All language subtitles for El muro misterioso (Irina Povolotskaya1967)

Studio 'Youth' presents

The Mysterious Wall

Attention!

First camera on.

Good. Is Camera 2 ready?
- Yes. Full lights!

Put the mic closer.

Good, thank you.

Attention, we're on air.

Are you ready?
- Ready.

The next page of our TV Journal

we called 'The Mysterious Wall'.

We've invited a team of researchers

to tell you all about this

mysterious phenomenon. Please.

I think, we shall hear
Andrei Erdeli,

the chief of the expedition
studying the wall,

who's flying to the place of events
in the next few days.

Mr. Erdeli, I've heard there's
already an expedition working there?

Yes, they were gathering
preliminary evidence.

If I'm not mistaken, Professor Lomov
is running it? - Yes.

Mr. Erdeli, so what is this wall,
in general?

The wall has appeared
only recently.

It was discovered accidentally
by a geological team.

They said, the wall appeared
out of nowhere and

encircled them, for two days
isolating them from the world.

Excuse me, a question:
what does it look like?

I haven't been there yet.

They say, it's like a thunder cloud
with lightning.

I'm sorry for the interruption,
please continue.

The geologists couldn't break
the circle.

The wall carries a very high
electrical charge.

Highly dangerous for people.

Yes. You can't walk
through the wall.

More-so, the geologists couldn't
use their radio.

The wall blocks radio waves.

In two days it disappeared.

The geologists notified Moscow
about the incident.

And in a couple of hours
it appeared again,

and keeps appearing and disappearing

at the same time
and the same place.

Our guests

have brought us some tapes
made by the Lomov group.

Let's hear them. Please.

That's the wall's background noise.

That's the sound it makes
when appearing.

This noise appears
at the most unexpected times.

We do not know it's origin.

Very interesting.

What did Lomov find out?

The team managed to measure the
temperature of the wall's surface.

To count the time it appears
and disappears.

They built a scientific station
inside the circle.

They are building a settlement
near, gathering the equipment.

And what are Lomov's thoughts
on the nature of the wall?

None yet.

You must understand,
it's been not so long.

Is it true that Professor Lomov
thinks that the Wall

was sent here by the inhabitants
of some other planet?

It is so. He's sure

that the wall is the work of
an extraterrestrial civilization.

Something like our automatic stations
that we send to the Moon, Mars or Venus.

But as yet there's no proof
of such a theory.

Science deals in facts.

Lomov's assumptions seem to me

purely fantastical.

Mr. Erdeli, what do you think?

I think, the wall is a place where
electro-magnetic fields gather.

Like a giant ball lightning,
an absolutely natural thing.

There are other theories.

Its energy is too big for Earth, it may
very well be a message from space.

But not necessarily
created by aliens.

No, not necessarily.

The wall doesn't look like any
interplanetary communication,

that we seem
to think so much about lately.

It'd be much easier to communicate
via radio or with a laser ray.

It takes a lot of energy
to build a wall like this.

I see you haven't reached
a consensus yet.

It takes time.
- Another question:

Is it true that the wall
affects the psyche of a person

and causes hallucinations?

I haven't been there and couldn't
witness the wall's mysterious qualities.

Dear viewers, let's thank
our great scientists

who are standing on the verge
of new discoveries.

The next page of our TV Journal
is Sport. Now, Leningrad.

Print it.

Switch off the lights,
leave the duty ones.

Sergei, reel in the cable.

Tell me now...

Is Lovom's theory
complete gibberish?

Lomov is a serious scientist.

Excuse me.

I didn't mean to hurt anyone,
but you are recalling him, aren't you?

He just needs to rest.

I won't take any more of your time,
goodbye. - Goodbye.

Goodbye, thank you.

This wall story is getting
anecdotal.

I could never imagine Lomov becoming
a prisoner of his childhood dreams.

Is there news from him? - No,
he hasn't sent anything for a week.

What's with the equipment?
- He said he doesn't need anything.

He took an active sonar,
modified it in some way...

There will be problems.

Andrei Iraklievich, excuse me.

You do have your plane ticket
already? - Yes.

I know Professor Lomov
is your friend.

Do not take it all
too close to your heart.

