"SVET Film Studio" "With the support of Cinematography Department," "Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation" "I'm asking you, how long it's going to continue?" "When will you start to use your head?" ".." "You want me to die, don't you?" "Tell me, do you want your mother to die?" "Blast you, you little devil, I'm going to teach you..." "I see you in my garden again, I'll box your ears!" "When he grows up, I'll put him in jail." "Now you teach him." "SERGEY ZHIGUNOV presents" "I'm sorry, I didn't want to." "Give back my ball, please." "VOVOCHKA" "Dedicated to Vanya and Styopa Zaitsev" "Take the tinsel out of the box." " Or shall I put you instead of a tree?" " You mean, to ground me?" "Galya, do you have flour?" "I think I'm out of it." " Send Vovka to buy some." " Yes, mom, I'll go." "You just want to run in the street." "You were so eager to decorate the tree." "Don't do it without me." "I'll run to the shop and be back." " I must help Grandma." " Grandma..." " You promise not to get in trouble?" " Yes." "Don't stop by any place even for a second." "One step to the right or to the left will be considered an escape." "Wait!" "Take the tinsel off." "All right." "I'm off." "Can't stay a second at home." "Why is he like that?" "He takes after his dad." "The New Year is almost here, and where's he?" "The boy never sees his father." "What do you need the man for if he's never at home?" "Mother, don't you understand?" "It's his work." "Theirs is an elite unit." "One day it's an antiterrorist operation, another..." "Who needs work like that?" "It's hard to find good work nowadays." "You want him to go and work as our neighbor's guard?" "What do you want, young man?" " Is Kolia here?" " Kolia?" " Their car is here." " Their car?" "Is he going to celebrate the New Year at the country house?" "Wait." "Yes?" "The neighbors' boy asks for Kolia." "What shall I tell him?" " Shall I let him in?" " No." "No, it's out of the question." "You deal with him." "Think up something." "Mom, is it for me?" "Is it Vovochka?" "Yes." "But I asked him to leave." "You know I don't want you to associate with this boy." "Why not?" "Because he is trouble." "May I invite him to the New Year party?" "What for?" "You'll have good kids coming, and he's mixing with a different kind." "You can't blame me, ma'am, he started first." " I just threw snow at him, and he..." " I simply defended myself." "Don't call the police, ma'am." "Don't call me ma'am." "All right, please let me go, mister." "What?" "I'm going to show you..." "Hold it!" "Where have you been?" "You said you'd be right back." "All you can do is just mischief." "The shop didn't have any flour, I had to run to the station for it." " Where's mom?" " She went to call your dad." " What kind of pie do you want?" " I don't want any pie." "Why?" "What's the matter with you?" "She left without me." "I wanted to talk to dad, too." "I couldn't wait for you forever." "But I wanted to talk to dad!" "You'll talk to him tomorrow." "He's got the holidays off." "He's coming tomorrow." "_ Yes!" "Yes' Ye I _ No!" "s." " Where are you going?" "Stand still." " Mom, this one?" "Mom?" "Dad!" "Dad!" "You've got so big!" "I could drop you." " Have you caught all the terrorists?" " No, I left some for you." " Did you bring a real gun?" " Did you ask me to?" "I wrote to you about it, as a New Year present." "I brought you something even better." "Wait." "Well, there you go." "Uncle Misha!" "Hi, brother!" "You've grown up." " Shall we go home now?" " Yes." " Dad, let me carry it." " Yes, you carry." "A real fighter." "What?" "Too heavy for you?" "Give it to me." "It's not like carrying bad marks in your school bag." "Dad, I had not a single bad mark in the last half-year." "Honest, I'm telling the truth." "Yes, he did well this semester." "Hi!" "Always on guard, fighter?" "Hello, hero!" "Have you shot all the terrorists?" "No, I left a few for you." "Wait for them, they'll be here soon." "Well, how about the fighter's 100 grams?" "Sure." " Welcome back." " Happy New Year!" "What happened then, dad?" "We caught the cook and led him to the wish-wash." " And?" " Well, how should I put it..." "Did you give him the heat?" "Come on, dad, tell me." "Take your feet off the wall." "Give