"Moscow M. Gorky Film Studio, 1957" "QUIET FLOWS THE DON" "Based on the novel by Mikhail SHOLOKHOV" "Written and Directed by Sergey GERASIMOV" "Director of Photography Vladimir RAPOPORT" "Production Designer B. DULENKOV" "Music by Yu." "LEVITIN" "English Subtitles by T. Kameneva" "Cast:" "Panteley Prokofievich Melekhov - D. ILCHENKO" "Ilyinichna" " A. FILIPPOVA Grigory" " P. GLEBOV" "Pyotr" " N. SMIRNOV Darya" " L. KHITYAYEVA" "Dunyashka - N. ARKHANGELSKAYA" "Stepan Astakhov" " A. BLAGOVESTOV Aksinya" " E. BYSTRITSKAYA" "Miron Grigorievich Korshunov - A. ZHUKOV" "Lukinichna" " A. DENISOVA Natalya" " Z. KIRIYENKO" "Mitka" " B. NOVIKOV Grandfather Grishaka" " A. KARPOV" "Koshevaya" " Ye." "MAXIMOVA Mikhail Koshevoy" " G. KARYAKIN" "Mashutka Koshevaya - V. KHMARA" "General Listnitsky" " A. SHATOV Yevgeny Listnitsky" " I. DMITRIYEV" "Shtokman" " V. SHATUNOVSKY Ktolyarov" " A. TITOV" "Prokhor Zykov" " V. ZAKHARCHENKO Khristonya" " M. VASSILIEV" "Grandfather Sashka" " D. KAPKA" "Valet" " S. YURTAIKIN Shamil" " P. LYUBESHKIN" "QUIET FLOWS THE DON" "In the village of Tatarsky," "Cossacks were getting ready to leave for the May camps." "Dunyasha!" "Have you got the rusks and bacon packed?" "Do what you're doing, Father," "I'll do everything properly for my brother, he won't have any worry." " Is he eating?" " No, he won't." "Then, forget it, Father." "He hasn't been watered yet." "Pyotr, make a hole in here." "Grishka will take him down to the Don." "Grigory, take the horse." "You wild devil!" "You almost trampled me with your horse." "Stepan all packed and ready?" " What's it to you?" " Can't I ask a question?" "Yes, he's ready." "So what?" "So you'll be left a grass widow?" "Yes, I will." "Will you be pining for your husband?" "Sure I will." "Wait till you're married, then you'll know." "Some wives are glad to see their husbands go." "Our Darya gets fat in Pyotr's absence." "A husband is no snake, but he sucks your blood." "When will we have you married off?" "Don't know." "It's up to my father." "I guess, after my service." " You're young yet." "Don't get married." " Why not?" "It's a bore." "Why marry?" "Some girl will love me without." " Let me pass, Grishka." " No, I won't." "Stop playing the fool." "I have to get my husband ready." "Let me pass, you devil." "What will people think if they see us?" "Well, God bless you." "Good luck to you." "You're late, Miron Grigorievich." "What did you find, Grishukha?" "Give it to me, I'll bury it." " What do you want?" " I want to have a drink." " Your hair..." " What?" "It smells of henbane." "You know, a flower." " Go away, Grishka." " Hush." "Go away or I'll scream." " Wait, Ksyusha..." " Uncle Panteley!" "Why are you so gloomy, Grisha?" "It looks like it'll be raining." "My back's aching." "He just doesn't want to watch the oxen." "Don't let the oxen spoil the neighbours' grass." "Grisha..." "Grishenka..." "Your father will hear." "He won't." "Put me down, it's no use now..." "I'll go myself." "Panteley Prokofievich, good morning to you." " Good morning." " Good morning." "What's the matter, Prokofievich?" "Why didn't you tell us?" "You decided to marry your son off, and you keep mum." " What son?" " Grigory." "He isn't married yet." "I have no plans to marry him off." "I heard you're taking Stepan's Aksinya as your daughter-in-law." "From an alive husband?" ".." "Are you making fun of me, Platonych?" "It's no fun." "People are talking." "Hey, wait!" "What is it?" "What are you doing, eh?" "Your husband barely gone and you already playing tricks?" "You bitch, you haven't been beaten enough!" "Don't dare ever come onto my property!" "Look out, I'll write to Stepan..." "Who are you?" "My father-in-law?" "Who are you to teach me?" "Go and teach your fat daughter!" "I'm not afraid of you, you lame devil!" " Get out of here!" " Wait, you fool!" " Don't you wait me!" " A real devil of a woman!" "Write to the ataman for all I care!" "Grigory's mine!" "If I want to, I'll eat him with his bones and answer to no one for it!" "Go on, write!" "I'll love him hard to make up for my bitter life!" "And then you can even kill me!" "What for?" "Don't do your neighbour dirt!" "Don't disgrace me!" "Don't roam about, you lecher!" "I won't let you beat me!" "I'll flog you in front of everybody!" "The devil's seed!" "I'll have you married to Marfutka the fool!" "I'll castrate you!" "I'll marry the son of a bitch off!" "Grisha, my love..." "Only nine days left..." "Plenty of time yet." "What shall we do when Stepan comes back?" "I guess you'll drop me?" "You'll get afraid?" "Why should I be afraid of him?" "You're his wife, you be afraid." "Stepan's coming is nothing." "My father means to marry me off, that's worse." "Who to?" "He's only going to ask." "My mother says, the Korshunovs, their Natalya." "Natalya..." "Natalya is a pretty girl." "A beauty." "I saw her in church the other day." "She was all dressed up." "What do I need her beauty for?" "I want to marry you." "Grisha!" "Why did you stick to me, you devil?" "Oh, Grisha!" "You're breaking my heart!" " Grisha!" " What's on your mind?" "Honey... my darling..." "let's run away." "Let's leave everything and go away." "I'd leave husband and home for you." "Let's go to the mines, far from here." "I've got an uncle at the Paramonov mines, he'll help us." "Grisha!" "Say something." "You're a fool, Aksinya." "How can I leave the farm?" "And I'm due for military service this year." "No, it's no good." "I'll never stir from the land." "Now Stepan is going to give her the heat!" " Look, Stepan's so gloomy." " Stop talking nonsense!" "Hello, Father." "Well, Aksinya..." "I don't deny I've sinned." "Go ahead and beat me, Stepan." "Not cooked dinner yet?" "Not yet." "Get me something to eat." "Now tell me, my dear..." "Tell me how you waited for your husband, how you guarded my honour." "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "Or I'll send you to the ataman!" "What are you doing, devils?" "Let's go, Grishka." "We'll stalk him somewhere." "You'll get it coming to you, too!" "Leave him alone!" "Or I'll send you to the ataman!" "Receive your guests, Miron Grigorievich." "Guests are always welcome here." "Marya, bring chairs for our guests." "We have some business." "You've got a bride, we've got a bridegroom." "Can we come to terms?" "How are you?" "We're fine, thank God." "The thing is that she's too young to marry." "Well, it's for you to decide." "A suitor is like an old beggar, he can go and beg anywhere." "But if you look for a bridegroom from merchants, for example, or someone else, that's another matter, then excuse us." "Come on, my dear people!" "The flower is in full blossom, why should you keep it when so many old maids are still unmarried?" "As long as the matter's brought up, you should decide it the right way and make your child happy." "We're not enemies or evil-doers to our children, are we?" "Ours won't be left on the shelf." "Well, sooner or later, you'll have to part with her." "Call your daughter, let's have a look at her." "Natalya!" "Natalya!" "Natakha!" "Come on in." "She got shy." "All right, go." "Aksyutka!" "Come here." "You did come." "What's that on your cheek?" " It must be from a sunflower." " And here, by your eye." "I can't take it any more..." "I'm lost, Grisha." "What's the matter with him?" "Don't you know?" "Here." "He beats me every day." "He sucks my blood." "And you're no better." "You've done your wrong, like a lecher, and keep aside." "You're all alike..." " Looking for someone to blame?" " Aren't you to blame?" "Ksyusha, wait..." "Well, I said the wrong thing." "Don't get offended." "Why shout?" "Don't be afraid, I didn't come here to thrust myself upon you." "I guess, our love is over." "What do you mean, over?" "How can it be?" "Listen, Aksinya..." "I've decided..." "Take your kerchief off or people will see us." "I've decided..." "We have to go on living somehow." "So I decided, let's put an end..." "To what?" "Let's end this story." "Aksinya!" "Take our bread and salt, give presents to the newlyweds." "We give a shawl to the bride." "We give a steer!" "Kiss the bride!" "It burns like fire!" "Want some lamb?" "Don't offer me lamb." "I eat only sterlet." "Sterlet?" "Where's sterlet here?" "Our captain roared:" "What?" "Company!" "Forward!" "Attack!" "Lances ready!" "Sabers drawn!" "Good work, men!" "Hello, Grisha!" "Hello." "How's life with your young wife?" "All right." "Don't wake Natalya, woman." "She gets up early as it is." "She's going to plough with Grishka." "You prod Darya, she's a lazy thing." "Paints her face, blacks her brows, the spoiled woman." "Let Natalya take it easy the first year." "Grishka!" "Grigory!" "Grisha!" "Father calls you." "Darya!" "Come here." "You go plough those two plots by the Red Gully." " And Pyotr?" " He and Darya are going to the mill." "Give me a hand." "You've slept too long." "What do you want now?" "Go away or you'll get it." "I'll tear your tongue out!" "Stop it, men!" "Brothers, they beat our Cossacks!" "Stop it, men!" "Stop it!" "Women, what are you looking at?" "They'll beat up all our men!" "I'll set it on fire!" "Get out of here!" "I'll set fire!" "Get out of here!" "Mount your horses, Cossacks!" "Catch up with them!" "They won't get far!" "Who are you?" "Wait, Cossacks!" "To hell with you!" "Bumpkin!" "Birdbrain!" "Hit him in the peepers, Yasha." "Wait with the peepers." "What's up?" " We beat the Ukrainians up." " What for?" "For jumping the order." "They'll remember it long." "Ukrainians, they're very cross." " And who are you?" " I'm a Cossack." "Aren't you a Gypsy?" "No, I'm not a Gypsy." "I guess, you and I, we're both Russians." "You're lying!" "Cossacks come from Russians." "No, I'm telling you, Cossacks come from Cossacks." "In olden times, serfs ran away from their landlords and settled on the Don." "They were called Cossacks." "You know what?" "Go your way." "What a stinker, he wanted to make us into serfs." "Who is the man, Afanasy?" "A stranger." "He wanted a lift." "How should I know who he is?" "My name is Shtokman." "I'm a locksmith." "From now on I'll live in the village of Tatarsky." "I also can be a joiner." "Let's go, man, we'd better not lose time." "You're like a stranger." "Like this moon." "Neither cold, nor warmth from you." "I don't love you, Natalya." "Don't be angry with me." "I feel sorry for you, but my heart feels empty." "Empty." "Like you feel in the steppe." "Natalya here wants to leave us." "Why?" " I don't know why." " But I do!" "I know why!" "And I don't blame her, for all that it's sinful." "It's not her fault, it's that swine's!" " What's my fault?" " Don't you know, you devil?" "No, I don't." "Listen to me:" "If you won't live with Natalya, clear out of here." "And that's that!" "Just get out of here!" "I'll tell you something, too, father." "Ann don't you get angry." "She wasn't my choice." "You married me off." "I'm not stopping Natalya." "If she wants to, let her go to her father." " Then you get out too!" " The hell I'll do!" "Yes, go to hell!" " I will!" " Where will you go?" "Let him go, the lecher!" "Let him go, damn him!" "Grisha!" "Grisha, come back!" "You can go to hell, the unloved one!" "Grishenka!" "I don't know if it's good or bad, but that's the story." "Is it our fault?" "That the Cossacks have been reduced to such shame?" " Shut up, peasant." " Peasants are people too." "Peasants?" "I've seen all kinds of people when I served in Petersburg." "I remember one incident." "We were on mount guard once." "We ride, and suddenly students out of the corner." "Multitudes of them." "They saw us, and "Ha-ha-ha!"" "What are you doing here, Cossacks?" "I say: "We're on guard, don't grab the reins," and I draw my sword." "And one with a big nose takes a ten from his wallet and says:" ""Have drinks, Cossacks, to my late father's health."" "He gives us those ten rubles and takes a portrait out of his bag." ""And this is," he says, "my father in person." "Take it as a souvenir."" "Well, we took it." "The students moved away, and again: "Ha-ha-ha!"" "And we went along Nevsky Prospect." " Hello." " Here comes another Cossack." "What's up, Grishka?" " Are you going home soon?" " Yes, soon." " I'll sleep at your place." " Had a fight with your folks?" "So you went along Nevsky Prospect." "And?" "Then we were relieved." "We said to our sergeant:" ""We've made ten rubles." "Now we should drink on it, so that the granddad rest in peace."" "And I hung his portrait over my bed in memory of him." "He was with a white beard, a solid man, sort of a merchant." "The