Original subtitles

Chronicles of Melania

On June 17, 1940, Soviet troops crossed the border of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and occupied the Baltic countries.

Began purposeful destruction of the population.

On the night of June 14, 1941 more than 15,000 people It was sent to Siberia, among them old people and children.

[Aria from the opera Madame Butterfly]

Riga, 1941

Melanie, everything is with me will be fine.

Andrew!

Is it time to go to the village?

I have all the things ready.

Son, drink some milk!

Now you can go, right?

When do you eat now?

Melanie ...

Daughter...

Andrew, pull, warmer will.

Put on

Why do I need to go to Ogre in cattle cars?

I'll take.

Alexander, gloves!

Dad!

Where are you going! Come to me!

Suitcase! Take a suitcase!

Mom, what's wrong with you?

Sleep

Get the kids out. Your children.

Why not.

The men were taken to the shooting and us there too.

I'm scared.

First the fathers were shot, now we are in these cars.

Will there be Ogre soon?

Just bless Latvia Ah, just bless her.

God bless Latvia

Our dear homeland

Zilupe. We are moving the border of Latvia.

What are you looking for? Can I help you?

No, no, go sleep.

Mom, don't, mom!

Mom, no, no, no.

Anna!

What are you doing?

For help! For help!

Help!

Get up! Dad is waiting for us.

Though we wash ourselves. Finally.

After three ...

weeks ...

Katrina!

You too?

Carlishechka.

Tomorrow should have been baptized.

Our husbands!

Little fly Against dysentery.

Mama! Mama!

Where are you going?

What?

He asks who you worked for.

Hairstyles, manicure.

Why do you give fake papers?

Do not sign.

You whatever you want i sign false papers will not.

The pod is empty, not bread.

Son...

Son...

Show me the picture.

When will dad be?

Andrew!

Show me

What is it?

Letter to dad.

Just do not know where to send.

We'll do without nettles tomorrow.

Hands already erased at the end.

Narvi quinoa or whatever else in the meadow.

It doesn't matter why should I cook?

Andrew, I found something.

Mom, please boil these potatoes! I found them there, in a heap.

Throw away!

Throw away!

We have not lived to waste.

Roast...

Roast...

Hear?

Hear?

- To whom? - Inte.

- To whom? - Rusyn.

- To whom? - To me.

And take this to Katrina.

- We have no fur coats, such as the Russians. - Not.

- And we have no potatoes! - Not.

How are we going to live?

- Everything is sick? “I have no milk at all.”

Insanely beautiful.

Tonight we get out?

Time is enough.

Crazy, here, here.

Melanie, let's work. Work!

My head is splitting, I'm dying.

To stretch the pus.

Help me.

Father, help!

... in the winter cold, so same as in the summer heat

Oh, herringbone, oh, herringbone You are always green

Saved

Alive.

Alive.

Mommy, if you will every day give sugar, then I will die every day.

I'm already bigger expect nothing from life

just one thing it still remains in it

that thin thread of hope -

that I will still see my homeland,

I will raise our son

and meet you.

That little corner of life

standing on the seven mountains of faith

and from the seven seas of love.

The end of the war. War is over.

Home. We finally back home.

Come on!

Mama!

Red Cross...

Red Cross collects children for sending to Latvia.

Anyone who wants to come back.

And including those at Who is the mother alive?

All children will be sent home.

Mothers, you can not ...

Then you need to go.

What if it turns out for life?

- Good day! - Good day!

Threatened with problems mothers who let go of their children.

What now?

Yesterday, like discussed.

I understood everything.

All right, now. Do not be afraid. Let's find out.

Three hours went the children. All gathered ...

We have to take the train. In Krasnoyarsk train, red cross.

Okay, don't drift, I'm telling you!

You on the train there alone will not be sick?

I can go.

Then there is nothing to pull!

If there is a verification of documents, they'll arrest me for escaping.

Do you remember everything?

