"TV Channel Russia in cooperation with VERA movie company and the Federal Agency for Culture and cinematography present" "A Gleb Panfilov TV series" "THE FIRST CIRCLE" "Based on Alexander Solzhenitsyin's epic novel" "A VERA movie company production" "Screenplay Alexander Solzhenitsyn" "Director Gleb Panfilov" "Producers-in-chief Anton Zlatopolsky and Maxim Panfilov" "Producers Sergei Shumakov and Marina Osmolovskaya" "Camera Mikhail Agranovich" "Set design Anatoly Panfilov and Konstantion Zoubrylin" "Music Vadim Beebergan" "Starring" "Yevgeny Mironov as Gleb Nerzhin" "Dmitry Pevtsov as Innokenty Volodin" "Albert Filozov as Uncle Avenir" "Maxim Kononov as Spiridon" "Voiceover narrative Alexander Solzhenitsyn" "Action time December 24-27. 1949." "Episode 10" "A toast to our personal acquaintance." "Although I've known about you for ages." "How come?" " I saw your photos." "You took pretty much after your Dad." "Really?" "He was a daredevil back then when he served as a sailor in the Baltic Sea Fleet." "He actually forced your Mom to marry him." "He ruined her life by doing that." "Take no offence at my words." "I don't." "I've known all that for a long time." "I used to read Mom's letters." "She loved another man for all her life." "And she put up with my father just for the sake of not ruining my career." "And you never came to her funeral." "I'll never forgive myself for that." "Oh my dear sister!" "Let her soul rest in peace." "Now what?" "Would you like some tea?" "Or coffee?" "Do you have coffee?" " No doubt." "The cyckorium potion." "Raissa!" "Yeah!" " Serve some coffee to us." "I mean cykorium one." "Face to the wall!" "Come on in." "Undress!" " What for?" "Are you a Russian?" " Yes." "Then undress." "Don't non-Russians have to then?" "Drop it!" "Naked!" " What do you mean, naked?" "Naked!" "Impossible, it's cold here." "You'll be stripped forcibly!" "Open your mouth." "Wider." "Say "aah"." "Again, longer - "aaa-aaa-aaah!"" "Raise your tongue." "Now lower it back." "Good." "Now your eyes." "And nose..." "Breathe!" "Breathe!" "Stand with your back to me." "Legs apart." "Wider." "Bend over and touch the floor." "Part your buttocks with your hands." "Right." "Good." "Now squat." "Hands apart!" "Now squat again." "Once again." "And one more time." "Take a seat now." "He must have gotten sick of fingering other people's underclothes." "cutting up their footwear, and peering into their back orifices year after year." "That must be why the searcher has such a grim, forbidding look on his face." "Why have you cut off my buttons?" "Not allowed." "What?" "How am I supposed to go around then?" "Tie yourself up with string." " What nonsense is this?" "What string?" "Where am I supposed to get it from?" "Get undressed." "But I've just stripped off once!" "Couldn't somebody have warned me?" "What are you doing?" "Wait!" " Don't move." "You don't have the right to do it." "I'm not convicted yet." "Is Dotty still waiting for me to take her to the operetta?" "Has she rung the Ministry?" "Most probably not - they must have arrived to search the flat." "It would take more than five men to turn it upside down overnight." "And what is there for them to find, the idiots?" "Dotty won't go to jail." "Our year apart will save her." "She'll get a divorce and remarry." "But who knows, they may jail her." "Anything is possible in this country." "My father-in-law's career will come to a halt." "A black mark!" "I can hear him belly-aching now." "All those who have ever known me, will loyally expunge me from their memories." "I'm not afraid of the death." "Not at all." "Death is a body torment." "Adamancy." "Adamancy!" "How could I surrender so easily?" "It was my own apartment, it were the streets of Moscow that a high-ranking diplomat surrendered to them without making a sound and allowed them to lock him up here." "There is no escape from this place." "May I get dressed now?" "State frontiers will disappear, and armies with them." "A world parliament will be convened." "A president of the planet will be elected." "He will bare his head before mankind, and say..." "You - have you got lice?" " I'm a diplomat!" "Now what?" "What complaints do you have?" "I want to know why I've been arrested!" "I want to read the warrant!" "You misunderstood my question." "No venereal diseases?" "What?" " Venereal diseases." "Have you ever had gonorrhea, syphilis or soft chancre?" "Leprosy?" "Tuberculosis?" " I'm quite healthy." "Uncle, why are all these papers hanging around here?" "These are exclusively the issues of the Pravda newspaper." "The earliest ones date back to 1924." "For example, listen." "This issue of the Pravda dates back to 1940." "I know how the German people love their Fuhrer and raise a toast for his health." "Signed:" "Josef Stalin." "This is another good example." "This paper was printed somewhere in 1924." "In this issue Stalin protects stalwart Leninists Kamenev and Zinoviev from the accusations in the October uprising sabotage." "The preservation of such clippings might garner me a prison sentence." "Aren't you afraid?" "A little bit." "Still