Serko

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00:00:40 So I went berserk for we were about to die.
00:00:43 I, Emile Fragonard,
00:00:45 the most famous illusionist in Paris,
00:00:47 who've just dazzled the Emperor of China,
00:00:50 I tell them to go to hell.
00:00:52 Our boatmen invoke Heaven
00:00:55 They begged me to pay them first.
00:00:57 "You'll get paid when we get there!"
00:00:59 The sea is choppy, the wind is gusty,
00:01:02 we're going to drown.
00:01:04 So I dive into the water and with my arms,
00:01:07 I pull the raft to the opposite ahore.
00:01:10 I set foot in Russia and I'm soaked.
00:01:13 I've lost my costume,
00:01:16 Paris' famous tailor.
00:01:19 We didn't know then,
00:01:22 that upon landing in beautifuI Amuria,
00:01:24 I could hear at the same time
00:01:27 Young Muktan is getting married.
00:01:40 Tradition dictates that
00:01:42 he offer his betrothed a bear's fur.
00:01:45 But the bear, as you can imagine,
00:01:50 So the shaman invokes the Spirits
00:02:01 You can't hunt without the Tsar's Cossacks,
00:02:04 what with the fax on fur.
00:02:06 So Lt Pechkov and his sons join
00:02:10 The younger one is a nice fellow.
00:02:12 I'll be meeting him very far from here,
00:03:06 Oh Lord! I beg you Lord!
00:03:10 I know that I am not alone on earth.
00:03:14 That you have other things to do.
00:03:18 But can you spare some time for me?
00:03:20 I beg you!
00:03:48 I beg you Lord!
00:04:06 What happened?
00:04:10 He got scared, didn't he?
00:04:14 What the hell has that idiot done?
00:04:18 Where the hell's that yellow-belly?
00:04:27 What are you laughing at?
00:04:32 Let this coward stay here! Let's go!
00:04:36 We'll get that goddamn animaI!
00:04:38 And no later than tomorrow!
00:04:41 And, Oh, will I enjoy eating his balls!
00:04:43 Move on!
00:05:29 The father won't take his cowardly
00:05:32 "Let him chop wood?"
00:05:41 The yellow-belly's name is Dimitri,
00:05:43 and his fate will soon be changed
00:05:45 by a chain of inevtable events.
00:05:51 Which proves that destiny
00:05:54 Where's that scumbag, Nikolai Pechkov?
00:05:56 The lieutenant on a mission,
00:05:58 What mission? Don't make me laugh.
00:06:01 We saw a bear threatening some men.
00:06:03 It's very dangerour
00:06:05 I'd like to know how much
00:06:06 that shyster gets for his furs.
00:06:08 Enough to fill his mouth
00:06:10 My husband in an honest man.
00:06:12 He enforces the laws of the Tsar.
00:06:14 The tax on furs is a great burden
00:06:16 He is an honourable man.
00:06:19 Enough with the bull!
00:06:21 These men have come from the city
00:06:24 I need your husband
00:06:27 Go find him, and be quick about it!
00:06:28 He won't be back before nightfall!
00:06:30 My Dimitri will take your friends.
00:06:32 He speaks the language.
00:06:34 He'll help you handle your transaction.
00:06:38 I'll take you there.
00:07:09 What are they up to?
00:07:13 Stay out to it!
00:07:35 His ImperiaI Majesty wishes,
00:07:37 to build a railway
00:07:39 from one end to the other.
00:07:40 A glorious challenge whose completion
00:07:42 will add to the magnificenec of our Empire
00:07:44 and to the happiness of each one of us.
00:07:46 These gentlemen can vouch for me.
00:07:49 The Tsar has entrusted us
00:07:52 of feeding the thousands of worders,
00:07:55 who will be working on the building site.
00:07:58 We will establish travelling kitchens,
00:07:59 that will move along with the workers.
00:08:01 Our first plan indicates that we'll need
00:08:05 Hence the order from on high to use,
00:08:07 your little, pretty much good for nothing,
00:08:11 Excuse me, Mister Bouvarine,
00:08:14 but you know better than anyone
00:08:16 that our Tsar gave them the privilege
00:08:17 of breeding horses for riding.
00:08:18 We are all the Tsar's subjects!
00:08:20 And when His Majesty
00:08:22 it's always meant as an order!
00:08:24 How much do we offer for the horses?
00:08:27 Three sacks of flour for the herd.
00:08:37 He says their horses are not for sale.
00:08:44 Three sacks of flour is our finaI offer!
00:08:50 No need to translate! We understood.
00:08:51 Bunch of fools!
00:09:07 Stop! This is enough!
00:09:27 Hey, you what're you doing?
00:09:29 Leave our horses alone!
00:10:14 "Why kill our horses?",
00:10:19 Yes, why?
00:10:21 To scare these poor people out of rebelling.
00:10:36 The sky suddenly collapses
00:10:41 as if in empathy with the unforunate Evenks.
00:11:41 Murderers! Murderers!
