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SOMEWHERE IN THE EAST

Based upon the novel "The Faces Of Silence" by Augustin Buzura

The situation in Bociu is much more difficult, than in other villages.

Other activists tried and failed.

That's exactly why we thought of you comrade Radu.

In these historic days, we all need good staff, honest.

Attached to the cause.

Comrade Secretary...

...I've been working as long as I can remember in town; in the factory.

I don't really know what's with the agriculture. I'm shopping at the market myself, that's all.

There is here in the area, a band of legionaries,

which terrorizes the population and frightens the ones wanting to go with the collectivization.

This is Sterian, their boss, Ex-Officer, and great admirer of Antonescu.

Plus the farmers which he conned, and they are not to be neglected.

They've been on the front and, they're handle weapons very well.

You will not be alone, you realize that, don't you?

But here is what you mustn't forget this is the strongest gets it all.

On the other hand, there is a Kulak, Magureanu, he's related to everyone.

In the time of famine he supplied the people with grain and that's how he bought them all.

If you convince him, practically, you have completed your mission.

With the others it's a matter of days.

Sir, comrade Colonel!

Are you sure? But, Clopotel and Podut, where are they? I thought you had a mission, right?

They are on it now. By the way, welcome.

- Everything's ready. - Come on, get up!

I caught a Kulak butchering a calf clandestinely and sequestered him.

The fucking thieves! The quotas they don't pay on time, but they know how to speculate.

The fucking roads...

- Lupse will be with you all the time. - Understood!

It's true he's quite soft, a little uneducated, but he is from this village.

Until they start sending specialized staff, that's it. Here, please!

- Good day, Mr. Magureanu! - Good day.

I'm happy you honored my house. Shut up!

Good day.

Come in!

Well, everyone who passed through here, all your comrades, they insisted to honor me.

Some had in mind, to convince me...

...others were just hungry, but most of them just came for the quota.

Have a sit!

But yourself, for which of all these reasons did you come?

For all of them!

But which one of them pushed you harder?

Well, Mr. Magureanu, we ate, the quota's all paid for...

...There is only one more left.

Well, with the papers there's no trouble, that's where we'll all end up,

I realize, only the law won't let me.

Even the law?

Well, if I am wealthy Kulak, as they say today...

I take God as my witness I never took anybody's land.

I bought it, fair and square, after my father lost it.

Never drank, never wasted money, I saved and saved and saved...

For these sons of mine.

But being wealthy there is no place for me there I'm not allowed. That's what the paper's saying,

that we sabotage, we stay in the way of collective work.

If that's the law, I respect it, for it says well!

One thing I don't understand. How do you explain the fact that I,

working all of my life, like a dog,

am treated the same as one who never did anything?

Mr. Magurene, of fools and of lazy bastards I was sick all of my life.

Times changed, it cannot be like before.

We'll transform the agriculture, we'll modernize it.

We'll bring tractors, we'll bring chemical fertilizers.

- There are only hills here, it won't work. - We'll make it work, we'll make it!

If I must, I'll go with the times.

So, what have you been waiting for, for me to come and sort out your problems?

You knew very well that this Magureanu, is not allowed in the collective organization.

- He has fooled you comrade Radu! - What?

He wants to become poor, so we reduce his quota.

As for the papers he'll find reasons to delay them.

I told him: bring the bloody application, so we have it on file,

And then we'll make you a proletarian.

You think he wanted to? The bloody thief!

Who's there?

You have 48 hours to leave the village. Sterian's system.

- Who is his informer? - Magureanu, I think.

- You think, or you're sure? - Sure!

Nobody saw them together but, Magureanu is the most important man around.

Nothing moves without him knowing.

Comrade Clopotel the President of the Council and Comrade Podut Party Secretary.

- Muresan! - Not in!

He's in, the fucking thief!

Listen! If you're not at the council in an hour, we'll come and get you...

And you won't be too warm...

All the peasant farmers put your lands, your plows, the oxen, the carriages in common...

All of them will belong to the collective farm, and you yourselves will be working within it.

- Are you signing on? - Yes!

- Good! What is your name? - Ioan.

Ioan! Sign here!

- Oh, no, not now. - Then when?

I'll see, I'll think about it...

This land is still yours.

Nobody can take it from here, no, we cannot move it from here.

You will work organized in working brigades.

Yes, so this is would be like this: you're cutting off, nice and easy, how shall I put it, "the organ"

put it in my hand and say: "Here it is it's still yours"!

"Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej is speaking, The General Secretary of the Romanian Workers Party".

"...the tractor, the machines, they are bringing wealth!..."

Well, you see, this is the modern farming,!

You're used to live one day at a time your nose stuck in the back of the cows.

You have to think of your children, don't you? Of their future.

What is it comrades? What happened?

...They took him last night... Look!

You can see you're not from around here. You behave as if your some other race.

We, the Romanians, mustn't turn against each other, this is what they're waiting for.

I'm a good Romanian, you know. I don't want this.

In the war we suffered allot from the foreigners. What you think I didn't suffer?

I was servant, then I worked with an employer, I hardly managed to get a trade.

But you are wrong if you think I want the worst for you.

It's for your good I'm here far from my family.

You think I'm soulless, I don't have pains, needs.

Let us live the way we learned from our forefathers.

Without us, the country dies. You think you can force good on people??

Yes, I do!

When a man understands the good you made him, he'll be grateful later.

You know where you're mistaken, You and Lupse?

You think we're stupider than we are, and you must hold our hands.

I'm telling you, I'm not carrying you!

