Holmes!
You screamed!
Sorry, doctor.
Pardon.
Is it that man in black again?
I have laudanum.
I threw it.
I do not need it.
I'll fall asleep without it.
Stay a few more days.
Your hand will heal and you will get some fresh air.
I would love to go to the sea, but...
I live in London.
I have my work there.
Watson.
Is the air so pure, in St. Petersburg?
You know, I'm not one of those
who make friends easily.
Ilia Filimonovich, tell this straggler that the cab is waiting for.
“Parpaillot”?
Dear guest.
A drink for the road.
- I do not want... -Holmes!
Thank you for everything. Farewell.
Farewell, Holmes.
Wait !
We forgot to sit down.
You have to sit down.
To do what ?
It's a Russian tradition.
A tradition.
Mrs. Manouïlova, don't talk to me like a deaf person or a stupid person.
It's here.
This is where Holmes lives.
Yes, goodbye. I have to leave, the driver is waiting.
He doesn't wait any longer. I sent it back.
Mr. Holmes, listen to me. It is a question of life and death.
Only death, in fact.
You have three minutes.
Erofei Palitch, go get me another cab.
My name is Anton Sviridov.
I am the son of Louka Sviridov.
By Anton Afanasievich, the millionaire?
Industrialist and shipowner. Died, unfortunately.
He is dead ? It's not in the press.
Not yet.
My mother, my brother and him were killed last night.
I am studying
in Tartu, I returned yesterday for the holidays.
Nobody welcomed me.
The windows were lit, the gate, open.
In the court, a dog jumped on me.
My father never had one.
I went up. The living room door was closed.
There was a smell of powder.
I called a town sergeant, the door was broken down.
They were all dead.
My mother,
My brother
and my father.
They...
They were smiling.
Pardon ?
My mother and my brother.
They had a fixed smile on the face.
My father was lying on the ground, a pistol in his hand.
Was he smiling too?
He had a horrified expression.
Who is leading the investigation?
Some
Lavr Sidorvitch T...
Trudni.
After the Ripper affair, it is considered
like the best. If that is the case,
what are the others worth?
Mr. Holmes, he's crazy.
He only talks about sacrilege.
I'm a materialist, you see.
I must know, or I'll be the one going crazy.
What did they die of?
The police do not arrive to determine it.
I caught my mouth...
with Lavr Sidorovich.
He told me to go see you if I disapproved of his methods.
As if he had any!
I have a train in thirty minutes.
Please, Mr. Holmes, do not go.
I'll write you a check of the amount that suits you.
You will also pay the services of my teammate.
At the same price, it goes without saying.
If you are free, of course.
I think I'll find the time.
Take my pipe.
He ordered me to take his pipe?
Like a minion.
There are some at the Peter and Paul Fortress,
strong ones.
Sherlock!
Doctor.
Don't enter.
Continue.
Search for all those
who are called Vlad...
Varfolomei...
This way.
The maid has disappeared. This is his room.
Vikenti...
I've already searched this room,
gentlemen.
She didn't take anything.
Did she leave in a hurry?
Or terrified.
You have a fertile imagination.
Me ?
Where do you get that from?
Without this, you would have left us outside.
I solved the case.
Can you explain to us?
Follow me.
Let them in, Arkadi.
Rojov!
Here is the living room.
Arseni, go.
Kochko Arkadi, stay. It will be useful to you.
I would like to hear from you.
You are so famous.
Let's go.
The door was closed inside.
The windows were caulked against the cold.
The murderer therefore passed through...
The chimney flue?
That's what we think right away. The problem,
it is that the victim, before dying,
had him convicted by his servants.
In anticipation of severe cold weather, Also ?
What's the difference, Holmes?
The door is closed,
the windows are caulked.
The flue is condemned.
No one can enter.
Doctor, matches.
Is there in this room concealed doors,
secret passages?
Not to my knowledge.
I've already inquired about it.
The dishes are broken.
The doors were closed.
He had condemned the chimney flue.
The flame is stable. No draft.
What did they die of?
From a hemorrhage, it looks like.
I'll know more after the autopsy.
But it's strange, there is little blood.
Yes. Where did he go ? One wonders.
And the father of the family?
There is no visible wound.
Maybe a heart attack.
Barely.
He shot in all directions, without any logic.
It's obvious, right?
Do you want me to explain?
Do us this favor.
Do you admit defeat?
Yes.
It's elementary, Holmes.
Arkadi, take this.
Yes you are right.
Person...
couldn't get in here.
But who says it was a man?
Your gorilla again?
No.
A vampire.
What do you mean, “my God”?
You refuse to admit that I am right.
I'll prove it to you.
Use your imagination.
No one could enter here.
It's impossible. Who could have?
Who ?
A bat.
