"Now, for example, we know we have 19 540 partridges in this area." "How many?" "19 540." "That includes stone partridge," "that's also called keklik." "That's not little." "But here are natural conditions, so normal supply should be 44 000." "THE HARE CENSUS" "It seems too much to grow." "I'll show you when you get there." "When I sit down and start to process that material..." "Entire maps." "There's always a lack of time." "Is there a deadline?" "It's not the matter of deadline." "Deadline is here inside." "Screenplay:" "Georgi Mishev" "Starring:" "Composer:" "Kiril Donchev" "Director of photography:" "Venec Dimitrov" "Director:" "Eduard Zahariev" "Come on, come on, I was thinking you won't come." " New colleague, Trifonov." "Mister Georgi." "I said to myself: 'They won't come'." " How's that?" "Didn't we agree?" "I know, but anything can happen." " That won't happen." "As soon it's said, there's no going back." "You must be thirsty." " No, don't worry." "Come on, one beer." "Don't say no." "Mister Georgi!" "There's no more beer." "I bought three." "How much did people secure?" "Everyone will come." "They've got instructions, didn't they?" " I told them." "They'll come." "Was there any deprecation?" "Well, there was some." "I promised 50 grams of smokeless powder to each one of them." "You'll have to help me with Karakonov's with 2,3 kilos." "Can't you get it in stores?" "There's some but it's sold right away." "We don't stand well with bullets." "Important thing is that we get the job done." " But if you don't promise them, they won't come." "Alright, I got it." "How do we stand with nets?" "Great." "I just called one phone number and they gave it straight away." "Let's go, Mitko." "Goodbye." " Goodbye." "Of course they'll give it." "After all, this wasn't organized by my cousin!" "Where is colleague Trifonov?" "Trifonov?" "Where is he?" "I have to park somewhere." "Where do you recommend?" "You can park on the square, but it's better at home." "All kinds of people go by here." "At home is the safest place." "Here are the orders." "Put two stamps on each." " Dates later?" "Comrades, after mister Georgi's introductions, who introduced us" "our action for tomorrow, what's left for me to add?" "Good evening!" "Comrades, we'll make a small check." "Georgi Todev." "Yes." "Filip Kolev." "Yes.." "Cvetan Rusev." "It's me." "Thank you." "Zdravko Andrejev." "Yes." "Hristo Kormevski." "It's me." "Filco Kuhtev." " It's me." "And Venec Tratev." "Yes." "Comrades, everything depends on organization, and only on organization." "All of us have to breathe like one to be able to fulfill appointed task." "Die, but inform your comrade first." "That's right." "Hey, discipline, hey!" "There will be difficulties on the way to the goal." "It's not unusual that we face, eyes to eyes, with injustices, lack of faith," "distrust," "and finally, with lack of sense for responsibility." "But we..." " We're convinced, but what will patients say?" "Cvetan?" " During working hours..." "Taxation is work as well." "It's not serious job." "Once when they sent me to some conference in the city," "I was just leaving, and they bring a buffalo, inflated like a balloon;" "she ate too much of beet leaves." "I was almost fined with quarter wage." "And what happened, did she die?" " Who?" " Buffalo." "Very simple, acute constipation." "Even if God came down, he wouldn't be able to save her." "What kind of comparisons are those?" " What?" " These." "Should we let them leave?" "Are you in a hurry?" " This television..." "Here, I welcomed our guests, Totke." "Come in." "Good evening." " Welcome, come in." "Excuse me..." " Asenov." "Totka." " Nice to meet you." "Trifonov, my colleague." "Totka, nice to meet you." " We could've eaten something out there, but mister Georgi insisted." "You came here for the first time, I won't send you to some taverns." "Georgi, schnapps is downstairs." "Will you please go and bring some?" "Georgi!" "Georgi, come on." "What's going on in Northern Ireland?" "Those Protestants." "No good will come of it." "But why are you standing and not sitting?" "Sit down, sit down and watch." "Sit down, sit down." "Enough, enough, mister Georgi." "No, no." " Just a little." " None for me." "Grandpa Stanco, neighbour." "He comes here every evening to watch television." "Good evening, everyone." " Good evening." "Stancev." "Asenov." "Stancev." " There you go." "Alright then, good night to you." "Why are you in a hurry, grandpa?" "Why don't you sit to watch more?" "He doesn't watch other things." " I only watch weather forecast." "That anticyclone from the west is getting stronger again." "Those anticyclones are always coming from the west." "Listen, those anticy...." " No, no, I'll send one question to Ljupka." "Who's Ljupka?" " Weather forecaster on duty." "Eat, eat." "Eat, eat, comrade." "Don't be embarrassed." "I'm not embarrassed." "I'm not embarrassed." "He's still young." "He hasn't been around people that much." "He still doesn't know how to behave.." " Has he entered into the service recently?" "There's not a full month since he graduated." "We have a son engineer too." "He's in Sofia." "Maybe you know him." "His name is Ivan Georgiev." "He lives in 120 Pozetanovo street." "Pozetanovo?" " Yes." "He stayed to live there." "His girlfriend's name is Dijana." "She has blue eyes and ties her hair on top." "I don't know him." "I went to college in Svishtov." "Come on, cheers!" "Come on, cheers!" " Cheers." "On which side will you lay down?" " It doesn't matter." "I don't care either." "I'll lay here, away from the window." