"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 Anion 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 Olga Drozdova as his wife Datnara" "Sergei Karyakin as Dmitry Sologdin Alexei Koloubkov as Lev Roubin" "Igor Kvasha as Stalin" "Maxim Kononov as Spiridon Valery Khromoushkin as Potapov" "Action time December 24-27, 1949." "Would you like some champaigne, friends?" "Episode Three" "What's your name?" " Ninel." "It is quite a name." "You dance so well." "Thanks." "I was so glad to meet you here." "I hate interrupting your rest." "There was no way for me to get your attention through the Supreme Soviet reception office." "Your secretariat has been fiddling with the camp file on my dad for six months already." "I've forwarded...sorry..." "I've forwarded a clemency petition on him to your office as well." "The right side of his body is already paralyzed." "One more stroke will be fatal for him." "He's a very sick man." "I'm begging you to release him from the place of his confinement." "You know.." "This is..." "Addressing me here on this subject is greatly improper." "It is along my lines of the state service." "Call me in the office and I'II set up an appointment for you." "Well, what charge was brought against your father?" "What article?" "Was it Article 58?" " Oh no!" "I wouldn't have dared petitioning you for him if he had been a political prisoner." "He was sentenced under the August 7th Law." "Anyway, this law provides no exceptions." "Calm down and take a sip." "But he'll die in prison." "He's a doomed man." "Why?" "Why is a half-dead man kept in prison?" "Calm down and try to understand me, Ninel." "If we proceeded along this line of reasoning further, what would remain of the laws?" "He was sentenced by the court." "Give a second thought to this statement." "How can you say he'll die in the camps?" "Who might need that?" "If the time for his death has come, does it matter where he'd die?" "I'm sorry." "Let's drink for us." " OK." "Wait." "I'd like to use this occasion to ask you a couple of questions." "Asking questions is your legitimate privilege, comrade writer." "The investigators also have this privilege of asking questions about crimes." "No, we're interested in human positive traits, bright sides of the human nature." "So your work is the opposite of the work of human conscience." "Why so?" "It has just dawned upon me." "Are you into writing a book about diplomats?" "I'm not the only one to decide it." "But mining for some background information, by asking a real diplomat is a valuable experience." "Diplomats are not easy to question." "And you're my relative after all." "Your choice proves your good insight." "Any other diplomat would feed you a lot of baloney." "You know that we have a lot to hide." "I won't have to bring this side of your activities into the limelight." "I'm more interested in... you know..." "I understand." "The embassy everyday trivia." "Our daily schedules, credentials exchanges, all these receptions." "No, I need something deeper." "I want to know how Soviet diplomats feel about..." "I might keep you awake through the night with the stories on how we feel about him." "You're a clever guy." "You must know all that yourself." "Profound adherence to our ideals and principles." "our unswerving loyalty to our cause and deep personal loyalty to Comrade Stalin himself." "full compliance to the instructions from Moscow, fluent or not too fluent grasp of foreign languages," "Won't you drive me away from the table?" "Oh, no, how can you say so?" "You seem to be so engaged in your smart talk." "Take a seat." "Mom, where is Dotty after all?" "Come on." "I'll explain everything to you." "Excuse me, dear, I'll finish the topic." "We're talking about us, diplomats." "And there is one more side to it." "We greatly value bodily pleasures." "We live only once, remember?" "But, Nikolai, wait a minute." "What do you need all this diplomatic stuff for?" "What about war?" "Are you already through with the war issues?" "One can't get through with this subjects." "Right." "This war was a twist of good fortune for our writers." "It abounds in great plots, collisions and conflicts." "It is much better than the fight of good guys with better guys." "The war theme beats in my heart." "As they say, glory to the dead and life to the living." "Let's drink for... for life." "Yeah, for life." " Cheers." "For our life." "Would you like some fish?" "The war vets always say that one never hears the bullet that kills." "Bullets that whistle around miss you anyway." "So death doesn't exist in fact." "Nikolai..." " What?" "I sympathize with you a lot." "And my wife likes you a lot." " It's true, Kolya." "So I want to ask you a straight question." "Today I'm in a very special mood for such questions." "But don't get offended, please." "There is our great Russian literature." "And there are you, Nikolai Glazov." "You're a writer." "Tell me as a writer." "How do you relate to it?" "Where are you in relation to our literature?" "You're already 37." "You've six books published." "At your age Pushkin was already killed in a duel." "You face no such danger." "But you can't help answering my question." "Nikolai tell me who you are." "Who are you?" "What have you done so far?" "What