"THE SEVENTH BULLET" "Written by:" "Fridrikh Gorenshteyn, Andrey Konchalovsky" "Directed by:" "Ali Khamraev" "Halt!" "Sadamin, come here!" "Come here!" "Is anybody here?" "I won't surrender while I'm alive!" "What's the matter?" "Are you crazy?" "Comrade Commander!" "You're back!" "Why are you wasting grenades?" "Where are the men?" "They went to the bandits at night." "Was Shukhrat killed?" "No." "Commissar Pyotr was killed." "Bakhram, Musa and the telegraphist were tortured to death." "The rest, those who didn't want to go, were taken by force." "And Shukhrat went of his own will, the scoundrel!" "Can you believe it?" "Of his own will!" "Traitor!" "He dragged you out of the encirclement when you were confused." "You're too eager to judge people." "How did it start?" "Umar was praying at his post." "He'd put his rifle aside." "The Commissar saw it and put him under arrest." "Some people objected." "But Commissar Pyotr stood firm." "It all started about an hour later." "Shooting, shouts!" "It's all clear to me now." "Ah, Pyotr Ivanovich!" "He was a good man." "Who initiated the rebellion?" "Brothers Sagdulla and Akhmet." "I felt it." "They praised Soviet power too loudly." "They shouted, "It's a pity that Maksumov isn't here, he could be a good present for Khairulla." "Khairulla?" "Commander Maksumov, what should we do?" "We must wipe out Khairulla." "Gather the local population." "What local population?" "Only children and old men remain!" "The rest ran to the mountains." "Then gather those who stayed." "All right." "What should we do with the captive?" "What captive?" "I captured Khairulla's man." "It's Khasan from the 2nd squad." "When the shooting started he agititated against Soviet power." "So I threw him in prison." "Bring him here quickly." "He wanted to hit me, but I silenced him with a club!" "I'll bring him in a moment." "Well, ask me, Commander!" "What should I ask you?" "Aren't you interested in finding out where Khairulla and your people are?" "You won't tell me all the same." "Then torture me." "You're not afraid of tortures, are you?" "Then shoot me down!" "But you're not afraid of death, either." "Then spit in my face." "I am afraid of dishonor." "Untie him." "Stand up." "Go to Khairulla and tell him that he won't escape me." "You want to shoot me in the back." "The chamber is full." "And now get lost!" "Commander!" "You taught me to shoot well." "When you fire point-blank at someone, don't look into his eyes." "Otherwise you'll miss." "We believed you!" "But you sold us to the Commissar!" "Khairulla is a wise man." "He promised 10,000 in gold for you." "In czarist money!" "Khashimov, who is she?" "I don't know." "Come here." "What are you doing here?" "Tell the man to go away." "Khashimov, have a look at who else is in the mosque." "The girls of our family don't wear the veil." "I put it on in order to come to you." "What do you want?" "I want you to kill Khairulla!" "I want it too." "I'll help you." "His people are after me." "They'll take me away tomorrow." "I hate Khairulla." "How many of them are there?" "Probably six, maybe more." "How can I help you?" "You'll kill Khairulla and take his head to you superior in Tashkent." "Then you'll marry me." "And I'll give birth to your child." "It's an interesting military operation." "Do you have a wife?" "No, I don't." "I know that I'm bold-faced, but I don't mind." "What's your name?" "Aigul." "Who sent you here, Aigul?" "Don't your believe me?" "Don't come near me!" "Where's Khairulla?" "I don't know." "How can I believe that a bride doesn't know where her bridegroom is?" "Send your man to the gorge and you'll believe it." "Tomorrow the detachment will go to Khaurulla through the Red Gorge." "I think they're coming our way." "Do you want to be captured by Khairulla?" "A Muslim detachment is more suitable here than a Russian regiment." "Why did I go to that damned regional center?" "What a scoundrel that Khairulla is!" "He'd have done better to stay abroad." "He probably forgot how we smashed him in the civil war." "Now Khairulla has two hundred men." "Half of them are from my detachment." "There's some hope if they haven't yet shot Shukhrat." "There are also many good people among soldiers, they're just scared." "The seventh bullet." "For Khairulla." "We'll gather the local population." "Here they are." "Comrade Azizov?" "Good man!" "I appoint Red Army man Khashimov as chief of police, the secretary of the executive committee Azizov as Commissar." "Good luck, Commander!" "Good run!" "Good luck!" "Who knows me?" "So nobody knows