"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 Pyevtsov as Innokenty Volodin" "Sergei Karyakin as Dmitry Sologdin" "Boris Romanov as Professor Chelnov" "Anastassya Lapina as Larissa Yemina" "Mikhail Kononov as Spiridon" "Sergei Batalov as Shikin-Myshin" "Yulia Novikova as Klara" "Oleg Kharitonov as Russka" "Voiceover narration Alexander Solzhenitsyn" "Action time December 24-27, 1949." "Episode 6" "I've almost decided that you were out and was about to leave." "This is your tea and your sandwiches." " Thanks." "What an ass!" "She's nearly scared me to death." "I mustn't have made this call." "Still I might be right in making it." "I wasn't scared at that very moment." "As if I had been guided by someone." "Hertzen used to wonder about limits to patriotism, and about the extension of our love to our Motherland to all of its governments." "Hello!" " Why are you keeping silent?" "Oh, that's you!" "And what about you?" "Shall we go to the theater tonight?" "OK, let's go." "But choose some funny performance." "Operetta be all right?" " What's on?" "Some "Akoulina" show." "And "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" tonight and go to the restaurant after that." "OK." "I'm kissing you warmly." " So am I." "See you soon." " See you." "It should be known that there is no immortality." "That's why for us death is not evil." "It simply doesn't matter for us." "While we are alive, there is no death." "Where it comes, we are no more." "What a great idea!" "I remember someone having recently told me the same thing." "Yes, it was Kolya who told us this frontline piece of wisdom yesterday." "One life is quite enough for a sage man." "And a fool won't know how to handle the eternity." "One shouldn't be afraid of bodily pains." "The man who knows his limit of corporal pain, is protected against suffering." "Extended suffering is always minuscule." "Strong suffering is always very brief." "A wise man retains his spiritual balance even under torture." "His memory will bring back his customary feeling of dissatisfaction." "And he'll regain his spiritual balance even against the strongest pain." "Would you mind closing the door more tightly?" "I've run your calculations through probability and numeral estimates." "I want to tell you that your encryption method is built upon the chaotic pattern." "This is good." "But chaos once it is chosen once it is fixed in its generation principles, becomes a system itself." "A much stronger development of your method might be the chaotic fluctuation of the chaos generation." "You still have a lot of work to do." "but this design will be the best of all possible options." "It will deliver to you freedom and the cancellation of your sentence, and if the bosses don't chirp it away from you." "you might get a big chunk of the Stalin award." "Thanks." "Vladimir Yerastovich, you're providing me with enormous support." "I'm short of words to thank you for your attention." "I owe it to you." "But I feel my guilt towards you." "You asked me not to show your design to Anton Nikolaevich, but yesterday he came to my study in my absence." "unfolded this blueprint, as he usually does." "and he instantly realized who its author was." "So I involuntarily broke your incognito." "This is important for you." "But why?" "It might be a day earlier or later." "Don't you think that the issue is morally fuzzy?" "This is not a machine or a device." "This is not industrial stuff." "The order comes from the people who locked us up here." "I did all that to test my intellectual strength." "For myself." "Isn't all this a luxury that might be too grand for you under these circumstances?" "I'm sorry, Vladimir Yerastovich." "I've just voiced my deep thoughts." "Don't reproach yourself." "I'm so grateful to you for all that." "Good luck to you then." " Thanks." "Dmitry Sologdin was a humble slave stripped of any civil rights." "He's already stayed in prison for 12 years." "And the second term in prison extended his incarceration for a limitless period." "Sologdin never signed anything remembering the lessons of the first trial." "But nevertheless he got his second 10-year sentence." "He was taken to the hospital right from the courtroom." "He was dying." "His body was doomed to disintegrate and didn't accept either bread or porridge or prison soup." "There was a day when his body was put on a gurney and taken to the morgue where his head was about to be crushed by a big wooden hammer." "It was the usual procedure before burying the corpses." "And suddenly he started to move." "Larissa Nikolaevna, are you alone here?" "D. Alexandrovich, I thought I'd have to spend this day in solitude." "Why isn't anybody else here?" "I wanted to ask you the same question." "Ask me?" "I may know only where our four prisoner designers are." "I mean the prisoners working in that very room." "One of them was granted an appointment with his relatives." "Hugo Leonardovich is celebrating his Latvian