The road is new and it's not the case for you to have the impression you are on it

and you don't know where it's going. It goes to socialism whether you like it or not.

I should've known you're taking after Lupse,

who used to herd my cows at the end of the village.

Lupse has changed since. And you better watch it.

You could be taken away for agitating against our order.

Hey, stay there!

OK, come on! In the wagon. Shut up!

Come on! Come on! Come on move!

And what are you doing here? Move, come, on move!

What, comrade Brainea! You started to arrest people? Why wasn't I told ?

Comrade Radu! Don't you think you're overstepping your authority?

If I'm not mistaken you were send here to help with, to help with the collectivization process.

And if I'm correct... You're kind of dragging.

I know them. They are not the most dangerous ones.

- If you would've asked, I could've told you. - We have our sources.

But what's bothering me is, you instead of reporting, you are protesting.

Do you know that three of the peasants run to Sterian? Do you know they are hiding weapons?

Listen to me good! Who doesn't understand the history is changing,

pays dearly. Is it clear?

Who's not with us, is against us!

I herd you paid Magureanu a visit! And you drank together.

So what you wanted me to do? Kill him ?

Chain him and force him to sign on?

No, but it wouldn't hurt you to be more firm and more alert!

If I talk nicely, they're not pleased. If I get rough with them, they'll run of to Sterian.

- Then What the hell am I supposed to do? - Stop complaining and act.

To hell with it, comrades! We only see each other in assembly, and that's it.

You're not helping me, you don't do anything!

You, comrade Podut, you're complaining to everyone that you're only a civil servant...

You comrade Lupse, you're hunting in the forest and you pretend shooting in the people's enemies.

Don't tell me how many wild boars and how many enemies you have...

You're working secretly comrade Radu. I am local, I know how much each of them is worth.

They are cunning! They never say yes or no, but they'll talk you out for years.

Slap one of them and see how quick he comes to his senses. You know that saying :

Who doesn't know we'll teach, who can't do it we'll help, who doesn't want to we'll force.

Good! What will you do I my place?

I'd send them a subpoena and a fine to each of them.

You're coming at 1 2 and 11 minutes...

You're not here on time, pay. And then a raid the village!

The fence not painted, pow! The finance. The side trench not cleared, pow! The budget...

You'll se how easy their conscience will react. What's that, I can't?

Hey, you better stop staring and come help us.

What the hell makes you do something, your mother's a...

- But the oxen, where do we keep them? - At the collective farm!

- And who's going to take care of them? - Mihut!

He doesn't know them! He doesn't know their temper.

Well, Uncle Pavel, nobody can reach an understanding with you.

The man didn't work for him...

Hey, Sterian, come to your senses, you have no chance.

Forget the collectivization, Radu...

Or I'll endow you with two cubic meters of dirt.

- If you give yourself up, we'll be easy on you! - Hear this!...

I'll give you two days to think about it. It's your only chance to stay alive.

If I'm to chose, then I better chose death...

It's more pleasant. I can take it better than communism!

What about the Anglo-Americans, nothing about them, not a word?

Are you talking? You and your herd of dirty dogs, sold the country to the Russians?

I'll give you 24 hours!

You know everyone in this village.

You either help us and help the farmers by showing them the right way...

Or if not, we'll arrest you for instigation against our order, is it clear?

You know, the prisons are packed with Priests.

Now that we're clear, are you coming in?

Why did he take my clothes out of the yard ?

You answer my question!

Why should I paint the poles of my fence white, it's not a hospital?

- You're fining me again? - You were not there at 8:1 6 sharp?

- I've been hay making. - Am I supposed to teach you the order?

You think the socialism will be built up in chaos?

- Give up the weapons! - We have none!

- In 24 hours you should have! - Where shall we get them!

What the hell are you waiting for?

How patient can one be? How? When's that holiday coming ?

It's your move the whole village is waiting for, you know.

So... Send for your followers, for once

If not I'll bring them flying!

Talk nicely!... Or else... I'll take you to where you came from...

What are you doing ?

This land is worked by my people and you're staying in the house I made.

You, Kulak!..

Listen, don't irritate me! For if I start then you'll hardly...

My sons!

Hey you've grown!

Well, my dears, I called you to decide what are we going to do with the land.

I'd only have kept for myself a few acres so I could work them on my own.

The rest is yours. I've divided it long ago.

"Long live the great soviet people, constructor of the communism"

I'll stay as long as... There's no law to force me.

You're not thinking straight, Iuliu. I'm afraid they'll kick you out of the school.

Me?

But what influence can it have?

Wait a minute; I'm a student in law, what the hell! ?

They don't need any evidence, or witnesses...

You seem as if you're living in the stars. Why should we ruin ourselves for a fool?

Father sell everything and come with us in town. You can live comfortable with us.

I don't want to hear this again ever, Ilie!

You do what you want. I don't want to lose my seminars because of some asshole.

I am here to sign on tomorrow I'll go back.

Father, really, don't take this the wrong way,

but the teachers in medicine don't have a good sense of humor.

If I don't get good marks...

- The dame, who is she? - All sorts of people turned up.

This one says he is looking for digging deposits but I believe he is looking for something else.

That idiot forgot to salute!

"Same to the Kulak Magureanu who is sabotaging the people's interest".

That's the mug, it's because of him... You can't sleep?

What did you say?

- The capes, the swords and to attack... - Shut the, hell up...

- What does this son of yours want, Magureanu? - Father, tell him we'll visit,

We'll sign on today.

