"Russia" "An "Ark-film" production" "Movie created with support of Ministry of culture of Russian Federation" "— Before the battle I want to tell you, brother gentles, what our comradeship is." "There have been comradeships in other lands, but never any such as on our Russian soil." "There are none." "To love as a Russian soul loves, to love not with the mind, but with all that God has given, all that is within you," "noone can." "I know baseness has now came to our land." "Men care only to have ricks of grain and droves of horses, adopt the devil only knows what infidel customs." "They speak scornfully their mother tongue." "Brother doesn't want to speak with brother." "Ours sells ours as a soulless cattle in the market-place!" "And favour of a foreign king, and not even a king, but the filthy favour of a Polish magnate, who beats their faces with his yellow shoe, is dearer to them than all comradeship!" "But the very meanest of these vile men, whoever he may be, even he, brother gentles, has a grain of Russian feeling." "And when it will awake, he, wretched, will fall on the ground and clutch his head, cursing his vile life loudly, being ready for torments to expiate his disgrace." "Let them all know what comradeship means on Russian soil!" "And if it comes down to that we have to die," "noone of them will die as we." "Noone!" "Noone!" "It is not a fit thing for their mouse-like natures." "Fire!" "Bogdan Stupka" "In movie based on narrative of Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol" "Taras Bul'ba starring" "Igor Petrenko Vladimir Vdovichenkov" "Magdalena Mielcarz Liubomiras Lauciavicius Ada Rogovtseva" "Mikhail Boyarsky Sergey Dreyden Juriy Belyaev Les' Serdyuk" "Vladimir Iljin Boris Hmelnitskiy Aleksandr Dedyushko Petr Zaychenko" "Ivan Krasko Matliuba Alimova Ostap Stupka Mikhail Zhuravskiy" "Music by Igor Kornelyuk" "— Hello." "— Was your way nice?" "— Yes." "— Turn round, my boy!" "Turn round." "— How ridiculous you look!" "— What sort of a priest cassock have you got on?" "And long overcoats!" "— One of you, run, I want to see how you'll fall down, being entangled in your skirts!" "— Don't laugh, father." "— Heh, how touchy we are!" "— Why don't laugh?" "— Although you are my father, if you laugh, by heavens, you will be beaten." "— What?" "You may beat your father?" "— Even father." "Offence I don't forgive to anyone." "— And how can you fight with me?" "On fists?" "— Any way." "— Let's do it." "Do it!" "On fists!" "Come on!" "Good, son." "Good, son." "By heavens, good." "— You lost your wits, old man!" "Our children have come home, we have not seen them for over a year, and you are pommelling them." "we have not seen them for over a year, and you are pommelling them." "— He fights well, by heavens, very well!" "He will make a good Cossack!" "Now, welcome, son." "Embrace?" "Good lad!" "Beat everyone as you pommelled me." "Noone can be forgived!" "And you, why are you standing there with your hands hanging beside?" "Why don't you beat me?" "— How can you say it, that a child beat its own father!" "— Mother's son as I see!" "Don't beleive your mother, my lad." "She is a woman, and knows nothing." "No tenderness!" "A clear field and a good horse that's the kind of tenderness for you!" "Do you see this sabre?" "This is your mother!" "Better I'll send you to Zaporozhye* next week." "[* Zaporozhskaya Sech — war camp, fortress]" "[* Zaporozhskaya Sech — war camp, fortress]" "That's where is science for you!" "[* Zaporozhskaya Sech — war camp, fortress]" "Only there you'll gain sense." "Only there!" "I don't believe the archimandrite allowed you so much as a smell of vodka." "Confess, they thrashed you well with fresh birch-twigs on your backs and all over your Cossack bodies." "— What is past need not be recalled, it is done with." "— Let anybody just touch, he'll soon learn what a Cossack's sabre is like!" "— Good, son." "By heavens, good." "— Drink in Andrey's and Ostap's honor!" "— And when it comes to that, I'll go with you." "By heavens, I'll go too!" "What should I wait here for?" "To become a buckwheat-reaper and housekeeper, to look after the sheep and swine, and loaf around with my wife?" "Away with such nonsense!" "I am a Cossack!" "And