"Studio 'Youth' presents" "The Mysterious Wall" "Attention!" "First camera on." "Good." "Is Camera 2 ready?" " Yes." "Full lights!" "Put the mic closer." "Good, thank you." "Attention, we're on air." "Are you ready?" " Ready." "The next page of our TV Journal we called 'The Mysterious Wall'." "We've invited a team of researchers to tell you all about this mysterious phenomenon." "Please." "I think, we shall hear Andrei Erdeli, the chief of the expedition studying the wall, who's flying to the place of events in the next few days." "Mr. Erdeli, I've heard there's already an expedition working there?" "Yes, they were gathering preliminary evidence." "If I'm not mistaken, Professor Lomov is running it?" " Yes." "Mr. Erdeli, so what is this wall, in general?" "The wall has appeared only recently." "It was discovered accidentally by a geological team." "They said, the wall appeared out of nowhere and encircled them, for two days isolating them from the world." "Excuse me, a question:" "what does it look like?" "I haven't been there yet." "They say, it's like a thunder cloud with lightning." "I'm sorry for the interruption, please continue." "The geologists couldn't break the circle." "The wall carries a very high electrical charge." "Highly dangerous for people." "Yes." "You can't walk through the wall." "More-so, the geologists couldn't use their radio." "The wall blocks radio waves." "In two days it disappeared." "The geologists notified Moscow about the incident." "And in a couple of hours it appeared again, and keeps appearing and disappearing at the same time and the same place." "Our guests have brought us some tapes made by the Lomov group." "Let's hear them." "Please." "That's the wall's background noise." "That's the sound it makes when appearing." "This noise appears at the most unexpected times." "We do not know it's origin." "Very interesting." "What did Lomov find out?" "The team managed to measure the temperature of the wall's surface." "To count the time it appears and disappears." "They built a scientific station inside the circle." "They are building a settlement near, gathering the equipment." "And what are Lomov's thoughts on the nature of the wall?" "None yet." "You must understand, it's been not so long." "Is it true that Professor Lomov thinks that the Wall was sent here by the inhabitants of some other planet?" "It is so." "He's sure that the wall is the work of an extraterrestrial civilization." "Something like our automatic stations that we send to the Moon, Mars or Venus." "But as yet there's no proof of such a theory." "Science deals in facts." "Lomov's assumptions seem to me purely fantastical." "Mr. Erdeli, what do you think?" "I think, the wall is a place where electro-magnetic fields gather." "Like a giant ball lightning, an absolutely natural thing." "There are other theories." "Its energy is too big for Earth, it may very well be a message from space." "But not necessarily created by aliens." "No, not necessarily." "The wall doesn't look like any interplanetary communication, that we seem to think so much about lately." "It'd be much easier to communicate via radio or with a laser ray." "It takes a lot of energy to build a wall like this." "I see you haven't reached a consensus yet." "It takes time." " Another question:" "Is it true that the wall affects the psyche of a person and causes hallucinations?" "I haven't been there and couldn't witness the wall's mysterious qualities." "Dear viewers, let's thank our great scientists who are standing on the verge of new discoveries." "The next page of our TV Journal is Sport." "Now, Leningrad." "Print it." "Switch off the lights, leave the duty ones." "Sergei, reel in the cable." "Tell me now..." "Is Lovom's theory complete gibberish?" "Lomov is a serious scientist." "Excuse me." "I didn't mean to hurt anyone, but you are recalling him, aren't you?" "He just needs to rest." "I won't take any more of your time, goodbye." " Goodbye." "Goodbye, thank you." "This wall story is getting anecdotal." "I could never imagine Lomov becoming a prisoner of his childhood dreams." "Is there news from him?" " No, he hasn't sent anything for a week." "What's with the equipment?" " He said he doesn't need anything." "He took an active sonar, modified it in some way..." "There will be problems." "Andrei Iraklievich, excuse me." "You do have your plane ticket