"Produced by kinostudio "Uzbekfilm" named after K. Yarmatov" "I REMEMBER YOU" "Written and directed by Ali Khamraev" "Director of Photography Rifkat Ibragimov" "Art Director Rustam Khamdamov" "Attention!" "Start!" "I'd like to thank all those who came here to pay tribute to my husband and to celebrate his 75th anniversary." "I thank you, Shukur-aka, and you, Fazyldzan-aka, and you, Saman-darovy, and you, granddaddy, and you, Azizdzan, and you, my dear lady friends!" "I am 70 now." "My Ergash could be 75." "We had a short but beautiful life together." "It was our destiny to meet each other in 1936, when I worked as a dispatcher at the station." "And he also worked there." "There are just few of his friends who are still alive now, who never forget us and treat us well." "They always help us when we need it." "But then the war broke out, he was called up in July, 1941." "He didn't want to use his exemption from active duty." "He said to me, "Asya!" "Our motherland is in danger and I have to go..." "I have to go and protect our motherland."" "Kim was 4 years old then, Marat was 3 years old." "I asked him, I begged him to stay, but it was all in vain." "He said, "You'll be the first to stop respecting me."" ""No, I won't!" I was even rude to him." ""Then take our children with you."" "He looked at me and kept silence." "Now I understand that I was wrong then." "And I stayed with 2 children in the Uzbek community." "His father Khamra also lived with us." "He was 76 years old then." "Ergash was always with me, ho wrote letters end amused us with jokes." "He gave solace to me, inspired me to keep my head up and be strong." "Once he wrote in his letter," ""What a pity that I don't see how my children grow and shape!" "I'm always absent."" "Well, you know it yourselves that my children have shaped." "Thank goodness!" "I don't have to blush for them." "Don't go away!" "Don't go away!" "Kim!" "Be quick!" "Is it bad?" " Be quick!" "Be quick!" "DON'T FORGET TO TURN OFF THE TV SET!" "Give some medicine to the patient!" "Give some medicine to the patient!" "Give some medicine to the patient!" "Your father was killed near Vyazma." " I know it, mom." "I know." "Why do you repeat it again?" "Your father was killed near Vyazma, not far from Moscow." "Airplanes fly there." "You have to find the grave, you have to take some ground from it and throw it on my grave." ""My grave!" You need to take medicines in time." "Do we have money for the ticket?" "Do you have money to go there?" "I have to make injections for you." "It is more important for me." "Now?" "And who will meet aunt Olya?" "Will she wander over Samarkand?" "Is it OK?" "It's the first time she'll be here." "My sister is an adult and healthy woman." "She was always very nimble." "Will you go?" "When, mom?" "When?" "Be quick!" "Be quick?" "They have the archives there." "Take the notice and go." "Why do you always hang around with me?" "I'm tired of you!" "And Olya will come and hang around here too." "Don't move, mom!" "I won't be able to get leave." "Go to the local committee." "I'm a widow of the dead officer." "What about the New Year?" "You'll be back by the New Year." ""You should go and come back by the New Year!"" "Maybe yes, maybe no..." "But maybe I'll have to spend the whole month in the archives!" "It's your senile caprice, my dear mom." "Senile caprice." "Do you remember?" "Just before they brought the notice, a young captain had invited me for dancing." "Do you remember?" "You were always so jealous..." "You always attached rather strange importance to dancing." "And you hit him in the stomach with your head." "And you also scratched me." "But I like to dance so much!" "It is strange though." "So what?" "Will you go?" "I've never hit anybody in the stomach..." "It's all your fantasy and invention." "We shall see." "Well, we'll see." "I don't refuse to go..." "Our athletes are strong, nimble and brave." "They are always ready to defend our motherland." "The Olympics takes place during the 40th Victory Day anniversary." "Hello to athletes!" "Hello..." "To athletes!" "Hello!" "To athletes!" "To athletes!" "But when the train conductor came, the frightened puppy ran away..." "At the station of Dno they found that something was missing." ""Oh, damn it, where is he?"" "They began to count the luggage:" "the sofa, the