LINA FILMS
presents.
Stepan!
MICHAEL YORK
in the film.
The Justice of Wolves
based on the novel
"Mika and Alfred" by V. Kunin.
A strange thing happened this morning.
Driving through the city
I felt
as there was someone else in my can.
Then I heard a voice:
"Mika, you must tell people
about the murders
you committed many years ago.
Nobody knows
that you are a murderer:
I looked back
I was alone in the can.
An hour later I was making sketches
for the painting
commissioned by Heidi Marx.
Again I felt there was someone
next to me.
Then this someone materialized
from my drawings, or from thin air.
What name should I give you?
"Alfred" would suit ma.
- - Alfred.
- Yes, Mika.
How do you know my name?
That's because I am you, Mika.
The unexpected visitor
did look like me in my youth.
It seemed he had descended
from the pages
of an old mystical fairy-tale.
He knew my life story perfectly
but he kept asking questions
about things
I was extremely reluctant to recall.
He asked about murders
I gave him the diary
that I kept many years ago.
Mika!
Mika!
Where 's the money I gave you
for your music lessons?
Mom, I didn't want to upset you"
I have lost it
I tum inside out to pay
for your music classes.
And you sky them.
You are from a good family,
after all!
Did you hear my question?
Where's the money?
I swear I've lost it.
Milya!
- Yes, Irina Petrovna..
- Give me a hand here.
I can't pull on this bloody boot.
A Moscow friend is coming
to visit Sergey Arkadyevich.
Olshevsky, the screenwriter
He 'll spend the night here.
Let him sleep in your room,
and you can sleep in the kitchen.
I was thirteen when I first
saw it.
That night I came up
with a cunning plan
to seduce our maid Milya.
Can you help me take the basket
to the loft?
My poor boy,
do you want it so much?
Why didn't you tell me
earlier, my dear?
Suppressing desires for so long
is bad for a boy 's health.
Misha, why don't you say hello?
Hi, Zaitseva.
- Hello, Mika.
- Hi, Stepan. Are you playing Athos?
- Why such a sour face?
- Polyakov is putting on airs.
Just you tell me, Nelly!
I 'll teach this kike a lesson!
"This kike"? What's that?
Didn't you know, Zaitseva?
Polyakov is a Jew.
Doctor, how is my son?
He's lost a lot of blood
and he has a concussion"
It's too early to make
any prognoses
I was in a lot of pain,
raving and hallucinating.
It seemed like something
in my head had cracked.
Strange things began happening
around ma.
Suddenly I saw an island
in the ocean.
I was flying over it.
Then I kind of calmed down,
for the pain had gone.
But I felt
that my world had changed.
Mommy, iris' so good you came.
My dear boy.
Have I changed a lot?
No, darling.
If it's the hair, don't worry,
it'll grow.
And everything will get back
to normal.
No, not everything.
Hello, guys
Misha!
- It's nice to see you again!
- Hi!
Show us the scan
three, four, five..
They put 12 stitches.
Bugger off small fry!
Why are you pushing us?
Do you think you're tough?
You're fine again,
aren't you, dirty kike?
I want you dead bastard!
He's not breathing!
Today the armed forces
of fascist Germany
have launched an offensive
against the USSR ....
Yum, I can't take Mika to Alma-Am.
M y wife needs an urgent operation.
So I want you to take him
You 're my assistant,
someone who has experience
and whom I can trust.
Here 'S the money for your trip and
the living until you settle.
Mika, my boy.
As soon as we arrange
everything here..
Hey you, careful with
the stockings!
We 'll join you in Alma-Am.
- When?
- You and Yura will settle down,
make yourselves at home,
and then mom and I will come.
Mika, my darling boy!
Films? Sure I've made films,
both comedies and dramas.
That's cool!
I was in Khanzhonkov's studio.
Th en the war started
I was promoted lieutenant.
You must've seen a lot!
Then I was in hospital.
They wouldn't take me back to the front.
So now I'm going to Alma-Am.
Lenfilm Studios have been
evacuated there
I say, Yum, let's go
to our compartment.