Who can turn into a vampire.
She entered through the ventilation,
she started to flutter
across the room,
here and there...
He shoots him!
It was her that Sviridov shot.
On a flying target.
Then, doctor,
vampires drink blood, even a child knows that.
What did they die of?
Lavr Sidorovich...
Kartsev!
From loss of blood.
And the unfortunate father of the family, of a heart attack.
Because he saw this creature from hell
kill your own without being able to do anything.
You see ? He is a mad.
It's you who's crazy, young man.
Come see here.
Observe their wrists.
What do you see ?
Two injuries.
Coming from two fangs.
What is the father in hand?
Let's see.
What is this ?
A cross.
A cross, you understand?
He tried to move away this vermin.
Be a good loser,
Mr. English.
I solved the matter.
Yes.
And know it, I'm going to make a novel about it.
And it will be another volley than those of your Dostoyevsky.
Arkady.
Anton, tell me...
this maid Was she agile?
She is nowhere to be found, she had to run away.
You say that the gate was closed.
Could she have
climb the fence?
I do not think so.
For the rest, you know what to do.
Holmes! Where did he go?
There is coal on the ground.
Kartsev!
Don't move or I'll shoot!
It's Glafira, the maid!
She is deaf and mute.
What are you doing here ?
I don't understand.
Calm down, I said.
Write down what you saw.
She is illiterate.
What is it for us, then?
Stop! You scare him.
I know who can help us.
Jeremy?
Excuse me.
I thought I recognized you.
He was wrong about the person.
You look like
to my brother.
You look like his brother.
He asks : “An older or younger brother?”
My junior by two years.
“He’s an adult. How could you have made a mistake?”
Make me announce.
Right away.
He wants me to stay, they were looking for their soldier.
Where were you playing with it?
We've already looked here.
It is sometimes difficult to see what we have before our eyes.
I couldn't stay in Warsaw, knowing you are in danger.
I got home as soon as I could.
I am grateful to you.
I feel protected now.
You are happy ?
How did you guess?
I saw a rich carriage.
Sofia Pavlovna must receive one of his rich protectors.
She sent her son to play so that he doesn't disturb her.
The child understood everything.
His mother abandoned him. He lost his soldier
so that you may seek him with him.
And don't leave him alone.
I will tell you.
So do it.
At my age, a man knows everything about life,
and he knows himself well.
I felt again...
She asks you to wait.
I want to tell you
that you are very dear to me.
I reported to you this little thing.
From Warsaw.
It will be very pretty
on your daughter's wrist.
A single woman
cannot accept such a present
coming from a widower
without risking his reputation.
Mr. Count.
You are right.
You can not.
I was happy to see you.
If you want my opinion,
he will make his request in marriage in...
three weeks.
No, in two.
And your opinion doesn't interest me.
You know that I don't want to see you anymore.
I need your help.
Why would I help you,
after what you did?
Yes, it's true.
How will your suitor react?
if I inform him of your role in the Ripper affair?
Blackmailing. They were only missing that.
Do you think I'm corrupt?
I did not say that.
If this word shocks you, you are a hypocrite.
You corrupt us, then you accuse us
to be corruptible.
Me ?
You, men.
You make us prostitutes.
Idiots often sell, and for nothing,
the smartest, rarely and expensive. I am one of them.
What is your price ?
Too high for you, I fear it.
Say a price, since we bargain.
My son's future.
I will help you, Holmes.
But this is the last time.
The master,
lately,
was dark, angry.
He attacked everyone.
Without reason.
Like a dog.
For no reason, like a dog?
Me,
during my service,
I saw him speak
with his wife.
"It's vermin,
“She’s ruthless.”
A vermin.
“Leave.”
His wife refuses.
"We will stay.
“Our son is coming home.
“Call the police.”
He replies:
"This creature
"is not of this world.
“The police can’t do anything for us.”
In the morning they sent him a dog
to keep them.
In the evening, you were asked to prepare tea.
You brought the cups.
The door was closed.
You have watched through keyhole.
What did you see ?
This creature Did she have fangs?
Two !
I have no more questions.
I hope I never see you again.
Me too.
Farewell.
Sherlock Bartolomeevich.
Yes I'm coming.
For mother and son, I can confirm
my initial diagnosis.
Hemorrhage.
The murderer opened their doors veins and drained them of their blood.
He drank it!
May the devil take me! He drank it, gentlemen.
Let's call things what they are.
How Did he open their veins?
It's a bite. Their hands are bitten.
- And the father? - Heart attack.
He didn't seem sick.
He was in good shape for his age.
He had a big nervous shock.
As if he had seen a vampire.
Not true ?
Yes.
Gentlemen,
the case is closed, I will make my report.
Why not your novel?
You think ?
It's a good idea.
