"Ledolom (The Thaw) after the novel by K. Gorbunov production "Mezhrabpom-Film"" "Scenario S. Yevlakhov  O. Meleg" "Journal of collectivization 22 Nov. 1930" "During the night of 15 Oct., in the village of Uslada, the kulaks set fire to the stables of the activist Yegor Ilytch Petrov which had been prepared for the storage of the grain." "In Uslada the kulaks terrorized the poor and the activists who had formed a general head-quarter for food requisition." "To the end, the kulaks defended themselves obstinately." "The keeper of the light-buoy, grandfather Nazar." "Perhaps tonight another girl will be made either happy or a fool." "What a bore!" "Anka, the daughter of the buoy's keeper Nazar has slept with your son." "Philip Parfenich, don't get agitated or the cold kvas will make you ill." "I'm pregnant." "Yasha!" "Yasha!" "Each night, she told grandfather Nazar that she went to check the buoys." "They want me to marry her, Rededya!" "Grandfather Nazar understood everything." "You're no Komsomol!" "You scoundrel!" "Son of a damned moneybag!" "Only when the Volga is covered with ice... do the buoy-keepers leave their post and return to their home village." "Komsomol Cell" "Write!" "... statement ..." "Write." "Write word for word" "The komsomolets Jakob Silayev is a THIEF." "He has stolen 2 pud of petrol and 15 logs from the state." "Which he spent on drink." "Jacob has come here to become a komsomolets and serve at the buoy, so that his father, that moneybag, can feel at ease." "It isn't right that the thief Jakob Silayev is sitting next to decent men." "He's slandering me because of Anka!" "And for Anka too!" "I want him kicked out of the komsomol." "Did you steal?" "No!" "Grandfather Nazar is dying." "How will you manage to live without me?" "Don't call the priest." "Hey you!" "Neither a wife nor a young girl." "Let us spend the night with you." "Philip Parfenich Silayev has to hand over 300 pud of grain." "I don't have that much grain." "You ought to understand since you're a peasant yourself." "Liar!" "You have plenty of bread..." "You've harvested 2.000 pud of grain!" "Half of the village has been working for you." "I don't have the grain." "Drunkard!" "25 pud to hand out." "50 pud." "30 pud." "It's not fair!" "It's not fair." "The taxation is unfair." "The village council is acting in the kulaks' interest!" "The kulaks aren't adequately taxed." "Where's the chairman?" "Where's the chairman?" "They are meeting in the village council." "What do you want?" "For how much longer will you follow the policy of the Silayevs?" "It's not the village council's fault, the district has been too demanding." "Maybe it's true, maybe it's not the council's fault." "It's his fault ... damnit" "Okulov is responsible with his egalitarian ways and his attitude towards the kulaks." "Go on, Semushka, show him who you are." "Semushka, you're a real man." "Now I've lost track." "How much grain did you get from Silayev?" "I declare the meeting closed." "For how long will you still be following the kulaks' ways?" "Watchman, hand me the bell!" "The bell!" "He's the one who lets Okulov have his drink!" "He's the one whom Okulov gave the grain seed in exchange for vodka!" "Hand me the bell!" "Okulov, stop it." "Who else is with them?" "Get out!" "What shall we do?" "What shall we do?" "We must re-elect the village coucil..." "We must control the stores and make the kulaks pay their dues." "There will be a re-election." "You know our affairs very well." "Sooner or later everything will come out." "I have a suggestion..." "We must elect someone who is poor, just, and... a good drinker." "Nonsense!" "Elect me." "Elect me, otherwise I'll tell everything!" "I'm not with you anymore, you devils!" "The election." "The chairman of the village council Okulov has the floor." "We did drink... and we did steal... together with them." "I ask forgiveness from all of you!" "Betrayed!" "The district's executive comittee proposes Semyon Gasilin, Anna Grunyushkina..." "Whore!" "A council member wearing a skirt!" "For Anka!" "Votes against Anka." "For Anka: 100!" "Against her: 60..." "Abstentions: 1" "This house... is owned... by Philip Parfenich..." "Silayev." "I've been expelled... from the komsomol." "The old village council has not demanded its due from the kulaks, therefore they decided that Philip Parfenich Silayev was to deliver another 1.000 pud of grain." "Go to Anka!" "Apologize to the bitch." "She won't marry me." "My repentance has been useless?" "I shall repent even in court!" "Please consider my poverty, the cunning of the kulaks... and my repentance..." "Forgive me!" "Semushka!" "Okulov has been found below the cliff." "He's dead" "We won't talk, but the people will start gossipping." "We've lost the main witness." "Semushka!" "Who killed him?" "My beloved son!" "Get up, my son, change your mind!" "In Uslada, the old chairman Okulov has been murdered to prevent his giving evidence as a witness." "The kulaks are terrorizing the village community." "Take this to town." "Nobody must know about this." "If they learn about it, they'll kill you and destroy the letter." "Fedosevich has written a long letter." "If I don't come back within 10 days, give this letter to Semushka." "To the town ..." "To the secretary of the district council, Comrade Gorbunov" "Confidential." "Absolutely confidential..." "Anka needs help!" "Since she's been acting like a cat in heat, let her give birth on her own now!" "The sun is rising... rising higher..." "The villagers of Uslada are sending the grain to town ..." "Fedoseyich has been missing for 20 days..." "From Fedoseyich." "Semushka, I went to Philip and quietly gave him a hint that a letter is being sent to town." "And when I left, he sent Yashka to Kaplin's." "But don't worry." "I'm the best runner in the district, they won't catch me." "But if they catch me I'm sure I won't survive it." "Then you'll have another reason against the kulaks, and the evidence with the names." "I am content to have been of use to the poor villagers." "[signed] The watchman of the village council Fedor Fedoseyich Zhitkov." "They've killed him..." "They've killed Fedor Fedoseyich" "They've killed a good man." "They've killed Fedoseyich." "Muzhiks, go away, they won't escape our justice." "Where are you going?" "The working brigade... is sailing ... to the village of Uslada... we're bringing the machines." "Proletarians of the towns and villages, remember!" "We're fighting against the remains of capitalism." "We shall serve more diligently in the village council, the representative organ of the proletarian dictatorship." "Engl. subtitles:" "IDBoris  serdar202 @ KG"