Christmas," "I'm here and Ivan Ivanovich asked for some time off to repair his socks." "But I would like to know where 16 free laborers are." "These comrades are supposed to be much more responsible than we are." "Haven't you heard that our Major yesterday had a talk with Anton Nikolaevich and the design bureau was granted a day off today?" "And I'm a duty specialist." "What's the reason for a day off?" " Don't you know?" "It is Sunday today." "How come Sundays were again turned into holidays?" "The Major said that there was no urgent work for the time being." "No urgent work?" "That's cool!" "We don't have any urgent work..." "Do you want me tomorrow to turn it into a situation when all 16 free workers are charged day and night with copying jobs?" "Do you?" "God forbid." "Are you really capable of such evil actions?" "Why are you referring to God?" "You're the wife of a Chekist." " Now what?" "We're baking Easter bread as well." "What's wrong with that?" "Easter bread?" " We really do." "But you used to tell me that your husband was an Interior Ministry colonel." "Yes, my husband is." "What about me and my Mom?" "We are stupid women." "Dmitry Alexandrovich, who repairs your socks here?" "My socks?" "It is Ivan Ivanovich who is still wearing socks here." "He's a rookie and his only socks haven't worn off yet." "He's been in prison for three years only." "Socks are rudiments of the so-called capitalism." "I'm not wearing them anyway." "What are you wearing instead?" "You seem to be overstepping the limits of decency, Larissa Nikolaevna." "I'm wearing the pride of our Russian national outfit." "I mean boot strips." "But they are for soldiers." "There are two more groups that are entitled to them - prisoners and peasants." "They need washing and repairing too." "Who washes boot strips nowadays?" "They are worn for a year without any washing and then dumped altogether." "The bosses issue new ones for everyone." "Are you serious?" "At least there is such a point of view up there." "And where am I supposed to get the dough to buy new socks?" "You're an copyist working for the Ministry of the State Security." "How much do you earn a month?" "Fifteen hundred." " Good." "And I'm an industrial designer and get 30 roubles a month." "Not much for buying socks." "Dmitry Alexandrovich, do I really interfere with your work?" "What?" " Do I interfere?" "Just a little bit." "You're working that hard your every hour here in prison." "You're an extraordinary man." "Dmitry Alexandrovich..." "Does it really matter that I'm in prison?" "I was taken in at an age of 25." "I'm supposed to get out at 42." "But I don't believe that." "The best years of my life will be spent in prison." "I'll pass the prime of my life here as well." "One can't yield to any outside pressure." "It is insulting." "You're living after your system." "It doesn't matter whether I'm here or outside." "A man must do his best to develop in himself an invincible will guided by a sharp mind." "spent 7 years in the camps surviving on the prison cabbage soup I only." "My intellectual work wasn't fueled either by sugar or phosphorus." "If only I could tell you..." " Please do." "No, it's really indescribable." "I'm really guilty towards you." "Why?" "Once I was standing by your desk and saw you writing a letter." "It happened quite by chance." "And some other day..." " Was it quite by chance as well?" "Did you look at me out of the corner of your eye?" "Yes, and saw you writing a letter again." "It seemed to be the same letter." "So you even managed to make out that it was the same letter, didn't you?" "Did it also happen for the third time too?" "Yes, it did." "I'm afraid that if it continues that way any longer, I'll have to stop using your copying services." "It will be a pity." "You're really a good design copyist." "But it happened so long ago." "You haven't written anything since then." "But nevertheless you immediately reported on me to Major Shikin." "How can you make such a conclusion?" " It's easy to guess." "Didn't Major Shikin give you an assignment to spy on my actions, words and even thoughts?" "Did he?" "Give it to me straight." "Yes, he did." "How many reports have you written so far?" "Dmitry Alxandrovich, on the contrary I gave to you only the best recommendations." "0K, I'll trust you for the time being." "Although my warning remains in force." "It must have been a classical case of acute female curiosity." "Let me satisfy it." "It was in September." "I was writing a letter to my wife for five days in a row." "That's what I wanted to ask." "Are you married?" "Is she still waiting for you?" "Do you still write to her such extensive letters?" "I'm married." "But I feel as if I had no wife." "The art of writing letters is extremely difficult to master." "My wife hasn't seen me for many years." "She hasn't felt the touch of my hands." "My letters have been the only link that I kept her with for all these 12 years." "Are you