Try to gently explain
the situation to him.

Good luck.
- All the best.

Lena? Hello.

I didn't have time to call you,
you know what happened?

Ah, you were watching the TV.

They suggest Lomov takes a rest,
I'm in a ridiculous situation.

Tomorrow. I leave tomorrow.

A permit? For you?

Behind the wall?

You'll see him soon, he'll be
in Moscow in a couple of days.

You too are interested
in the wall?

Our drivers say this wall
was built by Martians!

Martians?
- Martians.

Andrei, what if it's true?

Ok-ok, I stop.
- Or maybe they lie.

Martians are the first thing
we need here.

We just can't cope without
Martians.

Why, why do you need Martians?

How do you mean, why?
- Well, why?

Well, you know... Or, well,
we can do without them.

That's what I think.
But Lomov thinks differently.

Doesn't he, Lena?

We will leave on Friday, cause
there's no life on Mars.

And you, what are you
to comrade Lomov?

His fiancé.
- A hero.

Who is?
- Comrade Lomov.

He spent three months under the dome,
and they used to switch people every day.

Many people go crazy,
say the wall draws them.

Going to the village?
- Yes.

Take the sergeant there.
- Yes, sir.

He needs to get behind the wall
to see Lomov. There was an accident.

Is Lomov all right?

Calm down, no casualties reported.
Are these the scientists? - Yes.

Are you closing him down? - Don't know.
- If yes, good. We've had enough.

The general entrusted him with the gear,
let him use it, and now the accident.

Science can't do without
the military. Karpukhin!

Our sonar operator.

Repeat your orders. - Check the sonar,
prepare it for transportation.

Right. I'll come on Wednesday
with the General.

Do you understand the
responsibility? - Yes, sir.

May I go now?
- Yes.

53 minutes till the wall
appears.

Is it your first time behind
the wall, sergeant?

Yes, sir, first time.

Me, too. And I could go
to Jakarta to the conference.

Great route. Delhi, Calcutta,
Bangkok, Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is a trifle.
- What?

I say, it's trifle.
- Have you been there? - I have.

Why trifle?
- No bananas.

When we were heading for Hong Kong
on a tanker, I was in the merchant fleet.

It was good, romantic.

We were saving a foreign writer
there. Singapore is another thing.

They have special monkeys
guarding the bananas.

And collecting them.

I brought such a monkey to my mom.

Where is it now?

She gave it away, it was
getting on her nerves.

We are here. The village.

Good evening, comrades.
Andrei Iraklievich Erdeli?

The new chief of the expedition?
- Good evening.

Your papers?

You'll spend four days
behind the wall with Lomov.

Your people and the equipment
are on their way.

What's with Lomov? - His group left.
He'll give you the papers and leave too.

Hello. I'm Fokin. - Show our comrades
the way. It's 37 min till the wall.

'37 minutes before
the appearance of the wall'

Break a leg!
- Thanks.

Good evening.

Do you have matches?
- We have everything.

They say Petrov the carpenter had a vision
behind the wall. The forest disappeared.

And suddenly he's at his daughter's
wedding, and it was two years ago.

His daughter is wearing
a white dress.

And he's still in his sheepskin
and valenkis. He poured himself

a glass of vodka, and then
everything disappeared. - Shame.

Shame on you, and Lomov.

Wanna pollute science with
mysticism? We won't let you.

Such stories are the result
of your idealistic attitude

to the phenomena of nature.

Devils, goblins, witches,
Martians.

'33 minutes before
the appearance of the wall'

Andrei Iraklievich, 33 min.
- Are you Erdeli?

Now everybody is here. Let's go.

Comrade, let the boy go.
Why do you need him,

he's a good boy, a scout.

You should thank us, we may have
saved your kids from death.

We keep catching kids who want
to get under the dome.

Hello.

Hello.

Everybody here?
- Yes.

We are here.

You will have to go by foot
to the area of the wall.

Along the road
leading to the station,

there are special
accompanying automats.

You'll have to walk fast,
the wall will appear in 31 min.

Have you filled out Form 17?
- We did.

Remember everything?
- Yes.

Good?
- Good.

Recite it.
- But why, dear comrade?

