd be the one... 599 00:54:55,854 --> 00:54:57,734 Ishkhan held the legs? 600 00:54:58,185 --> 00:54:59,985 Maybe... 601 00:55:01,456 --> 00:55:03,376 And then...? 602 00:55:04,536 --> 00:55:07,776 We gave that man his money and he left... 603 00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:12,200 When Pavle was doing the butchering, Zaven recited something? 604 00:55:13,593 --> 00:55:15,473 Who? Othello? 605 00:55:15,793 --> 00:55:17,353 What did he recite? 606 00:55:17,415 --> 00:55:19,415 - Who? - Zaven. 607 00:55:20,297 --> 00:55:22,697 "Aleppo"...? 608 00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:24,560 Then? 609 00:55:25,984 --> 00:55:27,344 Then... 610 00:55:28,511 --> 00:55:32,151 The cat farted... 611 00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:51,914 Go! 612 00:55:52,048 --> 00:55:54,048 Go you wretch! 613 00:57:08,915 --> 00:57:11,675 Zaven! Zaven! 614 00:57:11,905 --> 00:57:18,762 The inspector is calling the shepherds, the inspector is calling you! 615 00:57:18,997 --> 00:57:20,889 Go tell him to fuck off! 616 00:57:20,970 --> 00:57:26,330 The inspector is calling...! 617 00:57:26,729 --> 00:57:29,209 I heard! I'll come down! 618 00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,520 I heard, I heard! 619 00:57:37,817 --> 00:57:39,577 Come come, you're in the right place. 620 00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:44,153 "And the fire, and the wood, and the women!" 621 00:57:44,265 --> 00:57:46,039 "and God," 622 00:57:46,132 --> 00:57:49,052 "and phones... Who created it all?" 623 00:57:49,578 --> 00:57:52,886 When this case is wrapped up, Zaven, I'm gonna bring my friends to your valley, 624 00:57:52,935 --> 00:57:56,135 and throw a real bad-ass feast. With zurna!, and drums! 625 00:57:56,205 --> 00:57:58,353 Smash a bottle on the trees! 626 00:57:58,449 --> 00:58:01,714 - Can you drink? - With barbecue, and fireworks! 627 00:58:01,773 --> 00:58:05,133 And the chief of police... And fire, and women... 628 00:58:05,366 --> 00:58:06,976 - Don't you have a place in the city? - No! 629 00:58:07,028 --> 00:58:10,268 It's real nice in nature, in grass, near springs. Sit. 630 00:58:11,745 --> 00:58:15,636 Hey man, is true that you recited that "bastard Turk" while you were butchering? 631 00:58:15,952 --> 00:58:17,557 - What's it to you? - What exactly? 632 00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,887 - In general. - You mean the "bastard Turk"? 633 00:58:19,954 --> 00:58:21,674 - That too. - Well... 634 00:58:21,823 --> 00:58:25,725 It interests me because you recited it while you butchered Revaz's sheep. 635 00:58:27,297 --> 00:58:28,657 What's it to you? 636 00:58:29,528 --> 00:58:32,048 I'm the interrogator here, man. 637 00:58:32,238 --> 00:58:33,600 What do you have to do with Revaz? 638 00:58:33,663 --> 00:58:36,463 How so? He lost his sheep and I'm looking for them. 639 00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:38,532 Revaz looked for his sheep and found them. 640 00:58:38,589 --> 00:58:39,427 Slaughtered. 641 00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:40,988 Maybe the bears ate them. 642 00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:44,480 No, we're talking here about Revaz, his sheep and you guys. 643 00:58:45,450 --> 00:58:47,666 We've known Revaz for a thousand years. 644 00:58:47,736 --> 00:58:49,736 You came and met him today. 645 00:58:51,713 --> 00:58:53,713 Wipe the dirt off your shoulder! 646 00:58:54,714 --> 00:58:56,954 It's not dirt. It's dung. 647 00:58:58,009 --> 00:59:00,329 You can't even tell apart dirt and dung. 648 00:59:00,986 --> 00:59:03,106 You're right. Of course you're right. 649 00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:05,880 I respect you. Your work. 650 00:59:06,088 --> 00:59:08,768 They say you even want to go to university. 651 00:59:09,088 --> 00:59:12,968 Do you really recite so powerfully, artistically? 652 00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:16,220 But this is how it is my dear. Revaz is your Revaz, of course. 653 00:59:16,305 --> 00:59:20,705 You're of the same land and water. You laugh, fight and then make up. 654 00:59:21,071 --> 00:59:23,091 But here's the thing, my dear. 655 00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:26,200 This happened to me personally. My own investigation. 656 00:59:27,015 --> 00:59:28,415 A husband and wife. 657 00:59:29,018 --> 00:59:31,138 Lived together for 20 years. 658 00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:34,625 For 20 years, this man did his wife... 659 00:59:34,721 --> 00:59:37,601 Well, you know... they had four children. 660 00:59:37,984 --> 00:59:39,621 This man was a bit of an alcoholic. 661 00:59:39,711 --> 00:59:43,111 This man stole his wife's ring and drank it away. 662 00:59:43,752 --> 00:59:44,872 Now then. 663 00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,720 Her ring, her husband. 664 00:59:48,479 --> 00:59:51,679 It's clear. Yet, the investigation established, 665 00:59:51,895 --> 00:59:54,215 that what he did really was theft. 