suitcase, the valise..." "I feel it in my soul that he has already agreed to go to Vyazma." "I persuaded him to go." "Here is my beloved reticule..." "Yes..." "The weather is fine." "I'm almost certain that he is buying an air ticket just now." "So here they are, my nephews..." "Ergash's friend..." "He came back alive..." "And here he is himself." "The last photograph..." "Let Kim see something of the world." "Let him have some rest without me." "This is my sister Olya..." "It will be good for Kim." "Let him blow the cobwebs from his mind." "And this picture was taken when I learned to cook the Uzbek pilaw." "And I also learned Uzbek dances, and to speak Uzbek too..." "And here is Ergash's friend, Esan Karimych..." "The chief doctor will let Kim go." "He respects my son and always sends me postcards for holidays." "And here is the last Ergash's letter:" ""I just can't look at burnt forests, at dead people, at all that I love so much and that is disfigured now..." "Don't go to the office anymore, don't demean yourself." "I'm not interested in that money." "I worry so much about our children's and your lives!"" "Stand still, Vesta!" "That's all." "Your dog is healthy now." "Mom told me to pay you." "Ask your mom to buy some chocolate for you." "Kim Ergashevich!" "The chief doctor summons you!" " I'm coming!" "Wait for me, OK?" "(Speaks Uzbek)" "You can have just one week's leave." "Calm your mother's wounded heart." "Please." " Thank you." "A sick dog is there." "Will you have a look at it?" "In French:" "Do you speak French?" "In German:" "Do you speak German?" "I don't understand you." "Oh, a restaurant..." "Look, do I know them?" "My pants are too tight." "It's always like that." "There are a lot of jeans everywhere!" "Maybe a lot of straight jeans, but I mean bananas, Fedya..." "What kind of bananas?" "Not fruit, of course!" "Look, I don't understand you at all." "A girl, a car, kind of holiday..." "It's right that you've decided to go by train." "There is some mess-up with flights now." "Get acquainted, girls." "Happy New Year, girls." "Thanks." "I am Kim, it means Communist International of Youth." "Beba." " Gulnara." "Lyudmila." "Pleased to meet you." "Pleased to meet you." "Lyudmila Makhmudovna checked your blood." "She says it is the same as that of a young antelope." "Just more juice and apples, and don't feel seedy." "Look at your sister, aunt Olya." "Mom, how much older than you is she?" "So everything will be OK." "Mom, you should eat more." "More apples, they contain iron." "How did you teach us?" "Put your thumbs up!" "There are no more thumbs left." "Never mind..." "You look like a real bride..." "That's good!" "Good girl!" "Once again!" "Just a moment!" "It's done!" "Airplanes don't fly now." "I took a ticket for a train." "He is leaving, and I have to be on duty here alone, day and night!" "I buy lemons and black caviar." "Should I make injections too?" "You'd better register my daughter here." "That's right!" "We need to register her." "Anything may happen." "Go to hell!" "I arrange TV and radio interviews for you!" "An oath at father's grave is balm for mother's heart!" "40 years have passed!" "Stop it, mom!" "Lest we forget!" "That's enough!" "That's enough!" "Yes, the fortune-teller was right." " What fortune-teller?" "The one whom we gave our cologne." "When mom found out, she beat us." "Fortune-tellers cheated kids too." "Do you remember, when the notice came, we ran to her, and she repeated:" ""a bullet in the forehead"?" "Do you mean a fat one?" " No, she was small and thin." "So what?" " Don't you remember?" "When she read his fortune, she said "white, cold"..." "And then the letter came." "Father was killed in winter." "It's strange!" "How do you remember such nothings?" "Father is not a nothing." "Take it." " No need." "It's my stash." " No need!" "I have money." "Take it!" "When you find the grave, send a telegram..." ""I can't look at burnt forests, at dead people, at all that I love so much and that is disfigured now..." "I worry so much about my children's and your lives." "I'm already used to bombings." "For the second night I see our children in my dreams." "I put them to bed and feed them with a spoon..." "Don't go to the office anymore." "I'm not interested in money." "We, military people, forgot the value of a ruble." "When