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If there were a higher power
that could bring back
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everyone related
to the gold of the Territory:
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who died on the route,
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or lost their way on the continent,
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they would've done it all over again.
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Not for the sake of money,
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they'd learned the true worth
of it in the Territory.
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And not in the name of duty,
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one's true duty lies within,
rather than in words.
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And not for glory.
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But for the sake of the unknown,
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which is the beginning and the drive
of any person's life.
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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY,
MAIN OFFICE
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Over the past three years,
gold production on the River
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has suffered a drastic fall.
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In 1958 we reduced production
by five hundred kilograms.
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Last year we lost a ton and a half.
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MEETING OF CHIEF ENGINEERS
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There are no new mine fields,
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the increase in gold reserves
is negligible.
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If nothing changes, many heads
will roll, mine first of all,
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and all of you are looking
at a dreary joyless retirement.
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The plan is to cut all costs,
except for those for gold.
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For example, the Territory,
comrade Chinkov.
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Tell us why do we need
the Territory's tin?
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Just in case.
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Comrade Sergushova will write
about gold search.
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She's a journalist from Leningrad.
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Well…
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Where was I?
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Why do we need the Territory's tin?
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Yes. Why do we need the Territory's tin?
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It's been proposed to close
the geological survey there.
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I don't care about Buddha.
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The Territory is just
one of seven surveys.
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It can be shut down.
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Especially since
it's a tin-bearing province.
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Nobody here believes it has gold.
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You can believe or not believe in ideas,
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but gold is quite a tangible thing.
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You can know or not know about it.
Unfortunately we do not know
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whether there is any gold
in the Territory.
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Chinkov stopped listening.
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He remembered the smell of cedar scrub,
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the smoke of forgotten campfires
and confidence in his own success.
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They think Chinkov is finished,
but he hasn't even started yet.
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Now. It's time to act.
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I won't give you the Territory.
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Ilya Nikolaevich!
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I want to write
about the Territory's gold.
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I am glad. But you've just heard
that there isn't and can't be any!
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I will write about the Territory's gold!
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THERE IS NO RECORD OF ANY GOLD
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KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN MINED
IN THE TERRITORY
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HEADQUARTERS OF THE TERRITORY
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TEAM
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This is what summer looks like this year.
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In the mountains in the south
the larch has already blossomed.
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Genrikh Furdetsky has been appointed
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the Head of the Territory Survey
only a month ago.
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The management believed that,
even if Furdetsky was a loser,
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Chinkov would still manage the Survey,
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and if he was to be reckoned with
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it he might be used
as a counterbalance to Chinkov.
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What can I do for you, Ilya Nikolaevich?
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I'm staying here.
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They've called you, haven't they?
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I'm staying on at the Survey,
so we'll have to work together.
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I am always happy to.
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Get in my way and I'll destroy you.
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It's in your interest to join my team.
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What exactly do you want?
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Very little. Don't act behind my back.
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No messages to the town without approval.
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I implement production tasks,
you provide support,
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plus accommodation, equipment, logistics.
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Everything according to regulations.
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I suggest you don't waste time,
just agree.
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A complete muddle.
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What constitutes this… phenomenon?
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I've seen the barracks. The boys left
for tundra months ago,
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and there's still ice in the corners.
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They're not boys, they're geologists.
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Household is Survey Head
Furdetsky's business.
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Of course, you have greater concerns!
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Projects!
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Prize-winners and banquets.
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Come autumn, and the boys are back,
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I'll elect myself
to the trade union committee
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and declare war on you padishahs.
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Here I thought, old fool,
I can't be surprised anymore.
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Tell Kutsenko -
tomorrow we'll set out to Mongolov.
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They'll hardly be glad to see you.
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Ilya Nikolaevich Chinkov,
nicknamed Buddha,
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came to the River as a young engineer.
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There he laid
the foundation of a future legend,
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based on ruthlessness towards himself
and others, and luck.
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He discovered one
of the biggest goldfields of the country.
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But half a year ago he unexpectedly
applied to be transferred
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to the Territory, a remote
Geological Survey
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on the shore of the Arctic Ocean.
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THOUGH…
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THE WEAK WON'T SURVIVE
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THE ELGAI RIVER VALLEY,
EASTERN MINES
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Pull!
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Greetings, Comrade Chief!
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How is it going?
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There's nothing in this pit
except my salary.
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How far have you gone?
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We've reached eight meters.
Kid is panning out the samples.
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Comrade Mongolov,
two intruders are approaching the base.
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Barreling boldly.
There's liquor in their backpacks.
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I don't see them.
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Chief, give us some, please?
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I'll drink and do
an Indian dance called "Ganges".
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How are you doing, Kid?
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Get the samples to the base by noon.
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Will do, Chief. Will be there on the dot.
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Sir!
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I'll bring it all.
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-Ilya Nikolaevich!
-Vladimir Mikhailovich!
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This is Klim Alekseevich Kutsenko,
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the best sluicer of Severstroi.
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If you would be so kind
as to whip up some tea and soup.
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Vladimir Mikhailovich,
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could you ever believe in the
industrial gold in the Territory?
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I think there's no industrial gold here.
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That's all guff and crude hullabaloo.
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No need for trousers?
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Sorry, there's only one bottle, so
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I'm counting on your profound
moderation in the use of alcohol.
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The samples are coming. I'll have a look!
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Well, Vladimir Mikhailovich!
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Are you planning
to dig in the upper riches?
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Check for gold,
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pass both tributaries?
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No.
We have an approved the project for tin.
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There is no gold here.
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The traces we get here
are the same as in Moscow.
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This is a tin-bearing province.
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Gold and tin don't mix.
Everyone knows that.
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Well, I'm not everyone. I'm Chinkov.
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You shouldn't use a painted pan.
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Doesn't hold the sample well.
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Yeah, it's painted, how did you…
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When you pan, don't drain from the corner.
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Use the plane surface and swirl.
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Yes, exactly, I pour from the corner.
I like to do it like that.
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No gold bits here,
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but I fancy there ought to be
in this soil.
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Three years ago
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my old friend Mikhail Katinsky
led a party to a river here.
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The tundra devil tossed him
three test pits
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with samples of weighable gold.
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Katinsky wrote a report
to retarget his party for gold.
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After that,
he didn't find a single sample.
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They badgered him…
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Delicious!
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So, where are your people?
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Baklakov should return today.
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Foreman Salakhov's group left
on a multi-day route.
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They're going back through
Katinsky's ground
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if you're interested.
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I need to know where the cassiterite ends.
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The Vatap River basin is to the east.
We don't know anything about it.
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In that regard, do you want to try
beyond the Vatap River?
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Send your Baklakov out to check it
for about twenty days.
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We need boats to get across.
That's a route a group should take.
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I was living well then:
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I had a machine gun -
border patrol gave it to me.
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And I had a horse called Galya.
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It was a good horse,
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didn't wash clothes, that's all.
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Are you Baklakov?
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Yes.
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What do you think of a solitary
route for fifteen or twenty days?
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It can be done. That's fine.
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It's impossible to carry it out "fine".
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It's through granite massifs.
You'd have to take a lot of samples.
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To the Vatap River
and further into the Ketung Plateau.
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Five or six hundred kilometers.
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I'll do it.
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And how do you
intend to cross the Vatap River?
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Don't know. I need to take a look.
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Yes, yes. Apparently,
this route is just what you need.
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Go to sleep.
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Comrade Mongolov and I will decide.
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Vladimir Mikhailovich!
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We need to talk.
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Let's go.
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Vladimir Mikhailovich!
I agree with your decision
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to send Baklakov
on multi-day reconnaissance survey.
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It's the right decision.
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Sergey! Bring the Dahmer Map.
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In the pack box, under the table,
the red one!
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What is this show for?
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I was afraid you'd object. Decided to
pin you down.
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You could simply give an order.
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Then I'd be taking responsibility,
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and the Survey doesn't need
emergencies connected with my name.
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-Are you afraid to be accountable?
-Heaven forbid.
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Look around you.
Severstroi is all around us,
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people like me aren't put on trial here.
I'm Buddha!
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Why do you need this trip, Ilya?
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Have a look!
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Where's that from?
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Panned it in the upper reaches
of that river. Kutsenko has a rare gift.
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I have a feeling, Vladimir Mikhailovich,
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that in your pits
there should be weighable gold.
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I vouch for my sluicers.
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You have the right to investigate.
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Salakhov worked two seasons for Katinsky.
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It was Katinsky who made him a sluicer.
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THE SERAYA RIVER, OLD BASE
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Three years ago he panned
the those nuggets for Katinsky
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in this place.
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The nuggets ruined Katinsky's life.
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Salakhov felt guilty.
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Why are we stuck on this rusty old spot,
when it's barren after all?
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These are the last samples.
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Finish them and we'll leave.
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Be patient, God of Fire!
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It's fine. I am patient.
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I've caught a little cold. I'm sorry.