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "If you spare five minutes every evening for your hair, you won't be bald." "Like this." "I used pine extract, some shampoo... alantoin," "tonic lotion," "but just plain yolk gives the best results." "Makes hair stronger and makes it elastic." "Colleague Trifonov, let's go, job awaits us tomorrow." "Good morning, dear listeners." "Morning gymnastics is starting." "Morning gymnastics refreshes and heals your organism." "So practice it every morning." "And now, get ready." "Put on light and comfortable exercising clothes and be ready." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Good morning!" " Good morning." "Come on, come on." "Class, stand up!" "Class, attention!" "Here you go." " Thank you." "Greetings, students!" "Sit down, sit down." "Today, you'll do things by yourselves." "First grade, pay attention." "You'll fill one page of your notebooks with ticks." "Second grade," "Second grade, on page 17 in your math book there are three problems about adding whole numbers." "You'll solve them all." "Third grade." "Third grade will learn a lesson about baptizing." "Fourth grade." "Fourth grade." "Fourth grade will be responsible for discipline." "Angelina." "Angelina will take my place today, and later she will tell me how you behaved." "Comrade teacher, didn't we suppose to have gym class half a day today?" "It's postponed." "Important activity is preventing me from being in school today." "You'll have four classes, and then you'll leave quietly." "Angelina, you'll lock up later." "You know where to leave the key?" "Under the rug in front of the door." " Sit down, sit down." "How are you?" "Hello!" "Hello." "Hello." "Hello, comrade." "Hello." " Good morning." "I greet you already." "Are we ready?" "We're ready." "That's right." "Everyone is here, except those who are missing." "Who's missing?" "Cvetan, veterinarian technician." "Where is Cvetan?" "Daskan, go to the hospital and check what's keeping Cvetan." "Come on." "It's not far." "That's what happens in reality." "Excuse me." "If one link in chain is not good, balance of the whole is undermined." "That much time passed by, and we're still on starting point." "Generous Slavic souls." "Leave, I tell you." "If you were needed, I'd call you." "Hire me, neighbour." " No, the list is full." " What does he want?" "To come with us." "A job for him." "Hire me, comrade." "You should take me with you." "I know where are those wastelands." "How many times have I walked through those pastures." "That's not suitable for your age, grandpa." "And what if the weather goes bad?" "You see, you're wrong about that." "Didn't they say last night on television that the weather will be stable?" " And about anticyclone." "There's time, young man." "Add him to the list." "Let's take him when he's so eager." "I'm ready, just to leave this milk bucket." "Discipline, first of all, that's the ability to..." "He can't come, he's busy." "Didn't you tell him we're waiting for him?" " I did, but..." "Cvetan is a bit nuts." "What do you mean nuts?" "We're all a bit nuts." "But when we have a task to do..." "What do you mean nuts?" "What does that mean?" "He likes to ask questions." "And to disprove." "Especially..." " I get it." "Is the hospital far from here?" " No, it's very close, opposite of grandma Vana's house." "Come, come." "Cvetan!" "What did we say last night, and look what are you doing now." "You can't do that, young man." "You're a public worker and you have to..." "Can't you see it?" "Vulnus laceratum." "The wound is deep, needs to be worked up." "And what if I leave him now and run for Mihailo?" "If you don't come, I'll report you." "Nuts?" "That's the way it is, brother." "I left my pupils too." "They'll turn the school upside down, that's the way it is." "Did you release him last night?" "He must've jumped over wired fence, because he cut his leg." "I thought it's vulnus laceratum." "And what is it?" " Vulnus punctum." "And you have to rub methylene blue on every hour." "Where did you go?" "I was looking for you everywhere." "They told me you were on the way to the hospital." "Take it