"One, two, three..." "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 Sound Yury Motorkin" "Starring" "Yevgeny Mironov as Gleb Nerzhin" "Dmitry Pevtsov as Innokenty Volodin" "Alexei Goloubkov as Lev Roubin Sergei Karyakin as Dmitry Sologdin" "Igor Sklyaras Illarion Gerassimovich Andrei Smirnov as Bobynin" "Mikhail Kononov as Spiridon" "Igor Kvasha as Stalin" "Voiceover narration Alexander Solzhenitsyn" "Action time December 24-27, 1949." "The Marfino Sharashka" "Episode Eight" "May I come in, comrade major?" "Come on in." "Did you summon me?" "Come closer to me." " What for?" "Are you afraid of me?" "No, I'm not." "You're wrong in not being afraid of me." "Alexander Ivanovich, excuse me for disturbing you." "If you permit, I..." "I have a question of scientific nature." "I'm listening to you." "Do you ever feel any shame?" "It differs." " What's all this for then?" "I want to live." "I'm wondering at all this sometimes." "There are different moments in our lives." "Yesterday I told the minister that I didn't have anything left." "In fact, it was a boast." "What about my health and my hopes?" "I'm the first man in the release line and have a chance of getting out at a decent age." "I still have a chance to meet a woman that will love me dearly." "And all this damned work is interesting for me." "It's really interesting." "I despise myself for that feeling." "The minister wanted to squeeze me and I successfully resisted the pressure." "But you get involved in all that involuntarily." "Am I ashamed of it?" "I certainly am." "Why should we blame the system?" "It is ali our fault." "I guess that our ability to perform feats or in other words for acts that are extraordinary for any regular human being" "is partially determined by our will." "But only partially." "And we must be born with certain elements of this ability." "It's either engrained in us or not." "But feats are the easiest to perform when they are the results of efforts of our trained will." "Today I was told about a painting called "The vanishing Russia"" "Have you heard about it?" " No." "It isn't finished yet." "And it might not be the picture we imagine it to be." "But its name is very peculiar." "It carries an interesting idea." "All these conservatives, reformers and state officials are here no more." "All these preachers and priests, rioters schismatics are here no more either" "No more are here all our writers and philosophers." "Gone are the revolutionaries, conspiration geniuses, bomb throwers and revolution leaders." "There used to be artisans with their hair held in place by straps." "and people who planted wheat and harvested fruit." "peasants with their troikas, cossacks and vagabonds." "There is no one left now." "They all are gone." "But still one spring managed to flow its waters through all this plague." "It is us." "We're the technical elite." "Scientists and engineers were arrested and shot in lesser quantities than other groups." "You're right." "Any crook might cook up some new ideological stuff for them, but physics needs people who can really master it." "Our brothers were busy reconstructing the society." "and we were busy exploring the nature." "We survived" "And they are gone." "We measured the invisible angles and jumps of electrons in their orbits." "How can we fail changing the society?" "Working at these special prisons, we let them have jet engines, missiles, encrypted communications and even the A-bomb." "We're doing all that to ensure the decent living for ourselves." "I wonder whether we may call ourselves the elite if our price tag is so low." "All this is very serious." "Would you mind returning to this subject tomorrow?" "It is possible to build the most challenging skyscraper or to train the army to the Prussian standards or to raise the hierarchy of a totalitarian state beyond the Seat of our Lord." "But it is still impossible to break some strange spiritual superiority of some people." "There exist soldiers who make their company commanders feel awkward." "There are regular workers who make their foremen shy." "There are prisoners who made their investigators timid." "Bobynin knew all that and put himself into this position on purpose while talking to the bosses." "Hello!" " Why are you silent?" "What about you?" "I thought I got the wrong number." "Will we go to the theater today?" " OK, let's go." "But choose some easy stuff." " Easy?" "Operetta?" " What's on?" "Some "Akoulina"." ""The Likurgus' Law" and the main stage hosts "The Voice of America"." "The Unforgettable 1919 is on at the Moscow Art Theater." "Let's see the Akoulina stuff tonight and go to the restaurant after that." "Stop, Rewind to the beginning." "Hello!" " Why are you keeping silent?" "And what about you?" "I thought I got the wrong number." "Shall we go to the theater tonight?" " OK." "Let's go." "But choose some easy stuff." " Easy?" "Operetta?" " What's on?" "Stop." "Replay it once again." "Hello!" " Why are you keeping silent?" "What about you?" "I thought I got the wrong number." "Shall we go to the theater tonight?" " OK." "Let's go." "But choose some easy stuff." " Easy?" "Operetta?" " What's on?" "Some "Akoulina"." "And "The Likurgus' Law" and the main stage hosts "The Voice of America"" "Stop." "Will you listen to