"Alexey Chadov" "Ian Kelly" "Ingeborga Dapkunaite" "Sergey Bodrov" "Evklid Kyurdsidis" "Georgiy Gurgulia" "Well, I'm Ivan Ermakov and his name was John." "So we're kind of namesakes." "We met in the summer of 2001" "For two months I'd been locked up in the village of Verkhny Iskhoi ...by Aslan Gugaev" "Back then, none of our lot had heard of him ...his detachment wasn't that big" "There were 3 prisoners: me, Fedka and a jew." "A "commercial" one" "A businessman from Vladikavkaz." "Called Semyon, I think..." "Me and Fedka were sawing up wood when they brought them in on a truck." "There were another two of our guys with them" "Vladimir Gostyukhin" "Yuri Stepanov" "Hey, did you kill my brother?" "I did." "And a whole lot more!" "I whipped your sorry black arses and I'll keep whipping them, because you're enemies..." "Well, did they pay you well?" "Don't kill me, I beg you!" "I just arrived, I'm not guilty!" "Stas Stozkiy" "Scum!" "WAR" "I demand to speak to the British consul" "What does he want?" " Something in English" "Take the bucket, it stinks!" "Who was shooting?" " They killed two of our soldiers" "Give me your hand" "They cut off his head!" "Shit happens..." "Take the jug" "It'll be us next!" "Ivan" "John" "Margaret" "I didn't like her at first ...full of herself." "Wouldn't even look at you" "I just didn't understand, that she was ashamed of herself" "We all crapped in the same bucket..." "And I thought ginger was a right weed" "In the hole, it's every man for himself" "You're always hungry and they beat you the whole time." "He wasn't too bad, though." "He looked after her." "A "gentleman"..." "And from the start with me because of my English, no doubt." "Back in Tobolsk I finished a computer school and in Chechnya I'd get the news by Internet for Aslan." "...And a whole lot more!" "." "I whipped your sorry black arses and I'll keep whipping them because you're enemies..." "Well, did they pay you well?" "Don't kill me!" "Please!" "I'm worn out." "Can't get any relaxation." "There's a war on..." "When will it end?" "When all the Russians will live in the North." "You're white." "You've got the White Sea." "We're black." "We've got the Black Sea." "Why did you kill the lads?" "It took me three years to find that Lieutenant." "I paid thirty grand to get him." "He shot my brother" "I found him in Rostov" "He killed a lot more good Muslims besides..." "And the youngster?" "Who needs someone like that?" "He goes off to get some vodka, there's a war on and he leaves his post!" "Is that any way to carry on, Ivan?" "No, it's not" "You're either a shepherd or a sheep." "Those who let themselves be skewered - they're the sheep." "Russians?" "There are people amongst you" "I saw one in jail near Virkhayansk" "A hardcore convict, strong, like a Chechen" "If people like him led Russia, you could win this war." "But you've got too few of them." "You're stupid and weak." "And you're led by half-wits." "You let the Ukraine go, then Kasakhstan." "Half of the country away" "Just like this" "Soon the Chinese will take the Far East from you" "You're fighting me ...while in Moscow I've got a hotel, three restaurants, four brigades in Petersburg, Moscow, Samara..." "I milk the Russians like cows" "And they do give me money for it" "Do you know why you fight badly, Ivan?" "Don't know, ha?" "Because you're not fighting for your Homeland!" "You fight because you've been herded out here like a sheep." "I know my ancestors going back seven generations" "I'm a descendant of the Murid Hadji Kazi" "A 150 years ago he was already cutting you lot up" "This is my land!" "and I'll clear it of unbelieving dogs util  until there's not a Russian from here to Volgograd, do you get me?" "So, what are they writing about us on the Internet?" "The satellite's gone, we'll catch another" "Aslan, tell your men not to beat me round the head, okay?" "This is the Internet, you've got to use your brains" "And there's a lot in English" "And the foreigners asked if they could have a wash." "Piss off!" "You, come here!" " I will pay!" "I WILL PAY!" " Come here!" "I WILL PAY!" "I WILL PAY!" "According to the Law of Shariat, taking money from Jews for military actions is considered legitimate." "And while you won't pay us..." "I WILL PAY!" "... we will cut your fingers off" "I tried to translate what Aslan had said, but John didn't understand" "So I just said Chechens don't like Jews" "Can I have another cigarette?" "He got it immediately about Jews, ...but that it was all a put on for him, that they were getting him ready" "What did Semyon's seventy grand matter to Aslan?" "..." "They didn't mention a ransom to John for a month" "They beat one guy to frighten the others" "The main thing for them is to break a man, so that he'll pay the money himself" "And they certainly know how to break a man..." "Then they took us away" "Where do you take him?" "Do I have to ask you?" "This is an offence against the human rights!" "I'm ok, John" "Shut up, bitch!" "This is an offence against