"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" "Galina Tyunina as Nerzhin's wife" "Igor Sklyar as Illarion Gerassimovich" "Inna Chourikova as Gerassimovich's wife" "Sergei Karyakin as Dmitry Sologdin Alexei Koloubkov as Lev Roubin" "Voiceover narration Alexander Solzhenitsyn" "Action time December 24-27, 1949." "The Marfino special prison" "Episode Four" "Attention!" "Those who're not going out to meet relatives, must report to the headquarters in an hour." " Will we watch any movies today?" "No movies for today." "Better cancel the movies altogether than make us watch such crap as "The Kuban Cossacks"." "You've just gotten another black mark in your file." "Up theirs!" "Let them write!" "Comrade lieutenant!" "What about the New Year celebration?" "Was it permitted?" "Lieutenant Colonel has just asked me to announce that the celebration was approved." "It will be set up right here." "OK, folks, we'll need decorations." "No decorations have been discussed so far." "I need to ask again." "A New Year tree without decorations?" "Would you mind reporting up there that we'd like this tree to stay here until the Orthodox Christmas." "Fur trees are symbols of the Christmas and not the New Year." "Here our opinions differ." "Well, Ilya Terentyevich..." "You seem to forget the second rule of a prisoner." "Don't make fuss about trifles." "This rule holds true for your rotten generation." "You tried to lie down still and all of you were eradicated." "If you make too much noise, they'd send you back to the hard labor camps." "Grigory Borisovich, that's what I want them to do." "I don't care whether it would be a hard labor camp or not." "To hell with it." "At least I would find some good company out there." "I might find freedom of speech out there." "The stool pigeons might not survive there." "Nerzhin!" "Abramson!" "You're summoned to the Acoustics Lab." "The top brass have come to see you." "Come on in." "Here we keep the visible speech devices." "They are printing out the so-called voiceprints." "We have a man capable of reading these voiceprints." "Lately we've been working on bringing out individual traits in these voiceprints." "I think that if we convert this conversation into voiceprints, and do it along three axis all at once in a way you can see right here scaling its frequency across the tape, its duration along the tape and its amplitude" "we'll be able to distinguish every sound in the original source and read the tape without even hearing the original speech." "This VIR device was designed in our laboratory, and this is Mr. Roubin who has a Ph.D. in linguistics, and who is the only man in the Soviet Union capable of reading the visible speech patterns." "Excuse me for not offering you to sit down in this room." "Continue." "Mention that the visible speech device enables the deaf to talk over the phone." "Monitor my actions." "If I stroke my hair, you're right, if I adjust my tie, you're wrong." "I think that Lev Grigorievich will demonstrate his skills to us." "We'll need an announcer." "Let it be..." "Gleb Vikentievich..." "You'll go to the acoustic booth right now and say some phrase into the mike." "The VIR device will record it and after that Lev Grigorievich will try to reproduce it." "Will you make up the phrase yourself?" " No, it is up to you." "Voiceprints enable the deaf people to use the phone." "Is it true?" " Yes, it is." "Then go ahead." "My name is Abramson." " Thanks." "Abramson." "I'm Abramson." "Don't let everyone down." " I won't." "Shusteman!" "Where are Nerzhin and Sidorov?" "Why aren't they still in place?" "Find it out right now." "I'm ready." "Some speech are very easy to distinguish." "I mean the sonorants and stressed vowels." "For example, we have two "r"s in the second word." "And the first word... the first word contains the stressed vowel "y"" "It is preceded by the labialized sound "v"." "The stressed vowel is preceded by "a"." "The first pre-stressed vowel position may alter the pronunciation of "o" to "a"." "And the "oo" sound retains its distinctive feature even it is far from the stressed syllable." "It has a very peculiar frequency pattern in the low band." "We have the "k" sound between them." "It gives to us the "ookahvy" combination." "Nerzhin!" "It is very different from the labialized one." "There is a distinctive band here in the range of 2300 Hz." "Here we have "vookohvy" and after it we can see another consonant and a reduced vowel." "It must be "dy"" "So it all adds up to the word "vookohvidy" (voiceprints)" "The first sound is not clear yet." "Still I might have made a guess that that it is "s"." "But here the common sense suggests it should be "z"." "So the search for the first word is now complete." "It is "zvookohvidy"." "OK, we continue." "The second word contains two "r" sounds, and an easily distinguishable "ayu"." "As the previous word is in the plural, the rules require we read it as "ayut"." "Nerzhin, Sidorov, why are you so late?" "The generals have held them up in the lab." "Join the ranks." "Attention!" "Do you all remember the rules?" "The last combination is very frequent in phone chats and I can easily recognize it." "Here goes the entire phrase." "Voiceprints enable the deaf to use the phone." "This is amazing." "That's exactly what we need." " It is striking." "What's your full name?" " Lev Grigorievich." "Lev Grigorievich, are individual features of voice prints distinguishable?" "We call them "the individual voiceprint pattern"" "Yes." "These patterns are the subject of our current research." "That's very timely." "We seem to have a very interesting assignment for you." "You can't pass anything over to your relatives." "You can't accept anything from your relatives." "All parcels must go through my hands only." "In your conversations you can't comment on your work, working conditions, your living conditions, your daily schedules, or the geographic specifics of the special prison." "No names must be mentioned." "You can't say anything about yourself except for "everything is all right" and" ""I don't need anything"." "What should we talk about?" "Politics?" "About your guilt and your repentance." "Your emotional state is also classified." "Question them about your family and kids." "I have no kids." "Moreover, there are some more new rules." "From this meeting on, all handshakes and kisses are forbidden." "Comrade colonel, we see each other once a year." "In case you still shake hands or kiss, the appointment is immediately terminated." "Your relatives will be warned about that too." "We've never had such a rule before." "There is one now." "How long it will last?" "What if my mom comes to see me?" "The appointment will last for 30 minutes." "Only the person with the summons will be let in." "I have a 3-year-old daughter" " Kids under 15 must be escorted by adults." "What if she's 16?" " No way." "Any more questions?" "Proceed to the exit one by one at a distance of 5 feet." "Go!" "Come out one by one." "These outings were designed especially for the Marfino prisoners to protect the ultimate secrecy of their site." "Their relatives didn't have the right to know where their living corpses were actually residing." "They might have been brought from the distance of 100 kilometers or driven right through the Kremlin gates or brought here by plane or summoned from the netherworld." "But their relatives could only see well-fed and well-dressed people with cultivated hands and former eloquence long gone and replaced with sad smiles and monotonous litanies about having everything and needing nothing." "These appointments somehow resembled ancient Greek cemetery stone carvings that portrayed both the deceased person and the people who erected that very monument." "But these stone pictures always included a small line that divided the netherworld and our world." "The living people looked candidly at the deceased person and the deceased man returned to them their glances but his expression was neither sad nor jolly, but it was a transparent look of too much wisdom about the world he had left behind." "seem to have grown accustomed to everything." "I'm serious." "I can sit on the snow with my ass bare." "I can travel when 25 people are crammed into one train compartment and the convoy breaks our suitcase." "Nothing seems to disturb me." "But there still is one string connecting me with the life outside prison." "My love towards my wife won't wither." "I'm going over the top every time these matters concern her." "One meeting a year and no kisses." "It's like a spit in my soul." "This is where we all are most vulnerable." "I mean all our family ties." "They want us to defy all earthly wishes." "We won't have any home to get back to after the camps." "The prison years have been stripping us of our physical selves let alone homes." "It will be a new person coming to a new home." "Our wives will meet new men." "Hi, Nadya." "I'm Nerzhin." "I don't know whether she'd recognize in me that very man she would have been waiting for so many years." "But my previous self will be there no more." "It will vanish to the last molecule." "Imagine that someone would stand in the middle of the street and shout" "Down with the tyrant!" "Hail the freedom!" "No one would understand him and start wondering what tyrant and what freedom he had just spoken about." "And do you understand the real meaning of all these words?" "Yes, I suppose so." " Don't rush to such conclusions." "The people usually have a very vague notion of the freedom they really need." "Do they have a notion of a rationally structured society?" "I think that they do." "Even an approximate picture of it would be beyond their