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UPSTREAM THE ELGAI RIVER
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I took a note of this place
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back when we headed for the base.
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This is my personal request,
Klim Alekseevich.
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I understand.
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Sluice to the last open water,
to the ice buildup.
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Then leave for Mongolov's base.
They'll wait for you there.
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I'll pick you up myself.
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Just don't tell anyone about this.
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His heart gave exactly
sixty beats per minute,
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his blood ran smooth
and powerful through his veins.
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He was enjoying
that special kind of comfort
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that a wanderer creates wherever he goes.
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Perfect is the country of colorful
tundra, dark mountains, and pallid sky.
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Perfect is the solitude of the surveyor
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amid unknown mountains and valleys.
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It's perfect to never die,
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and Baklakov didn't doubt for a minute
that he was immortal.
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There are no limits and no borders.
It's just normal eternal life.
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THE SERAYA RIVER
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For the first time Kutsenko
was fulfilling Chinkov's request,
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and not an order.
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He was zealous.
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Fate had brought them together
after the war.
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Three years Chinkov spent drilling him,
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making him guess even before panning
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whether there was gold there or not.
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And Kutsenko was carried away by it all
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the pan became part of him.
He dreamed of tails, sandbars,
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shoals and slate druses.
254
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His luck found him when he made
a checking tour of Nadezhda Stream.
255
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Other panners had declared
that stream to be empty.
256
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:03,160
Kutsenko spent twice the allotted time
there and found gold.
257
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,480
Then, following Chinkov's example,
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they started calling him Klim Alekseevich.
259
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All I need is a mug of liquor
260
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and a hunk of venison.
261
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,080
I ruined myself with alcohol.
262
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,160
Now I've sworn off it.
263
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Did they treat it?
264
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,480
No. Treated myself.
265
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,840
When my wife died, I stopped.
266
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You won't start again?
267
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No.
268
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I have children to care for.
269
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I've got two,
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Mishka and Tosya.
271
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I got them out of the orphanage.
272
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They live with my sister.
273
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I send her all my wages.
274
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They write: "Daddy, come home."
275
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Ilya Nikolaevich is right -
this is a country of great opportunities.
276
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I won't give you the Territory!
277
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THE VATAP RIVER
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THE INFLUX OF THE SERAYA RIVER
TO THE ELGAI RIVER
279
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,080
The God of Fire was tortured
by the imperfection of his own life.
280
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,400
He had neither a son Mishka
nor a daughter Tosya
281
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and he had never been married.
282
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,480
But his dream of a life all normal
people live was so great
283
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that he confused it with reality.
284
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,120
Why are there so many people
285
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who tried to live,
286
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but failed?
287
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CAMP OF HERDSMAN KYAYE
288
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:09,040
Many people had come Kyaye's way
in the course of his long life.
289
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:13,000
He liked to think about them,
about the words they had spoken.
290
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,400
Some of them had smelled of sweat.
291
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,480
Even their thoughts,
Kyaye felt, smelled of work.
292
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,320
He respected them.
293
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,240
Others smelled of money.
Kyaye was sorry for them.
294
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:28,000
It made him angry when people
said that life was good or bad.
295
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,040
It was simply varied.
296
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,160
It was absurd to think
that money could improve it.
297
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:40,400
Kyaye's memory retained
the smells of herbs, ice, spring snow,
298
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a flight of a frost-coated raven
and its hoarse caw across the snows,
299
00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:47,400
a fall of a wolf shot down,
300
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,480
and taste of deer meat.
301
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:53,800
Every day and every hour his memory
also held the sad recognition
302
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:58,760
of the inevitable succession
of snows, rains, and human lives.
303
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,600
What struck Kyaye most of all was
the inevitability of change.
304
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,080
It could not be halted.
305
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:25,520
Mikhailovich.
306
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,280
How are the samples?
307
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:40,640
The Chief Engineer was here.
308
00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:44,880
He showed me gold
panned in the upper reaches.
309
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,040
Katinsky had the same.
310
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,560
We spent five days on Katinsky's old base.
311
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,320
There's nothing… Neither gold, nor tin.
312
00:39:55,120 --> 00:40:00,840
Chinkov thinks we should have
weighable gold here.
313
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:10,480
What's going on?
314
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:20,920
What's going on? Speak!
315
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,520
On the day Chinkov arrived,
316
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,640
three flakes were found in a sample…
317
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,280
I don't know why I took them.
318
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:35,280
I thought I'd put them in a letter
and send them to Sonya.
319
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,880
We went to school together.
320
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,440
I got into circus training.
I thought I'd impress her.
321
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,480
And she said: "Why not a waiter?"
322
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,960
She liked Jack London's heroes.
323
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:52,920
That's why I'm here…
324
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,360
I immediately wrote to her
about gold, and that I work panning.
325
00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:00,720
She began to send me long letters…
326
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,480
I took the gold right before you came,
of all times,
327
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,480
I couldn't give it back…
328
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,920
Gray called me an asshole. Because of you.
329
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:16,720
Threw the flakes into the water.
330
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,080
I'm ashamed.
331
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,040
You little merchants!
332
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,440
They throw nuggets away.
333
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:30,800
Sons of bitches…
334
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,480
Is it your gold?
335
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:36,440
It belongs to the state!
336
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:42,560
Criminals.
337
00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:46,160
I'm ready to face my punishment.
338
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,520
What? Do you want to be tried?
339
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:51,480
To ruin your life?
340
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,160
Well.
341
00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:04,520
No one else needs to know.
342
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,080
Don't do it, Vladimir Mikhailovich.
343
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,720
This'll make you an accessory.
344
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,040
Get out!
345
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,200
Redeem it through work.
346
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:43,880
Tamara,
347
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,320
did you hear a gunshot?
348
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:50,960
I don't know.
349
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:03,760
Probably the gunshot came
from beyond the distant hills of Time.
350
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,880
Maybe it rang out many years ago
351
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,360
and has now returned.
352
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,440
Or it came from the future…
353
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,640
That's probably it.
354
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,440
Next morning, Mongolov left
for the lower reaches of Elgai.
355
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:35,720
It was confirmation
of an old adage known to all prospectors:
356
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,680
when a district is barren,
357
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:43,120
you must work three times harder
to prove it's barren.
358
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,160
He discovered cinnabar by chance:
359
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,160
no one in the Territory
expected to find it there.
360
00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:54,800
Mongolov discovered a deposit
of mercury of global importance.
361
00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:07,160
Stick to a different road.
362
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,400
Go the other way.
363
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,240
Don't harm the light-faced ones.
Have mercy. Take care of them.
364
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:33,920
Hey!
365
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,640
Anybody there?
366
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,720
I'm a geologist. I'm ill.
367
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,720
A geologist - that is good.
368
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,920
I'm a herdsman. I know you're ill.
369
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:54,120
I heard a gunshot.
370
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,120
So I look, and there's a tent.
371
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:02,200
No one gets out in the morning,
no one in the evening.
372
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,320
Sure he must be ill.
373
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,600
Is your herd far away?
374
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,880
It will take you an hour and a half.
375
00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:17,880
I suppose you should go.
376
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,880
If you stay alone, you die. For sure.
377
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:27,200
My name is Kyaye.
378
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:59,280
THE LOSINAYA RIVER,
REMOTE SURVEY TEAM
379
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,400
Don't you have you any icons here?
380
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,440
Is there nothing for us to pray to?
381
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:13,640
I'm tired out.
382
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,640
Perhaps I'd better take a bath.
383
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,480
Coffee and a cigar wouldn't hurt either.
384
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,160
What do you think, Apryatin?
385
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,760
It'd be nice to know with whom
Jeanne Bose sleeps as well.
386
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,000
And what's the news on flying saucers.
387
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:37,560
Here.
388
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:41,160
Human remains and these things.
389
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,200
It must have been
the second Soyuz-zoloto tour.
390
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:54,520
Don't forget to radio.
391
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,880
-Do you think we have to report?
-We're obliged to.
392
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,840
Though I could do the rites myself.
393
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,840
The grave of an unknown martyr.
394
00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:22,320
A mystery of the tundra.
395
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,280
From clay we come,
to clay we shall return.
396
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,280
Such is the sad finale.
397
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:24,720
Tamara was sitting half naked
398
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,760
as per the ancient custom
of the women of the tribe.
399
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,800
The naked body was a norm
to their way of life.
400
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,680
It was rational and healthy.
401
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,960
Kyaye was pleased his granddaughter
observed the custom
402
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:43,840
and allowed her body to breathe.
403
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:55,520
Eat, eat.
404
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,120
In the morning you eat,
405
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:03,440
in the afternoon you eat,
in the evening and at night you eat.
406
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,080
And when you feel you're strong again,
you go.
407
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:13,280
My granddaughter
will take you to the trail.
408
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,320
A deer walks,
409
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:20,600
a bear walks,
410
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,160
a geologist will make it.
