really do know how to make stuff.
What's it called?
In Japanese it's called 'Chao van.'
'Chao van? '
Yes. It's the name of a Japanese bird.
You know, the one they worship.
- A crane?
- No.
Different bird... there's a picture of it,
it's bluish with this reddish tail.
Lives up in their forests, or mountains.
- It only sings at night.
- Like an owl?
No. When it sings,
all the Japanese start to feel much better.
Sleep?
In general. They even cry in their sleep.
- In their sleep!
- 'Chao van.' Never heard of it.
Have you sold a lot of them?
Around one and a half thousand.
- Maybe you could give us one?
- I'd be pleased to.
Just leave your phone number.
Well, you won't be able to
get through to the Lubyanka.
Better if you gave me yours.
Okay.
Damn, left my cards in the office as usual.
Let me give you my number.
Marina Borisovna.
Call from nine to seven.
When I'm not away,
I'm always in the office.
Or, well, leave a message with the secretary.
Thanks.
You want another drink?
Okay. Only something else.
- Champagne?
- Okay.
Hey, wake up.
I'm not sleeping.
So cheers! Marina Borisovna.
- What's your name?
- Oleg Nikolayevich
And yours?
Just Vladimir.
Well than Oleg Nikolayevich
and 'just Vladimir',
Let's go with the flow!
- Or rather - tune in.
- Not like in the army, though.
No, musically-speaking.
You a musician?
Do I look like one?
Yup.
No. Way off. Organic chemist.
Horrible!
In school I just hated chemistry!
All those formulas!
To each his own.
You in a chemical Institute, or in industry?
I work in a top secret department.
They used to call it a 'mail box'.
- For the military?
- No, not the military.
Why's it so closed then, this box?
It's hard to explain.
Inventions, or something?
There's nothing left
to invent in this business.
- In organic chemistry?
- No. In genetic engineering.
- Genetics? Trendy job.
- It's the job.
So what d'you do, breed sheep?
- That too.
- Cows? Cattle?
Yeah, that too.
- What, and people too?
- Of course.
What?
That's banned. There was some
international conference,
they banned cloning human beings.
You forget what country we're living in.
What is banned there is allowed here.
Yeah.
- And... it worked with a human?
- Yeah, long ago.
What? How long? Has some boy-clone
already been grown?
Not a boy anymore. Or even a teen.
What - a guy? I mean, an adult?
Sure enough.
The oldest is now 44 years old.
It's crap! 44! When was he cloned?
In Khrushchev's time?
The first human cloning
experiments began in 1947.
Professors Bronstein, Lukin.
Doctor Nesmeyanov.
The first success.
The first Stalin Prize in genetics.
Stalin Prize...
Genetics was outlawed back then.
Outlawed officially. But people
went on with their work, as usual.
There were two secret major government projects:
The atomic bomb and cloning. Only,
cloning is a western word.
Here we call it 'doubling'.
The objects are 'doubles'.
We don't use the word 'clone' in our institute.
Where is this institute? Or is that a secret?
There're no secrets nowadays.
Ever been on Volgina street?
- Where's that? - Somewhere near Belyaevo?
Yes. Shemyakin's institute of organic
chemistry is down there.
There's a secret laboratory in it. Where I work.
What, they grow there,
these people... 'doubles'?
No, we just have a laboratory there.
- The doubles grow in incubators.
- Where are these incubators?
What do you mean? There are quite a few.
How many?
I don't remember, when I started there
six years ago there were about 40.
- 40.
- 12 incubators in Moscow alone.
Four near us in south-west Moscow.
Eight in the suburbs.
I don't understand anything!
Do people grow in them?
We just have a laboratory.
We lay the genes down.
The people grow up in society.
Kindergartens, orphanages.
Fuckin' bullshit! Where'd these clones go?
To the army, ha?
No. Same as the rest... Different places.
There are special programmes.
Managed by special departments.