We 'd talk and have some wine.
You 'd tell us about Leningrad
and the movies.
Not about this
I 'd say, why not, Mika?
Remember his position"
What have you got in mind
Alfred?
You go. I'll stay here.
How many years have you had
these dreams of the island?
Since I was a kid
I 'll like to live in a place
where no one would hurt me.
It's bad when dreams
don't come true.
Little devil!
Little fucker! You couldn't find
a betterplace, asshole?
That's my idea:
You could buy a nice island.
Free his hands, Sabitov
and create a colony for people.
Let him pack his balls!
He's got no servants to help him
whom you, Leo and Heidi
wanted to make happy.
Look 111 you, underage bitch!
- Stop pushing ma.
- What?
That's millions of dollars.
Fucking slut! Go back
to your carriage!
Have you gone mad Alfred?
Be realistic.
Sabitov, I 'll give you the light,
and you Search him well
You know what to look for
I am being realistic
I voice your ideas.
[And] know who will make
your dream come true.
He's damn clean.
- Where are your papers?
- How about your papers?
Shit! Who 's that madman?
- How do I know who you are?
- I'll show you who we are!
Sabitov, take this attorney
to the compartment.
You, Mika.
Move your ass!
Me?!
We 'll show you something more
persuasive than papers.
We've got our first order:
It's worth $500,000.
He's in illegal arms trade
A bad guy, in general.
Yum Koptev, the man who
accompanied me,
He 'll provide any customer
with every possible weapon
including ballistic missiles
was lying there with his throat cut
I've told you many times:
Our money and papers had vanished
I can't kill someone
only because they 're bad.
Not so brave now, are you?
They should be tried in court.
Look what they've done
to your friend'.
What court are you talking about?
The legal system is corrupt.
It doesn't fight crime.
- Who did he leave with?
- Two policemen.
Rather, it helps criminals.
One looked like a Kazakh,
the other one was Russian"
You and I will render justice.
Can you describe their cloth es?
Using the competition
between criminals.
We can't make mistakes.
Uniforms like yours.
What they give us
an innocent man as a mark?
- Any distinguishing features?
- I 'd better draw them.
A bad man may decide to settle
accounts with someone good.
We must be sure that we punish
those who deserve it.
- Mika.
- I'm afraid.
Nothing to be afraid of.
All right, go ahead.
There are no innocent people
in these circles.
Mika, you're an artist,
a creative person.
You sure did a sweell job.
Why cram your head
with administrative issues?
I've recognized one of them,
Ravil Shayakhmetov
I've recognized the Russian too
but I don't remember his mime
I 'll deal with them.
And you do the creative work,
- Krasnov?
- That's right, Krasnov
execute the verdict.
- Is it a deal?
- Na.
He's on the wanted list.
Eat
I obeyed Alfred.
- What's this?
- Kurt
Kazakh national meal,
dried goat milk.
He contacted Stepan,
my old playmate,
who was a very influential person
back in Russia.
He gave us our first order:
Could Alfred be my demon?
I saw the face of the man
who had invited.
A tempter?
The unfortunate Yum
to his compartment.
Though, #he is a demon.
He seemed to tell me:
Keep your mouth shut!
Why should he need me?
I answered silently:
You're dead, you bastard.
He could destroy
all these parasites on his own.
And I felt
I 'd taken the order
as an ordinary contract killer:
An invisible fireball
start out of my head.
Even though I had sworn
I would no longer use my...
and fly upwards
I don't know a proper word for it...
my gift, perhaps, ...
to stop hearts beating
I dream about my island;
My New Atlantis.
Go to Alma-Am
You might find your parents them.
That would take a lot of money.
But beware of strangers.
That's why, once again, I turned
myself into a lethal weapon"
That girl we saw you with
the other night, Misha..
And still I had doubts..
I was confused..
Go ahead with hen
Look how she's staring 111 you!
This is your food certificate
to get food until you arrive
And your temporary ID.
Since you have no other papers
Hera.
Good luck.
Take Cara.
Go ahead, Misha, have
some fun with hen.
Let 111 least someone be happy.