I've been looking for you, just to leave my horse. If you leave we'll find you.

My Lords,... The honored jury, we'll take part to my father's decease as an exploiter.

Our Father who art in heaven,

Hallowed be Thy name, Thy Kingdom come,

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our...

Amen!

Look at them! We disturbed them from the snack.

The best chicken meat is the pork!

They can take a break. They sucked enough our people's blood.

- Look for the weapons! - Stay back!

You wanted to see me, didn't you?

We're here gentlemen. We saved you a trip.

Look the beautiful boys in here. Isn't it a shame?...

I'm a student in law and I know the laws. You have no permission to come into the house.

See comrades, he's threatening me! These two, educated in our schools.

What are they teaching you in there, well?

Throwing stones at the people's slogans?

Or maybe you don't like the friendship with the great power: The Soviet Union?

My father didn't have the money to send me to school,

I'm working since I was 14 in the factory!

- Iuliu! - Magureanu!

- I'll kill you, I'll kill you! - Stop it, stop it!

- Leave him! - No, Iuliu!

- The prison will eat you alive! - You're attacking the public power!

- Stop it! - Magureanu, stay out of this!

Stay out of this... Give him!

You deserve this. The bloody bastard...

Get him! Take him! Let him loose!

The fruits of your Kulak education!

I told you he's coming too!

Now that we have them all, we could do the papers, Mr. Magureanu.

- Have I ever said no? - But you never said yes.

True! However, there is no law that could force me to!

I've waited! I called for my sons. Now I'm signing!

We might just not want you anymore.

You proved yourself an incoherent and hostile element.

If I am like you said I am, why did you kept looking for me day and night...

Why did you stop me in front of the village hall, I had to bring food from home?

Why have you filled my life with fines? Why are you keeping us in here without a reason!

You know better than me, I may have very good reasons.

Take that paper and write down what you must!

Here, if you want you can have my pen.

I say, after all this is done you will leave us in good peace, that's my condition.

I wouldn't put any conditions if I were you!...

I do!

Down!

Also write there: Long live the Romanian People's Republic, or are you objecting?

Long live the fight for peace that is if the Anglo-Americans don't mind!

Well that's it! I had enough!

Sons we're going home!

You're the only one going. We're not finished with them.

If something happens to them, I'll find you even in the next world. Remember this!

Sterian! What are we doing?

Out, hands up! Out, come on!

What are we doing ?

If anybody pulls the trigger you're all flying!

Don't make any foolish thing.

Which one is playing there!

If you don't want to rot in a salt mine leave now! It's my last warning.

What's wrong with you, you stupid cowards, back to the car, come on!

Radu, I only hope you are smart enough to drop on your belly.

Or your woman will remain a widow!

Stejar! Take their weapons! Gorun! Check the car thoroughly!

You will pay for this, and not only you but also the ones that informed you!

You brought this on yourself Radu! I warned you I'd be watching.

Who is in there? Out with your hands up!

Please don't shoot. I'm a student in medicine and he is my brother.

He is crazy, they've made him crazy.

Ah! Wait a minute Radu!

You may shoot as much as you like, but first I have some business with the gentleman.

- No, Iuliu. - Leave me!

Get up Radu, Get up Radu let's have a man-to-man talk!

- Iuliu! - Let me se now what you're made of!

- Leave me alone, leave me alone! - Fool!

Your drawers got yellowish. Coward, you bastard. Get up.

So you three are not police are you?

They would take you to jail? How can you do that, Radu?

Who are you? I hear?

Iuliu Magureanu. And they are my brothers, Ilie and Carol.

Undo their cuffs!

So Magureanu, complain now. Tell them I tricked you!

Ask them to let you kill me!

How dare you bastard to laugh at these children?

What have they done to you! They haven't read Marx?

I'm warning you not to interfere and let us go

if I get out alive you'll pay dearly.

If we all got to this point, I'll show you a unique show.

Of with your clothes! Quick, come on!

Gorun, the slightest twitch shoot them!

He doesn't care, Radu! he know if you ever catch him, it's the gallows for him.

Stejar, get the party cards! Make them eat them!

Sorry, Radu, no water, it will be hard to swallow.

That's how this communism of yours is for us.

The ones that refuse will be decorate with a bullet in the ass.

You will end up very bad you legionaries. It's not long!

We never was and will never be legionaries. I'm an elite officer, Radu!

Is it because of me or you, these people left their homes?

The occident blinded you, the lost wealth.

You mean, you're taking my house, my forest, my saw m ills,

you're shoving down my throat your primitive doctrine and I am just to sit?

You're waiting for the Americans?

They don't give a shit, you're stuck here with us, you fools.

They don't even know where Romania is.

Eat it! What you don't like it!

That's it, Radu, you can't say I made the choice!

You want to die! My word is my bond.

You don't have one! You don't have one!

OK, perfect, I'll also do this, I want to see, I want to see

I wouldn't have done it if they forced me, if I didn't want to show the intellectuals over there

and these cowards over here that you have no honor.

I'm eating it, Look I'm eating, just show them you have no word.

Well I'm eating it. Look I'm eating it,

I'm eating, do you like it, you like it, like it, like it?

I see your appetite is back, Radu...

Come on, Lupse. Come on, Lupse, come on!

You like it! You like it?

This really the last warning, Radu!

Come on, come on!

"There were many catastrophes the Romanian people had to endure over his entire history,"

"but none as disastrous as communism is The communist power"

"reaching the helm of the country started a massive hunt"

"tens of thousands arrests, mock trials... Deportations."

