"The Land of the Fathers" "Scripts" " Olzhas Suleimenov" "Director" " Shaken Aimanov" "Photography" " Murat Aimanov" "Art Director" " K. Khodzhikov" "Music" " E. Rahmadiev" "Sets" " R. Karimov Costumes" " I. Karsakb'ayev" "Editor" " R. Zhangozina, Make up" " N. Maslennikova" "Solo on dombra" " M. Khamzin" "Cast.." "Grandfather" " E. Umurzakov Bayan" " M. Ahmadiev" "V.Shvetsov, Y.Pomerantsev, T.Kotova" ""Kazakh film", 1966" "It was the first summer after the war." "My father died near Leningrad." "Grandfather decided to bring his remains to his native land." "Before we set off we made father a grove." "Grandpa was afraid that there wouldn't be a place left." "Mariam apa, Mariam." "Come quick, we'll be late!" "Look, they hooked up the locomotive already!" "How did he look?" "What did he wear?" " Slim, red haired." " They're all red haired." " Let's get on the rooftop?" " What do you want?" " Are you the red one?" " Yes, I am." "How's your cow doing?" "I am asking how your aunties are?" "Uncles?" " Is he the grandson?" " No!" "Grandmother!" " Big one..." "How many belongings!" "Your documents alright?" " Alright!" " My name is Egor." "Let's get in..." "Quick, come." " Not so much food, huh!" "Do you have besparmak?" " Yes, yes." "Come, fellows." "There you are." "Farewell, Asia, meet you again!" "Aksakal, why don't you look back at your motherland?" "You're probably tired of it after 70 years." "So, where should I place you?" "Come, Aga, come, there's a place for you." "So, get yourself settled, we'll sort things out in the morning." "Ok, quit the noise." "I'll put out the light." "423, 424... 423... 424..." "There it smokes like a chimney." " A stowaway!" " Where is he?" " Over there." "Hey there on the "boat"!" "What time is it?" "My watch is dead!" "What are you doing there?" "Huh?" "Wait up." "Pull!" " Is the book interesting?" " Conditions of self-excitement of a general." " Maybe, generator." " Ah, generator." "Do you want me to find you some other book?" " With pictures?" " We can do that." " OK." "Sofia, help us." "Where are the books?" "Eh, balalaika, seven stringed, my soul is spoiled with the motives!" "Hey you, my soul..." "Look at it, a head!" "Hey uncle, what have you got there?" "It's a child's skull." "It's 3,000 years old." "Young brat." "You see, it's my work." "My son was an archaeologist and made a discovery." "How do I explain it better?" "We must finish what he's started." "Let Allah helps us..." "Unfaithful!" "Please, don't pay much attention to it." "Why didn't you say it was your job?" "I'll dream of skeletons now." "Bayan!" "Wash your hands!" "Wash them, wash them!" "Cleanness secures health!" "Look, you must like this book." "You see, this frieze shows the war between the goddesses and titans." "Look, you see?" "Simply saying it is the last battle between men and women." " They're so big!" " Yes, the titans are overwhelmed with their own power." "And on the goddess' side, the best, let's say, progressive men of that time." "Were they really like these?" "Yes, but none like them anymore." "Yes?" "Come here." "Sit." " What kind of a person are you?" " The usual." "No, you're a bad person." "I wonder." "Why?" " Where did you live before?" " Leningrad." " Anywhere else?" " Yes, Moscow, Caucasus, Berlin." "So are you a person?" "A thorn!" "Tumbleweed." "A person must know his land, the fireside, camping ground, the house where he was born, where the bones of his ancestor's are." "One to nothing." "You don't understand, old man, there is no your land, my land." "Our land is common." "A huge land." "People must travel more, get to know the land better." "And each other." "There is a lot to change, to discover in the world." "One-one." "Do you know?" "Do you know, old man, why the earth is round?" "Your head is round!" "Go back to your bones, be gone." "Penalty shot!" "Shaving, huh?" "You shaved yesterday?" "What do you know about a man's beard?" "What?" "You want her to like you, right?" "What do you think?" "Hey, that professor lady is alright?" "First class!" "Sofia-apa." "Look." " What is it?" " A terrible sickness was here." "It's a plague." "Bayan!" "You shouldn't show strangers this." "They call it plague, we call it the black death." "Two magpies never fly together, don't sit together." "But