easy." "What's with that cow?" " This is Roska." "I brought her with me so she can walk a bit." "Come on, faster, faster." "It's time to go." "Come on, Roska." "Good morning, Krasi!" "Come on, good luck!" "And let me know when you come back." "Even granny is smart when everything's finished." "Come with us, you might get lucky." "Will you take me with you?" "Who was that girl?" " Krasimira, midwife." "Much of a job..." "Five births in one year." " And rest of the time?" "She's moving her hips." "By the way, her legs aren't bad at all." " Why didn't you become midwife then?" "Would she come with us if we invited her?" "Just like that." "She doesn't have to be convinced much." " Why?" "She's not a bad girl but she's a bit behind in comparison with her generation." "There's not enough boys here." "We'll start from here." "First of all, from this meadow, if I'm not wrong." "That's beet, but we need to clear the weed." " Ah, yes, beets." "This place is suitable." "Now..." "Can anyone maybe spare a pocket knife?" "Mister Georgi, just for a bit." " Give me." "Can someone borrow me a pocket knife?" "Comrade Asenov?" "I keep getting ready." "How to tell you..." "You see, if this was hunting, I'd join immediately." "Yes?" "I was participating once on wild boar hunt in Rodopi." "But this thing today..." "how should I say it..." "I don't understand much." "What's not to understand?" "There's nothing unclear." "What's unclear?" "On square kilometer, that much times that much..." "What's unclear?" "Add up the collected data, then we write them in the table." "Who's that?" "A salesman." " Is he with us?" "What was I saying?" "What's unclear?" "Add up the collected data, then we write them in the table." "That's like land map of Bulgaria." "You can only wonder how it was made." "Roads, lines, everything is drawn there." "You keep that cow from getting in beets." "Whose knife is this, comrades?" " Whose knife is this, speak." "Thank you." "Mister Georgi, please." "Come on, comrades." "Drop your cigarettes and let's start." "Mister Georgi, give orders to your men." " That part won't be a problem for me." "We're good at that." "Just say where?" " Where?" "Forward!" "We'll spread like a chain, in width and depth." "Colleague Trifonov, come here." "Colleague Trifonov, your task will be sealing." "Here are the pliers, here are the seals." "Like we agreed, right?" "Right ear, from the inside." " Yes." "Comrade Asenov!" "Comrade Asenov!" "We have a helper." "Should I let him go?" "Let him." "Nets on right and left flanks." "Come on." "Come on, come on." "Come on." "Faster, faster." "No, no, no!" "Not through beets!" "These seals are reminding me of something I read in a magazine." " Where?" "They put a ring with number and some other data on stork's leg, and after that when she's back in the flock, other birds start to avoid her." "They won't let her in." "They consider her a traitor." "So she sold herself for one golden ring." "They don't accept her." " They don't accept her." "Are you a bookkeeper?" " No, I'm a teacher." "Comrade teacher, save those stories for your students, we don't have time here." "Sealing is a verified method and it doesn't reflect on the psyche of the sealed ones." "That's scientifically proved." " Alright then." "Nets are spread, you just tell us what to do." "Spread out!" "Careful!" "Under every bush, under every leaf!" "Don't leave a single square feet uncultivated!" "Careful." "Under every bush, under every leaf!" "Don't leave a single square feet uncultivated!" "Begin!" "How's on the right side?" " It's good, it's not good only on hare's side." "Strange, there was plenty of them before, they jumped here like flees." "If only one passed by." " The machine drove them away, neighbour." "They have sensitive ears, not like people." " What machine?" "Airplane, right above our village." "It goes above our land." "Airplane from Istanbul to Copenhagen." "Why did you shoot?" "Why did you shoot?" "I'm calling my dog." "Where did that animal go?" "I paid 65 lev for him." "He'll get lost somewhere." "He won't ask you at all, he won't ask you anything." "Because you unleashed him." "My Roska would do the same, but I watch her very closely." "Very closely!" "If only we'd gone through vegetable gardens." "It's known that long eared ones are cabbage and carrot fanciers." "That's right." "Where are the gardens with cabbage?" "Over there." " Cabbage is on that side, over there." "Nothing." "Hold this." "Let me taste some more." "Mister Donco." "Here you go." "Donjo, give me salt." "It goes great with schnapps." "Comrade Asenov, cabbage?" "Here." " No." " Please, you'll offend me." "No, I don't consume it raw." "But why?" "It has plenty of vitamins." "Nothing but cellulose." "Give some to my colleague." "He's young, he has good digestion." "Trifonov!" "Colleague Trifonov!" "I'm calling them