have you enriched our tormented time with?" "No, just tell me whether you're ashamed of our generation or not." "But give it to me straight." "No, I'm not ashamed of our generation." "But if you want it straight, let's have a drink first." "If you want straight talk, you'll get it." "Let's first drink for openness." "Frankly speaking, all Russian writers at least once in a lifetime wished they could try on a Tolstovian peasant shirt or a Lermontovian trench coat." "That's straight talk all right." "When I was a boy at the dawn of all these five-year plans" "I used to write my first verses and dream of them being published in a paper with my initials above the clipping." "I thought that this publication would be my first step to immortality and glory." "And it turned out that these youthful verses that the girls used to copy into their notebooks..." " I did it too." "Thanks." "Thanks a lot." "But wait." "These verses turned out to be my best works." "They were the most genuine, the most sincere works that I've penned so far." "Little verses." "And now I'm gearing up for another huge novel with a dream of writing it the way I want to." "I dream of writing it the way I envision it, of writing it for myself, for my friends, for all war veterans." "I start writing and suddenly I understand that" "I can't write if my table is in disorder, if the floors in my study aren't polished, if there isn't enough air in the room." "And the room temperature must be 18 degrees C." "I can't write if our maid doesn't observe total silence in the house." "Do you have' a maid?" " Listen, I have both a maid and a personal chef." "And if this personal chef fails to cook my dinner at 2 sharp," "I can't write." "And still I write and it keeps occurring to me that I'm not writing all this for myself." "Who do you write for then?" " For literary critics." "For critics." "And I'm aware in advance of their remarks upon my still unfinished novel." "And it turns out that Pushkin was killed at the age of 37 and I'm still alive." "Can you see me?" "I enjoy a pretty decent life." "But I'm finished as a writer." "I'm finished." "Take it from me." "Let's down another one." " Come on." "What's up?" " Forget it." "That's too bad." "Stop crying, please." "Kolya!" " What?" "I do love you." "Me too." " My dear..." "Ladies first!" "Driver, don't leave without me!" "Everybody goes to bed!" "Tomorrow will be another workday." "Gear it up!" "I'm awfully sorry." "Take this." " Are you mad?" "Is it too little?" " No, too much." "Too much is not too little." "Take it." "This is for any material and moral damage I might have inflicted." "Thanks a lot." "Listen, where is my foreign travel passport?" "It is in my bag." " Where?" "It is in my bag." "I thought I had lost it." "That's all." "How are you feeling?" " Excellent." "As if I had been born again." "Then beat me." "As a man must beat his woman." "Give a good beating to me." "Believe me" "I deserve it." "While you were in Rome," "I had an affair." "Beat me now." "You'd better beat me instead." "What for?" "Have you also had an affair?" "No, I have been faithful to you." "Sure?" " Absolutely." "Then I forgive you." "All the rest is mere trifles." "I don't even care." "What's up with you?" "I have a heavy feeling." "I've had a heavy feeling since yesterday." "I know." "I'll help you relax right now." "No way." "This is beyond your power." "No, I can handle this." "Everything is in my power." "My love wouldn't be worth a dime if I couldn't help you relax." "The bulletin of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party." "In addition I'd like to note that" "Stalin is too rude." "This drawback may be tolerated within the framework of our business communication." "But it is intolerable for the General Secretary." "That's why I suggest we consider the demotion of" "Comrade Stalin from this position and the appointment of some other person to this post who in every other respect is different from Comrade Stalin by one personal trait that is greater tolerance greater conformity, and greater finesse as well as greater attention to his comrades." "The candidate should also be distinguished by fewer outbursts of temper and so on." "Signed:" "Lenin." "What's up?" " Well, Spiridon..." "What's up?" " The saw is not working." "What's wrong with it?" "This isn't your first complaint about this saw." "See for yourself." "OK, let's give it a try." "You seem to be keeping the handle too tightly." "Hold it with just three fingers." "Keep it like a pen and pull it back and forth freely." "Yes, that's great." "That's it." "OK, let's do another stump." " No, I'm out of my breath." "The things that my ancestors didn't finish, are mine to complete." "How did you get to this Special Prison, Spiridon?" "The scientists were skimmed off in one of the institutes." "and I was taken in as well." "It was written in my dossier that I was a glass blower." "It is true, at a plant near Bryansk." "But it was too long ago." "Now I haven't got an eye for that, and the job is too different." "The job needs a clever man like our Ivan." "But there wasn't anyone of the kind at our plant." "So they chose me and wanted to charge me with glass blowing again, but our boss made me a janitor." "Here he is." " Good