"Prometheus" "Produced by "Ukrainfilm" studio." "Kiev, 1936." "Written and directed by:" "Ivan Kavaleridze" "Operator:" "Nikolai Topchij Production design:" "Vasili Krichevsky  Yu." "Mayer" "Composed by:" "Andria Balanchivadze  Paul Tolstyakov Sound Editor:" "A. Prakhov" "Cast:" "Ivas" " P. Tverdokhleb Katherina" " Polina Nyatko" "Svichka, colonel" " Aleksandr Serdyuk Zhukov, merchant" " Ivan Shtraukh Sidorenko, manager" " G. Jura Nastasia Markovna" " N. Uzhviy" "Ladansky, general" " I. Marianenko Russian gendarme" " I. Nekrutenko Nikolai I" " V. Ershov Princess Dadiani" " E. Eristova-Zhgenti" "Gavrilov, revolutionary - Daniil Antonovich Captured Georgian Sh." "Nozadze T. Shevchenko" " N. Nademsky" "Episodes:" "V. Chistiakova, E. Osmialovskaya, V. Lisovsky, Z. Tereshvili," "P. Morgulia, S. Panikovsky, D. Vvedensky and others" "Katherina, I can see what's going on." "Pan*, I can see what's going on." "Here is my bride" "You are our Pan" "You declared us (your people) free, but..." "Katherina, when I have finished my working duties" "I'll cover the roof with reed and mother will [unintelligible] it." "You would help me." "In the autumn we can move in." "Our house will be warm" "We'll buy a horse from the gypsies, graze it" "Our child will graze it" "It didn't go as expected, the Pan sent Ivas away as a conscript soldier." "Panichi*, steward, what will we do now?" "My litte dove, "Moscow doesn't listen to tears." *" "If only you Panichi knew how the people are weeping!" "Then you wouldn't do such things!" "It's all in vain, mother, the Pani are deaf" "Even God has only ears made of tin." "A travelling agent of the Rogozhsky church-trade union, Piotr Zhukov." "Your Nobleness, the Rogozhsky church-trade union... is like a Makariev brotherhood." "For you, a landowner with such a paradisical plumage... it means the Kingdom of Heaven and the straightest way to the Nizhegorodskaya province." "For my sales, the Ilyinskaya province is enough." "Your nobleness, didn't God, who was born in a crib, in a simple sheep-fold," "stretch out his hand to embrace the whole world?" "We're fighting for the Caucasus, stretching our hand as far as Persia, closing the circle:" "Caucasus, Persia, Astrakhan, Nizhny, the Ukraine, and again the Caucasus." "Steamboats puff, trains rattle, people turn over their roubles fast..." "You, Piotr Zhukov, ought to be not a traveller, but..." "I'm a traveller because I'm walking on my own land with my own feet." "I'd like to be free in my business, and have enough rights to help our country's industry with cloth, leather," "supply soldiers for example with bread crust, bandages." "It'll be such a business, such a business... for you and for us." "I'm in love with this business." "H-mmm, yes." "This girl you have here, Your nobleness, she's so good." "I'd take her and turn her into a performing artist at the Nizhny fair." "What a girl, I'm in love with this girl!" "Simply in love." "I'm leaving today." "It's war." "I'll be in Moscow." "In Moscow..." "Good luck in the war against Shamil, Your nobleness." "See you in Moskow - we'll make a deal." "My kind regards to the brotherhood." "When passing through, take a look at the crops." "Be careful, Georgy Pavlovich, this katsap* has "very round eyes."" "We are people of the same Czar, Sidorenko." "It's good, Georgy Pavlovich, to have a Czar in common," "But as to money, it's better to have it separate." "Georgy Pavlovich, olives..." "Bring some olives." "Olives." "Olives?" "Olives from the Caucasus." "Olives." "Two deadly enemies, two powers:" "The revolution and Russia." "What means life for one - means death for the other..." "Farewell, Sigismund!" "Farewell, Gavrilov!" "We shall meet yet." "Feklusha..." "Farewell, Feklusha!" "I'm Maria." "Well, Maria." "Farewell, Maria." "Gavriov - to the army." "Michailov - to the army." "And you - to Siberia." ""In the depths of the Siberian ores, preserve your proud and noble patience."" ""Your sorrowful toil will not be lost, Nor will be your lofty aspirations." [A. Pushkin]" "Oh, it's so hot." "Did you march all the way in the uniforms?" "I'm not taking it off." "The old people say:" "While I'm wearing it, it's mine." "Maybe later they will give us better