666 00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:56,320 And where is this man now? 667 00:59:57,576 --> 00:59:59,463 He's in a labor camp. 668 00:59:59,893 --> 01:00:03,733 Even though it was his wife, and his wife's ring. 669 01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:07,890 What did you recite while you were butchering the sheep? 670 01:00:07,969 --> 01:00:11,670 Something about someone choking someone this way and that way? 671 01:00:14,168 --> 01:00:15,768 Did you write that? 672 01:00:17,865 --> 01:00:20,025 That's because you're ignorant! 673 01:00:20,888 --> 01:00:23,183 Enough! I had it with you people! 674 01:00:23,253 --> 01:00:25,496 I don't want your interrogation! Go eat an ox too! 675 01:00:25,613 --> 01:00:28,488 Eat a buffalo, eat each other while you're at it! 676 01:00:28,718 --> 01:00:30,198 I'm fed up! [in Russian] 677 01:00:30,349 --> 01:00:32,829 "A ring, an alcoholic"! 678 01:00:33,589 --> 01:00:36,400 "Twenty years..." What an example to impress people with! 679 01:00:36,462 --> 01:00:38,262 Be silent at least! 680 01:00:46,648 --> 01:00:48,728 Instead of being ashamed... 681 01:00:51,344 --> 01:00:53,504 - What is it? - Nothing! 682 01:00:54,233 --> 01:00:55,567 It's nothing! 683 01:00:55,656 --> 01:00:57,856 I'm grateful to you for the interrogation, thanks! 684 01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,080 And we're grateful to you. 685 01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:07,320 And where are you during lambing? 686 01:01:07,464 --> 01:01:09,864 - And when the sheep... - Enough! 687 01:01:10,104 --> 01:01:12,745 There's no need man, I'm not questioning you. 688 01:01:12,816 --> 01:01:16,136 If you're not questioning me, then pack it in and leave our village. 689 01:01:16,592 --> 01:01:18,472 So it's private property now! 690 01:01:18,648 --> 01:01:20,248 "Pack it in and leave our village!" 691 01:01:20,368 --> 01:01:24,507 No, the city is yours and the village too. And I'm your servant. 692 01:01:24,576 --> 01:01:27,686 Bollocks... Neither the city is mine, nor the village. 693 01:01:27,747 --> 01:01:31,627 - And I don't need thieving servants. - If you say that word one more time...! 694 01:01:31,783 --> 01:01:33,783 - Which word? - Thief! 695 01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,640 If you've stolen something what else should I call you? Benefactor? 696 01:01:36,849 --> 01:01:38,849 Darn right we did! 697 01:01:40,033 --> 01:01:42,854 We herd 10,000 sheep and you don't prosecute us for that, 698 01:01:42,940 --> 01:01:45,800 - We butchered one and you've opened a case! - Two... 699 01:01:45,887 --> 01:01:48,760 We butchered two and we can butcher another two. 700 01:01:48,825 --> 01:01:52,025 - If we let you, you will. - Well, I don't give a damn... 701 01:01:52,142 --> 01:01:54,728 - I will go to university... - Yeah... 702 01:01:54,831 --> 01:01:57,732 Of course, go to university. 703 01:01:57,816 --> 01:02:02,158 Learn to recite. Then you'll read good books and butcher sheep... 704 01:02:02,223 --> 01:02:05,743 ...according to what they say. – I'd made one comma mistake... 705 01:02:06,220 --> 01:02:09,017 Yes! I'll also butcher sheep according to books. 706 01:02:09,089 --> 01:02:11,889 - What business is it of yours? - And what is my business? 707 01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:16,016 - Maybe you'd tell me what to do? - Finding lost rings! 708 01:02:16,073 --> 01:02:19,313 "Alcoholic husband!" "A ring!" 709 01:02:20,008 --> 01:02:22,208 Zaven, don't make me get up! 710 01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:24,506 What if I got up? 711 01:02:24,602 --> 01:02:27,562 Well, go on! Get up, get up! 712 01:02:27,761 --> 01:02:31,681 - What? - Two times two equals four! 713 01:03:23,795 --> 01:03:28,355 When you're summoned, why don't you please us by coming down? 714 01:03:33,968 --> 01:03:38,048 Why don't you come when you're summoned, huh? 715 01:03:44,824 --> 01:03:48,904 When you're summoned! Why don't you please us by coming down?! 716 01:03:53,177 --> 01:03:56,097 Why don't you come when you're being summoned? 717 01:03:58,593 --> 01:04:01,473 - Why did you break it? - You're playing at being a worker? 718 01:04:03,784 --> 01:04:05,057 Why did you break it? 719 01:04:05,112 --> 01:04:06,870 Why don't you bother to come when summoned? 720 01:04:06,951 --> 01:04:09,490 - He'll come after the work is done... - Shut up! 721 01:04:09,550 --> 01:04:11,490 Nobody's asking you! 722 01:04:13,947 --> 01:04:16,041 He's your father's age, what way is that to speak to him? 723 01:04:16,088 --> 01:04:17,697 He's playing at being respectful now! 724 01:04:17,752 --> 01:04:20,284 Why don't you bother to come when you're summoned? 725 01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:22,383 Mr. Minister! 726 01:04:22,437 --> 01:04:25,504 Or were you waiting for me to send a helicopter after you? 727 01:04:25,656 --> 01:04:28,696 I was working. I was going to finish the work and then come. 728 01:04:29,416 --> 01:04:31,349 How many days was I meant to wait for you? 729 01:04:31,449 --> 01:04:35,337 You aren't doing anything important, so what if you waited a couple of days? 730 01:04:36,128 --> 01:04:40,248 Isn't it grass that you mow, you animal? 