Kids, go home.

Recite Form 17.

Inside the perimeter of the wall

there is an automatic
warning system.

Miss, continue.
- You know...

Continue.

The moment somebody crosses
the warning system

there will be an alarm.
- Enough.

Now you, young man.

The system protects members
of the expedition

when they work close to the wall.

It is prohibited to cross the line
of detectors without a permit.

Enough.

Here are the indicators.
Sign for them.

You're a bureaucrat.

I am. That's my value.

'27 minutes before
the appearance of the wall'

'26 minutes before
the appearance of the wall'

Lena, stay here.
Sergeant, where are you?

Sergeant! Where did he go?

Who's there?
- Us, the Martians.

You came too? - To take you back.
- Hi, Lomov.

Hello, Andrei. - You do understand
why I'm here? - I do.

Who's that? - The sonar operator,
the military sent him.

Sergeant Karpukhin reporting for duty.
- Not so official. Name?

Valentin. Valya.

You'll take the sonar away?
- Yes, sir.

Too bad.
- What happened here?

Look here.

The pictures: a circle, a square.
A man. - A man?

We've added a thing to the sonar and
transmitted these pictures inside the wall.

They say we do it anyway,
so we decided to try.

And?
- The sonar broke down.

My assistant got his hands burned.
- That's all?

Yep. - Good.

That's Irtysh, he doesn't bite.

'25 minutes before..."

My people come on Friday,
when the wall is gone.

I'll look around till then.

Egor, I must tell you that
there'll be some serious research.

Well, where does the wall come from?
- I don't know.

It's difficult to work with.

You can't come close.

Can't take any probes.

Every instrument gets burned.
- Too bad.

Valya, you can stay upstairs,
Lena, you're here.

Andrei, you'll have
a great room when I leave.

Really?

What a mess!

Sergeant, take your clothes off.
- Thank you.

Let me look at you
under the lights.

Why do you look so bad?
- Have you brought something tasty?

Fresh tomatoes. - Where from?
- Doctor, you forget it's spring elsewhere.

We've brought letters. The scientific
community waits for you. Where's the bag?

Are you going to unpack
for two days?

There's a woman here.
Get the glasses.

You work too much.

And you, on Earth, thought that
we do nothing behind the wall?

On Earth? That's funny.
- It's been three months for me.

I'm crazy. Am I crazy, Lena?
- Of course.

Your towel
is under the bed.

Well, when will the wall appear?

In 4,5 minutes.

I wanna take a look.
- Stop!

I ask you not to leave the house
till morning. You could get lost.

Where's the sweater?
- Which one?

The one I gave you as a present.

There.
- Where 'there'?

When the wall disappears, the radio turns
on and I communicate with the Earth.

At this time there's always
a 'Pionerskaya Zor'ka' on.

If I didn't have any information,
and just now appeared on Earth,

I would think that it's
a planet of kids and musicians.

Interesting, isn't it?
- Very much so.

One minute left.
- You can't see it from the window.

The wall...
- No, there'll be a signal.

The warning system is on.

Now?

Let's drink, then.

To our meeting.

Will it always be so bright?

While the wall is there, yes.
- How do we sleep?

Water's in the kitchen,
sleeping pills are in the first-aid kit.

Why aren't you sleeping?
- Don't want to.

Nobody sleeps here
the first night.

Tell me, Lena...
- What?

What do you think of it?

You mean, the Martians?
- Not necessarily.

Just the intelligent creatures
from other solar systems.

You mean, aliens? You know, now
everything has to do with aliens.

Whatever happens,
it must be the aliens.

Strange drawings in a desert?
Who made them? Aliens.

Spots in the sky? Aliens
in their flying saucers.

Are you serious about it?
- It's been three months.

But nothing happened
in three months.

Today I did what I should've done long
ago. Transmitted information inside.

Dots and squares?
- Yes, the drawings.

Vasya conducted the transmission,
and I stood right beside him.

During the transmission, there was
a fire on the surface of the wall.

The ones near the sonar saw it,
I only felt that it was moving.

Then the console sparked,
and Vasya got his hands burned.

It was so unexpected, we didn't
have time to take photos.