me." "Maybe someone knows this horse?" "We know the horse." "That means you know the former owner of the horse." "Such a horse, like a good woman, can have only one real owner." "All the rest are thieves." "I'm Maksumov." "I've won the horse away in an honest battle." "Khairulla ran away like an abject coward." "I remember well that honest battle!" "And now we know what a machine gun on the flank is." "Don't come up!" "There's no ambush today, no machine guns on the flank." "Are you going to Khairulla?" "I'm going your way." "Has Khairulla changed his mind about the 10,000 for me?" "No." "Then bind me strongly!" "Gulyam!" "Has he worked as a robber in Bukhara?" "Why do you think so?" "In that noble city all executioners look like robbers, and all robbers look like executioners." "Those horsemen will bring you to Khairulla not very clean, but still alive." "Do you want to give this beauty back to Khairulla?" "No, I want to take back my detachment." "It was stolen from me by Khairulla." "I'll do away with him." "He bores me stiff." "I'm only interested..." "Who informed you that the caravan is going to Khairulla?" "Even if you went through the devil himself, you would return to Khairulla for the sake of 10,000." "Isn't that right?" "I've recognized you, Maksumov." "Is anyone here?" "Where's the host?" "The shepherd and his mother live here." "The goats are here, so the host will come soon." "Get off your horses!" "Untie my hands." "I can't." "All is not peaceful here." "Take down the machine gun and turn it in that direction." "Don't worry about the horse." "We'll give him a drink when he simmers down a bit." "Don't go over there to him!" "Hello, Ismail." "Hello." "Is your mother all right?" "Thank Allah she is." "Are you pasturing your goats?" "Yes, there's nothing else to do." "You have good horses." "This one is especially good." "Whose is it?" "Mine!" "You see?" "Even the red commander goes to our Khairulla, and you accept neither Khairulla nor the Soviets." "It's no good." "I accept my mother only." "I don't like that shepherd." "I knew his brother." "He was killed." "He was the best horseman in Viloyat, and his brother's no worse." "Khairulla would like to have such horsemen." "I could crush him easily, with my little finger!" "Just say the word!" "I'll kill him!" "He killed my brother!" "He stole my horse!" "It's my horse!" "Have you been smoking too much anasha?" "I execute the law of blood feud!" "I'll kill him!" "Give him to me!" "What would you do if you were knocked out while sleeping and your brother was killed?" "It would have been better to never wake up." "My mother cried her eyes out." "Give him to me!" "I can't!" "Khairulla wants him, he's his catch." "You stinking dogs!" "May I kill him?" "Gulyam!" "Just not to death!" "They say you're a good fighter..." "Get ready quickly." "He has many relatives!" "I can go with you." "Where?" "There are two good horses over there." "You'd better not go near them." "I'll untie your hands." "Don't do it." "Khairulla will kill you." "Anything may happen, Aigul." "Why did you come alone?" "Why didn't you send a man?" "I just believed you." "Why do you hate him so?" "Did he kill your parents?" "No." "Then why?" "It's difficult to explain to you." "I saw you in the spring when Khairulla came to woo me." "He couldn't enter the house because you stayed the night with us." "You were cheerful and laughed a lot." "And you didn't notice me at all." "And you sang..." "I'm scared." "Don't cry, Aigul." "Untie me!" "I was told correctly that commissars would take our wives to their beds." "Why do you look at me like that?" "What's happened?" "I was tired and fell asleep, then I heard someone singing." "I turned around and saw them sitting there." "And Khairulla paid 300 rams for such a bitch!" "What are you talking about?" "All of them want to dishonor our girls!" "We must shoot him dead!" "Let me do it!" "Let me shoot him!" "What about the 10,000?" "You may not need money, but my children walk barefoot." "We're fighting for freedom, not money." "You've already stolen enough for yourself!" "Our land is dying because of those like you!" "You're worse than the Reds!" "I'm worse than the Reds?" "You are!" "You filthy dog!" "I labored hard for the likes of you," "Do you think you'll exploit me yet again after the Reds are driven away?" "Shut up, swine!" "You're a pig." "You were born in the mud!" "I'll kill him!" "Calm down!" "That's enough!" "You're right." "We must shoot the Red down." "But what do you think Khairulla would say when he learns we killed him