these papers screen the place from both sun and dust." "Why do you preserve that very issue?" "I don't preserve anything." "It is just a random pick." "The most important thing is not to make any marks on them." "I know what to look for in every paper by heart." "So it is a kind of a secret archive." "Uncle Avenir, you turn out to be a great conspirator." "Well, if people don't want to see something, they would never see it." "Turn off the light." "Otherwise the electricity fee is too high." "But they won't be able to fabricate the A-bomb on their own." "They might." "The first bomb will be tested one of these days." "It is sheer bluff." "Who's going to check on that test?" "They don't have the industrial potential for that." "It will take them 20 years to catch up." "If they fabricate it, we're doomed." " Do you think so?" "I'm sure of that." "They'll be quick to employ it." "And the war will be horrible." "Not due to troop movements." "Nor the bombings are the most horrible things." "It is horrible because it would strip everyone of everything." "It would kill every living thought up there." "Well, even without such a war we have much of it here." "Go to sleep now." "What's up?" "This Don Quixote statue fell right on my head." "He's my favorite character." "Mine too." "Have a good night." "So many noble aspirations were locked away in these boxes and entombed with these walls." "Accursed country!" "All the bitter pills it swallowed were medicine only for others." "It never managed to cure itself." "Other countries were luckier." "Australia, for instance, tucked away at the back of beyond, getting along nicely without air-raids, without five-year plans, without discipline." "Why did I set off in pursuit of the bomb thieves?" "I should have made for Australia and stayed there as a private person." "I wouldn't fear death at all if I were sure that the people had learned" "Innokenty Volodin, a citizen of the world." "who had tried to save them from the nuclear war." "If the Commies get the A-bomb, the planet is doomed." "They'll shoot all of us in their underground prisons." "And my file will be locked up with thousand locks." "And that will be it." "Why aren't you dressed yet?" "Get dressed quickly." "Hands behind your back." "Get out of the cell." "Turn to the wall." "Go ahead." "I don't know if they'll prove that it was my voice, but one thing is clear." "Once they arrested me, they would never let me out of here." "I know that Stalin's paw let no-one escape alive." "I would face either execution or solitary confinement for life." "In some blood-curdling place like the legendary Sukhanov monastery." "I would not be allowed to sit down in the daytime." "I wouldn't be allowed to speak for years on end" "No-one would ever hear of me again." "Neither would I know of anything happening around." "Stand up!" "Stand up." "Stand up!" "What if I want to sleep?" "I've told you to stand up." "I want to sleep." "Will I have any sleep today?" " Not allowed." "Take me to a place where I can lie down and have some sleep." "If you don't raise to your feet, you'll be punished." "Your family name?" " Volodin." "Your name and patronymic?" " Innokenty Artemievich." "Year of birth?" " 1919." "Place of origin?" " Leningrad." "Out with your gear." "Hands behind your back." "Halt!" "Get in." "Halt!" "Get undressed." "Strip naked." " Why?" "To take a shower." " Why?" "I'm clean." "Take your shower!" "The towel and some soap are on the bench." "Get dressed." "Where are my clothes?" " In the sterilization room." "Get dressed." "Halt!" "Turn left and face the wall." "Halt!" "Hands behind your back!" "Come on in!" "Turn left and face the wall." "Go ahead!" "The man clicked his tongue." "I understand now that it is a secret sign for temporizing." "Prisoners mustn't meet each other." "They mustn't seek support in the eyes of another man." "Did Rusya come here for the night at all?" "Pals, who knows what has happened to Rusya?" "They might have locked him up in the strict confinement cell." "They might have transported him out of here as well." "What did I tell you?" "Their boy went too far." "Great!" "A dozen of people knew about his double game." "No one reported on him." "Honesty is not an empty word." "Do you feel sick?" "Attention!" "The following will not report for work but get themselves ready for transportation." "From your room..." "Khorobrov!" "Where is Khorobrov?" "I'm here." "Nerzhin!" " I'm here." "The following will not leave this place." "They are to stay here and wait for the lieutenant to arrive." "A historic day for the Special Prison!" "Morning of the execution of the streltsy!" "I'm going to see Major Shikin." "Citizen Major!" "I have come to reclaim a book unlawfully taken from me." "I assume that, six weeks is long enough to ascertain that it is permitted by the censor." "Book?" "What book?" "I likewise assume that you perfectly understand what book I'm referring to." "The "Selected Poems of Sergei Esenin"" "How can you find it in yourself to ask about E-se-nin?" "Why shouldn't I?" "He was published here, in the Soviet Union." "That makes no difference." " Moreover, he was published in 1941." "He does not fall within the prohibited period. 