731 01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:46,600 - Ok Pavle... stay calm... - Let me go! I'll do his... 732 01:04:46,734 --> 01:04:49,134 Let me go! Let go! 733 01:04:52,344 --> 01:04:55,704 Let go! I'm telling you, let me go! 734 01:04:56,761 --> 01:04:58,481 You've really worn me out! 735 01:04:58,769 --> 01:05:02,049 They've stolen something but think they've done charity work! 736 01:05:02,307 --> 01:05:05,387 He's nothing! I'll strangle him with two fingers! 737 01:05:05,914 --> 01:05:09,754 - Hold it together Pavle... - He's clawing around like a broad! 738 01:05:10,797 --> 01:05:14,557 If he's got something to say, he should come and say it properly! 739 01:05:15,125 --> 01:05:18,605 But what for? He knows you won't let me waste him, that's why he's cussing! 740 01:05:19,824 --> 01:05:21,664 Is that a way for a man to behave? 741 01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:25,720 Just look at his neck! You call that a man? 742 01:05:26,209 --> 01:05:30,049 - No! Are you acting like a man! - Yeah! 743 01:05:30,266 --> 01:05:32,860 Showing off with a revolver on his hip! 744 01:05:32,977 --> 01:05:34,977 He doesn't know that I'll take it and...! 745 01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:36,831 You butchered the sheep, that's why! Got it? 746 01:05:36,898 --> 01:05:37,729 Darn right! 747 01:05:37,785 --> 01:05:41,345 We had sheep, so we butchered sheep! We couldn't butcher you, could we? 748 01:05:41,471 --> 01:05:44,218 - You stole! - Just let me... 749 01:05:44,289 --> 01:05:46,264 You're the thief, you freeloading bastard! 750 01:05:46,319 --> 01:05:47,508 Not good, Pavle! 751 01:05:47,561 --> 01:05:49,401 Is that a way to speak to the State? 752 01:05:49,464 --> 01:05:51,618 Who's the State? That guy? 753 01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:55,720 You're the State coz you freeload on its bread, that makes you the State? 754 01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:57,990 - Let me go! - Just let me... 755 01:05:58,048 --> 01:05:59,930 - Let me... - Let go...! 756 01:06:00,001 --> 01:06:01,814 Stand down! [in Russian] 757 01:06:10,553 --> 01:06:13,393 Hey... isn't your job just cutting grass? 758 01:06:15,144 --> 01:06:17,184 Isn't what you crop just grass? 759 01:06:33,811 --> 01:06:36,371 Was it time for you to die, huh? 760 01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:39,000 What am I to do now? 761 01:06:39,823 --> 01:06:41,623 You found an easy place... 762 01:06:42,168 --> 01:06:44,928 Just came and laid to sleep... 763 01:06:45,650 --> 01:06:47,410 ...forever. 764 01:06:48,416 --> 01:06:50,296 If I bring in a new wife, 765 01:06:50,784 --> 01:06:55,464 to look after the house, the gates... and even me... 766 01:06:55,929 --> 01:06:57,449 It'd be indecent... 767 01:06:57,671 --> 01:06:59,751 People would laugh at me. 768 01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:03,520 And you'd probably get offended... 769 01:07:03,911 --> 01:07:06,991 You were sensitive from your girlie days... 770 01:07:08,345 --> 01:07:11,105 And if I don't find a wife thinking it's indecent... 771 01:07:11,383 --> 01:07:14,783 who would look after the house and the gates? 772 01:07:14,968 --> 01:07:17,088 I came and saw the dog... 773 01:07:18,127 --> 01:07:21,367 ...there was no one to feed him, it died. 774 01:07:21,816 --> 01:07:25,056 And the pears have also fallen and rotted... 775 01:07:27,336 --> 01:07:30,376 And I'm down to my last clean undies... 776 01:07:33,785 --> 01:07:36,705 Don't be vexed about your gravestone. 777 01:07:36,872 --> 01:07:38,752 I've ordered it to be hewn. 778 01:07:39,633 --> 01:07:42,473 It's a 600 ruble blue stone, 779 01:07:42,911 --> 01:07:45,271 from your village's quarry. 780 01:07:46,227 --> 01:07:48,180 And the craftsman knew you, 781 01:07:48,264 --> 01:07:51,704 He remembered you from childhood and sang your praises. 782 01:07:53,842 --> 01:07:55,522 They've called me up to the city. 783 01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:58,200 I'm going to city today with the boys. 784 01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:03,515 How many times did I ask you to bring me a daughter? 785 01:08:03,609 --> 01:08:05,809 It was for this day that I asked! 786 01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:08,680 Each of your boys stashed their wives 787 01:08:09,271 --> 01:08:11,922 in the city and shut the doors. 788 01:08:11,985 --> 01:08:14,025 A daughter wouldn't be like that. 789 01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:17,480 Well then... I've got business. I should go. 790 01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:19,480 The guys are waiting. 791 01:09:17,832 --> 01:09:20,131 When they dropped the bomb on Japan, 792 01:09:20,208 --> 01:09:23,328 the creator of that bomb, that man really wanted... 793 01:09:23,984 --> 01:09:25,670 ...I don't remember his name... 794 01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:28,352 ...that man really wanted America to win. 795 01:09:28,441 --> 01:09:33,121 So what did he do? He thought about it and invented the atomic bomb. 796 01:09:33,575 --> 01:09:36,095 They dropped the bomb on a Japanese city, 797 01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:38,480 and Japan surrendered. 