chopping.
Where to?
Where to, Pa?
Forward, just like in the song.
No, Ican't tell lies.
I've got
to fnd out personally.
Okay, you go,
but I'm not going.
- Yes, you are.
- No.
Yes, you are.
Then I'll go without you.
I'm off, Alexei.
Pa!
Pa!
What the...
No! Pa! Pa!
Pa!
Pa!
Go away!
What's with you?
Alexei.
What's with you, Pa?
We'll never make it
to the swamp, Alexei...
to Devil's Mane.
Why did Itake
so much upon myself?
Ibelong in the feld hospital
with the shell-shocked.
Pa.
So you're shell-shocked, big deal.
You'll pull through.
You fgure we'll make it, Alexei?
We can make it.
Sure thing, Pa.
Of course we will.
Hey, Alexei.
Talk to me, Alexei, will you?
What do you think?
What should we do next?
Nothing. Sleep.
We need to make a decision
about the Mane.
Do we keep on chopping or not?
Chop.
Maybe we shouldn't?
Icould go to the regional committee
and ask for help.
Tell them what's happening here, huh?
Go ahead.
Ishouldn't have arrested Spiridon.
Ishouldn't have.
He warned me about the Mane.
He was right.
He warned us, didn't he?
We must chop on through.
There's no way back.
Pa.
CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE
GIVE THEM THE BEST
- Pa!
- What?
Don't be so upset.
So you sent him to jail.
He'll be fne.
He won't fall apart.
He's not made of sugar, is he?
He, Nastya and myself used to catch
fsh together with our shirts.
We ran down the same trails barefoot.
You think it's easy for me
to give him a rifie butt in the back?
Pa.
Let's go back to the city.
Iwant to go back to the orphanage.
Iguess I'll boil some potatoes.
Pa!
Pa?
Let me go, Spiridon!
Where's Pa?
Pa!
Where is he?
Pa! Pa!
Alexei.
Pa!
Pa's dead.
You killed Pa?
Come back, Alexei.
- You hear me?
- Get away!
It's no good hanging around orphanages.
- I'll leave here.
- You can stay with us.
We won't abandon you.
I'll get you yet!
Pa!
Pa!
Pa!
Pa!
Kolya, Kolya.
In the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Pa!
KIEVSY
GLORYTO THE RED ARMY
TAYA
TAYA
THE FORTIES
ELAN VILLAGE
"Buried here is the body
of God's servant Yerofey Solomin"
There he is.
Over there.
- Take him.
- I'm afraid.
When he gets well,
then you'll be afraid, you fool.
What's this?
Old man.
Hey, old man.
Iknow you.
You're the Eternal Old Man.
Eat what God's blessed us with.
Old man.
Hey, old man,
is Elan still around?
Hasn't fallen to the ground yet.
Who do you want to see in Elan?
The Solomins, old man.
There are lots of Solomins.
Which one?
Spiridon.
Spiridon's in jail.
- He's in jail.
- He is?
He's been there over fve years
for killing your father Nikolai.
Irecognized you at once, Alexei.
You run away from the orphanage?
What's his term?
Ten years in jail
plus fve more of hard labor.
- Where's he doing time?
- Can't be any farther than Siberia.
He still won't get away.
I'll get him when he gets out.
What are you staring at me for?
What are you...
Why don't you stay here?
Your homeland
will give you strength and wisdom.
You nuts or something, old man?
I'm not gonna waste
my sunny youth in your swamps.
Bye!
Maybe we'll meet again
if you don't kick the bucket.
"Bolshevik Nikolai Ustyuzhanin
fell at the heinous hand
of his class enemy"
You live in Elan?
- What?
- Iasked, do you live in Elan?
Yes.
Itrudged 5,000 kilometers to get here.
- Swans?
- Geese.
Geese.
Geese.
ELAN VILLAGE
VOLGA - VOLGA
Then there's Sochi,
then Tuapse.
The Black Sea is something.
In the evening, there's restaurants,
music, women,
tango.
- What?
- Tango is a type of dance.
Can you dance at all or not?
Want me to teach you?
Come here.
Come closer.
Closer.
I'm supposed to hold you.
And you hold me. Like this.
- That's no tango.
- Hey, Iknow what tango is.
- That's not tango.
- Yes, it is.
No, it isn't.
It isn't.
- Yes, it is.
- No, it isn't.
You silly bumpkin.
Okay, teach me.
Iknow it's tango.
What are you grabbing for?
What are you grabbing for?
It's a