lieutenant saw the portrait, and asks me:" ""Where did you get it, you son of a gun?"" "I say "so and so"." "He began to scold me, and even hit me in the jaw." ""Do you know," he goes, "that it's their ataman, Karla..."" " I forgot the name." " Karl Marx." "Right!" "That's him." "He got me into hot water, son of a bitch!" "Tsarevich Alexei himself drops in by our barrack with his teachers." "What if they saw it?" "What would happen then?" "And you keep praising peasants." "See how they grounded him?" "But we did drink on that ten." "If even for that bearded Karla, but we were drinking for 3 days!" "He deserves drinking for him." "What was it so good that he did?" "Oh, I'll tell you..." "I'll tell you that by all means." "But now it's getting late." "Good night, Osip Davydovich." "I'll stay with you a day or two." " Aren't you going back home?" " No." "How are you going to live?" "How to live?" "Like other people do." "Different people live differently." "Come on in." "Sit down." "Let's have supper." "Yes, Grisha..." "People live differently." "It won't be easy, you're not used to it." "I'll get used." "Where do you plan to go?" "Tomorrow I'll go to Sergey Platonovich." "If not, then to General Listnitsky's." "Want to become a farm-labourer?" "Come on, Grisha..." "You're not a farm-labourer." "You won't make much doing that." "Watch out, your pride may show itself." " What is it?" " It's Grishka!" "He wants you to go to the store as soon as it gets dark." "Hush, Mashutka." "What else did he say?" "He said for you to take your things along." "Oh, God..." "What shall I do?" "I didn't think it'd be so soon..." "What do I do?" "All right, I have to go." "Tell him I'll come soon." " What did she want?" " Who?" "Masha Koshevaya." "She asked me to cut out a skirt for her." "Are you going out?" "I'll go to Anikusha's for awhile." "When will be the end of it?" "Playing cards again all night!" "Now, now, don't nag." "And don't wait up for me." "Well..." "Oh, God..." "Oh, Grisha..." "Wait a minute." "Why wait?" "We have to hurry." " Wait, Grisha..." " What's the matter?" "I have a pain." "I lifted heavy things today." "All right, let's go." "You don't even ask where I'm taking you?" "Maybe I'll push you into a hole?" "It's all the same to me." "I've gone too far." "Why is the door wide open?" "Yagodnoye General Listnitsky's estate" "How are you getting on, Aksinya?" "Very well, thank you." " Hello." " Hello." " What do you want, Getko?" " It's from Natalya." "Grigory Panteleyevich!" "Tell me how I am to live, whether my life is done or not." "I thought you would come back, but I'm not trying to part you two." "Have pity and write, then I shall know what to think, for I'm now neither here nor there." "Do not be angry with me, Grisha, for the love of Christ." "Natalya." " What was he sitting there for?" " I don't know." "He just came in and sat like that." "Look, Grisha." "With his knee so pointed." " You been charming him?" " What do I need him for?" "Watch out, or I'll push him from the porch." "I won't leave you at home any more." "You'll ride out with me." "Come on, Grisha..." "What's the matter?" "Why didn't you tell me before?" "I was afraid you'd leave me." "How soon?" "Somewhere the summer." "Is it Stepan's?" "Yours." "And where's?" ".." "Grigory!" "Drunk already, you good-for-nothing?" "Go and sleep it off." "The mass is over." "Don't spoil him." "Don't let him play!" "Farewell, General!" "Don't hurt yourself!" "People say Natalya Korshunova got a hernia." "Stop babbling." " That's why her husband dropped her." " No, she messed up with his father." "Ah, that's why Grishka ran away from home." "Why else?" " Why?" " Because..." "Think what you're saying." "Pining for Grishka?" " What is it to you?" " I want to lighten you up." " Go away, Mitka." " Come on, Natalya." " I'm going to call father." " Are you crazy?" "Go away, damn you!" "How the earth can tolerate you?" "It tolerates me all right, never stirring." "What?" "The roads are so bad, my love." "It was so bumpy that Getko felt it with all his guts!" "Here." "Live alone." "Grigory Melekhov." "Good afternoon." "Hello, father." "Getting ready for military service?" "I sure am." " Take your things off, father." " I'm all right as I am." " We'll put the samovar on." " Thanks." "I've brought you clothes and a saddle." "Take it." "It's all there." "When do you go?" "The day after Christmas." " A Cossack?" " A girl." "So pretty, looks just like Grisha." "Our breed..." "Just look at her!" "Are you going already, father?" "I'm in a hurry." "So you won't go back to your wife?" "We've already discussed that." " So you won't?" " No, that's settled." "What about God?" "Are you sure..." "you're not rearing another's child?" "Another's or not, I won't abandon it." "Natalya has crippled herself." "How is she?" "She cut a tendon, now her neck is twisted." "We'll take Natalya in." "She doesn't want to live with her folks." "I saw her the other day, and invited her to live with us." "In the village of Olshansky..." "Grisha, someone's knocking on the door." "Don't worry about your wife." "Be a good soldier." "Your grandfather was a fine Cossack." "Be worthy..." "Be worthy of him and your father." "Wasn't it your father who won first prize for trick riding at the Emperor's review in 1883?" "Yes, sir!" "Don't drive too fast at the fork, Prokofyich," "I toppled over there only yesterday." " Already drunk again!" " It doesn't take long for him." " Get in the sledge." " No, I'll go on horseback." "Go!" "Wait, Grisha!" "I wanted to say something..." "Well, goodbye." "Take care of the child." "I must go." "See how far father's got already." "Wait, my love..." " Good luck, Cossack!" " Goodbye, granddad." "July 18, 1914" " Shall I give you a hand?" " No, I'll manage." "Natalya dear, I want to tell you something..." "Come on, tell me." "Yesterday Mishka Koshevoy stood with me all evening." " Why are you blushing?" " Not at all." "Look in the mirror - just like a fire." "Because you put me to shame." "All right, I won't." "Tell me." "" You're so beautiful," he says." "I say: "Stop lying!" But he crossed his heart." "Who are these people?" " I don't know." " Where are they going?" "Stand up, please." "You're under arrest." "What's the matter?" " You occupy two rooms?" " Yes." "We'll make a search." "Give me the key to this chest." "What's the reason for this, Mister Investigator?" "We'll talk about it later." "Please." "Witness, do it!" " Please." " No, I don't smoke that brand." "Please, begin interrogation." "Did you come here on your organization's instructions?" "What are you talking about?" "For how long have you been a member of the RSDRP?" "Here's the paper from Rostov that confirms your membership in that party." "Since 1907." "Were you getting any directives from Rostov?" "No." "Have you read that book to the workers who visited you?" "We read verses." "Verses..." "You read books banned by the law." "Osya!" "Osip Davydovich!" "Pyotr!" "Let's wait till the heat abates." "Oh, God, how I would love to have a swim now." "Somebody's coming!" " He's riding hard!" " Raising a lot of dust." " He can override the horse." " Galloping like crazy." "Alarm!" "Alarm!" " Is it war?" " Oh, my goodness!" "Hush!" "If you see Grigory, tell him how it is..." "It's war..." "Board the cars!" " Going, eh?" " Join us, Granddad!" "Oh, my dear beef!" " Where to, boys?" " To a christening." "Shut up!" "Aren't you afraid, Melekhov?" "Why should I be?" "We may go into battle today." "So what?" "And I'm afraid." "Couldn't sleep last night." "They're firing." "Like boys do against a palisade with a stick." "Shut up, chatterbox." "Where's the captain?" "You were ordered to finish the work yesterday." "Shut up!" "You should have brought the building material up sooner." "Shut up!" "How will I cross over now?" "I'm asking you:" "how will I cross over?" " What do you want?" " What will be your order?" "Go, go!" "What's this?" "On whose orders?" "Lances and sabers at the ready!" "Forward!" "Hey, why are you standing?" "I've come to see you, Aksinya." "What do you want?" "May I have some water?" "Go ahead, drink." "You stole my husband." "Give Grigory back to me." "You've ruined my life." "See what I look like?" "You want your husband?" "You want your husband?" "You viper!" "Whom did you come to ask?" "You took Grishka away from me!" "It was you, not me!" "You knew he was living with me." "Why did you marry him?" "I just took back what was mine." "I have a child by him, and you?" "You want to take father from the child?" "You left your husband..." "Don't shout..." "Grishka is my only husband." "I got no one else in the whole world!" "You think he needs you?" "Look at your twisted neck!" "He dropped you when you were fine." "You think he will want a cripple?" "You'll never get Grishka!" "And that's that." "Go away!" "You think I had any hope that you agree?" " Why did you come then?" " Out of anguish." "Oh, God... forgive me..." "Have mercy..." "Don't take her, O Lord!" "Welcome back, master." "Oh, thank God... thank God." "May the little angel rest in peace." "You should go and look, Aksinya." "Maybe they need something." "The young master has arrived." "Alexeyev?" "No, it can't be." "I don't believe it." "But it is so anyway." "In this case, the Supreme Commander was wrong." "Here's a similar example from the Russo-Japanese war." "Dinner is served." " Her baby died." " Oh, really?" "So, a similar example from the Russo-Japanese war." "Kuropatkin did press his case then, he insisted, but life proved him wrong." "Hello, Aksinya." "Hello." " Who's there?" " It's me." "Wait till I dress." "Don't, I'm here just for a minute." "You have lost your daughter..." "Yes, I have." "You have changed." "And no wonder, with such a sorrow to bear." "Only you shouldn't torture yourself so." "You can't bring her back." "You're still young, you will have other children." "Don't do it." "Take yourself in hand." "Submit." "After all, not everything is lost with the death of your child." "You have your whole life before you!" "Why are you tossing and turning, Grisha?" "So you say we're sent to death for the sake of the rich?" "What about the people?" "Don't people understand it?" "Is there no one who would come out and say:" ""Brothers, that's what we're shedding our blood for."" "What do you mean, come out?" "Are you crazy?" "Come out..." "I would like to see you come out." "Look, we're whispering now, but if you yell, you'll get the bullet." "The people is in somber drowsiness." "But the war will awaken them." "Dark clouds will turn to rain after a thunderstorm..." "What do we do, then?" "Say it, bastard!" "You turned my heart upside down." "What does your heart tell you?" "I don't understand." "If you push me down the cliff, I'll push you." "We must turn our guns against one who sends people into this hell." "Remember, Grisha, a great force is rising, it will crush everything." "You mean, turn everything upside down?" "We must throw down the power, like dirty pants." "We must skin the landlords, tear them apart, for they have tormented the people enough." "Go to the ward." "Check everything, quick!" "Take your places." "Lay him down, lay him down." "Welcome, your Imperial Highness!" "This way, please, your Imperial Highness." "Please." "He's a Don Cossack, holder of St. George cross." "From what Cossack village?" "From Vyoshenskaya, your Imperial Highness." "What did you get your cross for?" "You see..." "I need to go out, a call of nature..." "Call of nature, your Imperial Highness." "Number one." "Please, proceed to the next ward, your Imperial Highness." " You scoundrel!" " Don't scoundrel me, bastard!" "You all hiding in the rear!" "Send me home!" "We will!" "Go to the devil!" "Whoa!" "Oh, you recognized me..." "Granddad Sashka!" "Are you asleep?" "Holy father!" "Grishka!" "Where did you come from?" "What a dear guest!" "Sit down." "Let's have a smoke." "How are you getting on, granddad?" "Still trampling dirt?" "I'm trampling it alright." "I'm like a flintlock, I'll last forever." "How's Aksinya?" "Aksinya?" "..." "She's all right." " Where did they bury Tanyusha?" " In the garden, under a poplar." "Well..." " Tell me everything." " My cough is killing me." "Everyone is all right." "The master drinks as always." " How's Aksinya?" " She works as a maid now." "I know." "Make yourself a cigarette." "I've got first-rate tobacco." "Come on, tell me, or I'll leave." "I have a hunch you're harbouring something." " Come on, hit me." " And I will!" " Hit!" " I will." "I can't keep