798 01:09:38,989 --> 01:09:42,193 Thus, this man defeated Japan by himself. 799 01:09:42,317 --> 01:09:44,637 He was made a hero and stuff... 800 01:09:45,640 --> 01:09:49,360 Then they suspected that this man could've invented a stronger bomb. 801 01:09:49,561 --> 01:09:51,168 But he hadn't. 802 01:09:51,264 --> 01:09:53,384 So they put him on trial. 803 01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:55,285 Did they prosecute him Othello? 804 01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:58,742 Yes, they did – for not inventing the hydrogen bomb in the first place. 805 01:09:58,834 --> 01:10:00,954 - That's correct. - Go, damn you! 806 01:10:01,657 --> 01:10:05,337 All countries need prisoners... 807 01:10:05,974 --> 01:10:10,414 - What? - I'm saying all countries need prisoners. 808 01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:14,310 There're difficult workplaces... 809 01:10:14,377 --> 01:10:16,379 Who'd go and work there for money? 810 01:10:16,456 --> 01:10:18,001 Prisoners are needed. 811 01:10:18,367 --> 01:10:20,540 How would they jail them if there was no crime? 812 01:10:20,670 --> 01:10:24,124 Crime's not going to disappear, it can't. 813 01:10:24,234 --> 01:10:27,674 One man's wife is pretty, the other's isn't pretty. 814 01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:31,360 One is too lazy to work, but wants to eat... 815 01:10:31,626 --> 01:10:36,466 One has 20, but the 21st wouldn't go amiss. 816 01:10:36,672 --> 01:10:38,912 Well, look at our case with the police. 817 01:10:39,248 --> 01:10:42,848 Ours is about sheep. It goes any way you want it to. 818 01:10:42,951 --> 01:10:45,631 And then there's wolves. If they eat sheep, then that's that. 819 01:10:45,719 --> 01:10:47,759 A wolf won't say "I didn't eat them". 820 01:10:47,848 --> 01:10:51,568 It leaves behind a leg, a thigh or a little blood... 821 01:10:52,017 --> 01:10:54,097 Now, take this man's case. 822 01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:58,000 He's been caught red-handed, but claims that he's not a thief. 823 01:10:58,097 --> 01:11:01,297 "I'm a philosopher" he says. So go and prove otherwise. 824 01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:03,680 Have you caught him red-handed? 825 01:11:03,847 --> 01:11:07,513 Then get the stick and beat him until his tongue is tangled! 826 01:11:07,606 --> 01:11:09,631 Then let's see what he philosophizes with! 827 01:11:09,710 --> 01:11:12,070 - Who are you so angry at uncle Avag? - The world! 828 01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:15,800 Once we get back, I'm going to throw you a grand wedding! 829 01:11:16,073 --> 01:11:18,473 - The sheep are on me! - You have more? 830 01:11:18,587 --> 01:11:19,735 Yes, about 15 more. 831 01:11:19,821 --> 01:11:22,305 You're rounding it up man. It's probably 18. 832 01:11:22,384 --> 01:11:26,835 If that's the way it is, then it was 23. We wasted 4, so 31 remain. 833 01:11:29,454 --> 01:11:31,389 I'm giving 3 to Avag's party. 834 01:11:31,458 --> 01:11:33,978 - It's not decent, man. - Why is it indecent? 835 01:11:34,122 --> 01:11:36,602 Overseas, they don't get married until they're your age. 836 01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:43,880 What are we going to do with the goats and the dog? 837 01:11:44,360 --> 01:11:45,651 Where did the dog come from? 838 01:11:45,736 --> 01:11:47,658 It's been with the herd. It's an old dog. 839 01:11:47,716 --> 01:11:49,236 Around 18-20 years old... 840 01:11:49,431 --> 01:11:53,511 And half an hour before the wolves come, one can hear its old bark... 841 01:11:59,608 --> 01:12:02,298 I think it just senses... Its hearing has faded, 842 01:12:02,407 --> 01:12:05,047 its sight too, and it's got no teeth in its mouth... 843 01:12:05,824 --> 01:12:08,704 And it should've lost its smell by now too. 844 01:12:09,648 --> 01:12:10,768 Don't know... 845 01:12:11,471 --> 01:12:13,031 It just senses... 846 01:12:13,265 --> 01:12:15,305 But with what, only God knows... 847 01:12:17,017 --> 01:12:20,537 Satan says, let this sheep graze here for ten days, 848 01:12:20,649 --> 01:12:22,449 and then take it down to the city. 849 01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:24,811 A ton of grass costs 150 rubles. 850 01:12:24,886 --> 01:12:27,286 150 rubles makes 4 sheep. 851 01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:29,840 Pavle mows 1 ton of grass every day. 852 01:12:32,505 --> 01:12:35,545 The best mower was Harut's son Vanik. 853 01:12:36,344 --> 01:12:38,784 He was unbeatable. He was a tank. 854 01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:42,360 Then there was Rafik Matevosyan. 855 01:12:43,313 --> 01:12:45,073 Then, Avag's son Suren. 856 01:12:47,024 --> 01:12:48,704 I was eighth in line. 857 01:12:51,847 --> 01:12:56,007 We'll tie the goats and the dog in my brother's garden until this case is done. 858 01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:12,628 Citizen Ishkhan Antonyan, 859 01:13:12,696 --> 01:13:17,416 Do you find yourself guilty in illegally butchering Revaz Movsisyan's sheep? 