the tape any longer?" "A little bit later." "This is duty officer Shusterman." "Thanks." " You're welcome." "Lev Grigorievich." "Lev Grigorievich, the food is getting cold." "May I have a chair?" " Here it is." "Adam Veniaminovich, you shouldn't treat me to all these delicacies." "Lev Grigorievich, I wish you knew how difficult it had been to organize such lunches for you." "You wouldn't have told me such insulting remarks after that." "Thanks a lot." "It is very tasty." "But a well-fed stomach renders the ear deaf to learning." "Satut ventur non studit libentur." "A traveler covers most of his daily distance before the lunchbreak." "Lev Grigorievich, you'd better have a look at your watch." "It's a quarter past three." " I thought we're not past noon yet." "Lev Grigorievich, I'm immensely curious about your findings." "These are my initial conclusions only." "I have certain doubts about it, but the science of phonoscopy that was born today has yielded some positive results." "Lev Grigorievich, aren't you overly optimistic?" "Have you ever seen me overly optimistic?" "This is the result of our work for almost two years." "All these syllabic and phonetic samples of the Russian speech, the voice classification and the ideas about personal, group and national speech setups." "all that Anton Nikolaevich considered a waste of time." "and even you occasionally doubted." "all this science is producing its concentrated results." "And if the business starts growing..." "Why not?" "But right now we must prove the productivity of the method, we must carry out the first assignment." "The first assignment makes up for a half of this science." "There shouldn't be any rush." "Lev Grigorievich, don't you understand how urgently all this is needed?" "I understand." "Look how far the voice pattern analyses can take us." "Did you hear that the criminal at the beginning tried to change his voice?" "How is it reflected in the voice pattern?" "A slight adjustment of frequencies, didn't affect the individual voice setup." "Voice setups are our main discovery." "Even if he had proceeded speaking in the altered voice, he wouldn't have been able to hide his outstanding traits." "But we still have a poor idea of the alteration ranges of different voices." "These ranges might be very broad for intonation patterns." "If it is difficult to decisively identify the voices by listening in." "the voice patterns display distinct similarities in the amplitude patterns." "Lev Grigorievich, we shouldn't drop the psychological issues altogether." "We should try to model the thinking of a man who decided to make such a call." "And only after that we should compare the portrait with images of specific suspects." "I've already run the psychological analysis of these voices." "It definitely points to Volodin." "He sounds very tepid and even apathetic in this conversation." "It is very characteristic for a criminal fearing the prosecutions." "None of this is present in the conversation of Schevron." "But we would have been poor scientists if we had proceeded from secondary considerations and not from objective data yielded by our science." "I have an extensive experience of working with speech patterns." "Too many minor traits show make me think that Schevron is the criminal." "The lack of time didn't let me check it off the record and compare the curves." "We'll have to do that." "It will take us a lot of time." "The work is urgent." "If you feel it should be done, it is necessary to perform the analysis." "Have a look for yourself, Adam Veniaminovich." "My dear Mom!" "She was so beautiful." "I used to hurt you by my emotional harshness, lack of attention." "Forgive me." "Forgive me for everything." "Kesha is 5 years old." "Our argument seems to be losing its point." "If the Marxism is not a science, what is a science then?" "Do you mean the Apocalypse?" "Or some book about the traits of a Slavic soul?" "There isn't such thing as the genuine science." "In fact all the sciences are our elaborations about natural things." "Real science has to make subsequent conclusions logically on the base of an initial assumption." "The Marx science doesn't obey that rule." " Wrong." "That's how we have it." "The economic theory is built upon a single act of a money-for-goods exchange." "And all philosophy is based on the three taws of dialectics." "Any knowledge is substantiated by its applicability to solving real problems." "It is amazing." "You're talking about checking theory against the real life." "You turn out to be a grassroot materialist, although somehow primitive." "And you, as a Marxist, always try to avoid an open argument." "You prefer to bury your companion in a heap of foreign words instead." "And your speech pours out in spells and chants." "You're a shaman." "Why do you think that I'm so keen on arguing with you?" "You don't want to argue with me because you can't handle the art of argument." "You shun dissenters so that they don't break the orderly process of your thinking." "You gather in small communities and show off in front of the other." "When it comes to a real showdown and an open argument with me, you can't do that." "You pretend to be tired or short of time." "Still you found both, enough time and enough will to turn the