already?" " Yes." "I know Professor Lomov is your friend." "Do not take it all too close to your heart." "Try to gently explain the situation to him." "Good luck." " All the best." "Lena?" "Hello." "I didn't have time to call you, you know what happened?" "Ah, you were watching the TV." "They suggest Lomov takes a rest, I'm in a ridiculous situation." "Tomorrow." "I leave tomorrow." "A permit?" "For you?" "Behind the wall?" "You'll see him soon, he'll be in Moscow in a couple of days." "You too are interested in the wall?" "Our drivers say this wall was built by Martians!" "Martians?" " Martians." "Andrei, what if it's true?" "Ok-ok, I stop." " Or maybe they lie." "Martians are the first thing we need here." "We just can't cope without Martians." "Why, why do you need Martians?" "How do you mean, why?" " Well, why?" "Well, you know..." "Or, well, we can do without them." "That's what I think." "But Lomov thinks differently." "Doesn't he, Lena?" "We will leave on Friday, cause there's no life on Mars." "And you, what are you to comrade Lomov?" "His fiancé." " A hero." "Who is?" " Comrade Lomov." "He spent three months under the dome, and they used to switch people every day." "Many people go crazy, say the wall draws them." "Going to the village?" " Yes." "Take the sergeant there." " Yes, sir." "He needs to get behind the wall to see Lomov." "There was an accident." "Is Lomov all right?" "Calm down, no casualties reported." "Are these the scientists?" " Yes." "Are you closing him down?" " Don't know." " If yes, good." "We've had enough." "The general entrusted him with the gear, let him use it, and now the accident." "Science can't do without the military." "Karpukhin!" "Our sonar operator." "Repeat your orders." " Check the sonar, prepare it for transportation." "Right." "I'll come on Wednesday with the General." "Do you understand the responsibility?" " Yes, sir." "May I go now?" " Yes." "53 minutes till the wall appears." "Is it your first time behind the wall, sergeant?" "Yes, sir, first time." "Me, too." "And I could go to Jakarta to the conference." "Great route." "Delhi, Calcutta, Bangkok, Hong Kong." "Hong Kong is a trifle." " What?" "I say, it's trifle." " Have you been there?" " I have." "Why trifle?" " No bananas." "When we were heading for Hong Kong on a tanker, I was in the merchant fleet." "It was good, romantic." "We were saving a foreign writer there." "Singapore is another thing." "They have special monkeys guarding the bananas." "And collecting them." "I brought such a monkey to my mom." "Where is it now?" "She gave it away, it was getting on her nerves." "We are here." "The village." "Good evening, comrades." "Andrei Iraklievich Erdeli?" "The new chief of the expedition?" " Good evening." "Your papers?" "You'll spend four days behind the wall with Lomov." "Your people and the equipment are on their way." "What's with Lomov?" " His group left." "He'll give you the papers and leave too." "Hello." "I'm Fokin." " Show our comrades the way." "It's 37 min till the wall." "'37 minutes before the appearance of the wall'" "Break a leg!" " Thanks." "Good evening." "Do you have matches?" " We have everything." "They say Petrov the carpenter had a vision behind the wall." "The forest disappeared." "And suddenly he's at his daughter's wedding, and it was two years ago." "His daughter is wearing a white dress." "And he's still in his sheepskin and valenkis." "He poured himself a glass of vodka, and then everything disappeared." " Shame." "Shame on you, and Lomov." "Wanna pollute science with mysticism?" "We won't let you." "Such stories are the result of your idealistic attitude to the phenomena of nature." "Devils, goblins, witches, Martians." "'33 minutes before the appearance of the wall'" "Andrei Iraklievich, 33 min." " Are you Erdeli?" "Now everybody is here." "Let's go." "Comrade, let the boy go." "Why do you need him, he's a good boy, a scout." "You should thank us, we may have saved your kids from death." "We keep catching kids who want to get under the dome." "Hello." "Hello." "Everybody here?" " Yes." "We are here." "You will have to go by foot to the area of the wall." "Along the road leading to the station, there are special accompanying automats." "You'll have to walk fast, the wall will appear in 31 min." "Have you filled out Form 17?" " We did." "Remember everything?" " Yes." "Good?" " Good." "Recite it." " But