00:11:43 Muktan's killers will be tried and punished.
00:11:46 My father promises you!
00:11:48 Your father has not yet spoken!
00:11:52 I understand your pain, Isingu,
00:11:54 But these men are not from around here,
00:11:58 Those men came here like dermons,
00:12:02 Be quiet!
00:12:03 For as long as his killer's
00:12:05 my son's spirit will never be in peace.
00:12:08 Every night, he will return
00:12:11 and his spirit will never rest.
00:12:13 It's up to me to avenge his death,
00:12:15 but I can only do so according
00:12:18 You might speak our language,
00:12:20 but your heart belongs to those sevils.
00:12:24 So stay with those devils, you three!
00:12:38 His assassins will be tried,
00:12:42 Father, I gave my wife my word,
00:12:44 Well, you shouldn't have.
00:12:45 The only alliegiance that counts
00:12:49 Muktan is also my wife's brother.
00:12:50 When I married her,
00:12:52 Let me give some good advice.
00:12:54 There is only one law,
00:12:58 The only law that counts
00:13:01 And the fittest is the high-ranked fellow,
00:13:03 who decided to requisitiong these horses
00:13:08 Without their horses,
00:13:11 Remember that they signed
00:13:15 And that's why we Cossacks
00:13:18 Think the Tsar's nothing better to do?
00:13:19 And how would you get there?
00:13:20 Saint Petersburg is over 6,000 miles away!
00:13:22 Do you mean to ride
00:13:26 If it's the only way to be heard.
00:13:29 You idiot!
00:13:31 Your wife is carrying your second son.
00:13:33 And you want to ride off to certain death?
00:13:43 You look more like your father
00:13:52 How old were you when I was born?
00:13:55 17.
00:14:00 Although I'm 18 my father still despises me.
00:14:14 Blagoveschensk.
00:14:16 BaikaI. Irkutsk.
00:14:20 Tomsk. Omsk.
00:14:24 Perm.
00:14:26 Moscow.
00:14:28 Saint-Petersburg.
00:14:32 It's almost straight on.
00:14:49 As Dimitri's horse is a nag unable
00:14:54 Dimitri saddles Muktan's horse at dawn.
00:14:57 Luckily, the horse would love to help
00:15:04 So goes fate in a fortunate
00:15:12 Keep still! Look how beautifuI it is!
00:15:24 Let's go this way.
00:15:59 There's a hare. Go right ahead!
00:16:14 Stop!
00:16:22 You horse,
00:16:27 will never know how good this is.
00:16:30 Look, Muktan would call you "my horse. "
00:16:34 What kind of a name is that?
00:16:36 It's like calling your dog, "dog. "
00:16:46 You've got such a beautifuI grey coat,
00:16:49 that I'm going to call you "Grey Horse. "
00:16:52 "Serko. "
00:17:08 How rude of you!
00:17:11 Don't you like your name. Serko?
00:17:28 You see. Serko, the onlly difference
00:17:33 is that all the creatures born on
00:17:40 but man is the only one to look
00:17:45 and wonder at the moon and the stars.
00:17:49 You're right, we men shouid
00:18:29 What does he want from us?
00:18:31 We haven't done anything wrong,
00:18:33 Haven't come to bother the locals.
00:18:35 We're good guys! We're not bad guys.
00:18:36 We don't want to kill or rob anyone!
00:19:02 Serko, get a hold of yourself
00:19:05 Fear is for little creatures
00:19:09 or a Cossack like me!
00:19:12 Move on!
00:19:14 Go right ahead!
00:21:54 Who are you?
00:21:56 A traveller.
00:22:00 What're you doing here?
00:22:03 I mean you no harm,
00:22:06 Believe me, Iswear to you.
00:22:07 On all of the Saints If Hoty Russia!
00:22:09 Then why are you aiming
00:22:17 My horse, he's fallen.
00:22:19 Will you help me?
00:22:27 No snowflake,
00:22:29 Looks like we came at just the right time!
00:22:38 You sure are nalve, you trust men too much.
00:22:41 How do you know,
00:22:45 You know that we don't like
00:22:51 Get up, get up, Serko. Hear me?
00:22:56 Get up! Get up!
00:22:58 Get up! Serko.
00:23:03 Get up!
00:23:05 Serko.
00:23:06 Well done! Go ahead, get up! Well done!
00:23:14 I'll get you out of here.
00:23:21 You fell, sweetie pie.
00:23:27 Thank you, old Tunguz.
00:23:31 You've been helpfuI.
00:23:32 This is for you. It's made of silver.
00:23:38 It's a talisman.
00:23:40 It will keep eviI spirits a way.
00:23:42 Don't thank me, I was glad I could help.
00:25:00 How can I tell of the winds,
00:25:02 of the extreme cold making
00:25:06 By telling you that it's such a cold,
00:25:08 that you become impervious,
00:25:10 to the insidious death slowly
00:25:13 Inexorably.
00:25:17 But if on the next day, as if by magic,
00:25:19 life has overcome death,
00:26:03 Prince Mangi,
00:26:08 You fiy away on your horse,
00:26:13 Everyone admired you.