It's only you I can tell.
- Wait, you think the wall answered?

I don't know.

What if it was just
a malfunction of the sonar?

What if you got tired after three
months, and are now seeing things?

Can it be?
- Yes.

But I don't want to leave.

Shall we come closer?
- To the wall?

Together. Interesting to see
it up close.

What's the noise?
- Ah, nothing.

Just walking and smoking.
Sergeant guards me.

I asked you not to leave the house.
- What, were there some troubles? - No.

You shouldn't have brought Lena,
she's tired, it's her vacation.

I'm leaving.
- Listen. Am I your friend? - Yes.

Whatever happens?
- Yes, yes.

You see, I didn't want to come.
- I get it.

Listen to me.
That philosophy of yours...

Do you live in this world?
- I do.

You live, you're 35 years old.
- 37.

Ok, 37. You have legs...

You have hands, and I hope
a head too. - Well?

She loves you. Marry her,
what more do you need?

Go to the sea, to Sukhumi,
it's spring there, roses bloom.

Stop it, go to sleep.
- Ok, let's go inside.

What about you?
- I'll take a walk.

Andrei Iraklievitch.

When I used to work
in the merchant fleet

One of our workers used to tell
stories about the flying saucers.

His brother-in-law saw one.

He was on his way to Sochi,
the train stopped,

and the saucers landed on
a 3 square km field.

Why tell me?
- Just came to my mind.

They say, the aliens took
one Polish comrade

before the war.

Then brought him back, to Poland.
- Bullshit.

Many people do not believe. He
should've taken something from there.

For proof.
- Do you want guests from space?

Who doesn't?

There's a very slight possibility.
Intelligent life is only on Earth.

And the next star is
a couple light years away.

It's easier for two dust specks
to meet at the Bolshoi.

Two specks of dust
do not have reason to meet.

Why the hell would they meet?

You're lucky, you'll go
to Sukhumi, to swim in the sea.

What's that?
- It's soap, my dear.

You'll eat khachapuri
at the restaurant on the mountain.

I'll give you a note.

Why do you think we'll go to Sukhumi?
- You will, Lena.

Believe me.
- Take a seat.

There's a wedding outside.
Lot's of guests.

I've never seen your wife.

She's a beauty.
Lives in the village.

Brings up our son
in the fresh air.

Egor!

Valya, where's Egor?

I don't know.
- Interesting.

Lomov!

Lomov!

May I?
- You up already?

What are you doing?
- Well, soldering.

Is it broken?

Yes, and I want to repair it,
cause it's my responsibility.

It's ok, sergeant will do it.

Andrei, I have a request.
Let me stay for a couple of days.

It's enough for you.

Do you refuse me as a new boss?
- Oh, come on.

Do you know something
others don't? - No.

Egor, get this.
If it really is aliens,

they still won't
understand your pictures.

Why's that?

Because they may be
totally different to us.

Small as ants, or big as clouds.

What if the wall IS an alien?

Will you eat?
- Later.

Comrade Lomov, I'll go work
on the sonar.

Andrei told me that we are
going to Sukhumi, is it true?

It is, Lena.

Valya!

Well?

I checked it. Can't find the sparks
that you saw, it seems to be ok.

It's ok?
- Egor Petrovich.

You better not. What if, again...
- What again?

You'll go to Moscow on Friday,

and I'll have a general
with an inspection.

Well, if so... I get it, sergeant.
- Comrade Lomov.

I share your theories.

I still need to finish here.

If there's still time,
I'll be glad to let you work.

I'll tell you.

Hi.

Give me a paw.

Have you seen the whale?

His head's like this.

Give me a paw.

Oh, well.

(recites a Russian nursery rhyme)

How did I get here?

Comrade boatswain,
am I dreaming?

Help me! Help me!

Be quick, help me!

I know, we're on route
from Melbourne to Vladivostok.

It this the Yellow Sea?
- Yes, yes.

Why am I dry, and he's wet?

What's happening? It's a dream!

My cat is still there!

Lift! Lift!

My cat is there! He'll die!
- He won't.

We saved you two years ago,
I remember.

I need to cross the ocean.

Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

It's still 500 miles.
- Parlez-vous Francais?