860 01:13:17,480 --> 01:13:19,440 - I... - It's alright. 861 01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:21,800 Think and give a considered answer. 862 01:13:27,263 --> 01:13:29,663 Ishkhan's thinking! 863 01:13:29,942 --> 01:13:31,462 Don't interrupt! 864 01:13:32,353 --> 01:13:33,633 Well... 865 01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:38,503 Citizen judge... it's true, the sheep were Revaz's, not mine, 866 01:13:38,553 --> 01:13:41,280 but when you eat meat every day, is that your sheep's meat you're eating, 867 01:13:41,343 --> 01:13:42,757 or somebody else's? 868 01:13:42,904 --> 01:13:47,464 We pay for kilo or two of meat, bring it home and eat it. 869 01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:50,240 So then, this time, it was us who paid and ate. 870 01:13:50,568 --> 01:13:54,250 Citizen Antonyan. But you paid post factum, so to speak. 871 01:13:54,577 --> 01:13:56,417 Citizen judge... 872 01:13:56,624 --> 01:13:58,511 - And do you always... - Cash. 873 01:13:58,592 --> 01:14:00,832 ...do you always pay cash, or does it happen that... 874 01:14:01,160 --> 01:14:03,160 - On credit. - ...you eat on credit? 875 01:14:03,752 --> 01:14:07,072 Well, we eat when we have it, and if we don't, we don't eat. 876 01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:11,080 We live in a village, money comes in straight away... and a lot of it too... 877 01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:13,475 Till then, we might even take a loan sometimes. 878 01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:15,520 I agree, citizen Antonyan. 879 01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:18,320 But citizen Movsisyan's sheep... 880 01:14:18,465 --> 01:14:20,585 How was it Zaven? Not cash, the other... 881 01:14:20,668 --> 01:14:23,347 - Credit. - Before butchering the sheep on credit, 882 01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:27,240 You had to strike a written or oral agreement with him, stating that 883 01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:29,932 he agrees for you to butcher his sheep, 884 01:14:30,015 --> 01:14:32,215 with the proviso that you pay him later. 885 01:14:32,937 --> 01:14:38,257 No, citizen judge. I knew that he was going to sell his sheep, and so I bought them. 886 01:14:38,456 --> 01:14:42,252 Citizen Movsisyan, did he know that you were going to sell your sheep? 887 01:14:42,467 --> 01:14:44,947 And that you'd sell them on credit? 888 01:14:50,320 --> 01:14:52,302 I was going to sell them sooner or later... 889 01:14:52,384 --> 01:14:54,104 Maybe even on credit. 890 01:14:54,255 --> 01:14:56,142 As for Ishkhan knowing... 891 01:14:56,216 --> 01:14:59,456 Which villager doesn't know that a sheep is for selling? 892 01:15:03,625 --> 01:15:05,185 Citizen Movsisyan, 893 01:15:05,313 --> 01:15:08,353 are you sure that if you hadn't happened to be at the scene 894 01:15:08,551 --> 01:15:10,391 they'd have paid you the cost? 895 01:15:10,968 --> 01:15:12,848 Maybe they wouldn't pay... 896 01:15:14,072 --> 01:15:17,312 but if we think 'what if', then a lot would be different... 897 01:15:18,689 --> 01:15:21,329 What if Hitler fell off a rock as a child? 898 01:15:23,288 --> 01:15:26,008 - Citizen Antonyan, what if... - Defendant! 899 01:15:26,480 --> 01:15:28,955 - Defendant. - Defendant! 900 01:15:29,055 --> 01:15:31,695 What has he done to be a defendant? 901 01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:33,336 Defendant...! 902 01:15:33,431 --> 01:15:35,101 Defendant Antonyan! 903 01:15:35,215 --> 01:15:38,815 If citizen Movsisyan hadn't arrived at the scene, 904 01:15:38,935 --> 01:15:41,215 would you have paid the cost of the sheep? 905 01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:43,160 Well, if Revaz... 906 01:15:43,232 --> 01:15:46,996 ...hadn't arrived, how would I know whose sheep they was in order to pay, 907 01:15:47,049 --> 01:15:48,729 or not to pay... 908 01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:50,316 ...the owner... 909 01:15:50,369 --> 01:15:53,527 Defendant Antonyan, do you know your own sheep? 910 01:15:53,824 --> 01:15:55,152 I know them all. 911 01:15:55,261 --> 01:15:57,955 Whose sheep do you have the right to butcher? 912 01:15:58,136 --> 01:15:59,263 My... sheep... 913 01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:01,659 Whose sheep don't you have the right to butcher? 914 01:16:01,736 --> 01:16:03,896 Revaz's sheep... 915 01:16:04,608 --> 01:16:06,650 So why did you butcher somebody else's sheep? 916 01:16:06,760 --> 01:16:08,920 Maybe they weren't Revaz's sheep, 917 01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:12,400 maybe they belonged to some scientific-research institute, 918 01:16:12,530 --> 01:16:17,810 and were specially injected with some kind of microbe, for very vital experiments? 919 01:16:18,184 --> 01:16:20,299 The guys were hungry, so we butchered two sheep. 920 01:16:20,360 --> 01:16:22,909 What's with this scientific research stuff? 921 01:16:23,336 --> 01:16:25,419 Butcher your own sheep if the guys are hungry! 