00:26:16 who, on seeing you always together,
00:26:19 Why are you always on your horse
00:26:24 Can it be that you love
00:26:30 Who are you?
00:26:31 Semzhid. My name is Semzhid.
00:26:35 Stay still.
00:26:39 The bearI It's right there!
00:26:43 You're a great hunter!
00:26:47 You've been very brave,
00:27:00 Go back to sleep.
00:28:16 This too? I'll do it.
00:28:44 This is for you.
00:28:47 You're like my motherI,
00:28:56 Cossack, I see you're getting better.
00:29:01 I'm glad, You are at home here.
00:29:04 Is my daughter taking good care of you?
00:29:07 Yes, Thanks to her, I feeI alive again.
00:29:10 My thanks to you all.
00:29:13 You are a great and brave hunter.
00:29:16 You confronted and killed
00:29:19 You've earned our respect, Cossack!
00:29:23 How can I thank you?
00:29:24 By being my guest for as long
00:29:27 Most honourable host, I'm on a mission.
00:29:30 I'm in a hurry, I must leave,
00:29:35 of the terrible fate tgat's befallen
00:29:37 Cossack, You can't leave just like that!
00:29:40 You will offend the whole tribe,
00:29:44 But I have to leave...
00:30:12 Cossack, I'll sing so that your horse takes
00:30:16 You horse is the most beautifuI of all,
00:30:19 I've never seen one so beautifuI before,
00:30:40 He said it right...
00:30:43 Your horse is the gentiest,
00:31:02 He sheds tears,
00:31:05 when you're sad...
00:31:09 He is the gentlest no doubt...
00:31:54 He's so gracefuI,
00:31:57 that he flies over mountains,
00:32:00 and gallops away to the clouds,
00:32:03 and takes you where
00:32:18 His horse is the most beautifuI of all,
00:32:21 I've never seen one so beautifuI before,
00:32:24 in heaven or on earth,
00:32:27 in the stars or on the sun.
00:32:29 He said it right...
00:32:44 Sorry...
00:32:46 But my stomach would've torn
00:32:50 61 days of travelling without
00:32:53 Let anyone who has never been hungry
00:33:00 61 days I've been riding, without a meaI.
00:33:04 So I swallowed whatever I could find.
00:33:06 Grass, like my horse.
00:33:10 Rats sometimes!
00:33:12 And even my horse's dung once.
00:33:17 I'll find the Tsar.
00:33:18 Even if he's at the other end of the earth,
00:33:20 Or on the other side of the moon.
00:33:23 And what will you say to your Tsar?
00:33:26 I'll tell him that those men,
00:33:28 can't exterminate our fine littie horses.
00:33:31 If they disappear from our land,
00:33:34 Without our Amursky horses,
00:33:37 The Cossacks must obey the Tsar.
00:33:39 I swore to the icons like my father,
00:33:42 but the Tsar must obey God,
00:33:44 and God created these horses,
00:33:48 The Tsar must hear me, I'II let him know.
00:33:58 I'll find the Tsar even,
00:34:18 Why are you always riding your horse
00:34:23 Why do you love your horse more than me?
00:34:27 One night, the betrothed avenged
00:34:31 stabbing it with a knife.
00:34:34 Mangi you spent your life
00:34:38 running your hans through hismane.
00:34:41 Soflly, slowly, languidiy...
00:34:43 over and over till the hairs
00:34:46 We'll need a lot of strength, Serko...
00:34:52 See that, that's Venus, or Jupiter,
00:34:56 but I do know it's over there
00:35:52 Don't be frightened...
00:35:56 But I'm not afraid.
00:35:58 I am here to serve you...
00:36:01 Would you like anything before sleeping?
00:36:11 I just need some sleep.
00:36:17 A good night's sleep to be in shape
00:36:24 Good night, Semzhid...
00:36:31 What are you up to?
00:36:32 Just give in, big bear!
00:39:30 Eat Serko, eat.
00:39:44 That's all we've got loft.
00:39:52 There you go, eat something.
00:40:47 Who are you?
00:40:52 Can you hear me?
00:40:55 Where are you from?
00:40:59 What have you done to end up like this?
00:41:03 Can you hear me?
00:41:04 We're nobody anymore, Nobody...
00:41:06 Only beasts to the slaughter!
00:41:10 Get away from us, we're bas luck!
00:41:13 I'm going to see the Tsar,
00:41:16 You can't treat men like this!
00:41:19 The Tasr will know about it! I swear!
00:41:22 We don't mean anything to him anymore,
00:41:28 Not even to Him, up there!
00:41:31 I can't understand a word you're saying!
00:41:32 You idiot! The Tsar!
00:41:34 And God above, who has forsaken us!
00:41:37 God still exists for me,
00:41:41 Shut up! You mangy mutts.
00:41:45 Hey Cossack, are you the one
00:41:48 Where did you get that uniform?