it from you, it makes my heart bleed, Grisha." "Speak up." "You warmed a snake in your bosom!" "A real viper!" "She's messing around with Yevgeny!" " Are you sure?" " A woman is like a cat." "She fawns on everyone who's kind to her." "But you better not believe it!" "Have a smoke." "You were knocking, and I was asleep..." "I wasn't expecting you..." "My beloved!" "Why are you trembling?" "Let's go in." "I'm cold." " Grisha, my love..." " Wait, wait." "I wasn't expecting you..." "You didn't write for such a long time." "I didn't think you'd be coming." "I was going to send you a parcel, but decided to wait till I got a letter." "You look more like a housekeeper than a maid." "Grisha..." "let me pull your boots off." "Oh, Grisha..." "Why the tears?" "Aren't you glad to see me?" "There you are, the holder of St. George Cross." "You've grown stronger, man." "Come for long?" "For two weeks, Your Excellency." "Your daughter is gone." "A great pity..." "Grigory?" "Where from?" "From Moscow, for a leave." "I see." "You were wounded?" "Yes, sir." "I heard..." "He's come to be a fine fellow, hasn't he, father?" " Has gotten a cross!" " Yes..." "Nikitich, the horse!" "Permit me to drive you, Your Excellency, for old times' sake." "Well, let's go." "Let me do it." "I'll give you a ride to remember, Yevgeny Nikolayevich!" "For which you'll get a good tip." "I'm very grateful for your kindness." "Thanks for not forgetting my Aksinya, for not sparing her a piece of bread." "Don't be long!" " What are you doing?" " That's what!" "Swine!" "For me!" "For Aksinya!" "For me!" "For Aksinya!" "And more for Aksinya!" "Devil, what have you done to the horse?" "Grigory!" "Slut!" "Bitch!" "Grisha!" "Grisha, forgive me!" "Oh, God!" "Mother!" "End of Part 1" "Moscow M. Gorky Film Studio 1957" "QUIET FLOWS THE DON Part Two" "Based on the novel by Mikhail SHOLOKHOV" "Written and Directed by Sergey GERASIMOV" "Director of Photography Vladimir RAPOPORT" "Production Designer B. DULENKOV" "Music by Yu." "LEVITIN" "English Subtitles by T. Kameneva" "Cast:" "Panteley Prokofievich Melekhov - D. ILCHENKO" "Ilyinichna" " A. FILIPPOVA Grigory" " P. GLEBOV" "Pyotr" " N. SMIRNOV Darya" " L. KHITYAYEVA" "Dunyashka - N. ARKHANGELSKAYA" "Stepan Astakhov" " A. BLAGOVESTOV Aksinya" " E. BYSTRITSKAYA" "Miron Grigorievich Korshunov - A. ZHUKOV" "Lukinichna" " A. DENISOVA Natalya" " Z. KIRIYENKO" "Mitka" " B. NOVIKOV Grandfather Grishaka" " A. KARPOV" "Koshevaya" " Ye." "MAXIMOVA Mikhail Koshevoy" " G. KARYAKIN" "Mashutka Koshevaya - V. KHMARA" "General Listnitsky" " A. SHATOV Yevgeny Listnitsky" " I. DMITRIYEV" "Shtokman" " V. SHATUNOVSKY Bunchuk" " P. CHERNOV" "Podtelkov" " N. MURAVYOV Krivoshlykov" " B. MURAVYOV" "Kalmykov" " M. GLUZSKY Kotlyarov" " A. TITOV" "Prokhor Zykov" " V. ZAKHARCHENKO Khristonya" " M. VASSILIEV" "Grandfather Sashka" " D. KAPKA Valet" " S. YURTAIKIN" "General" " N. TYAMIN Shamil" " P. LYUBESHKIN" "QUIET FLOWS THE DON 1916" " Still raining?" " Yes." "Lieutenant is hiding a marriage." "Lieutenant, you're unmasked." "Never play from the third queen." "What's the matter with you today?" "Dreamed of your village again?" "You guessed right." "I saw the steppe in my dream." "And my heart ached..." "I'm sick and tired of this service to the czar." "What are you staring at?" " Closer to the light." " Wait." "" Your enemies, Austrian and German..."" " What?" " Here." "" Your enemies are not Austrian and German soldiers who've been deceived like we," "but your own czar..."" "That's real hard." "" Your own industrialist and landowner."" "How I'd love to have a bath!" "All you lack is a boiler." "More than enough water in our dugout." "It's too damp, men, too damp." "You must count your blessings, here in the marsh we're safe." "Other sectors are fighting, and we hardly spend a cartridge a week." "Better to be fighting than rotting here." "We're burning to do battle!" "Are you burning to do battle, Lieutenant?" "Me?" "Eight diamonds." "I'm burning to play clubs." "We Cossacks won't be sent against the enemy." "Why not?" "What are we for, then?" "When unrest sets in at the front, and this is inevitable, for the men are getting fed up with the war, the Cossacks will be sent to crush the mutineers." "You're talking nonsense." "Why nonsense?" "Because nonsense is nonsense." "You get carried away, my dear." "How do you know there's unrest in the offing?" "Let's suppose something different." "The Allies crush the Germans, the war is brought to a victorious end." "What role do you assign the Cossacks then?" "It doesn't look like a victorious end." "I've just come back from leave." "What's going on in Petrograd?" "Is the capital roaring?" "Yes, it is." "Nothing good." "There's a food shortage." "Hunger and discontent in the workers' districts." "The war won't end well for us." "What do you think, gentlemen?" "What we think?" "We think, six spades." " Pass." " Six clubs." "Here." "You devil!" "The Russo-Japanese war sparked the 1905 revolution." "This war will culminate in another revolution." "And civil war." "Attention, gentlemen!" "Cornet Bunchuk will be delivering now his Social-Democratic prophesies." "Playing the fool?" "Well, everyone follows his own calling." "I'm surprised to find, gentlemen, such characters in our officers' corps." "Maybe you even want to see us defeated in this war?" "Me?" "Yes, I'm for defeat." "That's too much!" "Whatever your political convictions are, but to wish defeat for one's country id treason!" "Just a minute!" "It's dishonorable for any decent man!" "Wait, Kalmykov." "Let's say we're defeated." "What then?" "You may be certain that tsarism will be destroyed." " What is it?" " A message from Colonel Shiryaev." "Give it to me." "You can go." "We're summoned to the colonel, urgently." "Our commiseration." " All of us?" " All of us." "Another disposition with possible execution." "I believe we'll be ordered into the fray." "God bless you, brothers!" "Good luck!" "Onward!" "They're holding their fire till we come nearer." "I feel afraid today, and I'm not ashamed of it." "What do you say, we turn back?" "It's like when you're gambling: no confidence in yourself, you're lost." "You look yellow today." "Either you're sick or a bullet will find you today." "Company, follow me!" "At a trot, forward march!" "They're using gas!" "Gas!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "They're using gas!" "Hold onto the stirrup!" "Bastard!" "Come back!" "Come back, bastard!" "Go to hell, everybody!" "Don't ride so fast!" "I'm out of breath!" "Not so fast, for Christ's sake!" "Get on." "My boot is full of blood." "Grishka, when we were attacking today..." "Do you hear, Grigory?" "In today's battle, I shot at you from behind three times." "God has saved you." "Now you've saved my life." "Thank you." "Still I can't forgive you for Aksinya." "My heart won't." " Don't you force me to." " I'm not forcing you." "There it is." "What's the matter, Melekhov?" "Grigory Panteleyevich!" "They gave us the heat!" "Fools!" "It serves you right!" "This people is a bitch!" "Even worse!" "Only when they're bleeding to death, will they understand what's what." "What do you mean?" "The smart one knows, and nothing in the world will make the fool get it." " Did you pledge allegiance?" " Go to hell..." " Grigory..." " Are you alive?" " Answer me." " I'm alive." "I guess our hut has tumbled down?" "No, why tumble down?" "It stands alright." "How are our neighbours, the Melekhovs, doing?" "They're doing alright." "Did Pyotr come for leave?" "No, I guess not." "And Grigory?" "Their Grigory?" "Grishka was here after Christmas." "His wife had twins this year." "Grigory came because of his wound." "He was wounded?" "Wounded in his shoulder." "He was all marked like a dog after a fight, you can't say what he has more, crosses or scars." "What does he look like?" "Grigory." "Like he always was: hook-nosed and dark." "Like a Turk." "I don't mean that." "Has he grown old?" "The devil only knows, he may have grown old a bit." "His woman had twins, so he's not very old." "It's cold here." "Disgusting, dirty louse, what can be worse?" "Only yesterday she ran around the village in her bast shoes, and now she'll never say 'in here', only 'here'." "I hate those women, they're all bitches..." "Viper's breed!" "It's cold here.'" "And there she goes!" "The mare's snivel!" "Really!" "It was all fatally preordained." "I foresaw this at the very beginning of the war." "Well..." "The dynasty was doomed." "Has the tsar really abdicated?" "Of course." "It's no laughing matter." "Listen to what my son writes:" "Yes, papa, extremely ominous events." "The soldiers are all demoralized." "You may go." "They don't want to fight, they're tired." "This year we no longer have soldiers in the generally accepted sense." "You can't imagine how demoralized our army has become." "And there's worse to come." "Cossacks!" "By the people's will, the Emperor Nicholas Il who reigned to this day has been deposed" "Good riddance!" "The power has been passed to the Provisional Committee of the State Duma." "The army, you included, must take this news..." "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "...calmly." "The Cossacks' duty is to defend their country as valiantly from the encroachments of the external and... and the onslaught of the external enemy." "At the time of such great upheavals, we should be as firm as..." " As steel." " As steel." "We'll continue to fight as valorously as before, and leave it to the State Duma..." "Let the State Duma decide the destiny of the country." "There's no place for politics in the army." " No!" " Let me speak." "Cossacks!" "This is no way!" "They want to make fools of us again." "They want to cheat us!" "As long as there's a revolution and all the people are given freedom, it means the war must be ended." "Am I saying it accurately?" "Am I right?" "Yes..." "What will all this end up in?" "What do you think?" "Oh, God!" "You live here and you haven't understood the situation yet?" "There will sure be a coup d'etat." "Kornilov will head the government." "The army is behind him." "Our people reason this way." "There're two equal powers now:" "Kornilov and the Bolsheviks." "Kerensky is between these two millstones, if not one then another will grind him up." "He'd better sleep in the tsarina's bed now, as long as it's vacated." "But the army..." "Will the entire army follow Kornilov?" "Of course, the soldiers won't by themselves." "We'll lead them." "The day after tomorrow, Moscow will be welcoming Kornilov." "It's a matter of every officer' honour to be there." "I'm leaving tonight." " I'm going with you." " Certainly." "Good for you." "It's not the time, not the time." "Gentlemen!" "Narva August 1917" "As long as Cossacks are singing, the situation is not that bad." "They sing rarely now, they hold protest rallies instead." "We should learn to talk to people." "Cornet Bunchuk?" "You're not in prison?" "Sorry, but I won't give you my hand." "I had no intention of giving you mine, either." "Saving your skin here?" "Or have you come from Petrograd, from darling Kerensky?" "Is this an interrogation?" "Mere curiosity about the history of a deserter." "Don't worry, I'm not from Kerensky." "Then what are you?" "No epaulets, a soldier's overcoat." "A political agitator?" "Comrade Cossacks!" "Our train is not going any farther." "We'll unload here." " Right?" " Right." "Good afternoon, Cossacks!" "Kerensky's and Bolshevik agents are hindering the movement of our troop trains." "We've got the order of Commander-in-chief" "Kornilov!" "In case it's impossible to go by railway, we should march on Petrograd!" "We start today!" "Get ready for detraining!" "Comrade Cossacks!" "I'm here from the Petrograd workers and soldiers." "You are being led into a fratricidal war." "To crush the revolution!" "If you want to go against the people, if you want to restore the monarchy..." " It's philosophy!" " Provocateur!" "If you want to restore the monarchy, than go!" "But the Petrograd workers and soldiers trust that you won't be Cains." "They send you fraternal greetings!" "Wait!" "Cossacks, last year Cornet Bunchuk deserted from the front, you all know that!" "Are we to listen to this coward and traitor?" "Arrest the swine!" "Take away the gun!" "Let him speak and explain his position!" "Speak up, Bunchuk!" "We bow down to you, and please tell the Petrograd..." "Wait!" "Look at them." "Follow me, quick!" "Kalmykov, you are under arrest!" "Hands up!" "Disarm them!" " Put those under guard." " Right." "We'll