"The film was produced with support from" "State Fund for Support and Development of Czech Cinematography" "It's ready, we can go." "present" "What kind of system is it?" "It's a sort of utility patent." "The tank is big, not enough gas." "The gas flows to one side when I go downhill, and the car stalls." "Like this, the engine takes every last drop from the portable tank." "If it was in the car tank, it'd spread around it and disappear." "a documentary film" "There is Kiev time and Central European time." "And our region doesn't coincide with either." "I think people here don't need a clock at all." "Half an hour or an hour doesn't mean anything here." "Sound designer" "Film Editing by" "Producer" "Cinematography by" "HALF PAST THREE" "cooperation on screenplay and direction" "Screenplay and Directed by" "Dima, what kind of car is this?" "ZIL 131, "Terrain vehicle"." "It goes everywhere." "It was made especially for military purposes." "Is it yours?" "Yes, it's mine." "And how did you get it?" "Well, the company where I work is a collective ownership." "It's our property, and we amortize and sell it now." "So I bought it." "I'll leave the knife there in case they turn on the power." "The power doesn't work." "I was born here." "This is a new house." "We had one before with just a single room." "We all grew up in one room." "We slept two or three to a bed." "Anywhere we could, on the floor, on the bed, on the furnace." "And we slept well." "That's how it was." "Today everybody must have their own bed or even room." "Is the house yours, Dima?" "Yes, it's my house." "Well, mine..." "Dad lived, dad died and the house remained." "Now I use it as a cottage." "I come here during summer." "In winter, I live in the town." "Poverty was worse back then." "We were seven brothers, we were each born one year apart." "Three or four of the brothers were pretty much the same size." "No proper clothes for school, or feast days for all of us." "So we couldn't all go out together." "One went to school, the other waited for him to come back." "Then the other one put on the clothes and went to school." "Same thing for the holidays." "On Easter or on All Souls' Day." "One left for an hour, came back and another one went out." "Those were the times..." "See, life was even worse." "On Saturday or any day, the world won't fall apart." "You drink liquor?" "And why not?" "And then you complain that your legs hurt." "Legs hurt, but liquor... do you think liquor makes legs hurt?" "What else would it be?" "Mine hurt, but I don't drink." "You're full of booze." "Alcohol heals." "Heals what?" "Legs." "Yeah?" "It heals but who knows what." "Come on, Kolya..." "And what does heal you?" "Me?" "Girls." "There are four guys in our gang." "Four guys and four girls." "That's our circle of friends." "It's cool, just hanging out." "When I have nothing to do," "I go to visit my girlfriend or another girl." "Just to have a good time." "I don't really feel anything for Valya or Ivanka." "I feel something only for one." "The others are just for fun." "Let's go to eat, baby." "What the hell..." "I will clean it up tomorrow." "It draws here." "Now up there too." "When I was in love with my man" "I felt no sorrow back then..." "Vasil has to pay." "Which one?" "The son." "So you made a bet with your son!" "You said it was with Kolya." "That's right, but the son has to pay if she drinks." "I won't." "I've been dry for eight months already." "Right." "Some can go without it for two years." "One can't go just without food." "What if Kolya had to go without girls..." "Let's make a bet on it." "Come on, Kolya..." "Nicholay, I'm dying, go get me some drink." "Don't bring just a small shot, bring a whole sink." "The sink came apart, the glass came loose." "And Nicholay, I didn't get to drink your booze." "Michaylo is coming..." "The one from Nikolayevo." "And then Ivan, the one from Moldavia." "One paska for him and one to Nikolayevo..." "And one for Mariyka." "Yes, Mariyka too..." "Oh, my dear God..." "All the way here in such dust..." "I was excited to drive in a jeep." "Then he showed me his jeep." ""Land Cruiser."" "We didn't get much sleep, just a couple of hours." "Well, he was tired..." "So we talked for an hour, then he went out at five AM." "When he came back, he said, "Let's go to the parking lot."" "We came there, said hi to Ruslan, the parking lot attendant." "I looked around and I didn't see any jeep." "I thought it was gonna be a real jeep." "There are tons of cars there, but no jeep." "So I asked, "Where is the jeep, Michaylo?"" "And he said, "It's