00:41:51 Come over here a minute,
00:41:54 I'm on a mission,
00:41:56 I am Cossack Dimitri Nidolayevich.
00:41:58 Yourgest son of Sotnik Nikolai Pechkov.
00:42:00 I'm under ColoneI Korsakoff,
00:42:05 I'm on my way to see th Tsar.
00:42:06 Your mission order!
00:42:10 By ImperiaI order, Officer.
00:42:12 Get the hell out of here,
00:42:19 Send a message to my fater that I'm alive,
00:42:29 Hey, you, What are you doing?
00:42:33 That's my horse!
00:42:34 Yeah, well keep your midget horse.
00:42:36 Is he an albino or what?
00:42:41 And you just let him get away wiht it.
00:43:13 Peince, my son is a simpleton.
00:43:15 He has no idea what he's doing!
00:43:17 I'm just glad he's still alive,
00:43:19 as you've told my he
00:43:22 Sotnik Nikolai Pechkov.
00:43:25 A Cossack who requests
00:43:29 without asking his Govenor's permission,
00:43:34 Better be sincere than strong,
00:43:35 better be honest than brutaI,
00:43:39 These were your principies.
00:43:41 Prince, that my sons swore
00:43:42 I know, I know, Your son made it to BaikaI.
00:43:50 He could have gone missing
00:43:51 No one would have mourned his passing.
00:43:54 Yes, mister Bouvarine!
00:43:56 His mother, She would have died of grief,
00:44:00 Prince, how can that yellow belly
00:44:05 If the fooI goes about saying
00:44:09 doesn't do what he's supposed to do
00:44:13 he'll be advancing even faster!
00:44:14 I swear upon my wife,
00:44:15 my son Boris and my future grandchildren,
00:44:21 My son's pure-hearted.
00:44:23 Pray God steps him and this
00:44:27 He has no traveI documents and our Prince
00:44:34 I'll have to jusge him accordingly.
00:44:39 Don't do that Prince. He a simple souI.
00:44:41 I beg you.
00:44:42 He put it in his head
00:44:44 If he keeps acting like an idilt, your familt
00:44:50 Prince, how can my son,
00:44:51 who never left our vitlage,
00:44:56 He'll soon realise he's been foolish
00:45:03 Mister...
00:45:08 Vladimir Sergueivitch Bouvarine.
00:45:14 Mister Vladimir Sergueivitch Bouvarine,
00:45:23 Yes. Under your orders, Prince.
00:45:31 You're damn right, nothing but a jerk.
00:45:35 And one who will soon make you rich, Prince.
00:45:47 Today we'll take 1,000 steps.
00:00:05 Serko, I'm tired, Totally worn out.
00:01:31 I'll get some rest, ok?
00:02:37 Shh! Smelied anything again?
00:04:36 Shit!
00:05:53 Sorry, my friend but you'll
00:05:56 What do you know?
00:06:00 Who are you?
00:06:03 Sorry, I didn't think that.
00:06:06 I'm no thief, mister Chinaman?
00:06:08 I swear, I swear on my horse!
00:06:11 This is good liquor,
00:06:15 That doesn't tell me who you are.
00:06:19 You speak Russian?
00:06:22 I'm Sotnik Rechkov's youngest son.
00:06:26 My family lives on the banks of the Amur.
00:06:28 I must speak to the Tsar.
00:06:30 Our little horses are in danger.
00:06:34 I must avenge Muktan's death!
00:06:35 I'll see the Tasr, I swear!
00:06:37 I can see that you wouldn't hurt a fly.
00:06:41 I'm like my father, a humble yet
00:06:45 I'd rather be sincere than,
00:06:49 Then you con't leave me like this.
00:06:53 Wolves have begun to eat my feet.
00:06:55 They'll come kill me a second time!
00:06:57 So you're not dead?
00:06:59 Alive, dead.
00:07:04 What's the difference?
00:07:06 But I won't join my wife in the other
00:07:11 What can I do for you, old Chinaman?
00:07:49 You're nuts! It's cold as hell out there!
00:07:53 You can't dig a hole in the ground
00:08:02 I can't bury you, and the lake is frozen.
00:09:30 Good people of Irkutsk,
00:09:31 noble gentlemen, beautifuI women,
00:09:36 for tonight you will at last put
00:09:40 the great, the very great.
00:09:43 The immense Fragonard of Paris,
00:09:45 the Tsar of the Grands Boulevards,
00:09:53 Two years ago, I was in America.
00:09:55 New York, Chicago, San Francisco.
00:09:58 The great and the small,
00:10:00 were captivated by my mastery
00:10:02 Even the Ottawas from America'a
00:10:07 Last year I was in China,
00:10:09 prisoner of the adoration
00:10:12 and of the Mandarin women.
00:10:15 As pretty as pictrues
00:10:19 In a single bound I crose the sea,
00:10:21 and find myself in the land
00:10:24 Fapan, the Fuji Yama,
00:10:28 Tokyo, where the Emperor commands
00:10:32 A celebration, what am I saying?