"The red terror has installed itself in Romania."

"Romanians! The fate of the country depends on your resistance!"

"The allied forces will not be delayed more!"

"The United States are preparing the liberation from under the Soviet tyranny"

"It is important that the heroic resistance in the mountains be supported by every Romanian."

"Keep alive the torch of freedom and independence..."

I clothed you!

Hey boys, you are on the territory of the partisan unit "Avram Iancu"

And it's commanding officer, captain Sterian welcomes you.

We are fighting for the liberation of the country from under the communist terror.

We are not alone. The west is watching us.

Their help is not far. We have concrete promises.

What's going to happen to us?

Well, you would've end up in jail and probably get out vegetables.

So you have no other chance. You will have to fight next to us.

Avram Iancu was only 23 when he led the revolution

and his posterity are building the socialism. You could die in shame?

Mr. Capitan! I respect your act of courage. I, on the other hand, am a weak man...

All of my life I've lived surrounded by books, I don't know...

One can learn anything Mr. Magureanu.

Look at this woman...

She was raped by one of Brainea's men during a party,

and Stanca, once a weak and sensitive girl, became a master

of fighting techniques, capable of any sacrifice.

Captain, I'd like to go back to University.

At this time I feel they are looking for us even in our colleagues' luggage.

If I don't find any support there, I'll come back. I need three days for this.

If they catch you, will you bring them here?

I'll tell them I left you immediately and I stayed hidden in the forest.

I'll go tell father.

He must know what happened to us, or he'll just go crazy.

The trip is pointless; but, I don't want you to have any remorse.

I'm staying!

You, Iuliu, that proved yourself wiser

you're starting the training tomorrow. I'll give you the necessary

instructions, tonight before leaving.

Until then we can all do with some sleep.

And please meditate on this subject:

we are at war and treason means death.

Hey comrade, will you stop for a while!

Hang on boy, nobody is threatening you.

Listen you idiot, get somebody from the council, to come here!

He's gone, the stupid son of a bitch!

- Sir! - How many were there?

- Sterian and two more! - Three! Three!

Cowards, bastards, shit-bags, that's what you all are!

How is it possible, an army of people can be scared by three, bandits?

What kind of people are you, anybody can steal your clothes?

Come on, come on! Walk, walk comrades naked if that's how you like it. Come on!

- Who's there? - Crina, the cashier from the tavern.

Comrade Lupse sent me to clean up the place.

You stupid whore!

See what I have in here.

Come on!

Father!

Carol, you are going nowhere! There is no place for you to go.

I'm not giving you to them. You are weak and helpless my dear son.

You cannot take it.

In here I'll build a wall. No one will notice.

This is ridiculous father! How am I to live in here? And how long?

Well, it cannot go on forever.

But I didn't do anything! I'm not guilty of anything!

This was left from the first Priest in our family.

You see, they say it was us the Magureanu, which founded this village...

At the time of the tartar invasions, a Magureanu took refuge in herewith the sheep,

he's cut the forest around and built a church out of twigs

which he carried with him in all of his trips.

That's so you know that however many things you will endure, he's endured more.

All my life I worked like an animal...

Like an ox... I didn't now day from night

And now I am left alone to start over

which end shall I take it from...

God, take my life, and don't let me see how my kind is being destroyed!

Everything 's gone to hell. We're all wanted by the Securitate.

Did you speak to the dean?

I told everything in detail.

I explained it must be a misunderstanding.

I asked him to defend me, not like a thief, but an eminent scholar.

I was his favorite student.

He wined that something over his power,

that he himself is feeling provisory.

You know what he told me? To immediately give ourselves up!

What a stinking world! I'm sick of it!

You should go my dear boy after Iuliu, you tell him I demand of him to leave the foolishness.

And come back home immediately.

The moment he is here all four of us are going to Bucharest.

By train, or by car, and if we can by foot,

to com plain to the party, and the government.

The bloody land! If it wasn't for it, just let it go to hell.

Not the land Ilie, the land is sacred that's what keeps us.

I'm sorry father! You didn't quite understand much of what's going on around you.

We are the class that has to disappear.

Well, you are the clever one, but I know there are people and not classes.

But we have to be patient.

I cannot take it father. I can't! I'm tired! I'm dead!

I only know one thing. To study!

And this is what's happening to me!

This is the shit that has to happen to me!

Hey, what kind of people are you?

You bumped your head of the first obstacle and already crying!

But life must be lived the way it was given to us, good or bad...

We have no right to com plain.

Sterian promised he'll help to cross the border, with the plane which brings us provisions.

There we could continue the school, we'll be free.

How can you be free in a foreign country?

The country is here where you were born, good or bad, it's ours!

Please father, spare me the speech I know them very well.

Here are our tombs, our hopes, here one must expiate his sins.

I know, I know!

You'll tell me that this people has been through a lot, that it's held it together, I know!

I'm not revolting against the people nor against yourself or the regime.

U am grieving my misfortune. The people are eternal, the country is eternal,

and I am only here for a few tens of years...

That's the tragedy! What am I supposed to do until they'll get smarter?

I need to rem ind you I lost everything: wealth, school, house

and I was the one who built them back, so they know I've passed through this life.

You think I don't suffer when I'm looking at you?

Ilie, for better and for worse We have to be together.

Please, please I need another term!

That's just to teach you pay the quota on time!

I told you once, twice, three times!

That's it! You're cunning! That's it!

- Comrade Radu, you're not doing good! - What is it teacher?

It's not humane! The socialism Must be build for the people, and not against them.