Krasnoyarsk, home of the deaf,

Stalin Avenue, house number 23, Anna Luze.

Go!

Go!

How to live here? As in the outhouse!

If you can't, go home. I myself.

And your husband will come here?

Yes.

Carly?

Help.

Thank you very much!

After so many years, I'm finally happy.

Sounds good.

Right side only a little dark.

Sheep blood.

Jacob!

My brother was sentenced to 15 years.

What is a hospital?

They are treated there, hospital.

Sick.

He asks for tobacco.

Tobacco is not good, bad for health is bad.

Tobacco in camps valued, more than money.

Blood.

You will rub with potatoes and eat.

It will cure.

I will have a baby.

I'm worried, what if he will not survive here.

Do not even think.

Orders and commands do not accept.

Obedience? Not!

Like the board too!

Who is not terrible, fear does not inspire.

Only the one who is terrible, leads us into confusion.

Despicable to me that I myself am on this.

I love forest animals and sea as well

I would lose time with them willingly.

Thinking thoughtfully into charming delusion

And finally, from far to native distance enticing.

Yourself same to seducing myself.

You will not go to work. You are sick.

Please do not die.

Wait till the morning I'll bring Kalmyk cattle

The kids wanted to drown him.

Spoiled me marvelous Sunday walk.

It is happiness when the house has a cat.

Cat - in the house of happiness.

- Jacob, happiness. - Happiness.

At home I used to tie cat to the board.

Attached the pole at the end and exhibited in cherry orchard

This is not good. So you the animal tormented.

- Not good. - In the evening I let him down again ..

When all the birds flew away.

You need to go back to the hospital.

There is no medicine here.

I don't want to go to the hospital at all because they torture me there.

I feel much better.

A feeling of lightness appeared in my legs.

But I just can not get warm.

I'll warm you.

In the spring it will be necessary dig a hole deeper.

When building a piece of metal through Taiga,

we are dead, right there, and dropped off the embankment.

In the potash mines plowed like blind horses,

dragged potassium wagons.

And these mines were very deep, with narrow aisles.

And those who broke into the mine, there and remained not buried.

In the first barrack at night

big hammer smashed dead heads

thrown into sledges and taken away.

In Riga, the remaining relatives died in the ghetto.

The only consolation that parents in the gas chambers are not long tormented.

compared to my life in Russian camps.

I ...

I exist ...

one ...

only...

never...

not lonely

I ...

believe

in that miracle ...

what...

still...

at the last ...

time...

I can ...

to you...

to touch.

What a beautiful land ...

What a blue sky ...

How many good people are around!

The cat left home, means someone to die.

I could not find where slaughter pigs or sheep.

Yes, raw liver it would be the most.

A sandwich.

I gave him one Russian for birthday.

The cat was found.

Came fluffy, hungry like a wolf.

So there is nothing more to be afraid of. operations. Everything will be fine.

I'm so happy. More than ever.

Carla is sent to Kazakhstan.

And we were allowed with him.

Give it to me.

Open all windows and doors.

Count to five.

One two three four five.

Hold him every day so a few seconds.

Five, seven, ten. Until a minute.

For hardening.

Then there will be hope endure a long road.

Yes, yes, my dear!

Everything, everything.

Already in the army?

What was with us.

Vanags Alexander Karlovich, born in 1907,

died in 1942 on 3 August.

- He died in forty second year? - Yes.

- Where? - Not specified.

Show.

[Sounds aria from opera "Madame Butterfly"]

It is impossible in boots.

Be in the hall in boots is prohibited.

But this is my only shoe.

Then go to the director and take permission.

It's snowing all the time.

Melania Vanaga spent in exile for 16 years return to Latvia after Stalin's death.

Although published in Soviet times was not Hope, she wrote until the end of life.

The film is based on its autobiographical the novel "On the banks of the Vel River".

The book was first published in 1991, when she was 86 years old, it was her literary debut.

Melania lived to be 92 years old.