right here!" And he pointed at Zil..." "I thought I'd drive in a jeep, and ended up with my arms elbows deep in oil." "Where is Marina?" "And where have you been?" "Sweeping not done?" "Am I late?" "No, early." "I talked with Peter a bit." "Can't I go out and have fun?" "You came late yesterday." "We are allowed." "We are also allowed to go out from time to time." "Why didn't Marina sweep up?" "A woman is allowed to sit at home." "It's her fate." "Fate, huh!" "Go feed the sheep." "Just a sec." "Go, go!" "Why aren't you cooking?" "Are you stupid or something?" "What are you thinking?" "You think you're too pretty for that?" "You have the best life." "I'm telling you..." "Be sensible and get going." "Let's make paska..." "This wire is handy for baking." "What?" "What is it from?" "From an umbrella." "Show me, let me see." "It's long and thin." "It's good." "I could have made it longer." "Black horses, young and free." "Why is my youth lost to me?" "Sure, we can wait." "No hurry." "Jesus Christ rose from the dead." "In yielding to death, He conquered death." "To those already buried he gave life..." "Give it to me." "Marina, bring the forks." "We need some forks." "Just pull it out." "Do we have everything?" "One, two, three, for... seven." "Go get them." "Where did it go?" "I don't know." "It's stuck..." "How about some wine?" "No, wine isn't good." "What do you mean, not good?" "You are not good." "God bless us on this festive day," "Christ ransomed us, sacrificed himself and died for us." "And today is the day of his resurrection." "Today we celebrate 2000 years." "Four... -2004 years." "Actually not 2004, because he was killed in the year 33 AD." "And today, as every year we celebrate Easter." "We remember Jesus Christ, who came to ransom us." "And we wait for his next arrival, when he won't ransom but free us of all our suffering and sorrow." "The tears we weep today, we won't see tomorrow." "We will live forever." "May God give us happiness and health so that we may all make it to the Kingdom of Heaven." "We must lead a good life so that we can all make it there." "Let's drink." "Our dad has the Bible at his fingertips." "He is our scholar." "But we..." "We read very little." "Those who read little, sin little." "Come on, have some." "Eat." "Poor me a shot, and I'll sing for you." "I'll walk with a girl, no one else, just we two." "I will play, all for fun and enjoy life anew..." "Let God not make this be the last one." "Look at how alert Sasha is." "He keeps looking at us." "Where's Kolya, not here?" "He disappeared." "I guess..." "I'll show you about having a foul mouth." "I'll strangle you, foul mouth." "Is Kolya sleeping?" "He's resting." "I guess he partied too much." "My brother lives in Kishinev." "I love him a lot." "You're the man!" "It's my brother." "Mother..." "We're all brothers." "The rest are gone." "My brother." "My little one..." "It will stand up on its legs soon." "Like a baby." "So what?" "Move his legs away from it." "Well, the head came out, then we pulled three times..." "Stepan and I grabbed him and gave it a real pull." "I was so worried about her, like it was the first time." "You have three cows now." "Let me see if the udder is swollen up." "Good guy!" "I hope there isn't another one!" "Let's see." "She kept standing." "Didn't want to lie down." "How does a cow go?" "Cow goes like this." "Now I will feed her milk for a few weeks." "And then we'll have meat." "Thank God it's a cow." "Having a cow is just as important as having a wife." "I had a wife from Hungary, she sat on a stump." "My next wife was from Chestena trying out her luck." "Now I have a Hutsul wife, she likes pickles..." "The pickles, huh?" "Why not?" "And now in Hungarian..." "Cheers." "Thanks a lot for your help." "It means a lot to me." "This is my mother." "I would give my life for her." "For my mother who gave me life." "Kolya, the calf is alive and healthy." "We already know that." "But we don't know how the cow is doing yet." "Let's drink to the cow." "So that she is healthy." "Dreadful winter reigns outside now." "I haven't been out with my lover for a while." "I haven't been out with my lover for a while." "I need to, I want to talk with my lover." "We drank for the calf, for the cow, for the bull too." "Now let's drink for us." "Neither the calf, nor the bull nor cow can live without us." "Now let's drink to us because there's nothing without us." "Careful, there is no light..." "I will go alone." "So go." "Who broke it?" "I don't know." "Did you break it?" "OK, let's try it." "Soon we'll have a