00:10:34 A month of delights whose climax
00:10:39 I gave for the Son of Heaven.
00:10:48 But let us gloss over my triumphs,
00:10:52 since you're chomping at the bit.
00:10:55 So here I am, packing up my crew,
00:10:59 bidding farewell to Fuji Yama,
00:11:02 and flying off to EternaI Russia!
00:11:06 Rivers, mountains, the steppe,
00:11:08 nothing can stop us, Nothing?
00:11:14 Nothing!
00:11:23 Move on!
00:11:36 You damn animaI!
00:11:38 Can't you walk straight?
00:11:42 You only think about eating!
00:11:45 I'm hungry too! I'm tired too!
00:11:47 I want meat! Or else I'll die!
00:11:53 You get me?
00:12:23 Sorry, Serko, Sorry, old friend.
00:12:38 I'm so tired, I'm hungry.
00:12:44 I'm hungry.
00:12:49 I'm so tired.
00:12:53 I dont' know where to go.
00:12:58 I can't take it anymore!
00:15:16 Shh! What is it now?
00:15:25 How great it is.
00:15:44 Let's go.
00:15:51 How hard can it be to cateh a nag?
00:15:55 - How hard can it be to cateh a nag?
00:16:00 it's not the first one we've seen!
00:16:04 - Let's go.
00:16:15 - Come on, Look!
00:16:18 You damn animaI!
00:16:20 Can't you walk straight?
00:16:24 Move on!
00:16:26 You're just a horse.
00:16:28 Go ahead.
00:16:30 Move on!
00:16:33 Look at that!
00:16:35 Fragonard.
00:16:38 Look what the Great Fragonard
00:16:42 - baby Jesus in person!
00:16:45 - We could use your help!
00:16:50 Hey! Come on!
00:16:53 - Come on girls! Sing, shout, bark!
00:16:57 A single Cossack would've been enough
00:17:01 Sing Song.
00:17:02 Shit up!
00:17:03 Come on!
00:17:12 Hey, soldier!
00:17:14 We could use your help!
00:17:16 Come on!
00:17:18 Come on, Come on!
00:17:27 Hey!
00:17:30 Come on!
00:17:55 Emile Rragonard,
00:17:57 Paris's Ambassador of Wonders,
00:18:28 My name's RossignoI because
00:18:30 and also Mandarin,
00:18:34 and I sing ilke a finch.
00:18:37 And my sister's name is Pivoine because,
00:18:40 she blushes at the drop of a hat!
00:18:42 Where are you from?
00:18:45 From over there!
00:18:49 Where's you going?
00:18:52 On my way to meet the Tasr!
00:18:55 He's on his way tjo meet the Tasr.
00:18:56 - The Tsar?
00:18:57 Is that right?
00:19:01 What's baby Jesus talking aboaut?
00:19:03 Come with us?
00:19:05 He fell off?
00:19:11 - Farewell my friend!
00:19:13 The Tsar will appreciate.
00:19:14 Make it quick, please!
00:19:17 The crowd is expecting us in Omsk.
00:19:25 I'm an old man who knows a great deaI,
00:19:31 but if he insists on leaving tomorrow,
00:19:36 He needs treatment as soon as possible.
00:19:54 If your friend takes no medicine,
00:19:58 he'll be stiff as a corpse in on time.
00:20:05 I'm telling you this boy is in danger!
00:20:09 He isn't dead yet!
00:20:11 This Cossack won't die!
00:20:17 Nobody wants him to live in this pad?
00:20:21 Fragonard, give us some money.
00:20:25 We'll pay it back a hundred fold!
00:20:27 We'll pay it back a hundred fold!
00:20:30 Fragonard.
00:20:32 I'm telling you this boy is in danger!
00:20:35 He isn't dead yet!
00:20:36 This Cossack won't die!
00:20:39 He isn't dead yet!
00:20:42 This Cossack won't die!
00:20:44 Nobody wants him to live in this pad?
00:20:50 Fragonard, give us some money.
00:20:53 We'll pay it back a hundred fold!
00:20:56 For each rouble,
00:20:59 It's not the hunders fold,
00:21:02 It's giving you the money at all.
00:21:15 I haven't got a kopeck lift!
00:21:22 I'm telling you this boy is in danger!
00:21:25 Come on!
00:21:36 He isn't dead yet!
00:21:39 his Cossack won't die!
00:21:42 I'm hungry.
00:21:44 I dont' know where to go.
00:21:47 I can't take it anymore!
00:21:49 Shh! What is it now?
00:21:50 How great it is.
00:22:01 Let's go. Let's go.
00:22:11 Come on!
00:22:14 Look at that!
00:22:16 Come on!
00:22:19 We too are weak,
00:22:21 Young ladies and gentiemen,
00:22:24 I will forgo the list of my triumphs,
00:22:27 as I see you're chomping at the bit.
00:22:32 so here I am, packing up my crew,
00:22:35 bidding farewell to Fuji Yama,
00:22:39 bidding farewell to Fuji Yama
00:22:42 people of beautifuI and eternaI Russua.