I'm from Canada, I'm writing
a book on man's solitude.

Ah, do you speak English?
- Yes.

I'm from Canada.
- Do you want answers, sir, aren't you?

You're very kind, gentlemen,
thank you.

But I need to be in my tub.

As you like.
- Who's he?

He speaks English.
Don't understand.

I do. Do I dream you?

I dream all of you.

It very well may be.

Why did you rescue me?
- You gave the S.O.S. signal.

I thought nobody would hear me,
I was alone in the ocean.

Listen, aren't you a Martian?
- No.

I'm nobody, I'm alone
in the ocean.

Although, it's very beautiful.

A Martian?

Yes, I am. For you,
I'm a Martian.

We do not understand each other.

For you, I'm a Martian.

We're all Martians.

We're all naked in the ocean.

The captain will come
and sort it all out.

What's to sort out,
he's a Martian.

The world is impregnated
with strontium.

The air, the land, the sea
shells. Strontium everywhere.

And nobody can understand

what kind of a wall
divides people.

Who are you?

I'm a writer, I'm writing a book
on how a man is alone.

I see.

Spread out, now!

I've crossed the English Channel
on an ironing-board.

Don't touch.

I love him because
he hates the ocean.

A tub?
- A tub.

A cat.
- A cat.

A tanker.
- Yes.

Listen, tell me what's happening.

Let me through, please.

You still won't understand
what I'm saying.

He eats!
- Everything around us is a dream.

We will never understand
each other.

We just have to meet and talk.
- What for?

Poor cat. Monster!

People are as far from each other
as the stars in the sky. - Bullshit!

It's not true.

You were drowning,
and we were near.

You cried for help.

And we saved you.

So you are not right.
- Propaganda!

Hey, it's very in now, take it.

Yeah, it's for you.
- Well, ok.

Propaganda.

Time to go.

Heave ho! Stop.

Ciao!

Ciao!

Comrade Lomov!

Martians!

You were right!

What are you talking about?
- Aliens!

We must prepare ourselves,
they could be here any minute.

Who are 'they'?
- I know, I know!..

You're holding back. I'm sure
we can negotiate with them.

They say you can't enter the wall,
and they draw you nevertheless.

Calm down, Karpukhin! - They messed
with my head. I made contact with them!

Did you finish checking the sonar?
- You don't believe me!

No, I don't!

Fool, I'm a fool!

I should have taken
something as a proof.

Now it's like that Polish man...

Why's the sonar smoking?
- My coat might be burning.

It doesn't matter. We must
prepare for the meeting.

You really don't believe me.

But it happened.

It did.

Come on.

And you didn't believe me.

You hear that?
- It works.

I'll try to repeat transmission.
- How did it start?

I drew a ship, wanted to transmit,
and then I was at sea.

Is it to do
with the transmission?

Of course!
- Let me try! - Wait!

I know, I know.
- Wait, let me try.

I say, let me!
- Come on, wait! Egor!

When I gave my lecture in the observatory,
one boy asked me about the wall.

What did you answer?
- Nothing.

Told him it was a subject matter
for the high school.

The Martians, hallucinations,
Form 17...

the warning system. I don't get it.
- Hold the screwdriver.

Andrei, what if the wall really
draws people to it?

Let's go and try.
- No, I won't go.

But why?
- Just so.

I went outside yesterday,

and the sergeant with me,

we were looking at the wall.
It doesn't look like a storm cloud.

Andrei, you don't believe
in aliens. Let's get closer.

Maybe something
will become clear.

You think you'll go alone
if need be.

What if it's the wall
that makes you come closer?

Bullshit.

The engine is dead,
the sonar, too.

We did something wrong.

Did you have such visions, too?

I did.

You say bullshit, and still
Lomov waits for something.

See, the telephone.

You didn't answer my question.

Telephones are everywhere here.

He put it here in case something happens,
but didn't get a single call in 3 months.

Andrei, will we go to the wall?
- Don't joke about it.

We need to find more places for
detectors. I have this much to do.

You must be afraid...
- I am.

...that it will draw you.

I want to tell you something.

Either go with me, or I go alone.
- Lena, listen.

I came here, and here I sometimes
think Lomov is right.