take Kalmykov to the Revolutionary Committee." "What's the matter with you?" "Hands up." "Smart." "Captain Kalmykov, go ahead." "Follow me." " Go on..." " Scoundrel!" "Traitor!" "You'll pay for this!" "You're not a party, just a gang of scum!" "You're directed by the German General Staff!" "Bolsheviks!" "Scum!" "The Bolsheviks have sold the country." "I would have you all hanged on one..." "Our time will come!" "Your Lenin has sold Russia for thirty German marks." "He grabbed a million and ran away... the convict!" " Stand up!" " Don't you dare!" "You want to kill me?" "Shoot!" "Shoot, son of a bitch!" "See how a Russian officer faces death!" "Even before dying..." "Mitrich... why did you kill him?" "Why, Mitrich?" "What do you think!" "He would have shot us without batting an eye." "It's either us or them!" "There's no middle course." "Follow me!" "Forward!" "In the autumn of 1917," "Cossacks were coming back from the war to the villages of the Don Region." "Where are you from, soldiers?" "Have you done with the war?" " We've got it enough, fathers." " Go and try it yourself." "Go on to your women!" "Misha!" "We've lost all hope of seeing you again!" "And where's Grishka Melekhov?" "He joined the Bolsheviks." "He stayed in Kamenskaya." "Joined the Bolsheviks..." "Our fraternal greetings to the working Cossacks!" " Stop pushing!" " Make way, or I'll blot you out." "The workers and the Cossacks were shedding blood together!" "We must be together in the war against Kaledin, too!" "We'll go hand in hand to fight those who have been enslaving the working men for centuries!" "Who had introduced capital punishment for soldiers at the front?" "Kornilov!" "Who's strangling us, together with Kaledin?" "He is!" "So who are you going to stick with, Cossacks?" "Let's knock down those hydras and drive them to the sea!" "Right!" "Let's give it to them hot!" "We must make our own rule!" "And all the volunteers and other partisans must go away from the Don!" "The Bolsheviks have no business here." "We can deal with the enemies of the working people by ourselves." "We don't need anybody's help!" " And who is this one?" " Krivoshlykov from Gorbatov Village." " And next to him?" " That's Podtyolkov himself." "Oh, Golubov's here too." "Brothers Cossacks!" "Shut up, you!" "You're not at a market- place!" "Let Podtyolkov speak!" "Brothers Cossacks!" "While we're discussing it here, the enemies of the working people are on their guard." "We all want the wolves be sated and the sheep intact." "But Kaledin doesn't think so." "We've intercepted his order about the arrest of our congress participants." "Down with Kaledin!" "I propose to proclaim our congress the supreme power on the Don!" "I propose... to elect from the delegates of our congress a Cossack War Revolutionary Committee!" "And to delegate it with carrying on struggle with Kaledin and organizing..." "Gentlemen!" "Gentlemen!" "There they are, the traitors!" "They should be hanged!" "I protest, Cornet!" "Shut up!" "Line up three in a row!" "Forward march!" "All to be hanged!" "All of them!" "All traitors!" "How can you let that outrage happen?" "You should thank God you're still alive." "I would've killed you, lout..." "Stay seated." "We won't stand up." "Good afternoon." "Good afternoon." "What regiments do you represent?" "Well..." "What are you actually demanding?" "We demand that you relegate power to the War Revolutionary Committee." "How simple it is, isn't it?" "An ultimatum." "You probably know that on February 4 a Cossack Assembly is to be convened." "New members of the government will be elected." "Do you agree to mutual control?" "No!" "If you're in the minority, we'll dictate you our will." "But that's coercion!" "Yes." "If we're not satisfied with the Cossack Assembly we won't recognize it." " And who's going to be the judge?" " The people." "The people!" "Why should we listen to them?" "We're not going along with Bolsheviks." "Only those who betrayed the Don and the Cossacks can talk about giving power to the Soviets and call on the Cossacks to follow Bolsheviks." "Do you really believe, Podtyolkov, that the Don will follow you, an illiterate Cossack?" "If anyone follows you, that'll be a gang of frenzied, homeless Cossacks." "But they'll wake up, man, and hang you!" "Bravo, Shein!" "The Don government will consider the Revolutionary Committee's proposal and give its answer in writing by 10 a.m. tomorrow." "Next morning at the village of Glubokaya." "Mount!" "Cossacks, my dears!" "Come on, heroes!" "Come on, smart guys, let's disturb the Bolsheviks!" "Melekhov, line up your hundred and lead them to Yerokhin Gully." "All right!" "Company!" "Move!" "Listen to my command!" "Company!" "Follow me, forward march!" " Are you commander of that unit?" " Yes." "Try to go around along that gully, and I'll keep them with fire in this sector." "All right, we can go along the gully." "We'll try." "What fighting can you do with such soldiers!" "Why didn't you take kids?" "I can't forgive myself for not having left you in Rostov." "Bunchuk, you're talking like a proprietor." "Company, follow me!" "How is it?" "What?" "You got wounded?" "Come on, lie down." "Anya, where?" " Right under the heart." " What do you mean, under the heart?" "Anya..." "Anya..." "What are you staring at, Anya?" "Anya..." "Oh God..." "Anya..." "What is it?" "Ilya, darling..." "You see how simple it is..." "First it hits you..." "You feel a jolt..." "And now it's burning." "Pour water on my chest!" "Water!" "Someone, bring water!" "For our faith!" "For Russia!" "Follow me, brothers!" "Company, attack!" "Follow me!" "Anya, don't leave me!" "Don't leave me, Anya!" "Don't leave me, Anya!" "Listen here!" "Listen here!" "The leader come here, the rest go straight ahead!" "For the safety of the prisoners you'll be answerable in all severity of the revolutionary war time!" "You must deliver them to HQ safe and sound!" "Give this to Podtyolkov." "Melekhov!" "Good boy!" " Are you wounded?" " In my leg." " Did it touch the bone?" " I guess not." "Wiped out!" "We wiped them out!" "We fluffed up the officers' detachment to pieces." "Are you going to Headquarters?" "Tell Podtyolkov that I'm accepting responsibility for Chernetsov." "Just tell him this." "Go." "Podtyolkov, they're bringing the prisoners." "You read Golubov's note?" "I don't give a damn for Golubov!" "So what if he wants it?" "Taking responsibility for Chernetsov, that counter-revolutionary bandit?" "I won't let him!" "He is to be tried by a revolutionary court and punished right away!" "Golubov is taking responsibility." "Why are you sticking out?" "Stay in the cart." "Responsibility..." "You know how much blood he's let out?" "A whole sea of blood." "How many miners he's exterminated?" "No, I won't let him!" "Stop shouting!" "There's one too many judges here!" "You'd better go over there!" "There're too many of you judging the prisoners." "I was there!" "I wasn't saving my skin on a machinegun cart." "Who do you think you're talking to, Melekhov?" "Give up your officer's ways!" "It's the Revolutionary Committee that judges, and not some..." "Put him on the cart." "Well, hero..." "We've got you, bastard!" "You betrayed the Cossacks!" "Traitor!" "Scoundrel!" "Run for your life, gentlemen!" "O Lord, forgive me the sinner." "What on earth is going on?" "And what did you think?" "That we just expose our heads to the contra's bullets?" "Mama, they're coming!" "They're coming, mama!" "How you doing?" " Are you all right?" " I was wounded near Glubokaya." "Whatever did you stay there for?" "You'd better have come home." "How pretty you've grown to be, Dunyasha!" "And I thought you'd grow looking plain." "What a devil you're, brother!" "Look at your son!" "Let me have a look at my son." "And your daughter, Grisha!" "Come on, hold them!" "Don't you recognize your father, forest nuts?" "Natasha, take them, or I won't make it up the stairs." "You reek of tobacco!" " Darya, lay the table." " He's got his own wife to do it." "At Shrovetide we'll eat pancakes with cream." " Well, did you recognize your dad?" " I did." " This is for you, mother." " Oh, my goodness..." " Look, it's sweeping the floor." " Never mind." "Look at that old hag showing off before the mirror." "For you, Father." "Jesus Christ!" "I was just thinking of a new cap." "There were none at the store, and my old one's good only for a scarecrow." "What are you doing, old geezer?" "Oh God, how stupid you are!" "The samovar isn't a mirror." "Look at this Cossack of the Cossack Life-Guards!" "Who won the first prize at the Emperor's review of troops." "The saddle and the entire ammunition!" "That's me!" "For you, Natasha." "Dunyasha." "Pyotr." "Darya!" " And for whom is this?" " For me." " You're just like a colonel." " So many crosses!" "Put it on, Grisha." "Come on, indulge your father." "You've got them not for nothing." "Ugh!" "You look so puffed up!" "First have sons like these, you chatterbox." "At least both my sons have made their way in the world." "Well, enough of this." "Do you have pickled watermelon?" "Of course!" "Natasha, come on." "While guests are not here, tell Pyotr what's happening in the world." "Father, why do you drink water from a small glass?" "People are fighting." "Where are the Bolsheviks now?" "Advancing from Taganrog, Tikhoretskaya, Voronezh." "And what side... are you on?" "Me?" "I'm for the Soviet power." "Fool!" "You tell him, Pyotr." "He's too hot, like an unbroken horse." "You'll never ram it into him, Father." "You have nothing to ram into me, I'm not blind." "What are those who came from the front saying?" "What can they say?" "We played Bolsheviks at the front." "It's time to come to our senses." "We don't want others' goods, don't touch ours." "Think about it, Grisha." "You're a smart guy." "A Cossack will always be a Cossack." "We don't want that lousy Russia rule on the Don." "You know what the outsiders have got into their heads?" "To divide all the land equally." "What does it mean?" "The outsiders who've been living here a long time will be given land." "The hell they will!" "No frigging way!" " Hello, soldier!" " Hello!" "You scared the calf, loudmouth!" "That's all we need..." "Come on, Panteley Prokofievich, you owe us a treat." " Good appetite." " Sit with us." "Where's Mikhail Koshevoy?" "Here, in the village." "What are you doing here, Valet?" "Want some fish?" "What do I need it for?" "There's trouble." "Drop your fishing." "You'll forget everything because of your fishing." "What's the news?" "Shoot." "The Red Guards were crushed at Migulinskaya." "The squabble is on..." "the stuffing gets knocked out." "Why at Migulinskaya?" "They were passing through, and the Cossacks gave them a beating." "Took a whole mob of prisoners to Kargin." "The court martial is piling up sentences." "The White Guards are starting a mobilization." " What do we do?" " We'd better clear out." " Where to?" " Where to!" "How do I know?" "You'll find a way out when it gets hot." "Go to Ivan Alexeyev." "I'll come along later." "We've got to leave now!" "We have to take off today!" "Give me a reason, why should we leave?" "We won't escape mobilization if we don't." " I won't go." " They'll make you." "I'm not a bull on a rein." "Valet is right, they will." "Only where should we go?" "There he goes again, where to!" "You think it's a joke?" "That's what the time is like." "Everything can go to hell." "It's easy for you to talk." "Nothing holds you here." "And I have a wife and two kids." "You just talk and talk." "You've got nothing but your coat." "Shut up your mouth!" "Don't play the officer with me." "Stop yelling!" "I don't give a damn for you!" "Shut up, vermin!" "You dirty louse!" "Get out, stinking bastard!" "Stop it, Grigory!" "Time you dropped your old Cossack ways." "Aren't you ashamed, Melekhov?" "Shame on you!" "You were in the Red Guards!" "We stood guys like you up against the wall!" "Go away!" "Or I'll pull your legs out!" "Have you gone off your rocker?" "It serves him right for putting on airs!" "There you have it!" "Mobilization!" "No, I'm hopping on a boat." "Crossing the river and away!" "What about you?" "We're not going anywhere." "Goodbye, then." "We've come to the parting of our ways." "Oh, Misha, Misha..." "You're too young and hot-tempered." "You think we won't meet again?" "We will, mark my word." "So long." "Ponomaryov Village April 28, 1918" "Get down!" " Where're you from, Cossacks?" " From the village of Tatarsky." "You're a tad too late." "We've caught Podtyolkov without you." " Where're