the human rights!" "What does he want?" " Something to drink" "He can wait" "Shut up, John" "Where are they taking us?" "Shut up and do what they say!" "Why did they take us here?" "I love you" "We'll be okay." "We can get through this" "I promise to you" "Been in long?" "Captain Medvedev." "Give a proper report." "What?" "A proper report!" "Take it easy!" "Stand up!" "Attention!" "Who are you, your rank?" "Private Kulik" "Sergeant Yermakov" "Captured on May 10th, 2001 ...during a combat on the road from Alkhan-Yurt to Uruss-Martan ... while carrying supplies" "And them?" "They are the "commercial" ones, English actors." "They were in Georgia on a tour" "John, what you play in Georgia?" "Shakespeare" "Hamlet..." "Just actors..." "At ease!" "We mustn't let things slip, lads." "There's a war on" "Is it your back, Comrade Captain?" "Contusion and shrapnel round the vertebrae." "Let me take a look" "Fedya!" "So, how did it happen?" "How?" "We were on a transporter ... a rocket went straight through Kit, actually, he shot at a guy in my platoon" "I only worked it out when I came round." "Whoever was inside the transporter bought it" "So, I was lucky!" "You may have been lucky..." "But what about your platoon?" "I got concussed just like you, Comrade Captain" "And the bullet's here..." "Okay" "How long had you served?" "Two weeks to go before my tour was over." "And him?" "Still wet behind the ears." "His first year." "CCaptain Medvedev was a tough nut, no doubt about it." "Everyone worked that out straight away" "You cannot break such one" "If we'd had more like him what an army we'd have had!" "We all felt his strength" "His self-confidence" "He's lying there, can't even get up but he's got this calm inside him" "A commander..." "Margaret..." "She fell in love with him at once" "I new straight away" "I think we are somewhere here" "Here?" "It seemed to me they took us further" "No." "We didn't go faster than 25 to 30 an hour." "And up into the mountains" "No, it's a mountain pass" "With machinegun placements" "I think they're guarding the road to Georgia" "If only I knew what that river is..." "What's the difference?" "Well, I'm getting hungry" "She says, You have to exercise" "Careful, careful..." "Here, take it" "They won't pay 2 millions pounds for us" "It was wrong when you tell him pound bigger than dollar" "What?" "He didn't know" "This way?" "Ah, says they can't come up with two millions" "Even if they sell everything" "Why?" "Shit, I didn't get it" "He says, the government won't pay" "They're in negotiations with the Russians" "What fucking negotiations, Marc?" "!" "I'm living in a pit!" "We haven't washed in two months!" "Just find the fucking money, Marc!" "There isn't another way out!" "Margaret can' take this" "He says, he'll do his best" "Enough!" "Same thing over and over for half an hour!" "What's she to him?" "His bride" "He's not lying?" "No" "Ask him if he could get two million together" "You can get money in England?" "Yes, he says he can" "Tell him, the woman stays with me" "He gives me two million pounds ...exactly in two months" "If he doesn't we all will fuck her two weeks long" "And then I will cut her fucking head off!" "Tell him" "Why're you using foul language?" "Allah forbids it" "Speaking Russian is the same as using foul language" "To Allah, all your words are the same." "Translate!" "I didn't believe they'd let us go" "It's not the Chechen way." "Too smart for them" "And they like to play with you ...they say: "We let you go the day after tomorrow" they wash you in the river." "You sit and wait for two days" "Anyway, I knew it and expected a dirty trick" "Come on, what's the hold up, you asshole!" "Come on!" "Listen, it's not an order, I just ask for a favour" "Comrade Captain!" "You know the address?" " I'll do everything if we get out before you" "Whatever it takes, I get you out of here!" "I love you!" "Take care, John!" "Margaret, bye!" "I can't decide whether to let you go or not, Ivan" "The baksheesh for you is rubbish" "They're paying nothing" "And who'll get on the Internet for me?" "The Captain" "I know you put the wrong address on the letter you wrote" "You said" "Alright, tell them about the Captain I'm tired of waiting!" "...but it's a pity to kill him" "I paid 50 grands for him" "If they don't let my nephew go who'll give me that money back?" "Tell them" "I'll wait another month and that's it" "What do you think, will he get the money together?" "I think so." "He wants to get married" "Tell him, we're counting from today." "He's got two months 0r he won't have anyone left to marry" "That's all." "And you don't come here again" "I won't let you go the second time" "How should he pass the money on?" "If he wants to, he'll find a way" "Tell him to give me his number" "I will phone him" "Give him the phone number!" "Give him this" "He can watch it later" "No, they're not taking us to Grozny" "Ivan, there are terrorits" "You don't negotiate with terrorists" "Aslan said, time start counting from