we win, money, gold and glory will be with us..." "Excuse me that I didn't write for so long." "We were surrounded." "A plane dropped newspaper instead of cartridges." "We read them, and then wrapped several layers of them around our foot cloths." "It became warmer..." "Yesterday I cooked the pilaw in my helmet." "My squad ate and praised it." "And they are all different people:" "Latvian, Russian, Ossetian, Moldavian..." "Then they carried an attack with full bellies..."" "What excites a human being most of all?" "When does the heart beat quicker?" "When in a lonely and abandoned house, you find a book, and your favorite verse is marked with a dead mallow leaf..." "The heart beats so high!" "Or when in the same house you find a child's broken cup..." "That's good." "And I also like this:" "When does the heart beat quicker?" "When you see the full moon, and you can't fall asleep..." "When you see a small kid who eats strawberry..." "Or when before your death you see white snow and you admire it again and again..." "Collection 338..." "Register 87-12..." "File 82..." "Leaf 89..." "Collection 338..." "Register 87-12..." "File 82..." "Leaf 89..." "Good afternoon." "Good afternoon." "He was buried in Chashchevka, near the town of Vyazma." "That's all..." "In the area of the Don..." "A young Cossack strolls in the area of the Don." "Why are you crying, maiden?" "Why are you crying, maiden?" "Why tears gush from your eyes?" "A Gipsy told fortune..." "A Gipsy told fortune, She held your hand..." "Good afternoon." "Hello." "Father Yakov?" "That's me." "A man came from Samarkand." "They say that in 1942 partisans buried 8 soldiers in the outskirts." "One of them is his father." "Father?" "Yes." "The commander of our partisan squad summoned Mitya and 2 other men." "8 soldiers were killed in the outskirts." "And he asked to bury them." "Well..." "we buried them side by side..." "One of them was dark-complexioned." "He is your father, isn't he?" "We've been digging the grave for a long time." "It was cold." "Frost..." "Well, we had to put a wooden cross there, just for the memory..." "Let me embrace you, Grigory." "Leave me alone, Konstantin!" "Let me kiss you, Grigory!" "Get lost, Konstantin!" "Come here!" "Here!" "A guest from Samarkand!" "Father, they are coming!" "Guests are coming!" "Here!" "Here!" "A guest from Samarkand!" "We were ordered, so we buried them..." "Yakov Maksimych, it's cold!" "Let me help you." "Both Mitya and our comissar are dead." "Who will show the grave to our guest except me?" "Yes, Father Yakov became old." "How could he forget?" "Not to tell us?" "Your father's ashes could lie in the mass grave under marble long ago." "Children could bring flowers." "Soon there will be no unknown graves left." "He became so old." "And he was such a zinger!" "He was a partisan." "The bones are over there." "And why is he barefoot?" "They probably have such a tradition." "It's so that not to step with boots on father's ashes." "People are clever." "At first 5 men went, but if 10 men went, then we could organize it all together." "Then probably I would think about it!" "They have to execute the order in time." "Yakov Maksimych, you are probably worried that people don't go to the church except old ladies." "I've never left my native village." "I just can't imagine how your Samarkand looks like." "I presume everything is different there." "STORE No 9" "It looks like the frost broke." "" " Look how beautiful it is!" "Drop in someday!" "We are glad to see such guests!" "You walk with your head down." "Just look around!" "When will you go home?" "I'll go to Moscow today." "I'm late already." "I couldn't meet my aunt Olya who came from Leningrad." "Well..." "That's good." "Walk about again..." "That's good." "Turn about..." "Move to your right..." "Tanya, put your hand on the hip." "Hold yourself up!" "That's good." "Are you a newcomer?" "Yes, I'm from Leningrad." "Leningrad is a wonderful city." "I've been there." "Excuse me, do you know how..." "Good evening." "Please come in." "We'll show you something." "What?" "I don't hear you." "You know, we are preparing a New Year joke, but we have no criterion, no pointer." "You are our first spectator." "Good evening." "I'm from Leningrad." "(Speaks Uzbek)" "Good evening, comrades." "Asya!" "That's me, Olga!" "Our