"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." "Kinotur Studio presents" "a "Kinovidrodzhennya" Production" "A film based on Alexander Turchynov's novel" ""The Illusion of Fear"" "Andrey Panin" "Alexey Petrenko" "Alyona Babenko" "Sergey Garmash" "Inga Oboldyna" "Alexey Gorbunov" "Alexander Semchev" "David Babayev" "Written by Alexander Turchynov and Yuriy Butusov" "Director of Photography" " Sergey Mykhalchuk" " Bonjour, partner." "How was Paris?" "Bonjour, ça va." "I'm not there yet." "I see." "I've found a buyer for our mega-centre." "There will be no sale." "You'll love the price." "I'll demolish a few more houses and build as many mega-centres as I wish." "As you say." "But let's meet and talk it over." "Please don't conduct negotiations behind my back." "What negotiations?" "Hello?" "Let's meet." "Hello?" "An Alexander Kirienko film" "Partner!" "THE ILLUSION OF FEAR" " Any problems?" "The entrance is closed." "It must be opened, then." "It's not possible." "We're waiting for a government delegation." "But we're running late!" "I'll see to that now." "What are you doing?" "You!" "I told you we're running late." "Understand?" "You can lose your driver's license for that!" "You don't have the authority." "We have a charter flight!" "I heard you." "But I can't do anything." "OK?" "It's not far to the terminal." "You can walk there." "Walk there yourself!" "If I let just one car in I'll be fired!" "Hey you..." "Stop that!" "Come on!" "It's alright." "I'll walk." "Igor Alexandrovitch?" "King Solomon, the poor of the city are waiting for you with a petition to stop the construction of the altar of sacrifice to Moloch." "The main instigators are here and waiting for your mercy." "I build altars to all the gods, because a human is weak." "One should go to the nearest temple of any kind in a moment of weakness." "Maybe I shouldn't hurry about Moloch?" "Wise Solomon, people believe in your fairness." "Don't let doubts poison your grand design." "The law will protect you from your enemies, because what you believe in will always become law." "King, here are the petitioners from the city!" "Great King!" "You're building a temple for pagan filth." "New sacrifices will bring not glory, but fear." "The treasury has already paid for the building of the altar to Moloch." "Temples are expensive nowadays." "I'm decorating this city to glorify it." "Great King!" "There are madmen, who being blind, will worship the new idol." "Get him out of here!" "Don't build the altar to Moloch!" "The pagan filth will destroy you and all of us!" "Glory to wise Solomon!" "Hurray to our King!" "Hurray to our King!" "Hurray!" "What was there will go on." "What has been done will be done again." "There is nothing new under the sun." "Hurray to our King!" "Hurray to our King!" "Have you come to your senses, you son of a bitch?" "Where am I?" "What are you babbling?" "Wait." "Let him drink a bit." "We won't tell anyone about it." " Who are you?" " We?" "We're the modest employees of our respected police." "I'm the Major and Seryozha is Captain." " What are you incriminating me for?" " What words you know!" "You'll tell us yourself what we're incriminating you for." "You have no right to..." "Call her in." "Sergeant?" "Bring the victim in." "Do you recognise this man?" "I do." " Did he rape you perversely?" " Yes he did." "Tell us about it." "What shall I tell you?" "What shall I repeat it for?" "I was standing on the road waiting for a ride to the city." "A foreign car stopped.The door was opened." " And?" " A man offered to give me a lift." "The man was decent-looking, in an expensive suit." "So I got in." "We passed a few kilometres." "Then he turned off the road and raped me." "That's all." "You may go free." "You'll sign the protocol of identification later." "She was your Statute 153 and a straight road to the rooster house." "In a blink of an eye a rusty shank will be stuck in your hemorrhoidal ass..." "What do you want of me?" "Transfer the title to your mega-centre" "We will make you neither a dead man nor a convict then." "A few our favors against one of yours." "These are good terms, agree to them!" " No." "Nod your head, if you don't want to piss blood until the end of your life." " All right!" "Good." "Go to the cell and have a rest." "Call for Seryozha and me when you're ready to go to the notary." "Is it a deal?" "Don't!" "Don't!" "Get in!" "Sit down." "I'm Petrovskiy Viktor Appolinarievich." "What is your name?" "Korob." "Your first name?" " Igor Alexandrovitch." " Igor Alexandrovitch." "Nice to meet you on our territory." "Damn it!" "I didn't know that I would surrender so quickly!" "Did you sign everything that they demanded?" "You were right to do so." "They could have killed you." "Listen to me, old man." "Life is more valuable than the money." "You'll earn it again." "You're