cup of coffee." "The machine is ready." "It's working." "Dima, when must you be at work?" "At three o'clock." "And what time is it now?" "Half past three." "And nobody minds?" "Well, how can I explain it?" "There is a situation now where nobody minds latecomers." "There is no discipline." "A mess is a mess." "As wages go, so work goes." "Get it?" ""Forest - the national treasure." "Take care of it."" "Now that we have democracy after Perestroika, it's such a mishmash, Communism, democracy..." "They made the dog's leash longer but they took away his bowl." "He can bark now but he has nothing to eat." "In order to have a normal life, one should have a normal job." "I've not been paid two years." "What kind of work is this?" "How can I live from it?" "I can't." "I go to work only out of habit." "I just imagine I go to work, that I am employed." "I work at the sawmill." "Most people work in the woods." "The money is enough for me." "But if one has a family, a wife, a kid, the money's too little." "You can make money in Ukraine, but it's not a lot." "My dad doesn't work here." "He is in Moscow, was in the Czech Republic a couple of times." "My brother too." "They say on TV, the economy is starting to grow." "The life standard is improving." "But I can see with my own eyes that the opposite is true." "Maybe the politicians at the top see it differently but ordinary people have nothing, they can't afford anything." "Look, here is the light one and here is the one from Lviv." "Beer." "Write it down in there, okay?" "The Lviv one." "Forty of these and eighty of those." "So write." "Hurry up, Ivan, I'm busy." "Forty." "So forty." "Is that all?" "That's it." "Thank you." "It broke." "I hope it's clean now." "Done." "How does it work?" "Bad picture?" "As you can see, it's bad." "The tuning is complicated plus I never know if the signal works." "The signal doesn't often work well here." "You think the problem is in the TV but it's the signal." "It's hard to figure out the cause." "Besides the power is bad now, we get too little of it." "What do I like?" "I like the writing, the directing." "There is such an intelligence in it." "And true love." "There isn't a lot of fiction, it's just like real life." "What do you have?" "Jim Beam and Early Times." "They are everywhere: at work, at home, even in your bed." "A comedy "Martians, go home!", tomorrow at nine PM on TNT." "There are TV series about rich people who have everything but they are defined by their personal lives." "They are not fortunate in their personal lives." "They are well off but they are not happy." "It's all made up." "Maybe they live that way, I've not been there, so I don't know." "They have better possibilities, enough of everything." "So why should they have such problems?" "Even we don't have such problems though the life here is harder." "That's what I don't like about it." "Where are you going?" "To a disco." "How often do you go?" "Twice a week." "Do you like it?" "Very much." "Why?" "It's fun." "No comment." "Yura, come here." "Watch them so they don't escape." "I see, they're locked up inside." "I have been around the world." "Well, world... around Russia." "The borders were closed and we couldn't go abroad." "I did my military service in Kazakhstan, then we were moved to the Far East." "I worked as a driver." "I drove a lot to eastern Ukraine, to Luthan, Volgograd," "Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Chita, Kchabarovsk." "I drove around a lot of places." "I was drafted into the army again in 1979." "I worked as a driver again." "In Astrachan, the Kalmykian Republic." "We delivered fruit." "We drove thousands of kilometers." "I worked as a driver in Siberia." "There, your car can get stuck four days outside of a town." "Nobody comes, nobody asks what happened, are you hungry..." "It's different here." "People here are hospitable, they don't let you down." "If they see that somebody needs help, like somebody on the road, they help." "People here are good, friendly." "The cow is our provider." "Milk... everything." "The cow is our business." "Milk, cream, butter." "We make everything by ourselves." "What else can we do?" "How do you want to live without a cow?" "How much?" "Fifteen hrivnyas." "It's Gypsy-like." "It'll be good." "Most of all we don't work on holidays." "Not physically." "Only what's necessary on the farm." "But we don't do other kinds of work." "We celebrate spiritually." "Somebody prays, someone goes to church, someone sits at home, and watches TV..." "That's how we celebrate..." "Do you know how many holy days