plane landed in Tashkent, so I'm late." "I decided to stroll about the town." "Kim probably couldn't wait." "Is Marat at work?" "You know, I walked about the market here." "Fruits are wonderful." "And they still wear turbans here." "I saw an old man in a turban." "His face is beautiful!" "I brought all letters with me." "We'll reread them together." "Do you hear me?" "No, don't answer me!" "Just don't answer!" "I'm OK." "I'm at your place." "Do you remember Y. Leonidych?" "He recently had his jubilee." "His friends from the theatre were there, nice people!" "Everybody remembers you and gives his best regards!" "And do you remember Poturemsky?" "He kissed my hands." "He said it was a pity that nothing had happened with us then." "But he called me Asya at that moment somehow..." "It's better to leave the keys at the neighbors'." "Anything may happen." "I feel sorry for boys; they are running about the airport now." "I'll speak louder." "Don't answer me, Asya!" "And lemons are like pumpkins here!" "Olya, Kim went away." "And Marat went to buy some bread." "Oh, that's good!" "Kim is probably at the archives now." "And maybe he is on his way back." "It's too hot!" "Bear it!" "The Russians don't surrender." "The Ukrainians too..." "And Poturemsky told me..." "Who is he?" "I told you that he had kissed my hand." "So he brought me some carnations, and I told him that I preferred roses." "And he said, "Just a moment!"" "Oh, Galya and a sultan," "Ukraine and Uzbekistan." "Oh, Galya and a sultan," "Ukraine and Uzbekistan." "At 19:30 you'll watch the telecast "Sobriety is the Norm of our Life"." "At 19:46 you'll watch the news..." "The list of property in a one-man room of Vyazma hotel." "Water bottle - 1 piece." "Towel hanger - 1 piece." "Waste-paper basket - 1 piece." "Cristal pin-up lamp - 1 piece." "Clothes hanger - 2 pieces." "Bottle opener - 1 piece." "Bathroom shelf with a mirror - 1 piece." "Esteemed guests, we ask you to handle delicately the state property." "In the bright hoped-for day" "Our sorrows will vanish." "We shall see in the foggy distance..." "I've never tried this..." "Farewell to my nice home and my old grand-dad." "Winter will be past and spring will come, but you won't be there any longer..." "You'll be demolished." "But those walls have seen so much!" "You are my treasure." "Are you beaming with pleasure?" "Esteemed passengers!" "In the restaurant car you can see the New Year in." "We have rich assortment of cold and hot dishes." "The station of Kandagach..." "The 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th..." "This is your compartment, Venera." "Take care of your voice." "You have a concert on January, 1." "Good evening." "So make yourself comfortable." "I'm in the next car." "It's open!" "Excuse me." "Hurray!" "Hurray!" "Good morning!" "Do you have a can opener?" "No, I don't." "Ask the conductor." "Excuse me!" "Waffles!" "Waffles!" "Beet-root soup with sour cream." "Beet-root soup with sour cream." "Excuse me, is it you who sings?" "May I listen?" "Of course." "Is it so, Gulya?" "Let's better take some tea." "Excuse me." "I'm sorry." "Happy New Year!" "To you as well." "May I come in?" " You are welcome." "Come in." "Do you want me to guess your name?" "It's interesting." "Look straight into my eyes..." "Don't blink." "How many letters are there in your name?" "Wait a minute..." "Four." "Exactly, like in the passport." "Did you count all letters?" " I did." "Gulnara, Gulya..." "That's right." "How did you guess?" "And can you determine my name?" "I don't work with men..." " Are you a psychiatrist?" "They don't teach it in any collage." "There is a funny photo in that book." "The sea..." "The beach..." "The beautiful girl..." "And the athletic brunet in swimming trunks..." "What else can you say?" "Each person has enormous potential abilities, but he doesn't know about it." "Do you want me to check you?" "You'll go out of the compartment for some time." "We'll choose an object together here." "Then you'll come back in the compartment, and all of us will send the information into your brain." "And in a few seconds you'll guess the object." "It's so interesting..." " All right." "Look!" "Let's decide it like that:" "when she comes in, we'll say that she is right in any case." "I don't take part in this." "Why?" "Help us!" "Let's team