1917 to 1938." "Prohibited period?" "Where do you get that from?" "A camp censor kindly clarified things for me." "During a search before the holiday, my copy of Dahl's Dictionary was taken from me on the grounds that it was published in 1935 and therefore subject to the most rigorous scrutiny." "When I showed him that the dictionary was a photomechanica copy of the 1881 edition." "The censor promptly returned it and explained that there are no objections to pre-revolutionary editions, since the enemies of the people were not then active." "And the unfortunate fact is that Esenin was published in 1940." "Have it your way." "Have you, read that book?" "Have you read all of it?" "Can you confirm that in writing?" "You have at present no legal grounds for requiring a signature from me under Article 95 of the C.C. of the R.S.F.S.R." "I confirm that I have a bad habit of reading and keeping those books which are my own property." "So much the worse for you." " So, then, let me summarize my request." "In accordance with Point 7 of Section B of Prison Regulations, give me back the book illegally taken from me." "Take this, for instance." "Lifeless palms, alien hands!" "These songs cannot live where you are!" "But the ears of corn that are horses" "Will grieve for their old master for ever." "Who, I ask you, is this master?" "Whose palms does he mean?" "Esenin had the limited vision of his class, just like Pushkin and Gogol." "And what does this bit mean?" "A rose all white and a crab all black" "I tried to join in wedlock." "It's very simple." "You shouldn't try to reconcile the white rose of truth with the black crab of wickedness." "I do not have time to enter into textual analysis with you." "My escort party awaits me." "You announced six weeks ago that you would refer the matter to the Censor's Office." "I am not accountable to you for my actions." "I shall not return the book to you." "And if I did, you would not be allowed to take it away with you." "Citizen Major!" "You have, I hope, not forgotten that over two years I requested the" "Ministry of State Security to return some Polish zlotys improperly confiscated from me, although it was converted to roubles at a twentieth of its value." "I got my money back and I hope you have not forgotten how I insisted on being given five grammes of Grade One flour?" "I was laughed at - but I got them!" "And I could mention many other instances!" "I warn you that I will not let you keep that book!" "If I'm sent to Kolyma I'll wrest it from you before I die there!" "I'll stuff the letterboxes of the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers with complaints about you" "So hand it over now and save yourself trouble!" "Very well, then, you can have it back." "But we won't let you take it away with you." "Freak!" "Sending lads like that off to the camps!" "And what about Ruska Doronin?" "What rotter's shopped him, eh?" "It was you who shopped him all right." "Me?" " Yes." "You." "Are you mad?" "Pals..." "Serafima Vitalyevna!" "After what happened last night it's heartless of me to turn to you." "What shall I do?" "Burn them?" "Or can you keep them for me?" "Give them to me." "Thanks." "Good morning." "Gleb Vikentyevich, believe me," "I haven't been warned." "I didn't know anything." "And nothing can be amended today." "Adam Veniamonovich, forget it." "I understand everything." "I've chosen it myself." "Shall I give my notes on articulation to Serafima Vitalyevna?" "Yes, please." "Forgive me, Simochka." "Gleb, what's that?" " What's up?" "You're being transferred and we all seem to have turned into wooden dolls." "No one even argues." " Do you?" "Now what?" " Take this." "This is for you." "Take it." "It is in a very good state." "They took my watch and locked it up on the storage room." "It would keep going until the wound runs out." "After that it would stop." "And no one would ever wind it up." "It would lie here waiting either for the death of their master, or a sweep of property confiscation." "I wonder what time it will be when it stops." "Belief in immortality was born of the greed of insatiable people." "The wise man will find our allotted span long enough to make the round of all attainable pleasures" "Do pleasures really matter now?" "I used to enjoy money, fine clothes, esteem, women, wine, travel." "And right now I'd exchange them just for one thing" "In the world - justice." "I want to live long enough to hear the whining blabber of this gang in the courtroom." "All those who have ever known me will loyally expunge me from their memories." "And no-one on this Earth would ever know as Innokenti Volodin tried to save civilization!" "I want to live to the day when I know what all this ended up with." "Retain permanently" "Gleb!" " What?" "Take this." "Why?" "Thanks." "I don't smoke?" "Thanks." "You haven't got a shaving brush." "and love vowed never to shave till I get my pardon" "So take this one!" " Thanks, old man." "You've forgotten how things are