00:22:45 Mountains, rivers, the steppe,
00:22:48 nothing can stop up,
00:22:57 not ever the Amur, the river that is!
00:23:01 Nothing! Except for a damn crevasse.
00:23:03 And no one came to rescus us.
00:23:10 Here we are.
00:23:13 Instead of Jeaus Dumitri Nicolat Pechkov,
00:23:16 the bravest, most handsome Cossack
00:23:25 the young man has been relentlessly riding
00:23:28 from the distant shores of the Amur.
00:23:30 The Tsat, indeed!
00:23:32 He wants to beg him to dispenese
00:23:35 Yes that's it, justice.
00:23:37 What's she saying? Hurry, keep track!
00:23:40 We're telling Dimitris story.
00:23:43 She's talking about the horse slaughter.
00:23:46 These horses are not for sale,
00:23:48 Since you won't seeI them,
00:23:53 The gang leader loads his rifle,
00:23:57 Fifty yards away one horse collapese,
00:24:02 then another.
00:24:07 "Still not for asle"?
00:24:11 "Never, Niet"
00:24:13 The man angrith kills two more horses.
00:24:18 "Well?" "Rater die!"
00:24:21 Suddenly Mutkian, the Evenk friend,
00:24:25 whom Dimitri regards as a brothre,
00:24:28 appears on his hores.
00:24:31 The man shoots again.
00:24:33 Mutkan is hit and collapses.
00:24:41 "Never again" says Dimitri.
00:24:45 "Never again. "
00:25:08 Where are you from?
00:25:10 From over there!
00:25:12 And you?
00:25:13 From over there!
00:25:15 Where are you going?
00:25:17 That way.
00:25:18 And you?
00:25:22 That way.
00:25:30 And you?
00:25:39 Serko!
00:25:41 Today we'll work more miracles!
00:25:47 We'll ride through
00:25:50 I don't know how long it'll take us,
00:25:54 but we'll ride through it all the same!
00:26:00 You'll have the easy task since
00:26:02 Even if it seems hard, I know you can do it.
00:26:08 You're a horse and you're good
00:26:09 Now it's all about steadiness.
00:26:12 And as for steadiness you're an ace!
00:26:17 Hey little champ, if I keep induiging you,
00:26:23 You haven't got wings yet!
00:26:27 Good boy.
00:26:39 Stop it, Serko, stop it!
00:26:40 Stop it!
00:26:43 Stop it!
00:26:46 Shit!
00:26:58 Sorry!
00:27:00 Sorry Serdo, I'm not happy either.
00:27:16 Fuck!
00:27:30 Then facing the beast,
00:27:33 trembling with fear,
00:27:35 the young Cossack has no choice:
00:27:38 kill or be killed.
00:27:41 He closes his eyes,
00:27:44 asks God's mercy,
00:27:47 and with his knife blade,
00:27:52 Wounded and howling with rage,
00:27:58 when Serko sees his master about
00:28:05 he makes for the bear,
00:28:09 and kicks his ass!
00:28:23 Girls!
00:28:30 Girls, there's money to be had!
00:28:35 I've told of chinese torture
00:28:39 but I'be nevertold of a nice fellow's
00:28:44 I'm not only a talented shadow puppeteer,
00:28:49 Crowds ask for more:
00:28:50 I'm a rich man.
00:28:52 Now where's my little fellow?
00:28:54 I have no idea.
00:28:56 Hey, Deserter?
00:28:58 You a deserter?
00:29:00 Hey, you hear me?
00:29:02 Konw of a hoteI or an inn,
00:29:04 My horse and I are dead tired,
00:29:07 On your right, Cossack.
00:29:09 You won't regret it!
00:29:11 Thank you!
00:29:12 On your right, Cossack.
00:29:16 You won't regret it!
00:29:19 What race is your dog? Hey, wait!
00:29:21 But our admirers want to know more.
00:29:23 The whole, uncensored story.
00:29:27 But I need to find out about
00:29:30 To do so, I need to find my dear
00:29:34 But where is he? What's he up to?
00:29:44 Did you come a long way, Sir?
00:29:46 All the way from the Amur!
00:29:48 How far are you going?
00:29:51 On my way to pay my respects to the Tsar.
00:30:10 You're a good horse, Serko.
00:30:16 Enjoy, you've deserved it!
00:30:31 I'll sleep right here.
00:30:32 Oh no Sir!
00:30:33 A gentle man about to visit the Tsar
00:31:17 Reassure me, Bouvarine!
00:31:25 Hey, Hey!
00:31:30 NO!
00:31:33 Do tell me that there's no
00:31:41 The fooI has all the luck.
00:31:45 He's followed by a Frenchman,
00:31:47 who is telling his story to everyone.
00:31:55 Stop them!
00:31:59 Whe must stop them, overpower them!
00:32:03 Have them arrested!
00:32:06 Have him shot!
00:32:11 Have them arrested! Have him shot!
00:32:24 Prince, Cossack Dimitri Petchkov is in jaiI!