your father a break." "Get out of here!" "Go to your room and play some game there." "Sonny." "You'd better go outside and play." "Right, go ahead and build a snow fortress." "I'll come out in a while and help you." "But stay near the house, you got it?" "Hi!" "Hi." "And I was told you're not here, that you are staying in Moscow for the holidays." "How come you're here?" "My parents forbid me to play with you." "But I saw you, and came out right away." "Buzz off back, then, or you'll be punished and not get a new toy." "I'm never punished, they just don't like it when I don't obey." "Do you always obey?" "Good boy, stay in your yard, then." "And I'm going to the pond, or to the skating-rink, or whatever." "I want to go to the pond, too." "You can't go anywhere without a nanny." "But I..." "I'll tell them that I'll go only as far as the corner." "Please, don't leave without me." " The guard will snitch on you." " Help me, please." "Let's think of something." "I'll be right out, get you and break your neck." ""Huba-buba"." "Hurry UP" ""Reebok"?" " Why are they sitting there?" " They are fishing." "Do they catch real fish?" "Sure, real fish." "Haven't you ever seen people fishing?" " I have." " Let's go." "I even was fishing myself." "In the Seychelles, in summer." "In winter they don't catch real fish." "They do." "Come on." "You see?" "And you said they don't catch fish." "What kind of fish is that?" "In the Seychelles, it was big." "It's winter now." "By summer, it will grow for sure." "Like hell it Will!" "There're no big fishes here." "Beat it from here, you talk too much, scaring the fish off." " And why...?" " Quiet!" "Why are you standing there?" "Come closer." "Aren't we going to scare the fish?" "You don't look very scary to me, and the fish is not easy to scare." "Why do they have small openings, and you have a big one?" "What do you mean, kiddo?" "He means the ice-hole." "I'm not small either, I like to catch big fishes, no smaller than you." "And a real fish won't fit into a small hole." "My dad says that we have only bullheads and perches here." "What do I care?" "I'm not from these parts." "I'm fishing for ones I love." " Where are you from?" " Maybe from Seychelles?" "I don't know about Seychelles, but in our Pomorye the fish which is smaller than you is not even called fish, just small fry." "And where's Pomorye?" "You must be kidding." "You've heard of Seychelles, but not of Pomorye!" "It's in the North, for sure." "Oh, look..." " Was it a fish?" " It's not a mermaid, that's for sure." "You got wet, you'll get cold." "Just a tiny bit wet." "Have you heard about General Karbyshev?" " Is he also from Pomorye?" " No, he's from Siberia." " Where is it?" " Hiding." "And what about Karbyshev?" " Didn't they tell you about him at school?" " No." "What kind of school do you go to?" "I go to a good school, an expensive one." "Then your father pays them just for nothing." "Come on, tell us." "It's biting!" "There was such a general during the Second World War." "He was shell-shocked and taken prisoner by the fascists." "Come on!" " And what about fascists?" " They began to torture him." "They took him outside." "It was winter, like now." "They poured cold water over him to make him betray his comrades." " Right in the cold?" " What happened to him?" "What do you think?" "In such cold..." "He turned to an ice column." " He didn't betray anyone?" " No, he didn't." "He was standing there, like an ice monument to a soldier's courage." "Hell's bells!" "Come on, help me!" " What shall we do?" " Yell as loud as you can." "A big one!" "What's its name?" "It's a pike." "Just like in a fairy tale." "Awesome!" "At my wish, at the wave of a pike's wand..." "And you said, perches." "Give it to me." "Smart guys!" "We were fishing together, and the wish will be yours?" "I just wanted to have a wish..." "And what if it can make only one wish come true?" "All right, stop fighting, have one wish for both of you." "I wish..." " Let him have a wish." " No, you go ahead." "You're right, boys." "Anyone can do it with a pike." "But try and do it yourself..." " I will help you." " I will, too." "Well, so long, boys." "I'm going home with my catch." "All the way to Pomorye?" " What's your name?" " Pyotr." "You're