without permission?" "Blockheads!" "Khairulla will hang us!" "That's why you must keep silent." "You've neither seen nor heard anything!" "You mean I'm lying?" "You don't believe me?" "Why should I believe that the warrior of great Khairulla fell asleep when he was entrusted with the bride of his lord?" "And you will put on the veil!" "The girls of my family don't wear the veil!" "Then you'll wear the sack!" "Tie her up and put a sack over her!" "I shall not keep silent." "I swore to Khairulla on the Koran." "You should first get to Khairulla." "Wasn't it you who hit Ismail in the kidney?" "There's no hope that he'll leave us in peace." "But where does he wait for us, in the gorge or in the village?" "He had to be killed, but I felt pity for him." "Get the machine gun ready!" "So what's there?" "All is calm in the village." "That's good." "Forward!" "Don't you want to send the machine gunner forward?" "For such a big Red commander, you're awfully yellow!" "I have many better things to do than stop bullets." "Keep close to each other!" "Tell me, doesn't the silence worry you?" "It's a good place for an ambush." "There he is..." "Don't be the first to shoot." "Damn it!" "He's outwitted us..." "Ismail!" "I respect the tradition of blood revenge." "It's our fathers' tradition." "But I won't give you this man!" "Even if you don't give him to me, you and your dogs have no way out of here." "Get off the horse!" "Ismail!" "I felt pity for you once... and I want to again." "We have English machine guns, we have grenades." "We're well armed!" "Don't you know what a knife means in a horsman's hands?" "Get off my road!" "Where are you running, cowards?" "Follow me through the gate!" "Take the sack off her!" "I'm telling you, take it off!" "Why are you smiling?" "I'm happy that you have so many enemies!" "They've taken our horses!" "Untie me!" "Untie me, otherwise they'll kill us one by one!" "What are you talking about?" "Be quick!" "But keep in mind, commander" "I'd rather shoot you dead than give you up to that bastard!" "How many grenades do we have?" "We must tie them together." "What for?" "Do you see the wall?" "The gate is behind that wall." "If we blow up the wall, we can try to ride away on that cart." "But be aware that I've got you covered!" "You'd better watch Ismail so that he doesn't kill me before you get out of here." "Stop!" "Maksumov!" "Help!" "Let me go!" "I can't endure it!" "Don't beat him!" "Don't beat him!" "Maksumov!" "Get lost!" "Go away!" "Maksumov!" "Go away!" "Go away!" "Maksumov!" "My dear Maksumov!" "Mother, take a look at who I've brought you!" "Did this man try to steal our goats?" "He's the low dog who killed my brother before your eyes!" "I'll kill him now!" "He's not the murderer of your brother!" "Mother, you've become totally blind!" "He had my horse!" "You're mistaken, my son." "That man was quite handsome, and far shorter." "Allah has sent me a friend." "And I wanted to kill him!" "It might have been worse." "I have many friends, a whole detachment." "We slept and ate together." "Khairulla deceived them, forced them to go with him." "Where is Khairulla's lair?" "Nobody knows where the man is hiding." "He moves only at night, like a jackal." "Today he's here, the next day he's there." "But I'll help you find him." "I'll execute the law of blood feud." "I'll kill him." "Maksumov, here's your horse!" "He has found us." "It's me, comrade Commander!" "Khashimov!" "Comrade Commander!" "What is on you?" "I escaped!" "Why are you not in Uchkurgan, you filthy scum?" "Shoot me dead!" "Kill me!" "We fired till the last cartridge!" "Are you drunk?" "I thought it was water, not wine." "One can't traverse the sands without any liquid." "It's thirst!" "You're alive, comrade Commander!" "Attention!" "Report what has happened!" "I'm reporting!" "Uchkurgan is occupied by Khairulla!" "I fired till the last cartridge!" "I destroyed the tape machine." "I was captured but got away." "You'll be tried by court martial!" "I'll wash it away with my blood!" "I'll get a weapon in the battle!" "Our people..." "Our detachment went over to Khairulla!" "Khairulla has come into my hands by himself." "Will you manage to collect your people by midday?" "I'll try." "Then wait for me here until evening." "Good luck!" "Faithful service to Khairulla is the only forgiveness for an attempt to rebel!" "You fool!" "Your commander's been killed." "Who are you afraid of?" "You are lying, Blue-eyed!" "That one again!" "Call Khairulla." "I was waiting for you, Maksumov." "Hello." "Hello, Khairulla." "I want to