411
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:34,840
Zhora Apryatin, Chief of the
Far Reconnaissance Survey
412
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:38,960
in public tried to keep up with the
ideal created by his imagination -
413
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:41,760
the strong silent man, ready with his gun.
414
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,480
Zhora Apryatin, the Polar wolf.
415
00:51:45,240 --> 00:51:48,880
Nature had certainly begun Zhora
on the Viking model.
416
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,480
But stepped aside somewhere along the way
417
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:53,960
and left his grandfather to do the job.
418
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:56,520
A geographer, explorer of Central Asia.
419
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,160
-Report.
-The remains are found--
420
00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:11,720
Report that to him. Tell me your results.
421
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:13,480
What results?!
422
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:19,000
-Can a helicopter reach that place?
-Not without refueling.
423
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,400
-What about on foot?
-Two days.
424
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,280
Major, have you decided?
425
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:36,600
Let them bury him and write it down,
it's a clear case.
426
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:41,040
And please check how
explosives are stored on the base.
427
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:52,120
Does your area have
a gold-bearing potential?
428
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,120
Otto Yanovich chose our area--
429
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,600
I'm not interested in what he thought.
430
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,280
This isn't a testing ground
for experiments.
431
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,520
Here's the order, Apryatin.
432
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:04,600
By autumn you will report to me
433
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:06,760
on the gold-bearing potential.
434
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:11,560
We have an approved task.
435
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:15,280
I don't care.
Consider it canceled, right now, by me.
436
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:20,640
Why the argument?
437
00:53:20,720 --> 00:53:22,960
We are working mainly in the mountains.
438
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:26,480
We should pan the upper reaches
of the basic water flows.
439
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:28,840
Wash the samples rough.
440
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,240
Stop the trenching.
Send the diggers to the pits.
441
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,400
Just two or three survey lines
at the main streams.
442
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:37,240
There's nothing to argue about!
443
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:40,440
That's reasonable.
444
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,000
I ask you not to raise your voice at me.
445
00:53:45,240 --> 00:53:48,080
And give me precise
instructions on the gold.
446
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:51,200
And I ask for a notice in writing.
447
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:53,720
I can't change the plan without that.
448
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:57,520
Geologists are not just engineers.
449
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:00,520
We must have a code of honor.
450
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,800
Your colleague died while searching
for gold here.
451
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:06,720
His work's results are unknown.
452
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:09,400
But to do a simple duty to him,
453
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,360
you ask for a bit of paper!
454
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:13,440
Empty rhetoric.
455
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:15,840
Your demands are empty rhetoric!
456
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:21,480
You know the order.
Gurin will tell you how to carry it out.
457
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:26,360
Your grandfather
would be ashamed of you, Apryatin.
458
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:32,680
How well he played you, Georgy.
459
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:36,280
That's a boss!
He has a goal. He has brains.
460
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,040
And no qualms known as ethics.
461
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:42,360
He is a bad man.
462
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:45,400
He flogged you. Take it like a man.
463
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:50,400
And remember - you'll see who wins
only in the end.
464
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:52,320
I'll bury the martyr.
465
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:54,920
What to choose, a cross or a pillar?
466
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,800
Decide for yourself.
You're a cynic, Andrey. It's disgusting.
467
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:02,480
I'm not a cynic.
I'm an individualist philosopher.
468
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:40,360
THE KETUNG PLATEAU
469
00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:44,760
The Territory Survey
was famous for one thing:
470
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,760
its geologists were regarded
as the Old Believers.
471
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:52,920
Legs were their means of transport,
the hammer was their tool of knowledge,
472
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,840
all else was from the Evil One.
473
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:06,080
The Severstroi principles
were hold sacred.
474
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,120
The main one being formulated
475
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,840
by Joseph Conrad,
long before Severstroi existed.
476
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:14,240
It was summed up in a brief maxim.
477
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,440
Do or die.
478
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:18,520
THE TERRITORY
479
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,480
Half of them have
two or three valuable professions.
480
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,600
Half of them are pure gems
in their fields.
481
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:28,760
When they're sober.
482
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:30,880
Take the ones that I offer.
483
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,480
And remember that you can never
484
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:39,000
make a person be a human
being under the threat of beating.
485
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:43,320
I've handed over the materials.
Fix me up somewhere.
486
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:45,240
Sergey! Ragged muzzle.
487
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:51,880
Barrack 25, but only in a week.
It's not quite finished yet.
488
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:54,600
I'll live at the construction site.
489
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:57,600
Write out the voucher.
I'll bring my things.
490
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,520
Come along to my mine, engineer.
491
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:08,600
I'll give you a place to live. A salary.
492
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:10,480
You can bring along a wife.
493
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:14,720
I bet you're dreaming of them, eh?
494
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:48,120
Many roads lead to the capital
of the Soviet Lithuania
495
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:52,560
and are directed from the city
to its suburbs.
496
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:56,480
From the East and the West,
from the North and the South
497
00:58:56,560 --> 00:59:01,200
we see the characteristic Vilnius
landscape everywhere.
498
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:08,200
And going down to the valley
from the mountains surrounding Vilnius
499
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:14,040
we always admire
the beautiful city and its suburbs.
500
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:21,760
Chief! Digging pits in autumn?!
501
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:23,880
When the permafrost is thawing?
502
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,320
I'd shove you
into this mess of clay and water
503
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:33,480
and keep there for a day.
504
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,120
Phoenix!
505
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:39,320
Only plebs believe happiness is
506
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:41,960
about lying backside up and doing nothing.
507
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:47,000
Isn't that what I am? I am a pleb.
508
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:51,720
You're working in the Arctic.
There are no plebs here.
509
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:55,200
Who digs the trenches then?
510
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:59,200
Princes? Crouched in those trenches?
511
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:04,040
No, Chief.
We don't understand idiotic orders.
512
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:07,720
Tomorrow's the last day.
In the vicinities of Vilnius.
513
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:10,840
Enough. It's an ultimatum.
514
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:15,080
Finish your dinner, chaps. Break.
515
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:25,720
Yes?
516
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:30,160
What is it, what do you need?
517
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:36,080
Well… We're the only occupants
of this unfinished house…
518
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:39,360
I would like…
519
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:42,120
Did you dump the compote?
520
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:45,840
I needed a can. I make tea
in a can. It has a different taste.
521
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:47,160
Who are you?
522
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:51,200
Sergey Baklakov. Geologist.
Just back from the field.
523
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:55,560
Every night all sorts barge
in here with cognac…
524
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:58,200
We'll fend them off.
525
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:03,280
I want to eat like a stray cat. Or a dog.
526
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:06,160
Like a stray cat-dog.
527
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:09,840
-What's your name?
-What's my name?
528
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:15,680
The honorable Comrade Sergushova,
that's what.
529
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:19,560
Go bring some compote.
530
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:08,920
Hey, joker, either climb in or close it!
531
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:39,080
Konstantin Vasilchikov.
Tank tester. In the past.
532
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:43,600
Ilya Chinkov. Gold prospector.
533
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:04,600
What, you're feeling sick out there too?
534
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:09,240
No, no.
535
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:26,280
The bomb is rumbling
536
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:30,120
Like a heavy bass
537
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:34,440
When we liberated Austria from the Nazis,
538
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:39,600
I served a year there in a special team -
we gathered technology…
539
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:43,720
My landlady, Frau Louisa,
540
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:48,360
would bring coffee
to my room every morning.
541
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:54,480
And cream. In separate chinaware.
542
01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:58,160
Real Chinese porcelain, by the way…
543
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:03,160
Well, women are always women.
544
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,080
They brew good coffee in Vienna…
545
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:09,360
Yeah…
546
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:12,640
My son would have turned twenty today.
547
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:18,600
The war began,
and I was here looking for gold.
548
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:22,680
I didn't make it to him, to Leningrad…
549
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:27,760
The twists of life…
550
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:34,080
How can you guess where it,
life that is, has a hidden crack.
551
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:37,240
Just a small load and that's it…
552
01:04:57,520 --> 01:04:59,760
It should be fried without oil,
553
01:04:59,840 --> 01:05:04,560
never close the cover, and remove it
as soon as the venison turns white.
554
01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:09,960
You do it all so deftly,
whereas I can't do anything.
555
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:13,680
This is called pasteurized venison.
556
01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:18,160
Geology is a culinary profession.
557
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:26,480
Why're you staring at me? Yes, I'm hungry.
558
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:30,120
It's embarrassing to watch a person eat.
559
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:32,520
I've never been a breadwinner.
560
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:37,440
It's nice. When things are simple,
I enjoy being with people.
561
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:44,480
Tell me something heroic instead.
562
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:49,680
Have you ever stood
inspired beside a mound or a river
563
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:52,200
and thought: there'll be a city here!
564
01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:55,320
What am I, an emperor?
565
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:58,000
Best case, we dream like this:
566
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:04,040
here there'll be
three drilling rigs, ten tents,
567
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:07,800
and fifty men.
568
01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:11,040
Good evening.