I don't want." "Not matters that there is no war." "I'll go with you to Zaporozhye to carouse." "What enemy can be found by sitting here?" "What is this hut to us?" "What do we want with all these things?" "You will take, Dmytro, all my home rule." "Have you heard?" "If I give the sign from the Sech*, advance with the regiment." "[* Zaporozhskaya Sech — war camp, fortress]" "[* Zaporozhskaya Sech — war camp, fortress]" "Don't forget to feed horses with one of the better oats:" "Monah, Orlik, Buyan!" "[* Zaporozhskaya Sech — war camp, fortress]" "Bul'ba was terribly obstinate." "He was one of those characters which could only exist in that fierce XVI century." "When Cossack state was instituted — a free, wild outbreak of Russian nature." "It was an extraordinary appearance of Russian strength, forced by troubles and grief from bosom of people." "— That's all." "— Clear the way!" "— My dear sons." "What will become of you?" "What fate awaits you?" "You are taken from me." "Taken." "Who knows?" "Perhaps a Tatar will chop off your heads in the very first skirmish." "And I will never know where your abandoned corpses lie." "Slashed and abandoned." "— Well, sons." "All is ready." "And nothing to wait for." "And now, in accordance with Christian tradition, sit down together, before the journey." "Mother, bless your children." "Pray God about them to be bravely, to defend warlike honor," "to stay for the Christian faith." "And if not..." "Then better they perish." "so that their breath may not be longer in the world." "— May Mother of God protect you!" "Don't forget, sons, your mother." "— Sech!" "Sech-mother!" "Here it is, Sech." "This is the nest from whence all those men, all proud and strong as lions, rush out." "From here liberty and Cossack will spread all over the Ukraina." "Everyone who comes here forgets and leaves everything what he did before." "He gives himself up to freedom and comradeship with men that are the same as he." "Men, who don't have relatives and home, but have clear sky above heads and eternal feast in their souls." "This is it, Sech." "— Play vividly, musicians!" "Pour vodka for orthodox Christians!" "— Take off your overcoat — see how you steam!" "— Can not!" "— Why can not?" "— My temper — whatever I take off, I drink up!" "— Make merry, Vasiliy." "I have ransomed you." "Now you don't owe anyone." "— Good day, Kirdyaga!" "— As I see you came not alone!" "— With sons." "— Killed his comrade, like a dog." "Drunken." "Without a reason." "— That's pity he was a Cossack." "— And if he hadn't been a Cossack?" "But an ordinary man, a Lyakh*!" "[* Lyakhs — an opprobrious name for the Poles]" "Is not pity?" "[* Lyakhs — an opprobrious name for the Poles]" "— Not for us." "For Lyakhs!" "[* Lyakhs — an opprobrious name for the Poles]" "They don't pity us." "[* Lyakhs — an opprobrious name for the Poles]" "[* Lyakhs — an opprobrious name for the Poles]" "— But what about the law?" "Court, Roman law?" "— Here is the law of our land." "— But if we were born on another land?" "— I don't know." "I remember: in the childhood we were walking together on a road, and you were tucking legs and weeping." "we were walking together on a road, the dust has heated up on the sun and burned." "I took you in my arms." "I was going on road and feeled like this is not dust but soil of our land warms my feets." "My land." "And Latin in seminary..." "It is not my..." "Veni, Vedi..." "What is next?" "— Vici." "I came, I saw, I won." "— Not won." "It is not our." "The wrong land under feets." "— There she is." "— Where?" "— In the first row, near to her father." "— You, pigs, how did you dare to enter Catholic church?" "— What did you say?" "— What did you say?" "— Taras has a good son, ha, guys?" "— And what you can do?" "Or you can nothing, ha?" "— And now he will stand there, and I'll shoot." "— Nobody wants you to shoot today, Shylo!" "— But he shooted." "Let's see how brave he is." "— Taras, what's up?" "— Where are you going, Taras?" "— Hello, father." "— Hi." "— Take me to Sech." "— Do you believe in Christ?" "— I do." "— Hello, Koshevoy*." "[* Koshevoy ataman — foreman of Zaporozhtzi]" "[* Koshevoy ataman — foreman of Zaporozhtzi]" "— Hello, Taras." "[* Koshevoy