00:32:31 Thank you, Lord!
00:32:34 Thank you, Lord!
00:32:40 Do you realise how lucky you are that,
00:32:44 I've come all this way here?
00:32:47 He's worse than a kourma!
00:32:49 Korma?
00:32:50 What is it?
00:32:51 It's a skunk thaat stinks even more.
00:32:54 But money has no smell.
00:32:56 or do you wnat me to handle it?
00:33:03 Tell him to consider our expenses.
00:33:04 He stinks.
00:33:06 Tell him to consider our expenses.
00:33:12 6,000.
00:33:14 Christ! 6,000 for someone who stinks?
00:33:17 I don't stink.
00:33:19 Yes you do!
00:33:20 You do!
00:33:21 Take it or leave it!
00:33:23 2,000. Not one kopeck more!
00:33:26 3.
00:33:28 Let's leave.
00:33:28 Let's leave the stinking Cossack with him.
00:33:31 You'll be remembered as the man,
00:33:33 that left to rot in prison
00:33:37 2,500!
00:33:41 2,097!
00:33:44 Well then my dear, if you give me
00:33:49 the portrait I'd make of you in my show
00:33:56 My show was getting more valuable
00:34:00 They come in droved to listen
00:34:04 of Serko and Dimitri's adventures.
00:34:07 Well, a stinking hero is no hero.
00:34:10 So I offer him a bath.
00:34:12 I follow him because I watch,
00:34:13 and I protect my small
00:34:18 But as with any thriving investment,
00:34:20 Some worry it may thrive at their expense.
00:34:23 These people are no other,
00:34:26 than Bouvarine, Muktan't murderer.
00:34:34 Dimitri Nikolayevich Pechkov!
00:34:37 Dimitri Nikolayevich Pechkov!
00:34:40 Dimitri Nikolayevich Pechkov!
00:34:48 Dimitri.
00:34:54 Murder!
00:34:55 Help!
00:35:15 Thank you, my friends!
00:35:18 But I'll never be able to repay you!
00:35:21 Buy why repay me?
00:35:23 I bet you that those people from
00:35:27 To one guy, and to another one,
00:35:30 And there'll soon be thousands.
00:35:31 Million begging to know what happens next.
00:35:34 Take my word for it.
00:35:37 So, enjoy your meaI, Cossack,
00:35:44 I'd like to propose a toast to Holy Russia.
00:35:47 Look! There's our hero! Domitri Pechkov!
00:35:51 Thank you three for getting me out of jaiI.
00:35:56 Thank you for rescuing me from bandits.
00:36:00 Providence, providence!
00:36:03 And thank Serko of course
00:36:06 Thank you.
00:36:16 You have to be something to stap
00:36:19 Well done, Cossack!
00:36:33 Why do you cheat?
00:36:35 You ride your house.
00:36:40 But that's Iying!
00:36:43 Well, you'll be the only one
00:37:10 He's dying!
00:37:12 What did you give him?
00:37:15 Nothing. The usuaI.
00:37:16 He's been poisoned!
00:37:17 Fot any paraffin?
00:37:19 No.
00:37:20 Go ask someone!
00:37:23 We must pump his stomach!
00:37:27 Don't worry, Serko, everything will be fine.
00:37:34 Hold on, just a little more.
00:37:50 Dimitri could not.
00:37:56 Dimitri could not hold back his tears.
00:38:03 On may 3rd, 1890,
00:38:05 a silent crowd attended
00:38:09 the strongest horse ever
00:38:14 Remember this day, ladies and gentlemen,
00:38:17 the day when Serko was blessed
00:38:21 in the church of Saint BasiI the Blessed.
00:38:33 Our show is a triumph everywhere.
00:38:35 Along the way, we tell of new events,
00:38:38 and in Moscow we have an ovation.
00:38:40 But the more we're acclaimed,
00:38:44 Our triumphs trigger the wrath of Korsakov
00:38:47 who'll play with fire to destroy us.
00:38:56 For God's sake!
00:38:58 Pivine!
00:39:27 Pivine!
00:39:36 Pivine! Pivine!
00:39:39 Pivine!
00:39:47 Farewell, Pivoine,
00:39:48 you worked the shadows
00:39:55 Farewell, I won't forget you smile.
00:40:03 - Dimitri arrives in St Petersburg.
00:40:06 Pardon me, where can I find the Tsar?
00:40:08 He rushes to the Palace.
00:40:10 The Tsar will welcome him,
00:40:16 has been so devoted that
00:40:19 To the great displeasure
00:40:23 who arrived in time to supposedly
00:40:31 To think that his father called
00:40:38 Now his name's associated
00:40:43 Dimitri, I had to see you in person.
00:40:51 Dimitri Nikolayevich Pechkov,
00:40:54 I must confess I admire your feat.
00:41:01 If you forget what happened,
00:41:05 You will be generously rewarded.
00:41:11 Suddenly Dimitri realises
00:41:14 He remembers the bear he
00:41:16 He recalls his friend Muktan,
00:41:18 and the Evenks' disarray.