569
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:13,360
Why are you so uptight?
570
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:16,640
Have you brought me a medal?
Or an eviction notice?
571
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:38,240
-Will you fly?
-Yes.
572
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:41,720
I'll try to draw up a leave of absence
and everything.
573
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:46,480
See me in the morning.
It'll take five days at least.
574
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:49,360
Goodbye.
575
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:01,400
THE LOSINAYA RIVER
576
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:04,880
Zhora Apryatin's team was rafting
the river in rubber boats.
577
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:08,440
In late winter, on the cusp of spring
578
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:11,960
when the ragged topography
of the tundra is blown by snow
579
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:15,160
prospecting parties get
to the mountains by planes.
580
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:19,040
In autumn when it's impossible
to land a plane on the rocks,
581
01:07:19,120 --> 01:07:20,560
there are only two ways:
582
01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:25,280
they are either picked up by
tractor trains, if possible,
583
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:29,040
or go on foot
to the river, then raft to the ocean,
584
01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:32,360
where they are picked up
by any available means.
585
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:34,480
The latter is the most dangerous.
586
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:38,120
Many geologists were lost
finishing the season in such a way.
587
01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:48,400
When he finished panning,
Kutsenko went to Mongolov's base.
588
01:08:48,480 --> 01:08:51,640
If Ilya Nikolaevich said they
would be waiting for him,
589
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:53,920
then they were waiting for him.
590
01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:06,520
The frosts had begun.
The rivers froze over night.
591
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:09,800
Apryatin suffered from cold
and the knowledge
592
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:12,280
that the work had been done badly.
593
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:16,760
There was no model survey,
not a beautiful map sheet.
594
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:21,240
Idiotic orders had been carried
out. But they found nothing.
595
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:25,640
Zhora knew Severstroi did not
believe in objective difficulties.
596
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:28,840
So he would be responsible
for the gaps on the map.
597
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:33,920
The project had been virtually ruined,
and there was nothing to replace it.
598
01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:38,280
Attention! The chiefs are coming!
599
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:46,600
I'm a tin man
my job is to deal with cassiterite.
600
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:49,640
The issue of the mine has been approved.
601
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:52,600
It won't be, Vladimir Mikhailovich.
602
01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:55,880
I won't give you a leave,
nor the tin-mines.
603
01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:58,360
I need you here.
604
01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:03,280
I offer you to take charge
of the prospecting for placer gold.
605
01:10:04,440 --> 01:10:07,240
That's irresponsible, Ilya Nikolaevich.
606
01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:13,560
I'm not going to take part
in this wild gamble.
607
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:23,600
And if it's an order?
608
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:34,600
For the first time in my life
609
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:38,040
I shall answer it with a medical note.
610
01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:42,800
Don't force me to do that.
611
01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:47,880
I have chest pains.
I'm flying to Moscow tomorrow.
612
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:49,280
I'll go to a doctor.
613
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:53,600
I ask you not to report to Furdetsky
until my return.
614
01:10:55,480 --> 01:10:57,360
Thanks for the cinnabar.
615
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,200
Fine, I will wait until you're back.
616
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:11,720
Vladimir Semenovich,
617
01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:15,400
thank you.
618
01:11:35,360 --> 01:11:38,880
Onward, Jupiter's favorites.
619
01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:58,480
Hold on, guys.
If the samples fall overboard,
620
01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:03,080
the chief hasn't got enough cartridges
to shoot us all.
621
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:06,320
Gurin wasn't with Apryatin.
622
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:10,400
He was doing a common friendly duty.
623
01:12:10,480 --> 01:12:12,480
Burying the geologist's remains.
624
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:16,000
Then he was going solo
to the ocean, to Whaler Cape,
625
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:19,240
where Eskimo boats
were to pick everybody up.
626
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:23,240
Hello, people!
627
01:12:25,200 --> 01:12:27,000
All of the party are assembled.
628
01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:29,880
Finished the route
without a single corpse.
629
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:33,760
Who said we couldn't do it?
630
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:36,520
We can! By God, we can!
631
01:12:38,120 --> 01:12:40,320
Let's drink to the end of the season.
632
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:43,360
Chief! We'd drown for you, if needed.
633
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:48,640
Drink with us, Doctor. You're strong.
634
01:12:48,720 --> 01:12:50,720
And your Chinkov is strong too.
635
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:53,280
But where would you be without us workers?
636
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:58,000
With your permission, Chief,
I'll drink later. In solitude.
637
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:10,600
In Central Asia, I climbed three days
to that one almost inaccessible pass.
638
01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:15,440
Why? To drink fifty grams of cognac,
639
01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:24,120
to look down upon the world,
and think about the transience of life.
640
01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:26,520
Why did I do it?
641
01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:31,480
The answer is simple.
642
01:13:32,360 --> 01:13:34,160
The folly of the ages.
643
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:38,520
The desire to prove at all costs
my singularity:
644
01:13:39,480 --> 01:13:41,720
I'm not like everyone else!
645
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:46,120
You'll perish.
646
01:13:48,040 --> 01:13:49,600
What are you talking about?
647
01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:55,160
Nothing. It's marked on your face.
648
01:13:56,120 --> 01:13:59,640
Nonsense.
The main thing is to keep your distance.
649
01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:04,360
The main rule of navigation
in crowded places.
650
01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:07,600
That's the secret…
651
01:14:10,440 --> 01:14:11,840
The boats are coming.
652
01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:19,240
According to an unwritten law
of Severstroi
653
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:23,480
a geologist returning from the field
was entitled to three days.
654
01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:26,800
By the same unwritten law,
he was expected to report
655
01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:30,160
to the Survey building at 9 a.m.
656
01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:33,920
clean-shaven, decently dressed,
and perfectly sober.
657
01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:39,080
How do you do, woman.
658
01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:45,480
Come in.
659
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:50,680
Are you going to live here?
Where's Baklakov?
660
01:15:51,240 --> 01:15:52,400
Baklakov.
661
01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:56,160
Baklakov…
662
01:15:57,440 --> 01:16:00,920
departed for his family estate
in the village.
663
01:16:01,480 --> 01:16:02,720
Is he your friend?
664
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:06,680
I don't have friends. I have buddies,
like everyone in our time.
665
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:12,560
I'm rooming with Baklakov
because it's convenient.
666
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:16,200
He's a simple soul. Occupied
with body building and geology.
667
01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:19,120
He doesn't talk
about the divine. Or women.
668
01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:20,840
He's probably very good.
669
01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:26,240
Charming. Our simple Soviet fanatic.
670
01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:27,920
And you?
671
01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:30,120
A penultimate adventurer.
672
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:32,240
Why penultimate?
673
01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:35,400
It'd be a pity if I were the last. Cognac?
674
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:37,560
Cognac.
675
01:16:48,440 --> 01:16:51,280
Cognac requires gold-plated glasses.
676
01:16:54,760 --> 01:16:56,320
Only then there is color.
677
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:03,760
-Where do you get this cognac from?
-Acquaintances.
678
01:17:04,480 --> 01:17:07,960
They send books, drinks, and records.
679
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:13,640
They do their best to keep me
up with the times.
680
01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:18,080
I smoke cigars like Churchill.
681
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:23,080
I'd like to live to a ripe old age.
To see how it all ends.
682
01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:27,400
What exactly? Excuse me,
if this sounds like an interview.
683
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:31,080
What exactly?
684
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:36,240
You're a journalist? My respects.
685
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:38,600
How what ends?
686
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:43,280
The universal hysteria
for apartments, clothes, and cars.
687
01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:48,520
Consumers are taking over the world.
And to hell with them!
688
01:17:48,600 --> 01:17:50,800
I propose a toast to your career.
689
01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:51,840
Let's.
690
01:17:57,280 --> 01:18:01,720
I can draw up a template
for any correspondence on this.
691
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:03,440
Go on.
692
01:18:06,480 --> 01:18:09,320
Leather torbasa boots, blizzard,
693
01:18:09,400 --> 01:18:13,160
enthusiasm, snowy expanses,
694
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,880
youthful fervor, the old nomad.
695
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:18,880
You don't need to ham it up.
That's my job.
696
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:22,280
I respect that. I respect work.
697
01:18:22,360 --> 01:18:26,000
And my neighbor
and colleague Baklakov respects it.
698
01:18:26,640 --> 01:18:28,280
We all respect work.
699
01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:30,080
What a type you are…
700
01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:34,800
I'm not a type. I'm singular.
A wanderer - that's who I am.
701
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:37,080
How do you manage to be a wanderer?
702
01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:40,960
I have a PhD,
703
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:44,480
but I know my field
on the level of an average professor.
704
01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:48,640
I speak two languages. It makes me
a welcome guest everywhere.
705
01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:50,040
When I get tired,
706
01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:53,160
I'll choose a spot on the map
and move there.
707
01:18:54,920 --> 01:18:56,880
Moving allows me to not own things.
708
01:18:58,440 --> 01:18:59,640
It's easier.