uniforms" "Sure." "A samovar to put on your head, and bottles to cover your feet." "The old people say:" "It's better to remove the tree stump." "Such a grea man, but... so maybe it will get easier for us?" "What do you mean?" "Better" "a completely different person" "That's right." "One thing is a dog without a collar, and..." " ...what's your name?" " Ivas." "And another thing is a dog with a collar." ""The Rogozhsky church-trade union."" "The war is coming to an end." "Somebody is getting rich." "Only it isn't you and me." "I certainly need money." "Buy my girl." "A very good girl." "I'm an Old Believer." "We don't trade in people." "Your uncle is a general." "He's in the good graces of the Prince-Governor." "Your Nobleness, if you get him to support us we'd make such business together... provide clothes for our army, sell wares to the mountain dwellers, buy goods from them, plant cotton on their land," "build our own factory like in Tver, all profits, all profits!" "Very well." "I can see you're a businessman." "A factory is profitable." "Serve our fatherland." "And I'm giving you the girl." "She will love you." "I'm a liberal." "My uncle was a Decembrist." "The girl was freed long ago, and now I offer her to you for a wife, but... in the Eastern custom: for a ransom." "My sincere thanks, Your Nobleness." "I shall love her so..." "What a beauty, like a fruit-candy." "Oh, aunt." "Today we expect visitors!" "And what visitors!" "Ah, what people!" "Oh, aunt." "Brother..." "Nastasia, this is a newcomer." "What?" "You will also be like my own sister." "I was frightened, I thought it was the police." "No!" "We have no license for the institution, Piotr Ilyich." "Here is your license:" "From the threshold - to the table, lead them to the decanter, make them sit down next to the pies." "Serve them as much drink and food until everybody drops down in a stupor." "Rights..." "♪ Carriages were standing by the church" "♪ there was a sumptuous wedding" "♪ All the guests were dressed luxuriously" "♪ The bride was blooming like a rose bride..." "♪ All the guests were dressed luxuriously" "♪ The bride was blooming like a rose" "Her own fiancé will not recognize her." "♪ A bride in a white dress" "♪ with a bunch of roses pinned to it" "♪ she was looking at the crucifix" "♪ so sadly that she made everybody cry" "♪ she was looking at the crucifix" "♪ so sadly that she made everybody cry" "Observe the rules of the business*, Nastasia." "You need to keep these people fat, feed them properly." "A businessman gets rich by good calculation, not by miserliness." "I'll do my best, Piotr Ilyich" "Don't worry, we'll make an effort." "One cannot make any special business with "Dunkas" and Khokhol girls. *" "Now if we had a Persian princess in our business..." "Soon the road to Persia will be opened, the war of the Caucasus will end." "There will be also new goods: olives, rice..." "Nastasia, olives!" "Rice, Nastasia!" "What a merchandise - olives..." "I'm thinking about the Persian princess." "How could Stenka Razin* throw such a priceless girl into the river..." "The Savage!" "I'm making a low bow before the Boyar." "Let your "smerd" * kiss your hand, Master." "Your feet, benefactor" "You were a beloved and nice man, when I first knew you." "Let me kiss your lips..." "your nose... your navel" "Dunka, don't be a fool!" "Go to the devil!" "The devil?" "But this is where I've come to, from the devil!" "You Herod!" "You Judas Iscariot!" "For 30 pieces of silver you sold Jesus!" "Antichrist!" "Dunka, come to your senses!" "I can't, I can't, I can't stand it anymore!" "I can't, I can't, I can't" "What the hell is the matter with you, Dunka?" "Dunka!" "Anathema!" "Here!" "Here!" "Demon!" "Demon!" "Demon!" "Dunka!" "What a harmful girl." "A bad loss for the house." "You're a... good girl..." "Here, take it, you'd better hang yourself first." "This is a grave." "This is death." "What nonsense!" "[Taras Shevchenko "Kavkaz" (Caucasus) 1845] (transl." "John Weir)" "Mighty mountains, row on row, blanketed with cloud," "Planted thick with human woe, laved with human blood." "Chained to a rock, age after age, Prometheus there bears" "Eternal punishment - each day his breast the eagle tears." "It rends the