What?
- No, seriously.

You have a strange sense
of humor, great.

You see the wall?
See me approach it.

Lena!
- I'm going, it draws me.

Lena!

Lena!

Stop hugging me.

Andrei, come back immediately.
Do you hear me?

Andrei!
- Go to the station, take this road.

I'll pick up the sledge
and come, too.

Lena, go back to the house.

(The Georgian song.)

'Andrei, come back immediately.
Andrei, do you hear me?'

'Andrei!'

(They speak Georgian.)

(Still Georgian.)

Good afternoon, uncle Georgiy.

Hello, you grew up!
Let's drink!

Why are you here, uncle Georgiy?

I work. Somebody has to.

Why don't you ask me anything? - What?
You're too young for me to ask you things.

You have to ask me.
- But uncle...

It's no use talking to you.

What do you know about the wall?

Why are you here?

So many questions! You better
look how the grapes grow.

The sun is shining.

We're drinking wine.

Why the grapes? Why the sun?

Why the wine? Why does
the accountant lie to women?

Why do they want to retire me?

Why did you leave for Moscow
and visit your wife as a guest?

You're a scientist. Why not work
as an accountant? - I dream you, uncle.

You're my hallucination, you are
the things I remember about you.

You never used to talk like this.
- I always used to talk like this!

But you didn't listen, you lot never
listen! - Who are you, old man?

Do you understand
what I'm asking?

You may call me the Martian,
if you like.

Why do you cling to this old
planet, I don't get it!

[undecipherable]

Let's drink!

How do you do it?
- You won't understand.

Cause you're afraid.

You're a coward!

'Sector 5 alarm!'

'A person approaching the wall.'

Stop!
- Sergeant!

Why are you here?
- You were approaching the wall!

Lomov sent me, cause you
weren't answering the phone.

Yes. It's ok.

I found him. Yes, sir.
Be back in a minute.

You're a strange person.

First you believe nothing,
then you do, and become afraid.

You just went in the wrong
direction, no big deal.

Comrade Lomov, we are here.
- Great.

Andrei, it's time for you to
take over, as a new boss.

It's not the best time for jokes.
- I'm not joking, and I feel great.

Where were you?
- The forest.

Why didn't you answer the phone?
- Didn't hear.

Did you have hallucinations too?
- It wasn't hallucinations.

Great, I'll write it down.

Andrei Iraklievich, did you take
anything for proof?

Sit down, look through
the papers. - What papers?

I prepared everything, you only
have to sign. The sonar,

every time we transmit something
into the wall, there's an accident.

Then, the electric station.
- What's about it?

Burned down. Then, when did it
start with you? - What?

The 'not hallucinations'.
- I don't know.

Haven't you looked at the watch?
- No. - Pity.

Valya, where did you find
comrade Erdeli?

By the warning system's
detectors.

God, Andrei, were you going
to enter the wall?

Then you'll have to sign this
paper, it very important.

Why the bureaucracy?

I gather facts, otherwise
no one will believe me.

Valya, sign here, please.
- My pleasure.

We need to get out of here
as soon as possible.

I'm sure it won't happen today,
and it won't happen to me.

But with my future great-great-
grandchildren. We are not ready.

I do not agree.
- It will end catastrophically.

There are aliens near us,
maybe even Martians.

We couldn't find any canals
on Mars, but still.

I think they dried up
only recently.

The inhabitants of Mars
suffer from thirst.

So they sent their representatives,
so we'd give them our helping hand!

Wouldn't we?

Well?
- What Martians!

Does nobody understand
what's happening here?

We're encircled by the wall,
it's under current.

It burns trees, it draws people,
it messes with our heads!

Before Friday, we'll all try
to get into it.

The question is:
who will be the first.

I'll go feed the dog.

Comrades.

I have a suggestion. We must
repair the electric station. - What for?

I want the sonar to work again.
- Don't do it.

First your assistant,
then Valya.

We have to wait till Friday,
and ask for advice.

You don't understand anything.

I don't, either.

Why do you talk to her
like this?

Why do you need the sonar?
- I can't sit still till Friday.

What if it disappears forever?

What if the next time they try to
reach us is in a thousand years?

If only.