why, dear comrade?" "Kids, go home." "Recite Form 17." "Inside the perimeter of the wall there is an automatic warning system." "Miss, continue." " You know..." "Continue." "The moment somebody crosses the warning system there will be an alarm." " Enough." "Now you, young man." "The system protects members of the expedition when they work close to the wall." "It is prohibited to cross the line of detectors without a permit." "Enough." "Here are the indicators." "Sign for them." "You're a bureaucrat." "I am." "That's my value." "'27 minutes before the appearance of the wall'" "'26 minutes before the appearance of the wall'" "Lena, stay here." "Sergeant, where are you?" "Sergeant!" "Where did he go?" "Who's there?" " Us, the Martians." "You came too?" " To take you back." " Hi, Lomov." "Hello, Andrei." " You do understand why I'm here?" " I do." "Who's that?" " The sonar operator, the military sent him." "Sergeant Karpukhin reporting for duty." " Not so official." "Name?" "Valentin." "Valya." "You'll take the sonar away?" " Yes, sir." "Too bad." " What happened here?" "Look here." "The pictures: a circle, a square." "A man." " A man?" "We've added a thing to the sonar and transmitted these pictures inside the wall." "They say we do it anyway, so we decided to try." "And?" " The sonar broke down." "My assistant got his hands burned." " That's all?" "Yep." " Good." "That's Irtysh, he doesn't bite." "'25 minutes before..."" "My people come on Friday, when the wall is gone." "I'll look around till then." "Egor, I must tell you that there'll be some serious research." "Well, where does the wall come from?" " I don't know." "It's difficult to work with." "You can't come close." "Can't take any probes." "Every instrument gets burned." " Too bad." "Valya, you can stay upstairs, Lena, you're here." "Andrei, you'll have a great room when I leave." "Really?" "What a mess!" "Sergeant, take your clothes off." " Thank you." "Let me look at you under the lights." "Why do you look so bad?" " Have you brought something tasty?" "Fresh tomatoes." " Where from?" " Doctor, you forget it's spring elsewhere." "We've brought letters." "The scientific community waits for you." "Where's the bag?" "Are you going to unpack for two days?" "There's a woman here." "Get the glasses." "You work too much." "And you, on Earth, thought that we do nothing behind the wall?" "On Earth?" "That's funny." " It's been three months for me." "I'm crazy." "Am I crazy, Lena?" " Of course." "Your towel is under the bed." "Well, when will the wall appear?" "In 4,5 minutes." "I wanna take a look." " Stop!" "I ask you not to leave the house till morning." "You could get lost." "Where's the sweater?" " Which one?" "The one I gave you as a present." "There." " Where 'there'?" "When the wall disappears, the radio turns on and I communicate with the Earth." "At this time there's always a 'Pionerskaya Zor'ka' on." "If I didn't have any information, and just now appeared on Earth," "I would think that it's a planet of kids and musicians." "Interesting, isn't it?" " Very much so." "One minute left." " You can't see it from the window." "The wall..." " No, there'll be a signal." "The warning system is on." "Now?" "Let's drink, then." "To our meeting." "Will it always be so bright?" "While the wall is there, yes." " How do we sleep?" "Water's in the kitchen, sleeping pills are in the first-aid kit." "Why aren't you sleeping?" " Don't want to." "Nobody sleeps here the first night." "Tell me, Lena..." " What?" "What do you think of it?" "You mean, the Martians?" " Not necessarily." "Just the intelligent creatures from other solar systems." "You mean, aliens?" "You know, now everything has to do with aliens." "Whatever happens, it must be the aliens." "Strange drawings in a desert?" "Who made them?" "Aliens." "Spots in the sky?" "Aliens in their flying saucers." "Are you serious about it?" " It's been three months." "But nothing happened in three months." "Today I did what I should've done long ago." "Transmitted information inside." "Dots and squares?" " Yes, the drawings." "Vasya conducted the transmission, and I stood right beside him." "During the transmission, there was a fire on the surface of the wall." "The ones near the sonar saw it, I only felt that it was moving." "Then the console sparked, and Vasya got his hands burned." "It was so unexpected, we didn't have time to take