"43rd International Film Festival in Venice" "Grand Special Jury Prize" ""Kazakhfilm" Studio named after Sh Aimanov is association with Mosfilm Studios" ""Nothing is loftier and stronger, and more useful in your future life than a good recollection, especially taken from your childhood" "If you gather many such recollections, you will be saved for life" "Maybe it will be this one recollection that can keep a person away from great evil"" "FM Dostoyevsky" "It happened long ago" "So long ago that sometimes it seems to have never happened" "Our town lay in an endless wild steppe" "Moscow, where we, the Naidyonovs, came from, had long been lost in some dim, almost childhood dreams" "Written and directed by Sergey SOLOVYOV" "THE STRAY WHITE AND THE SPECKLED" "Based on the book by Boris RYAKHOVSKY" "A lot of people had been evacuated here" "From a place on Otorvanovka we moved to Kurmysh" "Mother and I were taken in by a local woman, Aizhan" "Director of Photography Yuri KLIMENKO" "Production Designer Marksen GAUKHMAN-SVERDLOV" "Music from works by Bartok, Beethoven," "Mozart, Field, Shostakovich" "English subtitles by T Kameneva" "Vanya" "Speckled" "What's up?" "Father wrote us from the front" "And we lived from letter to letter" "Suddenly the typhus epidemic broke out" "I was the first to get sick" "The doctors told my mother:" ""Say goodbye to him He won't make it until the morning"" "But I happened to make it, though mother died, catching it from me" "When I was released from hospital," "Aizhan showed me a brown hillock of earth and a welded iron cross" "Then father returned" "We painted the cross blue and stayed here to live" "In memory of the typhus," "I got a patch of white hair and a nickname = Gray" "Vanya, the white!" "1 MY FATHER" "Right dress!" "Attention!" "At ease" "Please keep toes in a line, and remember" "Remember:" "now you're a formation" "And the formation is an army subunit" "And the crux of a subunit is" "a soldier" "But you have to earn the title of a soldier" "Any questions?" "Who mooed?" "Who said "oo"?" "You said "oo"" "Tushkanov, two steps forward" "I want you, Tushkanov, to become the right man" "And the right man, Tushkanov, is" "You think it was Tushkanov again who said "oo"?" "You too, two steps forward!" "Put on your gas masks!" "Work out rifle movements on dummies!" "Let's continue" "The subject of today's lesson - the Mosin-Nagant rifle in a hand-to-hand fight" "1946 September" "Have you chosen?" "Here" "Eagle" "Only make him look like a pigeon Can you?" "All right" "What do you want for it?" "As we agreed, a pack of biscuits, right now" "Here" "What about those pigeons of yours?" "They say no one's white's circling the city, everyone got like crazy" " A Tashkarka" " Where from?" "Who knows Went through the steppe, got tired, looking for shelter" "Short stab!" "One, two!" "Long stab!" "One, two!" "Long stab with a lunge!" "One, two!" "Beat left!" "Beat right!" "Spring!" "Spring!" "Short stab!" "One, two!" "Long stab!" "One, two!" "Beat left!" "Beat right!" "Beat up!" "Beat down!" "As you were!" "Take the gas masks off" "Let's continue" "As I've said, this rifle surpasses" "We'll get even with him" "I guess he's coming Roll it up" "You got matches?" "Come here" "Who is there?" "What are you doing?" "Open up now!" "Gray!" "Gray!" "You hear, Gray?" "It seems your father's been killed" "What?" "Let me through" "Let me through Come on, let me through" "Let me through, you hear?" "Let me through" "Vanya" "Who?" "It's nothing" "They're just immature" "Hooligans" "Some dolts just can't understand what the right men are like" "Too bad that in 1945 we had to disperse about the country" "We got mixed up with other people, changed our dress, many took off their army tunics" "But I recognize them right away, anywhere - by a beer stall, in the market, in a bathhouse" "By the way, tonight we're going to the shower bath" "I've arranged it, they'll let us in" "Well, do you remember me going to Azerbaijan?" "Can you imagine?" "They suggested there that I cheat with the purchase of equipment for our school" "They didn't realize who they'd run into" "I went to the