I saw them sitting together!" "Those were crows." "They're always together." "Crows brings misery." "They frighten people and they're afraid of them." " I don't like crows." " Nobody likes crows." "That's why it lives so long." "No one puts an evil eye on its beauty." "Your father was a handsome man." "Let Allah give you his beauty and courage." "You will be happy if you'll be as miserable as shangei grass that no animal eats." "Pardon, ata, don't talk to a kid about this." " How do you know our language?" " I am specialist in Turk languages." " Where are you going?" " To Leningrad." "Do you have a husband?" "No, he died." " On the battlefront?" " Here, in Kazakhstan." "Is he your father?" "No, my husband's father." "An archaeologist, doctor." "No, not the one who cures people, a scientist." "Hey you!" "You see?" "I can talk to a German lady, well how is it... kaput, gronde." "Well, that's clear." "Can talk to a Polish girl, how is it..." "Well, that is all easy, familiar." "But how do you say it?" "How do you say "I love you"?" "huh?" "But in a way if I say it, she'll be knocked of her feet, get it?" "But don't trick me!" "See this!" "I'm not a complete idiot." " Men akmak." " What?" " Men akmak." " Men akmak!" "That's more like it!" "Short and simple!" "Men akhmak!" "I thought it would be longer!" "Don't break the line!" "Where are you going?" "Get in line!" "Let the old man in." " Hey, are you Karachai?" " Yes." "I am Chechen." " Where are you riding?" " There, on the roof." "Why you travel like this?" "At your age you should sleep on the floor." "I'm a highlander, used to living up high." "The air is cleaner there." "And it is closer to Allah." "They took us this road, for a long time." "I remember... 20 days." "14 more days left till we reach Caucasus, I know." "Once I go through the city, no one will find me in the mountains." "Why are you going there alone?" "All your people are here." "I am getting old." "It's about time to die." "I would rather die on my motherland!" "Caucasus!" "You think I am simpleton." "I am jack of all trades!" "Can make a tank from nothing." "There were times before the war when I used to bring one wardrobe a month." "At my apartment, in Leningrad, everything is in mirrors." "Like the fun room." "You don't believe me, right?" "Here, please." "Thanks." "I'd love to swill?" "Yeah, I had a life but it is upside down now!" "Pour it down, would you?" "Got the front line... got wounded." "Then they booked me for the works in Kazakhstan." " How bad of a wound?" " Very bad." "But it's OK, never got worse." "Merci." "Don't you think that I am slim." "Cast iron can be thick, but fragile." "And steel is thin but tempered!" "Here is where we should war." "Not a single reference point!" "We could have finished it all from Monday till Saturday and celebrated the victory Sunday." "Shot of vodka, herring's tail and so on." "Here is where we were out to Volga." "I swam the farthest." "Please, whoever swims like that?" "People drown like that." "Like this." "This is our gymnasium." "Vladimir Lenin studied there." " Really?" " Yes." "My older brother knew him." "They studied together." "What was Lenin like when he was 15?" "Well, he wasn't very sociable." "Didn't have many friends." "You know... he burred and was slightly redheaded." "Hey people!" "My wife gave birth to my son!" "Give me a name!" "Name him Egor, the best choice!" " Name him Bayan!" " What's that?" " Bayan!" "Bayan it is!" "I'll name him that!" "Have a safe trip!" "Thank you!" "Catch!" "Good luck!" "Bayan Batyr..." "Bayan Sulu..." "And at last, prophetic Bayan!" " And Bayan-aul!" " That's right, Bayan aul." "Bayan... accordion" "Three rows..." "three lines." "You will be a scientist." "Scientist!" "A scientist must be great... or must not be at all." "Now I am getting this." "It's so simple." "We need to drink vodka more to make discoveries." "Get me some more please." "That's enough." "What about yourself?" "You are one weak redhead!" "?" "Stop it." "I remember who you called redheaded." "Give me a knife." "Wash it!" "Well, here is the conversation." "We travel together for so many days and do not know each other." "We got neither to love each other nor to hate each other." "Why?" "I got to love you." "And who got to love me?" "Ata?" "Will