photos." "It's only you I can tell." " Wait, you think the wall answered?" "I don't know." "What if it was just a malfunction of the sonar?" "What if you got tired after three months, and are now seeing things?" "Can it be?" " Yes." "But I don't want to leave." "Shall we come closer?" " To the wall?" "Together." "Interesting to see it up close." "What's the noise?" " Ah, nothing." "Just walking and smoking." "Sergeant guards me." "I asked you not to leave the house." " What, were there some troubles?" " No." "You shouldn't have brought Lena, she's tired, it's her vacation." "I'm leaving." " Listen." "Am I your friend?" " Yes." "Whatever happens?" " Yes, yes." "You see, I didn't want to come." " I get it." "Listen to me." "That philosophy of yours..." "Do you live in this world?" " I do." "You live, you're 35 years old." " 37." "Ok, 37." "You have legs..." "You have hands, and I hope a head too." " Well?" "She loves you." "Marry her, what more do you need?" "Go to the sea, to Sukhumi, it's spring there, roses bloom." "Stop it, go to sleep." " Ok, let's go inside." "What about you?" " I'll take a walk." "Andrei Iraklievitch." "When I used to work in the merchant fleet" "One of our workers used to tell stories about the flying saucers." "His brother-in-law saw one." "He was on his way to Sochi, the train stopped, and the saucers landed on a 3 square km field." "Why tell me?" " Just came to my mind." "They say, the aliens took one Polish comrade before the war." "Then brought him back, to Poland." " Bullshit." "Many people do not believe." "He should've taken something from there." "For proof." " Do you want guests from space?" "Who doesn't?" "There's a very slight possibility." "Intelligent life is only on Earth." "And the next star is a couple light years away." "It's easier for two dust specks to meet at the Bolshoi." "Two specks of dust do not have reason to meet." "Why the hell would they meet?" "You're lucky, you'll go to Sukhumi, to swim in the sea." "What's that?" " It's soap, my dear." "You'll eat khachapuri at the restaurant on the mountain." "I'll give you a note." "Why do you think we'll go to Sukhumi?" " You will, Lena." "Believe me." " Take a seat." "There's a wedding outside." "Lot's of guests." "I've never seen your wife." "She's a beauty." "Lives in the village." "Brings up our son in the fresh air." "Egor!" "Valya, where's Egor?" "I don't know." " Interesting." "Lomov!" "Lomov!" "May I?" " You up already?" "What are you doing?" " Well, soldering." "Is it broken?" "Yes, and I want to repair it, cause it's my responsibility." "It's ok, sergeant will do it." "Andrei, I have a request." "Let me stay for a couple of days." "It's enough for you." "Do you refuse me as a new boss?" " Oh, come on." "Do you know something others don't?" " No." "Egor, get this." "If it really is aliens, they still won't understand your pictures." "Why's that?" "Because they may be totally different to us." "Small as ants, or big as clouds." "What if the wall IS an alien?" "Will you eat?" " Later." "Comrade Lomov, I'll go work on the sonar." "Andrei told me that we are going to Sukhumi, is it true?" "It is, Lena." "Valya!" "Well?" "I checked it." "Can't find the sparks that you saw, it seems to be ok." "It's ok?" " Egor Petrovich." "You better not." "What if, again..." " What again?" "You'll go to Moscow on Friday, and I'll have a general with an inspection." "Well, if so..." "I get it, sergeant." " Comrade Lomov." "I share your theories." "I still need to finish here." "If there's still time, I'll be glad to let you work." "I'll tell you." "Hi." "Give me a paw." "Have you seen the whale?" "His head's like this." "Give me a paw." "Oh, well." "(recites a Russian nursery rhyme)" "How did I get here?" "Comrade boatswain, am I dreaming?" "Help me!" "Help me!" "Be quick, help me!" "I know, we're on route from Melbourne to Vladivostok." "It this the Yellow Sea?" " Yes, yes." "Why am I dry, and he's wet?" "What's happening?" "It's a dream!" "My cat is still there!" "Lift!" "Lift!" "My cat is there!" "He'll die!" " He won't." "We saved you two years ago, I remember." "I need to cross the ocean." "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?" "It's still 500 miles." " Parlez-vous Francais?" "I'm from Canada, I'm writing a book on man's solitude." "Ah, do you speak English?" " Yes." "I'm from Canada." " Do you want answers, sir, aren't