Are you all right, Mika?!
When the train arrived 111 Alma-Am
I shouldn't have done that
I have never murdered
on a contract
I was immediately caught up
in a huge police raid..
Police raid' Run!
You shouldn't be sorry for them
chased by policemen
who looked like those.
We clear the world of pests
I had said good-bye ta.
We 're like wolves
who eat dead animals.
Take him!
All the USSR police seemed
to have started a hunt..
What do they call wolves?
Forest cleaners.
-Freeze.f
and I, Mika Polyakov,
was their quarry.
Time passed.
Come on!
After Leo's death
Heidi no longer cared
about our dream
to build the City of the Sun.
Stepan regularly provided me
with new orders
but it was increasingly difficult
for me to execute them.
Sorry.
- Got you"
- I'm not a street kid.
- Hello.
- Hi, it's Stepan"
Take him to the police station!
Have you checked everything?
The client's money is on the account.
Charged with armed robbery.
It 's all here.
That means everything 's OK..
- How old are you?
- Fourteen.
- You can do the job.
- Good evening.
- Where are you?
- I'm on the spot.
Fourteen 7.
Mika, be careful.
You know, Rymbayev,
put him and other suspicious
guys into our car
and send them to the juvenile
penitentiary.
Ladies and gentlemen, dear
colleagues,
Don't forget
the covering documents
economic and trade relationship
between our countries..
Kikes don' t smoke pot,
do they?
What?
What's wrong with you, sir?
Are you all right?
I think he doesn't get it.
Crawl up h era.
We 're gonna screw you,
taking turns.
[Help]
You heard my question:
Do kikes smoke pot?
I don't know
I have a feeling the bastard
doesn't want to talk to us.
Why not cut the fucker's balls off?
What's the air and water temperature
in winter?
Come on, kike,
take your pants off?
But in November the air is 22
and the water is 25.
Or we 'U geld you.
No need ta He 'll shit blood
for a week anyway.
You should come here in August.
Iris' paradise.
- Let's see your paradise then!
- And the climate here is stable.
Move aside, kid'.
There in the guy we 're building
a pier
for deep-draught motor boats.
- I sea.
- And on your right..
A desalination plant
with a small power station"
What's the name of that island?
After I killed the two guys
in the police car.
It doesn't have a name.
You can give it any name
you like
I was taken to a juvenile
penitentiary in Kaskelen,
Mika 'S Island
high up in the mountains
Several years of my life.
F or instance, give it your name:
Mika 's Island
I spent there,
behind barbed wire.
What do you think?
I 'll take it!
Misha, are you ill?
I like this island.
- I have to go to Alma-Am.
- Why 7.
You said you had another
good offer.
- My dad's in Alma-Am.
- How do you know?
Or did you ?!
I did
I don't think
we 'll find something better:
I can see he's them.
Don't tell anyone, all right?
Though there are so many
great places ..
- Let's take this one.
- All right.
Let it be Greece.
Homer may have sat
on this very rock
watching the sunset.
Homer was blind Alfred.
We've got 4 more orders.
- Tell ma.
- Right
Las Vegas.
A Russian is building a casino.
He pocketed 2 billion
of state money.
What else?
Spain" Andalusia.
A prime-minister of a former
Soviet republic
who stole a half
of his country 's budget.
It 's their business.
Anything else?
Another skirmish in Tolyatti.
Oh, no.
After our island I can't
even think
of going to Russia.
Good afternoon. Come in.
We tum it down then"
Please.
A ski resort in the Alps.
- Where 're you going?
- I have to see my father:
Money stolen from Russia
is laundered there.
- You can't go in them.
- My father's there.
- I said "No".f.
- I know my dad's here.
And invested into real estate.
Good-bye.
They say mountain air.
Then I saw Olshevsky,
father's friend,
is good for health.
Whom I once saw making love
to our maid in our kitchen"
So, we go them.
- Good afternoon, Mr Olshevsky!
- I'm sorry, son.
The main thing is the list
of the islanders
I can't give you anything.
I'm Mika Polyakov.