we travel on the roof tomorrow?" "Praise Allah, no one is rushing us." "When there's a house people live in it." "But will I go on the rooftop sometime?" "I am tired of here." "Alright, alright, here!" "Go to sleep." "Sofia apa?" "Sofia apa?" "Are you asleep?" "No, can't get to sleep." "He is not feeling well again." "I wish we could get there faster." "When we stop, we'll get him some milk." "People live longer if they drink milk." "Do you drink milk often?" "I am still young." "Sofia apa, tell me, can a wife be older then the husband?" "I think so, why do you need this?" "We have a neighbor, Mariam, she is also an orphan." "It is very hard for her being alone." "I help her when I have time." "Fix the yard, forged a nice loop for the door." "Mariam is very beautiful." "Even more beautiful than you." "She is 18 now." "I am too young to get married." "In four years I'll turn 18 and will get married!" "In the ancient times a man was given two names." "One, when he was born." "Then, he grows up and when, he does his first heroic deed." "Then he gathers all the relatives for a feast and they name him Er." "Er means man." "Ata tells me if we bring the body of father, we'll fulfill our duty." "It is like a heroic deed." "Dear, what are you doing with that kid?" "Come to me, I am more adventurous!" "And there will be a feast and I will be given a second name Er." "And then I will be Er Bayan all the rest of my life" "Bayan the Man." "There isn't a single boy from our street with the name Er." "I will be the first one." "Aren't you afraid?" "To dig in the grave?" "Carry the body back?" "Why?" "It's all bones, right?" "You dig out bones too, don't you?" "My boy." " Do you remember your father well?" " We have a photo." "A big one." "He's in the military outfit." "I was five when mother died." "Father always fought against Finns, then against Germans." "He has five medals." "When we received the death notification grandpa cried." "All the neighbors cried, but I can't." "I'm ashamed of that." "He is my father!" "So I hide, put saliva on my cheeks and walk around like this." "The saliva dries out and I do it again." "It soon dries out." "It's getting chilly." "Go back to bed." "Have sweet dreams Bayan." "Er Bayan." "No, don't call me that now." "If grandpa hears he'll be offended." "Goodbye." " What?" "Don't feel well again?" " Nothing." "You know..." "I envy our aksakal." "He has a rare purpose, which is absorbed by the sole." "He's invincible to miscellaneous things." "He can reject all." "It subdues and frightens at the same time." "Do you hear?" "Something is howling?" "Wolves?" "No, it's the wind." "The night is so bright," "Like in Leningrad." "So delicious." "How long is the stop?" "Waiting on the train coming the other way." " When is that?" " God knows." "Here is some pressed dung." "What's he doing?" "Where did you find it?" " Where?" " There." "Show me quick." "Come." " Over there." " Quick." " Damn!" "One more time." " Careful!" "It's alright." "Where?" "Right here." "Step aside, I beg you." "For God's sake don't get in my way." "Put it back." "I told you, step back." "You see, Bayan, the bricks you found are very precious." "Maybe this is what Vitalij Yakovlevich was searching for all his life." "Go, your grandpa probably looks for you." "Well, here we are." "I wanted to talk." "I thought of it." "No time to wait." "Some stones." "And the hell with the man." "Is there any science that is interested in a human?" "Of course there is." "I understand, you walk your path, I walk mine." "But order me to stay with you and I..." "But you are silent." "What language should I use to talk to you so you understand?" "I was living carelessly, then met you and began to think." "How is it?" "9th century." "What if this is..." "Uksa?" "The city that drove everyone mad?" "Can you imagine?" "This is worth living for!" "Everything is on the surface, no need for an expedition!" "It's a one week job for one person." "Well, maybe one month, two..." " It's warm, summer, fresh air!" " Is there any water?" "Of course, people lived here and the junction is very close." "Sofia..." "I don't think I will make it... any other time." "Well, let's unload." "Alright then!" "Are you all out of your mind?" "I'm responsible for you!" "Young