up." "Come in." "Yes, come in." "Come in." "The glass." "That's right." "Oh, Gulya, you've guessed!" "But it isn't good to prompt." "I didn't say a word." "It's probably Kim." "Let's do it once again." "Let us do it." "Come in." "Come in, come in..." "I think it's the mirror." "That's right." "That's right." "I guessed, didn't I?" "No, it was a prompt again." "Nobody prompted me." "No, I guessed by myself." "Gulya!" "Don't be so naive!" "Why do you think so?" "I really guessed." "He is just a charlatan." "Then allow me to depart..." "Excuse me, I'm going." "Have you seen a fat guy in a red sweater here?" "He went there!" "Swindler!" "Scoundrel!" "The earring is missing." "He stole it!" "It's strange that I guessed." "Gulya!" "I'm sorry, but we played pranks on you." "You played pranks?" "It wasn't me..." "He invented it all..." "Honest!" "Damn it!" "What's the matter with you?" "Why did you interfere in the matter?" "I felt sorry for your gold earring." "You are some kind of a knight..." "Thank you." "Beet-root soup with sour cream!" "Do you have Fanta?" " No Fanta." "I jokingly put my mother on my shoulders, but she was so light that I couldn't make even 3 steps without breaking into tears..." "We invite those who wish to see the New Year in to our restaurant car." "It's cozy, and we have music there." "You are welcome!" "Stop biting your nails!" "I've learned it from you." "May I join you?" "As you wish." "We have very fresh sturgeon." "I don't like fish." "What else don't you like?" "She is a vegetarian." "She thinks that hens are our sisters." "Why there are no festal napkins here?" "Should I call the director?" "Don't be so nervous, lady." "Have you forgotten the main rule - "the client is always right"?" "Happy New Year!" "Congratulations!" "Congratulations!" "Congratulations!" "Tanya, don't cry!" "Just have a look!" "What a beauty!" "Without me, my beloved one," "The earth is as small as an island!" "Without me, my beloved one," "You'll fly with one wing..." "Oh!" "My head aches." "I'd better go..." "We'll go on living." "We'll go on living." "We'll go on living." "Why do you tell me about it?" "Why me?" "You know, I'm not so curious." "I want to tell you." "Can't I?" "But I can change the subject." "Do you like autumn or spring?" "I like autumn and spring winter and summer." "Everything is good in its season." "Are you for the Sun or for the Moon?" "How amorous you are!" "Yes." "I'm very amorous." "Don't come in, I'll change my clothes." "Let me go!" "But I'll be telling you, hear me?" "I want it and I will!" "Let me alone at last!" "Aunt Ira!" "Open up!" "That's me, Gulya!" "Open up!" "Aunt Ira, stay with me!" "We'll have some tea." "I'll sleep in your compartment." "Well, tell me something." "You insisted on it, and now you keep silence." "Kim!" " Kim!" "Kim!" "Kim!" "Marat!" "Our chief doctor says that the dogs, that were once offended by people, ran to the woods and turned into wolves." "And cats turned into tigers." "My mom is Ukrainian, she was very beautiful." "I was in love with her." "It's strange." "The most important episodes in my life happened in my childhood." "I'll show you how to play with matches!" "That's how I live now, with a bell." "I've just suddenly remembered my father's face and his smile." "We were flying somewhere, I was 3 years old then." "Marat slept in my mom's lap." "There were boxes and cases in the passage." "And I was afraid to look through the window." "During my entire life my mother convinced me that at that moment father had stood nearby and had smiled at me." "How could I forget it?" "Will they allow me to build a monument to my father?" "My brother and I will save money." "I have a friend Sergo Sutyagin, he is an architect." "And I'll take my mom to the best doctors, to Dzuna and to Tibetan doctor Galdan, if necessary." "I'll put her on her legs." "Did you give the medicine to the patient?" "Old things!" "Buy old things!" "The morning paints in pale colors" "The walls of ancient Kremlin." "The entire Soviet land" "Wakes up at daybreak." "The tingle of the morning air runs down the spine," "The noise in the streets becomes louder..." "Starring:" "Vyacheslav Bogachev, Zinaida Sharko" "Gulya Tashbaeva, Liliya Gritsenko, Davlyat Khamraev" "Subtitles transcribed, corrected and synchronized for KG" "Quigley (02.2015)"