00:41:19 He's going to tell him straight out:
00:41:22 "Governor you need to save your honour now!
00:41:25 You wonted to make a fortune and showed
00:41:28 You've gained nothing
00:41:31 The Tsar will be informed that you are
00:41:38 Dimitri wished he could say more.
00:41:41 is worth all the money in the world.
00:41:43 His head is full of arguments.
00:41:46 But what could one tell a man,
00:41:48 who betrayed the ideaI he embodied?
00:41:52 Nothing!
00:42:02 Some words kill faster than bullets.
00:42:05 But dimitri has no time for emotion.
00:42:06 He risked his life a thousand times to have
00:42:09 so that he would condescend
00:42:11 Tsar, o my gentle Tsar,
00:42:14 hear the prayers of the innocent,
00:42:16 Siberia's begging you and Muktan's people
00:42:18 are throwing themselves at your feet.
00:42:23 Come on!
00:42:24 Congratulations!
00:42:27 An audience worthy of Paris,
00:42:29 the city shining with light and beauty.
00:42:36 It is up to me, mister Fragonard,
00:42:39 I would've enjoyed your show immensely,
00:42:42 had you not added
00:42:46 the tragic death of our Governor.
00:42:48 You should know, Sir, that no subject,
00:42:50 even in the farthest reaches of Holy Russia,
00:42:53 ignores the wrath of His majesty.
00:42:55 Consequently, we've never heard
00:43:01 Let me inform you that I am
00:43:06 As such, I alone decide to reward them,
00:43:10 or listen to their grievances.
00:43:13 Well then, will His Majesty deign to listen
00:43:18 He's among us and has travelled
00:43:36 You Majesty! Here's the Cossack,
00:43:39 who rtavelled 6,000 miles throught Russia!
00:43:41 That's him! Here's our hero!
00:43:44 "For as long as Russian land gives birth
00:43:48 we can rest assured of the strenght
00:43:52 These are my father's words to you, Sir.
00:43:53 His imperiaI Majesty, our beloved
00:44:00 Your Majesty, I...
00:44:02 I beg you Majesty's forgiveness,
00:44:05 our hero is very intimidated
00:44:07 Your Majesty.
00:44:08 Muktan was murdered in cold blood.
00:44:10 His only crime was being Evenk.
00:44:13 Which no doubt explains
00:44:16 and why nobody bothered to inform you.
00:44:19 You are insolent, young lady!
00:44:20 But you're a smooth talker.
00:44:22 Where's the little horse?
00:44:24 Your Majesty, allow us to offer him to you.
00:44:26 No! This is out of the question!
00:44:27 Pray tell Dimitri Nikolayevich Pechkov
00:44:31 and consider that his little horses,
00:44:32 are under my personaI protection.
00:44:39 Once upon a time,
00:44:42 The little horse loved his freedom,
00:44:45 but in the end, chose the golden
00:44:49 and gained the affection of a kid,
00:44:54 Will you stay untiI I've made improvements?
00:44:58 Well, your Majesty,
00:45:00 Besides I have a hunch that crowds,
00:45:03 will come in droves to cheer you
00:46:05 I am proud of you! I knew you'd do it.
00:46:10 I knew you'd go far!
00:46:12 Is this your wife? She doesn't look stupid!
00:46:15 Our hero of all Russias
00:46:19 So he returned to amuria with her,
00:46:22 for a beautifuI story cannot
00:46:26 Father, ther's something wrong with her!
00:46:32 I had to kill bear to marry her!
00:46:33 So what?
00:46:36 Everyone can live the way they like!
00:46:48 Muktan!
00:46:49 You can rest in peace.
00:46:53 Muktan, your friend is back.
00:46:55 He's brought us peace.
00:46:57 Serko, you who live in golden palaces,
00:47:00 who spend nights with gracefuI fillies,
00:47:03 we thank you for standing up for
00:47:07 and for defeding their survivaI.
00:47:09 Don't leave Ladies and Gentlemen!
00:47:12 Do stay!
00:47:13 I'm not done with our trabeller,
00:47:15 I haven't described how he rode
00:47:18 over which only princesses could rule.
00:47:21 Men were their servants.
00:47:23 They had a harem and chose their lovers,
00:47:28 Wait, there's also ther startling story,
00:47:34 of how our weakened hero gashed.
00:47:36 Serko's flesh and drank
00:47:41 And that very day his horse,
00:47:45 his amazing Serko moved slowly,
00:47:49 so as not to make things worse for
00:47:52 I'll also show you the wide mouths
00:47:56 with their poplars quivering in the cooI
00:48:01 Hey, wait! One more word!
00:48:07 Serko's just had offspring,
00:48:10 so tells me our little Tsar.
00:48:12 Telegrams are helpfuI.
00:48:14 There were some 10 horses
00:48:18 to joing Muktan's people in Amuria.
00:48:23 Don't you want to hear about these
00:48:26 Believe me, this isn't nonsense.