You 're my dad's friend.
The list is ready.
We have a problem with documents.
Mika? I didn't recognize you"
Your folks stayed in Sverdlovsk
Your mom was ill.
Stepan will help us with it.
Stepan, I carry out all
your orders.
Maybe, they have arrived
I haven 't seen them.
See you"
What about mine?
It's not about the bank account
You know.
Food! Sugar!
You had no money when you left,
and now you're buying an island
I want to settle some colonists
in my paradise.
He's a gutless coward.
There 's nothing to kill him for.
Could you help me
to arrange their arrival?
- H ere, please.
- Thank you.
H ere, take this apple.
Our drinks..
Are you sure you sent out
all the invitations?
You know I did'.
- What's your dad's name?
- Polyakov.
Somebody is against
our New Atlantis.
What's it again?
Sorry, I can't hear well.
Has all that we've done been
in vain?
Sergey Arkadyevich Polyakov.
From Leningrad.
What right did I have
to kill people?
- Polyakov?
- Yes.
He's here.
- Even they 're criminals.
- Stop torturing yourself.
He came 3 days ago and
is in a drinking bout.
The ones you've killed
didn't have the right to live
I 'll take you to him.
They were criminals!
Mika!
And it weren't for us
they wouldn't have been punished.
You said: 'We are forest cleanersf.
Forgive me, my dear boy.
You know I never drank.
Stepan, old son of a bitch!
But when your mother died
it was as if the sky.
Am I glad to hear you!
Misha, my dear friend!
Warming your ass on your island,
aren't you?
Crashed down on my head.
There 's no God up them.
Iris' damn cold here.
A very cold autumn.
I can't hear you very well, Stepan"
I'm in the can.
Have your islanders arrived yet?
Not yet What could have happened?
I don't know, it was all arranged
I've made arrangements.
Probably something 's wrong
with the papers.
The whole of Lenflm is here.
I pulled some strings.
So you 'll work 111 the studio
with the sound engineers.
- And what about you?
- I'll go to the front.
My camera is my weapon
I 'll be a reporter
with the Air Force squadron"
And what about me?
One kilo, please.
Thank you"
We 'll see each other soon"
Stepan!
We 'll defeat Hitler,
which won't take long,
and I 'll come back.
Au fight, dad
I 'd like to meet this Hitler
I did not even dare tell
my father about my powers.
- Alfred, is that you?
- Yeah, it 's ma.
M any times, though, I fantasized
about being taken to Berlin,
Have the guests arrived?
Meeting Hitler and
murdering him..
How are you?
Why didn't you answer my calls?
Call me when our guests arrive,
the people
who we've done all this for.
Something occurred to me today:
Being old
means that you still love life
but life
doesn't love you any more.
Come back, Mika
I 'll call you"
Forgive me, Alfred.
Mika!
When I realized that none of those
I had been waiting for
would come to my island;
I left it.
I settled down in a small
seaside town not far away.
My god, Misha, i'd say
you're hot!
To stop feeling lonely
I started a diary again...
Wipe away your tears, my dear friend.
Don't cry for me any more.
Open up, honey! It's ma.
It's my husband'.
Oh, my God.f.
It's my husband
I sought this eternal life myself
and dreamt of that distant land.
Hurry up, sweetheart.
- Is it you, my sweetie?
- Let me in right now!
Run"
- Is it you, my sweetie?
- It's getting on my nerves!
There the white snowstorms fade
And the night rocks the cradle of God.
- Have you lost the key or what?
- Coming, sweetheart!
What's taking you so long?
Misha, are you a fool or what?
Beyond there 's only light
And it's only there that we 'll have.
- Want to break your neck?
- You haven't seen anything.
If you rat on me, I'll kill you"
forgiveness for everything.
Everything! Everything is stolen!
Several pairs of boots, shirts,
a winter overcoat
with an astrakhan collar:
There is a mist-covered country
Somewhere beyond the seas.
Anything else?
A beige suit with a waistcoat.
Do you suspect anyone,
Mn Olshevsky?
I'm afraid;
Mika!
Mika! Here you are!