all wet." "Let's go home, or you'll catch cold." "I won't." "It's not a big deal, just a tiny bit wet." "You know, I'm not at all afraid of the cold." "Don't get upset." "Nothing will happen to him." "He'll get tired and come home." "It's easy for you to say." "I cannot bring him up alone." "I fear for him." "Each day he has some surprise for me." "Itried punishing him, beating him, locking him up." "No effect." "Come on, can't you two cope with a little boy?" "We can't." "We can't, because we're women." "He needs a father." "A father, do you understand?" "What are you suggesting?" "Do you think I like it?" "I don't know." "But something has to be done." "Shall I ask for a HQ job?" "Carrying the generals' papers?" "What shall we live on?" "At least now I'm getting a combat bonus." "Or shall I go and guard those new rich?" "Come on, say something." "Happy holidays." "You shouldn't have, it must be expensive." "Come on, stop it..." "You're exaggerating." "He's a good boy." "Though he may misbehave sometimes." "After all, he's growing to be a man." "Hold it, scoundrel!" "Stop!" "Hold it, I'll get you!" "Hold it!" "I'll catch you and you'll regret it!" "Hold it, I said!" "Happy New Year!" "That's it, boy, I've had enough." "You'd better pray for that boy, Kolia, not to get sick." "You know who his parents are." "You should explain it to your husband." "Take your boy as far from here as possible until the holidays are over." "We're sorry... that is, thank you for coming to us and not to..." "Well, Galina Sergeyevna, if he wasn't your son..." "As if I have nothing better to do than paying you visits." "I could just subpoena you to come to the police..." "I'm sick and tired of having to deal with him." "Bless you!" "I'm not going to... cover for you!" "You will answer for everything." "To think of such a thing!" "Pouring water over your naked friend in the cold!" "Are you sadists or what?" "That's all those action movies, that American shit!" " Don't buy him any video cassettes!" " But I don't..." "Why do you keep silent?" "Tell me how did you get it in your head?" "But don't lie that it wasn't you." "Dad, movies have nothing to do with it." "We were playing a game, being Karbyshev." "There was such a general." "Why it was not you who was Karbyshev?" "Answer me." "Who was you, then?" "A fascist?" "An SS man?" "All right..." "Bring here all the presents that we bought for him for the New Year." "No, dad, please." "Come on, bring them." "Dad, please, I'll never do it again." "I'll go and jump into an ice-hole myself if you wish." "Fireworks." "You see it?" "It's real." "I was making it myself, for 3 days." "It took a lot of gunpowder..." "It's not some cheap firecracker." "You'll never see it again." " Oh..." "Ghana..." " I'm sorry, mother." "Grandma bought this for you." "Look." "The skates, just as you asked." "Dad..." "Mom, please tell him..." "Grandma, please..." "All right." "Your mother will go to General Karbyshev's parents." "After the holidays I'll go to the police, without a subpoena." "Everyone's getting ready for the celebration, except Vladimir." "Pending full investigation of the circumstances and enormity of the perpetrated, Vladimir is under house arrest." "To your room, forward march'.!" " How is he?" "Is he crying?" " No, it's quiet." " Yes, it's quiet." " He's growing to be a man." "You shouldn't have destroyed the presents." "Especially the fireworks." "I feel bad about it myself." "I thought up a couple of tricks there." "Our sapper gave me the idea." "It goes... boom!" "You would have been stunned." "I'm stunned as it is." "You're just like another little boy." "Why don't you eat anything?" "I don't want to, Granny." "Can I go to my cell?" "What do you mean, cell?" "To my room." "I've got a headache." "No, there's no fever." "Stop fantasizing and eat." "Mom, I feel suffocated, I need to go for a walk, to get some fresh air." "Why are you tormenting the child?" "Look at him, he's so pale." "All right, martyr, you'll go with me to the spring and give me a hand." "But stay glued to my side." "Careful." "Help!" "Help me!" "Help!" "Help, somebody!" "Dear friends!" "I know that you're already checking your watches." "A new time is coming, the wonderful time of new people, the people