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.
- Which departments?
- The KGB, the defense ministry.
- How many clones are there?
- In our laboratory?
No, in general? How many've been grown?
Hard to say. You see my professor -
he's been in this project since 1968.
He says that then throughout the country there
were about 6000 healthy
doubles and about 19000 sick ones.
Now... Jesus, I couldn't even tell you.
Wait, so you're saying that...
Nonsense... the 'doubles' are among us?
So why no-one knows about it?
Nobody writes about it?
In the president's administration
nobody's ever said anything!
There've been publications. A number of them.
Sure your people talked.
Just you didn't pay attention.
- I would pay attention to that.
- No, you didn't.
There was a big article six months ago
in a tabloid, 'Twins Village'.
It described a village somewhere in Mordovia,
that's full of sick twins. Twins,
triplets, quadruplets.
They all have some kind of internal disease.
- For twins it's a normal thing.
- Normal?
A lot of sick people too.
Yeah, but four kilometres from this village is
Soyuz 4- one of the first Soviet incubators.
These twins are production waste.
The first Soviet doubles.
Volodya! Past midnight, great