August 30" "He's bluffing" "He won't get through with it" "We never left Russia" "So your security forces must come for the captain" "You find money?" "I don't know" "Why you say you find?" "I don't know" "No, definitely not to Grozny" "Don't get worked up" "They stop soon and shoot us, you know Aslan" "Shut your mouth!" "He let us go" "I don't know why" "No one paid for us, that's for sure" "If it had been Khattab or Basaev, that I'd understand..." "There's politics involved..." "But who is Aslan Gugaev anyway?" "I believe, it was rather a negotiation between the local FSB and the bandits" "I chatted with a guy later..." "He told me it happens sometimes" "The FSB swap a gangster, then get the credit" "It was announced then: a special force carried out a successful hostage-rescue-operation" "The usual nonsense, you know" "I din't fucking care about their "rescue" anyway" "Could I have some more water?" "What?" "They should've let her go first, for free" "Yes, they should have" "Maybe he will now, maybe he will let her go?" "No, he won't" "Now Aslan wait money" "...it's not like they cut her head off?" "Take this" "To you from Aslan" "What is it?" "I think it's about it" "I don't know  it's cheap" "They don't pay a lot for a soldier" "We are no no "commercial" ones" "Just like..." "Well, just slaves" "How much for a "commercial"?" "Depends" "There's a market in Shatoi." "The prices go up and down there" "To "buy" is different from to "order"" "What do you mean by "to order"?" "And how do you order a murder?" "Are you just off the moon?" "But you're talking about gangsters!" "Chechens ARE gangsters" "All of them?" "Yes, all of them!" "That's the anger in you talking" "Well, you know best..." "Listen, journalist, give me better a cigarette ...I couldn't understand what was going on ...it's dark and ...you don't know, it's day or night" "Which is frightful" "So, then they put us in this cellar" "This time there were Russians there" "One of them, Ivan speaks some English ...so it became a bit easier" "Yes, we were slaves" "So we had to earn our food" "So we worked" "What did you do?" "Everything" "Sawing wood, or working in the field" "Digging trenches sometimes" "Always different kinda jobs" "Was it hard?" "Nope ...anything's better than sitting in the cellar" "0nly the nutcases used to beat us" "They they'd get high" "And have some fun kicking us" "We wanted more food" "And there was no salt" "You coming to Petersburg?" "No, I'm going home" "I want to be in time to get into the Linguistics University ...on the interpreter's faculty" "You don't know any English" "And the entrance exams have finished" "My Mum was at school with the rector" "And the military board will help" "Mum said I have to be quick though" "Tobolsk via Petersbourg" "Listen..." "If you're ever in Nizhny, here is my address" "Ivan you know, I..." "It's ok, Fedya." "Farewell!" "Maybe we'll meet again" "Before going to the Medvedev family I told everyone in Chechnya about the Captain" "Phoned headquarters ...then the cops in the Interior Ministry" "I've hardly found them..." "I told them about the Gugaevs nephew, who was in prison then" "Just the way Aslan wanted" "When I went to see the Medvedevs, I knew there was nothing doing" "They are good people" "They spoke with me and offered me tea" "I just worried about my socks making a stink..." "Please, help yourself!" "Thank you" "And what is he doing there?" "Well, nothing" "He is imprisoned, he has no other choice" "Why don't they exchange him ?" "Mother!" "Well, that Chechen was sentenced to execution" "Then the sentence was reduced" "He's a danger to society" "So MIA won't let him go so they won't to let him go, and it s taking forever" "But why's it taking forever?" "Mother, put the tea on" "So what, "Mother"?" "!" "Why take forever?" "Why keep a Chechen bandit they wanted to execute anyway?" "I don't understand" "I always said you shouldn't expect anyithing good from these Chechens" "I never used to buy my oranges from them in the market..." "Tell me, Ivan, is he really in good health?" "Yes, sure!" "What can I say..." "Do I look healthy?" "He is even healthier than me" "And he asked me to tell You not to worry" "Asked me to tell..." "My dad is a hero!" "He's defending our Homeland against gangsters" "He'll come back soon, and we'll go to the zoo like we used to" "And then I went home to Tobolsk" "And John went to look for the money" "They cut people's heads off!" "I can only repeat, Mr. Boyle  that together with the Russian side we do everything possible" "What exactly are you doing?" "In 45 days they kill her" "Do You understand me?" "Mr. Boyle I know how You feel now ...but try to think reasonably" "You are here and this is a direct result of our work..." "What work?" "I've been trying to tell you the last hour I'm simply here, because they let me come here to get the money" "They cut them fingers off" "Mr. Boyle, You are a reasonable person" "You understand the absurdity of a demand of 2 million pounds for a