they?" " There they are." " Where are they taking them?" " To the other world." "Stop lying." "What do you think?" "The gallows are ready for them over there." "If we'd left Rostov three days earlier, we wouldn't be going to our death here." "We'd have smashed all the counter-revolutionary bands." "To hell with them!" "Let them kill us!" "We're not afraid to die." ""I'm only afraid that in the other world we'll never recognize each other..."" "What do you mean?" "Never recognize each other." "All right, enough talking." "Old men!" "Allow me and Krivoshlykov to watch our comrades die." "Hang us last." "And now we'd like to look at our comrades and support the weak in spirit." " Well?" " Let them." "Very well." "Let them step back." "Lead them out." "Any volunteers from your village?" " Volunteers for what?" " For the firing squad" " No!" " Why 'no'?" "I volunteer." "Just give me the bullets." "Let's go." "Hold on." "9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15." "You still refuse to tell your name?" "Mean to die nameless?" "I have a name!" "I'm a member of the Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks, a Petrograd worker of Cossack origin." "Enough!" "At the betrayers of Cossacks, fire!" "You here too, Melekhov?" " Here, as you can see." " I can see." "Shooting your brothers?" "A turncoat?" "That's what you are." "Fire!" "Remember the fight at Glubokaya?" "How you shot the officers?" "Now you're getting a taste of your own medicine!" "It's not only for you to tan Cossack skins!" "You betrayed the Cossacks, bastard!" "Want me to tell you more?" "What?" "Wait!" "What?" "What is it?" "Wait!" "You're blind, befogged people!" "Blind!" "Let him talk for the last time." "You're being duped, forced to kill your brothers." "You think if you kill us, that will be the end?" "No!" "All Russia will be Soviet!" "Remember my words." "You're shedding blood in vain, you foolish people!" "We'll do away with those, too." "You can't shoot us all, old man." "You can't hang all Russia!" "You'll be the next!" "You'll be sorry later, but it will be too late!" "Enough, you had your say." "They were the finest sons of the Don that you have put in that hole." "They don't even know how to hang right." "Mount!" "Come here." "The wagons have arrived." "And your father with them." "Really?" "You're lying." "Honest." "Go meet him." "Why are you here, my dears?" "We've brought you shells, just go on fighting." "This is for you from your mother." " What did you come for?" " I'm with Father." "Mother was afraid to let him go by himself." " Hello, neighbour." " Hello, neighbour." "Goodness, not even a mirror in the house." "I hear you won't go beyond the Don region?" "Why should we go there?" "We'll drive the muzhiks from the Don, and go home." "Go home..." "When they wipe the Czechs out and send the entire Red Army against us, we'll be bled white." "We can't beat Russia!" "It's no joke." "Don't try to scare us." "Your stupid talk has made my stomach turn." "I could go on fighting all my life." "I like it." "Out!" "Fall in, again!" "Take positions again!" "And you say, not beyond the Don." "Time to end the war and go home!" "All right, let's go." "Move over, Prosha." "Go and look what's going on there." "I want to talk to you." "I visited Pyotr last week." "His regiment is at Kalach." "They're doing themselves fine there, son." "Pyotr is a very thrifty man." "He gave me a sack of clothes, a horse." "A fine horse." "Wait." "Is that what you've come here for?" " So what?" " What do you mean, so what?" "Everybody does it, Grisha." "Everybody does it!" "Haven't you got enough of your own?" "Thieves!" "We shot men for such doings at the German front!" "Wait, I'm not asking for myself." "I don't need anything." "Think of your own good." "You're not too rich." "Why not take from those who went over to the Reds?" "It's a sin to take from them." "Throw those ideas out of you head, you hear?" "The horse." "Stepan Astakhov's turned up." "Have you heard?" "How come?" "Aksinya's gone back to him." "You could send some presents for my grandchildren." "What presents can I send from the front?" "I'm off to the outpost." "Darya!" " What is it now?" " Give me a hand." "Oh, God..." "You'll never part even with your shit, Father." "Shut up, girl." "I'm not going to leave them that boiler." "You're as thrifty as that lousy Grishka." "Good heavens, dear man!" "Aren't you afraid of God's anger?" "Why are you taking it from the orphans?" "Give us a hand, Cossacks." "Why do you wrong the orphans?" "Give back the collar." "Give it back, for God's sake." "Leave the God alone." "I guess your man was a Commissar, wasn't he?" "Since all God's things are everyone's, don't grudge it and shut up." "Goodbye, woman, don't be angry." "You'll get yourself a new collar." "You wait, you'll pay for our tears!" "No!" "Right and might are on our side." "You're in a historic room, ladies and gentlemen, from the walls of which the heroes of another people's war, the war of 1812, are looking at us." "There was a time when Paris welcomed its liberators, the Don Cossacks." "104 years ago, our ataman, Count Platov, was a guest in London." "Today we're expecting the Allies' troops in Moscow!" "We wait for you, in order to enter the Kremlin together, to the sounds of ceremonial marches and our anthem, and together experience the joy of peace and freedom!" "For the great, one and indivisible Russia!" "Hurray!" "Ladies and gentlemen!" "Our anthem!" "At the enemies of the revolution, fire!" "Cossacks, what are you doing?" "Where are you going, brothers?" "Halt!" "For the Soviet power, forward!" "Arise ye workers from your slumbers," "Arise ye prisoners of want!" "For reason in revolt now thunders..." "Well?" "Come back without your epaulets?" "Go greet your brother." "He came yesterday too." "Make happy your mother." "Your wife and kids have been pining over you." "A sad pass the world's come to..." "Grigory!" "Grigory Panteleyevich, why are you loafing around like a log?" "Get down from there!" "We're done for, Father!" "My dear son." "My poor boy..." "Would you like some buttermilk?" "What do you intend to do?" "So it's retreat?" "What else?" "They show no mercy to officers." "You may stay, but I..." "I'm clearing out." "And what about our home?" "So you'll go off, and we're to stay here?" "And guard your property?" "Must we lose our life because of it?" "Let it go hang!" "I'm not staying." "If the whole village leaves, we won't stay behind." "We'll go on foot." "Fools!" "Bitches!" "Hush up!" "Don't poke your nose in men's affairs!" "All right, let's abandon everything and leave." "Will we carry the livestock in our pockets?" "And the house?" "We can drive the stock with us." "Sure we can!" "How far do you think our old cow can go?" "You homeless one!" "You louse!" "And the sheep?" "The lambs?" "I gave my life to acquire all that, and what do I hear?" "All right, thank God, we've discussed it." "It's nothing to laugh about." "A man from Big Gromk said the Reds are already approaching Veshenskaya." "What is it?" "That's it!" "We're not going anywhere." "Either we all go, or none." "We'll stay!" "Save and protect us, Mother of God." "Leave me alone, I've put it on." "Sinilin, Ivan Andreyev." "Spread propaganda against the Soviet power." "Right." "Good day to you!" "Come on in." "What's your complaint?" "I'm not complaining." "I've come to talk and ask you not to commandeer our horses." "They've gone lame." "And the oxen?" "Can't drive oxen when it's slippery." "I've got so cold, guys." "Hello, Grigory." "Hello." "I've been to the chairman." "He shook hands with me and said:" ""Sit down, Comrade."" "And he's only a district chairman." "And what did we have before?" "General-Major!" "He had us stand at attention." "That's what it means to have our own government." "Now all are equal." "Why all the rejoicing?" "Because I'm treated as a human being." "How can I not rejoice?" "What did we fight for, then?" "For the generals?" " What did you fight for?" " For myself." "I care for neither Reds nor Whites." "What do you have to blame these authorities for?" "And why are you putting yourself out for them?" "Don't you... dare defame the Soviets!" "Because I'm the Chairman here, it's not for me to argue with you." "Excuse me, but there's nothing good about your government." "What is it giving us Cossacks?" "What Cossacks?" "There are all kinds." "All of them!" "Will it give them land?" "Liberty?" "Equality?" "We've got plenty of land as it is." "Give us freedom and we'll start massacring each other." "It was you who elected atamans, now you lock them up." "Your words are counter-revolutionary!" "You won't talk me over." "You're an enemy of the Soviet power!" "Goodbye!" "Korshunov." "Kashulin." "Sinilin spread..." "What did he spread?" "Propaganda against the Soviet power." " I want to see the Chairman." " I'm the Chairman." "Osip Davydovich!" "Hit me if I'm wrong." "I don't believe my eyes." "I knew that if he survived he'd be the Chairman at Tatarsky." "Misha." "Hello." " Do you have anything to sit on?" " Sit in the armchair." " Is it Mokhov's?" " Yes." "Where did you come from?" "Where I came from?" "From the Army's Political Department." "I've come to you along with the revolution." "It's simple, brothers." "Yes... it's all very simple..." "All very simple..." "Well, everything seems to be right." "But I don't see everybody here." "Where are the Melekhovs, for example?" "The Melekhovs?" "Yes, the Melekhovs." "Wasn't it Grigory that I bumped into in the doorway?" "Yes, he was here." "So you spared him?" "Yes, we did." "Do you think he will spare you?" "Have you forgotten Podtyolkov?" "Are you aware of the situation?" "The front is 150 miles away." "If we don't arrest the most active enemies now, they'll rebel again." "The Cossacks have been brainwashed for 300 years." "The majority of the Cossacks are hostile to us." "That's the situation." "" You can't make revolution with your gloves on," Lenin said." "We can arrest Melekhov this night." " Why wait till the night?" " People won't talk that much." "Well, you know..." "it's a lot of nonsense." "Send those over." "I'll deliver Melekhov right away." "Will you?" "No, man, you can go whistle for him now." "Good day to you." "They slipped away." "Well..." "Never mind, let's sort it out." "May I speak?" "Shoot." "But first you tell me if I can speak frankly?" " Speak up." " You won't arrest me for it?" "Go on, speak." "We think here among ourselves that the Communists want to wipe us out." "Watch out, or they'll include you in the book." "I'm like a drunk man: what soberness conceals drunkenness reveals." "To wipe us out, that no Cossack will be left on the Don." "Now you can't say there will be no shootings anymore." " The Communists..." " What about the Communists again?" "The Communists want only one thing:" "an end to bloodshed, Cossack or no Cossack." "But as long as our enemies are savage, we can't say there will be no more shootings." "Let us see now what the enemies of the Soviet power in our village were shot for." "Take Korshunov..." "You all know him." "He was an ataman, a bloodsucker." "Right." "Andrei Kashulin took part in the execution of Podtyolkov's Red Cossacks." "Fedot Bodovskov, the same." "Lieutenant Grigory Melekhov, hostile to the Soviet government." "True, Melekhov has slipped through our hands." "Bogatyryov." "Well, you all know what kind of a man he was." "Koshevoy, while you're rallying here, some force has broken in the villages." "Either the White Guards or something." "Communications are cut." "What's the matter, comrades?" "Osip Davydovich, there's no communication with the station." "Either the White Guards or something." "There's no communication." "Ride quick to Kashinskaya." "Hurry!" "Give it to him, guys!" "Beat the bastard!" "What are you doing?" "Wait!" "Let go of me, good people!" "Let me get my revenge!" "Antip, by killing the man you won't bring your father back to life." "Men, they're dividing the sugar at the storehouse, you better go there." "Who is it?" " Who is there?" " Open up, Mother." "Oh, my goodness..." "Go away!" "For God's sake, go away, Misha." "Yesterday the Cossacks turned our house upside down looking for you." "Antip Brekh even lashed me with his whip." "" You're hiding him," he said." ""I wish we've killed the bastard."" "Go away!" "They'll find you here." "O Lord, have mercy, save us and protect..." "Hello, neighbour, why are you at home?" "Have you had enough of fighting?" "I'm not going to fight." "Take my horse, do what