"MOSFILM" "Third Artists' Association USSR with participation of "Atelier-41" Japan" "KORFOVSKAYA" " Looking for something?" " Yes, for a grave." "Nobody's died around this place yet." "Nearly three years ago I buried a friend here." "There were tall trees out there." "A cedar and a fir." "You remember those trees?" "I guess we cut them down to build the village." "Maybe, those?" "Dersu..." "DERSU UZALA" "All day our hunter" "Goes around the isles." "He curses his bad fortune," "No luck him beguiles." "What is there to do?" "How can he perform his job?" "Never forgets our hunter" "That beast's no easy drop." "There went our hunter To a warm seaside," "Where fish abounded On days quiet and bright." "There, by the seaside!" "That year, my mission was to go through the Shkotov area in the Ussuri Region, in order to make a topographical survey of the country." "Sometimes the mountains and the forest look pleasant, welcoming." "Sometimes though, they can be silent and forbidding." "This wasn'tjust a personal feeling, every man in the survey group felt the same way." "He whom God helps, nobody can harm." "Let's camp here for the night, and tomorrow we'll find a better place." " All right, we can camp here." " We're making camp here." "This valley reminded me of a painting of the Witches' Sabbath." "I could almost imagine them coming on their broomsticks." " What was that?" " A stone falling." "Somebody's coming this way." "A bear!" "Shoot not!" "Me a man!" "Hello, Captain!" "Look at him, he's a man, really." "And you said, a bear!" "Would you like to have supper with us?" "Thank you." "Me not eat nothing for all day." "What are you?" "Chinese?" "Korean?" "People called "Gold"." "Are you a hunter?" "Me hunt all time." "No other work." "Nothing." "Where do you live?" "Me no home." "In mountains me got little hut." "Sleep there." "Good enough for me." "It looks like you haven't killed anything today." "Today me shoot at deer." "He ran away, not dead, only wounded." "Me chase that deer." "Me saw man tracks." "Me walk after slow and easy, me wonder what men doing so far in mountains." "Me look careful." "Captain there, soldiers there." "And so me, me come as well." "You're a strange hunter not to hit a bull's-eye." "You always hit bull's-eye?" "We're in the army." "We're not allowed to miss targets." "Then you great hunter!" "You shoot everything." "Leave for us nothing to eat." "Hey you, enough talking at us!" "Alright, alright." "We can talk now." "My name's Arsenyev." "You tell me yours." "Dersu Uzala." "And how old are you?" "How old, me not know." "Me have lived plenty summers." "You have a family?" "Family all dead." "Long ago." "Me had little wife, son and baby girl." "Get smallpox and now they all dead." "Only Dersu alive." "We're exploring this region, the big hills, the valleys, the rivers." "Do you want to be our guide?" "Me, sleep on it." "All right, you think it over." "It's time that we turned in too." "The next day, without saying a word," "Dersu took his place at the head of the group." "Here, trail go here!" " Here's a trail!" " Hey, there's a trail!" "Along here, two-three days ago man walking here." "Big rain fall then." "Tracks of Chinese." "How do you know?" "Not have eyes to see?" "Chinese wear boot." "Look, water in tracks." "You all like little children." "Got eyes but don't see." "When you live in wilds, real soon you be dead." "Chinese!" "Come on!" "Real soon now, find hut." "How do you know that?" "Use eyes." "Bark torn off for make roof." "Ashes flattened by the rain," "a bed of straw, a piece of Chinese cloth - just as Dersu had informed us." "A Chinese had certainly spent the night here very recently." "Look at that!" "Captain, give rice, salt, matches." "What for?" "Put it in bark, leave it in hut." " Do you intend to come back?" " Why?" "Others come this way." "Find dry wood there." "Food to eat." "People no die." "Olentiev!" "Bring some matches, rice, salt." "I couldn't help admiring him." "He was so wise." "He had a deep knowledge born of a lifetime spent in the wilds." "He was goodhearted, generous minded." "He could think of a man he'd never met, and that he probably would never meet." "Dersu, maybe we should wait till the rain stops?" "Time to get ready." "Birds begin singing, you hear?" "Rain soon finish now." "Sun shine soon." " Do you know what the sun is?" " Sure, everyone know sun." "You never see sun?" "You just take look." "There he is in sky!" "Captain, sun very big fellow, strong." "If he die one day, we all die!" "Moon too, another real big fellow." "That bad fellow, noisy." "To listen to you talk, there's nothing but people around you." "People, yes." "He's another fellow." "Water alive." "How do you like that?" "So the fire's alive?" "Sure, fire is strong fellow." "When he get angry, forest burn days and days." "Fire, water, wind get angry - me plenty scared!" "Fire, water, wind - three strong fellows!" "That day, it snowed for the first time." " Why for you shoot?" " Because we like shooting." "You waste bullet for nothing." "Don't you know sharpshooters got to practice?" "Well, Seryoga, did you have too much to drink last night?" "All