The only thing you await from this
meeting, is new problems for people.

That's why you're afraid
to believe in their existence.

I won't be around in a thousand years,
I want to try to talk to them now.

How?

These visions are the key.

It may be the only way
they can communicate with us.

The wall makes us remember
the things that we lived through.

It takes us to the past.
- What for?

By studying our memories, they
kind of see the Earth with our eyes.

They find out a lot more...
- Don't you think that...

these visions could be the result

of electromagnetic radiation?

An unstudied phenomenon.
- Maybe.

Radiation, or ball lightning,

or something different.
It could be anything.

But what if I'm right,
and not you?

What are you going to do next?

I want to pick up their
own memories.

Whose memories?

The ones that created the wall.

I want to see their world
the way they see ours.

I want them to remember
something, for me to study it.

Wow. How are going to do it?

With the sonar?

Funny, but yes. Every time
during the transmission

they burn something.

Maybe they don't believe that
we can understand each other.

So I'll keep sending
the signals into the wall.

Till they show me the right way.

Or till you burn in that sonar.
- I won't.

- You sure?
- Yes. They had the chance to burn me.

I see, you did think it through.

Today is Friday.

I can't believe it's been
two days.

It feels like a hundred years.

Will Lomov eat?
- Yeah, he's coming.

We're almost finished,
a 30 min job left.

Elena Yurievna,

do you, by any chance, know
what a lingua-helmet is?

Lingua... What?

It could be useful.

Here. 'His big forehead
and deep-set eyes

proved his high intelligence.'
- What?

'...proved his high intelligence.'

'The creature moved with the help
of a device that looked'

'like a bicycle
but without the wheels...'

Listen up!
It's very interesting.

Egor.

This is a book for you.

'There he is, the mysterious
inhabitant of the planet'

'Hrr, Trrr, Prr',
it said friendly.

'How are we gonna understand him',
Sidorov asked anxiously.'

'Sidorov always doubted
everything.'

'You forgot the lingua-helmet',
said the captain.' - Yes, this word.

'The captain put
the lingua-helmet on his head'

'Turned the software's
beta lever'

'And now the voice
of the violet creature'

'sounded in his head as pure Russian.'
- Lena, stop it.

'What's your planet' name?
translated the captain.'

You're the captain, aren't you?

'The Earth', the captain
answered proudly'

'The Earth', the violet
creature repeated.'

'Hooray', Johnson screamed'

'How does 'The Earth' sound in
your language?, asked the captain'

'putting the second lingua-helmet
on the head of the creature.'

'Hrrr, Trrr, Prrr',
said the creature'

'and pointed his tentacles
into the clear sky.'

'Hrrr, Trrr, Prrr sounds nice',
said Johnson.'

Egor, where are your beta levers?

Where is your lingua-helmet?

I, too, want to talk
to the violet creatures.

Andrei, look at his eyes.
- Calm down, Lena!

Valya, we have work to do.

Are you waiting for me?

Is that you who's waiting for me?

Me.

I'll ask you some questions.
- Please do.

'Temperature and pressure are ok'

What is the wall?
- The wall? What wall?

Are you crazy?

(Some scientific calculations
In the background)

What?
- 'The wall of trees'

'The wall of rain,
the wall of fog'

(Reads some proverbs
with the wall in it)

(Some more.)

She knows too much.

You can't stop her now.

It's a malfunction, I tell you.
- Well?

Borya, ask your machine
a question:

'How to understand each other?'

Boys, the boss asks how
to understand each other.

What's it again?
'How to understand each other?'

How to understand each other?
- How...

To. Understand.

Each. Other.

'You live on Earth'

'There are three radiation
belts around it'

'The Earth gravity, the Sun
gravity and the Moon gravity.'

'Some time ago you invented
a stone axe.'

'And a nuclear bomb.
There's a fog by the wall.'

You can't enter the wall.
- What if I try?

'People of Earth speak 2500
languages'

'Capitalism, colonialism,
materialism, christianity'

'Islam, the United Nations'

'Pompeii, the towers are silent'

'The sacred gryphons
bury the people'

'They come and eat the dead. The
husband doesn't understand his wife.'

'The woman is enslaved
by the kitchen.'