ataman — foreman of Zaporozhtzi]" "— Believe in the Holy Trinity as well?" "— I do, father." "— Sit down." "— Cross yourself." "— Very good." "Go, any kuren* you like." "[* kuren — dwelling hut, military detachment] [* kuren — dwelling hut, military detachment]" "— Thank you, father." "[* kuren — dwelling hut, military detachment] [* kuren — dwelling hut, military detachment]" "— Well, Koshevoy*, [* Koshevoy ataman — foreman of Zaporozhtzi]" "[* Koshevoy ataman — foreman of Zaporozhtzi]" "— It is time for merrymaking for Zaporozhtzi." "— There is no place to go." "— How can it be?" "We can go to Turks or Tatars." "— We can not, neither to Turks nor to Tatars." "— What does it mean?" "— We promised the Sultan... peace." "— You, sultan," "Turkish deuce, deuce's brother," "Lucifer's secretary!" "What the devil kind of knight are you," "— If can not with your naked bottom kill a hedgehog." "— We are not afraid of your army, on the land and on sea we will battle against thee." "Babylonian scullion," "Jerusalem brewer." "Now we finish, as we don't know the date and don't own a calendar, the day's the same over here as it is over there." "Kiss us" "— Kiss us right here." "Send this letter to Sultan!" "— We can not send it to Sultan." "— Why can not?" "— Koshevoy forbids!" "— Why?" "!" "— He has peace with Sultan." "— Dog!" "— What do you wish, gentles?" "— Lay the cudgel, devil's son!" "— We don't want you anymore!" "— Go away!" "— He must lay the cudgel." "— Whom do you now elect as Koshevoy?" "— Kukubenko!" "— We won't have Kukubenko!" "He is too young." "Milk has not dried off his lips yet." "— Shylo can be the ataman!" "— Shylo!" "— Awl between your buttocks!" "— What kind of a Cossack is he who is thievish like a Tatar!" "— Shout Kirdyaga." "— Shout Kirdyaga!" "Give us Kirdyaga!" "Kirdyaga!" "Take the cudgel!" "Take the cudgel!" "— Glory!" "— Vodka on my treat!" "— Whence come you!" "— From a disaster!" "— Behold, the Cossack strength is being vainly wasted!" "There is no war!" "— Look at foremen, their eyes swim in fat!" "— Permit to say a word, ataman." "— Speak." "— Whence come you!" "— From a disaster" "— What happened?" "— You don't have you regiment anymore, colonel." "— And no farmstead, and no horses, and no servants anymore." "Lyakhs destroyed everything." "And wife, Taras, killed." "We hoped to get her here alive, cutted," "haven't succeed." "— Let me, please, say a word, too." "— Speak." "— Speak, don't keep silence, dog!" "— I want to ask you, have you heard what is going on in Hetmanate*?" "[* Hetmanate — state-like formation on Ukraina]" "— What is it?" "[* Hetmanate — state-like formation on Ukraina]" "[* Hetmanate — state-like formation on Ukraina]" "— Tell us what goes on, son of a dog!" "— That still we were born and christened haven't seen things like these." "It have come to such a pass that our holy churches are no longer ours." "— How not ours?" "!" "— How not ours?" "!" "— They are in tavern keepers' lease!" "— What?" "!" "— Sacrilege!" "— And if you don't pay forward then divine mass is forbidden." "That's what time is now on Ukraina." "Listen!" "I'll say more." "Landowners travel in carts." "The harm lies not in the carts, but that they harness not horses." "— Who is harnessed?" "— Our orthodox Christians!" "That's what time it is now on Ukraina." "And you sit here in Zaporozhye, revel, and know nothing what is going on in the world." "— Wait." "Wait!" "What were you about?" "Had you no sabres?" "How came you to permit such lawlessness?" "— You would have tried when there were 50'000 of the Lyakhs alone!" "And it is a shame not to be concealed, there are also dogs among us, who have accepted their faith." "— But your Hetman*?" "Your colonels?" "What did they do?" "[* Hetman — Hetmanate leader]" "— What colonels did?" "[* Hetman — Hetmanate leader] they did such things!" "God preserve anyone from doing so!" "Hetman roasted in a brazen ox now lies in Warsaw!" "And colonels' hands and heads are being carried to all the fairs as a spectacle for the people, that is what colonels did." "— Harness orthodox Christians?" "Never!" "— Bear that faithless on Russian land?" "To allow them do such things to Hetman and atamans?" "Never!" "Never!" "— Drown