right!" "It's as bad as hitting a bird on the wing." " Good shooting is good hitting." " Have a try, granddad." "Shouldn't break bottle." "Not lot of bottles in wilds." "Don't try to get out of it." "Admit you can't hit the bottle." "Me shoot at string, and then you give me bottle." "If you hit the string, the bottle is yours." "Go ahead, Marchenko!" "All right!" "There, Olentiev, he really won his bottle!" "Get ready now, men!" "We're moving out." "Where's Dersu?" "He took his day's ration of vodka and went away." "He's over there by the river, singing." "Must be drunk." "Here, give me that." "Mind if I sit down with you, Dersu?" "Captain, over there my wife, kids all dead." "Smallpox." "So wife, kids, home, me burn everything." "Me get real bad dream last night." "Me see hut." "Hut soon fall down." "In dream, wife and kids in hut." "They got no food, hurt with cold." "Me come here to get them food." "Yesterday, old fellow here, all alone." "Sleep not at night." "How do you know that?" "No traces close to fire where people sleep." "How do you know that he's old?" "Young always walk on toes, old always walk on flat of heel." "A few days later I met this old Chinese man." "This man name Li Sung Binn." "Sixty four year old." "Come from city call Tien Sin." "And what's he doing here?" "He have woman." "His brother take her." "He come here in mountains." "He stay here 40 years alone." "Thank you." "It's getting cold." "Maybe we should ask him over to the fire." "No, Captain." "Got to let him be alone." "Now he think plenty." "Dream of house, dream of garden." "Garden all in flowers." "Captain!" "Li Sung Binn want say goodbye." "He say he go home again now." "The final goal of our expedition was to explore the region of Lake Khanka." "To get there, we would have to cross huge marshes with no trails." "I sent the larger part of the group to Tchernigovka, and Dersu, Olentiev, Krushinov and myself headed toward the lake in a flat-bottomed dugout." "Olentiev, you stay here." "Dersu and I will go on ahead." "Unload the stuff." "We go back to dugout soon?" "Me plenty plenty bad scared." "The lake's not far off." "We'll go that far and come back." "Me do what you say." "You say alright, Dersu say alright." "A vast silence reigned over the frozen lake." "The very silence seemed in a way to be menacing." "We go back to dugout now." "Wind going to quick blow away track." "All right." "Don't worry, Dersu, we'll soon find out the way we came." "Over there!" "Captain, we not come this way." "No good!" "We get bad lost." "This is the right way." "Only how can we cross?" "Water's all around." "Soon sun go down." "Soon night be here." "We get plenty dead." "If the bivouac is near, they're sure to hear us." "We'll have to spend the night here." "It's dangerous to go farther." "So what's best now?" "Captain, listen real good." "Got to work and work good." "We don't work real good, we soon be dead." " Work at what?" " Cut marsh-grass." "Captain!" "Work good!" "No stop!" "Captain!" "Captain!" "Work!" "Work!" "Captain!" "Got to hold grass in place." "Take rope!" "Captain!" "Get up!" "In the howling wind, I sank into oblivion." "I don't know how long I slept." "Captain!" "Hey, you no bear." "Come out!" "Sun fellow shining!" "It was then that I realized that Dersu's ingenuity had saved my life." "Thank you, Dersu." "I'd have died without you." "Walk together, work together." "No need say thank you." "That's Olentiev!" "As time passed, our mission became harder." "Forward, forward." "Bitter cold, fatigue, hunger..." "Man is too small faced with the vastness of nature." "Forward, keep moving!" "Captain, me smell smoke." "Ussuri people cooking fish." "Captain, where we walk next?" "We'll head for Tchernigovka." "Our men are waiting for us there." "Then we take the railroad to Vladivostok." "Coming with us?" "A good town." "Nice to live there." "Sorry, me not want." "Town no good for me." "Dersu can't hunt in town." "Hunt for sable, no can do." "At least come with me as far as the station." "I can find you some money, buy you supplies." "Money, Dersu not need." "Me go hunt for sable now." "Sable is like money to hunter." "What is it, Dersu?" "Me, very bad fellow." "Me need only bullets to shoot." "Olentiev!" "Give him everything that's left." "Thank you, Captain." "Me tomorrow walk alone." "Four suns straight ahead." "Daubikhe first, then Ulakhe, then Foudzinh." "Me hear that there plenty plenty sable there." "Got plenty deer too." "Me hear you talk of train." "Me no understand." "Now me understand." "Goodbye, soldier fellows!" "Take care of yourself." "Goodbye, Dersu!" "One day maybe we'll meet again." "Goodbye, Captain." "I wish you the best of everything, Dersu." "I also hope we'll meet again." "Goodbye." "He's a good man, isn't he?" "I never met anyone like him before." "He's something rare." "God bless him and keep him well." "All day our hunter" "Goes around the isles." "He curses his bad fortune," "No luck him beguiles." "What is there to do?" "How can he perform his job?" "Never forgets our hunter" "That beast is no easy drop." "There went our hunter To a warm seaside..." "Captain!" "Dersu!" "End of Part One"