Listen, the moment you spend a year or two in school, you're going crazy.

"COMMUNIST'S SERVANT"

Go away! What was that comrade Radu?

Shall I tell Brainea?

Look what they say about you in the paper.

Aha, come on, That's it, it's gone?

Next week your wife and daughters are coming to visit, so! ?

It's them, I'm wasting my life for, the fucking whores!

Tell me! Who's been beating Radu?

- When did you last see Sterian? - NI don't know! I never saw him!

But who's bringing him food?

Ah, Magureanu, Magureanu...

Why don't you want to help us?

- You could make us allot of favors! - I signed on! What more do you want?

Don't you play the fool with me!

Listen! Give us Sterian and we'll remember it!

- No one will know you told us! - I don't have any business with this man!

- Some one warned him! - I don't know!

Your sons are with him. Tell us where he is and we'll be grateful.

I'm not your man. You are paid for it.

If my corn in the field is compromised, I just eat less...

I'm not calling you for help.

Teacher, we found reactionary books during the search...

Condemned by the history, Octavian Goga, poems.

Water.

My God!

Cursed be forever!

You killed my man!

Ion!

My God! Ion, don't leave me!

Shut up woman, he is not going to die that easy.

J ump forward! Down! J ump forward! Down!

J ump forward! Down!

Up! Down! Up! Down!

Enemy behind!

Enemy on the right! Rig ht!

Enemy in front...

Enemy on the right! Up!

Enemy on the left!

Enemy on the left! Enemy on the right!

Enough! Rest!

If you want to live, you must be better than your enemy

That when he really becomes a man!

Don't you realize that everything is worthless! It's futile!

I should kill you for these words!

You know we have one more solution to it!

Second time I'm not letting you in!

Carol!

Why did you bring me so much food?

Yesterday they told me, in 24 hours I should bring my sons to them.

They might keep me for a while!

Father, here's what I thought of? Get out of here, and go in the city somewhere!

I could rent a room!

Encourage your mother as much as you can! She is a weak woman.

Only one more man know about you: Father Mitrea.

He's going to bring you food and books. He is a hell of a man, Father Mitrea!

He even has a good relationship with Radu. But mostly with the notary, he is involved with.

I can't stay in here I'm suffocating!

I can't! I can't!

We'll get out of this too if good Lord wants us to!

- Woman, is your husband ready? - God 's curse will be on you, Lupse!

- You're taking him in for nothing. - You know very well what he d id.

I got tired with your lies!

Do it, search everything!

Come on, woman... Enough!

Leave the pig alone, good people!

Leave the pig alone, good people we'll starve!

Don't worry Gherman, we'll pay for in next regime.

Why didn't you admit you're seeing Sterian? Why?

Supplying him with food... Son of a bitch!

You know how many? I was placed here.

I won't kick you out, only you should know here is no conference room nor a brothel!

Carol, help me! Write down by tomorrow these conferences.

It seems like I never have enough time.

"The failure of the war provoking politics"

and: "The sharpening of the class fight in the actual stage"

The first is for Radu the second for Podut.

- How should I...? - You're a student in philosophy, leave...

The hell! God forgive my...! You shouldn't complicate.

Write down whatever you can think of. Radu's having an inspection coming...

And he wants to have good results.

How did they get to you?

Well, Radu gives them to Podut, Podut passes forward to the notary which...

Gives them to me. I had more delicate ones,

about the eradication of mysticism and superstitions, atheistic and Marxist stuff,

well, you know that if I pray a hundred years, the good Lord will not forgive me.

- Who's moved in with u? - An activist, some woman called Bindea.

They had her inspect and say if anything shows up. Now she's gone to town.

- Calm the dog down, Aunty Maria. - Shhh! It's coming!

I looked for some drugs for the poor woman.

Are you related?

Yes, but that's not why I'm helping her, it's her health.

She is completely destroyed.

But, as a mother you could put yourself in her place, mothers have their own particular ideology

And then That's my job, to help and encourage.

Until they'll find better solutions,

we'll have to listen to their wishes, their sins...

Only I am a sinful character.

The moment I see a beautiful wife, I forget I'm a Priest...

But, how can you even think of that father?

I am a serious married woman.

I came here with a precise assignment!

Well you see, I know very well! That's why I repent,

by confessing a part of the truth, I want to free myself, to humiliate myself,

to ask for forgiveness, for the love I secretly feel for you ever since you came here.

I understand father and maybe if I wasn't married, I mean if I didn't have a husband,

which is, not even a real man I would've been mad.

I'll never be able to look you in the eye Comrade Bindea!

I know you're honest, calm, firm, I on the other hand, make mistakes!

One more favor I have to ask.

Come on, slap me! Slap me as many times as you like.

I'll take them, I deserve them, look, here's the bare cheek.

God, my god! What are we doing fa... Father... Have we lost our m ind?

I don't care! You will be punished! the way I know... Let me!

- Satan! - Let me!

You should be patient? Father. Now!

You have no shame! You devil!

The comrades is working, and is over exceeds the plan,

but they must benefit from the fruits of their labor...

Life isn't made only to work...

Comrade Coza it's a real pleasure to see you happy.

You know how to immediately contact people. Have another one!

I can never resist a product of m ilk and flour!

It's the 12th, no, I'm all full up!

Cheers!

You have no idea, Radu, the things I know about you?

Yes?

You never told us about the strike in, '41

when you gave the boss a polenta and he threw up his guts.

- Ah... Well don't you know! - No!