hostage" "I mean the Chechens understand it..." "And as for the policy, You know, that our Majesty's government regarding the ransom demands of terrorists." "Mr. Boyle!" "What air strikes?" "NATO is not in a casual war with Russia" "Tell Aslan..." "I'll bring the money" "Tell him not to touch Margaret" "Why you don't understand?" "Margaret!" "Margaret, how are you?" "I'll bring the money" "I'll get you out" "Just hold out!" "So, how you gonna raise the money?" "Marc, you gonna have to sell everything" "Whatever it takes, you get the money" "John, it's ridiculous!" "You can't expect me to sell your property in that short time and raise the money in cache" "You've completely slumped!" "She's in a pit there" "Do you know what hunger is?" "Do you know ho it is to be kicked in the head?" "Do you know, that they rape her and then cut her head off?" "Do you know that?" "Because I know!" "It ain't England there, Marc" "It's Russia!" "If the government of Great Britain refuses to help to free her Majesty's subject I'd find the money, I would buy her free" "Do You think, the Russian military actions in Chechnya are justified?" "Hi, I'm Sam Crow." "I represent Chamber Four" "Look, you don't have to answer me now, but..." "If You are seriously planning to take a large sum of money to Chechnya then call me" "My company is prepaired to give You 200.000 pounds" "But we want video material about what's going on there" "We can give you a camera." "We want You to picture every event with details, so you can comment everything and everyone" "I've been in touch with Margaret's parents in Denmark" "Look, if we sell your house, your property and Margaret's belongings  we still won't have 400.000 pounds" "Just, what if they won't sell soon enough" "We don't have another million and 600.000" "It all will take about 5 days" "I have 42 days left" "So, do we sell?" "Yes" "Yes, of course" "We just have to give what we've got" "I'm sure they do realize :" "something is better than nothing" "Why kill a woman when they can get 400.000 pounds!" "That's an enormous amount!" "I can't imagine what they can do with 400.000 in the mountains" "What can they do with 100.000 but to bury it" "Vanya, it it you?" "!" "I thought you were at the war!" "Don't you remember me?" "I'm Semakov Stepan" "So?" "So?" "..." "All over then?" "What?" "Well, the war!" "Hey, we should celebrate it!" "I tell the boys to buy some booze in the store" "How's your dad doing?" "What do you mean?" "Well, he is in the hospital" "Up on the hill" "Hi, Plum!" "Hi, Ivan!" "Unfold it, and then put it through" "Nothing had changed at home" "Siberia..." "Actually,two years had passed - it was like I'd never left" "Plum still a bandit, same as he was at school" "His parents got him out of being conscripted, they shouldn't have done that..." "He'd have seen the world, worked some things out" "Most of the people there haven't been further than Tyumen" "Mum had aged a lot though..." "And father became weaker" "Hi, Zinka!" "Listen, my Dad is somewhere in this hospital..." "Hi, Ivan!" "We saw you on tv yesterday!" "Zina, my Dad is here!" "Listen, have you seen Katya?" "Zina, my Dad's here!" "Oh!" "Right away!" "Why do I drink, son?" "Because life's become boring" "I lived until I was about forty and that was it" "Everywhere you look is Misery" "There is no love, Vanya" "It's good that you were at war" "War makes a man of you" "And that's what you should be" "A man has strength" "It's all held together by that strength" "I had strength but it's gone" "If I could be up and on my way to war now!" "Don't be angry with me about your mother" "She's a good woman but I've just fallen out of love with her" "You'll understand later" "Remember, son if you fall out of love, walk away!" "You can't live without love!" "You can't, son!" "Hello, mom" "Vanya!" "Everyone says they saw you on television" "But I missed it!" "Mom, it's no big deal" "Vanya..." "Let us drink to our brothers" "To Sabik, Uvar, Taran and Tolik who are no longer with us" "They hadn't been at war" "Our own lads killed them, the Siberian ones" "We all went to the same school" "Some my age, some older" "I ddn't know "Taran" at all" "But Sasha "Uvar" was a friend of mine" "The British Embassy" "The Ministery of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation" "Hasn't he seen the videos?" "They cut Russian soldiers their heads off" "Doesn't he understand what we talking about here?" "The position of the President of the Russian Federation, Mr. Putin is that we mustn't pay ransoms to terrorists for hostages" "So I apologize" "Try the FSB" "If they can't help, I can give You a certain address in Vladikavkaz" "Call me, we'll cut a deal" "I'm John Boyle and this is Moscow" "Every Russian institution has refused to help me, but.." "But I found a translator in the Ministery of Foreign Affairs" "Who has given me for 1000 pounds the phone number of a former KGB major in Vladikavkaz, who is engaged in ransoming the hostages" "He is based in Vladikavkaz" "Which