709
01:19:02,040 --> 01:19:04,920
-You don't find it an empty life?
-Sad.
710
01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:14,000
Previously Genghis Khan, Tamerlane,
and Alexander conquered the world.
711
01:19:15,880 --> 01:19:18,920
Now it's inexorably
being taken over by consumers.
712
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:20,760
Everywhere.
713
01:19:21,440 --> 01:19:26,360
From Lake Titicaca to Mozhaisk.
The most ruthless conquest.
714
01:19:26,440 --> 01:19:28,080
So I love adventurers.
715
01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:32,840
Consumers have outlawed them.
So I have adapted.
716
01:19:33,440 --> 01:19:36,320
I try to maintain myself
in this universal craze.
717
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:39,080
To have nothing, except myself.
718
01:19:40,480 --> 01:19:41,840
What an amazing guy!
719
01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:49,240
Amazing guys sit in cafes,
sip port wine through straws
720
01:19:50,360 --> 01:19:52,240
and pretend to be playboys.
721
01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:55,280
No, I'm the penultimate adventurer…
722
01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:58,120
I am on par with these Arctic supermen.
723
01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:01,480
-By the way, do you want to see them?
-I do. And how?
724
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:03,880
The Field Workers' Night.
725
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:08,360
Just the heroes of tundra and a bottle
of wine, no outsiders allowed.
726
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:10,320
A treasure.
727
01:20:11,320 --> 01:20:16,600
-So, are you going to invite me?
-To the Field Workers' Night?
728
01:20:18,240 --> 01:20:21,880
I'm a complicated man, but accessible.
729
01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:27,480
You're not so complicated.
730
01:20:46,280 --> 01:20:47,680
You know, Ivan Egorovich,
731
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:51,600
it's a deposit of global impact.
732
01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:53,920
MOSCOW, MINISTRY OF THE GEOLOGY
733
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:58,760
Mongolov insists that the
entire mountain is made of cinnabar.
734
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:01,760
We took a ton of it.
735
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:06,680
Just walked over,
picked it up, and transported it.
736
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:15,800
Is this the reason you flew to Moscow?
737
01:21:21,240 --> 01:21:22,840
Robykin has called twice.
738
01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:30,120
So you don't believe it?
739
01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:46,760
What's this?
740
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:49,720
Take a look.
741
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:09,080
It's the gold that's not there.
742
01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:38,480
Did you pan it? Coarse fraction…
743
01:22:46,520 --> 01:22:49,240
What do you want, Ilya?
744
01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:56,320
Money. Lots of money. And more money.
745
01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:08,640
Are you here in secret?
746
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:12,640
Yes. And I mined the gold in secret.
747
01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:17,240
This isn't easy, as it was on the river.
748
01:23:18,680 --> 01:23:22,680
There is a sinking alluvial deposit. We
need a major survey.
749
01:23:22,760 --> 01:23:25,520
With money we will provide a new deposit.
750
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:36,840
You want another State Prize, do you?
751
01:23:40,520 --> 01:23:43,280
One more prize is quite good of course.
752
01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:46,640
But you know, Ivan,
753
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:50,760
I want to tell myself I'm
not ashamed of my life
754
01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:54,640
before I die of the third heart attack.
755
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:59,840
To say I did almost everything
what I was intended for.
756
01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:03,880
Or at least that I tried to do it. Yes?
757
01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:11,960
Why did you take cognac out?
For show, or what?
758
01:24:13,520 --> 01:24:16,160
Where has Chinkov disappeared to?
759
01:24:16,240 --> 01:24:19,560
It's the second day
I can't reach him. Over.
760
01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:28,200
The ATVs you've sent have proved
perfect for the Arctic terrain.
761
01:24:28,280 --> 01:24:33,720
The workers asked to thank you,
Comrade Robykin. Over.
762
01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:38,680
Where's Chinkov? Over.
763
01:24:41,440 --> 01:24:44,480
He flew to a hospital
due to a heart condition.
764
01:24:44,560 --> 01:24:49,080
All the field parties returned safely,
Comrade Robykin. Over.
765
01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:54,600
What do you think,
you don't answer to anyone? Over.
766
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:02,040
How can we, Comrade Robykin.
767
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:06,760
I'll send a preliminary report
to you personally in a week. Over.
768
01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:14,280
I wish the Survey team
every success. Over and out.
769
01:25:17,040 --> 01:25:22,520
Baklakov was late. His father died
three days before his arrival.
770
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:25,000
He gave out all of father's good things.
771
01:25:25,080 --> 01:25:28,040
He took only
a big album with family photos.
772
01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:32,240
Baklakov realized with irrefutable
clarity that from now on
773
01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:34,120
the only thing he had
774
01:25:34,200 --> 01:25:38,840
was a room on the Arctic Ocean shore,
and that the Territory was his home.
775
01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:52,160
So long. Read Ramberg.
It will be good for you.
776
01:25:52,240 --> 01:25:53,440
Andrey, let's talk.
777
01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:57,440
Problems with the report?
778
01:25:58,360 --> 01:25:59,600
Almost.
779
01:26:00,920 --> 01:26:02,920
The logic is simple.
780
01:26:03,760 --> 01:26:06,520
Your position isn't lamentable,
but delightful,
781
01:26:07,120 --> 01:26:11,200
because you have the option
to write a custom report.
782
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:13,000
I'll be serious.
783
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:16,240
Have you ever read the classic reports?
784
01:26:16,320 --> 01:26:18,960
Mushketov? Obruchev?
785
01:26:19,040 --> 01:26:21,120
Bogdanovich? No?
786
01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:23,920
So much for years of study.
787
01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:28,120
The old classics wrote geological novels,
788
01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:33,040
they wrote essays about the individual
variants of their hypotheses.
789
01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:36,520
They put time into
describing the landscape so
790
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:40,720
that you shared their frame of mind,
their way of thinking.
791
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:43,400
And what about
the Mineral Deposits section?
792
01:26:45,160 --> 01:26:48,600
You're nothing if not stubborn.
793
01:26:48,680 --> 01:26:53,720
I suggest you write a geological sketch.
Uninhibited mind play.
794
01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:57,720
Your personal perspective
on the structure the earth
795
01:26:58,320 --> 01:26:59,560
based on our area.
796
01:27:00,440 --> 01:27:04,560
The mineral deposits
will take care of themselves.
797
01:27:04,640 --> 01:27:09,440
Try to understand
why Buddha is eager for gold.
798
01:27:10,440 --> 01:27:14,920
Bear in mind that Buddha
doesn't take a step without a reason.
799
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:19,360
He is the only intelligent person
among you supermen.
800
01:27:19,440 --> 01:27:20,760
Stop teasing.
801
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:26,640
If I see the sacred fire
of a thought process in your eyes,
802
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:28,600
I'll work on petrography section.
803
01:27:28,680 --> 01:27:29,720
OK.
804
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:35,000
By the way,
805
01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:39,120
I lost a bet for a dozen
bottles of champagne.
806
01:27:39,200 --> 01:27:42,040
So do drop by our lovely friend tonight.
807
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:43,520
No, I'll be working.
808
01:27:45,120 --> 01:27:49,360
-Well as you wish.
-Maybe I'll drop by after nine.
809
01:28:50,120 --> 01:28:54,480
Baklakov spent the entire week
in the Survey working on the report.
810
01:28:55,920 --> 01:28:58,160
The flat colored sheet of paper
811
01:28:58,240 --> 01:29:00,600
contained a four-dimensional world of
812
01:29:00,680 --> 01:29:02,600
correlations of bed dislocations,
813
01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:06,640
fractures in the earth's crust,
deep-down explosions of magma,
814
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:09,880
the violent madness of volcanic eruptions.
815
01:29:11,040 --> 01:29:13,240
The violet field of the Triassic.
816
01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:16,040
A presumed Paleozoic massif in the east.
817
01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:18,160
To the south, a green line
818
01:29:18,240 --> 01:29:20,800
showed the effusives of the
Ketung Plateau.
819
01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:27,040
He must first get a historical picture.
820
01:29:28,040 --> 01:29:31,920
Faults. For some reason his thoughts
kept returning to the faults.
821
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:36,680
The mountain passes followed them,
the river valleys,
822
01:29:36,760 --> 01:29:39,120
the fault escarpments.
823
01:29:39,200 --> 01:29:43,240
It was here that the magma
broke through, they formed the relief.
824
01:29:43,320 --> 01:29:45,360
Why pay so much attention to faults?
825
01:29:47,960 --> 01:29:49,560
Suddenly he thought it was
826
01:29:49,640 --> 01:29:52,280
no use burying himself in all those facts.
827
01:29:52,880 --> 01:29:54,760
Or hiding behind small details.
828
01:29:55,840 --> 01:29:58,240
A prophet's power lies in moral certainty.
829
01:29:59,080 --> 01:30:02,640
He had to lay a foundation.
The details could come later.