I ran in the locker room got the ham out of the polenta and replaced it with grease.

I came back in, waited my turn to speak and said:

"Here d-le Winter see how the working class is leaving."

Well done, hear me!

The spoiled brat when he started to throw up everybody laughed at him.

The stupid cunts couldn't understand why can't he eat a small piece of polenta.

Listen? Come here!

You could tell you were once more energetic, more determined.

You don't fight anymore with the same passion against the enemy, you quite...

I'll make my own self-criticism, comrade Coza. I was probably wrong.

Of course, I was! You see, comrade Brainea he taking the piss and lowers my authority.

That's not good! The activist's word is the law! It's the party's word.

Here!

Who the hell invented these women? They only bring bad luck!

Leave her, leave her, look at her, she's sleeping like there's no tomorrow.

Oh, you...

Radu and a few officers are moving in here.

The soldiers will sleep at the council. Bee strong!

It can't be too long!

Do whatever you like but he can't hear you, or we'll get it!...

And look over those speeches, he said they're not mobilizing enough.

What the hell more shall I write?

Write about the rebuilding of the country, about the five year plan,

about tractors. Say the worst things about the social class.

And invent something about how good it will be in communism, we'll never get there anyway.

Well, Aunty Maria, still complaining about not having a man?

I brought you plenty, one better than the other...

I have mine, and you destroyed him and I also have my sons,

the innocent ones you arrested.

Innocent, ah? If they were innocent why did they ran away?

What kind of sons you raised?

Have you ever done anything good, for someone in your life?

I'll do after I'll bring Sterian here in your front yard.

Thieves! Bastards! I have a house full of chiefs and you let them rob me.

What is Kulak the Romanian soldier, is he not allowed to eat?

God will punish you!

Lupse, go get the Priest to calm her down, or I'll have to do it and...

Come on, Aunty Maria, give them peace!

You won't die for a chicken. You have a yard full of them.

Ilie...Carol...

- Louder! - I'm calling my sons to death!

You'll call them until tomorrow! They'll hear you at some point.

- Lord, good Lord! - Come on woman! Come on!

I'd rather die than, have them caught by you.

Iuliu! Ilie!

Come on, go to confession!

I raised them struggled with them, and now I'm calling them to their death.

Be a little more calmer!

Oh no, I'll howl until my voice will dry out.

If my boys see what they're doing to me they'll turn themselves in and they'll be finished.

How much is cow Priest?

Tell mother we'll be home by Christmas. How is she holding up?

- Fine! - And father?

Alive!

Give us some money! We want to go to Bucharest we're no longer with Sterian.

- Quick! - Mother's at the market?

Next door at the pig 's market. You be careful she's really weakened.

We just want to see her. Let's go!

Comrade Radu!...

- Ah, the Priest is here! - Welcome Priest!

Ah, The Priest! Father, are we sinning badly if we're drinking?

Each after his own conscience.

Listen Priest, I have an urge to shave that beard of yours.

Yes, but I'm afraid the notary will ruffle your hear.

Father, father, come have something to d rink,

the drink is not for pigs, but between intellectuals...

I'm glad to see so many intellectuals in one place.

For years I've been the only intellectual in the village.

Well... now meeting you I can hardly desert you.

Let the Priest sing! Let the Priest sing!

All rig ht! A g lass and a song so you see I haven't always live,

to my shame, all my life in fasting and prayer.

I'm asking the party members not to leave the room!

No! "my gypsy woman..."

"I have a tent that's sowed with a bodkin I have a tent that's sowed with a bodkin,

- and a gypsy woman, kiss her lips - Eat her mouth...

- Kiss her lips! - Kiss her lips, oh my...

My gypsy woman... And mine... And yours, and everybody's,

And who ever wants her... And mine, And yours... And who ever wants her!

Take your coats off! Eat something and wash yourselves.

Mother how can you think of that? They can come in any minute.

- Give us some smoked meat and some money. - I have everything ready.

- In the bag upstairs. - What are you going to do?

Nothing. I watch helplessly all of this mess!

You?

We, where we can. Sterian, lied to us. Now they are both looking for us, Radu and Sterian.

- Why? - Come on, tell him he knows her.

- He stole Stanca, from him. - Pretext! Just for the hell of it!

- I can't stand anybody's orders. - What do you have in m ind?

- Our life is pretty much over. - Give yourselves up!

At least you'll stay alive, they're not eternal anyway!

- Better dead than in a salt mine. - Don't be sad, mother!

I saw in the forest the way they dragged you and made you call.

I was shaking, otherwise I would've shot them.

No, Iuliu! We are not murderers!

Rest them, Lord your servants, Vasile and Ioan,

Stay here, with me. It's not life, but at lest it's not death...

I better go to prison. It's more space.

Rest them, Lord your servants, Vasile and Ioan,

from dust you were made, in the dust you shall return. Poor you, poor souls.

You mustn't cry father.

If there were others doing their duty just like them, history would've been different.

I only hope, up there in heaven... God will not turn His face from them.

Somebody must die so the next ones, can win.

You shouldn't lie to us, Mr. Sterian! The area is surrounded. New troops are coming every day.

Run! Too much blood.

God will help us find another way, to get rid of them.

Mine is one way.

If it comes to it, pray for me. I d id the right thing!

"Don't let yourselves be intimidated by communists! Down the Bolshevik terror!"

Their mother's...!

Get behind! They stole the hospital's blood airplane.

Let go!

The bloody thieves!

They deserted him!

Look at them the tramps. The more in a salt-mine the less on the fields.