still young." "If you lose something you'll earn it back, if you are healthy." "Sure..." "But this is not the most important thing in life." "What is most important in life?" "To live in harmony with yourself and feel free." "We seem to have problems with that." "You're wrong." "This is the first place I have felt truly free." "You're joking, aren't you?" "No." "You only value what you lose forever." "We have lost the illusion of freedom." "But we were never free in reality." "We had some troubles and communal inconveniences." "Freedom is the ability not to depend on circumstances." "It is the ability to think." "It is victory over your fears." "Do you ever feel fear?" "Sometimes." "Freedom has nothing to do with bars and locks." "Somebody gave an order to do away with me." "Who did it?" "My business partner?" "He has been dreaming of getting rid of me for a long time." "Sell the control package of shares." "The Americans are offering great money for it." "Sell your shares to me." "I'll buy them." "May be it was Marmazin?" "He is an oil-trader." "He is an authority." " Hey, bro!" " He feeds the cops from his hand." "He is buying all the real estate he can get his hands on." "How much do you want for it?" "This is not a gas filling station." "The mega-centre is not for sale." "I won't offer it twice." "I'm not a parrot either." " Goodbye!" " Goodbye!" "Why are you standing here?" "Get in the cars and let's go!" "Illychenko could have done it too." "He is a new oligarch and a member of parliament." "This issue will be decided at the highest level." "I respect you and the highest level." "But it seems to me that we're living in a democratic country, aren't we?" "We are." "But democracy is not permissiveness." "One may pay dearly for one's self-confidence." "I agree with you." "Do you know how I got here?" "I headed a department in a mental hospital." "I was to retire in a year." "I was silly enough not to acknowledge the fact that a young mediocre specialist had bought the post of the head doctor and stolen everything in the hospital away." "I wrote to the Ministry of Health and to the General Prosecutor's Office about it." "So here I am!" "I'm waiting for the court hearing with broken ribs." "I'm accused of dealing drugs." "But I'm grateful to those who sent me here." "For here I got to know what real freedom is." "I have lots of free time." "I read the Bible from beginning to end here for the first time both the Old and the New Testaments." "Don't you hate those who broke your ribs?" "Our torturers are very unhappy people." "They don't know what they are doing and are subjecting themselves to eternal suffering." "I'm living here and now and not elsewhere!" "And God for me..." "I beg your pardon." "If you don't believe in God what do you believe in?" "I believe that there is God." "But he doesn't give a damn for me and my troubles!" "Stop shouting!" "I can't sleep." "It's time to go to sleep." "You had a rough day today." "Solomon, your decisions frighten me." "The petitioner is right." "You're not building a road to God." "You're building a wall of fear." "Hundreds of people bow to me." "Fear is the only thing that makes them succumb to me and create something." "Piss faster!" "Why are you jumping around like a drunken kangaroo?" "He shoved me." "Who?" "He... there he is sitting." "In black." "He is staring at me all the time." "Calm down.Tell me who is staring at you?" "The man in black sitting on a toilet." "He is holding a piece of paper in his hand." "Close your eyes and touch your nose first with your right and then with your left hand." "Are you making an idiot out of me?" "You do have problems." "Has it ever happened to you before?" "This is paranoia.The signs of schizophrenia." "Really?" "Here he is!" "Calm down." "Give the mega-centre away!" "Open the door!" "I'll sign everything!" "Call for the notary!" "I'll sign everything!" "Mommy, why is this man sleeping?" "Don't stop." "Come on!" "The seagulls!" "The seagulls!" "Yes, the gulls!" "Look!" "Come here, daughter!" "Hey, seagulls!" "Fly over to us!" "Be careful!" "Lets do it together!" "Hello, Igor Alexandrovitch." "Igor Alexandrovitch?" "Hello." "How was Paris?" "Hello." "Is Sotnik here?" "Do we have problems, Igor Alexandrovitch?" "Other people will have problems." "Hello, my dear wife." "Hello, Natasha!" "Natasha, are you drunk again?" "You disappeared for a few days again and didn't even call." "What was I to do?" "Who am I to you?" "An empty place?" "I'm sitting here in depression and you're waiting for me to serve to you!" "Great King!" "People who love you caught criminals!" "The people are waiting for you judgement, Solomon!" "Who are these people?" "They are your enemies, great King." "They have destroyed the new sacrifial altar that you built." "In darkness the earth trembles." "I said to