830
01:30:03,800 --> 01:30:08,760
There was gold here - the ubiquitous
traces proved that for a fact.
831
01:30:09,760 --> 01:30:13,120
The granites brought it.
That was also a fact.
832
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:17,760
But in these massifs
no one had ever seen lore gold.
833
01:30:18,320 --> 01:30:19,840
That was the third fact.
834
01:30:25,560 --> 01:30:28,280
Baklakov took a sheet of paper and a pen
835
01:30:28,360 --> 01:30:30,880
and suddenly,
instead of all the questions,
836
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:32,520
he started writing a letter.
837
01:30:33,120 --> 01:30:36,280
It was a silly one about a
friend of his who had tried
838
01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:40,080
to get a light from the Aurora Borealis
with a magnifying glass,
839
01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:45,080
about a cockroach called Syoma
that lived in a crack over his bed.
840
01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:49,120
While he was writing,
he understood absolutely clearly
841
01:30:49,200 --> 01:30:54,280
that there was a special type of granite,
as of yet unknown.
842
01:30:55,200 --> 01:30:58,200
In such a case, gold deposits
should be expected
843
01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:01,280
in all rivers of the Territory.
844
01:31:02,880 --> 01:31:04,800
That night he got the main thing.
845
01:31:05,400 --> 01:31:07,040
Intuition and confidence.
846
01:31:08,200 --> 01:31:09,800
He knew he was right.
847
01:31:19,520 --> 01:31:21,840
-Good morning.
-Morning!
848
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:25,280
You disappeared.
Why don't you stop by anymore?
849
01:31:28,560 --> 01:31:32,120
Gurin wrote some notes,
asked me to give them to you.
850
01:31:32,200 --> 01:31:35,120
He's been living with me,
working on his report.
851
01:31:36,400 --> 01:31:39,400
You're rather cheerful and shiny,
852
01:31:41,560 --> 01:31:42,640
full of color.
853
01:31:44,600 --> 01:31:46,160
Who is Tamara?
854
01:31:47,560 --> 01:31:48,360
Tamara!
855
01:32:00,040 --> 01:32:01,960
Today I had a good night.
856
01:32:02,880 --> 01:32:07,120
I was suddenly filled with the joy
of the coming summer.
857
01:32:09,400 --> 01:32:12,400
Mongolov says
I reduced the amount of evil on earth.
858
01:32:14,480 --> 01:32:18,720
My God. Under the influence of Gurin,
you'll soon become a philosopher.
859
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:22,080
You don't have to be one.
You're just a simple superman.
860
01:32:22,160 --> 01:32:23,960
They should write about you.
861
01:32:24,720 --> 01:32:26,920
Go to the tundra, meet the people.
862
01:32:27,880 --> 01:32:30,640
Mongolov has such people,
more like screws.
863
01:32:30,720 --> 01:32:33,520
They can be neither hammered in,
nor pulled out.
864
01:32:35,160 --> 01:32:36,800
Write about them.
865
01:32:37,680 --> 01:32:39,800
These people of yours, these screws,
866
01:32:39,880 --> 01:32:42,800
we can't write about them.
867
01:32:42,880 --> 01:32:47,720
We need those who come here for the
romance of it, and have clean pasts…
868
01:32:47,800 --> 01:32:50,960
I'm a bad journalist,
I can't write any other way.
869
01:32:51,040 --> 01:32:53,960
Yes, they're not smooth, or clean.
870
01:32:54,960 --> 01:32:58,600
They're the first here, where
others will flock to for romance.
871
01:32:58,680 --> 01:33:02,240
Maybe there will be a city here.
Maybe more than one.
872
01:33:02,320 --> 01:33:04,160
But a city needs a foundation.
873
01:33:04,240 --> 01:33:06,760
You need a hard worker nicknamed Kefir.
874
01:33:06,840 --> 01:33:08,960
He isn't holy.
875
01:33:09,040 --> 01:33:13,440
But hard work goes hand in hand
with Kefir, they are one.
876
01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:16,600
Maybe this is his holiness.
877
01:33:17,520 --> 01:33:22,120
You know, your duty
is to be a very good person.
878
01:33:23,280 --> 01:33:24,360
Why?
879
01:33:27,200 --> 01:33:30,040
Some people have it harder than others.
880
01:33:31,680 --> 01:33:34,360
Others get away with things,
but they can't.
881
01:33:34,440 --> 01:33:36,520
They have an obligation to be better.
882
01:33:36,600 --> 01:33:40,520
If they decide to chase their
dreams, they are doubly obligated.
883
01:33:40,600 --> 01:33:41,760
Why?
884
01:33:42,560 --> 01:33:45,360
Most of us are scared to chase our dreams.
885
01:33:47,560 --> 01:33:51,640
MOUTH OF THE ELGAI RIVER,
EASTERN SURVEY AREA
886
01:33:54,680 --> 01:33:59,440
Bosses think that a worker
just took his up-front wages,
887
01:34:00,800 --> 01:34:05,600
found himself some rotgut,
well, they call it port wine,
888
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:08,000
and sleeps it off somewhere.
889
01:34:12,280 --> 01:34:15,280
But the management spends
sleepless nights,
890
01:34:15,360 --> 01:34:19,720
takes pills and drops for this and that.
891
01:34:19,800 --> 01:34:25,160
If they go to sleep,
the whole project will collapse.
892
01:34:26,640 --> 01:34:29,960
But what is production, Gray?
893
01:34:30,480 --> 01:34:31,520
Right!
894
01:34:32,880 --> 01:34:34,160
It's a tree!
895
01:34:34,800 --> 01:34:39,480
And the workers grow it.
896
01:34:39,560 --> 01:34:46,000
When the bosses fall asleep,
the workers take a rest.
897
01:35:02,040 --> 01:35:04,040
We can do it, lads!
898
01:35:05,840 --> 01:35:07,080
We can do it!
899
01:35:13,680 --> 01:35:17,520
-Is there any more?
-You've got a lucky eye, come down.
900
01:35:19,560 --> 01:35:21,000
Toilers!
901
01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:24,880
Salute with your right hand.
902
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:29,160
When you hear "March,"
begin with your right foot.
903
01:35:29,240 --> 01:35:31,280
Anti-aircraft guns shoot up.
904
01:35:32,000 --> 01:35:35,480
The boys did not beat the air.
Worked really hard.
905
01:35:36,080 --> 01:35:38,240
Here you are, Vladimir Mikhailovich!
906
01:35:47,680 --> 01:35:48,920
Where?
907
01:35:49,560 --> 01:35:51,800
Line four hundred thirty, pit eight.
908
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:02,520
At ten meters.
909
01:36:06,760 --> 01:36:08,200
Want some liquor?
910
01:36:09,640 --> 01:36:11,600
Can't have that.
911
01:36:12,320 --> 01:36:15,560
It'll scare luck away.
It's the law of prospectors.
912
01:36:17,720 --> 01:36:19,360
Kefir!
913
01:36:20,920 --> 01:36:25,960
Start the boiler.
We need to sluice. Winter sluicing.
914
01:36:26,720 --> 01:36:30,000
Now we can't wait until summer…
915
01:36:35,840 --> 01:36:38,080
Sluicing at the lower line was empty.
916
01:36:38,160 --> 01:36:41,600
The sands turned out to be barren.
917
01:36:43,840 --> 01:36:47,960
Mongolov ordered
the boiler be taken to the next line.
918
01:36:48,040 --> 01:36:50,080
The second line was also barren.
919
01:36:50,760 --> 01:36:53,560
The painful spirit of failure
overcame the party.
920
01:37:08,520 --> 01:37:11,480
Where's the logic, Mongolov thought,
921
01:37:11,560 --> 01:37:14,840
A nugget the size of an egg
was not just a trace.
922
01:37:14,920 --> 01:37:17,000
It couldn't be an accident.
923
01:37:17,720 --> 01:37:21,080
But the gold industry didn't live
off nuggets.
924
01:37:21,160 --> 01:37:23,680
What kept it going was
gold grains and dust.
925
01:37:23,760 --> 01:37:26,800
Grains and dust would have to be panned.
926
01:37:28,080 --> 01:37:30,320
Mongolov was getting excited.
927
01:37:30,400 --> 01:37:33,120
He understood
that the Chief Engineer's plans
928
01:37:33,200 --> 01:37:35,440
must extend much further than Elgai.
929
01:37:44,280 --> 01:37:46,800
I read your report, Sergey Aleksandrovich.
930
01:37:47,400 --> 01:37:52,080
Your reasoning makes perfect sense.
931
01:37:57,680 --> 01:37:59,640
I propose you plan the route
932
01:37:59,720 --> 01:38:01,720
and plan a circumferential party.
933
01:38:03,600 --> 01:38:06,000
You will head it.
934
01:38:06,840 --> 01:38:09,800
You'll follow the boundaries
of the Survey grounds
935
01:38:09,880 --> 01:38:12,240
and write a report estimating the
936
01:38:13,360 --> 01:38:17,080
the Territory's gold-bearing potential.