prosecutor" "I hid the incriminating documents under my T-shirt" "Then someone planted a pack of money in my suitcase" "They immediately came with a search, and wrote a report about bribing" "And there were witnesses, you know, they indicated the numbers of the banknotes they found on me" "And who, do you think, saved me?" "Our man, a war veteran, a local Azerbaijani" "The right man" "That swindler probably thought that was the end of me" "Like hell it was!" "Cheats always find one another, that's why they think they're many, that they're a great force" "Bullshit!" "Bullshit!" "They're like this!" "And we're like that!" "Remember it, Vanya" "Perhaps you, too, think sometimes that your pigeon-fanciers are a whole world" "And you're rushing into it headlong for your pigeon happiness" "But there's so much life around, Vanya" "For instance, Kseniya Nikolayevna is having a hard time now" "Why don't you go and see her?" "She should not be left alone now" "Try to distract her" "How?" "Well, show her your drawings" " What does she need them for?" " Share the joys of youth with her" "And one more thing" "Ask Murat not to study with Pepe anymore" " Why not?" " It's not decent" "And the only thing they can take away from us is the right to be decent persons" "They can't take away from us the right to be decent persons!" "They can't take away from us the right to be decent persons!" "Father, what's wrong?" "Father, are you all right?" "Stop" "Take a rest Rub your fingers" "You know how it should be played?" "So that you create that music, not just play from memory" "As though you've died" "Your heart has stopped beating" "But your fingers keep running" "And then you feel a beat, the very first beat" "So your heart began to work again You're born again, in order to live" "Do I make myself clear, Murat?" "Not exactly But I think I understand you" "Then try again, from the beginning" "Oh, God, you're like a wet chick" "You're going to catch cold" "It's all right, the rain is warm" "Go and change, and rub yourself dry" "To give up?" "You're crazy" "Pepe is a great man, he knew Rachmaninov" "He himself composes music" " Why does my father hate Pepe then?" " Pepe dumped Kseniya Nikolayevna" "What do you mean, dumped?" "He married their house helper" "Their house helper?" "Oh, boy!" "That man is something!" "He drinks strong tea, plays all night, then falls on the piano and sobs" "I need a binoculars, without it, it's curtains" "Take it from Kseniya, I saw she had one, for the theatre" "Me Pyotr Petrovich" "But it's 1936" "And today?" "Oh, God, God, I remember your fan" "I know, he's got that unfinished portrait of mine" "The sitting took too long, and Tairov came and sent me to a rehearsal" "He had never finished it" "For the next sitting, I came in an azure dress" "I realized it and wanted to change, but your father wouldn't let me" "He said that my gamut was pearly-bluish" "And he started painting a new portrait" "He always gave me a promise of joy, and now inspires in me a will to live" "But why?" "Why hasn't he ever come to see me, Ivan?" "I don't know I'll tell him I think he will" "The sky" "The sky period = that's what art critics will write in the future" " Do you like the sky?" " Yes" "I wanted to borrow your binocular Murat said you had one" "It's not for long" "Binocular?" "Oh, yes, the binocular Yes, there must be one" "The binocular" "My God, so much junk And all goes into one heap" "A shipwreck" "The binocular, the binocular" "Here it is, take it What do you need it for?" "To look into the sky, at pigeons You know, there's a white one here" "You want to look at pigeons" "And I need to sell my fur coat at a good price" "See this coat?" "One vile woman" "suggested to cut it into collars!" " Shall I cut it?" " I don't know" "If I cut it, they'll give more" "Well, it doesn't matter" "Don't leave me, Vanya" "Here, take the matches You can break your neck there" "Be careful, watch your step" "Dammit, it's so dark!" "What is it?" "Where are you?" "Oh, God!" "God!" "I've got nothing anymore!" "Nothing!" "No youth, no home!" "Everything belongs to him!" "And no money either I need money" "I