922 01:16:25,481 --> 01:16:28,048 Why use another's bride to make the groom happy? 923 01:16:29,816 --> 01:16:33,639 My sheep are tailed, and those were fat-tailed, their meat is tastier. 924 01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:36,800 Zaven Kocharyan's wife is young and pretty, 925 01:16:36,873 --> 01:16:40,193 yours is aged and dried up. So go and grab Zaven's wife. 926 01:16:41,856 --> 01:16:44,456 What a scandalist! 927 01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:46,455 I keep 500 sheep for 12 months a year! 928 01:16:46,508 --> 01:16:48,744 Don't I have the right to butcher two sheep? 929 01:16:48,840 --> 01:16:52,440 You keep 500 sheep, and the state pays you every dime for them. 930 01:16:52,913 --> 01:16:55,553 In the mountains... under rain, under hail... 931 01:16:55,969 --> 01:16:58,782 You receive a special rate for working in the high mountains. 932 01:16:58,865 --> 01:17:01,385 And the State has given you a coat for the rain. 933 01:17:01,440 --> 01:17:04,395 As for wolves, the State allocated you a 5% loss allowance, 934 01:17:04,463 --> 01:17:06,979 but the wolves don't cause even a half percent worth of damage. 935 01:17:07,034 --> 01:17:10,194 You outdo your quota thanks to the wolves, and get rewarded for that too. 936 01:17:10,256 --> 01:17:12,393 Was I rewarded for this too? 937 01:17:12,464 --> 01:17:16,105 Did the state tell me to fight a bear, which I did risking my life? 938 01:17:16,177 --> 01:17:17,977 How many sheep have I rescued? 939 01:17:18,383 --> 01:17:20,309 Well, tell me? How many would a bear kill? 940 01:17:20,401 --> 01:17:21,317 The entire herd. 941 01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:24,476 So I save the herd, but can't butcher two sheep? 942 01:17:24,560 --> 01:17:26,440 I did darn right. I rewarded myself. 943 01:17:26,560 --> 01:17:31,240 Put your clothes on, son, you won't cut it as a defendant. 944 01:17:31,961 --> 01:17:33,023 Zaven! 945 01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:35,547 Put me on trial! 946 01:17:35,655 --> 01:17:39,215 No. I think a mistake was made somewhere and it continued. 947 01:17:39,456 --> 01:17:42,469 I'll just say that... I didn't have sheep! 948 01:17:42,560 --> 01:17:45,657 What do you mean? You're saying this man is committing perjury? 949 01:17:45,736 --> 01:17:47,350 The guilty are guilty... 950 01:17:47,430 --> 01:17:49,510 But our State will pardon us. 951 01:17:49,673 --> 01:17:52,833 It'll say the crime is minor and will pardon us. 952 01:17:53,271 --> 01:17:54,991 But how's it minor, huh? 953 01:17:55,472 --> 01:17:56,912 Why is it minor? 954 01:17:57,076 --> 01:18:00,537 If it was a sheep that was accidentally lost, and not an ox, 955 01:18:00,623 --> 01:18:02,423 then the crime is minor? 956 01:18:03,369 --> 01:18:04,529 Pavle, 957 01:18:04,696 --> 01:18:07,056 you try and judge, let's see what happens. 958 01:18:09,183 --> 01:18:11,663 - Ten years. - That's a stretch! 959 01:18:14,440 --> 01:18:16,840 You understand very little. 960 01:18:16,995 --> 01:18:18,476 Don't speak. 961 01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:21,022 He's right. You're playing it down. 962 01:18:21,098 --> 01:18:23,240 Why doesn't he understand? His job is the law. 963 01:18:23,310 --> 01:18:25,323 Lieutenant, why don't you judge? 964 01:18:25,408 --> 01:18:26,848 Wait a sec. 965 01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:30,240 I'm going to judge. 966 01:18:34,696 --> 01:18:35,656 Get up! 967 01:18:45,185 --> 01:18:46,345 I'm the judge. 968 01:18:48,760 --> 01:18:50,640 The defendant is the lieutenant. 969 01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:53,120 You are Pavle Davtyan. 970 01:18:53,616 --> 01:18:55,679 - Defendant Pavle... - Pavle! 971 01:18:55,821 --> 01:18:57,906 The lieutenant will kill you with words. 972 01:18:57,984 --> 01:18:59,848 Let it be him and Zaven. 973 01:18:59,960 --> 01:19:02,320 I'm the judge, and I'm questioning you. 974 01:19:04,720 --> 01:19:05,800 Sit closer. 975 01:19:07,440 --> 01:19:09,560 I'll stand for uncle Avag. 976 01:19:17,777 --> 01:19:19,777 Defendant Avag Hovhannisyan, 977 01:19:20,064 --> 01:19:22,024 do you plead guilty? 978 01:19:23,712 --> 01:19:27,112 - Yes, Mr. Judge, I'm guilty... - No! 979 01:19:29,376 --> 01:19:31,736 Citizen judge, I don't plead guilty. 980 01:19:31,976 --> 01:19:34,936 - Why? - A thief operates alone, 981 01:19:35,113 --> 01:19:36,953 or they work in pairs. 982 01:19:37,154 --> 01:19:39,968 And if you're talking about an organized gang – then it's 10, 20 men... 983 01:19:40,040 --> 01:19:41,680 ...or even 70. 984 01:19:42,153 --> 01:19:45,326 I don't think that you consider us a gang, 985 01:19:45,424 --> 01:19:47,784 because... don't think it immodest, but, 986 01:19:48,610 --> 01:19:51,336 up til now, we've provided the State 987 01:19:51,453 --> 01:19:55,315 with 50,000 of our own bred and grown sheep. 988 01:19:56,312 --> 01:19:58,472 30 of us ate the sheep. 989 01:19:59,008 --> 01:20:01,867 Can there be a crime with 30 men – shepherds, cattlemen, mowers, 990 01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:04,320 for you to be calling me a thief? 