I will be co-author.
937
01:38:18,560 --> 01:38:23,880
I'll give you Kutsenko as a sluicer.
Take Gurin as your instrument man.
938
01:38:25,480 --> 01:38:27,720
I don't want Gurin. Personal reasons.
939
01:38:29,160 --> 01:38:32,400
In the Elgai Valley traps for deposits
should be
940
01:38:32,480 --> 01:38:35,280
as you described in your report.
941
01:38:38,320 --> 01:38:42,120
You guessed it. I believe you
guessed it for the entire Territory.
942
01:38:43,200 --> 01:38:46,440
This is the most complicated
and important party.
943
01:38:57,840 --> 01:38:59,760
I need the plan in a week.
944
01:39:01,120 --> 01:39:05,560
Remember, no matter how complicated and
long the route you plan,
945
01:39:06,200 --> 01:39:08,120
it still won't be enough.
946
01:39:08,680 --> 01:39:11,720
As soon as you're clear about the route,
947
01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:14,720
take an airplane and drop food stores.
948
01:39:16,240 --> 01:39:19,280
Only you will be responsible
for the party's results.
949
01:39:19,360 --> 01:39:23,120
I don't care what you need to do
to carry it out.
950
01:39:23,200 --> 01:39:24,520
That's my concern.
951
01:39:28,960 --> 01:39:32,720
Your concern is to keep your brain hot,
to develop ideas
952
01:39:32,800 --> 01:39:36,080
and then adjust them according
to the reality.
953
01:39:36,160 --> 01:39:39,240
In common parlance, it's called wisdom.
954
01:39:39,800 --> 01:39:42,360
I oblige you to be relentless and wise
955
01:39:42,440 --> 01:39:44,960
in everything that's about the gold here.
956
01:39:45,560 --> 01:39:49,760
Your future depends
entirely on this summer.
957
01:39:51,720 --> 01:39:52,880
I wish you luck.
958
01:39:53,440 --> 01:39:56,720
And don't disappoint me.
I believe in your strength.
959
01:40:09,680 --> 01:40:12,240
Salakhov, find me
a good place for the camp.
960
01:40:15,320 --> 01:40:18,800
Food stuffs on a second flight.
Let's load the detonators.
961
01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:24,160
Chief! There's still space.
We can take grub.
962
01:40:24,240 --> 01:40:26,240
It'll go on the second flight.
963
01:40:26,880 --> 01:40:29,720
It's strictly forbidden to transport
explosives
964
01:40:29,800 --> 01:40:33,080
and detonators in the same transport.
I'm accountable.
965
01:40:34,800 --> 01:40:36,360
Let me fly!
966
01:40:40,560 --> 01:40:45,000
Are you new here, Chief?
Take an airplane for a donkey?
967
01:40:45,080 --> 01:40:47,400
Load whatever on a donkey.
968
01:40:47,480 --> 01:40:49,280
Enough. Finish loading.
969
01:40:49,360 --> 01:40:50,640
Finishing.
970
01:40:53,840 --> 01:40:55,680
-What's that?
-Grub.
971
01:40:57,360 --> 01:41:00,920
Stuff happens. Last year
I spent two weeks waiting for a plane…
972
01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:03,240
You're not going to eat, but to work.
973
01:41:09,840 --> 01:41:13,560
The plane took off, came back
as scheduled, but that was it.
974
01:41:13,640 --> 01:41:15,520
A blizzard set in.
975
01:41:15,600 --> 01:41:17,040
Stop!
976
01:41:17,120 --> 01:41:22,160
The first fine day with a good forecast
happened to be seven days later.
977
01:41:22,240 --> 01:41:24,680
At the airfield Apryatin learned
978
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:28,800
that Baklakov had grabbed
the only available "Annushka".
979
01:41:29,520 --> 01:41:32,120
The only thing Apryatin could do
was to pray
980
01:41:32,200 --> 01:41:35,560
for Baklakov not to smash the plane
on his idiotic tour
981
01:41:35,640 --> 01:41:38,680
and for those two to endure the waiting.
982
01:41:38,760 --> 01:41:41,160
Salakhov and the God of Fire had no food.
983
01:41:41,240 --> 01:41:43,760
Apryatin told nobody about it,
984
01:41:43,840 --> 01:41:47,240
though he knew
that if Salakhov and the God of Fire died
985
01:41:47,320 --> 01:41:49,480
he would have to shoot himself.
986
01:41:53,720 --> 01:41:57,320
Six drums with food
and one containing rubber boats
987
01:41:57,400 --> 01:42:00,840
to drop along Baklakov's
forthcoming heroic route
988
01:42:00,920 --> 01:42:05,440
were filled, wired
and delivered to the plane.
989
01:42:05,520 --> 01:42:08,080
Baklakov had transferred all the drop
990
01:42:08,160 --> 01:42:14,040
points to the pilot's navigating map.
991
01:42:14,920 --> 01:42:18,880
A week before that
Kutsenko flew away by post plane.
992
01:42:18,960 --> 01:42:21,520
He had either to rent or buy a whaleboat,
993
01:42:21,600 --> 01:42:24,600
deliver it by tractor
to the mouth of the Grey River
994
01:42:24,680 --> 01:42:27,200
and to preserve a base there.
995
01:42:27,280 --> 01:42:29,120
So we land,
996
01:42:29,200 --> 01:42:33,480
pick up your Kutsenko,
and immediately take off. Nuts.
997
01:42:33,560 --> 01:42:37,920
On this damn cape you never know
if there's wind or not.
998
01:42:38,920 --> 01:42:41,880
Hello! Cape Banners!
999
01:42:41,960 --> 01:42:45,920
Ground control! Senya! Lazy bum!
1000
01:42:46,000 --> 01:42:48,320
At least put long johns on the pole.
1001
01:42:48,960 --> 01:42:54,080
Do it the old way. Light a fire
I'll circle once more.
1002
01:43:34,040 --> 01:43:35,400
Engineer,
1003
01:43:38,400 --> 01:43:42,400
The craft with your colleague
had an accident on Cape Banners.
1004
01:43:42,480 --> 01:43:45,760
Everyone's alive.
They don't know when it can be fixed.
1005
01:43:46,520 --> 01:43:48,320
You can stop hanging out here.
1006
01:44:03,600 --> 01:44:04,960
Patient!
1007
01:44:06,320 --> 01:44:07,880
You have a visitor.
1008
01:44:08,560 --> 01:44:09,880
Come in.
1009
01:44:19,960 --> 01:44:24,320
We have lights out at eleven.
I'll bring you an oil lamp then.
1010
01:44:27,480 --> 01:44:30,040
Well, go on, chat.
1011
01:44:38,200 --> 01:44:39,680
How did you know?
1012
01:44:48,360 --> 01:44:53,280
Tamara, when you turn eighteen,
will you marry me?
1013
01:44:53,840 --> 01:44:55,960
Next year. I will.
1014
01:44:57,160 --> 01:45:02,560
You're kind and strong,
although completely ugly right now.
1015
01:45:38,240 --> 01:45:39,680
What are you waiting for?
1016
01:45:41,560 --> 01:45:45,040
There was bad weather.
Now there's no airplane.
1017
01:45:48,360 --> 01:45:50,760
I've thought a lot about you, Apryatin.
1018
01:45:52,040 --> 01:45:53,520
Your grandfather asked.
1019
01:45:53,600 --> 01:45:57,480
But if your people died -
I'll put you on trial.
1020
01:46:12,720 --> 01:46:16,280
Go to the radio and send a message
in my name to the city
1021
01:46:17,160 --> 01:46:20,320
that we urgently need
an AN-2 ambulance on skis.
1022
01:46:22,880 --> 01:46:24,880
Do you believe in God, Apryatin?
1023
01:46:26,880 --> 01:46:28,680
I'm a Komsomol member!
1024
01:46:32,600 --> 01:46:34,200
I've been praying for days.
1025
01:46:40,680 --> 01:46:42,880
Pray, Apryatin, pray.
1026
01:47:04,280 --> 01:47:07,560
Salakhov, you won't swallow me, will you?
1027
01:47:07,640 --> 01:47:11,400
What took you so long, Chief?
1028
01:49:23,440 --> 01:49:26,440
…those were our granddads!
1029
01:49:26,520 --> 01:49:30,640
-Well?
-Katinsky died. Mikhail Arkadievich.
1030
01:49:30,720 --> 01:49:32,120
Hush!
1031
01:49:32,960 --> 01:49:34,400
Katinsky died.
1032
01:49:59,040 --> 01:50:00,560
Mikhail Katinsky
1033
01:50:01,680 --> 01:50:06,520
saw the world from the wondrous
heights of high moral truths.
1034
01:50:07,680 --> 01:50:09,000
And we?
1035
01:50:11,360 --> 01:50:15,080
We live and die. It's a shame.
1036
01:50:17,120 --> 01:50:18,920
There is much evil in the world.