I thought I knew
the limits of stupidity, but Trudni
constantly pushes them away.
"There are more things on earth, Horatio,
"than it is dreamed of in your philosophy."
You don't believe too to these “supernatural forces”?
I was an atheist, Holmes, like my entire generation.
In the war, I became a believer from the first attack.
Under a rain of grenades, I made a deal.
"Save me,
“and I will believe in You.”
He fulfilled His part of the contract.
I forgot mine.
I even made fun of believers.
On my way home,
I have learned my wife's illness.
He got his revenge, I'm sure.
We imagine that there is a good God and a bad devil.
I think that only one author writes the history of men.
But he has mood swings.
When did the father die?
Judging by his blood flow, around midnight.
A half hour before the arrival of his son.
With a margin of error of 10 minutes.
How long makes the blood flow
injuries of this type, in an adult?
About 20 mins.
End here. I'm stopping by to see our orphan.
My pipe.
I didn't take it.
I asked you.
Exactly.
Mr. Holmes!
You came back very quickly.
Not as much as you.
Are you surprised?
That you hated your father?
I knew it right away.
Otherwise, why leave St. Petersburg
to bury you in Tartu? It's a leak.
You want the murderer of your mother and your brother.
Your father does not exist for you.
I wish it were like that.
You know how did he amass his capital?
By eliminating those who bothered him. He was walking on corpses.
He crushed all resistance.
In his work and in his family.
Do you see this scar?
I was seven years old.
A day, a poor man knocked on our door.
Black with dirt,
emaciated by hunger.
The servant was in the garden. I wanted to give him some bread.
My father ran out and hit me.
Strong. He did to me a deep wound.
He chased away the poor
and banned me to approach the gate.
We were millions rich.
Since then, I took my father's money
to give it to the poor.
He was hitting me.
At first, to punish myself. Then, out of habit.
It was a good thing.
Because when my brother Andrei grew up,
he didn't touch it.
He was taking it out on me.
I don't regret his death.
But with him,
my mother and my brother died.
Mr. Holmes, my duty
is to find the murderer.
But I don't want to see anything here who might remind me of my father.
How are you ?
Yes.
THANKS.
What are you doing, doctor?
Guess. You are a genius.
According to a misconception,
in the retina of a murdered man
prints what he saw in his last moments.
Like on a photographic plate.
You were offended that I ask you to take my pipe,
thus implying that you could only serve me.
You want to prove
that you can solve this crime thanks to science.
You asked Troudni to provide you
the eye of a hanged man, Panli, Poli...
A very strange Russian name. Panteleimon the Redhead.
If everything goes As you want it,
You hope solve the case before me.
I understand the logic of your deductions,
but how did you find the name of the hanged man?
I asked Trudni.
It is going well ?
I've been there for 3 hours, no result.
I deserve a little drink.
What do you have? You seem annoyed.
There is something.
Because of you, I had to deprive myself of nicotine
for the longest period for ten years.
This is what makes you angry.
Curious to hear that from a lover of the divine bottle.
I can do without alcohol when I want.
Like me tobacco.
We bet ?
What did you discover?
Sviridov expected an attack.
He bought a dog even though he was allergic.
He was practicing shooting.
He beheaded a statue in his yard.
He made his home a fortress,
but fortresses have a fault.
They can become a trap
from which we cannot escape.
Before his death, he condemned the chimney.
But that didn't save him.
The murderer had already entered.
How ?
Pinniped oil.
Of seal.
Yes, seal.
I found some in the chimney.
The murderer coated his body with it
to better protect yourself from the cold.
He hid there and waited
that the servants leave the house.
In the chimney ?
Barely.
At midnight, he entered the room
that Sviridov had closed from the inside,
fearing an attack.
Seeing him,
Sviridov is scared to death.
The killer emptied his son and his wife of their blood
and poured it into the pond.
I found traces there.
That's where Anton Sviridov saw him.
The murderer would have killed him, him too,
but Anton was accompanied of a police officer.
The killer returned to the room,
locked himself in there, and came out through the chimney.
When we were in the room, he was hidden there.
He got out when the police rushed to the cellar
hearing us scream.
We could have taken it.
You imagine
what strength it takes to stay a whole day in the chimney?
Superhuman strength.
Why were they smiling?
How did Sviridov do it to miss it?
And why, great gods, pour blood into the pond?
Why the dog Did he not bark?
That, I can answer that. He fed him.
When Sviridov bought this dog, the murderer was already there.
He took it for someone in the house.
You mean
that he lived for several days near their place ?
What was he eating? Where was he hiding?
I do not know.
There remain gray areas, But one thing is certain.
It was a man who did this, and we will find it.
I beg your pardon,
I didn't want to treat you
like my servant.
But when I investigate,
I forget everything.