man, drop the discussion." "Not a single step back!" "It's for you." "Farewell Aksakal." " He wishes you luck." " Don't translate this." "I wish you health." "From my heart." "For you and me, health is happiness." "Goodbye." "Safe trip to you." "Well, colleague, farewell." "You'll be smart, educated, with a head this big!" "No hat will fit it." "Bayan!" "Well, goodbye!" " Sau bol, Aksakal." " Goodbye Aksakal." "Sofia, men akmak!" "Men akmak!" "Don't say that, in Kazakh that means a fool." "Say Saule!" "You!" "Fascist!" "Sofia, no more "Men akmak"!" "No need in that." "Saule!" "Egor, the old man is riding on the rooftop." "That one?" "Is he your compatriot?" "Yes, an old man." "Going home, to Caucasus." "Wants to die on the motherland." "We've plenty of space here." "No, you are more then enough here." "I'll be told off because of you." "This is a military train, not just a joke." "You're old enough to be my son, but your heart is old." "You don't have any pity for people, you won't end up anywhere good with that." "Ah!" "Pity, we don't believe in tears, leave it up to the women." " Hello the heroes!" " Hello." " Having a party?" " A little bit." " Are you selling this?" " Yes." "I need money." "Hey, stop, wait up." " What's the music?" " German." " Does it play Russian songs?" " It plays it all." "Even Beethoven" "Wait, you're blowing wrong, there you go..." "A symphony!" "Maybe some fascist sucked on it, and now you want me to do it, huh?" "Blessed by Allah, your son is safe and sound." "My stones can't be wrong" "My words are more truthful then the truth itself." "You son is not just a hero but a batyr." "Medals are cramped on his mighty chest." "Live long, my dear." "Let your prophecies come true, here you are." " Fortune telling?" " Please." " About a son?" " Yes." "Your son is safe and sound as well." "It will all flash as one moment and you'll be young from the joy of meeting." "Medals are cramped on his mighty chest." "Stop lying, my son died." "I am going to get his body." "If you speak, speak the truth." "May he rest in peace, so you are going for his body." "It is time for the prayer." "You'll find me home if you need me." "You!" "Will you play more?" " You won't?" " No, I won't." " Maybe you will?" " No." "If you won't, then go!" " Ah!" "You want it like this!" " Come on!" "Beat him up!" "Kick!" " What are you doing!" "?" " All I want!" "Like this, huh?" "I knew it!" "Now they're going to rip me apart because of you!" "Come quick!" "Get in!" "Drop your stick!" "Lift him up!" "Drag him up!" "Got involved with you to my own misfortune!" "We almost missed the train!" " Where did you get the money from?" " I won it from those boys." "Hey!" "You now!" "Get down!" "Or you'll die!" "Egor?" "Are there any dried apricots in Leningrad?" " Yes, we had some before, really dried." " We have plenty!" "Your time is approaching." "Soon you'll leave." "And you'll leave the boy alone among the people." "What did you teach him?" "Did you give him the toughness... for the rest of his life?" "Can he be equal among the equal?" "And unequal among the crowd of the unequal?" "What fate did you predetermine for him?" "To the only successor of your faded family." "Is this in your power?" "Hey!" "How much water!" "Hurray!" "Volga!" "Do you understand that I am transporting state property?" "We all are state property." "Where is your chief and what did he say?" "Huh?" "Hey, Egor!" "When will we be there?" "I don't know, maybe a day, a week." "Look, they're unhooking us!" "Ata, where are you going?" "Help me out." "Something wrong was going on with grandpa." "Egor says the old man was losing his mind." "I tried not to leave him alone." "You're all hairy!" " You've not shaved for a long time, have you?" " Piss off!" "Dear comrade passengers, our express train" "Almata" " Leningrad has arrived in the capital of our motherland." "Moscow!" " Will we go to Moscow tomorrow?" " Why not!" "Hope we don't leave at night!" " And Red Square?" " Red Square too." "Remember to keep pace with me." "There are millions of people, easy to get lost!" "Moscow, ata!" "Will we go there tomorrow?" "They shoot fireworks there." "And we'll eat ice cream like this?" "In Moscow there's a special place where they sell only ice cream." "Hey, Chechen!" "Don't be