you?" "You're very kind, gentlemen, thank you." "But I need to be in my tub." "As you like." " Who's he?" "He speaks English." "Don't understand." "I do." "Do I dream you?" "I dream all of you." "It very well may be." "Why did you rescue me?" " You gave the S.O.S. signal." "I thought nobody would hear me, I was alone in the ocean." "Listen, aren't you a Martian?" " No." "I'm nobody, I'm alone in the ocean." "Although, it's very beautiful." "A Martian?" "Yes, I am." "For you, I'm a Martian." "We do not understand each other." "For you, I'm a Martian." "We're all Martians." "We're all naked in the ocean." "The captain will come and sort it all out." "What's to sort out, he's a Martian." "The world is impregnated with strontium." "The air, the land, the sea shells." "Strontium everywhere." "And nobody can understand what kind of a wall divides people." "Who are you?" "I'm a writer, I'm writing a book on how a man is alone." "I see." "Spread out, now!" "I've crossed the English Channel on an ironing-board." "Don't touch." "I love him because he hates the ocean." "A tub?" " A tub." "A cat." " A cat." "A tanker." " Yes." "Listen, tell me what's happening." "Let me through, please." "You still won't understand what I'm saying." "He eats!" " Everything around us is a dream." "We will never understand each other." "We just have to meet and talk." " What for?" "Poor cat." "Monster!" "People are as far from each other as the stars in the sky." " Bullshit!" "It's not true." "You were drowning, and we were near." "You cried for help." "And we saved you." "So you are not right." " Propaganda!" "Hey, it's very in now, take it." "Yeah, it's for you." " Well, ok." "Propaganda." "Time to go." "Heave ho!" "Stop." "Ciao!" "Ciao!" "Comrade Lomov!" "Martians!" "You were right!" "What are you talking about?" " Aliens!" "We must prepare ourselves, they could be here any minute." "Who are 'they'?" " I know, I know!" ".." "You're holding back." "I'm sure we can negotiate with them." "They say you can't enter the wall, and they draw you nevertheless." "Calm down, Karpukhin!" " They messed with my head." "I made contact with them!" "Did you finish checking the sonar?" " You don't believe me!" "No, I don't!" "Fool, I'm a fool!" "I should have taken something as a proof." "Now it's like that Polish man..." "Why's the sonar smoking?" " My coat might be burning." "It doesn't matter." "We must prepare for the meeting." "You really don't believe me." "But it happened." "It did." "Come on." "And you didn't believe me." "You hear that?" " It works." "I'll try to repeat transmission." " How did it start?" "I drew a ship, wanted to transmit, and then I was at sea." "Is it to do with the transmission?" "Of course!" " Let me try!" " Wait!" "I know, I know." " Wait, let me try." "I say, let me!" " Come on, wait!" "Egor!" "When I gave my lecture in the observatory, one boy asked me about the wall." "What did you answer?" " Nothing." "Told him it was a subject matter for the high school." "The Martians, hallucinations, Form 17... the warning system." "I don't get it." " Hold the screwdriver." "Andrei, what if the wall really draws people to it?" "Let's go and try." " No, I won't go." "But why?" " Just so." "I went outside yesterday, and the sergeant with me, we were looking at the wall." "It doesn't look like a storm cloud." "Andrei, you don't believe in aliens." "Let's get closer." "Maybe something will become clear." "You think you'll go alone if need be." "What if it's the wall that makes you come closer?" "Bullshit." "The engine is dead, the sonar, too." "We did something wrong." "Did you have such visions, too?" "I did." "You say bullshit, and still Lomov waits for something." "See, the telephone." "You didn't answer my question." "Telephones are everywhere here." "He put it here in case something happens, but didn't get a single call in 3 months." "Andrei, will we go to the wall?" " Don't joke about it." "We need to find more places for detectors." "I have this much to do." "You must be afraid..." " I am." "...that it will draw you." "I want to tell you something." "Either go with me, or I go alone." " Lena, listen." "I came here, and here I sometimes think Lomov is right." "What?" " No, seriously." "You have a strange sense of humor, great." "You see the wall?" "See me approach it." "Lena!" " I'm going, it draws me." "Lena!" "Lena!" "Stop hugging me." "Andrei, come