grasp." "No one has ever managed to deliver it to them." "But there would be a day someone would succeed in that." "I wish I could hear that." "I'll tell you some day." "You talk about petitioning." "How?" "The lawyers request exorbitant fees." "They say they charge not only for their services." "The money passes through a lot of hands." "We must all petition." "Our husbands are suffering." "Freedom is not easy to come by." "We must petition them." " Yeah, have we done everything we could?" "Is our conscience clean?" " Wow, where does all this crap come from?" "Article 58 dooms them to be retained permanently in the files." "Article 59 didn't turn them into mere criminals." "It turned them into enemies." "Even a million won't be enough to pay the bail for Article 58." "Do you mean that we're not doing our best?" "Yeah, the wives of the Decembrists should be our examples." "They gave everything up and followed their husbands." "If the release is impossible." "I would have agreed to exile." "If they sent him to exile the taiga beyond the Polar Circle," "I would follow him leaving everything behind." "Do you still retain the stamina to follow him to the taiga?" "You must be a very happy woman." "I'm totally wasted." "I think." "If any well-settled old man had proposed to me," "I would have married him." "You can't leave him while he's in prison." "Was it easy to love in the 19th century?" "You mentioned the wives of these Decembrists." "Did they perform any extraordinary feats?" "Did they?" "Were they ever summoned to the personnel dep't to fill in any forms?" "Did they have to cover up their marriage is if it had been a wicked disease not to be thrown out from their jobs and not to be stripped of their only 500 roubles a month?" "Were they ever boycotted in their communal apartments?" "Were they hissed upon at watertaps in the street and called enemies of the people?" "Were they constantly battered about realistic reasoning by aunts and sisters who were pushing them into contemplating immediate divorces?" "On the contrary, their actions were accompanied by timid admiration of the cream of the society" "They fed poets with legends about their feats and left for Siberia in their own expensive carriages." "They never lost their only 9 square meter of the living space together with their Moscow registration." "That's right." "They didn't have to ever consider such trifles as black marks in their labor record books." "They never knew what it meant to live in a cubicle with no food and no bread." "All this taiga talk is very posh." "But you must be a recent newcomer." "My husband was taken in 5 years ago when he was in the frontline." "War is very different." "We all used to wait for them back then." "You may freely talk about that and read letters openly." "When you have to cover up, and pretend you're like everyone else around you..." "Attention!" "Do you know the rules?" "The appointment will last for 30 minutes." "You can't pass anything over to prisoners, you can't accept anything from prisoners, it is forbidden to question prisoners about their work, life or daily routines." "The breach of these rules is a criminal offense." "Moreover, from this appointment further on all handshakes and kisses are forbidden." "The violation of this ban will result in an immediate appointment termination." "That's all." "It was in 1893." "He sat on a tree and saw quite a few bell towers all at once." "They all are agitated ringing their bells, but he couldn't hear a sound." "So did I. Since my teen years" "I've been hearing this silent call." "It comprises all these cries and screams of the dying people, and the constant awareness of this horror alerts me to them even more." "I wonder where they brought us this time." "This is no Taganka prison." "I don't understand anything." " It is the Lefortovo prison." "Get out!" "Excuse me, what room is Nerzhin in?" "It is not allowed." "I wanted only to touch her hand." "Take a seat." "Happy birthday!" "Thanks a lot." "I still can't figure out how such a coincidence might come true." "Appointments are usually set up in advance." "This is a real miracle." "Yesterday I met your lieutenant colonel in the subway and asked him about you." "You haven't been granted an appointment with me for 6 months." "Yes, because we kept refusing to assist with their investigations." "Hands off!" "So I came up to him and he turned out to be a very courteous man, and set up an appointment for today." " Such talk is not allowed here." "I'm sorry." "And I baked sweet sticks for you the way your Mom used to make it." "Unfortunately there isn't anything else in the parcel." "My stupid one, I don't need anything." "We have everything we need." "You don't have sweet bread sticks out there," "No, we're not served sweet breat sticks at all." "You seem to be wearing a new