like my namesake, an ordinary Moscow schoolboy who rescued today from the icy water a future Olympic champion." "Are you going to look under your feet or not?" "Get up, you lummox." "That's it, I don't need your help." "Get down!" "Fill the glasses." " Take your glass away." " I just want to clink it." "We're all together for the New Year." "I can't believe it." "Happy New Year!" " Happy New Year!" " Happy New Year!" "It's cool!" "Our neighbors are having fireworks." "I'll be right back." "Shall we?" " Where are you going?" " Just for a minute." "I want to see it." "Come back and take your seat." "Ghana, whats the matter'!" "?" "Didn't you get it?" "Why don't you drink, Vassilyevna?" "I'll go and check my pies." "Ghena, why did they all run away?" "Galina!" " Galya!" " Coming." "Let's go." "Why are you both pouting?" "You think I'm not right?" "You let him get out of hand." "He's a menace to the whole town." "Some low-rank cop is dictating to me whether I keep my son here or take him away." "I don't care if he makes a racket in the house, but he will stay put." " But he..." " That's final." "He's just a child, don't you understand it?" "You're used to ordering your crimpled beret cutthroats about." "Crimson berets!" "Don't shout, Ghena." "Don't shout at your wife." "All right, I'll shut up, I won't say a word." "But he's not going outside until I say so." "Children, come back inside, it's too cold." "Hurry up!" "Well, pal, shall we?" "We shall!" "What about going to hunt hares tomorrow?" " Have you fixed the snowmobile?" " Sure thing." "I have everything loaded and ready." "Here's the gunpowder." "Let's go in." "Why don't you cool it?" "You know, the way you meet the New Year..." "Lay off." "Why are you sitting here?" "They're starting the game." "I love playing forfeits." "All right, redeemed." "May I finish it?" "Next forfeit." "Where are you going?" "Can I go to my room?" "I feel sleepy." "How about the cherry pie?" "Tomorrow, Granny." "All right, all right, go." "Come on, go." "Are you going to declare amnesty tomorrow?" "The neighbors seem to be quiet." "What shall this forfeit do?" "Run through the yard, crying "Help me!" "Help!"" "But cry it for real." "Help me!" "Help!" "Like this?" "Now it's for real." "Run!" " Want some?" " No." "It's much easier to work as a witch." "Help me!" "Help!" "Please, help me!" "Help!" "Help!" "Wait!" "Are you nuts, boy?" "You?" "How come?" "Where from?" "Happy New Year." " What's your name?" " Katia." "Come to my place tomorrow." "I'll show you the real fireworks." "If a guy on a cliff got stiff," "If he chickened and down went," "On a glacier he stepped, and crept," "Lost his balance and wept," "Then it means he is not the one," "Don't blame him, just let him run..." "Then you can put your trust in him" "As in one of your team..." "What is this?" "This is Karbyshev." "Everything3 all right, strange as it may seem." "Well, maybe you want some milk and honey?" "No, thanks, I don't feel like it." "You... can go..." "I'm going... to lie down for a while." "Do you have a headache?" "Just a little." "You go, I'm going to sleep." "All right, have some sleep." "Galya, where's the iron pipe?" "It was here." "I'll look for it, mother." "What's in there?" " Ghena..." " Listen, Vassilyevna..." "Where are you going?" "Everybody is celebrating, and you're like crazy." "The hares are up for a mourning, mother." "The hare-meat pie, that will be a celebration." "What are you doing here?" "I wanted some jam." "Hello." "You're looking for somebody, girl?" "My name is Katia." "Happy New Year!" "How is Vova?" "He didn't get sick, did he?" "Gaby."!" "Come in." "A girl is here to see Vova." " Hello." " Hello." " I'm Katia." " I'm Galya." "I mean, Galina Stepanovna." "You may call me Aunt Galya." "Give us some tea, mother." "What would you like to have with your tea?" "Thank you, I don't want tea." "I came to see if Vova was all right." "I never get sick, I exercise to be fit." "Let's go to my room." "Did you miss?" "I can't believe it." "We didn't drink that much last night." "Sure..." " The squint-eyed has gotten away." " Leaving another squint-eyed here." "Go on." "Fireworks are peanuts." "A rocket is much cooler." "You'll see how it's going to whiz off." "That's a weapon, not