The only person I can think of.
They have arrived'
is my friend 's son.
Mika..
Mikhail Polyakov.
Polyakov?
He's spent time
His father is 111 the front
And Mika...
- Mika? Is that a nickname?
- Na.
Where 's the gear?
Who bought it from you?
I didn't steal anything.
So you didn't..
Did you read this?
Semyonov and Onoprienko
with their own eyes
saw Polyakov, the guy from
the sound shop,
jump from a first floor window
of the hotel
with a big bundle in his hands
I didn't steal.
He didn't steal..
What was in the bundle
you had in your hands?
By the way, Olshevsky lives
in the ground floor:
Nice jacket!
Come on, take it off?
You, stinking rats, knock it off?
Leave the boy alone.
I won't say it twice,
motherfuckers!
Do you want to stab us, thug?
That's an option"
A knife...
Shit in your pants, assholes?
Show them, Lavrik!
Cut their fucking balls 0.
They 'll kick the bucket anyway.
- I need to pee..
- So what's the problem?
It's over them.
It's not coming out.
They beat your kidneys
It's all swollen in there.
Don't worry, relax, give it time,
it'll come.
Will you also wipe his ass?
I will if I have to.
And then I 'll make you gobble
up the paper, bastard'
I said the cops had beaten
his kidneys to a pulp.
Where 're you going?
Do you think I didn't see?
I saw You spent the night
with Misha.
That's a lie
Misha is in jail
but he's innocent.
- The boy was in your bed!
- Nonsense. f.
- What are you talking about?!
- You must go to the police.
You must tell them You 're
pretg/, they 'll listen to you"
Please, here 's some money.
What? Money?
- Please!
- B itch y bitch!
- Wait! Where 're you going?
- I know my way.
You can't go in there!
You 're not a detective,
you're a fascist!
Stop shouting!
Calm down, mother!
Misha could never take anything
from anyone!
He jumped from the first floor:
That was only physical training.
- Who did he jump from?
- What do I care?
All he had with him were
his pants, shirt and sandals!
If you don't release the boy,
tomorrow I 'll go to the main
party committee, damn it!
Polyakov, take your
and get out!
Told you they 'd let him out.
How come they let out him,
but not me?
That's because you 're
a syphilitic.
Fuck!
See you soon!
Misha, don't forget us.
Here in Munich I try to figure out
why that accident 111 school
gave me such inexplicable
powers
I think of having a medical
examination in a local clinic.
But I'm afraid I 'd be taken
for a monster.
What else can doctors think
about someone
who can kill with a look?
Misha! Hi there!
Come with me!
I'm here with a classy chick.
Let 's grab a bite here
and go to her place.
No, thanks, Lavrik.
- Why not?
- -Dad's coming
I had a word with the fence
who bought the loot from
those who set you up.
He spilled out that tonight
they were bringing more.
- Let's tum them in to the cops.
- Na
I 'll deal with them myself.#
Misha, I could help you
with than.
No, Lavrik, thanks
I 'U manage.
I was waiting for the two guys
who saw me jump off
Lida the singer's balcony.
They grassed on me, saying
I had robbed Olshevsky.
They called me a thief yet they
were the ones who were breaking
into apartments and hotel rooms.
Today they forced the lock
of the storage room.
Stay where you are, assholes!
You punished the bastards well!
My respects.
How about working together?
- Want me to draw your portrait?
- No, Misha
I don't need publicity.
I'm not an ordinary guy.
I'm a thief.
And I don't want to show
my mug around
I 'll tell you something.
They buried one of them
The other one is alive
Halfway.
Can 't move his arm and his leg,
and one side of his face.
He pisses and shits in his pants.
Do you have anything to tell me?
Not really.
- Nothing to tell you"
- I respect that
I 'll tell you more:
I 'd never have expected that..
You 're the man of steel, Misha.
Have you lost your way, captain?
I'm looking for my son.
His name is Misha
I was told he helped someone
unload a truck here.
- Here, help yourself, captain.
- Thanks.
Here 's to us.
He knows where Misha is.