have nowhere to live" "I guess I need to buy a house Help me!" "I've got no money either Where from?" "Zina, it's me" "I can see, I'm not blind" " Have you brought it?" " Yes" "Show it" "Just a second" " You want some?" " No, thanks" "Well, as you like" "There you go, Zina" "All right, I'll take it" "An order!" "To whom?" "To Tatiana!" "An order for you!" "No, it can't be" "Now Tania will go to Moscow" "It was the 484th day of peace, and each day was special" "Careful, there're steps here" "Come here" "There, they're all here" "Our pigeon owners" "Hit the pile" "What a fool I am!" "They will come in our place I used to come here, too, as a kid" "Shutya and Tushkan from Otorvanovka Scoundrels!" "What is it you got gurgling?" "We've got some beer, only it's warm" "Gimme a swig, too, I'm thirsty" "Comrade Colonel, who knows what's in this bottle Maybe, it's fermented" "No more colonels here" "And you can't scare me with sour beer" "We even drank horses' piss when we chased Basmachs" "Shut the door, boys, my radiculitis is killing me" "With your radiculitis, Misha, you should sit at home" "Look, Pilipenko, hit that one in the corner" "Stop kibitzing, Misha" "You better go and play something to lift our spirits" "Keeping count" "One, two, three, four Two for mister Pilipenko" "The one in a white jacket with an order is the colonel" "A colonel?" "An officer for special missions in reserve with Marshal Rokossovsky" "Now a journalist" "So we arrived in Warsaw with the Marshal" "He'd been appointed Commander of the Army Group then" "He says: "Get the staff gathered in the hall"" "I did" "He commands:" "Come in and out 25 times" "Then he tells them: "See?" "See how my officer for special missions can wear his uniform?" "You remember now?"" "Well, baby, do you like my music?" "You say nothing?" "The one at the piano is Misha Nelyub" "He's a beginner with pigeons, a sales manager by profession" "The one with a dog is Chudik" "On the right is Veniamin Zhus, head of the criminal police task force" "He's got the best birds in town" "The one with a newspaper is Martyn of the railroad, in charge of sleepers" "A dark horse, but he knows about birds" "The Baldy brothers from the Electric Lamp Plant The teacher Rakov" "Some say he's nuts, others the opposite Writes a chronicle of our town" " So you don't write to Rokossovsky?" " About what?" ""Dzien dobje, Comrade Rokossovsky How's the weather in Warsaw?"" "He wouldn't let me go" "He said: "Pilipenko, I'm going to make a career for you"" "I said: "I got a sick mother"" ""Bring her here"" ""I can't She has asthma" "She chokes outside the steppe zone"" "I can't, Comrade Marshal" "She has asthma" "Asthma" "She chokes outside the steppe zone" "What people!" "You see?" "They can do anything" "So life belongs to them?" "Yes, you just tell Zhus:" "That Gray is scum, all filth come from him"" " They'll make zilch of me right away" " Who?" "All those nobodies, hangers-on, secretaries" "Why is it so, Vanya?" "Why has everybody gone crazy?" "Grownups, children" "There's nothing but whistling and trading in the town What is it?" "Father says it's happiness" "And they all have only one dream - to catch the White" "The White?" "The bells are tolling for evening service" "I'm scared, Vanya Maybe we should go to church?" "I can't I'm a non-believer, I'm a pioneer" "Maybe I'd better go?" "Artillerymen, Stalin issued an order," "Artillerymen, our country calls us to the border!" "From thousands of batteries, For our mothers' miseries," "For our homeland = fire, fire!" "Our hearts are filled with love for our dear land," "We're going to a deadly fight for our country's honour" "Engulfed in flame and smoke, our cities stand," "The formidable god of war is thundering all over" "Boy, give bottle, get good Chinese yo-yo" "No bottle" " Give money" " No money either" "Buy lantern, Chinese" "I don't need lanterns" " No money at all?" " Not at all" "Come here, I'll give you a ruble" "What ruble?" "What for?" "The real one, the Soviet ruble" "Are you Kolia the Gypsy?" "Check out, any blood on my face?" "Yeah" "Scratched myself They put barbs everywhere, bastards" "I went