tavern keepers!" "in Dnieper*!" "[* Dnieper — river]" "— Free drinks outline!" "[* Dnieper — river]" "— Let's go." "— In this corner was a tun!" "— You'll blunt your sabre!" "— Come on, guys." "— They are not of us." "Those, who lease on Ukraina are not of us!" "Not of us!" "By heavens, not of us!" "— Stand still!" "— Stop!" "— Gracious sir!" "Gracious sir!" "Gracious sir!" "I saw many gentlemen, but such gentlemen as you were never seen, by heavens, never!" "So brave, courageous, kind there never were in the world before!" "— Don't listen to him." "— They are not of us, By heavens!" "Those who lease on Ukraina are not of us!" "They are not Jews at all!" "The evil one alone knows what they are!" "Spit on them The evil one alone knows what they are!" "and cast aside!" "I knew your brother, the late Doroscha." "I gave him 800 sequins when he needed for buyout" "— Come here!" "— from Turkish captivity!" "— Don't move!" "— Wait." "— You knew my brother." "— Yes." "By heavens, I knew him." "He was a magnanimous sir!" "— What is your name?" "— Yankel'." "— Good." "Go with your business." "And you go." "Do not lead up to the sin." "— We have decided on the council of elders to go to Poland!" "— Agree!" "— Pay them for our sorrow for tears and death for disrespect to our faith!" "What is the will of lower army of Zaporozhye?" "— Agree!" "— God bless you!" "God bless you!" "God bless you!" "God bless you!" "God bless you!" "God bless you!" "God bless you!" "— Farewell, Sech, our mother!" "May God protect you!" "— Fool, why are you sitting here?" "Do you want to be shot like a sparrow?" "— Please, keep silence and say nothing to any one." "This is my cart, I am carrying needful stores for Cossacks, at a lower price than any Jew ever sold at before." "'Tis so, by heavens!" "By heavens, 'tis so!" "— Ha, resolute character!" "— Will we come to the evening?" "— Look, it is close by." "Whole Polish southwest speedily became a prey to fear." "Everywhere the rumour flew:" ""Zaporozhtzi!" "Zaporozhtzi are coming!"" "All what could flee did so" "Everything stood up and run after the manner of that untroubled, reckless lifetime." "— What can you say?" "— Sir, I escaped alone." "— Is it so serious?" "— Villeins." "Cattle." "Mutinied slaves." "— Maybe not all of them?" "— You don't know them." "— Are you afraid?" "— I am not afraid of anything, my daughter." "I worry only about you." "But you can be calm." "We'll break them." "And punish cruely." "— Enough, don't stay here." "Now we'll crush them." "Go to a safe place." "Elizabeth!" "Elizabeth!" "— Command the retreat." "Don't waste Cossack forces." "— Don't worry, brothers, we will retire, but may I be an infidel, not a Christian, if we let them out the town." "May they all perish of hunger, dogs." "— Besiege the stronghold!" "Noone will go out!" "— I throw first!" "— Help me undress and you will be free." "— Yes, lady." "— Good night." "— Good night." "— What's up, lady?" "What's up, lady?" "— Nothing, I pricked myself with comb." "— Have you seen me?" "— Yes." "— Nobody made the acquaintance like you." "Go away!" "— Tell me who are you." "It seems I have seen you earlier." "— Yes, in Kiev." "— In Kiev?" "You are Tatar!" "Servant of Waiwode*'s daughter!" "[* Waiwode ~ Duke]" "— Sh!" "[* Waiwode ~ Duke]" "[* Waiwode ~ Duke]" "— Tell me, how is she?" "[* Waiwode ~ Duke]" "— She is here, in the stronghold." "— In stronghold?" "Why is she in stronghold?" "— Because the old lord is there." "He is Waiwode of Dubno now." "— And is she... married?" "Tell me!" "— She has eaten nothing for two days." "— What?" "— No food." "People eat soil." "She said: "go, tell the knight if he remembers me, ask him to come to me, if not remembers, ask him to give bread for my mother." "He has a mother, too." "Ask him to give bread for her sake"." "— My mother was killed by Poles." "But how came you here?" "How did you get here?" "— By an underground passage." "— Is there an underground passage?" "— Yes." "— Go with me." "— For God's sake, bread!" "— Yes." "stay here, near cart, no, better sit down." "All are asleep, you will not be seen." "I'll be back now." "— Catch that Lyakh!" "Give me horse!" "Catch him!" "— Let's go." "— Yes." "— Andriy!" "You're