heart but cannot drain the life-blood from his veins" "Each day the heart revives again and once again is gay." "The superstition of these people may resist any enlightenment... but they can't be insensible to the benefits of improvement..." "A host of soldiers on those hills gave up their lives." "And as for blood!" "?" "All emperors could drink their fill. (T.Shevchenko)" "A riddle I cannot solve." "It pains my soul." "A great pity, that our plans were not successful." "So much priceless blood wasted." "But through the overall strength of the army..." "Russia will always be stronger than all her enemies." "Your Majesty, new army equipment is necessary:" "The new rifles can fire from 2000 steps." "Conic bullets which dig deep into the body, making a deadly wound." "This is why the Chechen are beating us, Your Majesty." ""The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap"." "Nikolai" "We need to speak to the Princess." "We were sent here for this." "The Princess cannot see you." "Then inform her..." " in writing?" " No, verbally." "Never mind." "Over there, on the other side of the river, many discontent people are gathering." "These are peaceful highlanders." "Horava* himself is going down the river." "10.000 highlanders, Mingrels, Imeretins* are with him..." "Why are they coming here, those "peaceful highlanders"?" "When they're here - they'll tell." "The princess will see you." "Just wipe your feet here, and go to the upper gardens." "What do you want, my good men?" "[unintelligible] [Georgian] [unintelligible] [unintelligible]" "We'd better talk inside." "[unintelligible] [Georgian] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible]" "Our people's leader - our "Danton"" "[unintelligible] [unintelligible]" "He says he's a blacksmith." "Each is forging his own fortune." "My good man, we have the same God, the same Czar." "Englishmen - predators, would be very pleased if there were quarrels among us to get their claws and beaks into our young body." "What do they want from us?" "To them, this is a foreign land, a foreign religious faith." "They just have the lust to destroy." "Shamil was bought by the English." "And now instead of good peaceful life..." "English gunpowder burns out our eyes." "The English are ephemeral, we are real." "We will bring you a good life." "Taking the trousers from Christian soldiers?" "It's for you, wounded brothers, for lint and bandage." "They took off our trousers, burned incense over us." "The funeral has been properly performed." "There will be a final judgment." "An angel will blow the silver trumpet." "Christian soldiers who gave their life for Czar and fatherland will be judged, blank-arsed, before the Highest Throne." "St. John the Warrior will avert his eyes from such a host." "The Czar, who only sees us on parades, will not raise his cup to such victors." "And the main thing is: how do I return to my aul* without my trousers?" "The dogs will snap at me" "We are the Russian army." "We repelled the enemy." "Friendly forces were ahead, but..." "We are serfs." "[Georgian]" "You'll be given some trousers now." "Let me hold your baby." "I won't drop him." "I could have had my own baby, if it weren't for..." "The serfs, Your Highness." "Yes, the serfs." "I know." "The whole aul, Your Highness." "Yes, the whole aul, my good men." "Go!" "Your Excellency, allow me to take command." "You are so wonderful, so nice." "The Lord knows, Your Highness, how devotedly I love you." "Why are those men coming here?" "What a rotten people!" "This shooting is no good, Your Nobleness." "What are we shooting for?" "To cripple the people?" "Also, it frightens the live stock." "The cattle are nervous animals, and their fright affects the milk." "War is not a market, Piotr Zhukov." "It's a fair, Your nobleness, a fair!" "Buy and sell!" "How strange!" "Our regiment!" "They're our men!" "Ours!" "Ours indeed!" "They're shooting at us, this means they are Russians." "Gavrilov, ours!" "This is the 4th platoon!" "Maybe I... should go..." "Ours!" "Ours!" "Ours!" "Ours!" "Gavrilov, ours!" "Surrender!" "We'll show mercy on you." "Your nobles will do the same." "You're scumbags." "Graveworms." "Even worse!" "Worms eat the dead, but you're