991 01:20:05,010 --> 01:20:08,410 That these sheep were someone else's was known to only four of you. 992 01:20:08,528 --> 01:20:10,568 Our Revaz isn't complaining. 993 01:20:10,832 --> 01:20:13,192 You've threatened your Revaz. 994 01:20:14,040 --> 01:20:17,720 Put 100 policemen around Revaz and ask him if we've threatened him. 995 01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:19,280 Then you've bribed him. 996 01:20:20,443 --> 01:20:22,356 Our bribe would've been 1000 rubles or so. 997 01:20:22,419 --> 01:20:25,065 Give him 100,000 and ask if we've bribed him then. 998 01:20:25,659 --> 01:20:29,725 He won't confirm it, because you're neighbours, or relatives, 999 01:20:29,801 --> 01:20:32,401 and he feels sorry for your families. 1000 01:20:32,681 --> 01:20:34,401 Which means, he's our Revaz. 1001 01:20:35,424 --> 01:20:38,184 Yes, he's your Revaz. That's why he won't confirm it. 1002 01:20:38,336 --> 01:20:41,216 We ate our Revaz's sheep, not yours. 1003 01:20:41,783 --> 01:20:45,143 You've been caught stealing the sheep of your Revaz. 1004 01:20:45,544 --> 01:20:47,411 If we don't condemn you now, 1005 01:20:47,496 --> 01:20:49,950 you'll commit a bigger crime next, and... 1006 01:20:50,040 --> 01:20:52,040 you probably won't get caught for that either. 1007 01:20:52,440 --> 01:20:55,480 That's why it's necessary to isolate you now. 1008 01:20:56,377 --> 01:20:57,337 Yes. 1009 01:20:58,240 --> 01:20:59,960 Isolate me please. 1010 01:21:01,096 --> 01:21:03,536 Because you get a shower every ten days in jail. 1011 01:21:03,616 --> 01:21:06,304 You get fed three times a day, given books and newspapers. 1012 01:21:06,393 --> 01:21:09,073 You don't get to tell us what your sentence is. 1013 01:21:09,896 --> 01:21:12,296 Answer. Do you plead guilty? 1014 01:21:13,937 --> 01:21:14,857 Yes. 1015 01:21:15,192 --> 01:21:16,752 Jail me. 1016 01:21:19,704 --> 01:21:22,944 The court has decided to sentence you... 1017 01:21:23,224 --> 01:21:24,784 to be shot. 1018 01:21:30,576 --> 01:21:31,576 Why? 1019 01:21:34,872 --> 01:21:36,472 Because... 1020 01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:41,080 Our State pays the doctor very little, 1021 01:21:42,184 --> 01:21:44,024 pays the shepherd very little, 1022 01:21:46,728 --> 01:21:48,648 pays little to everyone... 1023 01:21:49,562 --> 01:21:54,202 so that it can use the savings to turn this place into a proper country. 1024 01:21:55,673 --> 01:21:59,313 But you steal those savings, 1025 01:22:00,408 --> 01:22:03,288 like mice stealing seeds. 1026 01:22:04,136 --> 01:22:06,296 Like a fox stealing a hen. 1027 01:22:14,240 --> 01:22:15,920 Is it raining? 1028 01:22:24,783 --> 01:22:27,783 It'll be like this for 15 days... 1029 01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:33,680 The hay will be ruined. 1030 01:22:39,121 --> 01:22:42,521 The cattle won't see good grass this winter. 1031 01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:48,520 Damn it, if only one could be a judge and take care of our country... 1032 01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:54,040 I'd build communism in two days and show it to the world. 1033 01:22:54,905 --> 01:22:57,705 It was wrong not to send that kid to study law... 1034 01:22:58,088 --> 01:23:00,408 I sent her to the pedagogical institute. 1035 01:23:06,552 --> 01:23:09,516 Rain is good for the plants, why would the grass be spoiled? 1036 01:23:09,592 --> 01:23:11,792 Harvested hay, harvested! 1037 01:23:12,201 --> 01:23:14,121 Can hay be spoiled? 1038 01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:15,720 It rots. 1039 01:23:16,512 --> 01:23:19,752 We harvest it rotten, to use as cattle feed, 1040 01:23:19,912 --> 01:23:23,883 then the animals don't eat this hay. The animal loses weight, breaks down. 1041 01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:25,920 - Breaks down... - Yeah... 1042 01:23:28,838 --> 01:23:31,878 No, why does it break down? Long live the State. 1043 01:23:32,168 --> 01:23:36,528 The Soviet Union is big. It's raining here, but it's sunny in Siberia, in Ukraine. 1044 01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:40,560 Ishkhan, Zaven, me... 40 people. 1045 01:23:40,658 --> 01:23:42,689 We yoke 40 carts, go down to the station, 1046 01:23:42,744 --> 01:23:45,667 and tell the State, "we're your soldiers, give us some food for our herd." 1047 01:23:45,710 --> 01:23:47,658 And it gives it to us! 1048 01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:51,880 They say, it's OK. Take the feed, and next year, 1049 01:23:52,368 --> 01:23:55,568 during the hay harvest, you'll give back wood. 1050 01:23:56,488 --> 01:23:59,146 It's shameful. You go begging, bowing your head. 1051 01:23:59,289 --> 01:24:01,889 It's not shameful... 1052 01:24:02,185 --> 01:24:04,665 Shame is nothing. I'm just sorry for the State. 1053 01:24:04,885 --> 01:24:08,331 It loads up wagons from Siberia, spends millions, 1054 01:24:08,373 --> 01:24:11,800 and brings it to the station saying, "dear Antaramej, here, take this, eat." 1055 01:24:23,784 --> 01:24:25,276 Do you think that's right? 