country upside down, you Marxist." "Right now we're not talking in terms of a single country, but half the world." "We'll always find both enough time and enough strength for real business." "What are we supposed to rattle about?" "We've gone through all the possible issues." "I leave the choice to you." "My choice is the chat termination." "That's against the rules." "What rules?" "Are we in the Holy Inquisition?" "A fruitful argument is possible when we agree at least about a few basic things." "Yes, we both must share your belief in the supremacy of workers." "And our debate should be whether Marx had any lunch before writing some line or Engels." "Can you understand that it is stupid?" "What can we two talk about?" "Whatever subject we raise, it turns out that we're from different planets." "Even now for you both our Revolution and the French one, that happened 150 years ago, are examples of diabolical spell that came over nations." "Yes." "Can you prove it the other way round?" "The French glory ended in the 18th century." "What happened after that?" "Their government made the world laugh." "A couple of stray great minds amid general weakness and lack of will." "You are something of a fossil." "You're a dinosaur." "You alone in the whole world refuse to recognize the three laws of dialectics." "Everything else is based on them." "I'm gone." "First, I recognize these three laws." "What in hell do you need them for." "Let's take your first law." "The unity of the opposites." "So, if there are no opposite things there isn't any room for unity, is there?" "So what?" "You're waging wars with your own shadows, right?" "So you're right." "Does it mean that things that have no opposites don't exist?" "How could you promise to us the classless society?" "You knew that such a society is a chimera." "But it was you who promised it to us." "You've been telling us about our oppressors and came up with much bitter ways of oppression." "Was it worth killing so many millions of people?" "Your bile made you blind." "You won't recognize the classless society when you see it." "The classless society?" "Finish your thought at least once." "Do we have the ruling class right now?" "OK." "Let's draw the lines." "Can you name those who rule and who obey right now?" "I can!" " Please do." "Foma, Anton, all these bosses are the rulers." "But are you wise enough to understand that this group is temporary?" "They are state servants." "And as the state starts vanishing..." "They won't vanish on their own." "They won't leave until they are kicked out." "Even if you remained the only state in the world, you'd strengthen it to utmost limits." "The lists for purges would become immense." "Was your revolution a real one or was it just a bloodshed?" "You cut Russia's throat in 1917." "What?" "What do you know about this country?" "You've been in the camps for last 12 years." "What did you see before you were taken in?" "The Patriarch Ponds?" "Or Kolomenskoye Park?" "I saw my country." "How can you make judgments about this country?" "Shame on you!" "Would you recall how many people passed through the Boutyrki prison and here?" "They were telling you sensible things, their lives spoke louder than their words." "It was your country." "And you never listened to them." " Why should I?" "They are blind." "They used to whine as animals with paws in the traps." "What... what..." "Who are you going to listen to then?" " The younger generation." "They are with us." "And the future belongs to them." "This is your illusion." "They really don't care about you." "Don't talk like that." "I was on the frontline with these young people." "And your ideas come from some dirty emigre in the transfer prison." "How can our young people not be with us if there are more than 10 million people in the Komsomol?" "You must be feeble-minded." "Your Komsomol is simply a waste of paper on all these membership cards." "Don't say so." "I'm an ancient Komsomol member." "The Komsomol has always been our conscience, our banner, our source of inspiration." "It used to be." "But it is no more." "Who am I telling all this to?" "You used to be a Komsomol member during the same years." "Right?" "Yes." "And I paid for my faith." "I was punished for my romantic thoughts." "I was punished by Margarita, the death of my brother and my kid." "Wait!" "Forget about Margarita!" "I can't believe these times didn't leave a trace in your soul." "Are we talking about spiritual matters?" "Your basic notions seem to have changed throughout these twenty years." "Now you're speaking in terms of conscience and soul and holy places." "Can you imagine discussing all these notions in your sacred Komsomol in 1927?" "You've spoilt the entire younger generation of Russia." "And you're a vivid example of that." "And then you proceeded to Germans and Poles." "I can't figure out just one thing." "How could you become a Komsomol member back then?" "Did I have any choice?" "!" "You didn't leave me a single opportunity to avoid it." "If I hadn't been a Komsomol member." "I wouldn't have entered the institute." "So you were pretending all that time, weren't you?" "No." "I simply approached you with my faceplate closed." "Do you remember how you robbed Ukrainian peasants?" "You took their grain