them:" ""Gods, sons of the Lord!" "You're gods but you live like humans and will fall like all the kings."" "The King has ruled to execute the criminals." "Execute them!" "You are the one who should be judged, Solomon!" "Let this execution be a lesson to everyone who dares go against the works of the great King Solomon!" "Let justice be done!" "It is easy to kill with other people's hands." "Remember your fear, Solomon." "It will become your sentence." "Solomon!" "Our blood is your vanity." "Today you will see us and tomorrow we will see you." "I think they deserve your mercy." "They are enemies of the state." "They believe in you." "And you make them believe in a sin." "I may forgive my enemies but not the enemies of the state." "Turn to the bureaucrats we know." "Re-register all the statutory documents documents and backdate them." "Pay to whoever you need." "Stop our offshore transactions." "Cash in our current accounts." "All of them." "Get all the accounts out of the office." "How can they use your signature?" "How do I know?" "Intensify the supervision over the employees." "I think there is a spy in the office." "I'm meeting the Police Commissioner today." "I think he'll explain it to me." "Have you been waiting for me for long?" "You're mistaken." "I wasn't waiting for you." "You're the one who is mistaken." "Did you want to have the property that didn't really belong to you forever?" "Prepare the papers for the new owner." "Don't you get informal with me!" "And tell your masters that we'll talk in the arbitration hearing." "Don't you sneer at me!" "There are people who will show you who is who." "You either tell me who I'm dealing with or get out of here!" "Your Commissioner won't come and save you." "He received orders and and left on a long business trip." "You have one day." "Prepare the transfer documents." "If you shout and twist we'll take away everything to your last pair of pants." "We'll crush you like a bug." "Don't get accustomed to delicacies." "It'll be hard for you to get used to prison food." "Anything else?" "Catch that brat, be quick!" " Whom do you mean?" "That Major!" "Be quick!" "I was at the door." "Nobody came in or out." "Nobody?" "You slept on duty, didn't you?" "No." "Nobody came in." "The second post." "We're clear." "There is nobody here." "The third post." "We're clear." "Really, Igor Alexandrovitch..." "Nobody came in." "Get out of here!" "This is me!" "Igor?" "What..." "Where are you going?" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Igor!" "It's fine." "We need to backdate the papers for title to the mega-centre in your name." "What for?" "We need to backdate the papers in your name!" "Calm down please." "It's all right." "They won't get anything." "I won't let them do it to me." "They won't get anything." "That's how the business is done." " What is he saying?" " He may say lots of things." "Igor..." "Don't do anything to me please." "I would have given you the 500 thousand from the last contract myself if you had called me." "There was nothing between your wife and me." "I just danced with her, and that's all." "Everything else is a lie!" "Did you find any papers with my signature?" "No, we found nothing so far." "May be you should turn to the police officials?" "It was a real attack." "So crazy!" "I got confused." "Where are the real people?" "Where are the images I created?" "I'm scared." "May be I shall forget about it all and start painting again." "I showed promise, didn't I?" "Garik, you're my best friend." "I need your help." "The situation is difficult but not hopeless." "But if you drink so much you'll get delirium tremens instead of schizophrenia." "You're joking and I don't want to live." "I'm dreaming that I'm King Solomon." "May be you are Tsar Solomon." "May be all your troubles are just a dream." "Solomon was not a bad guy." "I wouldn't brush him aside if I were you." "What Solomon?" "May be I'm a schizophrenic indeed but I can still tell a dream from reality." "If you weren't such a cynic you'd tell what is real and what is not." "If you had just a bit of faith you'd find the key to your problems." "What advice can I give you?" "Turn to a doctor or to a prosecutor." "I feel unwell." "A medic!" "I have nightmares." "You're too busy, King." "You should take more rest and enjoy yourself more." "Change your wives more often." "You have the same advice for every cause." "I need a real cure." "There is one effective cure from your illness." "It is a sacrifice to Moloch." "Moloch is waiting for fresh blood." "I am not a pagan." "Moloch is the only one who can help you." "Try it!" "Yes, everything has been performed and signed." "Goodbye." "Whom did you call?" "Nobody." "Why aren't you sleeping?" "I see Solomon and police in my dreams." "What police?" "What Solomon?" "You need to have a good sleep." "I'm very