you have here?" "Small and big?" "They are many." "If I add in all the feast days..." "We should count them properly." "1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 13th, 14th, 15th..." "Look how many there are." "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13, 14,15 feast days only in January." "If a man followed all of them, he wouldn't survive." "October, November, December, January, February," "March, April, May, June, not until July." "How many more months?" "Two more months." "I won't drink for two more months." "I've now been dry for six." "Why?" "I made a bet." "Why did you make a bet?" "Because I was stupid." "Once I asked my husband why we don't say bike but bicycle." "Bike?" "Why don't we say bike?" "White snow, gray ice on the land patchwork blanket's spreading all around the town, above the town, the clouds" "hide the sky's light, yellow smoke hides the town, the 2000 year old town covered..." "Do you know how it goes, Grandma?" "Grandma doesn't know it." "It's not a folk song." "When I went for water I saw my lover there." "We made a date for midnight." "Come here." "My little one..." "Go to graze now." "The pine burned in flames, the pine burned in flames with a girl underneath, with a girl underneath." "With a girl underneath combing her hair..." "Dima, what happened?" "The house burned down." "What are you going to do now?" "What can I do?" "I'll build a new one." "I'll repair it." "The Leader gave me 600 hrivnyas." "600, he refused to give more." "They said to go to town hall, I'd get 10 cubic meters of wood." "And I'll get something at work." "I'll figure it out somehow..." "It happened." "The pine burned in flames, the pine burned in flames with a girl underneath, with a girl stood underneath." "Look at it, you calf." "I'll jump." "Okay." "I'm not scared." "It's covered with snow again." "Anka, tell me what happened." "Granny was 85." "That's old." "She died of old age." "Time to die..." "Now I have to visit Grandpa too." "Her husband." "We couldn't lay them next to each other." "When we were not here, they buried someone else next to him." "And Granny is alone now." "How come?" "I don't know." "Well, there was a space there, they dug a grave and so be it." "I want to drive material up here when it gets warmer in spring." "Nail the ledge, make the plaster." "I'd like to finish everything in summer." "A proper repair." "But now, you see it..." "The animals will be here too?" "Yes." "I will herd them up here next month." "There's nothing to feed them in the valley." "One more month." "I was reaping the meadow here in the summer." "I made a lot of stacks." "I spread the grass all over, so that it'd dry out." "Then I went in the cottage to take a nap." "All of a sudden, I heard thunder, and I jumped." "Such a huge storm came, shaking the whole house." "I was stunned." "There was a lot of hay all around the meadow." "I was alone and the storm was just a kilometer away." "It was like a wall and I thought that all the hay would get wet." "I'd rather burn everything." "I didn't know what to do." "I fell on my knees." "Instead of putting the hay away, I started to pray." "If somebody saw me, they'd think I was crazy." "Instead of putting up the hay, I was just praying next to it." "I finished my prayers and started to put up the hay." "And the storm stopped about five hundred meters away from me." "I scraped the hay and I covered it." "When I was done, I didn't even manage to run into the cottage." "Such a rainstorm broke loose that a 5 meter run soaked me as if someone poured a bucketful of water on me." "See what a prayer can do?" "Is this one good?" "So here?" ""The Gypsies" will be on in fifteen minutes." "Dima, what film is this?" ""Healing with love"." "It's a good film." "Well, how to explain it to you?" "It's about healing pain by magic, supernatural powers." "That's why it's called "Healing"." "The girl has such powers that looking at a boy cures him." "He had an accident, the doctors said that he wouldn't survive." "But she cured him with her look." "I only missed three episodes, when there was the funeral." "They'll take your hand, Gorgeous, to lead you to the lovely house." "King, joker." "Joker." "You can't do that." "You have to play another one." "Be quiet, boys." "Or I'll take it away from you." "Give me that joker!" "Drink." "So that you're strong." "Everything." "This one won't drink." "The other drinks the whole bottle." "Granny died and they were born the next day." "They replaced her." "She lived here, and now the lambs do." "The house lives." "You must