you like with me, but I'm not taking up a rifle again." " What do you mean?" " I just don't want to, that's it." "If the Reds take the village, will you go with us or stay behind?" "I'll see then." "Seize him, Khristonya!" "Stand him up against a wall!" "Let's go!" " Pals!" " We're no pals to you!" "Let go, I'll join you." "I got weak after typhus." "At long last." "Go take your rifle." "Company!" "Get down!" "Take the horses to cover." "Hey, brother!" "Don't waste bullets." "Fire when I command." "Look, lead your company to the left." "They seem to be setting up a battery at Matveyev Mound." "Yeah." "This position is no good." "We must avoid those ravines." "They might outflank us, then we'll be in trouble." "They won't, don't worry." "The ravines are no problem." " Well, watch out, man." " Good luck!" "Company, follow me!" "Hey, "General Platov", let us have a ration of vodka." "Shut up, drunkard." "If the Reds chop off your other arm, how will you drink?" "You'll have to gulp it right from a trough." "I would do anything for a drink." "They're gone." "Mount!" "Across the ravine!" "To the ravine, brothers!" "Stepan Astakhov caught his horse by the tail and got away." "But I didn't." "We're goners, brothers!" "There they come." "Hey, you!" "Come out!" "You haven't a chance!" "Pyotr Melekhov, come out!" "This is Mikhail Koshevoy speaking." "Surrender!" "You can't get away." "To the right!" "Straight!" "The gun forward!" "Mount the gun on a cart!" "Done with your fighting?" "You were in command?" "Undress." "Move it!" "That's enough." "Ivan..." "You're my child's godfather!" "Don't kill me, Ivan!" "Look!" "Look!" "Look what your boyfriend has done!" "All your seed should be exterminated!" "Oh, Pyotr dear..." "Oh, Pyotr..." "Oh, my dear!" "Please stand up!" ".." "Get back." "My son... my dear son..." "Why have they done it to me?" "Why?" "What did I do to them?" "What are you staring at?" "Who needs you here?" "To the front!" "The lot of you!" "That's where you should go!" "Mount!" "Fly away, you little canary," "Up you fly, up to the hills," "Sing a song about war," "Sing about our woe..." "Grigory Panteleyevich, you are our pride and our hope." "The generals are on top again, they got all the power." "What power?" "Here, you'd better drink." "Well, then, let's beg the Soviets for forgiveness." "I was only joking." "Drink, Khristonya." "Why joke?" "It's a serious matter." "Kudinov or the generals, we'll drive them out and put you in their place." "I say we'll drive them all out and put him in." "Right?" "If they refuse to go, we'll move troops against Veshenskaya." "No more of such talk!" "Do you have moonshine?" " You'd better say hello first." " Hello, good woman." " And how many more of you?" " A whole division!" "Grigory Panteleyevich, you're our hero, let's have a drink." "Stop making him drink." "He's had more than enough." "Don't go with him, he'll be no good to you now." "Hold your tongue, you drunkard!" " Shall I pour you some tea?" " Go ahead." "Grigory Panteleyevich!" "Listen here!" "I'll lead the first company myself!" "Into attack, brothers!" "Forward!" "Not enough for you?" "Not enough?" "I'll kill you!" "Grigory Panteleyevich, come to your senses." "Go away!" "Go away!" "Calm down." "Calm down, Grigory Panteleyevich!" "Whom have I killed?" "Brothers!" "There's no forgiving me." "Kill me!" "Put me to death!" "He's gorged with war." "When he comes to, put him on his horse and take him home." " Want some milk?" " Save it for the wounded." " Are you from this parts?" " Yes." "Osip Davydovich." "Never mind." "We have to see yet who's going to win over." "End of Part 2" "Moscow M. Gorky Film Studio 1958" "QUIET FLOWS THE DON Part Three" "Based on the novel by Mikhail SHOLOKHOV" "Written and Directed by Sergey GERASIMOV" "Director of Photography Vladimir RAPOPORT" "Production Designer B. DULENKOV" "Music by Yu." "LEVITIN" "Cast:" "Panteley Prokofievich Melekhov - D. ILCHENKO" "Ilyinichna" " A. FILIPPOVA Grigory" " P. GLEBOV" "Darya" " L. KHITYAYEVA Dunyasha" " N. ARKHANGELSKAYA" "Aksinya" " E. BYSTRITSKAYA Natalya" " Z. KIRIYENKO" "Mitka Korshunov" " B. NOVIKOV Mikhail Koshevoy" " G. KARYAKIN" "Yevgeny Listnitsky - I. DMITRIYEV" "Shtokman" " V. SHATUNOVSKY Kotlyarov" " A. TITOV" "Prokhor Zykov" " V. ZAKHARCHENKO Fomin" " V. BUBNOV" "QUIET FLOWS THE DON" " Why don't you talk?" " What shall I talk with you about?" "About your drinking sprees and your whoring." "You know already?" "The whole village knows." "There're people who talk." "If you know, why do you ask?" " So you're doing it again?" " Leave me alone, Natalya." "You damned insatiable lecher!" "Why are you torturing me again?" "Aren't you ashamed to look your children in the face?" "Stop listening to gossip." "Yes, I've wronged you a bit." "Our life makes us to do wrong, Natalya." "We walk on the edge of death." "Well, sometimes a man trips." "I've even taken to drink." "Recently I had a fit." "Life is not right." "Maybe it's my fault, too." "We should've made peace with the Reds now against the Cadets." "But how?" "Who'll heal the breach between us and the Soviets now?" "My head is all mixed up, Natalya." "Stop pulling the wool over my eyes." "You've been a swine and now you blame it on the war." "Haven't I suffered enough on account of you?" "I wish I'd finished myself off that time." "Shall I give you a hand, Grisha?" "I don't need any help." "Oh, Grigory Panteleyevich, you're so stern with me, poor widow." "Never give me a smile, or even a shrug." " You'd better go cooking." " Who wants it!" "Then help Natalya." "Mishatka runs around all dirty." "That's all I need!" "You make them and I must wash them?" "Natalya is as fertile as a bitch, she'll make another dozen for you." "My hands will fall off to wash them all." "Go away." "Grigory Panteleyevich, you're the only Cossack left in the village." "Don't drive me away, let me look from a distance at your tempting black moustache." "What a woman you are!" "How could Pyotr live with you?" "You never miss a guy." "You bet I won't." "You know, Grisha, the young girls tell me:" ""It's not fair." "There're no Cossacks here, and Grisha never leaves his wife's side." "Though he's only a half of what he used to be, we would be happy to touch that half."" "I say to them: "No, girls," "Grisha is lame only at the others' places, but at home he clings to Natalya's skirt." "Lately he's become a saint."" "What a bitch!" "You're a real blabbermouth!" "That's the way I am." "But if you were mine, I'd knock all your bravery out of you." "Good day, dear Aksinya." "Good day." "It's been a long time." "Yes, a long time." "I've even forgotten the sound of your voice." " So soon?" " You think, too soon?" "Have we nothing to say to each other?" "Why don't you say something?" "We've already said it all, I suppose." "Really?" "I think so." "A tree only blossoms once a year." "You think ours has already shed its blossoms?" "Don't you think so?" "It's so strange." "Yet I can't tear you out of my heart, Ksyusha." "I have grown children," "I myself am turning gray, and I still think of you." "I see you in my dreams, I still love you." " And when I remember..." " Me too..." "I must go too." "We talked too long." "This is the spot where our love began." " Remember?" " I remember everything." " Darya!" " Who is there?" "It's me, Aksinya." "Come here." " Why would you want me?" " I need you very much." "What's this?" "A ring?" " For me?" " For you." "A keepsake from me." "It's gold." "Keep it." "Oh, for Christ's sake." "What do you want me to do for it?" "Tell..." "Tell Grigory to come out." "You start it all again?" "I want to talk to him about helping Stepan get a leave." " Why don't you come in then?" " No, Natalya might think..." "All right, I'll tell him." "Why should I worry about him?" "At the village of Ust-Khopyorskaya" "What is it?" " Good morning." "Is Koshevoy home?" " What happened?" "It's trouble." "A mutiny in the Serdobsky Regiment." "The infantry have disarmed the battery." "They're holding a rally by the church right now." " Where's Koshevoy?" " He went to Ust-Medveditskaya." "I had a hunch yesterday that some trouble was brewing." "Get ready." " Where're the other Communists?" " Who knows?" " Communists, all to a meeting." " Coming." "You can leave the guns." "You're not going to battle." "Glory to the rank-and-filer!" "Silence!" "Silence!" "Silence!" "Red Army men!" "Shame on you!" "You're betraying the people's government!" "At the most critical moment!" "You've been sold to Cossack generals!" "Your commanders are traitors!" "Bullshit!" "Come to your senses!" "They use you to undermine the rule of the workers and the peasants!" "Don't!" "Don't dare!" "You'll have enough time to kill me." "Glory to the Communist fighter!" "You can kill me..." "But let me speak!" "Let me speak!" "You can kill me, but I repeat:" "come to your senses!" "Your regiment commander..." "Osip Davydovich!" "You've been misled." "But Communism..." "Will anyway..." "Death!" "Death to Communists!" "To the enemies of working peasants!" "Beat them!" "They're coming!" "Here come the prisoners!" "The enemy prisoners!" "Look, it's Ivan Alexeyevich..." "Look, they've got Kotlyarov!" "I see." "Look in their dishonest eyes." "Enough!" "They've had their fun!" "They wanted to get the land, didn't they?" "Here's one from your village." "Look at him, the bastard!" "And where's the other?" "Where's Mishka Koshevoy?" "Only one from your village." "If we tear him to pieces, there'll be enough for everybody." "Come on, neighbour, step back." " Hello, friend." " Hello, Darya." "Tell me, my dear, how you killed my husband Pyotr." "No, Darya, I didn't kill him." "What do you mean you didn't?" "Wasn't it you and Mishka Koshevoy who killed our Cossacks?" "I was in that battle." "So you were!" "What are you doing?" "!" "Are you going to kill your own?" "Bitch!" "Why locking yourselves up with some rope?" "Anybody home?" "What's the matter?" "Where are Mother and Natalya?" "What's happened?" "Have the prisoners gone through?" "They killed them." "Oh God, Grisha!" "Our Darya, the bitch, she herself shot Ivan Alexeyevich." "You're lying!" "What about Shtokman and Koshevoy?" "They weren't among the prisoners." "Mother and Natalya got scared and went to sleep with neighbours." "Darya came home drunk as a beast." "She's sleeping by the barn." "Viper!" "Good morning, my good old men!" "Good morning, Your Excellency!" "Please accept bread and salt as a welcome from the Cossacks." "Thank you." "Please." "As you see, only old men, women and children are left in the village, who can't wear arms." "You may begin." "All the Cossacks fight on the fronts for our common cause." "Darya Timofeyevna Melekhova!" " Melekhova!" " I'm here!" "What?" "Oh, yes..." "Are you the widow of the killed Cornet Melekhov?" "Yes." "You're going to receive money too, 500 rubles." "The Don Government thanks you for your display of valour and expresses its sympathy." "Can I go?" "Yes, yes, of course." "We're awarding women who have shown courage fighting the Bolsheviks." "The first recipient, an officer's widow, herself killed a commissar famous for his cruelty." "O Lord!" "What did they give you a medal for?" "For Ivan Alexeyevich, may he rest in peace, the bastard!" "And this is... for Pyotr." " What will you do with it?" " With what?" " What will you do with the money?" " Whatever I want to." "Take it, Mother, to remember Pyotr." "Order a mass for him and hold a wake." "A few more medals for me and I'll be a general!" "While the officers are fighting, who is going to train the old men?" "So they'll be put under my command." "Will I drill them, the old devils!" "That's how I'll drill them!" "Attention, old men!" "Beards pointing upwards!" "Right, march!" "And there they march, my old men." "One-two!" "One-two!" "Stop your playing." "Blow on it." "O Lord..." "What's the matter with you?" "Come on, come on..." "I'm going to die soon, Natalya." "Stop talking nonsense." "Don't kiss me." "Why not?" "I'm diseased." "Now you've done it..." "Don't be afraid." "It's not catching this way." "Listen, Natalya, I want to confess to you." "I'll die soon anyway." "Whose ring is this?" "Come on, don't be afraid too soon." "You know whose ring this is?" "Right, our neighbour Aksinya's." "And why did she give it to me?" "Think about it." "For sending Grigory out to her." " Did you never guess it?" " I guessed it." "If you did, why didn't you ask him?" "Want me to find out the truth from Aksinya?" "She'll tell me everything." "No, I don't want any favours