eating us alive." "Soldiers, muzhiks!" "There was such man, Prometheus, chained to a rock over the abyss, a mighty eagle picking at his heart." "And our muzhik's heart is picked at by a mean two-headed crow who is plucked to last feather in wars of conquest." "Strangle the bastard!" "Fire!" "Forward!" "Follow the leader, don't fall out!" "Neither fire nor water will help." "Riots in the villages, riots on the Volga, riots in the factories." "The dawn of freedom is breaking." "Take him alive!" "Forward!" "Hurrah!" "Hurrah!" "Hurrah!" "Hurrah!" "I order each soldier of the company to hit him in the face." "Hit him hard, so that he and the others will understand... that revolution in Russia is impossible." "Attention!" "Company!" "Fire!" "A court-martial shall be prepared for Private Gavrilov and the others." "Report the court's decision to His Excellency." "Line up the captives!" "Her Highness, Princess Elena Konstantinovna wants to give them as a present to the victors." "Their belongings will be sent as a war trophies to Nizhny via Derbent with Piotr Zhukov's treck of carts." "What strong men..." "What Apollos... 20 strokes each, and then march them off..." "Godspeed!" "They were given 20 strokes, and with Piotr Zhukov's treck sent by the long road:" "Via Derbent, Temir-Khan-Shura," "Astrahan, by the Volga - to the fair at Nizhny... ♪ [trad." "Cossack song "Volga"] The daughter of steep banks, lower banks," "♪ Caspian winds and the legends of Tver" "♪ suddenly arose from the steep banks" "♪ the warrior Corporal Yemelyan Pugachev." "♪ The steppe wind howls over the Zhiguli mountains," "♪ the free Cossack Stenka answers from afar." "A drunken merchant is bad for business." "A merchant must use his brains." "Hey, you there!" "Why are those empty barges hanging about the river banks like whores?" "And the men are looking weak." "Who picked them?" "Dragging their feet..." "Hey, make haste!" "I told the general:" "Building a rail road with our people" " You'll be flooded with riots." "You must find workers somewhere else." "Ivan Ivanich, you're a chief of police." "What's wrong with you?" "You've been given ranks, medals," "Embroidered with gold, not only on your chest, even somewhere else." "You're totally useless!" "Riots everywhere!" "Where's the major?" "Where are the gendarmes?" "Don't you love "capital" anymore?" "Fear God, honour the Czar, but love "capital", Ivan Ivanich." "[song, unintelligible]" ""Manufactory (textile mill)." "Armand and sons."" "[unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible]" ""Carriages  harnesses" " M.I. Michailovs"" "Hello, sister, has been God been merciful to you?" "We live and we work, we believe in God, and we honour the Czar." "Talented bitches!" "Excellent." "We're doing our best..." "to follow the example of our betters." "I see." "[song in some Caucasian language] [unintelligible] [unintelligible]" "[unintelligible]" "[unintelligible]" "Arrest me, arrest me!" "[unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible]" "Indeed... alas... how awkward..." "Write down: the prisoner tried to escape." "♪ Who can foretell my fortune?" "♪ Tomorrow, my falcon," "♪ who shall untie the knot on my bosom?" "♪ Tied up by you?" "♪ Who shall untie the knot on my bosom?" "♪ Tied up by you?" "Ivan Tverdokhleb" "This is colonel Svechka's serf, he's "polimkovy"... it means "by mistake"...*" "You can talk as you like," "I'm from the Kobelyansky (phon." "[Unintelligible]) region myself, I can understand your language." "He's been taken for a rebel by mistake." "Believe my word, let him return to the Ukraine." "Give him 50 strokes, so that the evil spirit will part from him forever." "Yes." "Yes-yes-yes" "Why, you brute, you devil's spawn, poking your nose into the revolution?" "Trying to squeeze with your pork stall into our bread lines!" "In the morning the carts are going home." "They aren't oiled, horses aren't scrubbed." "To the carts with you, you mug!" "Ivas!" "Look who's here!" "How odd!" "You're not the first, and not the last." "It's in the order of things." "The dawn of freedom is breaking." "I plan to..." "I won't say." "I plan to..." "I must go to the carts." "Why so early?" "The best hour for work is in the morning." "This