be hungry." "Have some." "Thank you." "Do you go dancing?" "I went twice." "He went with Kolya." "And with Orest, Kolya's brother." "But his mother won't let him." "Going out at the age of ten!" "Where is Kolya?" "In Kiev." "Why in Kiev?" "He left for work." "All of sudden we are many." "You won't suppress us anymore." "All of sudden we are many." "You won't suppress us anymore." "Corruption?" "No!" "Scheming?" "No!" "Yuschtschenko yes!" "Yuschtschenko yes!" "Our president!" "If I found work that's not too hard, I'd stay there." "Are you going to give it a try?" "No, I will just visit." "Just visit him?" "Yes." "To see how he lives." "What he is doing." "And how do you think he lives?" "Not bad, according to phone calls." "It's not like here in Kiev." "When we used to meet people came from everywhere." "Then we used to say:" "Cheers, to good health." "Mischa." "Vasya, my brother." "This is in Moldavia, at Ivan's wedding." "Where are they now?" "Who?" "Vasil, Michaylo, Ivan, all those people..." "Petr is in Nikolayevo." "Mischa is in Nikolayevo." "Ivan in Moldavia." "And Vasil?" "Vasil is in the Czech Republic." "I don't have Vasil here." "Only in his wedding." "Aren't you sad that they all left?" "What can I do about it?" "That's my fate." "It's sad." "When I die, they'll put me down in the hole, and some will come to the funeral, some won't." "Who will help the old ladies when everyone leaves?" "Here, the next generation." "Do you want to go to the city?" "When I grow up." "Why not?" "Today's youth doesn't want to take care of the farm." "It's hard work, and the youngsters want to live better." "What do I know what it will be like in ten, fifteen years." "European countries are a little wealthier." "Yet there are beautiful places in our country." "When the borders open, people may be more interested in our recreation areas again and our economy will be able to pull back together." "I am not young anymore." "I don't know if I'll have strength to do something." "But it'd be good for the kids." "Is this a Czech liquor?" "No, it's ours." "It's good." ""Old Friend"." "Good." "What?" "Good?" "How did you meet your husband?" "Decades ago." "I forgot already." "I spent 30 years with him and then he died." "Then I found myself another one, I was with him for 11 years." "He was a good-for-nothing." "Good riddance to him." "I stayed alone." "And I'm fine." "First man is good." "He's given by God." "The second one, you're talked into by people." "And the third one is from the Devil!" "You beautiful girl, don't listen to him." "Don't betray me, a young man." "You treat me well." "I'm not saying anything." "Come on, you'll trample me!" "We have this saying here." "When people have to work hard in summer, they say:" "If only rain would fall, so a poor man can rest a bit." "You'll hardly get used to it here since you're from a city." "But I don't like cities." "I like it here." "I am used to it here." "I was born and grew up in the mountains." "Then I lived in Estonia for seven years." "In a city." "I can't be there." "It was good there though." "But I want to be in the mountains." "I came back here to Ukraine and I am happy here." "I want to live in Ukraine." "But I want to live well here." "We grow wheat here." "We are sixth in its production but wheat and flour are expensive here." "It shouldn't be." "If only it was done in the fall." "I have to drive material up here." "I'll plaster." "Wire the house." "It's a problem to get anything." "It's not like elsewhere." "If you want something, you just call and the car's there in two hours." "It stops, unloads, and everything is ready." "It's different here." "In five, six years, I'll be old." "I don't know how long I'll live." "But I want to live up here." "It's beautiful, a paradise." "Everything turns green in the spring." "It's so peaceful here." "You can sit here and savor Paradise, like Adam and Eve." "Nothing beats the mountains." "That's why I'm drawn to it." "This is where I will retire." "Young people aren't into it." "Their lives don't need it." "They don't want to live here." "They got used to cars." "And we got used to nature." "It's quieter here." "Here a man has everything." "in the film Half Past Three" "The film was made at the beginning of the third millennium in the Rachovsky region of Transcarpathian Ukraine" "Story by cooperation on screenplay and direction" "Screenplay and Directed by" "Cinematography by" "Sound designer" "Film Editing by" "Producer" "Dedicated to Jan Bouchal (1976 - 2006) who in 1998 visited the Rachovsky region for the first time"