tired." "I'll be upstairs." "The cerebral cortex is not damaged." "Frankly speaking" "I don't even see the consequences of that terrible beating you told me about." "I don't think that you have hallucinations." " Why?" " It's very simple." "That waiter must have gone out for a moment and then lied to you seeing how angry you were." "Why do you believe him more than yourself?" "It's weird." "May be it's connected with your low self-esteem." "And behind the bars..." "What was the surname of that imprisoned doctor?" " Petrovskiy." " Petrovskiy?" "Oleg, please bring the analyses." "Petrovskiy..." "No, I don't know such a psychiatrist." "I suppose that he invented that story." "They love doing such things in such establishments." "That man didn't look like a typical convict." "He was intelligent and aged." "All right, all right." "If it wasn't a joke why do you think that you and not your face-to-face contact had problems with reality perception?" "He is old and was beaten." "May be he fell sick, imagined that he was a physiatrist and started treating you." "Maybe the convict whom you believe to be the invention of your mind was indeed in your cell." "I have seen thousands of mental cases." "You have nothing in common with them." "When did you last have rest?" "In prison." "That's the core of your troubles." "Take a vacation!" "Have some rest." "Go to the sea and then come to me in a couple of weeks." "Will you be able to come on the 29th in 5 p.m.?" " Yes." " Brilliant!" "Good luck to you." "Good bye." "Good bye." "What do we have here?" "We checked your information." "You've never been detained by the police authorities." "You were never put behind the bars." "You were never accused of anything." "There is no criminal case against you." "You were never summoned to the police even as a witness." "But I was arrested by the police!" "There was a major and a captain there who beat me and tortured me." "Then they called in a false witness and I was forced to confess to raping her!" "Did you see their IDs?" "Their surnames?" "Their posts?" "Do you know the address where it all had happened?" "I saw no IDs." "I didn't see that place because they took me to it and out of it unconscious." "They beat me first and drugged me with something later." "It's very strange." "You don't know their surnames." "You don't know the address." "You don't remember where it happened." "You didn't make a photo of your bruises." "You didn't get a blood test to identify the drugs you were given." "You turned to us a week after it all happened." "Please state the facts on which I should open a criminal case." "What case?" "Don't you understand that your police are trying to take away my business, my property - everything that I have!" "Your police are blackmailing me!" "Who?" "Who is blackmailing you?" "Who?" "What are you involving the police officers into your business for?" "Do you understand that you couldn't have been detained without any official documents, a warrant or something like that?" "It's nonsense!" "Nonsense!" "There was one doctor in my cell." "May be you can identify that prison by finding him?" "What is that doctor's surname?" "Petrovskiy..." "Viktor Apolinaryevitch." "The tailor has come and is waiting." "Petrovskiy." "Viktor Apolinaryevitch." "What was he accused of?" "I don't know exactly." "Something connected with illegal drugs." "He is a doctor and he quarrelled with his boss..." " His age?" " About sixty." "Check it through all the channels." "Tell the tailor to come in." "All right." "You may write a statement to initiate the criminal proceedings." "You may turn to the district police department or to the district prosecutor's office." "Well..." "Viktor Apolinaryevitch Petrovskiy has never been detained or accused of criminal activities." "No man under such name has been to any prison in our region." "As you can see I don't know how we might help you." "We investigate serious crimes, but your case does not seem to be in our department." "What do you mean?" "I mean that your story resembles a case history to me." "I beg your pardon." "Thank you." "Isn't it too short?" "Igor Alexandrovich?" "I knew we would meet again!" "It's a miracle!" "God heard my prayers!" "Here is a release certificate with signatures and stamps." "I'm a victim of arbitrariness!" "That head doctor quarrelled with somebody." "Criminal proceedings were instigated against him and he got fired." "Not only was I released," "I was restored to my work place." "They'll even pay me my wages for the entire period of my absence." "I got so lucky!" "So we were in the prison of the neighbouring region!" "Let's go to the prosecutor!" "I'll prove them that I'm not crazy!" "What are you doing?" "You won't prove anything to them." "You'll only create more problems for yourself and for me." "The man who ordered you