back immediately." "Do you hear me?" "Andrei!" " Go to the station, take this road." "I'll pick up the sledge and come, too." "Lena, go back to the house." "(The Georgian song.)" "'Andrei, come back immediately." "Andrei, do you hear me?" "'" "'Andrei!" "'" "(They speak Georgian.)" "(Still Georgian.)" "Good afternoon, uncle Georgiy." "Hello, you grew up!" "Let's drink!" "Why are you here, uncle Georgiy?" "I work." "Somebody has to." "Why don't you ask me anything?" " What?" "You're too young for me to ask you things." "You have to ask me." " But uncle..." "It's no use talking to you." "What do you know about the wall?" "Why are you here?" "So many questions!" "You better look how the grapes grow." "The sun is shining." "We're drinking wine." "Why the grapes?" "Why the sun?" "Why the wine?" "Why does the accountant lie to women?" "Why do they want to retire me?" "Why did you leave for Moscow and visit your wife as a guest?" "You're a scientist." "Why not work as an accountant?" " I dream you, uncle." "You're my hallucination, you are the things I remember about you." "You never used to talk like this." " I always used to talk like this!" "But you didn't listen, you lot never listen!" " Who are you, old man?" "Do you understand what I'm asking?" "You may call me the Martian, if you like." "Why do you cling to this old planet, I don't get it!" "[undecipherable]" "Let's drink!" "How do you do it?" " You won't understand." "Cause you're afraid." "You're a coward!" "'Sector 5 alarm!" "'" "'A person approaching the wall.'" "Stop!" " Sergeant!" "Why are you here?" " You were approaching the wall!" "Lomov sent me, cause you weren't answering the phone." "Yes." "It's ok." "I found him." "Yes, sir." "Be back in a minute." "You're a strange person." "First you believe nothing, then you do, and become afraid." "You just went in the wrong direction, no big deal." "Comrade Lomov, we are here." " Great." "Andrei, it's time for you to take over, as a new boss." "It's not the best time for jokes." " I'm not joking, and I feel great." "Where were you?" " The forest." "Why didn't you answer the phone?" " Didn't hear." "Did you have hallucinations too?" " It wasn't hallucinations." "Great, I'll write it down." "Andrei Iraklievich, did you take anything for proof?" "Sit down, look through the papers." " What papers?" "I prepared everything, you only have to sign." "The sonar, every time we transmit something into the wall, there's an accident." "Then, the electric station." " What's about it?" "Burned down." "Then, when did it start with you?" " What?" "The 'not hallucinations'." " I don't know." "Haven't you looked at the watch?" " No." " Pity." "Valya, where did you find comrade Erdeli?" "By the warning system's detectors." "God, Andrei, were you going to enter the wall?" "Then you'll have to sign this paper, it very important." "Why the bureaucracy?" "I gather facts, otherwise no one will believe me." "Valya, sign here, please." " My pleasure." "We need to get out of here as soon as possible." "I'm sure it won't happen today, and it won't happen to me." "But with my future great-great- grandchildren." "We are not ready." "I do not agree." " It will end catastrophically." "There are aliens near us, maybe even Martians." "We couldn't find any canals on Mars, but still." "I think they dried up only recently." "The inhabitants of Mars suffer from thirst." "So they sent their representatives, so we'd give them our helping hand!" "Wouldn't we?" "Well?" " What Martians!" "Does nobody understand what's happening here?" "We're encircled by the wall, it's under current." "It burns trees, it draws people, it messes with our heads!" "Before Friday, we'll all try to get into it." "The question is:" "who will be the first." "I'll go feed the dog." "Comrades." "I have a suggestion." "We must repair the electric station." " What for?" "I want the sonar to work again." " Don't do it." "First your assistant, then Valya." "We have to wait till Friday, and ask for advice." "You don't understand anything." "I don't, either." "Why do you talk to her like this?" "Why do you need the sonar?" " I can't sit still till Friday." "What if it disappears forever?" "What if the next time they try to reach us is in a thousand years?" "If only." "The only thing you await from this meeting, is new problems for people." "That's why you're afraid to believe in their