is the capital of Osetia" "Near the Chechen border" "So, now what I gonna do is try to find a translator" "Who will go with me there and do a deal with terrorists" "I wanted to work with computers" "Nothing doing..." "You say you were in Chechnya, and they start scratching their chins" ""We're using new technologies here", they say" "What should I say I got knocked back everywhere" "The military board were no use either" "I could get work loading trucks without them" "Vanya, let's get married" "And where will we live?" "Dad will be out of the hospital soon, then what?" "Ivan!" "You asked me, to wake you!" "I'm up, aunt Valya!" "Put the tea on" "Why aren't you at work today?" "Because it's Saturday!" "I bought some good tea, "Akbar'!" "Aren't you from round here?" "I'm looking for Ivan Ermakov" "I see, a foreigner..." "Ivan Ermakov?" "You mean Vanya?" "Should have said, instead of "Bah-mah..." all the time" "I'm here in Tobolsk now which is the capital of Siberia" "How did he get there?" "I don't know" "Doesn't speak a word of Russian" "OAlright, in Moscow they put him on a plane, but in Tyumen?" "He found the station, bought a bus ticket ...then on the ferry" "Then he found me" "Good going" "As soon as I saw him, I knew" "Knew what?" "I mean everything" "What was going to happen" "So  how much money you have?" "450.000 pounds in the British Embassy in Moscow and 35.000 with me" "To us!" "Ivan, I've got a plan" "I've got a number of a man in Vladikavkaz" "Ivan, his from KGB, he can help" "Give me" "We go to Moscow, take the money, and go Vladikavkaz" "You make a deal with Aslan for 450.000 pounds" "The KGB man goes to Chechnya and gets Margaret" "John, no, I not go" "We're going to Vladikavkaz" "You do a deal with KGB, then a deal with Aslan" "We go home and the rest of 35 thousands is yours, Ivan" "Help me!" "I'm back in Moscow, this time with Ivan Ermakov" "He has a gun which he does have papers for, but police keeps stopping us into the mountains to hunt goats" " Let's see the documents" "And the cartridges?" "The cartridges?" "As they should be by law, officer." "They're stored separately" "All right!" "Good day!" "Can we have our own compartment?" "Not shy, are we?" "We'll pay" "It's a transit train, I can't make any promises" "Take the 6-th for now, we'll see later" "Anything you say, my lovely!" "I'll be hoping..." "Be off with you, my "lovely"" "Why did I go?" "Not for money, that's for certain" "But why..." "I don't know" "Maybe to get Aslan" "But no" "Probably because of the Captain" "I asked our commander about him" "I asked for help" "He's got connections from back in Afghanistan" "He said, "What're you worried about, be happy you got out, asshole!"" ""It's not your war, we'll manage without you"" "I got angry about it" "And I felt sorry for Ginger" "Where'd he be without me?" "And why not ride to Vladikavkaz and back for free?" "!" "What were the gun and the ammunition for then?" "But we were going to the Caucasus!" "And the stuff was good, I could always use it for hunting" "And he was paying!" "Hi, guys!" "I am Alexander Matrosov" "Where are you going?" "That way" "I got it" "I'll put the case away, alright?" "Hey, skinny, are you deaf?" "Get up, fast!" "American?" "Alexander Matrosov" "This is John." "I'm Ivan" "Guys!" "I am Alexander Matrosov, no free compartment" "So I'll have to cramp your style..." "Soon the scum will clear off" "But, for now, I'll play host!" "Hah, American" "Anything else?" "Take it easy for the moment" "They are reliable guys..." "They're responsible, you know" "You say the word, and that's it!" "No going back!" "0f course, they're black-arsed scum" "Yes!" "But they they deliver the goods bang on time and never screw you!" "Who are you there?" "You know some major players down there?" "Come on, Ivan!" "I'm Alexander Matrosov!" "Okay..." "Well, I might have some business for you, Matrosov" "Hey, scumbag!" "Come here!" "Get us some more vodka, and get us some nibbles..." "Look, skinny's conked out" "I'm in the train from Moscow to Vladikavkaz" "Yesterday a Russian gangster called Alexander Matrosov promised to mediate the ransom for Margaret Micholson" "Hey, what are you doing in there so long, you ass!" "He was a funny guy ...that Alexander Matrosov" "He was buying heroin from the Chechens and taking it to Russia" "Yes..." "We got very drunk in the restaurant car" "I saw straight away he was a con-artist" "I didn't tell him anything, just checked him out" "Ivan, who was Alexander Matrosov?" "Russian hero" "In Second World War he blocked German machine gun with his chest" "And?" "Nothing." "Died ..."Arriving in Vadikavkaz"" "Do you want the ticket receipts?" "Chechens?" "..." "No, not Chechens" "Let's go there" "Give me!" "Hello!" "Hello!" "Can I speak to Alexander Kardanov?" "Yes, yes, Kardanov!" "They'd talked a lot of rubbish to John in Moscow" "There was no big shot ex-KGB guy who exchanges hostages" "The guy said he was an FSB Major" "He knew we were coming and was waiting" "When I