some amusement." "There are three kinds:" "ground to ground, ground to air..." "I wonder why did you jump undressed into a snowdrift yesterday?" "This one is yours, commander." "I didn't get it." "I didn't get it myself." "Try it yourself, if you're so smart." "Are there any shots in the cartridges?" "Maybe the gunpowder got damp?" " Come on." " I mean it." "The gunpowder?" "What did you say?" "I just wonder where you're going?" "Can I see Katia off?" "Oh, no, of course not." "You'll get real sick then." "May I see herjust to the gate, please?" "Well, I don't know..." "All right, but put on your felt boots, ear-flaps down, and only to the gate." "No, the branches will be in the way here." "Step back." "Seven, six, five, four..." " Is it really going to take off?" " You bet!" "Three, two, one!" "Zero point five, take off!" "How beautiful!" "We're late." "Let's drink to peace in our homes, to a peaceful sky over our heads..." "I swear by my mother, it was not us." "In short, to peace!" "Well... you've got it." " Ready?" " Yes." "We report from a suburban settlement, "Homeland Wings", in Gulyakin Region." "Here, the first day of the new year was spoiled by an explosion." "Apparently, a local electric sub- station was blown up, if not a station." "However, the information about it is being kept secret." "We managed to find the burnt transformer box, but were asked politely to leave." "Experts of the Ministry for Emergency Situations are working there now." "Give it up, Nikodimych." "Let's go and have a drink." "All you know is giving up." "You gave up everything, the whole country." "People are left with no light, no heating, they're freezing." "It's as old as you are, pal." "It can never be fixed." "The investigation is examining..." "The investigation is examining various versions of the incident." "One of the most probable is a terrorist attack." "Oh God, my son is a terrorist." "How likely is the Caucasian lead?" "Ls there progress in the investigation?" "These were the questions we put to a representative of the local law-enforcement agency," "Police Inspector Lieutenant Grigory Pendyuzhin." "Well, we..." "As soon as it happened, we here got operational." "The investigative task force is working on all possible leads." "Everything is under control." "If necessary, we'll get support from the center..." "As long as the investigation is on, all comments, as you understand, are out of the question." "As soon as an appropriate decision is taken, we will immediately, as we're supposed to," "make it known to the public, staying in close contact with the press." "Thank you." "Our TV company will conduct its own, independent, investigation." "For the time being the freezing residents will be getting heating and light from this ancient..." "This ancient truck." "But for how long it can last and whether the residents of "Homeland Wings"" "face the fate of the Far East population we will tell you in the next report of the "Flows" TV company." "Sidorchuk, did you watch it?" "Deal with it." "Why don't you say anything?" "Think of something." "You're the man..." "All right..." "I will go and take the blame on myself." "I'll say I was drunk." "Great!" "But who's going to believe you?" "You would've blown up half the town." "The expert." "We should send him with my mother to Nikolai in Mariupol." "No." "No one in my family has ever run from the law." "Then I will go to Grigory myself." "He may have some advice for me." "I won't let you go to the inspector alone." "That's just the time to be jealous." " We're in such a mess, and he's..." " Who's jealous?" "You may have the last word." "Your Honor, I promise I won't do it again." " Hi." " Hi." "It's only a toy." "Wait outside, please." "But don't leave." "Ivan Platonovich, Sidorchuk speaking." "At last." "All right, report it." "What?" "You found him?" "You found the terrorist?" "You won't believe it, it's a local boy, one of the vacationers." "He toyed with a handmade rocket pistol." "Yes, a young inventor, damn it." "Can we tell the press now that the investigation's over, no lead confirmed, that it was our own, homespun..." "Yes, sir." "Yes, swallow my tongue." "You want to make me the laughingstock of the whole region?" "No terrorist boy scouts!" "So what?" "What