through that hole yesterday Everything was okay" " Whose secretary are you?" " I keep my own, on Ogorodnaya" "On Kurmyshi?" "Come on, pal, help me out" "Cut me out I got a knife in my pocket" "Come on, cut it, boy There you go" " I'm cutting your jacket" " To hell with it, boy, cut it" "We'll sew it together and sell it Will say it were the damned fascists" "Come on, come on, boy" "What's the matter?" "It tickles!" "Come on, boy, cut it" "Those saboteurs!" "The victorious people can't even have a rest in the park for free!" "Hanging onto every ruble!" "Hurting a live man!" "With barbed wire!" "Bleeding him!" "Those bloody saboteurs!" "He was real strong" "Corrupted by impunity" "He hit in the face right away" "And yet, the joy from our beginning friendship outweighed everything else at that moment" ""I'll be coming to Gypsy's courtyard,"- that happy thought was whirling in my head" "One day he'll give me a couple of Tashkent pure-breeds and say: "Don't show them to anyone"" "If someone sees them, you yell:" "I bought them in the market"" "That couple will produce such brood that would be no inferior to Zhus's brood" "And I'll sell at last my mongrel, barelegged stints" "I'll just keep Speckled" "And a new life will begin for me" "That's what I thought, a young idiot, gone crazy with joy" "Ring the bell, Suzym!" "Come on, Suzym, step on it!" "What are you doing here, kid?" "Beat it to your home" "You say you're from Kurmushi?" "On to Kurmyshi!" "Auf Wiedersehen, Fraulein!" "Have you done your homework?" "Come when you're an all-A-student" "Get up, boy, the earth is cold You'll catch influenza" "You hear?" "Don't lie about, get up!" "O Lord, if you exist, Lord God, help me" "The 9,000 that Zinka will give for the coat, may buy an abode house" "You may ask what I need an abode house on Kurmyshi for, Lord God?" "The room was given to Pyotr Petrovich, it's a state property" "If they find out about the divorce, they'll throw me out" "Where shall I go?" "And I'm an actress, Lord God" "In you is my life, in you is my death" "What is this?" "Oh, yes, "Tristram and Isolde"" "O Lord, I forgot everything" "It's such a pity Such a pity" "Once, long ago, before the war, my father was a painter" "That's when he fell in love with Kseniya, a Chamber Theatre actress, who, by a strange coincidence, spent the entire evacuation living next to us" "When my father first saw Kseniya, he realized with horror what that encounter meant for him" "However, he was already married to my mother" "Of leaving her and following Kseniya, he couldn't even think" "He believed it was not right and, therefore, impossible" "I found out about all this later" "Already after his death, the House of Artists suddenly mounted an exhibition of father's works" "Its two rooms looked like a garden in blossom" "Before the war, he painted only Kseniya and flowers" "2 THE WHITE" "This is the theme, boys, an interesting, exciting theme" "Don't forget about such figure of speech as simile" "In our life, as you know, there are no superfluous people, and can't be" "So, think and do not hesitate to make a comparison with Nicholas' era" "And don't forget about grammar Go on, write, and don't lose time" "Heavy weight, nevertheless, has an important advantage" "It's good for a hand-to-hand fight with the help of the back side or a wooden butt" "As for the automatic weapons used by the enemy, such as a German machinegun of the Schmeiser system" "It's really unbearable: m-m-m and m-m-m" "That's the great and powerful Russian language for you" "Naidyonov, where are you going?" "What's the matter, Naidyonov?" "Naidyonov!" "Where are you going?" "Wait Are you angry?" "Why should I be?" "Because my father wasn't killed, but just deafened?" "He was shell-shocked Understand?" "Shell-shocked!" "It's not his fault He even got a certificate" "You're going to have a baby, right?" "What for?" "To stuff its silly head with nonsense?" "Onegin is a superfluous person!" "Forgive me, I didn't think of your father" "You didn't?" "God will forgive!" "Oh, boy!" "The White!" "Now freeze and don't breathe" " There it is" " Where?" "Look" "Hey, it went inside" "I