met him I knew we'd landed in a right mess" "But what was I supposed to do?" "Turn round and go home?" "You were prepared to kill, even then?" "Listen, journalist..." "You go off to play pool back in Moscow" "What's your goal?" "To pocket some balls, in order to win" "Well, this is war" "This is..." "Sergeant, what're you getting so worked up for him about?" "Comrade Major, it's not my money, so I couldn't care less" "But ten percent is steep" "He hasn't got much as it is" "Gugaev knows how much we've got" "Any less and he won't let her go" "He'll either rape her or cut her ears off" " I know" "And we're late - only four days left" "The ten percent isn't for me" "There's my people, the people in Chechnya" "It's a big operation - an illegal operation, Sergeant" "What if we said 50,000?" "I wouldn't be sitting here, Sergeant" "What are we haggling for?" "You've got the money with you?" "Who carries that kind of money, Comrade Major?" "What guarantees can You give?" "Serious people in Moscow gave you my number, Sergeant" "And I don't offer any guarantees" "You have no other choice, sergeant" "Without me you're screwed, got it?" "Got it" "Day after tomorrow, we meet here." "I'll bring the money" "There s one condition - I go with You" "Following his meeting with the KGB major, Ivan came back kind of projected ... he wasn't talking after it" "He put me on this tram which is going round in circles, and said no talk to anybody" "If anybody tries to talk to me, I have to play dumb" "If he's not at the Lenin monument in 3 hours time, I'll have to call the British Embassy in Moscow" "We'd got tails everywhere" "I noticed when I got our bags from the station" "Guys watching, gangster faces," "Harder than our Siberian guys" "But they weren't looking for me" "They..." "Well, they didn't need me" "And John was in the tram" "So the game was on" "Hey, bro, where are you from?" "Nizhniy Tagil" "Almost my neck of the woods" "I'm from Tobolsk" "In for much longer?" "5 months" "Conscript?" "0n a contract" "Been to Chechnya?" "Shit, what do you think we're doing here?" "What do you want?" "Bro, I really need to get into Chechnya." "Give us some help" "I'm here for the first time, never went in from this side." "Always though Mazdok" "I've got no idea here" "If I got over the border, I'd find my way from there" "Leave something behind over there?" "I was captured over there" "I've been in civvies for a month, but I've got a debt to pay" "I'm a civilian now" "Tell me who I've got to talk to, and whatever I've got I'll..." "Well, what have you got?" "What do you need?" "What size do you take?" "What've you got in here?" "Nothing worth thieving!" "That's a joke, right?" "What're you looking at?" "Is that it then?" "Stay down!" "We'll be going through their border now" "Don't sweat it - they're our guys on the post" "See you round, guys" "You guys are totally fucking mad!" "We're in Chechnya, yes?" "Yes?" "On that military truck we just passed illegaly the check point to Chechnya" "There is just Ivan and me and nobody else" "Stop shoot!" "Stop shoot,.." "I tell you!" "Don't shoot me!" "Or don't shoot people who help us!" "Shoot you, shoot!" "Not me, understand?" "Tourist!" "..." "I'd noticed that he was filming everything" "Mumbling to himself, but so what?" "When he spoke to me, I understood, but otherwise..." "But shooting a film?" "You've told me, but I never would've guessed..." "They're about to kill his woman, and he's filming" "They're strange" "It's funny - in English "to film' and "to shoot' are the same word - "shoot"" "II didn't know." "He told me later" "Anyway, we went on, just the two of us" "Come on, keep up!" "John!" "Fuck!" "The map is too small..." "What?" "Trasnport..." "Transport!" "I have plan" "Fuck!" "..." "John!" "John!" "John!" "Idiot!" "..." "You're working well" "Where's your owner?" "Are you deaf or what?" "Shoot, John!" "Shoot!" "Help!" "You drive?" "Get bags!" "Nice!" "You killed them!" "..." "Yes." "But you must kill them!" "There was a woman..." "And you killed her!" "John, it's war!" "Very simple if I didn't, they kill you. and after kill me!" "Don't think at war, John!" "Think before war!" "And at war you must survive ...to survive you must kill" "Drink!" "I won't" "Drink!" "We killed them!" "No!" "I killed them!" "I, John!" "Is no good YOU must kill them!" "Because it's war!" "..." "My war finished!" "It's your war, John!" "I not know what I do here!" "If you play Dostoevski, I go!" "War is not theater" "It's not shooting!" "Its's SHOOTING!" "War is blood, John." "Blood!" "Ivan, please!" "This isn't what I meant" "I don't know how to fight 2 years ago I also don't know how to fight,  they made me!" "But you come yourself!" "(Camp) fire!" "He was nearly broken then" "I didn't go near him for the rest of the day" "He mumbled into his camera" "I had a bit more to drink and slept" "I thought, if he keeps moaning, I'll hand myself in to our guys" "The bastards had all our military locations on their maps" "I even knew where I'd go" "But the next morning he's as fresh as a cucumber. "Come on", he says, "let's go"" "Stop!" "Waiting for a bus?" "End of the road, darky!" "Don't shoot me, Russian!" "I'm a simple shepherd, I'm going home." "The flocks are without shepherds!" "Don't try to fuck with me, you pig!" "I know a lot 0ne word of bullshit and I'll shoot!" "If you hear the word "three", you're no longer living!" "NAME?" "Ruslan Shamayev!" "How many slaves?" "I don't have any!" "No slaves, I just tend a flock..." "ONE!" "TWO!" "... 