sure you're still holding on to her?" "What for?" "What for?" "12 years have passed by." "There are 5 more left." "It adds up to 17 years." "You're draining away her youth." "What for?" "Let her live her own life." "There is a very special type of women." "They are women of the Viking warriors." "They are clear-faced Izoldes with diamond souls." "You couldn't have met them as you lived in complacent welfare." "Let her live her own life." "And I've been thinking about that for many weeks too." "What are these sticks for?" "You place them one day, and cross them out another day." "What do they mean?" "It looks like you're overstepping again." "But I'll respond to your query." "I put a stick on a piece of white paper every time" "I use an unnecessary foreign word in my speech." "The number of these sticks is the measure of my imperfection." "What about the pink one?" " You have noticed that too." "Yes, you've done it right now in front of me." "Is it also some measure of your imperfection?" "Yes, it is." "Lock the door." "I've done it." "Come on in." "Shake the snow off your clothes." "Don't do it here." "Go out." "Come closer to me." "Do you know that man?" "No, I don't." "What about this man?" "Comrade Major, I've some trouble with my eyes." "Let me have a closer look at him." "No, I don't know him." "That's too bad." "Too bad." "Any attempt to cover anything up will only make your situation worse." "Be seated." "There are some new materials on you." "You turn out to have done a lot of interesting things in Germany." "What interesting things?" "You must remember them yourself." "It might not be me." " Who was it then?" "Do you know how many Yegorovs there were in Germany back then?" "How many?" " A legion." "There was even one general named Yegorov in the Nazi camps." "General Yegorov was shot very long ago." "Tell me about yourself." "Yegorov Spiridon Danilovich" "Even the year of birth coincides." " Even so?" "Yes, it does." " Then it is not me." "Who is it then?" "I added three years to my real age for the Germans" "I didn't want them to send me to the army." "All right then." "What about that lathe?" "Was it you who moved it from the stairwell to the basement?" "Yes, it was me." " Where did you break it then?" "Was it in the stairwell or in the corridor?" "We didn't break it at all." "Why should we?" "That's what I'm wondering about." "Why did you break it?" "Might you have dropped it?" " God forbid, mister Major." "How could we?" "We were handling it very carefully." "As if it had been a baby." "What part of the lathe were you holding?" "I was holding it by the legs." "From there." " From where?" "From my side." " Were you holding it from the back side?" "Or from the spindle?" "I don't know anything about your sides." "But I could demonstrate my position." "Both my hands and my feet were pointing downwards" "And they got stuck in the doorway." "Who?" " I don't know." "I didn't baptize his kids." "And I got off my breath at that moment." "I begged them to stop so that I could change my grip." "And the thing was pretty wide." "What thing?" " Aren't you following me?" "Do you mean the lathe?" " Yes, I do." "And I changed my grip." "After that, one of them got in and another one followed." "The three of us could easily handle this machine." "Back in my village three people can carry much larger weights." "Six women could have carried your lathe for a mile." "Where is your lathe?" "Let's try to handle it." "Get back to your seat." "So you never dropped it, didn't you?" "I'm telling you that." " Who broke it then?" "So you got it completely broken after all, didn't you?" "Too bad." "All right." "When you lifted it up, it was intact, wasn't it?" "I can't speak for what I didn't see." "It might already be broken." "What state was it in when you put it down?" "It was intact." " Was there a crack in its base?" "There were no cracks anywhere." "How could you see it if you have trouble seeing at all?" "I have trouble seeing all your papers." "Otherwise, I can see everything." "When you and your officers dump the butts all over the territory," "I clean after you very thoroughly." "Even in the snow." "Ask the superintendent about my work." "Now what?" "When you put it down you purposefully started checking the lathe for cracks, didn't you?" "We did." "We had a lunch break." "As scheduled." "We... we slapped on the surface of the lathe." "Did you slap on it?" "With what?" "With our palms." "As if it had been a race horse." "Too bad." "Yegorov, it is very bad that you still refuse to confess your crime." "I'm going to file a report on you now." "What about?" " About you being the culprit." "If it hadn't been you, you'd have told me about the real criminal." "Sign here." "Article 95 of the Criminal Code provides a penalty for false testimonies." "Right here." "Now confess." " What?" "Did you take the lathe from the back side?" "Or was it the spindle?" " Do you want another demonstration?" "Get