both." "Trifonov!" "Colleague Trifonov!" "He was here just before." " I gave him my rifle to take a look and he gave it back." "He must've gone a bit further, towards corn." "Colleague Trifonov!" "Trifonov!" "Colleague Trifonov!" "Trifonov!" "Where were you, rookie?" "How can you leave without permission?" "I'll show you." "He took the seals with him?" "Where should I search for him now?" "But I'll file a report." "Trifonov, don't joke around!" "We came here to do a job!" "He could've lied down in some shade." "He'll fall asleep in no time." "How could he lie down?" "He was sleeping all night." " I don't know." "Youth are unreliable." "You want me to tell you where he is?" "He has nowhere to go." "I have orders for him." "What do you offer me if I tell you?" "Come on, Ceco, enough with your tricks, if you know, tell us where is he." "Will you let me leave?" "We'll all leave when we finish the job." "We'll all leave, we won't sleep in cabbage." " Then I won't tell." "If it's about that, maybe someone else knows." "You don't have to be inspector Maigret to figure that out." "Come on, professor, if you know tell us where he is." "Over there, in the health center." "Krasi..." "Who are you looking for?" "I noticed you." "Do you think I didn't see his reaction?" "But he's sick, he came to get medicine." "Are you treating him with coffee?" "Or you telling him his fortune?" "Are you a fortune teller?" "She's a fortune teller." "She came to tell me where hares are hiding." "Everything must be known in this world." "If they say, we'll count the grass too." "If we have to, we'll count it, leaf by leaf!" "We'll group it, sort it and classify it." "If it's necessary." "Let's not forget there's still much work ahead of us." " Yes, yes." "That meadow over there, and over there." "And that beet, right?" "Yes, yes." "Of course, comrade Asenov." "What did you lay down here?" "Nothing, nothing." " Just so you know, it's great." "That's nothing." " Look at all this." "I don't want us to be on a feast." "You didn't have to bother." "Well, alright." " Then let's eat something." "This way, this way." "What?" " That way." "You know those formalities." " No, please." "Comrade Asenov, sit down." "Come on, comrades, sit down." "It's time for schnapps." "Taste this yellow drink, comrade Asenov." "The one who drinks, doesn't get old, he dies young!" "Velicko, you talk like a radio reporter." "No, I don't want to." "Please." " Just a little, comrades." "Alright then." " Our schnapps is great, comrade Asenov." "Here you go." "To your health!" " Yours too." "You're a good boy, I like you even better now." " Schnapps is great." "He'll get a hang of it, but that's how it's like in the beginning." "Like very other rookie, he's shy." " He'll come around in the army." "Women, women..." "Women." "Cheers, grandpa Slavco!" "Good schnapps." " Cheers, grandpa Slavco!" "What is a man, friends?" "A man is a bush, and no one knows from which bush a hare will jump out." "I give the word to comrade Asenov." "Comrade Trifonov should get ready next." "It's hard to speak..." "Quiet!" "Quiet!" "Comrades, there are things that you let go more difficult," "that you feel only here, on the inside." "Because, because..." "That Jugva, that Jugva." "Nice area." "Good people." "Comrades, I haven't told you yet, but once have I... here... but those are bachelor things, from my youth days." "Who was the girl?" " And you didn't say anything this whole time!" "She was a beautiful girl." "Beautiful." "Jugva has always been famous for beautiful girls." " Unlike men." "Nice area, nice people!" "Tell us anyway, comrade Asenov, we're having fun." "It happened in the past, comrade bookkeeper." "Teacher!" "Teacher!" " Yes?" "Mister Georgi, cheers!" "Listen, venison is national treasure!" "As it was written in the papers, that's a living treasure of our country." "We have to know our supplies." "What do we have at our disposal." "Useless talk." "We won't accomplish anything, let's go." "We've done what we've done." " Those are sinful money, mister Georgi." "Why all these nets?" "Why do we need them?" "They'll pay us." "Everything will be paid." "They released a man from working brigade." "Isn't that enough?" "Kire, why can't our firm recover?" "Because its box office is like a hole in the net." "It's not my fault." "You were the bookkeeper?" " No, a teacher." "When you become professor, many things will be more clear." "You talk too much." " Listen, he talks like that because he lives like a king!" "But veterinarians?" "Who will treat our cattle if we send them away?" "And now, when I collect everything, I'll write a report!" "Only I don't have a typewriter!" " What's that?" " Give me a piece!" "You talk too loud!" "You talk too loud!" "Nice area, nice people!" "Nice area, nice people!" "Nice people!" "Nice people!" "Nice people!" "Manager:" "Translated by Inglourious @KG"