0K!" "Two ages ago, but my brother took them for a debt I owed him!" "When did you shave the beard off?" "Two weeks ago!" "They made me!" "I am a simple shepherd." "Live in mountains" "WHERE?" "!" "In Nishniy Alkun" "Where is Aslan Gugaev?" "ONE!" "..." "TWO!" "... ...THREE!" "Russian!" "I know !" "I'll show you!" "Whatever you want!" "Careful, scum." "You're my slave now!" "And if you screw up, I'll blow your head off" "Gugaev?" "!" "ONE!" "TWO!" " Not!" "On the pass..." "Protecting the mountain pass!" "Now we're talking!" "Get up and show me on the map" "If I have any doubts about what you say it's over" " I've counted to three!" "I don't know Russian so good, you speak fast" "I shoot even faster!" "We are here." "Where is Aslan?" "Not here!" "Good boy!" "You've passed the first test." "Let's try the second" "WHERE?" "!" "There!" "Hand cannot show!" "Here?" "No, that way!" "There, you've passed the second test" "Just the third one left" "John, let's go!" "Now, my shepherd friend you show us how to get there fast and safe" "And so that you don't think I'm joking, I'll tell you straight:" "...me and the Lone Ranger are finished anyway, same as you!" "Got it?" "!" "But, if we complete our NAT0 mission" "I give you my word as a Russian paratrooper:" "I'II let you go!" "You can go tend your fucking flock!" "But, you know how difficult these things can be..." ""Four" to "Albatross"!" ""Four" to "Albatross"!" "Ruslan Shamaev." "Nizhny Alkun" "Check his identity and report back within one hour" "If I'm not on the wire tomorrow kill all his relatives." "All of them!" "0ver!" "This is Beslan Khatuev's jeep" "His brother's disappeared" "Everyone's looking for him!" "We won't get there in this jeep" "We have to go across the glacier" "Faster that way" "Ruslan believed we were cool" "Especially when we dumped the Landrover into the river" "Get up!" "Move it!" "I said move it!" "Ivan, you don't have to beat him all the time" "So what..." "Give him humanitarian aid?" " No" "You remember how they beat you?" "This isn't about revenge?" "No" "This language no English" "Get a move on!" "This language he understand" "And we must go there and come back" ""Eleanor" to "Fish":" "Baby, do you wanna bum?" "I know what you're thinking" "I've told them to leave your family for now  But they're fierce" " I'll do everything, Russian!" "I'll do everything!" "Halt!" "Let's take a break here" "After the killing of a Chechen woman..." "After the death of the 3 Chechen terrorists Ivan captured a man" "Who takes us across this glacier to the terrorists" "He's being cooperative, he's a friendly person, he helps us" "Ivan keeps beating him all the time" "And won't let him pray" "I know a way through the ravines" "There's no one round here" "All the villages are deserted" "After the deportations, the Chechens didn't come back" "Listen, Russian!" "You're from Moscow, yes?" "Yes" "You have a university there?" "Yes" "You studied there?" "Everyone in Moscow studies there" "My uncle lives in Moscow" "He didn't study there" "But he's not Russian, is he!" "My eldest son is very clever." "I want him to study in Moscow" "Have you got contacts there?" "Yes, but it's expensive" "I've got money" "I want our clan to have a politician!" "But he's not very good at reading" "That's not important anymore." "You just need contacts" "You'll help, yes?" "No problem." "If your son survives" "Come on!" "You're doing fine!" "Hold on John!" "I made the money wet!" "Who did the jeep belong to?" "Beslan Khatuev" "What's his call-sign?" "I don't know Khatuev's - honest!" "Who's do you know?" "Loads" "Who's do you need?" "Get Gugaev!" "Gugaev" "Salam, Aslan!" "How's the Internet doing without me?" "It's Ivan" "Salam, Ivan!" "What do you want?" "Just to say "Salam"..." "I heard the Englishman is bringing the money" "He's late" "I'm waiting, for now..." "How are my friends?" "They're fine" "I'm sure they are" "He's bringing the money" "But first you promise before Allah that you won't trick us" "Ok..." "Who'll hand over the money?" ""0K" isn't good enough - promise before Allah!" "I've got a witness here." "A Muslim believer" "I swear before Allah!" "When?" "In four days time. 0ver and out" "We'll see how faithful you are to Allah" "We have to get there in two days." "Got it?" "We got there in a day and a half" "Ruslan took us across some goat-tracks, in from the Georgian side ...which was totally unguarded" "All we had to do was make the exchange and get back" "John!" "Well..." "We go in