Keep doing it like this and soon we'll have to work the land ourselves.

I'm quite surprised coming from you.

Why are we building machines, why are we building factories?

Sterian's only choice is direct confrontation.

Yes, sir, yes! The mountain is surrounded,

the water source are being watched, the roads searched.

The militiamen and the soldiers patrolling everywhere.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, everything's in order.

You are far from your family yourself.

It's hard, I know it for a fact, I have a husband in the city but I haven't seen him for a year.

As a matter...

"We crossed the forest together and you never touched me".

Well, if I knew this from the beginning, comrade Bindea, you wouldn't have been sorry?

Sir! They tried to come out for water last night.

After a change of rounds they went back. One of them is alive.

- How many dead? - Three soldiers and two of theirs'.

The big guy I know.

Listen, do you want to go to the hospital and stay alive, or...

- Just a cup of water. - You'll get one later. Where's Sterian?

Sterian and two more got away last night during the exchange.

- How many are you? - Where are the others?

Each of us spend the winter where we could. Very few came back in the spring.

How many are you?

Do you still know me, Uncle Pavel? Well?

No, Mr. Sterian.

Give me some food and something to drink, if there is any.

Rig ht away, Mr. Sterian.

No news from the Anglo-Americans?

No Uncle Pavel, they never came and maybe they never wanted to come.

- What are they saying in the village about me? - Some wolf had you for dinner...

Did you like the way we fought? They over powered us by the number of...

Anyway we did our duty. We raised the warning.

To be honest with you, I didn't have the time to think about that, they searched us everywhere,

today, please don't m ind me saying that the living and the dead hate you just as much.

If I was to win, I couldn't have a bigger ass for guys like you,

they would've queued up to kiss it. They only hate me, well?

- The communists just as well. - Well! I was a good Romanian...

Don't ever forget! This people, doesn't need examples.

Pity, you never understood But you'll remember me and regret.

Not long, from now you'll be tired of the comrades.

Maybe we already are.

Are we not Romanians? What are we? Who's going to work the land?

So many years of terror and so many dead.

Bring some red wine, I'll go in the stable and sleep awhile.

- Come, Lupse! - After you, Comrade Colonel.

You bloody bastard. Come! Come!

- Sterian, give yourself up! - Sterian!

If you don't come out, we'll set the barn on fire!

Give yourself up!

I'll give you one more chance!

Sterian! It's for the last time!

He must be here. The man's wife didn't see him coming out.

- What do you want? - Where's my yearling?

- What? - What yearling ?

Get away from there, or... They'll shoot you.

Let the kid come in... Hey, kid! I saw your yearling going in, come on... Go!

Come on kid, go in!

Go in!

There's a man in there with blood, he's asleep.

The stupid bastard! You didn't want to confront me all the way.

You ran pig, you gave up, you left the battle, you were afraid.

Why didn't you have the courage to fight me to the end?

You had the courage to cheat instead, yes?

Come on, decorate me with a bullet in the ass, come on!

"This is how all the people's enemies will pay"

Run!

- What's your name? - Barbu's Vasile.

- Where is your ID? - I didn't take it.

- What shall I do now? Take you to the station? - You can forgive me!

We told you so many times, to have the I d with you.

Where shall I keep it in these clothes?

Hey, you over there! I'm talking to you?

-Your papers! - Don't move! Lower your weapon! Fast!

Get back!

Hey!

There he is!

- Come o, you have a boy! - And Stanca?

She is fine!

That's the end of it!

For a fact, all must come to an end.

You'll never know...

After that story I wanted to kill myself. It wasn't meant to be!

Now with the baby... We must take this life to the end.

What life?

As much as it is and What's left of it.

Iuliu!

Take the child now and leave the sheepfold!

- I demand you! - Iuliu!

I demand you to save the child!

Ilie, you go with them! You could help them!

I'm staying!

- How do you feel? - What does it matter?

Give yourselves up!

Throw your weapons and come out with your hands up!

Stanca, Stanca, hurry up no time to waste.

That's Iuliu!

My daughter, think of the child. It's crazy what you want to do!

I can't dad. I'm going back. Without him...

Give yourselves up and your lives will be spared!

There's no point in resisting! You were betrayed!

Sterian was caught!

We know Sterian betrayed us! You could employ him yourselves.

If you don't come up by the time I'm counting to ten, I'll set the mill on fire!

Before you count I'll keep a demonstration for you, I'm not kidding.

- Walk out with the child, don't kill it. - The m ill is surrounded!

Look, I hurt myself!... ...Here as well.

Touch it, see! Are you afraid?

- Give yourselves up! - What guarantees are giving us, Radu?

- My word! - Try something else, we're clear about your word!

I'll start counting: one, two, three...

- You want some sunflower? - Leave me alone!

- We're not doing anything anyway... - ...Six!

Radu, stop the counting and listen. I could've killed you long ago with a grenade...

- Comrade Colonel! The attack started! - What attack?

- ...but I didn't want it. - look there! Lower.

We want to show you we didn't kill anybody...

- We saved ourselves by running away! - The bastards!

...you know we didn't do anything? You arrested us for nothing!

We'll be on your conscience Radu! You destroyed us, Radu!

You're killing us anyway, at least tell me where my father is?

- Is he alive? - Give yourselves up and find out!

- You're not in the position to demand! - Where's my father?

- Where he belongs! - And where is that?

- Where he is! - Then how do you want me to believe you?

Don't, if you're in the mood for dying.

Fire! Don't stop, fire!

- Hands up! - Don't shoot!