You are not only my assistant,
you are my partner.
I told you how difficult it was for me
to make friends.
I accept your apology.
I am very tired.
I am going to rest.
I think I'll continue my experiences.
I was going to put it in the sideboard so as not to be tempted.
So empty it.
Yes.
I also throw away the tobacco.
- No ! - I can do it.
I can do it.
Calm down.
Who are you shooting at?
What happened ?
Who shot him?
Holmes, everything is fine.
This is the third office.
It must remain secret.
- This is a political investigation. - The secret police?
Znamenski followed up young Sviridov.
He thinks he's a vampire.
I heard a strange noise.
A dull, long sound.
Like an evil harp.
Afterwards,
- I saw through the window... - Who ?
Who did you see, Anton?
I don't know.
A black maw with fangs
floated in the air.
I ran down the hall, the creature broke the door.
I started
to shoot him.
She was waving her hand like that.
Then a gunshot rang out.
After that, I don't remember anything anymore.
I do not even know who shot me.
One of my men.
I had the house watched.
It turned out to be useful.
Where did you get this weapon from?
I bought it.
Where and when ?
In a hunting store.
May I know under what name?
Alright.
It wasn't in a store.
I bought it yesterday from a sailor, at the port.
You went to the port buy a weapon
before going to your father's house?
Exactly.
For what ?
Whatever ?
I was shot at.
My man shot
because you tried to kill him.
He defended himself.
You know what ?
Damn you.
I won't tell you anything more.
What are you doing, Holmes?
Patience, doctor.
Everything is fine ?
Enlighten me.
If that's not too much to ask.
The pliers.
I've found.
Look, the tip is blue.
It must be coated of an intoxicating substance.
Like belladonna, but much stronger.
What does this teach us?
Many things.
These needles are made of walrus bone.
Sviridov did long stays in Siberia.
It is not a coincidence.
We must consult a specialist.
Sviridov donated from his father's collection
at the Institute of Mines museum.
I asked the museum archivist to receive us.
Sorry, this is very embarrassing.
I couldn't help it.
Please excuse me.
Pardon,
I took you... God knows for whom.
Are you the archivist?
Or rather, the conservative of the museum. Aigul Valikhanova.
Fyodor Kartsev.
Doctor of Medicine.
And you are Sherlock Holmes?
You talked about needles, in the newspaper.
I'm interested.
The tips of the needle are painted.
Maybe it's sap of wolf clover.
A tundra plant.
The shamans of the Aïa tribe use its sap
to enter a trance. A small quantity
in the blood is enough to cause poisoning.
What are the symptoms ?
A euphoric state
and hallucinations very realistic.
That's why they were smiling.
Who ?
Louka Sviridov
went to in the region where...
The Aias?
This tribe became extinct.
Their village was swept away by an avalanche.
There were no survivors.
Yes, Siridov was there.
It's thanks to him that we know all this.
When did he go there?
In 1872 and 1876.
With two expeditions.
The first one, with the imperial fleet.
A failure. The ship was taken in the ice cream.
Half of the men died of starvation and scurvy.
Despite this failure, he launched a second expedition.
Three years later, after his service.
After the first failure,
the state refused to finance the second.
Sviridov and two other officers
organized and financed it themselves.
They had to go into debt and mortgage their homes.
But when they returned, they had become rich.
There are pages missing.
They were torn off a long time ago.
The edge is blackened.
How did they get rich?
Nobody knows. Maybe the gods did they help them.
The curse of the Sviridovs continues !
Rivers of blood, mountains of corpses!
The grave of old Sviridov is still fresh,
and the murderer attacks his son!
Kid, wait.
Run away, you rascals!
The wind !
What happened to the Sviridovs?
The murderer went through the chimney.
Sviridov is dead of a cardiac arrest, his wife
and his son, from a hemorrhage.
The Kélé.
Those fangs, Holmes.
The Kélé is an evil spirit of the Aia.
He lives in water: in the sea, rivers, streams, even.
If you make sacrifices to him, he will help you.
Otherwise, he will enter your house at night.
We can't escape him.
If you close your door,
he will enter through the chimney and will kill everyone.
He has hands with hooked nails
and large, sharp teeth.
His face is masked.
How does he kill his victims?
He takes their blood and the supply to the water.
To wash away his sins.
Quickly !
- Advance. - Damn it !
What are we doing here?
Aïgoul,
have you ever heard it played an evil harp?
Do you want to talk about vargan?
Sima, watch my daughter.
Wait, Tania. Be patient.
In the Far North, it is called
the toumran.
Sima!
Take the torch.
Quickly !
Take this !
Go away !
Go to hell !
Sima!
Tania!
Adaptation Emmanuelle Maupetit
Subtitles Nice Fellow