scared, it's me." "Hey, Chechen, why are you afraid?" "It's me." "I'm not a Chechen for you, get it?" "Leave off, while you're safe." "Ata?" "Ata!" "Egor, where's ata?" "There's no ata!" "I ask you, where?" "What did you do to him?" " What would I do with him?" " You let him go!" " I didn't!" "Who could make him go away?" " We left him there!" "We left him!" " Where do you think you're going?" " Let go of me!" "Let go!" " Are you out of your mind?" " He won't make it on his own now!" "Let go!" "What will happen to him?" "Ata!" "Don't cry now, the old man will be fine" "Listen, Bayan, why do you need this Nasatino?" "I can take you." "You're alone, I'm alone." "you can be like my younger brother!" "Your grandpa will be fine, it is not war-time now." "He is on military... well, he's on some other registry." "They'll find him!" "We've been riding a month and nothing, and now when we have only a day left!" "How will I let you go?" "You heard it?" "30 versts through the forest!" "The village is on the edge." "Not many people go there from station." " Maybe you'll come with me?" " I'll go there anyway!" "Why do you need this Nasatino?" "You don't have any relatives or friends there or..." "Wait up!" " Stop!" " What's wrong?" "Come on," "Come on, give me a paw!" "What do you want?" "Why are you silent?" " Ah!" "The hell with you then!" " And you, too!" "Ok, I don't promise to write you, but I sure won't forget you!" "Bayan, don't be angry with me, brother!" "We'll meet someday!" "Goodbye, Bayan!" "Egor probably already made it." "The sun is down, no supper for me now." "And it is cooler then back at home." "Ata, do you remember when I caught a white goose with red feet?" " Hello!" " Hi there!" " Could you tell me, is this Nosakino?" " Yes." "Oh!" "Who is he?" "Gypsy, gypsy!" " What do you want?" " Can I get some water?" "Over there." "Where are you from?" " What's your name?" " Bayan." " What?" " Bayan." " Like accordion?" " I am not this Bayan." "Bayan is a name." "Kazakh." "Sit." "Do you want this?" "Came here to earn money?" " My father is buried here." " Why would he be here?" "He died here." "We received a death notification." "Died in Nosakino village." "Come inside, let's go." "Come in, sit down." "Is he your father?" "Yes, died in 1943." "Sit down..." "Eat." " Do you have a garden?" " Yes." "What's taking Daria so long?" " Who is Daria?" " My mother!" " Do you have apples?" " Yes..." "We have 4 apple trees, pears, all the rest is dried apricot." " What's a dried apricot?" " Like this, small, yellow." " Do you have a cow?" " Sir?" "Yes, we also have a donkey." "Rich you are!" "Oh!" "I see we have guests!" " Where are you from?" " From Kazakhstan." "From Kazakhstan?" " What is your name?" " Bayan." "We don't have fat, but I dressed it with oil, the meat will be ready soon." "It's not a war time now, eat." "Pass me the bread." " What is it?" "Sugar?" " It is kurt." "Kurt?" "We had a German named Kurt!" "Fascist!" "It's sour." "I like it." "What is it?" "Here was a fortification..." "And they bombed here." " How many people died here?" " Maybe a thousand." " Germans?" " No, Russians." "More Germans died here." " Wow!" "A cannon!" " German, 200 millimeters." " They shelled Leningrad from it!" " So far?" "They bang!" "And half the street disappears!" " How did they get them here?" " Tractors." "There were many of those here." "Around 100 or 200." "Where are they now?" "They took them, when they were running away." "Here." "Why is it so big?" " It is communal." " Anyone from your community here?" "No, it's just called so." "There are many of them here." "They all died together." "And my father?" "Read." " What's it for?" " For the holy people." "Vasiliy, did you see my father?" "No, why would I?" "...." " No, he was like ata." " That's it!" "I probably seen him." " What are you going to do now?" " I'll find grandpa." " Where?" " I don't know, but I will." " And then?" " Then, we'll go home." " Thank you aunt Daria." " Not at all" "Don't go through the forest, or you'll step on a bomb." " Go onto the highway, try hitch a lift." "There might be a passing car." " Alright." " Write us when you get home!" " OK." "Don't loose the address!" "Oh, God!" " Bayan!" "Bayan!" " Ata!" "My son, my little son..." "My only son." "THE END"