and didn't let the dying people to drink from their wells." "Was it a better mode of behavior?" "Can I have a match?" " What?" "Can you lend me some light?" "Thanks." "Why are you standing here?" "Where are we?" "We're in the restroom." "What's up?" "I don't understand anything." "I've just seen the Kremlin." "Some of its towers are topped with double-headed eagles and some with red stars." "And I saw a lot of strange cars." "They looked so foreign." "And drove past me at an enormous speed." "What's up?" "You're daydreaming, my dear Marxist." "You're running a high temperature." " Don't touch me." "Get lost!" "I hate all this!" "I'm so sorry." "What has happened to him?" "Nothing." "He's very tired." "Innokenty Volodin could never imagine that his fate would be influenced so much by a long and tiring debate of two prisoners in the restroom of a solitary well-locked building in the outskirts of Moscow." "Is this Volodin?" "Shevron, Doroshin, Volodin..." "Schevron seems to be out." "Doroshin," "Volodin, Schevron..." "Zavarzin..." "What's up?" " Lieutenant, let me out!" "It is not allowed." " Let me have some fresh air." "I need it right now." "In the morning I must work on the assignment of our minister." "I can't sleep." "Let me have some fresh air." "Come on." " Thanks." "Tell the guard below that I permitted it." "All these cigarettes." "Volodin, Schevron..." "Zavarzin..." "On Sunday nights the special prisoners were granted some time off." "It was caused by the fact that free laborers refused to be on duty on these days." "The rest boiled down to the entire outside world the universe with its galaxies, the planet with all of its continents, the capital with all its glory, getting down into the dark abyss." "All these things could hardly be seen through the windows." "The State Security building was always lit with bright lamps." "And it looked as if it were sailing through this vast dark ocean of human fates and mistakes." "The people aboard this Noah's ark were weightless and indulged in weightless thoughts." "They were not happy." "But they also never worried about losing their happiness." "They were not burdened by trivias of the life." "They didn't have to think about housing or heating or nutrition or clothing for their kids." "There were men outstanding in their intellectual prowess educational background and life experience, who belonged only to their friends." "The spirit of male bonding and philosophy were filling the spacious room of their prison." "It might be the bliss that was never found or singled out by all the ancient philosophers." "Yegorov, rise and run to the lieutenant." "What's up?" " Do you hear me?" "Stand up!" "The sleep was so sound." "What time is it now?" "About six." "About six?" "I'm already coming." "Come on, Yegorov, clean the main entrance and the roads." "Clean this space as well." "Come on!" "If a girl comes with everyone, her husband never gets it." "What did you say?" "I said "aye, aye, sir"." "Jawohl!" "Whatever the authorities were," "Spiridon was always at odds with them." "But he behaved reasonably with his immediate bosses." "Spiridon started working pretty gloomily, but after the first moves further 50 spadefuls went off easily and even voluntarily." "Both Spiridon himself and his wife were like that." "They found relief from all the nasty things in their life in their travails." "They fell easier after that." "But they never ceased thinking about their daughter." "There is a squirrel up there." "Where is Vera?" "Where has she gone?" "I don't know." "She was standing right here." "Vera!" "Vera!" "Vera!" "Tatyana, go and look for her." "She might get lost." "Move your legs!" "What has happened?" "There hasn't been a letter from her for 4 months." "Wait." "You used to tell me that there were some letters." "Are they here for four months?" "What is there in these letters?" "As soon as you get her letter, bring it to me and I'll read it for you." "Do you understand?" " Yeah." "I'll rush to you." "Might the post office have lost it?" "Don't be so upset." "How can I help this pain in my heart?" "She's so young." "She's 21." "She grew up at the lumber plant without her father and her brothers." "Her Mom has died." "It might get stuck in the post office." "And you're so upset." "Nerzhin saw a photo taken the previous spring." "Vera was an ample bodied curvaceous girl with big naive eyes." "Her father brought his love through the thick and thin of this great war and hoped to see her one day." "He saved her with a hand grenade in his hands from evil people who wanted to gangrape a 15-year old girl." "But what could he do now?" "He was in prison." "If I were told right now that a plane were flying in the skies carrying an A-bomb aboard" "If I were doomed to die like a dog here and my family out there together with millions of other people but I knew that the bomb would wipe out the Moustache Joe with all his party structures so that the people would never suffer" "in all the villages, kolkhozes and sovkhozes..." "I'd be so glad." "I can't stand it any longer." "No way to stand it any longer." "I'd tell them that they must hurry to drop the bomb and blow to pieces all this, crush it and wipe it out." "End of Episode 8" "Subtitles webrip for KG Quigley (12.2014)"