thank you for saving my new bride." "And I want to thank you for raising the price of me since spring." "Yes, it's 10,000 now." "Would you like to get the money for yourself?" "Will you pay?" "Indeed I will." "Look, Muslims!" "I'm buying the Red commander Maksumov." "You'll leave a rich man, Maksumov." "No." "I miss my detachment." "You've trained your detachment well." "It will be the best detachment in my army in good time." "I don't think so." "I want to see my people." "All right." "You'll see them." "Friends, why did you depart and leave your commander behind?" "I'm ashamed that I've shared food with you." "Did you think I wouldn't find you?" "It's the Red police." "No Red police for you here." "That's right." "There are no policemen here." "But there are no horsemen here either." "All of you ran away like cowards before I came back." "We didn't run away, we chose to go." "Are you trying to say I'm a bad commander?" "You aren't bad." "Your authority is bad." "Your commissar was a nuisance." "If you'd waited for me, everything would have been different." "You lie!" "I often complained to you about him!" "Your commissar put Umar in prison for no reason." "Umar!" "Come forward." "March!" "Hasn't Allah exhorted us to mercy?" "Why did you kill the commissar?" "I didn't kill him!" "It's me who killed him!" "What can you do to me?" "Your power is gone!" "You should listen to us, got it?" "Shut up!" "I hear someone else's voice." "Who whispered these lies in your ears?" "Anyone who wasn't offended by the old regime, step forward!" "Esan?" "Wasn't your father worked to death by czarist hard labor?" "Umar, have you forgotten that Khairulla's people kidnapped and dishonored your sister?" "Zakir, don't you remember that they burnt your village and their horses trampled your children?" "Was it the Soviets who did all that?" "He did it!" "You must avenge your wrongs on him!" "Fire at him!" "Fire!" "That's bad discipline..." "Have you forgotten your commander?" "Then you should fire at me." "I'll pay you in gold." "I'll pay you 10,000 that I got for myself." "This is for my head that thought about you." "And this is for my hands that taught you to shoot." "This is for my heart, my liver, my eyes!" "And this is for you!" "Help!" "Khairulla, why do you allow the Reds to kill horsemen?" "Stop it!" "Maksumov, you are strong." "I'm just patient." "Maybe you'll go to prison yourself?" "I will." "I just want to address the detachment." "Line up!" "So you say that you don't want to fight for the Revolution" "because you're Muslims." "But if you believed in your Allah as I believe in the Revolution," "then you'd have courage to make sure" "who it was who carried evil and death," "and who carried truth." "I pity you because you're illiterate," "deceived, and stupid." "Don't shoot." "I know." "It's just easier to have Khairulla covered." "Let's wait till morning." "We must think things over." "It's good that you've come." "Are you afraid of those men, Khairulla?" "Don't forget who's in front of you!" "I forgave you too often." "I know that you aren't a coward." "When a coward is afraid, he can overcome his fear and win." "But when fear comes to a brave man, he should mount a horse and ride away without looking back." "If you had a turban and a beard, you would be as wise as a mullah." "If you're killed, only I will cry over you." "Do you think your fighters will cry over you?" "Or that wench you bought with stolen rams?" "Shut up!" "I'm not a thief!" "Excuse me." "Don't be so angry!" "You know perfectly well that you're the only wife for me, and I need that wench so that my blood doesn't turn sour." "You're becoming grey-haired, my husband." "Never mind." "I can still cut a man in two." "I've understood many things." "While we killed our people, the Bolsheviks learned to listen to them." "They turned out to be cleverer than us." "We have to learn to understand every miserable filthy shepherd." "Let's go to Kashgariya." "No!" "Go to another bank." "You darken my thoughts with your ceaseless cawing." "Wait for me near the stones at the wade." "I'll come after you." "You'll give birth to my son..." "My brother is already eaten by worms," "and still you lie here and enjoy yourselves." "What do you want?" "Me?" "What do I want?" "I want to avenge my brother's murder!" "I want justice!" "As do I." "We have to aid Maksumov." "Umar, hear that?" "He wants to let Maksumov go." "He killed your brother, but he saved Umar's life, and not only his life..." "He made human beings out of us!" "Maybe you have more faith in revolution