got it" "Damn it!" "It'll fly away" "No, it won't It's going to alight" "Quiet Don't rattle" "It got down" "It's tired It'll let us come close" "What's that?" "!" "It's gone!" "Hold the net" "It's gone, dammit!" "Slow down!" "Slow down, I say!" "Here we're Hop out" "Check out!" "And you said there would be no one there" "Hey, guys!" "Hey, pals, you watch out there!" "You hear?" "Block up the exit" "You're mine!" "Mine!" "Freeze, you stupid!" "Freeze!" "Vanya!" "Hold on!" "Easy, easy Come on, come on" "A little bit more" "Come on, come on" "It was the 500th day of peace, and each day was special" "I'll give you a thick ear for taking someone else's property" "It's not yours, is it?" "Whose, then?" "It flew away, didn't recognize its home" "Even if it was yours, we're quits Caught in the pen, so it's mine" "Give back the bird, and that's it" "Did you get home alright yesterday?" "Weren't your parents mad at you?" "Let's go to my place and chat, huh?" "Who caught the dove?" "Gray did" "Get in" "By the way, Gray's my secretary" "So you have to talk with me" "He's lying We keep our own" "Lay off!" "Zhus' late father once bought a couple of eggs from an old Uzbek in Khorezm, who used to be a pigeon breeder with the last Khiva Khan" "One egg was rotten" "The other hatched a half-dead fledgling" "Zhus junior himself fed the weakling from his mouth" "The pigeon got strong and became the forefather of Zhus' Tashkars" "You happy?" "Happy" " I don't know if it's he or she" " Put it here" "See, its legs are together?" "So it's she" "It's a sure sign" "Incredible" "Such a long body, such a wide chest" "A wide chest - easy breathing" "Take 50 rubles for it, along with my friendship" "I myself want to mate it with the Speckled I have to, honest" "All right, take it" "Drop in tonight I may find something for your Speckled" "You fool!" "If you'd kept mum, I would have got 100 rubles from Zhus for the White" "He would've never given a hundred" "Awesome money, 100 rubles Awesome" "Gosh, I forgot to tell him" "I mean Veniamin" "We just got a batch of women's sandals" "I'm giving you 300 rubles for the White" "You take the money now" "And bring the dove to me after work" "You know my wagon by the coal depot?" "No, I don't want it" "Take it, Gray For this money, I'll sell you a couple of Bukhars" "Put a couple of hundreds on top, and I'll let you have the Yellow" "The Yellow?" "The Yellow goes for 450 While I'm in a generous mood" "Have a bet with Gray on the Yellow All his birds against the Yellow" "Except the White" "What do I need his mongrels for?" "Why mongrels?" "I'm betting the Speckled" "Speckled is no mongrel, everybody knows it You got it?" "All right, it's a deal" "You bet the Speckled and half a sack of millet" "See, Speckled, huh?" "Where's everybody?" "They're gone" "And where's Murat?" "Murat's gone, too" " I've brought the Speckled" " The Speckled?" "Oh, I've changed my mind about the bet" "Want me to dance for you instead?" " Why?" " Just for fun" "Check out" "Look what I can do!" "Look what I'm doing!" " Zhus" " What's wrong, Vanya?" "Easy, easy, easy" "The White What about the White?" "The White" "They did it on purpose" "Have a bet, Chudik said" "Chudik?" "It's interesting" "On purpose The Yellow for the Speckled" "Tying two feathers together" "Tying two feathers together They're real con men!" "Cool it, boy, we'll see to it" "The White" "They did it on purpose Have a bet, they said He and Chudik" "Chudik He's a bum, your Chudik" "On purpose The Yellow for the Speckled" "The Yellow for the Speckled!" "It's all right, all right They're just fooling you, boy!" "Tying two feathers together Tying two feathers together" "Come, Vanya, sit down" "I've run out of patience, Filimonova, and I pity Pavlik" "Yes, you don't pity him, but I do, believe me!" "Don't worry, Vanya, we'll get the White back" "At 5 pm in the pool room at the city park" "Everything will be all right, I'm sure everything'll be all right" "If you only knew what kind of man is that Zhus!" "Here" " What's this?" " A subpoena" "I'm summoned to the court for the fur coat" "What a misfortune Troubles never come singly" "I