blouse." "Show it to me." "I want a better view." "And this fur coat." " What about it?" "It is new too." "Oh yes, I see." "It is really new." "You're getting thin." "Can't you eat more healthily?" "No, the food is good." "The life has become very jerky." "And nervous." " Why?" "Tell me more about it." "You'd better tell me about..." "I can't." "Is this nice suit yours?" " Yes, it is mine." "Well, this is the Potemkin dress-up for these three hours." "Don't let this distract you." "I can't stand it." " What?" "We are accustomed to perceiving them as a sheer nonsense." "And we aren't." "Tell me more about your work." " No." "Tell me how you're getting along." "You aren't a postgraduate anymore, are you?" "Not." "Have you defended your thesis?" " No." "How come?" " No one passes this route in three years." "They extend the term, postpone the dates and..." "The thesis was finished a long time ago and printed out." "But..." "What?" " Too much fuss about it." "Copying and binding take a lot of time." "Are yuo paid a stipend?" " No." "What?" "How are you getting along?" " I'm a salarywoman now." "Did you find a job?" " Yes." "Where?" " In the university." "What job is it?" "This is an unlisted position." "A virtual one." "Do you follow me?" "I'm conditionally permitted everywhere." "Both in the dorm and..." "I've had to temporarily take off the wedding ring." "I want to ask you whether any of these problems are related to me." "Very severely related." "They are trying to assign a special theme to me and I'm trying to avoid it." "What special theme are you talking about?" "Moreover." "I'm going in for an amateur theater." "The girls keep making fun of me, but I respond that it is better to go in for something than fall in love with somebody." "What special theme are you talking about?" "I wanted to tell you something, but try not to get too anxious about it." "Do you remember you insisted on us filing for a divorce?" "Yes, I do." "Do you?" " Yes, I do." "So you won't object to us following up on that, will you?" "It will be a false divorce." "Good." "It is high time for us to do that." "I wanted to discuss all that with you well in advance." "It might not be needed after all." "You're doing it great." "You really are." "It is high time for us to do that." "We'll remarry again later." "The most important thing for both of us is to understand no high hopes should be pinned to the end of my sentence." "It is conditionally." "It may double or triple." "There are many examples." "Even if it miraculously ends." "I'm not sure we'll be able to return back to our former home and former life." "Do you understand that?" "You must have a very firm grasp of the notion that there's no place to purchase a ticket to our past." "Do you know what I'm regretting most of all right now?" "I regret that I'm not a shoemaker." "This profession would be very valuable now somewhere in the Upper Angara region." "Don't say so." "I don't want to believe it." " Or in the taiga near Krasnoyarsk." "No." "No." "This life leaves no place for illusions." "It will never happen." "Do you really think I want to quit you?" "No." "No." "I..." "I believe in you, Nadya." "I got you right." "Sergeant, come here." "Do you remember Nina?" " Yes." "If you ever see her, tell her that he loves her, adores her and cherishes her." "Loves, adores..." " And cherishes." "Keep the distance!" "Hands off!" "The appointment is over." "I'm not sure I'll see you again." "I bid you farewell." "Good bye." "Where?" "God knows." "Do everything the way you deem the most appropriate." "What?" "Again?" "There will be no more appointments for you." "No more appointments." " Have it your way." "I don't care." "Nerzhin, proceed to the exit." "Gerassimovich, come on in." "Hello." " Hi." "In six days it will be the 20th anniversary of our first meeting." "Really?" " Yes." "On the eve of the celebration of the October revolution." "Really?" "Yeah." "We went out to see our friends." "I was arrested in that very year." "You came to my house after that." "We lost our unborn boy kid there." "And Igorek went to Kuzbass." "Right?" "How are you out there?" "I'm all right." "When did you learn about this appointment?" "Yesterday." "What about you?" "Tuesday." "The lieutenant colonel kept asking me whether I'm you sister or not." "Yeah, we have the same patronymic." "Do you remember that when we were going to get married back then we were taken for blood relatives as well?" "We've always been more similar that spouses usually are." "How is your job?" "Why are you asking about that?" "Have you already heard about it?" " What?" "Nothing." "Tell me more." " No." "Tell me something about your life." "What about you?" "Will there be any exams in your pioneer camp?" "What exams?" "We have never had them out there." "Great inventions might matter in this