in the camps." "What makes you think they'll let me shave myself where I'm going?" "Will you help me take the books back?" "Hold it." "How is your protege?" " Diplomat?" "Is he a diplomat?" "Yeah, one of the Foreign Ministry staffers." "I've heard the two main ones were arrested last night" "They're both suspects." "History demands victims" "How do you know you've got the right one?" "I think we've caught him." "They've promised to send us the interrogators' tapes." "We'll compare them." "Well, go ahead." "Listen." "What does the Soviet Union want with the atomic bomb anyway?" "I think this diplomatic guy had made quite a sound decision." "A Moscow airhead, a no-good trouble-maker, take my word for it." "Now you may occupy my confine." "The table is yours." "And what about the key?" "Here it is." " Thanks." "That's it then, Andreich." "The deceased was in good spirits and wore a smile." "We shall all end up there." "I don't believe that we shall ever meet walking freely down a city street." "Do you?" "I have closed my eyes to phantom joys." "But distant hopes trouble my heart at times." "Andrei!" "Where are the filters?" "You're holding up the work." "Tell them you're willing to stay here, and maybe I can get you kept on." "In a group we've set up here." "But you'll have to put your back into it." "Thanks." "I've already had such an opportunity." "Should I ever have time for self-improvement?" "The sea may not drown you but a puddle may'." "Listen, you two!" "You must make it up!" "Mitya!" " Why are you addressing me?" "Lyova!" "Do you know why horses live so long?" "No, I don't." "Because they never try to explain their feelings" "I see." "I need your help with that." "Come here, you both." "My lads!" "I'll miss you so much out there." "Gleba, are you here?" " Yes, I am, Danilych." "Come on in." "Hello." "Be seated." "Have a look at that." "What do I need it for?" "I'll find the right verse for you." "Gleb, remember the greatest wisdom of the GULAG." "The soul aches for production, but legs keep walking to the medical unit." "It won't be my first stretch." "I can handle it." "I'll try to find a good job out there." "More people get drowned in puddles than in high seas - remember that bit of wisdom?" "Here it is." "A letter from my Mom." "Have you gotten your letter?" " Yes." "Give it to me." " You won't have time." "Come on!" "My dear father!" "I can neither write to you nor live on anymore." "Nerzhin!" "Has my kindness lead you to believe you can do anything?" "Everybody's packed up." "You're the last one left." "Forgive me." "Come on!" "Hurry!" "Cheer up!" "Come out one by one with your garb!" "?" "Khorobrov!" "Gerassimovich!" "Sidorov!" "Nerzhin!" "Rev it up!" "I'm due at Butyrki for investigation!" "Who are these?" "Who's being moved?" "Ruska, is that you, man?" " Yeah, who are these?" "Who told on you, Ruska?" " Siromakha did!" "Be quiet!" " What a rat!" "Asshole!" "How many of you are there?" " There are four of us." "Did they beat you, Ruska?" " Yeah." "You've done it great, Ruska!" "You're an attaboy!" "Keep your pecker up, Ruska." "See you in the camp." "Be quiet!" "Shut up, bastard!" "Guard dog!" "It is all right." "I don't regret leaving the place." "What life do you have in sharashka?" "You can't walk along a corridor without bumping into some Siromakha." "One in every five there is a snitch." "If you fart in the lavatory the godfather hears about it right away." "We've had no Sundays for two years - the bastards." "And a twelve-hour working day." "You trade your brains for twenty grammes of butter." "They banned letters to and from home." "Just toil." "It's hell on earth!" "No, pals." "That is not Hell!" "Hell is where we're going." "We're going back to Hell." "The Special Prison is the highest, the best, the first circle of Hell." "It's practically Paradise." "When war breaks out, they'll kill off the zeks in Special Prisons with poisoned bread, like the Hitlerites did," "Because they know too much." "Well, that's what I keep telling you." "Bread and water is better than cake and woe." "Yes, what awaited them was the taiga and the tundra." "the Cold Pole at Oy-myakon, the copper mines at Dzhezkazgan." "They could look forward to nothing but the worst." "Yet in their hearts they were at peace with themselves." "They were gripped by the fearlessness of people who have lost absolutely everything such fearlessness is difficult to attain, but once attained it endures." "In 1953 Gleb Nerzhin was released from the labor camp." "In 1958 he finished his first novel." "In 1970 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature." "In 1974 the Soviet authorities expelled him from the USSR and stripped him of the Soviet citizenship for his outstanding book on the GULAG." "While abroad, he wrote an comprehensive research of the Russian revolution." "In 1994 he triumphantly returned to Russia." "His books have so far been published into 30 languages all over the world." "Now his works became a part of the Russian school curriculum." "Subtitles webrip, OCR, revision and sychronization, for KG" "Quigley (12.2014)"