with a woman!" "In the morning I'll give you a sound thrashing." "Woman will lead you to no good." "No good." "— Let's go." "Faster." "— Starvation — everything has been eaten:" "horses, dogs, cats, even mouses." "— How will you defend the stronghold?" "— Waiwode might have surrendered, but yesterday morning we got to know that rescue forces are coming from Warsaw." "— God alone can reward you," "not I, a weak woman." "— Enough!" "Eat no more!" "You have not eaten for so long that too much bread will be poison to you now." "Queen!" "What do you wish?" "What do you need?" "Order me." "Impose on me the most impossible task in the world and I fly to fulfil it!" "Tell me to do that which is beyond the power of man and I will do it!" "Why are you so sad?" "Why are you so sad?" "— Cruel executioner!" "In abundance and superfluity of luxury my days were passed, and to what end was it all?" "In order that I might at last die a death more cruel than that of the meanest beggar in the kingdom?" "Before my death I must hear words of love such as I had never before dreamed of." "Forgive my sins, Virgin Mary!" "— You will not die." "You will not die." "Not you." "I swear by my birth, you will not die." "And if neither force nor prayer will avail to avert this cruel fate, we will die together." "I will die before you." "And nothing can sever us." "— Don't lie, knight, neither to me nor yourself." "I know that it is impossible for you to love me." "Your father calls you, your comrades, your motherland." "And we are your enemies." "— And what is my father to me?" "Comrades?" "Motherland?" "Be that as it may, I have no one!" "No one!" "Who said that Ukraina is my motherland?" "Who gave it to me for my motherland?" "Motherland is the one our soul longs for, the one which is dearest of all to it." "Here is my motherland." "You are my motherland." "And I bear this motherland deep in my heart." "While alive." "And Cossacks are not the hindrance." "For this motherland" "I'll give everything, or barter, or ruin." "— Did you see Andriy?" "— No." "Maybe he was taken to captivity?" "— Andriy — no!" "He was not found among slayed." "Examine around." "— See what happened last night!" "Whole Pereyaslav kuren* was drunk!" "[* kuren — military detachment]" "So no surprise that half of it was slaughtered, [* kuren — military detachment] and another half taken to captivity!" "That's the profanation from our enemy!" "— Wait, father!" "It is not correct to say it about whole Christian army." "Cossacks would have been guilty, had they got drunk on march, war or heavy toilsome labour." "And we were idle, loitered around stronghold in vain." "There was no fast or other Christian restraint." "So how can an idle man not get drunk?" "— Elder Bul'benko has spoken well!" "— So there is no sin." "But we had better show them what it is to attack innocent people." "We beat them well before, and now we'll beat them even better!" "— Comrade colonel!" "Comrade colonel!" "Comrade colonel" "I was inside the stronghold." "— What enemy took you there?" "— As soon as I heard the uproar, and Cossacks began to shoot," "I ran to the very gate of the city." "Then the last of Polish army was passing through." "In command of the rearguard was Cornet Galyandovich." "He has owed me 100 ducats these three years past." "I ran after him to get money back and so entered the city." "— You entered the city, and wanted him to settle the debt?" "And he did not order you to be hung like a dog?" "— By heavens, he did, they had already seized me and thrown a rope about my neck." "But I besought him!" "I promised to lend him more." "I can tell my lord that the Cornet had not a ducat in his pocket." "That was the reason he did not go to the Seim* [* Seim — Polish parliament]" "— What did you do inside?" "Have you seen any of our men?" "[* Seim — Polish parliament]" "Certainly:" "Ivitsko, Samuilo, Rahu [* Seim — Polish parliament]" "— May they die, the dogs!" "[* Seim — Polish parliament]" "I ask you about our Zaporozhtzi." "— Zaporozhtzi." "I saw" "Lord Andriy." "— You saw!" "Andriy!" "How?" "Where?" "In basement?" "In a pit?" "Disgraced?" "Bound?" "— Who would dare to bind lord Andriy?" "Now he is so grand and a knight!" "I hardly