the morning, you with radio" "I own other radio" "We gow down, you take Margaret and wait there" "Now sleep." "You must rest" "Go to sleep" "Russian!" "He won't keep his word" "I heard how he spoke." "AII Gugaevs are lying dogs!" "Our families have always lived close together" "On either side of the mountain pass" "He's our blood enemy!" "They always stole our cattle through the pass" "Our grandfathers fought, even made peace" "In the second war they took 60 sheep from us" ""I'm a fighter, you're a shepherd", he says" ""Your father's brother wanted to kill my grandfather!"" "But he got scared, "And you're just the same!" he says" "Why're you telling me all this?" "Tomorrow he'll kill the American, then you, and then he'll kill me" "You won't answer the radio" "So my family will be killed too" "That's right" "Time!" "Pistol!" "John, this grenade you pull this and throw" "I know" "You can die..." "I know" "Here radio" "If you..." "Well, throw grenade and jump in the hole, understand?" "Repeat!" "Throw the grenade and jump in the hole" "Ok" "So, proud Chechen shepherd can you use thing?" "Not everyone can tend a flock, but everyone can shoot" "So,..." "You have a chance to save the honour of your clan" "Hey, Russian!" "Tell yours to leave my family alone" "They'll kill you..." "Maybe..." "I'm your family now, got it?" "!" "Protect me, and you'll save them" "If I see it's all over for us, then I'll tell them" "Enough, let's go" "In his book and film, John says you were beating the Chechen shepherd Ruslan Schamajev brutally" "And then you just give him weapons?" "So what?" "Weren't you afraid he'd shoot you in the back?" "0f course not!" "I had his family as hostages" "Salam, Aslan!" "Salam, Ivan!" "You're a mountain man, Ivan" "I live on the plains" "We brought the ransom." "Let's go!" "Maggie, it's me!" "How the hell are you?" "!" "Maggie, tell me you're ok!" "Where're the keys?" "!" "Where're the keys?" "Where're the keys?" "!" "Where?" " There!" "Ruslan!" "No!" "0bey your orders!" "You won't get out of here!" "Then you won't get the money" "Tie his hands!" "They raped you!" "Ivan!" "Here is Margaret!" "They raped her!" "What about your oath, Aslan?" "Go to the machinegun!" "Tell your people already" "It's still too early!" "Morning, Comrade Captain!" " Hello, Sergeant" "Give us a smoke" "You bastard!" "What have you done to us?" "What have you done to us?" "!" "They'll kill you!" "We'd landed ourselves right in it" "We couldn't use Aslan for cover" "No way back through the pass with the Captain" "We could go down through the village" "But there were a lot of beards down there" "The Captain said it:  "climbing a tree is easy, getting back down's the hard part"" "He's a great guy!" "He thought of using the river" "They weren't expecting that" "Comrade Captain, we need air support." "We're finished without it!" "We're too far off to use the radio..." "John!" "Aim and don't use many bullets!" "Let's try the satellite phone!" "You're well-stocked, Sergeant!" "How does it work?" "Simple!" "We need to catch a satellite!" "I'll tune it in" "Hello!" "Give me HQ chief, Colonel Malykhin!" "Captain Medvedev!" "Move it!" "Great line!" "If only we had these..." "It's Captain Medvedev." "Hi, Kolya" "Listen, we're surrounded" "Send some air support" "There's five of us, two English" "The Shatoi region, south of Itum-Kali" "Coordinate 34" "Yes..." "There's an abandoned village with a big old tower!" "We're in the tower" "Yes, they're firing at us" "I think we can hold out for an hour" "No, there's nowhere to land" "Alright then!" "So?" "Are they coming?" "John!" "You promised me money. 35..." "Yes, of course" "Lads, give us a cigarette!" "Long to go?" " Seven months" "Just back from Chechnya?" " From Grozny" "Here, for you!" "It's a bonus from NAT0" "For the fight against international terrorism..." "It s English money" "Almost two thousand dollars" "You know the rest" "John made a film and became famous" "I'm being prosecuted by paragraph 105 for killing citizens of the Russian Federation" "I was a civilian, after all" "John put it all in the film ...about the woman in the jeep and the old man with his kid at Aslan's" "How did he shoot it all?" "..." "He wrote a book as well - "My Life in Russia"" "He didn't come to the court case, of course." "Gave evidence over there" "But the brave shepherd Ruslan Shamaev turned up detailing how I tortured him ...how I cynically slaughtered Chechen women and children" "He lives in Moscow now" "His son's at university there" "Margaret never did marry John" "I gave the Captain all the money - he didn't want" "I knew what was waiting for him back home" "His wife wrote, said they'd done some expensive operations" "He's stuck up for me" "He's a good man" "I don't think they'll put me away" "But who knows..." "Our lot in Tobolsk keep looking to Moscow:" ""What's there?" "What will Putin say?" "..." ""Will there be legal reforms?"" "Still haven't seen that film" "It'd be fun to watch it now" "subtitles by -warukunai"