out of here." "Go!" "As for the titre, you should dilute some potash and apply it with a dropper." "You just should remember the exposure period." "What should I do after that?" "It doesn't leave any traces of the residue." "You may write another name on it." "It might be some Sidorov or Petyshin." "Born in the village of Kreoushi." "Have you ever been caught?" "With all these tricks?" "Klara Petrovna..." "Will you allow me to call you in private merely Klara?" "Please do." "That's good, Klara." "I got my first sentence because I used to be a defenseless innocent boy." "But the second sentence was different." "I was on the wanted list since late 1945 to 1947." "Those were peculiar years." "In order to avoid an arrest, I had to forge not only my passport and my registration, but affidavits from my place of work, from the shop I was assigned to and from the authority that issued my ration coupons." "I was fond of getting my ration coupons with the help of forged documents." "I earned my living dealing in these coupons." "But this is very bad." " Who says that this is good?" "But it wasn't me who invented all that." "But you could find some regular job." "Why should I?" "A man never earns a decent living by any regular work." "I was never given a chance to get any professional skills." "never got caught, but I used to make certain mistakes." "There was a girl in the passport desk in the Crimea who sympathized with me." "There wasn't anything between us." "She explained to me that the serial number of my passport" " you must remember all this notation - secretly encoded the fact that I had lived in the occupied territories." "But you never did, didn't you?" " No, never." "But this passport wasn't mine." "So I had to purchase a new forgery." "Where?" "I remember you telling me that you lived in Tashkent." "Yes." "I graduated from high school down there and did my freshman year in the institute." "Have you ever been to the central market?" "Once." "There are already crowds of people two blocks away from it." "There were so many cripples of this war there." "All these legless people with the clutches." "And amputees crawling around on their plates." "I saw a man there who had neither legs nor arms left." "His wife was carrying him around in a basket on her back." "And people threw some money in the basket." "It means you had a glimpse of real love." "I used to see many things during the war." "Once, when I studied in the institute, I didn't finish my sandwich and dumped it in the litterbox and one of my fellow students came up to the basket took it out and put it in his pocket." "This market was the principal trading place of our Central Asia or even the entire Soviet Union." "Do you remember local drunkards?" "They sat all over the place loathing at the Soviet power." "That's where I bought a new passport." "I also wanted to buy the Order of the Red Banner, but ran short of money." "I had only 18 thousand roubles left and he fixed the price at 20." "That did you need this order for?" "I was young and stupid and wanted to impress." "Klara." "I wish I had been so level-headed as you are." "What makes you think I'm level-headed?" "You're very level-headed and sober." "And your eyes are so clever." "Now what?" " I've dreamt for all my life about meeting a sensible girl." "Why?" " Because I'm a vagabond." "I wanted her to prevent me from making stupid moves." "Tell me more." "When I left the Lubyanka building, the world was whirling around me." "But some inner guard in me seemed to have put a check on my actions." "I couldn't believe my luck." "No one has ever left these walls and I was supposed to get my ten years straight and five to top it up." "What does this topping up mean?" "I mean the so-called "muzzle"." " What's that?" "My God, Klara, you are so uneducated in these matters." "You're the daughter of a state prosecutor?" "You must have asked your Dad about his daily routine." "The muzzle stands for the restriction of civil rights." "You can't vote or get elected." "It dawned upon me immediately - they were going to watch me upon this release." "They were going to see who I'd meet and talk to." "They wouldn't let me live a normal life." "And I played a trick on them." "I left my home in the middle of the night and stopped at the house of an acquaintance." "He pulled me into this forgery business." "Rostislav Doronin was under the nationwide most wanted warrant." "And I rushed first to the Crimea and then to Moldavia using the false papers." "I don't know whether I can tell you everything." "You can." " You're telling me that so bluntly." "By the way, I can't." "You're from the different milieu." "You won't understand me." "If you are here, it means that you work for the State Security." "How did you get to that position?" "I was sent here after I graduated from the institute." "Here..." "Major Shikin at first frightened us a lot." "He told to us that this place is the prison for the