locked up is very influential." "Illegal detention means nothing to them." "Do you exist in reality or not?" "Don't surrender!" "Don't surrender!" "Despair and fear are the illness itself." "It's the madness!" "Do you have conscience or not?" "You don't answer your mobile." "Nobody knows where you are." "I'm nervous!" "Have you forgotten that we're going to Paris?" "I can't go to Paris now." "Take some rest there without me for a few days." "No." " I have an important meeting." " No!" "You promised to spend two days with me." "Why are you sitting here?" "Who are you meeting with, if it's not a secret?" "It's not a secret." "I'm meeting with Garik." " With Garik..." " Yes." "This meeting is more important to me than to him." "So Garik can't wait, can he?" "Why do you react in such a way?" "Lets go." " What?" " Let's go, I say!" "I'll give you a lift." "His place is on my way." "Close the bag, let's go." "I got used to your lies." "I got used to the fact that you have affairs with other women." "But I can't get used to your cynicism and your perverse cruelty." "What women?" "What cynicism?" "You've been telling me about meetings with your best friend, your former classmate Garik for a long time." "I couldn't never understand why you don't want to introduce us to each other." "Why won't you invite him to our house?" "What does Garik have to do with it?" "Don't interrupt me!" "I'm fed up with it!" "I got interested." "I started gathering information about Garik, his family and work." "I found some data." "Come and look." "He's gone." "He died the next year after your graduation." "He died almost 30 years ago." "Your best friend died." "You could have invented something more convincing and not use such cruel lie." "I'm leaving." "I can't live like this any longer." "I'm so scared with you!" " Hello?" " Hello?" "Hi, old man!" "Garik!" "Is that you?" "It's me." "Who else could it be?" "What's wrong with your voice?" " Aren't you dead?" " What?" "Who is dead?" "Are you drunk again?" "You're dead." "Well..." "You died and I went crazy." "But you're talking to me." "Let's meet at our usual place." "What a fool!" "Moloch!" "Moloch!" "Moloch!" "Moloch!" "No!" "Don't do it!" "No!" "Be quick!" "Run there!" "Here she is!" "You didn't expect it, did you?" "I knew that it was not delirium!" "I knew it." "You'll tell me everything now!" "You'll sign everything off to me!" "How much did you get for it?" "How much was your price?" "You're the one who sold your soul." "You!" "You didn't rape me." "You stole my life away." "You killed my son." "He could have lived." "He could have been saved." "But you demolished the hospital." "What did you do it for?" "You did it for the sake of your damned mega-center." "Save our children!" "Korob is the killer!" "Why are you standing?" "How does one start this engine?" "I have cursed you." "You won't forget your fears until you disappear." "I cursed you." "Solomon?" "What are you doing?" "Whom are you sacrificing our children for?" "You betrayed God." "Pestilence, diseases and troubles are happening because of you." "Your betrayal will bring blood and sufferings to our people." "You betrayed, you betrayed..." "I don't know what to do, Garik." "I thought that I had one person who could help me." "But it turned out that he is dead." "I'm alive, thank God." "Stop that!" "I know that I'm ill." "You and many other people don't exist." "You're looking for reality in an unreal world." "It's like looking for God for He is the only reality." "Do you get it?" "The rest is the illusion of the Creator." "Garik, shut up!" "You're dead." "May be you died?" "Maybe you were devoured by your mega-centre." "I look at your paying for your wealth." "I think I made a right decision." "I built my own real world, my family and my life." "But I'm grateful to you." "I won't be happy without you." "Mom, mommy, I've found Daddy!" "Dad, we've been looking for you." "Look at the stones I've gathered!" "Igor, what is this?" "You've spent two hours in the cold wind with your bronchitis!" "But I finished my sketch." "Now I know what my new painting will look like." "You're like a child." "Let's go home." "Farewell!" "I hope you'll overcome your fears." "Are you talking to yourself again?" "Anya?" "Anya?" "Anechka?" "Show me your sketch." "It's nothing special." "It's beautiful." "Hello, partner!" "How was Paris?" " Any problems?" "The entrance is closed." "It must be opened, then." "It's not possible." "We're waiting for a government delegation" "But we're running late!" "I'll see to that now." "What are you doing?" "You!" "I told you we're running late." "We have a charter flight!" "You can lose your driver's license for that!" "Do you know who is in the car?" "I heard you." "But I can't do anything." "OK?" "It's not far to the terminal." "You can walk there." "Igor Alexandrovitch?"