Father!

Why did you shoot Radu they gave themselves up!

Hands up! Hands up! You hear me? Get out of there!

Why did you come back, Stanca?

You shouldn't have!

Throw the gun away! Hands up!

- Get her alive! - Iuliu! Iuliu shoot, Iuliu! Kill me!

Shoot! Leave me, leave me!

Iuliu, shoot!...

Leave me!

Set it on fire! Set them on fire! Set them on fire!

Come on... Ilie! Come on! Shoot!

Shoot! Come on! Come on!

Don't leave me, shoot! Shoot!

Great good Lord... My sons... My sons!

Ilie! My beauties!

Comrade Radu! Comrade Radu, Comrade Coza was replaced...

There's somebody else in his place, a comrade Baciu.

If you're not wearing a suit and this tie he won't even speak to you.

It's three days since I keep drugging his food.

Carol! Carol!

I got old. That's it! The beautiful children come from the young pairs.

You Carol, are responsible for our blood now. You only.

My only wish is don't let our blood to perish.

You hear me?

As a soul shepherd, I mustn't push you into sin,

but as man that cares about your health, my son...

Don't touch me. Open up! Open up!

But I assure you I won't touch you. Don't be scared.

Please forgive me, it's my fault.

I didn't warn you how it's done with a woman like this...

Either you let them cry and talk and you go about your business

or, and that's the best way, you roughen her a little

A woman likes to make mistakes but first you must give her an excuse.

Next time slap her around and she'll become a gentle lam b.

- Why are coming back after you got scared ? - Well', if that's the business, what can I do.

I didn't want then, now I do.

Well? What's wrong? Aren't you coming?

Get dressed! You may leave!

Iron it Crina, don't give up, let's put on the tie, that's the fashion.

And get me some hair oil so it stinks all the way to the city, they'll se I'm changing.

If they want me to I can sleep wearing it.

Good! All right!

You're too wooden, the comrades are people too, you must understand this.

Good ? Two steps forward, one at the back!

Hey Ciobanu, you dance, that's how it is. Take comrade Bindea,

spin her so we can see her panties. She is one of us, she'll understand.

- But it's not, appropriate, comrade Radu! really! - She doesn't like it!

Her cheeks are jumping all the way to the roof when she dances, I know better...

With the Romanian folk songs it works,

But with the, "sulico", I'll kick you all right in the ass!

Sulico!

Hey, don't put me in the situation to open my eyes wide.

Checking! One, two, three...

Stop the cow's traffic and the goats on the main road.

Comrade Lupse! What are we doing ? The firefighters have to spray the road! Faster!

So today when we celebrate the funding of the agricultural cooperative...

Don't be cheap with applauding. The devil will see you!

"Where are the Americans? They're running away like rats!"

Come on, louder, louder! Don't do the same mistakes like the one before you.

- Comrade Radu! - Don't lean on the pine trees.

- Comrade Radu! - Let me see! Good!

- Comrade Radu! - Who is there?

- The bulls caretaker. - What do you want?

I had enough! You can't earn a living with them and they are very bad.

- Who? - The bulls.

So what do I care, tame them!

But chief at the pig 's farm? I have very important news.

- I'm not interested, enough! - What about Carol?

- What? - I know where Carol is!

"Our people will be forever twined with the brave soviet people"

Nobody's laughing! Come on! "The Leninism will be our lighthouse and strength and fire"

More enthusiasm, boy! "we are following in faith the invincible party"

Look in there!... "Long live the Communism, the future of the mankind."

Carol... my boy, your time is up. We're here!

So here is the little yearling hidden!

- Carol... - Easy! Leave him!

Come on! Come on!...

You've destroyed this one too!

You killed you own children. You wanted to be on top...

- Magureanu! - You bloody bastard!

Want to end up in prison?

Hey, boys, we can't even drink a glass of beer because of the lazy peasants.

We'll, get inside... And if there're no spare seats, we'll kick you all out!

We' re working and all you do is d rink!

Hey, go see what's going on with the fields, or I'll show them to you!

Hey, Toader...

- But you in there don't you have a tavern? - Get them!

Watch out! They're coming! Run, step aside.

Come on comrades, more lively. That's it! That's it! Come on brothers!

Undress! Faster! Come on!

So! Good!

- Sir! - Welcome to our village!

Welcome!

Come on!

"The pioneers salute you, in the name of all the pioneers in our brigade"

"we wish you welcome in our collective agricultural unit."

"The pioneers salute you...."

Up, up! Take him to the hospital...

"The wealth is opening, we're seeding hybrid breed"

Comrade Radu, work better. You will stay here.

I'm investing you president. Make a model coop. I don't want to hear any complaints!

Louder! Louder

"We're using new methods the corn will grow higher"

Silence comrades! Silence, please!

Dear comrades, we live a great day, a turning day for our village

when for the first time, the middle peasants and the poor ones following the wise advice

of the working class, have founded the production agricultural cooperative "The Red Flag"!

Our people have come far, all this way along which,

the enemy within, the landlords, the capitalists, the Kulaks

and also the enemy outside, the American and English imperialists,

laid lots of obstacles in our path, trying to turn us back to the capitalist slavery.

Some think even today the Americans are coming...

I'll tell you, comrades; even if they were crawling they would've got here by now.

So, we together with the Great Soviet Union,

will build the Socialism in our country!

This means building the wealth of the people that work,

big steps forward, to the fulfillment of the most dear dream of all working people

from our country, the founding of a new society,

free of exploited and exploiter; Socialist Society!