Let's go, captain"
We'll find your Misha in no time.
- Thank you"
- Good luck.
There's your Misha!
Mika!
Dad.f.
Son.
Dad take me away from here.
I can do many things:
I can't, son. Iris' wartime.
The first patrol will stop you,
and I won't be able to do
anything
I don't like it here, dad
I can't, Mika
I 'd take you but..
- Don't take the clothes.
- Why 7.
All fences are cops' informers
We don't need problems.
Take dough and yellow metal.
That is, cash and gold.
We have to fiind them first.
Every thief knows:
Dough is hidden on the shelves
with bed-linen,
and gold and jewelry is kept
in flower pots.
There you go.
And then I saw a flower pot
and the golden
hidden inside.
Lavrik had not wasted his time
trying to convince me
to become his partner
in Robin Hood crimes.
He called it so,
in his romantic way,
to our raids on the houses
of the local moneybags.
Good work!
- You 're late again!
- Downside of our profession.
Wash your hands and let's
have some lunch.
H era.
And don't stash it away.
Buy something useful
for the house.
Misha surprised me today:
He can see through the walls.
You 'll stay 111 our place, Misha,
won't you?
There's enough room for everyone.
I own the whole place.
Buy him a good couch.
And a wide one 111 that.
Who knows who'll roll
onto him 111 night
I fell in love with Lavrik
at first sight.
The minute I saw him
I liked everything about him:
The stripes on the sailor's vest
under his open-necked shirt,
and his jacket, and the boots.
And his tender approach,
no foul language..
- Can he do without it?
- Sura.
- What presents he gave me!
- Come on!
- Let's drink Here 's to us!
- To us!
There 's only one thing
I don't like about Lavrik:
He reads too much.
It can drive you crazy.
I once tried to read one
of his books
I got to the 3rd page and
had a headache.
Gramophone is much better:
You tum it on, put on a record..
What's so Robin-Hood-like
about burgling the rich?
I keep falling lower and lower.
'My heart's in the highlands
My heart is not here...'.
How about
having some fresh air
in the mountains?
What do you say, Lilya?
Let's drive to Medea.
We 'll have some fun,
catch butterflies,
entertain the ladies.
But we have to find someone
for Misha.
How about Sveta,
the pretty Moldavian girl?
She'd be a good match
for Misha
Misha, it's your tum to kiss!
Sveta, stop gobbling.
- I'm not gobbling.
- I can see that.
Let's go.
It was a brilliant idea
to come here.
Let's have a drink.
Sveta, who taught you all this?
My step-father:
He taught me this since I was 10.
And then he left us,
mother and me, both pregnant.
- You were 10?
- 12. And don't ask me anymore
I love you so much, Misha
I was madly in love with Sveta
I liked everything about hen.
Her laughter, her breasts
like Fergana melons.
I robbed the rich and gave the loot
to the poor:
That is, I gave it to Sveta.
- What's taking them so long?
- They 'll be here, wait.
We've got company.
I'm sure it was clean.
Don't worry, we 'll get away
through the backyard.
Get in!
Hold on!
Are you ready?
Give way!
Sorry, broth er!
Poor crops this year!
- They're catching up with us!
- Don't fret, Misha!
There 's not a cop on earth
who could catch me!
- Can I go now?
- Lie still!
Your task was to make
Polyakov fall for you"
We need to know his every move
And what have you done, bitch?
- I know his moves.
- So you do?
- Where was he yesterday?
- He was painting my portrait.
He's an artist.
He's a thief and his partner
is also an 'artist', like him.
And we have to catch them
red-handed.
Do you get it, bitch?
If I don't know where they are
and what they are planning to do
I 'll put your alcoholic of
a mother into a nuthouse,
and your broth er will go
to an orphanage.
And you 'll get 2 years in prison
for concealing information,
and 3 more for intentional
infection with a venereal disease.
On the whole you're in for
five years.
- But I'm healthy.
- So far you are.
Safari..
Wait till I put you in
a prison cell for a day.
You 'll get the whole range
from clap to chancre.
Do you want to go to a concert
at the club tomorrow?