even went to church, begging the God to have mercy" "There is no God" "The investigator says it's profiteering" "If only you knew what kind of man he is!" "Forget this word Profiteering!" "We'll get that Zinka locked up today at 5" "What time is it?" "Five sharp" "As we agreed, at 5 pm" "For Zhus The beer is for him" "I bought that fur coat not to make profit on it later" "It was very difficult for me to collect the needed sum then" "I sold two things most precious to me - my mother's brooch with a Venetian enamel and a gold watch" "It was very hard for us to live here" "We arrived at your town There's no theatre here" "We're not needed here as actors" "I was selling my dresses and theatrical costumes" "I unstitched costume jewelry from dresses and sold it separately" "A lace collar is worth more than a dress" "A woman with a cigarette And we're talking culture" "My husband had a robe made of marabou feathers" "I cut it into pieces, too" "What do you mean, made of feathers?" "The fabric is woven from feathers" "Comrades, she's been dumped by Pepe" "What?" "Ivan" "Yes, Vanya, you'd better shut up" "Dammit, isn't it something!" "Their Pepe dons a robe, and you're with a sapper's shovel" " Do you have matches?" " Yes, of course" "Don't you think that the investigator's waiting for you?" "Which way are you going?" "This way" "Pardon, Madam, but the young man and I are going the other way" "Oh, that intelligentsia!" "Cutting fur coats into pieces and selling them at the triple price" "She's an actress" "That's what I mean, the actress!" "We must not lose the White" "The cows say "moo"" "And the sheep say "baa"" "And the chicks say "chuck-chuck-chuck"" "Oh, don't let me, God, go mad" "What did you say?" "Nothing" "Then I'm going to say something" "I'm asking you, at least as your old-time friend" "You must come back to Kseniya Nikolayevna" "She will perish without you" "I've seen it with my own eyes" "Why talk about the impossible?" "You know my situation, I've got another family" "No one can help her but you" "As you understand, I don't count" "What can an epileptic stump with blown-out brains do?" "Besides, another family like another life, there's no such thing, it's just unnatural" "Don't you agree?" "You see, my dear, sometimes to remain good" "may be worse than to become bad" "What are we talking about?" "Doctors call my contusion an undulatory one" "I'm usually quiet, but suddenly I may yell" "Or even kill" "Yes, yes" "Don't be afraid" "None of this is going to happen now" "I just pity you very much, Petya" "I pity you so much" "No kids ever wept over poor Petya" "But he's the most pitiful thing, that poor Petya" "I pity you even more than Kseniya Nikolayevna!" "A sick man" "Just a very sick man" "That's all" "Kolia, a clean T-shirt is on the nail" "Now watch it, kid" "This is my star hour" "Hush, hush" "Hush, Zhuchka" " Lady, whose wolfhound is this?" " It's our doggie" "Is he vaccinated?" "A rabid beast is freely walking about the yard!" " He's on chain" " What chain?" "Where's your man?" "In the shower" "And I'm supposed to rummage in shit, catching his rabid dogs and putting my life on the line" "Hey, Gyulya, who's there?" "Ours, ours" " Ours who?" " Yours ours!" "Stop it!" "Who are you?" "Come on, Gyulsara, catch me!" "Kolia!" "They get them with nets!" "How much did they get, you fool?" "!" "Catch him, Kolia!" "Oh, he'll get away!" "Stop, you sickly sucker!" "I'll maim you when I get you!" "Stop, or you'll be sorry!" "Don't talk to him!" "Catch him, or he'll get away!" "You're a real artiste, you fool!" "What a sucker!" "Doggie, my ass!" "You'll get it for the doggie!" "Thank God, I didn't get my pants down yet" "I hear them snarling there So I keep my pants on!" "Kolia, give back the White, or I'll scare all your birds off" "The White?" "Which White?" "Gyulsara!" "They're asking about some White Don't know what they're talking about" "Look, Kolia" "Is he yours?" "This flying bird?" "A good bird, expensive" "Attaboys!" "That's what young men are like now" "Just touch them, and they'll drown you with dead cats tomorrow" "You think there're no bosses over you?" "You've just