respect, but..." "The thing is that local inventions" "are of an undesirable kind." "Do you feel lonely and sad?" "Do you?" "Answer me." "I'm well into my second sentence." "And there is not too much time left." "Only three years." "Just three years?" "Just three?" "Why did you agree to be transferred there?" "Your release now might be something of an undesirable kind." "I understand everything." "You're leaving among friends there, you love your job." "I understand." "And I have just been fired." "I don't have anything to live upon." "I'm banned from all jobs." "I can't stand it." "I'm totally wasted." "Merely wasted." "I won't last a month." "And you're talking about three years." "I won't last a month." "Do you understand that I'm drained?" "I'd better die." "The neighbors are harassing me." "They recently dumped the chest with Manya's things." "They tore the shelf with my thesis off the wall." "They know that I won't dare to utter a word, that I may be thrown out of Moscow at any moment." "I stopped seeing my sisters." "They keep bullying me." "I mean all of them." "They say that I'm the dumbest fool in the world." "They are pushing me into divorcing you and marrying again." "Let's face the truth." "Darling, just give a closer look to me." "Just look at me." "I'm your junior, by the way." "And I already look like an old woman." "No." " Yes." "Yes." "I know that." " Natasha..." "I know I'm an old woman now." "I'm really an old woman." "And you're looking good." "Very good." "You're really looking good." "I come home and I don't have any lunch or clean the room." "I'm tired of it." "I just fall down on the sofa and lie listlessly for hours." "Larik, you're so clever." "Think of something." "Invent something and get an early release." "Invent something." "You're a genius." "You're a genius, dear." "I know." "I know that you are working on that very thing right now." "You're working on it." "Larik, save me, please!" "Save me!" "I can' stand it anymore." "I'm totally wasted and so lonely!" "I can't stand it!" "You're so far away!" "Save me!" "I'll do everything I can!" "I'll save you!" "Natalya Pavlovna understood that these meagre 30 minutes wouldn't be enough to describe to her husband her loneliness or suffering." "She understood that he was travelling along some tracks of his own, that he was living a life of his own." "and that he wouldn't understand a thing." "She understood that she'd better leave him alone." "Gerassimovich knew that in general, wives of prisoners were heavily harassed out there." "But how could he know that previous Wednesday his wife had been fired on the grounds of being his close relative?" "_" "Upon learning about the appointment 3 days before, she hadn't looked for a new job, but waited for this meeting, as if she had expected a miracle from it, as if this meeting could have shed a new light upon her life" "and could have give to her a new guidance." "But could he give any advice to her?" "He had passed so many times in prison, and lost the grasp of civvy ways." "The choice was simple - to dismiss her or not." "I managed to pass your words to my wife." "She told me that she remembered the address and would pass the message over to her." "Thanks, Glebchik." "Nadya would have to divorce me." "I'm in no mood for either speaking or listening." "I wish I could slowly filter the events through myself." "Cut the extra words." "Russka is coming." "Here you are." "Pals, I'm really hurt." "I openly told you about my double dealing." "And the people I confided in are giving to me stern glances." "And I came here to offer something." "Do you want me to disclose all secret informers here during the lunchtime?" "at the moment they get their 30 pieces of silver." "How are you going to do that?" "Tomorrow every Judas is getting his money for the third quarter of this year." "What a delay!" "The fourth quarter is coming to an end." "Why such a delay?" "Too many signatures are needed to bankroll the roaste." "I'll get the money too." "Well, how will they pay?" "We never use any cash." "Yes." "The money gets to a personal account." "And here comes the cutest part." "Informers get 150 roubles a trimester." "The money must be wired here." "The post office collects the 2 percent service charge." "The bosses are so thrifty that they won't top it up from their own pockets." "And they are too lazy to raise the issue of adding yet another three roubles to the salary of an informer." "So all their wire transfers will be for 147 roubles." "No normal man would ever wire such an odd sum, thus these missing thirty pieces of silver are the Judas's kisses." "Tomorrow we must all gather at the headquarters and check the incoming and outgoing transfer forms." "The Motherland must know its stool pigeons." "You're right." "End of Episode 4" "Subtitles webrip for KG Quigley (12.2014)"