room is not properly prepared:" "No lamps." "Red lights are needed, flowers, curtains." "A wider flight of stairs, a cash register displayed prominently, a bar, and a bunch of suitable men, strong enough and with brutal faces." "A good master must give every business it's own physiognomy." "But Piotr Ilich..." "Piotr Ilich, what about our "rights" (license)?" "Rights..." "The Czar grants freedom to all businessmen." "This means our business will also have rights." "Girls..." "The sun is shining..." "and flowers here." "We have happy news today!" "We are legalized!" "The master had his way." "Now we'll do our job legally." "Girls, tomorrow we're going to Moscow." "There's music in Moscow, red lights..." "And the police can go to hell now!" "Father... father, father... father" " A prayer of thanks?" " A prayer of thanks, father." "You've got much money I guess?" "Praise the Lord, we've earned it." "And it wasn't a loss to our master either." "God loves the people's labour." "To which saint?" "Which one..." "Panteleiman." "Young, beautiful, serious, strict." "You fool." "Panteleiman is for toothache." "He's no concern to our business." "Forty saints." "Antony!" "He's always painted with a naked woman." "A shameless saint, nothing more." "Let's perform the service to the Blessed Virgin, this will be best of all." "♪ Glory to the Father both now and forever... ♪ and until the ages of ages." "Amen." "♪ O Heavenly King, the comfortor, the spirit of Truth," "♪ Who art present everywhere and fillest all things" "♪ Treasury of Blessings and Giver of Life" "♪ come and abide in us and cleanse us from every stain," "Why did Dunka leave?" "Call her." "♪ And save our souls, O Gracious One." "You Herod's dancing daughter!" "Nastasia asks you to join the prayer." ""Princess"!" "I'll tell her." "She will not hesitate to come here herself." "What an evil spirit." "Dunka!" "You nasty shameless girl." "You need to pray more than all the others." "The master will get angry when I tell him about it." "Gunib taken." "Shamil crushed." "Trophies." "Captives." "The victors returned to their estates..." "Today we celebrate three things:" "The end of great and victorious war, an amicable union with a very brave Caucasian nation," "and the first anniversary of the marriage of Her Highness the Princess Elena Konstantinovna with my nephew Georgy Pavlovich." "The Caucasian nations which were free since the old times, only began to delight in freedom after the Russians conquered them." "If you could feel only half of my "delight", then I'd really be delighted." "[unintelligible] [Caucasian language] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible]" "I say: one day she'll get what she deserves." "Enough!" "Whip them!" "Whip them!" "If only you knew what kind of devils they are!" "And what vengeance they deserve!" "Whip them!" "Flay them alive!" "What are you doing, little father?" "Scaring the toads, so they won't croak when the Panichi are asleep." "That's good." "We need a whip to lash, but not for toads." "The toads are not guilty towards us." "Let them croak." "Why are you here?" "Prokofy." "Gregory." "Piotr." "Eudokim." "Sidorenko!" "Call Sidorenko!" "What do you want?" "Today is the first anniversary after we defeated Private Gavrilov, and got medals and crosses for our victory over him." "That's why I'm here." "And they want to watch." "You rats!" "Dirty rats!" "I'm Sidorenko, pan Svichka's manager." "A riot!" "A riot?" "In a village?" "This cannot be." "What's going on... what's going on..." "They sing forbidden songs, that crazy soldier hit the Pan right in his face, in front of all the others." "A man don't consist of only a face." "His own Pan!" "And what a Pan he is!" "[unintelligible] [Ukrainian] [unintelligible] [unintelligible]" "I've come to build a factory in your region." "We shall raise the people with capital." "Young and old will start thinking about their own interests." "Get in, I'm going your way." "Ivas, what's gonna happen next?" "Next, we'll fight." "If we can't overcome... in vain..." "At least something..." "The dawn of freedom is breaking." "Why sheepskin?" "There will be a winter, and maybe not only one." "The end." "Subtitles:" "IBoris  serdar202"