1056 01:24:25,346 --> 01:24:28,498 Driving sheep to the city like this? 1057 01:24:28,768 --> 01:24:32,096 First off, we're not sheep sellers. The State is the sheep buyer. 1058 01:24:32,191 --> 01:24:34,636 We're sheep keepers. We shouldn't go to the State 1059 01:24:34,699 --> 01:24:36,842 asking "will you buy these sheep?" 1060 01:24:36,919 --> 01:24:40,166 The State should come to us and ask for the sheep. 1061 01:24:40,233 --> 01:24:43,576 Also, it should come to our door with 100 trucks, 1062 01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:47,419 put the sheep in cars and get them to the slaughterhouse in an half and hour. 1063 01:24:47,618 --> 01:24:49,738 It's 830 sheep... 1064 01:24:49,840 --> 01:24:53,600 ...a 70 km road takes two days... 1065 01:24:53,807 --> 01:24:59,348 Each sheep will lose at least two kilos during those two days. 1066 01:24:59,441 --> 01:25:05,241 830 times 2 makes 1660 kg... 1067 01:25:05,480 --> 01:25:07,655 1600 kg of lost meat. 1068 01:25:07,743 --> 01:25:10,583 1600 divided by 20, 1069 01:25:11,200 --> 01:25:14,545 makes 80 sheep. If someone hands the State that many more sheep, 1070 01:25:14,615 --> 01:25:16,639 the State labels him a hero. 1071 01:25:16,720 --> 01:25:20,920 They print his picture in the Moscow papers and award him 1000 rubles on top. 1072 01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:26,542 But when 1600 kg of meat is lost in front of our eyes, nobody is blamed for it. 1073 01:25:28,560 --> 01:25:29,680 Meanwhile... 1074 01:25:29,774 --> 01:25:31,774 there should've been a court case. 1075 01:25:35,561 --> 01:25:37,761 What a case you've made up! 1076 01:25:38,072 --> 01:25:40,072 Found a case to open! 1077 01:25:43,105 --> 01:25:44,985 Your situation is good... 1078 01:25:45,408 --> 01:25:47,008 You... 1079 01:25:49,255 --> 01:25:51,535 I'm late three days with this assignment, 1080 01:25:52,113 --> 01:25:53,753 "Why are you late?", they'll ask. 1081 01:25:54,473 --> 01:25:56,801 "I was bringing the offenders down from the mountains." 1082 01:25:56,872 --> 01:25:58,392 "On foot..." 1083 01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:01,000 "Why were you bringing them on foot?" 1084 01:26:01,944 --> 01:26:05,704 "They were delivering their sheep for procurement, so I came along." 1085 01:26:06,592 --> 01:26:10,516 "The thieves were delivering the sheep to the slaughterhouse?" 1086 01:26:10,624 --> 01:26:11,744 "Yes!" 1087 01:26:11,888 --> 01:26:13,288 "They were..." 1088 01:26:14,088 --> 01:26:17,088 "What kind of thieves deliver the reserve sheep?" 1089 01:26:17,160 --> 01:26:19,129 They may not even put you on trial... 1090 01:26:19,208 --> 01:26:20,848 ...and I'll be the culprit. 1091 01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:23,836 "Where are those sheep from...?" 1092 01:26:23,914 --> 01:26:25,914 "Whose sheep are they?" 1093 01:26:27,936 --> 01:26:32,136 From Anaramej village...! 1094 01:26:33,048 --> 01:26:37,083 "Is Avag with you?" 1095 01:26:39,209 --> 01:26:41,369 They're the shepherds from Tsaghkashat. 1096 01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:45,514 Yes, yes! 1097 01:26:45,866 --> 01:26:48,786 "Come, let's eat." 1098 01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:50,687 "Let's eat barbecue...!" 1099 01:26:50,746 --> 01:26:53,026 Wait till we send down what we've eaten, then we can... 1100 01:26:53,120 --> 01:26:57,134 Thank you! We've got business. We're in a hurry! 1101 01:26:59,793 --> 01:27:01,793 "What business?" 1102 01:27:02,102 --> 01:27:04,422 "What business?" 1103 01:27:06,480 --> 01:27:12,520 We've got to be in court... In court! 1104 01:27:12,640 --> 01:27:14,498 "What? What?" 1105 01:27:14,568 --> 01:27:18,008 In court! The court! 1106 01:27:18,113 --> 01:27:20,113 "What for?" 1107 01:27:20,720 --> 01:27:23,240 "What for?" 1108 01:27:23,600 --> 01:27:29,077 We butchered some sheep... We butchered some sheep... 1109 01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:33,263 "What? What?" 1110 01:27:33,344 --> 01:27:40,261 We've stolen... we've stolen...! 1111 01:27:40,378 --> 01:27:44,578 Theft... theft... 1112 01:28:23,908 --> 01:28:25,979 Lieutenant – Sos Sargsyan 1113 01:28:26,034 --> 01:28:30,358 Ishkhan – Mher Mkrtchyan Pavle – Khoren Abrahamyan 1114 01:28:32,478 --> 01:28:36,767 Avag – Azat Sherents Zaven – ArmenAyvazyan 1115 01:28:36,830 --> 01:28:39,306 Revaz – Artavazd Peleshyan 1116 01:28:40,637 --> 01:28:43,792 Screenplay by Hrant Matevosyan 1117 01:28:44,886 --> 01:28:48,846 Directed by Henrik Malyan 1118 01:28:49,852 --> 01:28:53,062 Cinematographer – Karen Mesyan 1119 01:28:54,096 --> 01:28:57,165 Production manager – R. Martirosyan 1120 01:28:58,277 --> 01:29:03,379 Art department – S. Andranikyan, M. Arakelyan 1121 01:29:04,501 --> 01:29:09,483 Composer – Tigran Mansuryan Sound – Karen Kurdyan 1122 01:29:10,673 --> 01:29:16,554 Costume design – G. Isayan Make-up – Kh. Zalyan 1123 01:29:17,771 --> 01:29:22,467 Editing – A. Melkonyan 1124 01:29:40,093 --> 01:29:43,461 Production head – Vahagn Badalyan 1125 01:29:44,514 --> 01:29:50,072 English translation and subtitles by Vigen Galstyan 1126 01:29:50,192 --> 01:29:53,192 © National Cinema Centre of Armenia 2022 1127 01:29:54,766 --> 01:29:58,507 The End