journalist investigation?" "Then see to it that they never dig anything up." "See to it that he doesn't blab out." "No, don't touch the journalists, you have to work with them." "And work on the boy, he must keep mum." "I don't mean that." "Then think of something, you've got two good-for-nothings of your own." " Bring in his parents here, quick." " Right." "Come on, act." "Davidovich promised to deliver a new substation tomorrow." "I'll authorize anything it takes." "Hello." "How are you?" "Your boy... how is he?" "What does he like?" "The things he likes make me..." "I'm not asking you." "For instance, the New Year is here." "What present did he want to get?" "Skates like Pavel Bure's." "Skates?" "Like Pavel Bure's?" "Maybe we'll give him a decoration for it?" "If necessary, we'll give him a decoration, too." "I'm going to have a very serious talk with you." "Marina!" "Happy New Year!" "You won't get a thing." "You already owe me a lot." "Marina, I'll pay everything back." "Everything!" "A whole day I waited For a secret meeting with Marina," "Repeating in my mind all that I'd say." "But here comes the moment- all forgotten." "Love clouds and disturbs my mind." "I know what has clouded your mind." "Get out of here." "The haughty Marina." " Are you local, man?" " Right." "Where's the railway station?" "I've been looking for it since yesterday." "I'm lost." "You're lost?" "So you're lost." "We're all pilgrims in this world." "Will you show me the way?" "I'll show you everything, Santa Claus." "I'll put you safely on the train." "But you owe me a gift for the New Year, all right?" "Wake her up." "Tell her "ho-ho-ho" is here!" "Tell me..." "What?" "Would you like some sweets, children?" "Leave us alone, Granny." "What?" "Nothing." "Are they going to arrest you now?" "Big deal, I was arrested before." "Only this time..." "What?" "They won't get me, I'll run away." "I don't want to be like a terrorist." "Then you must go to the police and tell them everything." "No use, they won't believe me." "They never believe when you say the truth." "Maybe you'd better hide?" "Where?" "In our attic." "And I'll be bringing you food." "Right." "Great idea!" "No, we can't." "Why not?" "They'll find me and you'll be punished." "But I was there with you." "No, I did it alone, and I will answer for it alone." "We count on your cooperation." "Try to keep it between you, father and son, not a word to anyone else." "Sure, I understand." "But let me deal with my son myself, with no skates." " Or allow us to pay for them." " Right." "The decision about the skates has been taken on the top." "You and I are army men." "We just have to carry it out." "But let me have a talk with him before that." "No promises, just results!" "U. Gudilo is our candidate!" "Well, you're saying everyone should get as much as he needs." "But one needs a lot, and another very little." "Where's equality?" " I feel a need." " Me, too." "This is equality." "No... this is brotherhood." "Brothers in intellect." "Excuse me for disturbing you, gentlemen." "Comrades!" ""Flows" TV Company." "May we ask you a couple of questions?" "Are we going to be on TV?" " Can I say hello to someone?" " Sure." "We're talking to possible eyewitnesses of the explosion." "What's your name, please?" "My name is Alexander Sergeyevich." "What can you tell us about the explosion on New Year morning?" "I can tell you everything." "I'm an eyewitness here, so to speak." "I was right there, I just opened a bottle, and boom!" "And the stars..." "I saw stars." "I thought, that's the millenium upon us." "And it was hissing like hell." "What do you think was the cause of the explosion?" "Nothing to think about here." "It was Vovka for sure, who else?" " Who is Vovka?" "Where does he live?" " Othenlvise, our town is very quiet." "The address, his address..." "Can you show the way?" "I'll show you everything." "No problem, I'll show you." "Only you know, brother, do me a favor, too." "Let's go first to Marina's..." " Want some more tea?" " No, thanks, I have to go." "I see." "As you wish." "I didn't tell my parents where I was going." "They'll be worried." "So you're not allowed to associate with me either?" "No, but..." "What?" "They say I'm a hooligan?" "That I should be locked