recognised him." "His shoulder straps are in gold, oversleeves in gold, cap in gold, gold everywhere about him." "Belt in gold." "All gold." "Waiwode gave him a horse." "That horse alone is worth 200 ducats." "That is." "— Why has he put on enemy's equipment?" "— He went across to them." "— Went where?" "— He went over to their side." "He is now a thorough foreigner." "— You lie, you hog's ear!" "— How can I lie?" "Don't I know that Jew will be hanged like a dog if he lies to gentleman?" "— So you say he has sold his motherland and faith?" "— No, I don't say he has sold something!" "I merely said that he had gone over to the other side." "— You lie, you imp of a Jew!" "Such a deed was never known in a Christian land!" "You confuse, dog!" "— The grass may not grow near my house." "May everyone spit upon grave of my father, mother, father-in-law, grandfather if I confuse." "If my lord wished" "I can even tell him why he went over." "— Why?" "— Waiwode has a beautiful daughter." "Holy Father!" "What a beauty!" "He did it all for her." "I asked all manner of questions of lady's servant-Tatar." "The wedding is to take place soon now, after they have driven off" "Zaporozhtzi." "Lord Andriy has promised to drive off Zaporozhtzi." "— Why you didn't kill that devil's son?" "— Why kill?" "What is his crime?" "He liked it better there, so he went there." "— You..." "You saw him?" "Face to face?" "— By heavens, face to face!" "He approached me, he knew me and said:" ""Yankel'"" "— What did he say?" "— "Tell my father, tell my brother, tell all the Cossacks, all the Zaporozhtzi, tell everybody," "that now" "my father is no longer my father nor my brother my brother nor my comrades my comrades and that I will fight them all, them all!"" "— Disappear!" "If not, death awaits you!" "Damned Judas!" "Alarm!" "Alarm!" "— What's up?" "— Here!" "— Thanks God." "I thought I'd never find you." "Five days on horse." "— What happened?" "— Tatars had burned Sech." "Everyone is slaughtered or taken to captivity." "I alone could run away." "— Brother, maybe we'll meet in future, maybe not." "Forgive me, brother." "— God forgives." "— Another time." "— God forgives." "— For the third time, forgive." "— God forgives." "— They leave." "Don't understand." "What does it mean?" "— Only half of forces leaves." "— So only half of them remained." "Half of Cossacks went to Sech." "The second half stays." "Gentlemen, this is our only hope." "Tomorrow we will rout them and hang." "— I treat you, brother gentles, not in honour of your having made me ataman," "nor in honour of our parting from us comrades." "The moment before us is not such a time." "The work before us is great both in labour and in glory for the Cossacks." "Therefore let us drink all together" "to the holy orthodox faith." "For the new time when it may be spread over all the world," "and that everywhere there may be but one holy faith." "— To the faith!" "— And let us also drink together to the Sech." "That every year there may issue forth from it young men, each better, each handsomer than the other." "To the Sech!" "Now the last draught, comrades," "to the glory of all Christians now living in the world!" "To Christians!" "Cossacks felt to thoughts." "Like eagles they viewed their fate darkling far away." "Plains will be covered with their white bones and lavishly poured with their Cossack blood." "will be covered with their white bones" "But not a single magnanimous deed will die." "And Cossack glory will not perish." "Bandura* player will sing like a wise spirit." "[* bandura — musical instrument]" "And he will speak his deep, like a wise spirit." "[* bandura — musical instrument]" "And he will speak his deep, strong word about them." "[* bandura — musical instrument]" "And all who are born thereafter will remember them." "As the words of power are carried afar, like peal of bell copper, As the words of power are carried afar, like peal of bell copper, in which the maker has generously filled much rich, pure silver, in which the maker has generously filled" "spreading far and wide through cities, villages, huts, and palaces, summoning people for holy prayer." "— Don't let them make formations!" "All kurens, press them!" "— Untaken — so expensive weapon!" "I slayed 7 Lyakhs, but haven't seen so good weapon." "Kuren ataman is killed!" "Brother gentles!" "Kuren ataman is killed!" "Dymytrovych is killed!" "Elect the new Kurennoy!" "— You'll be a good Kurennoy!" "Bul'benko Kurennoy!" "— Forward!" "— The victory is ours, father." "No." "Not final victory." "Our own men." "Our own men, devil's son." "Fight our own men." "Hey, guys." "Decoy him to the forest." "Decoy him!" "— Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "— So, what are we going to do now?" "So, son." "Have your Lyakhs help you?" "How could you sell..." "Sell faith, sell brothers." "Stand still!" "Dismount!" "Stand and don't move!" "I gave birth to you," "I will also kill you." "Was so good Cossack!" "Tall, dark-browed." "Face is that of a noble." "Had strong arm in battles." "Wasted." "Wasted ingloriously." "Like a vile dog." "— Woe, ataman!" "Cossacks look for you!" "Lyakhs have been reinforced!" "Fresh troops have come to their rescue!" "Lyakhs have been reinforced!" "Cossacks don't want die without looking in your eyes!" "They want you to gaze upon them once more before the hour of death arrives." "— Brother gentles!" "Do you still have a lot of steam?" "Is not the Cossack force weakened?" "Do Cossacks hold out?" "— We still have a lot of steam, father!" "Cossack force is not weakened!" "Cossacks still hold out!" "Not sorrowfully to die." "Nobody could ask for a better death." "Be glorious, for ages, Russian land!" "— May our enemies die!" "Exult forever," "Russian land!" "And his young soul flew out." "Angels took it in their arms and bore to heaven." "He will like it there." ""Sit to the right of me, Stepan"," "Christ will say to him." ""You was faithful to comradship, never committed a dishonourable act, keeped and defended my church"." "— Brother gentles!" "Do you still have a lot of steam?" "Is not the Cossack force weakened?" "Do Cossacks hold out?" "— We still have a lot of steam, father!" "The Cossack force is still powerful!" "Cossacks hold out still." "One of the valourest Cossacks, Borodatiy, participated in many marches." "The most glorious one was march to Anatolia." "They took many sequins and different attires." "Bandura players song the praises to Cossack luck." "— I think, brother gentles," "I get a good death." "Have cut seven Lyakhs, stabbed nine with lance." "Bloom for ages," "Russian land!" "Mosiy Shylo was a strong Cossack." "Many times was an ataman in sea and saw many events." "He could be an ataman again but drank a lot." "Drunk everything away." "Was in debt to everyone in Sech, and once even carried off a whole Cossack equipment from a strange kuren to pawn it to the tavern-keeper." "For that act Cossacks tied him to a post and laid a club beside him in order that everyone should strike him." "But there was not one Zaporozhetz who would raise the club against him, remembering his former services." "Such was the Cossack, Mosiy Shylo." "— Farewell, brother gentles, comrades." "May stand forever, holy Russian land." "And may it be eternally honoured!" "Cossacks keep on fighting." "But Zadorozhniy is killed, and Koshevoy Nalivayko is killed, and Pisarenko is killed, and another Pisarenko, and third Pisarenko is killed." "But Cossacks keep on fighting to the last." "— I thank God for dying before your eyes, comrades." "May they live better who come after us than we have lived." "And may flourish forever, beloved by Christ," "Russian land!" "— Brother gentles!" "Do you still have a lot of steam?" "Are sabres still sharp?" "Are not the Cossack forces wearied?" "Do Cossacks hold out?" "— Sabres are good!" "Cossacks hold out still!" "— Ostap, hold out!" "Good, son!" "Good!" "I am with you, Ostap!" "— Father!" "— Ah, Ostap." "Cossacks are launching dug-outs." "Soon western Asia will see their shaven heads and long forelocks." "Will see their own boats scattered like flowers on spilled by blood fields, will see their dirty with tar wide trousers, their brawny arms with black whips." "And then satisfied Cossacks will sail back." "Turkish warship will start in pursuit of them and its gun salvo will disperse like birds" "Cossacks' dug-outs." "Three of ten will sink but seven will gather again and come to