from you." "It's not for pity of me you confessed that you put them together, but to make me suffer even more." "That's right!" "Why should I be the only one to suffer?" "Do you love your man so much?" "As well as I can." "It means you do." "I've never known real love." "If I had my life to live again... maybe I'd be different." "I see you're looking ill again." "Anything wrong between you and Grigory?" "He's gone back to Aksinya, Mother." "How... how do you know?" "It's true, Mother." "It's your own fault." "Have to keep your eye on a man like him." "I can't tie him to my skirt." "He's gone gray already but doesn't let off." "Is that all your troubles?" "Oh, Mother..." "What do you mean to do?" "What can I do?" "Take the children and go to my old folks." "I won't live with him anymore." "I thought so too when I was young." "My husband was the same kind." "But where will you go?" "Who else needs you?" "And to take the children from their father!" "Besides, you're expecting another." "No, I won't even hear of it." "No, Mother, I won't live with him any longer." "And I won't bear him any more children!" "How can you say such things?" "You have no shame." "Come on, enough." "Stop crying, save some tears for next time." "O Lord!" "He's wrung my heart out of me!" "I can't go on like this!" "May the Lord punish him!" "May the Lord strike him dead!" "Let him be dead and not torture me any more!" " Have you gone mad?" " Punish him, O Lord!" "Stand on your knees!" "You hear me, Natalya?" "Ask God's forgiveness." "Say you take those words back." "Praying for the death of your children's father!" "What a sin!" "Bow to the ground and say:" ""O Lord, forgive me for my sins."" "En-cy-clo-pe-di..." "Encyclopedia." "Wait." "And here?" "Cookbook." "Where's Natalya?" " What?" " Where is Natalya?" "Collected a bundle and went out." " When?" " In the morning." "And what did she say?" "What bundle?" "How do I know?" "Took a clean skirt, something else, and didn't say anything." "Oh, poor girl..." "Oh, what a misfortune..." "What a misfortune!" "Is Father home?" "What have you done to yourself?" "!" "Hush, Mamma." "Help me to bed." "It's all right, it's all right..." "Oh, poor girl..." "Why are you standing?" "Prepare the bed." "Strip off the clean linen." "Spread old rags instead." "Shut up." "Go away and don't come back!" "You have nothing to do here." "Get the horse and drive for the doctor." "What are you talking about?" "Now what's happened?" "Natalya..." "The shameless woman!" "To do a thing like that!" "Father, don't come in, for Christ's sake." "To do such a thing, the Devil's daughter!" "Are you crazy, old man?" "Don't poke in here!" "Why are you dawdling, like a beetle in the dunghill?" "Natalya's dying!" "Go!" "Or I'll go myself!" "Have you gone crazy?" "Shut up, you sticking scab!" "Shouting at your father!" "Cover me with a fur coat." "When I die, Mamma, dress me in my green skirt, the one with a stitched flounce." "Grisha liked it on me." "Don't cry, Mamma..." "It's nothing..." "You said you'd be dying soon, Darya." "You have years and years ahead of you." "And here my last hour has come." "What's the matter with you, Mamma?" "I've fallen ill." "Come closer, my poor boy." " Will you have supper, Mamma?" " I don't know." "I think not." "Then I'll bring it in here, all right?" "Bend down, Mishatka." "You're so like your father..." "Only kinder-hearted..." "Give him to me." "Grigory Panteleyevich, not so fast, you'll kill the horse!" "Grigory Panteleyevich!" "The horse is done for!" "We couldn't save her..." "In the late July of 1919, the Don White Guard Army's forward units were stationed at Balashov." ""Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves."" "To your country, Mr. Campbell." "What a wonderful country it is, Captain." "You can't imagine it." "But I lived there." "Let's drink." "Mr. Campbell doesn't believe we'll beat the Reds." " He doesn't?" " No, he doesn't." "He criticizes our army and praises the Reds." "This damned cognac!" "Strong as pure alcohol." "Yes, pretty powerful." "You know, I like you, Captain." "But why are you so sad?" "What happened, Captain?" "My wife died recently." "Oh, it's awful." "Why does he think highly of the Reds?" "Think highly?" "Who said he does?" "You said so." "Impossible!" "He can't think highly of them." "I'll ask him." " What's he saying?" " Wait." "He's seen them marching along, he's seen barefooted soldiers going against tanks." "That was enough for him." "He says you can't win fighting the people." "He's a fool!" "Don't believe him." " Why not?" " Don't believe a word of his." " What do you mean?" " He's drunk and talking nonsense." "Why can't you win the people?" "Part of them... can be killed off." "And the rest brought into execution." "What did I say?" "Execution?" "No, into submission." "Listen to me:" "Go back home quick." "While you still have a head on your shoulders." "No reason for you to get mixed up in our affairs." "Go, please, or you'll be sorry." " You hear the music, granny?" " What music?" "Which is all bass music." "I hear, but I can't understand what it is." "You'll soon understand." "It's cannon fire." "They're tearing our old men's guts out." "When the Don freezes over, the Reds will chase us all the way to the sea." " Where're you going?" " Bathing in the Don." "Who bathes in this season?" "It's all right, Mamma." "Oh, God..." "Go and play in the yard." "Keep off the street, or they'll trample you down." "Mishatka, come here." "My dear boy!" "Grisha's son." "My darling!" "I've missed you so much." "What a fool, your Aunt Aksinya." "Oh, what a fool!" " Don't look at me." " Why not?" "Don't look, I don't like it." "Since when you don't?" "I don't and that's it." "All right, I'll go in like this." " Hello, Mashutka!" " Hello!" "Goodbye, Dunya!" "Darya, what's the matter?" "Come back!" "Darya!" "Darya's drowned!" "Darya's drowned!" "Darya's drowned!" "Father long mobilized?" "No." "He was hiding but Mitka Korshunov betrayed him." "Even relatives turn against each other, nowadays." " He's no relative to us." " The beast, real beast." "Killed Granny Koshevaya and the children." "That was his revenge to Mishka." "And nobody stopped him?" "Who would?" "Everyone has his own troubles." "Too bad I wasn't here." "You're getting old, brother." "All gray like a lone wolf." "My time has come." "It's my time to grow old, yours to seek a bridegroom." "Only listen to my words." "Don't you dare think of Mishka Koshevoy." "My feeling sorry for his mother changes nothing." "This is a different matter." "If I hear you're seeing him," "I'll tear you limb from limb, like a frog." " When are you leaving?" " Tomorrow." "You know..." "I want to take Aksinya Astakhova with me." "You have no objections?" "What do I care?" "You can take as many as two Aksinyas." "It'll be hard on the horses." "What the devil do you want her for?" "That's none of your business." "Well, the war's over." "The Reds gave us such a push, we'll run all the way to the sea now until we end up with our ass in the salty water." "What are you grinning at?" "You look like a young bride." "Glad to have escaped from the village?" "Of course, I am." "Some escape." "You're a stupid woman." "Who knows how this excursion is going to end." "I won't be worse off, anyhow." "You'd better keep mum." "Where's your husband?" "Running away with a lover and going nobody knows where!" "What if Stepan comes home, what then?" "You know what, Prosha?" "You'd better not meddle in our affairs, or you'll have no luck either." "Save your bickering." "We've a long way to go, you'll have enough time." " Grisha!" " I'm here, I'm here." "You see?" "I'm here, Ksyusha." "Grisha..." "It's bad, Grisha." "Grisha..." "I'm here." "I'm here, Ksyusha." "Close the door tightly." " Is she his wife?" " Yes, his wife." "Any children?" "Yes, we've got everything but luck." "Listen, friend, help me in my trouble, for Christ's sake." "We can't take her any farther, she'll die." "Let her stay with you." "I'll pay you for taking care of her." "Naturally." "Who would look after her for nothing?" "As it is we've more work than we can manage." "Do it, please." "I'll remember your kindness all my life." "How much would you pay?" "How much can you afford?" "Take all I have." "What kind of money is that?" "Haven't you any tsarist bills?" "No." "Maybe Kerensky's, then?" " This money isn't very reliable." " I have no Kerensky's money." "Do you want my horse?" " Take it." " Take it..." "It's no use, If the Whites don't confiscate it, the Reds will." "What?" "What?" "Here, take this!" "Choke on it." "All right, we'll do you the favour." "Novorossiyisk March 27, 1920" "While we fought, they needed us." "Now they don't care a hoot for us." "Damn them, let's get away from here." "Let's go to Tiflis, and from there to the Turks." "Have to save our skins somehow." "Why are you as gloomy as a fish?" "No, I won't go." "What for?" "Anyway, it's too late." "Look!" "The Reds!" "And once again spring came to the village of Tatarsky." "Good day, dear neighbour." "You've been away a long time." "Why do you stare at me and keep silent?" "Have you brought bad news?" "What about Grigory..." "Was he sick when you parted?" "No, he wasn't sick." "Thank God for that." "It can't be that I should lose my last son." "There's nothing for God to punish me for." "Don't worry about him, Grandma." "He won't get sick." "He's strong as iron." "Such men don't die." "Did he ever think of the children?" "Yes, of both you and the children." "Are they well?" "What can happen to them?" "But Panteley Prokofievich had died when they retreated." "We're left all alone now." "Well, goodbye." "When you get settled, come to see us." "If you hear from Grigory, let me know." "All right, Grandma." "Hello, Aunt Ilyinichna." "You weren't expecting me, were you?" "Hello." "What are you to me that I should expect you?" "A twice-removed cousin to our fence?" " We were acquainted, you know." " And nothing more." " I haven't come to live with you." " That's all we need!" "Where is Dunyasha?" "Tidying up the house." "You're an early guest." "Good people don't come that early." "I've been longing for her." "I didn't care what time it was." "Mikhail, you'd better not make me angry." "How am I angering you, auntie?" "How can you have the gall to come to our house?" "How dare you even ask?" "Who killed Pyotr?" "Wasn't it you?" "Yes, I did." "Then what are you to be called after that?" "And you come here and sit down as if..." " Hello." " Hello." "Go and fetch water." "How can you face me?" "I've no reason to hang my head." "If Pyotr had caught me, what would he have done?" "He would have killed me too." "We weren't at war with each other in order to play kissing games." "War is war, you know." "And my hand is steady when I see the enemy." "That's why you've gone all yellow, because of that steadiness." "It must be your conscience that's eating you." "Not my conscience, but a fever." " Otherwise, Mother, I would..." " I'm not a mother to you!" "Murderer!" "Get out of here!" "Get out!" "I can't bear the sight of you." "And your Mitka Korshunov, isn't he a murderer?" "And Grigory?" "Why do you keep quiet about him?" "If anybody's a murderer, it's he!" "Are you going to mow in the meadow?" "Everybody went to the other bank." "We have nothing to cross in." "The boat's dried up." "It should be put in the water." "Who's is going to drag it down there?" "Have you got any tow?" "There must be some." "I'll see." " Hello, namesake." " Hello." "What are you going to do?" "What I'm going to do?" "Have to fix your boat." "Will you make a small rake for me?" "I will." "What is it with you?" "Listen, namesake, bring me some covering." "I'll lie down." "Grandma!" "Grandma!" "Uncle Mikhail is lying in the shed, all shivering." "Why don't you say something, Grandma?" "Take him a blanket." "Let him cover himself, the antichrist." "He's got a fever." " Can you carry it?" " I can." "Wait!" "Don't bother." "Dunya!" " Prokhor Zykov is back." " Really?" "!" "He got wounded." "I'll go see if he knows anything about Grigory." "Hello, companion!" "Never thought to see you alive." "Hello, Prokhor." "I see that typhus makes your kind even prettier." "Come on in, sit down." "Be our guest." "Let's talk until my wife is back." "I've sent her for some home brew." "See how Polacks have worked on me?" "Damn the bastards!" "You'd better tell me..." "I know." "Grigory asked me to give you a bow for him." "Why are you howling, you fool?" "Women!" "Bad news or good, they howl!" "Wipe