worst agents of world imperialism and American intelligence." "He told us to watch you very closely, never take any letters from you, and never talk to you openly about anything." "But now I've seen for myself what people you really are." "For the last two days you've been looking at me in such a nice way." "I've felt an urge to tell you everything." "You know what?" "I've nourished a hope of escaping from this place." "What place?" "From all this socialism." "It's made me so sick." "Socialism?" " Yes." "If the life is so unfair, what might I need it for?" "It was you who were treated that harshly." "This is too sad." "How did you get into prison again?" " How was I taken in?" "I wanted to study again." " You see... you were still attracted by the honest life." "It is so noble to study." "Well, Klara, studying is not always a noble business." "Later when I was in the camps, it dawned upon me that all these professors couldn't teach me anything." "They were busy obscuring my thoughts and keeping their salaries." "And they call it a humanitarian department." "You've graduated pretty recently, haven't you?" "I must have waited for some later date to search for an appropriate diploma or even buy it." "And I was so careless." "I thought that they had stopped looking for me and forgotten me." "I took my real matriculation papers and submitted them to the Leningrad University to the geographical department." "I love the subject so much." "I was admitted, visited the classes for a week and taken in to the Lubyanka." "That was the end of it." "I got 25 years." "Kind of an extended field study." "Are you still capable of laughing while telling me all this?" "Why should I cry?" "What about?" "I'd have run short of tears pretty soon here." "I'm not the only man of such a fate in their camps." "When I came to Vorkuta, I saw plenty of guys like me working in the coal mines." "Not only in the North, but all over, the country relies, on their work." "I still can't grasp how you could live like that in our time." "You forged your papers and moved from one city into another." "I've never met people like you in my life." "Klara, I'm different." "Circumstances keep turning us into devils." "Do you remember that existence defines our psyche?" "I was quite a nice boy." "I loved my Mom and read good books." "I read about all these rays of light in the kingdom of darkness." "You get involved into it." "What else could I have done?" "To wait timidly until they had taken me in again?" "I don't know." "But this life is unacceptable too." "I can understand how heavy the burden of an outcast is." "You have been outside the society all the time." "You know, sometimes it is a heavy burden." "And sometimes it is not." "Impudence is the second happiness of a man." "Rostoslav Vadimovich!" " Damn it!" "Forget my patronymic!" "I'm Roussya." "Just Roussya." "I feel awkward calling you by that short name." "Everybody uses this name." "And I want you to call me like that and in no other way." "All right." "Let it be, Roussya." "I'm not that dumb too." "I've thought a lot about it." "Our society is pretty fair, and you seem to be going over the edge." "You've seen and lived through a lot." "But getting your happiness by impertinent means can't be your life philosophy." "It can't be that way." " Klara!" "My words now are weighted and measured," "I solemnly declare that I'd like to live in a different way." "I wish I had a friend." "Or a level-headed girlfriend." "I wish we could jointly reason out the right course for my life." "My 25-year long confinement is sheer nonsense." "I wish you could feel what intrigue I was enveloping here and what hairline I was balancing on." "Any normal person would have had an instant heart stroke." "And I'm doing it just for the fun of it." "Klara, my soul contains a volcanic amount of energy." "I can easily tear the claws off any paw." "What?" " I mean a paw going my way." "What a spectacular man you are!" "God, I've been looking for a girl of my dreams in the Leningrad University, but I could never imagine where I was going to find her." "Who are you referring to?" "You." "A female touch may turn me into whatever you want." "I may become a brilliant crook." "I may be turned into a passionate gambler, or a specialist in the Etruscan pottery." "If you want me to become a specialist in cosmic rays, I'd gladly turn into on." "Would you forge another diploma?" "No." "I'll turn into a real specialist." "I'll become whatever you ask me to be." "I need only a glimpse of your fair head turning to me so gently when you enter the lab." "We're sitting here right now and it might never repeat." "For me it's a moment of miracle." "Klara, I may spend all my life rotting in prisons." "Make me a happy man now." "So that this minute could warm my heart in any solitary confinement cell." "Let me kiss you." "Go away now." "You'd better leave now." "End of Episode 4" "Subtitles webrip for KG Quigley (12.2014)"