- When does it start?
- At 730
I won't make it.
Lavrik and I are going to Talagar
on business.
Let's do it some other time
I dreamt of the island again"
I saw its shore,
its yellow sandy beaches
and tall palm-trees
I saw people.
They were laughing and talking
I wanted to ask them
how they got to the island
of my dreams.
But then I soared up
towards the clouds
and the island vanished.
Two burglars are going to Talagar
on business.
Our task is to apprehend them.
Perhaps we should take more men?
- Why do we need them?
- They've got a gun.
A shitty poet and a fucking artist.
Don't make me laugh.
Shit!
Iris' here.
Lavrik, maybe, we'd better leave?
I have a bad feeling about this.
A new life starts behind this wall.
We 'll take with us our girls,
a heap of books
and buy a house
overlooking the sea.
And you were afraid stupid.
Hands up!
- High er!
- Don't sh out.
Shit!
We give in.
What is this?
What about our house
overlooking the sea?
I didn't expect to see you here,
Polyakov.
Neither did I, Petr Alexeevich.
Take a seat.
Tell me honestly, Mikhail,
did you kill our detective?
Me? How?
That's exactly what I 'd like
to know.
No wounds on the body,
yet the man is dead.
That reminded me of our
first encounter on the train.
We were after those who had
murdered your dad's assistant.
- Do you remember?
- I do.
So what?
The point is that
when we searched the train
we found the body
of an old offender
without any traces
of violent death.
It seems the bandit was about
to shoot you
but all of a sudden he cranked.
It happens.
It happens..
But only when you are around,
somehow
I've looked through some files
and came across a strange case:
The death of two assholes
in a police can.
When they died; Polyakov,
you happened to be in that can.
Not only ma.
Th ere was also a witness,
a homeless boy.
He stated that you had killed
the two thugs
with a look.
Do you want to tell me
how it happened?
Two husky fellows die
without any traces
of violence.
Don't you find it strange?
Did someone check their health?
Lavrlk also was healthy,
and look at him now...
Don't duck my questions.
Why do all these deaths
look so much alike?
And every time you were around.
Or is it a coincidence?
Does anyone of your family
know where you are?
I have no one.
Here, Mikhail, read this.
This newspaper contains the news
that is very sad but very important
for you"
"Soviet cinema suffers a loss
Sergey Polyakov killed"
Dad! Father!
Cut the h hysterics!
Want to feign it, wait
until morning.
Doctor will give you an enema
And now sleep!
Dad.f.
Daddy!
Open the door!
I'm suffocating..
Bars..
I'm in pain!
I can't breathe.
- Thank you, Petr Alexeevich.
- What for?
For helping me to get to
the Air Force school.
F or taking care, for everything
Misha, why did you decide
to be a pilot?
Do you want to be like Chkalov?
No, Kulpan, I want to be
like my father:
Here, Mika, take it
You 'll need it.
Here are some documents
and your drawings.
Kulpan kept them for you.
- Misha, take care of yourself.
- Thank you, Kulpan.
See that they don't steal it.
Petr Alexeevich, thank you
for believing in me.
Forgive me for all the wrong
I've done.
I won't let you down"
See you after the war!
Your apartment was destroyed
by a bomb during the siege.
This one is not bad either,
though there are only 2 rooms
I came back to Leningrad
in the early 1950-s
after Stalin ordered the Red Army
to be drastically reduced.
At the time I no longer cared
much about anything.
Leaving the army I was supposed
to return my gun but I didn't.
One evening sitting on n bench
in the park
I spotted my classmate Nelly,
who had unwillingly caused
my first murder.
You can't have seen me here.
Nelly!
Mika!
Where have you been for so long?
Let's go.
Hey, what the hell?
I ran out of money.
Iris' hard to raise a child alone.
It was my first time there.
My friend Verka the Rabbit
advised me to go there.
Rabbit?
H er nickname.
She's got a funny upper lip,
like that of a rabbit.
Rabbi; ..
Where did you get this from?
Never touch things that don't
belong to you!
Police Senior lieutenant
Potemkin.