existence." "I won't be around in a thousand years, I want to try to talk to them now." "How?" "These visions are the key." "It may be the only way they can communicate with us." "The wall makes us remember the things that we lived through." "It takes us to the past." " What for?" "By studying our memories, they kind of see the Earth with our eyes." "They find out a lot more..." " Don't you think that... these visions could be the result of electromagnetic radiation?" "An unstudied phenomenon." " Maybe." "Radiation, or ball lightning, or something different." "It could be anything." "But what if I'm right, and not you?" "What are you going to do next?" "I want to pick up their own memories." "Whose memories?" "The ones that created the wall." "I want to see their world the way they see ours." "I want them to remember something, for me to study it." "Wow." "How are going to do it?" "With the sonar?" "Funny, but yes." "Every time during the transmission they burn something." "Maybe they don't believe that we can understand each other." "So I'll keep sending the signals into the wall." "Till they show me the right way." "Or till you burn in that sonar." " I won't." " You sure?" " Yes." "They had the chance to burn me." "I see, you did think it through." "Today is Friday." "I can't believe it's been two days." "It feels like a hundred years." "Will Lomov eat?" " Yeah, he's coming." "We're almost finished, a 30 min job left." "Elena Yurievna, do you, by any chance, know what a lingua-helmet is?" "Lingua..." "What?" "It could be useful." "Here. 'His big forehead and deep-set eyes proved his high intelligence.'" " What?" "'...proved his high intelligence.'" "'The creature moved with the help of a device that looked' 'like a bicycle but without the wheels...'" "Listen up!" "It's very interesting." "Egor." "This is a book for you." "'There he is, the mysterious inhabitant of the planet'" "'Hrr, Trrr, Prr', it said friendly." "'How are we gonna understand him', Sidorov asked anxiously.'" "'Sidorov always doubted everything.'" "'You forgot the lingua-helmet', said the captain.'" " Yes, this word." "'The captain put the lingua-helmet on his head'" "'Turned the software's beta lever'" "'And now the voice of the violet creature' 'sounded in his head as pure Russian.'" " Lena, stop it." "'What's your planet' name?" "translated the captain.'" "You're the captain, aren't you?" "'The Earth', the captain answered proudly'" "'The Earth', the violet creature repeated.'" "'Hooray', Johnson screamed'" "'How does 'The Earth' sound in your language?" ", asked the captain' 'putting the second lingua-helmet on the head of the creature.'" "'Hrrr, Trrr, Prrr', said the creature' 'and pointed his tentacles into the clear sky.'" "'Hrrr, Trrr, Prrr sounds nice', said Johnson.'" "Egor, where are your beta levers?" "Where is your lingua-helmet?" "I, too, want to talk to the violet creatures." "Andrei, look at his eyes." " Calm down, Lena!" "Valya, we have work to do." "Are you waiting for me?" "Is that you who's waiting for me?" "Me." "I'll ask you some questions." " Please do." "'Temperature and pressure are ok'" "What is the wall?" " The wall?" "What wall?" "Are you crazy?" "(Some scientific calculations In the background)" "What?" " 'The wall of trees'" "'The wall of rain, the wall of fog'" "(Reads some proverbs with the wall in it)" "(Some more.)" "She knows too much." "You can't stop her now." "It's a malfunction, I tell you." " Well?" "Borya, ask your machine a question:" "'How to understand each other?" "'" "Boys, the boss asks how to understand each other." "What's it again?" "'How to understand each other?" "'" "How to understand each other?" " How..." "To." "Understand." "Each." "Other." "'You live on Earth'" "'There are three radiation belts around it'" "'The Earth gravity, the Sun gravity and the Moon gravity.'" "'Some time ago you invented a stone axe.'" "'And a nuclear bomb." "There's a fog by the wall.'" "You can't enter the wall." " What if I try?" "'People of Earth speak 2500 languages'" "'Capitalism, colonialism, materialism, christianity'" "'Islam, the United Nations'" "'Pompeii, the towers are silent'" "'The sacred gryphons bury the people'" "'They come and eat the dead." "The husband doesn't understand his wife.'" "'The woman is enslaved by the kitchen.'" "'A simple logic." "You can't understand each other.'" "Stop this nonsense." " Boys!" "Put 