up?" " No, it's just your behavior..." " I behave as I like." "But you don't listen to anyone." "And why should I listen to them?" "Grownups invented those laws for themselves." "Why must we obey them?" "They break them themselves, they're lying." "But we are not allowed to." "Don't go there, don't do that, don't eat this." "Isn't it so?" "For example, at what time do they send you to bed?" "Even now you're not listening to me." "You think you're very cool?" "You're just a disorderly and ill-bred boy." "And you want to run away, because you're afraid." " Me?" " Yes." "You messed up, and you're afraid of answering for it." " Me?" "Afraid?" " Yes, you." "Vovka!" "Vovka, run, boy, run!" "They came for you." "Hide somewhere." " What's up, commander?" " Everything3 fine." " Hold it!" " Wait, son, don't be scared!" "He doesn't know how to drive it." "Call for reinforcements." "We have only one man on duty." "Arrest me, I'm an accomplice." "Everybody, come to me." "I mean, to the car." "Push, everybody!" " We'll lose him." " We lose him, I'll fire everybody." "Mama!" "Brake it!" "I don't know how!" "Brake it!" "Hey, men, move back!" "Thank you, comrade." "Well, get in the cars." "Thank you, comrade, for your help and cooperation." "Who are you trying to catch?" "A young offender, one of the locals." "He stole a snowmobile." " A freckled one?" " Yes, a freckled one." " With dimples?" " Right, that's him." " Wait." " Why?" "Comrade... comrade..." "You're no comrade..." "You did it wrong." " Why?" " Make her pretty." "Get away!" "Mama!" "All right, you go to the pond, I'll go to the town council office." " Was that him?" " He camouflaged himself, scoundrel." "Let's roll!" "I'm in thejohn, listening to rock'n'roll." "Zina's in the kitchen, fixing our vac." "I don't like Taganka, in Arbat I never stroll." "Another shot, and it's time to go back..." "Another shot, and it's time to go back..." "We would, we would, we would Cross the ocean line," "We would, we would, we would Drink a lot of wine." "With the ocean over, drunk you are or sober, no one will ever care a dime." "Hey, the sailor!" "You've made too long your travel." "I've forgotten even how you look." "Now I'm in love With the seafaring devil." "I have got him fast on my hook!" ".." " To what now?" " To the flows... of information." "They say all power is God-given." "But your power, the fourth one..." "Pal, democracy is based on the freedom of speech." "Look, I'm sitting on a box." "I'm based on it." "So is democracy, it has its ass based on the freedom of speech." "No, man has the right to speak freely." "Only those can speak freely who don't mean to say the whole truth." "Who was that?" "I dunno, I don't remember, I forgot." "And who is that?" "This one?" "This is Vovochka!" "I told you we would find him." "Alexander Sergeyevich..." "Ah, whither... whither are you..." "banished?" "Wait..." "I'll be right back." "Drink up, brother." "That's it, I quit." "Pendyuzhin, I've got him blocked." "He's in Perestroika dead end." "You know, former Communist dead end." "Yes, yes, we got him." "Come on!" "Brake it!" "Do not breathe." "Back up." "Pendyuzhin..." "Pendyuzhin, where are you?" "Oh... it doesn't work." "Why?" "Perhaps, the pails... are screening." "My... my fishing gear..." "And the snowmobile..." "Come on, halfback!" "Look, Vovka is coming." "Hi!" "Who do I play for?" "Wow!" "Let me check it out." "Was it you who've blown up the transformer box?" "Of course, it was me." "Who else?" " You're lying." " How did you do it?" "Forget it, I lied." "No one blew it." "The equipment was just too old." "He's a big liar." "And he's got Chinese skates." "Let him play for you." "I'm ready." "Dear TV viewers!" "We continue our series of reports from the Gulyakin Region where on New Year day a power plant was blown up." "As a result of our independent journalist investigation and thanks to the competence of the local law-enforcement agencies, it has been established that there was no explosion." "It was just a short circuit which had disabled the old transformer box." "As a New Year present to the residents, the local authorities had a new, state-of-the art, transformer station installed, which was bought with non-budget money." "I have only to add:" ""May