committed a robbery" "Can't you understand a joke, Kolia?" "We just came to see a friend, but he happened to be in the shower" "You and I have nothing to argue about, but our young got it against you" "They say, one more thing, and Gypsy loses his ears" "And what can I say to them?" "They're hooligans!" "Give back the Wan and we're quits And you may forget about the White" " Give me the White" " I got no White I gave it to Martyn" "Veniamin!" "Zhus, what's up?" "Comrade Zhusov, where are you going?" " Give back the stolen, bastard!" " The stolen?" "Here!" "Zhus, wait!" "Wait, Zhus Listen to me!" "Zhus!" "You're a traitor, Zhus!" "You're shit!" "You're shit, Zhus!" "You're a traitor, Zhus!" "Alright, kid, I'll get even with you" "We'll play a game of noughts and crosses" "Bastard!" "Throw" "Oh, great, I got it" "Bang One" "Two three" " Put it on the line" " Why not?" "I will" " The bat's crappy" " Crappy or not, throw it" "Got it again" "I want to shit" "Go ahead, shitting is a good thing" "Vanya?" "Vanya Are you all right?" "They've stolen my pigeons" "Just now" "All of them" "All of them" "Oh, Vanya, how could you?" "They're many, I'm alone" "How could you abandon Kseniya Nikolayevna?" "Zhus betrayed her, and then left me at the mercy of Gypsy" "You yourself have chosen him to be your ally" "He's the head of the criminal police task force, and the colonel's with him" "The colonel's with him" "All the generalissimos of the world couldn't forbid you to go with Kseniya Nikolayevna" " What about the White?" " Forget it" "Just say to yourself:" "there's no Zhus, no Martyn" "But there is Zhus, and there is the White" "You must live as though there's no Zhus" "But there is Kseniya Nikolayevna" "We must take care of each other" "3 MARTYN'S LAIR" "Missed it" "Well, what?" "We came for our bird" "I don't get you What are you saying?" "We came for our bird!" "Tushkan, you hear what the kids are saying?" "What are they saying?" "They came for their bird" "For their hen or for their bird?" "For their broad" "Are they knitting socks with broads on Kurmyshi?" "Or maybe for the bird?" "Maybe for this one?" "Isn't it yours?" "Shutya's Tashkar isn't something to be sneezed at A famous bird in town" "Hey, you, big one, let's go knock together" "One keeps seven waiting" " Should he?" " No, he shouldn't" "Are you stupid or what?" "You kill me, they'll lock you up" "Don't, Vanya!" "Hold it!" "If anybody moves!" "Come on, bastards!" "Why are you sitting, you louse?" "Where's he?" "Here!" "Get up, bastard!" "Is that your favorite?" "Are you nuts or what?" " Is that your favorite?" " This bird is worth all of yours!" "Give back our bird, then you get your Tashkar!" " I never took your birds!" " Stop it!" " You didn't?" "!" " Please!" "Then, it's tit for tat!" "Hold on, Murat!" "Hold on!" "I've seen many times how pigeon owners tore their birds' heads off in fury" "But I would have never been able to do it myself" "But that was before" "Now I had all of them against me" "Fear took hold of me" "Alone, I was weak" "If I submitted now and gave the White to them," "I would have known forever I was nobody" "Zhus got the White, I know it for sure now" "He was just playing the fool with me, setting Gypsy up" " He'll never give it to you" " I'll take it from him" "And Zhus?" "Veniamin Zhusov?" "He went to Martynov" "He went to Martynov" "And I go = pass" "And I go = one" "You're like a little kid, Pilipenko" "Oh, Venya, my blood is boiling" "I'm hungry for life" " Stay here" " All right" "You got it?" "Way to go for Martyn!" "They're all in his hands, Zhus and the colonel, too" "It was he who told Gypsy to get the White" "Let's stalk Martyn, and steal the White" "What about traps?" "What traps?" "Bullshit They can't put them, just scaring us" "He bought them in a hunting shop It can easily break your arm" "You mean I should give him the White?" "I could have fallen to death from the roof, remember?" "!" "Becoming a sack of bones!" "You get it?" "!" "I'm not going" "I'm not going I feel ashamed, but I'm scared" "We can't win over them, they're stronger" "See that?" "I want to play!" "Sorry, Gray They're