'A simple logic. You can't
understand each other.'

Stop this nonsense.
- Boys!

Put 'Stop this nonsense'
in the machine.

Listen carefully.

Two are sitting in a trench
with one antitank gun.

Three tanks are approaching.

The men need to hold them
for ten minutes.

The tanks appeared suddenly, one
could not see them because of the sun.

Two men. War. One gun.

The sun blinds.

A simple logic.
Men in the trench die. - You lie.

I survived, it happened to me.
- It can't be.

The machine buries our boss,
time to change the triodes.

No, it's time to think logically.

I don't get it.

The visibility is bad, the speed
of gun's reloading is not enough.

The men die, it's correct.
And still he survived.

I don't get it.
- And we will try nevertheless.

Did you repair it?
- No, not yet.

I have to leave, probably.

I didn't give you enough
attention, sorry. - No, it's my fault.

Can I help you with something?
- No.

I'll stay if you want me to.

Everything will be fine.
- Nothing will.

But why?

You'll meet me in Moscow
on Friday. It's spring there now.

We'll take a taxi from the airport,
you'll take me to your mom.

Then we'll go to Sukhumi,
and after that we'll get married.

We'll borrow some money and buy a flat.
We'll have kids. A boy, or better a girl.

And we'll teach her music
and English.

It's ok, you can use the sonar.

'Hooray', Johnson screamed.'

The console is burning.
- Egor Petrovich!

The console is burning!
Enough maybe?

The fire-extinguisher is under
the stairs.

The known...

The known...
- Stars... - Stars...

Shine every night in our sky.

And here is The Great Bear.

It looks like a bucket.

Do you see it?
- Yes!

If one of you becomes
a cosmonaut, he'll see some

totally different constellations
in space.

And now I'll teach you
to find the Pole Star.

There it is!
- I'm afraid.

Skip to Giordano Bruno.

You know, kids, that the Earth
moves around the sun.

But people used to think
otherwise.

The Church taught that the Earth
was in the middle of the universe.

And the sun moved around it.

Giordano Bruno spoke
against the Church.

And for that they burned
him at the stake.

That's how hard it was, kids,

to prove the obvious facts
you now find in every textbook.

Kukushkin, take your
little brother out.

He's not little, he understands
everything.

The Church forced Galileo to renounce
his ideas under the threat of death.

He pretended to renounce!
- Silence!

And yet it moves!

You are not allowed
in the planetarium any more.

I will behave.
- Let him speak!

I don't care.
- What do you think about the wall?

This is the subject matter
for high school.

The lesson is finished.

Do you understand
what the wall is? - No.

Wait!

Why does the wall draw people?
- Let me go, boy.

What if you come close to it?

Listen, I'm tired of this dream.
You're not here, get lost!

What if you need to come
close to the wall?

What do you want from me, boy?

'Sector 6 alarm'

'A person approaching the wall'

Egor, she went to the wall!
- Start the truck!

She'll die if she enters
the wall.

Why kill her? An intelligent
civilization must be humane.

'Sector 6 alarm'

'A person approaching the wall'

She doesn't have time to enter
the wall, it'll be over soon.

I don't get it.
- The wall will be gone in 2 min.

Pity.

What will happen next?
- The wall will appear again.

And then what?

The encounters will start.
- Yeah, delegations exchange.

Their beauties coming as guests
to our film festival.

Martians on a tour
to the Moscow underground.

Fantastic.
- Yeah. Highly unlikely.

But who knows.

Lena!

Did you send a car for Lomov?
- I will.

Who's there?

Us, the Martians.

We would like to know
what the wall is, exactly.

Did anything happen under
the dome, that can't be

explained with the means
of modern science?

What do you personally
think of the wall?

Is it true, that the wall can

draw living creatures to it?

Do you think that the wall
has any relation to the aliens?

Still, how can we explain to
our readers what the wall really is?

Please, a couple of words
about the wall.

Imagine a dome, some 2 km
in diameter...

What are the perspectives
of studying the wall?

It was only the first survey.

On Friday, we send there the equipment
and a big group of scientists

for detailed research
on the mysterious wall.

Subtitles:
Erras, corvusalbus