mouth of Dnieper with kegs, full of sequins." "— My son," "Ostap, my son." "Uman'" "— Listen, Yankel'." "I saved your life, now it is your turn." "Do me a service." "— If it is a service I can render, why should I not render it?" "— Don't speak." "Get me to Warsaw." "— To Warsaw?" "Why?" "— Get me to Warsaw." "I need to see him and say some words." "— To whom?" "— To Ostap, to my son." "— Has not my lord heard that you are... — I know." "They offer 2000 ducats for my head." "I give you 5000." "Now 2000, the rest when I get back." " I think man who owned these good coins remained alive not more an hour longer." "— I should not have asked you," "I might possibly go on my own to Warsaw, but you are good in inventions." "Harness immediately and get me!" "— And my lord thinks it is so easy:" "take nag, harness him and go?" "My lord thinks" "I can take him just as he is, without concealing him?" "— Conceal, conceal as you like: in an empty cask?" "— How in empty cask?" "Does not my lord know that every man will think that it contains vodka?" "— Let it be." "— The first gentleman will run 3 miles after the cask, will make a hole, see that nothig flows and say:" ""A Jew does not carry empty casks, there is certainly something inside it." "Seize the Jew, bind the Jew," "take away Jew's money, imprison the Jew!", because all bad things lay on a Jew." "Because everyone takes a Jew for a dog." "Because they think" ""not a man"" "if a Jew." "— Then get me there anyhow." "Even on a deuce." "Just get me there." "Warsaw" "— Comrade colonel, we are in Warsaw." "— What?" "Succeeded?" "— Sir!" "No way." "By heavens, no way." "So bad people." "Thay want to spit on others." "Mardokhai here says the same." "Mardokhai did so nice work, noone did before, but God didn't want it to continue." "Tomorrow they all are to be executed." "— Let's go." "— No, I don't want." "— We need it." "I need it." "— That one, lady, who has bludgeon and other tooling, is the executioner." "He does his work well." "When he begins to break bones, damned Cossacks will still be alive, but when he cuts off their heads they will not be able to drink, eat, and even sing." "Because they, my sweet lady, will no longer have their heads." "— God grant that none of these heretics may hear Christians' cries of torture!" "Let none of us utter a single word." "— Good, son." "Good, son." "Good." "Good, son." "Good." "— Father!" "Where are you?" "Do you hear?" "— Hear, son!" "Hear!" "— Take this, Lyakhs." "Funeral repast for Ostap." "— Help her!" "Help her, old frump!" "Why you do nothing?" "She suffers three days!" "Excuse me, gentlemen." "Proceed." "— Cossacks, commanded by Ostryanitsa, crushed army of royal Hetman Nikolay Pototskiy near Polonnoe." "The only way to keep strength and honor is to start truce talks." "Despite their commanders, especially Taras Bul'ba, don't want negotiations." "— Enough, mr." "Kvasnevsky." "We need to join efforts of whole Poland." "Gentlemen, we are in terrible danger." "Because they are not people." "Excuse me again." "What?" "— Lady died." "— Child?" "— Child alive." "A boy." "— Sir!" "Bul'ba is near river." "— Report." "— Sir." "they are in rocks near Dniester." "— We will be there next morning." "Forward!" "At a gallop." "— Numerous forces!" "— Mount!" "Fight the way through them!" "Break out!" "— To Dniester!" "— Halt!" "Pipe with tobacco has dropped." "I won't let those heathen Lyakhs have my pipe." "Old age, old age." "— Burn, burn before everybody's eyes." "— Set fire." "— Which way?" "Which way?" "!" "— Descend the path under the cliff, turn to the left and jump to the river, here you will waste for nothing!" "— Thank you, father!" "— Silence him." "— Farewell!" "Comrades!" "Next spring come here again and thoroughly smash them!" "What!" "We will show you, damned Lyakhs!" "Wait, the time will come, you shall learn, what the holy Russian faith is!" "Already nations scent it far and near." "Raises on the Russian land" "our own Tsar." "And there shall not be a power which shall not submit to him!" "Can be found such tortures, such fire, and such power which can overpower" "Russian strength!" "— For Rus!" "For the faith!" "For Rus!" "Subtitles by Mavalh." "e-mail: mavalh@yandex.ru"