your face." "He's alive and well, he's even put on weight." "In Novorossiyisk, the two of us joined Comrade Budyonny's Cavalry." "Right." "Grigory was put in command of a hundred." "A squadron." "And I was under him." "And we went straight to Kiev." "Will he be coming on leave?" ".." "Don't even dream of it." "He said: "I'll serve until I atone for my past sins."" "Ever in battle." "He's earned a citation." "That's your Grigory for you!" "Sit down, let's have tea." "No, thanks..." "Go on, then, run and tell the whole village." "What are you doing, Mamma?" "Well, Dunyasha..." "When I come in from the yard, it eases my heart." "As if he's with us already." "Mamma, give me your blessing to marry Mikhail." "There you go again!" "No, I won't give you my blessing." "I won't give you to him." "Then I'll run away from home." "Are you mad?" "!" "What will I do alone with the children?" "Do you want to ruin us?" "As you wish, Mamma." "I'll go all the same." "People are saying we hired Mikhail to be our labourer." "My late mother blessed me with this icon." "Taken all your things?" "That's better..." "Don't take any of mine." "Why the burial clothes?" "It's early for you to be thinking of dying." "God forbid!" "No... it's time." "Look after the children till Grisha comes." "I'm afraid I won't live to see him." "Why a church wedding?" " Can't we do without?" " No, Misha, don't even mention it." "Mother feels bad enough about us as it is." "Oh, well..." "What can I do with you?" "Grisha!" "My darling!" "My dear son!" "Mamma's getting ready to die." "What do you want?" "You can retire, old man." "I've been appointed in your place." " Thank God!" " Hand over all the stuff." "Here, son, are all the papers." "And more papers." "And still more." "And here's..." "There it is!" "The village seal." "Take it all, for the love of Christ." "And what about me?" "I'm over 70." "It's time for me to make my peace with the Lord, instead they've made me a chairman." " Where's the secretary?" " What?" " I say, where's the secretary?" " Out sowing." "He's not been around since Yegoryev Day." "When an important paper arrives, you can't find him even with dogs." "And I can hardly sign my name, and can't read at all." "All I can do is stamp papers." "This is the lot." "There's no money." "No ataman's scepter under the Soviets." "If you like, I can leave you my crutch." "Well, granddad, let's say you've handed everything over." "Now get the hell out of here!" " Where to?" " Take yourself home!" "Ah, all right." "I recognized you at once." "You're the late Koshevoy's son." " Yes, I am." " Good day to you, then." "Go, go!" " What happened?" " Grisha's come home!" "Congratulations." " Hello, Misha." " Hello, hello!" "It's been a long time." "Like a hundred years." "Yes, you're right." "Welcome home." "Thanks." "So we're kin now?" "Yes, looks like it." "What's that blood on your cheek?" "Cut myself while shaving." "I was in a hurry." "What is it?" "Want to call someone to kill a sheep." "The master ought to be given a fitting welcome." "Tell Prokhor Zykov to dig up some home brew." "He knows better how to do it." "And invite him for supper." "Well... my dear hostess?" "Grigory Panteleyevich!" "Grigory Panteleyevich!" "My dear man!" "I never thought I'd live to see the day!" " Come for good?" " For good." "What rank did you rise to?" "Deputy regimental commander." "Why did they discharge you so soon?" "Had no more use for me." "Why so?" "Because of my past, I guess." "Where's Mikhail?" "In the yard." "Platon Ryabchikov was shot last month." " No, they couldn't!" " Believe me, they did." "Well, we'll talk later." "Let's drink, Commander!" "Come in, Ksyusha." "Sit down, be our guest." "Hello." "Hello, Ksyusha." "Sit down." "Our companion, Ksyusha!" "We retreated together, we fed lice together." "Drink to the health of Grigory Panteleyevich." "Don't listen to him, he's already drunk." "To your return, Grigory Panteleyevich!" "And to your joy, Dunya." "What about you?" "To your sorrow?" "And to my joy!" "A great joy." "Bottoms up, for Christ's sake." "You talk straight, drink straight, too." "When something's left in the glass, it's like a knife in my heart." "You, Mikhail, are like a calf in those matters." "And I know about drinks." "There's such a wine - you hardly take a cork out, and it's all foaming, like a rabid dog." "That night I fell from my horse three times, as if I was blown off." "A glass of such wine is great on an empty stomach." "How are you?" "Oh, there's too much to tell." " Will you come?" " I will." "I'm not taking the jug." "I hate to walk with an empty vessel." "My wife will nag me." "Will you get home all right?" "I will, even if I'll have to crawl." "Aren't I a Cossack?" "You're insulting me." "Wait." "Shall we talk, Mikhail?" "All right, let's talk." "Something's wrong between us." "My coming isn't to you liking, is it?" "Right, it isn't." " Why not?" " Additional trouble." "Don't worry, I can make my own living." "I didn't mean that." "What, then?" "You and I are enemies." " We were." " I guess we will." "Why?" "You killed too many of our fighters." "That's why I can't look at you and not feel hatred." "I can't forget it." "You've got a good memory." "You killed my brother Pyotr, and I don't remind you about it." "If we remember everything, we'll live like wolves." "I can imagine how you would've talked to me if we had the Cadets' rule now, if it were you who had won over." "I guess you would've cut belts out of my back." "But now you seem so kind." "I don't know about others, but I'd not have dirtied my hands with you." "So we're not alike." "I've never been too shy to dirty my hands with the enemy, and if need be, would do it right now." "Want to have a drink?" "Yes, for we seem to be too sober for this talk." "So you're afraid, Mikhail, that I will rebel against the Soviets?" "I'm afraid of nothing, but I'm sure that once there's some trouble, you'll join the other side." "I'm not going to join anybody." "I've done my service." "I'm not going to serve anybody any more." "In my life I've done more than enough fighting." "My soul is exhausted." "I'm fed up with everything:" "revolution, counter-revolution." "Let it all go to hell!" "I want to live with my children and work at the farm." "That's all." "No, man, that's not all." "The revolutionary tribunal won't be asking you what you want." "When are you going to register at Vyoshenskaya?" " One of these days." " You must go tomorrow." "Give me a day to rest." "I won't run away." "The devil only knows." "I don't want to be responsible for you." "What a bastard you've become." "Don't you bastard me." "I'm not used to that." "You ought to get rid of those officer's ways of yours." "Go there tomorrow." "If you don't go by yourself, I'll have you convoyed." "Is it clear?" "Everything's clear to me now." "My darling Grisha..." "How gray you've gotten." "You're growing old, aren't you?" "Oh, what a lad you used to be!" "It's Dunyasha." "Run quick, brother!" "Four men have come from the town, they say you're to be arrested." "Thank you, sister." "Some bread, quick!" "Not the whole one, just a piece!" "Go back or they'll notice your absence." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "I'll send word of myself." "Through Prokhor." "Lock the door." "If they ask, say I went to Vyoshenskaya." "Goodbye." "Grisha..." "Stop!" "Stop, son of a bitch!" "Who are you?" "A Communist?" "Hands out of your pockets or I'll slice your head off!" " Go ahead." " Where to?" "Forward!" "Hands behind your back!" " And who are you?" " Russian Orthodox men." "Go on." "Melekhov?" "Hello." "Really, the steppe is wide, but the road is narrow!" "Where've you turned up from?" " Hello." " Hello." "Take your coat off and sit down." "Where did my guys catch you?" "Near the village." "Where were you heading?" "Wherever my feet took me." "You think we caught you and take your to Vyoshenskaya?" "No, man, we're barred from that place." "Don't get scared." "We don't serve the Soviets any longer." "We're divorced from them." "I'm thinking of stirring up the Cossacks." "Stop fidgeting." "Do you hear me?" "We hear there's war all around, there're rebellions everywhere, in Siberia, in the Ukraine, and even in Petrograd." "The whole fleet has risen in that fortress... what's its name..." "In Kronshtadt." "Idiot!" "Well, what do you decide?" "Speak up and let's go to bed." "Decide about what?" "Are you going with us or what?" "You can't hide in someone else's barns all your life." "You're right." "I've got no choice." "I'll join your band." "What do you mean, band?" "Stop calling us names." "Why do you call us a band?" "It's the Communists who call us that, but you shouldn't." "We're just rebels." "Brief and clear." "All right, that's it." "I'm giving you my horse." "I've got another one." "The red-haired one." "Cossacks!" "You know of your own experience what burdens the Soviets have saddled you with." "If they're not overthrown, you'll face final ruin." "Good day!" "See my strong army!" "With such boys, we can win over the devil himself." "The Soviets are doomed." "And you?" "Stop your babbling." "Cossacks!" "Learn how to speak from me." "Cossacks!" "As of today, we free you of a requisition for farm produce." "You are not to deliver grain any more!" "It is time to stop feeding the Communist parasites!" "They've been fattening on your bread!" "But we're ending all that." "You are free people!" "Arm yourselves and support our government!" "Hurray, Cossacks!" "Your government is good, but have you brought us soap?" "Whose bread are you eating?" "They'll start stealing from our houses." "They've got sabers, they'll cut our chickens' heads." "What do you mean, not to deliver grain?" "Today you're here, but tomorrow we're to answer for you?" "We won't give you our men!" "Go and fight yourselves." "No one's going to join them." "We don't need to rebel." "It's time for harvesting, not fighting." "Look at this one with a moustache, riding around stirring folk up." "Don't you teach us!" "Nothing to say, red devil?" "Aren't I right?" "Shut up, you pockmarked bitch!" "Stop your agitating!" "You Bolshevik swine!" "I'll knock this nonsense out of your head!" "I'll have you whipped on your bare bottom, and you'll get to your senses!" "Like hell you will!" "Whipping me?" "!" "Go whistle for it!" "Look at him, our Tsar Liberator!" "To horse!" "The Reds!" "We'll yet see who wins." "I shan't lay down arms." "Sit down to supper, brigands." "I'm a convinced fighter against the Soviets." "And you call me a brigand." " Rightly so." " Rightly?" "Don't you understand, fool, that I'm fighting for an idea?" "Stop pulling wool over my eyes." "Some "idealist" you are." "A born brigand." "Good or bad, but the Soviet government has held on since 1917." "Anyone who fights against it is a brigand." "Stop wolfing the food." "You're not alone yet." "There are four of us." "If one goes, the other three will have more." "What?" "You want to run away?" "I've nowhere to run and no one to run from." "But I'm going and you can't stop me." "Stop it, Melekhov!" "I'll shoot!" "You won't." "You can't risk any noise." "Hello, Ksyusha!" "Wait!" "Quiet." "Don't open the door." "I'll come through the window." "How are you?" "Where have you been?" "What if you're caught, Grisha?" "Don't worry." "Will you go with me?" "Where?" "To the south, the Kuban, or even farther." "We'll earn a living." "I'll take any work." "My hands long for work, not a gun." "Will you go?" "What do you think?" "What do you think?" "I'd walk, I'd crawl anywhere after you." "I can't live without you, Grisha." "What about the children?" "Dunyasha will care for them." "Afterwards we'll take them." "So you going?" "Grisha!" "Once before we went like this to Yagodnoye." "Only our bundle was bigger and we were younger." "Why do you carry your rifle?" "What do you need it for?" "I'll throw it away farther on." "I'll throw everything away, Ksyusha." "Will you manage to hang on?" "Lord, I'd ride, or crawl, or anything." "When we get out of the ravine, the going will be easier." "Halt!" "Who goes there?" "Go on, Ksyusha!" "Keep lower!" "Halt!" "A hit, I think." "For God's sake, say at least one word!" "Why don't you?" "What are you doing here?" "Whom have you buried?" "My wife." " Where are you going?" " To look for an easy life." "Come with me?" "An easy life?" "No." "Go alone." "And you, where will you go?" "Home?" "Yes, home." "Take the horse." "Thank you very much." "Good luck." "Mishatka!" "My son!" "My little son... my son!" "The End"