there will be light!"" "and give the floor to the head of the region administration, Platon..." " Ivan Platonovich." " Ivan Platonovich Mukhov." "All is set." "Dear friends!" "Allow me, from the bottom of my heart and on behalf of our administration, to wish you a happy New Year and, according to an old Russian tradition..." "Of course, I'm not Santa Claus..." "Go, Vovka, go!" "Prepared a small present..." "And may this present illuminate our quiet and peaceful life..." "Goal!" "Hell's bells." "Shoot!" "Shoot!" "Stop shooting!" "I said, stop it!" "Who?" "What?" "Was it an assassination attempt?" "We need a first-aid kit!" "Does anyone have a first-aid kit?" "That's how the freedom of the press is being stifled in Russia." "Stifled at the top and in the provinces." "The tyranny of the Gulyakin Region authorities is nothing else but an attempt to suppress the freedom of speech, a small link in the long chain of persecution of the independent press, the trampling on glasnost and the mockery of the reforms." "Calm down, folks..." "Calm down!" "This despicable act of hooliganism can't spoil our celebration and frustrate the ceremony of the opening of a new electric station!" "Bring the reporter to his senses, the aggressor goes to my car, quick!" "Got it!" "It's a sensation." "I'll sell it to CNN and live high." "Where's he?" "Hold it." "Don't touch him." "Well, are you going to make your move, or finita la comedia?" "Finita." "Let's have another shot." "Happy New Year, Vovochka!" "Thanks, I don't want to." "You know what I got?" "Want to see it?" "I keep a treasure under my bed, too." " Do you play?" " My dad used to." "Got it." " How tall are you?" " One meter fifty-five centimeters." "One meter fifty-five centimeters?" "And I'm one meter eighty." "One hundred eighty centimeters ago" "We were alone." "Mother, I was happy, you know." "It was raining nine months long," "For nine months the water sang in its binds," "Then turned to ice overnight." "The one who ate the umbilical cord And broke the lines," "Gave a blessing to our first flight." "One hundred eighty centimeters ago," "Over our mortal earth," "A rebel squad put horses on the go," "In an armor of iron clothed." "The empire was crumbling," "With power vanished In the shadows of palace plots." "But the earth had won, Not letting us perish," "It turned us to a flock of rocks." "No, I'm not against such investigations..." "Of course, I'm not Santa Claus..." "Oh, Vovchik, look, they're showing our boss." "May this present illuminate our quiet and peaceful life..." "Now comes your goal." "I wish you happiness, love and joyous labor." "They cut it." "They cut everything out." "And now this new power facility has been officially opened." "You see, everything went off perfectly." "It means..." "Nothing happened." "And you're not guilty of anything." "That's how it is on TV." "You can't cut it out from life." "Alexander Sergeyevich, why am I like this?" "I didn't want it all to happen." "But it happens by itself." "Well... why..." "What do I have to do with it?" "I don't know anything." "Maybe, somethings wrong with your karma?" " What's that?" " That's your fate, the Oriental way." "And what shall I do about it?" "Correct it." "But it's not easy." "Thanks." "I'd better go, they must be all looking for me." "Are you going to give yourself up?" "Got it." "Will you find your way?" "Hey, man!" "Drop by, if anything." "One hundred eighty centimeters ago You embroidered the footsteps" "For me to follow And stop at the door" "Of the city of heavenly depths." "The golden paths in the cold snow," "I want to and will live in grace." "I'm saving a centimeter for us though, We'll grow and take his place..." "Maxim YEMELYANOV" "Masha ZHIGUNOVA" "Nikita KARAKOZOV" "Alexei GUSKOV" "Vera NOVIKOVA" "Inna ULYANOVA" "Yuri SHEVCHUK" "Mikhail PORECHENKOV" "Nikolai SOROKIN" "Victor STEPANOV" "Sergey STEPANCHENKO" "Anatoly YEFREMOV" "Sergey KOLESNIKOV" "Sergey AFANASYEV" "Ervin GAAZ" "Gennady YUKHTIN" "Written and Directed by Igor MUZHZHUKHIN" "Director of Photography Anatoly SUSEKOV" "Production Designer Victor YUSHIN" "Music by Vladimir DASHKEVICH" "Conductor Sergey SKRIPKA" "Song Written and Performed by Yuri SHEVCHUK and "DDT" Band" "Producer Sergey ZHIGUNOV" "The End"