morning." "Good morning." " Morning, my dear friends." "Have you received any letters from home?" "Yes, I have, but..." "Why didn't you bring it to me to read?" "There is a letter, but it is not accessible." "The Viper's locked it up." "Do you mean Shikin-Mishin?" " Yeah." "He included me in the list, but our site manager assigned me to cleaning the attic." "While I was busy up there, our major closed down the handout." "Now when?" " Monday." "What a bastard!" "All right, bye then." " Can you help me to take it off?" "Swearing's good for driving devils away." "What about your axe?" "You'll bring it to me when you finish." "Well, I didn't please Anton." "I treated Semerka as a corpse of a drunkard under the Marfino fence." "Last night he offered me a job in the cryptographic group." "I refused the offer." "You behave not like a mathematician, but like a poet." "Really?" "It might not look like me." "But somehow I felt such an aversion to everything." "I don't want anything any more." "If I'm doomed to go to Siberia, let it be so." "I start understanding that unfortunately Lev is right." "I couldn't mold myself into a perfect sceptic." "Evidently skepticism is not just a system of notions, but a character trait in the first place." "I can't help meddling with events around me." "In some cases I feel like delivering a good jab into somebody's muzzle." "And this is a thing I'm really glad about." "Your disbelief was an inevitable step on your road to truth." "But you must determine for yourself the proportion of good and evil in your life." "You must choose." " Why don't you in such an important statement remind me that my mind is weak and it is the source of my mistakes but my soul carries the light of truth and prostitution in fact has moral virtue?" "I can prove these assumptions all right." "Really?" " Yeah." "How can all this coexist in one mind?" "This is life." "You'd better grow accustomed to this." "Open yourself like a composite wooden egg." "There are nione spheres inside me." " Spheres?" "Stop." "They are calculable." "I'm sorry." "There are nine jigsaw puzzle pieces in me." "Thanks." "And don't forget that we all live with our faces hidden behind masks." "We were made to wear these masks throughout our whole lives." "As a whole our lives are much more complex than the novels say." "Writers aim to disclose their characters fully, but we never get to know each other fully in real life." "What do I like Dostoyevsky for?" "Take Stavrogin or Svidrigailov." "They are unique." "The closer one gets to know them, the less one can understand." "I don't agree." "Don't you evaluate every new prisoner when he steps into the cell trying to understand whether he's a friend or a foe?" "And what is interesting is that this estimate always proves to be the most correct one." "Can you recall our first encounter?" "At first I was amazed at your iconic look." "But later I gave to you a closer look and understood that you were no saint." "I don't want to flatter you, but your face is not common." "It is very unusual." "And I got to trust you immediately." "Do you remember that it took me only five minutes?" "I was struck by your naivete." "But you have eyes that defy any idea of stool pigeoning." "Do I look like a dunce who is easy to see through?" "One must look commonplace in the camps." "Do you remember the question I asked you after your sermons?" "Yes, the Karamazov question." "What should be done with outright criminals?" "You told me that they all deserved to be executed." "My friend, only the people who seek to destroy the Christian faith push it into becoming the faith of castrates." "The Christian faith is for the people who are strong in their spirits." "We must have the courage both to see the evil in the world and eradicate it." "What made you think that I'm against the God?" "I'm not against the universal creator I recognize His existence." "But will my moral foundations become weaker if I ever learned that there were no God?" "They will." "I don't think so." "But why do you... all of you want" "Why do all of you want people to accept your specific Christian God and not God in principle?" "Wait!" "Tell me why should my deistic philosophy shatter if I ever learned that none of the Holy Scripture miracles had ever happened?" "Nothing would happen to it." "There is no other way to God." "If you doubted a single word from the Holy Writ, your faith would vanish." "You'll be an agnostic." "That's how you push people away from your faith." "That's how you push people away from your faith." "All-or-nothing!" "You leave no room for compromise." "What if I can't accept your holistic picture?" "How can I find my place in the Christiandom?" "That's what I was telling you all the time." "I only know that I know nothing." "All right." "These issues are not for a lumberjack chat." "All right then." "Halt!" "Back up!" "Back up!" "But I..." "I just want to help them." " Too late." "Here goes Lev with his disorderly beard." "Gleb!" " Lev!" "I just want to help them with sawing." "They are not letting him in." "He's overslept this dispute." "Our linguist has missed the fun." " Well, he's a polyglot." "I'm worried about you." "Now they can send you away quite abruptly." "We'll part before I can