stronger" "We can't win" "Our hearts got on fire with a bottle of kerosene" "Hello I want comrade Martynov" "Comrade Martynov is gone the hell knows where" "Too bad I got a pioneer mission - to take a white dove from him" "There was a pigeon scratching here You and your damned pigeons!" " Where does he keep it?" " I'll tell you and you steal it" "He thinks I don't know where he goes" "A foreman from the halt blabbed it out" "And I have to sit here alone all my life" "Bumping along in repair trains = dust and sand, you can't open a window" "Such goddamn trash around, they even steal your laundry" "Go to Halt 41, you'll see a wagon where railway workers live" "Go straight into the steppe To the abandoned factory, you know" "There's a basement next to the gate" "When you go in, he'll ask:" ""How did you find me?"" "You say: "Your wife, Zoya Petrovna, told me"" "Say it right into his face:" "your wife directed me to this place" " Are you Pyotr Petrovich Startsev?" " Yes, it's me" "Sit down, please" "Are you familiar with these things?" "Yes, these are my ex-wife's things" "Kseniya Nikolayevna Startseva's" "Is that you?" "Am I right?" "Yes, it's me" "Come with me And I'll ask your friend to be a witness" "Galym, open up" "Here" "Galym" "Unthinkable Unbelievable" "Impossible Nonsense" "Impossible It's absurd" "Tell me, what was it?" "Is it her heart?" "She had a heart problem" "Sign, please, the identification record" "Right here" "Pipe is rusted" "Let's go, comrade" "You can't stand here" "A man" "There must be a live man there Alive" "An accidental man got into your trap, you bastard" "Wait" "I'm coming" "Martyn, is that you?" "This pit was meant for me, wasn't it?" "Then rot in it yourself!" "Bastard!" "Bastard!" "Bastard!" "You see, Vanya, I found you" "How shall I take it off?" "I don't know I couldn't do it with hands, it's jammed" "Father!" "I found her, father!" "She's here!" "He kept her separately!" "Father!" "Look, father" "My darling beautiful dove Look, her feathers are like snow" "Father" "Help me, Vanya" "Tear off a strip" "Give it here" "Come on, give me a hand" "Higher" "Why did you take the bird, boy?" "Because it's been stolen" "Why stolen?" "Gypsy brought it, demanded money" "He said Gray was selling it Asked me not to tell Zhus" "Not to tell Zhus?" "He's lying" "Everybody's afraid of him, I saw it" "I saw Zhus crawling before him, saw him beating the colonel" " What colonel?" " Pilipenko" "He's not a colonel He's a liar" "He was an officer on special missions with Marshal Rokossovsky" "There was a Pilipenko with Rokossovsky" "This one is lying it was him" "I know it, he's my nephew" "He doesn't say he's a student of some famous botanist" "A colonel, so that everybody feared him" "Is Zhus, head of criminal police special task force, your nephew too?" "What special task force?" "Just scaring warehouse guards" "So much fear!" "So much fear!" "There's no need to fear us, boy" "We fear each other ourselves, boy" "You're a band I saw it myself in your wagon" "Yes, they came and begged for 40 sleepers" "Father" "Don't believe him He's lying, they are a band" "We should tie him up" "We should pity him and get him home He can't get there himself" "And the White?" "What will happen to her?" "I don't know, Vanya" "You think yourself" "Take two smoke-colored" "Give me the White" "The White?" "Give her to you?" "Name any price" "I won't spare any money for a good bird" "Young people with diplomas are leaving me behind at work" "And I keep knocking about the railway Sleepers, spikes" "My birds are first-class" "Listen, wait, please" "Give me the White" "Cast:" "Gray = Slava ILYUSHCHENKO" "Father = Liubomiras LAUCIAVICIUS" "Kseniya Nikolayevna - Ludmila SAVELYEVA" "Murat = Sultan BAPOV" "Pepe = Andrei BITOV" "Zhus = Ilya IVANOV" "Gypsy = Vladimir STEKLOV" "Martyn = Boris OLEKHNOVICH" "Colonel - Anatoly SLIVNIKOV" "Misha Nelyub = Gherman SHORR" "Chudik = Alexander BASHIROV" "Rakov = Boris RYAKHOVSKY" "Aizhan = Bigulsin KUDABAYEVA" "Baldy brothers " "Arkady VYSOTSKY Sergey MILDENBERGER" "Savitsky = Aldrei FILOZOV" "Tushkan = Vyacheslav KUCHANOV" "Shutya = Mikhail LEVCHENKO" "The End"