than in Allah?" "Umar, the Commissar punished you for prayer..." "And my brother killed the Commissar because of you!" "Just say a word!" "Do you have the same thoughts that they have?" "So that's what you think!" "All right, I'll kill Maksumov like a filthy dog!" "Put the gun away!" "Shukhrat, leave him alone!" "Don't you understand his grief?" "How can this rootless dog know what a brother means?" "You won't leave here." "Do you want to die together with Maksumov?" "Take his gun!" "Who fired?" "Who fired?" "It was me!" "Did you find your way here to cast a bone among the faithful?" "Do you know what the Prophet told us to do with ones such as you?" "Sagdulla wanted to attack the jail and kill Maksumov." "We've hardly managed to re-establish ancient law and order among the people." "Will you dare to break it?" "But the tradition of blood revenge is also an ancient law!" "I'll appoint you as Maksumov's executioner, but first the court must sentence him to death!" "People must understand that we have established law, that we're not a gang of bandits." "We are the people's power!" "If you're so almighty, why then do you allow the robbery and killing of innocent people?" "Shukhrat, I knew your father." "He was an enemy of order and a rebel," "I had to chastise him... to death." "I remember it, Khairulla." "And do you remember the Prophet's advice?" "I had no time to go to madrasah, Khairulla." "I tilled the ground." "It's a pity I didn't allow him to shoot you yesterday." "Umar, where are you going?" "I'm leaving." "Halt!" "If you're going to the Reds, then take my head to them." "I'm going home, Khairulla." "I've forgotten my mother's face." "I haven't sown cotton for two years." "I've seen many abandoned fields and dry canals." "People will never believe that you're a lawful authority!" "Get lost!" "If the Reds don't hang you, I will!" "Soon Soviet power will come to an end." "We'll have English airplanes and tanks." "You won't go anywhere, dog!" "You'll soon be dead, Khairulla!" "Disarm the rebels!" "Maksumov!" "Maksumov!" "Who's there?" "It's me, Ismail." "Put your hands out!" "Wait, someone's coming!" "I came to show you your executioner." "Here he is!" "I've seen his face somewhere." "You're not mistaken." "Sagdulla, what kind of death does this man deserve?" "Do you want to hang him or cut off his head?" "I don't know." "Should we let horses tear him apart?" "I don't know." "You must know by sunset." "I don't know." "We were as a whole body with him." "You've made a cripple of me." "You did!" "Come here!" "I want to touch your neck!" "Come here!" "What are you doing to him, Khairulla?" "Take Sagdulla away." "Leave us alone." "Do you want to go away tomorrow?" "Or today?" "What does that mean?" "I don't want to conceal anything from you." "There are people in the detachment who still believe in you." "You have to talk to them." "I won't argue with you about who's right, you or I." "You understand what words I'm waiting for." "Khairulla's waiting for me." "Then you'll get on a horse and get out of here." "It's beneficial to us both, isn't it?" "Khairulla, I've known you as an enemy, but I've never thought you were a traitor as well." "I've never betrayed my faith." "Then why do you suggest this to me?" "What's the matter?" "I want to talk to you." "Here?" "I want to tell you..." "Let Maksumov go!" "I see... so that's it." "Well, fire at your husband!" "You're not my husband!" "Guards!" "Maksumov!" "I'll leave Sagdulla to guard you." "If that madman kills you before the trail, my conscience is clear." "Maksumov!" "Maksumov, give me your hand!" "Come on!" "Maksumov!" "Behind you!" "Shukhrat, I'm here!" "Maksumov, hold on!" "Where are the rest?" "On the roof." "Cover me!" "Ismail, I need cartridges!" "I couldn't take his detachment." "I'll take his woman!" "He won't follow me abroad!" "Get dressed!" "Come on, get ready!" "I stay with Maksumov." "Sagdulla has already put a knife into your Maksumov." "You'll be my wife all the same." "Get ready!" "Get dressed!" "Hands up!" "Don't shoot!" "You have no right!" "I have a passport!" "I'm an English national!" "We'll look into that later." "Khairulla's running!" "My horse!" "Don't let him get away!" "Don't let him!" "Maksumov!" "Maksumov!" "Stop!" "Come back, Aigul!" "My wife is waiting for me..." "She'll give birth to a strong fighter for me..." "He'll be luckier than I..." "He'll be quick as a leopard..." "And slim... my son..." "You'll give birth to my son..." "He'll come here... to burn his skin alive..." "A slim lad..." "Detachment!" "Line up!"