What brings you here?
- Polyakov? M y classmate. ..
- Stepan?
- Mika!
- Stepan! Hello, Athos!
Look 111 you!
And look 111 you! Big chap!
Don 't stand there!
Come on in!
- Come in!
- Life's full of surprises!
By the way, I've been
discharged
I guess we both were dismissed
by the same decree?
- Where did you serve?
- In the Air Force.
I defended the icy Northern
borders of the Soviet Union"
- Stepan! Here 's to our reunion!
- To us!
Why didn't you return your gun?
- What gun?
- Don't give me this bullshit
I've got no gun"
You shouldn't mix with sluts
so much.
Then you wouldn't have to lie.
Tomorrow bring it yourself.
I'll take care of the formalities.
What's gotten into you ?!
If you don't, blame yourself?
You 'll be canned for illegal
possession"
We 're very strict about it now.
The underworld gives us
d hard time.
Come tomorrow: lunch break
from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
See you"
The underworld that Stepan
told me about
was trying to use ma.
They somehow learnt about
my being able
to kill with a look
I told them No.
I enrolled in the Academy
of Fine Arts, I got married.
No more wine, honey.
Stepan, in the 1st grade
I was in love with you"
I promise I was.
Kiss the bride!
Let me kiss you!
Mika, come back here!
Very interesting works.
A beautiful piece.
What flight of thought!
Polyakov is an ex-pilot,
a military officer:
One can see the hand
of a master:
He's the best in year:
Nelly, I've been invited abroad'
To Warsaw!
Of course, I was glad:
My paintings would travel
to exhibitions all over Europe.
But the woman I wanted to share
my happiness with wash't there.
She was caught in the swirl
of restaurants.
Open she wouldn't come home
forgetting both about her son
and ma.
- Where's mom?
- She'll be home soon. Sleep.
Mika, draw a rabbit for ma
I 'll draw it tomorrow
It's late now.
Mika, please. ..
Au #gm.
- Hallo.
- Mika, can you drop by?
No, I can't
I don't feel like it.
You have to, Misha
You really have ta.
- Have you got anything to drink?
- I'll find something.
- All right, I 'll be them.
- Good!
Sorry I made you come here.
[But] had ta.
She was found in a lake.
In Vuoksa.
She was drunk.
She drowned.
She was hopeless
I'm sorry.
It's all my fault.
The Academy, my studies..
You couldn't have protected
her anyway, Misha.
Take my advice:
Go abroad and settle them.
What are you telling me, Stepan?
To settle in the West?
Me? A Russian?
Misha Polyakov?
I took Stepan's advice
and left the country
where I was born and grew up,
where I became an artist.
My exhibitions are held
all around Europa.
One can say that Mikhail Polyakov
is a success.
My only real friend is Leo Taub,
a writer:
He and his wife Heidi Marx
infected me with the idea
of creating the City of the Sun.
They wanted to build a new Atlantis,
a home for writers and artists
who would be happy
to live and work them
I believed them
I was glad to donate
all my royalties to their cause.
Still there was not enough money.
It was then that Alfred appeared.
Impressive house ..
Hello, darling
I'm so glad to see you"
Sit down"
I 'll join you in a second.
- Where 's the computer?
- In the drawing room.
You 're like a little boy.
I love computer games
Killing monsters..
Why do you keep speaking
about killings?
Who the hell are you?
- Hallo.
- It's me, Misha.
Glad to hear you, Lea.
Pick me up, please.
The program was on air
when I had a heart problem.
Let's take a stroll in
the English park
Germany for Germans!
Mika, I spoke about this
on radio "Liberty ".
About my little Jewish cousin
who had to hide
from German fascists
in Prague cellars in the 1940-s.
- Calm down, Lea.
- I can't believe it happens again!
I hate you!
You scum!
Leo! What's wrong, Leo?!
Bastards!
It was Leo's last words that
awoke the killer in me
that had been asleep
for many years.
Here you are.
I've got an idea regarding
your "New Atlantis".
- What idea?
- You must see Stepan"
I could talk to Stepan
over the phone.