share with you at least..." "You see, during my years in prison I've been developing in myself adherence to a set of rules that helps concentrate the willpower." "Do you want me to tell you some pieces from this set every morning?" "Let's give it a try." "For example, what's the best way of facing the difficulties?" "You want me to answer?" " Yes." "One needs to gear up his mood." " Right." "But not enough." "We should regard these difficulties as a hidden treasure in an unknown land." "Any failures must be treated as signals for further efforts and further concentration of will." "But if these problems have already necessitated a lot of efforts on your part, the failures are even more joyful." "They mean that your spades hit upon the iron cover of the treasure chest." "Great!" "But that doesn't mean we should quit working." "Our spades could have hit stone floor." "After making sure that we missed it, we might give up the objective itself." "But it is important to precisely reason out your refusal to progress further." "Wrong." "I don't agree." "What environment could be more hostile than a prison?" "But we are still pursuing our own agendas." "If I gave it up right now." "I would give it up forever." "Now wait and listen." "Here goes the "last inch rule"." "Do you understand what the last inch zone is?" "No, I don't." "You've almost finished your job." "You are about to fulfill your goals, but you still dislike the quality of the product." "You feel that further adjustments or surveys are needed." "At this moment of self-conceited fatigue it is very alluring to finish the job without ever getting to the top quality." "The work is the last inch zone is extremely difficult but it is the most valuable one." "Because it is performed with the most sophisticated devices." "The gist of the last inch rule is in never postponing this fit-and-finish work, never refusing to spend your time on it." "The goal is always not in finishing the work as fast as possible, but in reaching perfection." "I see." " I'm begging you to make some wood for the kitchen." "They don't have anything left." "They can't even cook lunch." "And what's this?" "This is wood." " Now what?" "I'm sorry, I haven't noticed it." "There is so much work to do nowadays." "Work?" " Yes." "Do you really work?" " Who?" "Me?" "Yes." "I'm doing my job." "I'm sorry again." "Can I help you?" "Yeah, pick some more wood." "There isn't any left in the kitchen." "Sorry." "He's either suffered from a severe head hit or fallen in love." "No, he seems to be a good fellow." "Gleb, I can't believe my eyes!" "Why should a colonel come here on Sunday?" "Don't you know?" "Six people were granted a meeting with their relatives." "Yes, I remember now." "And I'll never see my Nina again." "Listen, Gleb!" " What?" "Your wife knows mine." "If you are granted a meeting, ask her to find my Nina and tell her three things about me." "He loves you." "He adores you." "He worships you." "Are you nuts?" "They've just refused me an appointment." "Still..." " Nerzhin!" "Watch out!" " I'm really sorry!" "You've been granted a meeting with your wife." "Dress up." "What?" "Do I have ten minutes?" "I got it." "I'm leaving in 15 minutes." "He loves you." "He adores you." "He worships you." "I got it." "Where are you going?" "It has just been announced that I was granted a meeting with relatives." "It's surprising." " A meeting?" "With the Grim Reaper?" "On your birthday." "Do you really remember about it?" "What other important dates are there to remember in our current lives?" "Take a peek under the pillow." " Whose pillow?" "That's great." "That's how he killed these ten years in the prime of his life." "I can't accept this." "I feel really awkward." "I won't be able to equal such a gift." "I'm not that skillful." "Thanks." "When I was sitting at the Lubyanka prison in the company of Duke Estherhazi" "I took the shitbowl out on even days and he did it on odd ones." "And I gave to him a birthday present of three buttons made of bread." "All his buttons had been cut off." "And he was swearing to me that not a single Habsburg ruler had ever made him a more timely present." "Cuckoo!" " Cuckoo!" "Do you know when I heard your cuckoo for the first time?" "When I was taken to the Butyrka prison and looked for a bunk, I asked who the last in the line was." "I heard "Cuckoo!" "You'll be after me."" "How am I supposed to put this on?" "I seem to have forgotten it." "It has been a year since I put it on." "I should be more careful with it." "How is it?" "Do I look like a prince?" "Don't forget your jacket." " Wait, the trousers go first." "You'll be amazed when you see me with trousers on." "Duty officer lieutenant Shesternov reporting." "At ease." "See the guests in." "Comrade Lieutenant General!" "Unfortunately Colonel Yakonov is not in the office today." "He's at home with a heart attack." "But he's already on his way here." " Good." "Vassily, this is Bokun speaking." "The deputy minister has just arrived with an escort of generals." "They've gone upstairs." "They're heading to Yakonov's study." "He's fallen ill." "Neither is Major Shikin here." "Nor is the Party cell leader." "Alert all the labs right now!" "End of Episode 3" "Subtitles webrip for KG Quigley (12.2014)"