'Stop this nonsense' in the machine." "Listen carefully." "Two are sitting in a trench with one antitank gun." "Three tanks are approaching." "The men need to hold them for ten minutes." "The tanks appeared suddenly, one could not see them because of the sun." "Two men." "War." "One gun." "The sun blinds." "A simple logic." "Men in the trench die." " You lie." "I survived, it happened to me." " It can't be." "The machine buries our boss, time to change the triodes." "No, it's time to think logically." "I don't get it." "The visibility is bad, the speed of gun's reloading is not enough." "The men die, it's correct." "And still he survived." "I don't get it." " And we will try nevertheless." "Did you repair it?" " No, not yet." "I have to leave, probably." "I didn't give you enough attention, sorry." " No, it's my fault." "Can I help you with something?" " No." "I'll stay if you want me to." "Everything will be fine." " Nothing will." "But why?" "You'll meet me in Moscow on Friday." "It's spring there now." "We'll take a taxi from the airport, you'll take me to your mom." "Then we'll go to Sukhumi, and after that we'll get married." "We'll borrow some money and buy a flat." "We'll have kids." "A boy, or better a girl." "And we'll teach her music and English." "It's ok, you can use the sonar." "'Hooray', Johnson screamed.'" "The console is burning." " Egor Petrovich!" "The console is burning!" "Enough maybe?" "The fire-extinguisher is under the stairs." "The known..." "The known..." " Stars..." " Stars..." "Shine every night in our sky." "And here is The Great Bear." "It looks like a bucket." "Do you see it?" " Yes!" "If one of you becomes a cosmonaut, he'll see some totally different constellations in space." "And now I'll teach you to find the Pole Star." "There it is!" " I'm afraid." "Skip to Giordano Bruno." "You know, kids, that the Earth moves around the sun." "But people used to think otherwise." "The Church taught that the Earth was in the middle of the universe." "And the sun moved around it." "Giordano Bruno spoke against the Church." "And for that they burned him at the stake." "That's how hard it was, kids, to prove the obvious facts you now find in every textbook." "Kukushkin, take your little brother out." "He's not little, he understands everything." "The Church forced Galileo to renounce his ideas under the threat of death." "He pretended to renounce!" " Silence!" "And yet it moves!" "You are not allowed in the planetarium any more." "I will behave." " Let him speak!" "I don't care." " What do you think about the wall?" "This is the subject matter for high school." "The lesson is finished." "Do you understand what the wall is?" " No." "Wait!" "Why does the wall draw people?" " Let me go, boy." "What if you come close to it?" "Listen, I'm tired of this dream." "You're not here, get lost!" "What if you need to come close to the wall?" "What do you want from me, boy?" "'Sector 6 alarm'" "'A person approaching the wall'" "Egor, she went to the wall!" " Start the truck!" "She'll die if she enters the wall." "Why kill her?" "An intelligent civilization must be humane." "'Sector 6 alarm'" "'A person approaching the wall'" "She doesn't have time to enter the wall, it'll be over soon." "I don't get it." " The wall will be gone in 2 min." "Pity." "What will happen next?" " The wall will appear again." "And then what?" "The encounters will start." " Yeah, delegations exchange." "Their beauties coming as guests to our film festival." "Martians on a tour to the Moscow underground." "Fantastic." " Yeah." "Highly unlikely." "But who knows." "Lena!" "Did you send a car for Lomov?" " I will." "Who's there?" "Us, the Martians." "We would like to know what the wall is, exactly." "Did anything happen under the dome, that can't be explained with the means of modern science?" "What do you personally think of the wall?" "Is it true, that the wall can draw living creatures to it?" "Do you think that the wall has any relation to the aliens?" "Still, how can we explain to our readers what the wall really is?" "Please, a couple of words about the wall." "Imagine a dome, some 2 km in diameter..." "What are the perspectives of studying the wall?" "It was only the first survey." "On Friday, we send there the equipment and a big group of scientists for detailed research on the mysterious wall." "Subtitles:" "Erras, corvusalbus"