1037
01:50:23,640 --> 01:50:25,720
So, our main and common task
1038
01:50:26,840 --> 01:50:29,440
and our personal quest
is to get rid of it.
1039
01:50:33,280 --> 01:50:36,400
During the war it was clear -
take up a sword or gun.
1040
01:50:40,280 --> 01:50:41,480
But in peacetime,
1041
01:50:44,000 --> 01:50:49,760
honest work should be the elimination
of our universal evil.
1042
01:50:52,560 --> 01:50:54,560
That's the higher purpose.
1043
01:51:14,000 --> 01:51:16,560
What's the probability that Vasya the Cat
1044
01:51:16,640 --> 01:51:19,000
poking his paw wherever he likes,
1045
01:51:19,080 --> 01:51:22,160
will be able to type
"The tale about Tzar Saltan"?
1046
01:51:23,800 --> 01:51:25,160
One in three billion.
1047
01:51:25,720 --> 01:51:28,600
The possibility of your going
with me to the field
1048
01:51:29,800 --> 01:51:31,360
is within this probability.
1049
01:51:34,040 --> 01:51:36,680
And no editorial tasks will help.
1050
01:51:38,400 --> 01:51:42,880
There's cold there which isn't possible
to escape, dirt, obscene lexicon.
1051
01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:46,800
Finally, sometimes there's no food.
1052
01:51:50,160 --> 01:51:51,080
I can't.
1053
01:51:58,680 --> 01:52:02,880
Enough moping.
Look at the world in a different way.
1054
01:52:04,800 --> 01:52:06,240
Do something useful.
1055
01:52:07,600 --> 01:52:10,960
Write a novel. About us. About supermen.
1056
01:52:13,040 --> 01:52:14,320
Here's the first line.
1057
01:52:15,600 --> 01:52:19,000
"Two beach mariners stand
by the Arctic Ocean,
1058
01:52:19,480 --> 01:52:22,480
watching the sunset and the melting ice."
1059
01:52:23,200 --> 01:52:24,360
Enough. Go.
1060
01:52:36,280 --> 01:52:38,440
Loving you is so exciting,
1061
01:52:38,520 --> 01:52:41,480
Just as diving amidst ice.
1062
01:52:44,880 --> 01:52:46,720
Loving you is just as pointless
1063
01:52:46,800 --> 01:52:49,640
As trying to stop the flow of time.
1064
01:52:51,920 --> 01:52:54,080
Loving you is just as useless
1065
01:52:54,160 --> 01:52:57,280
As attempts to catch the wind
1066
01:52:59,280 --> 01:53:01,560
Loving you is just as hopeless
1067
01:53:01,640 --> 01:53:04,520
As to count on cliffs' will
1068
01:53:06,360 --> 01:53:08,400
Loving you means there's no other.
1069
01:53:08,480 --> 01:53:11,240
There's no fate that can be better…
1070
01:53:12,800 --> 01:53:14,640
To ache in secret, ache forever,
1071
01:53:14,720 --> 01:53:17,800
To howl with wolves in desperation
1072
01:53:19,040 --> 01:53:21,560
Loving you is gulping water
1073
01:53:21,640 --> 01:53:24,040
In the desert without relief,
1074
01:53:25,760 --> 01:53:27,640
To be cast aside one day
1075
01:53:28,280 --> 01:53:30,120
In submission to your whim.
1076
01:53:32,720 --> 01:53:34,800
Loving you is to swim the ocean
1077
01:53:35,520 --> 01:53:37,800
Where waves deliver backhand blows
1078
01:53:39,560 --> 01:53:41,520
Loving you is truly precious
1079
01:53:41,600 --> 01:53:43,440
A luxury I can't afford.
1080
01:53:45,240 --> 01:53:47,440
Loving you holds as much perils
1081
01:53:47,960 --> 01:53:50,440
As slipping on a cliff's rough edge
1082
01:53:51,760 --> 01:53:54,960
But oh my God, you are so perfect
1083
01:53:55,880 --> 01:53:58,640
That this love I can't escape.
1084
01:54:00,080 --> 01:54:04,160
THE NGANAI HILLS, SURVEY PARTY
1085
01:54:33,160 --> 01:54:34,800
Welcome, Chief!
1086
01:54:41,280 --> 01:54:43,600
Wow, mountain skis!
1087
01:54:44,160 --> 01:54:45,120
Sure thing.
1088
01:54:46,200 --> 01:54:48,600
King of the Kavgolov Hills, that's me.
1089
01:54:48,680 --> 01:54:50,240
Have you been to the south?
1090
01:54:50,800 --> 01:54:55,680
Certainly, Chief. There's a rock
intrusion over there.
1091
01:54:56,800 --> 01:54:59,880
Maybe just the tip
of non-discharged magma.
1092
01:55:03,960 --> 01:55:07,840
Wonderful contact.
A ready-made laboratory.
1093
01:55:08,320 --> 01:55:11,440
But… It needs stripping.
1094
01:55:14,080 --> 01:55:17,440
Chief, I'm awaiting wise, guiding words.
1095
01:55:19,840 --> 01:55:21,320
Study all the details.
1096
01:55:22,200 --> 01:55:25,280
Take Gray, he's trained in mining.
1097
01:55:26,240 --> 01:55:29,160
And drop these. You'll be worn out.
1098
01:55:30,560 --> 01:55:33,080
THE VALLEY OF THREE GLACIERS
1099
01:55:33,160 --> 01:55:36,240
Mongolov took away his new wife
1100
01:55:36,320 --> 01:55:38,440
to the camp in the same plane.
1101
01:55:39,560 --> 01:55:42,960
In a few days she would be taken back
by Uncle Kostya.
1102
01:55:55,760 --> 01:55:57,440
Good morning.
1103
01:55:57,520 --> 01:55:59,080
Good morning.
1104
01:56:00,480 --> 01:56:01,920
Are you cold?
1105
01:56:04,160 --> 01:56:05,200
Nope.
1106
01:56:06,600 --> 01:56:08,560
See, nothing to be afraid of!
1107
01:56:36,360 --> 01:56:37,360
Coffee?
1108
01:56:38,600 --> 01:56:41,440
Well, certainly not like that in Vienna.
1109
01:56:42,480 --> 01:56:43,560
But coffee…
1110
01:57:00,600 --> 01:57:03,400
My God, I grew up in Sokolniki in Moscow.
1111
01:57:03,480 --> 01:57:06,960
By the age of ten
I knew everything about mankind.
1112
01:57:11,200 --> 01:57:13,280
And I saw happy people.
1113
01:57:27,840 --> 01:57:30,240
If for every stray there can't be found
1114
01:57:30,320 --> 01:57:34,320
a strong clever person,
then mankind is not worth a pin.
1115
01:57:35,840 --> 01:57:38,160
But mankind is worth something.
1116
01:57:41,160 --> 01:57:44,480
Fishes. Where do they swim?
1117
01:57:45,400 --> 01:57:49,360
It's dark in the water,
and they do not know where to swim.
1118
01:57:50,840 --> 01:57:55,920
We should light up fires for them,
so they would know where to go.
1119
01:57:57,320 --> 01:58:00,920
Because nobody should live in darkness!
1120
01:58:07,760 --> 01:58:09,680
Light up the fires in the ocean!
1121
01:58:28,200 --> 01:58:31,000
Uncle Kostya was wounded
in February of 1945
1122
01:58:31,080 --> 01:58:32,840
in the battle for Budapest.
1123
01:58:33,400 --> 01:58:34,600
Missile wounds.
1124
01:58:35,360 --> 01:58:37,120
Fine splinters stuck the ribs,
1125
01:58:37,200 --> 01:58:40,480
a bigger one broke the rib
and stopped near the heart.
1126
01:58:41,000 --> 01:58:42,760
It didn't disturb him.
1127
01:58:42,840 --> 01:58:46,720
It only moved slightly
during moments of excitement.
1128
01:59:36,360 --> 01:59:39,400
Listen to me! Don't be afraid.
1129
01:59:40,440 --> 01:59:43,480
They'll look for us. They will find you.
1130
01:59:56,240 --> 01:59:57,400
Survive, will you?
1131
02:00:51,240 --> 02:00:52,920
Tractor drivers are forbidden
1132
02:00:53,720 --> 02:00:57,760
to leave without a tent,
a kerosene stove, a sleeping bag
1133
02:00:58,320 --> 02:00:59,960
and a week's supply of food.
1134
02:01:00,520 --> 02:01:03,240
Geologists-surveyors must not do…
1135
02:01:28,120 --> 02:01:29,520
I have finished.
1136
02:01:36,320 --> 02:01:38,120
Sergey Aleksandrovich!
1137
02:01:39,480 --> 02:01:41,000
Gurin broke his legs.
1138
02:01:41,080 --> 02:01:44,720
-How?!
-On those contraptions of his.
1139
02:01:44,800 --> 02:01:47,240
The skis broke to smithereens,
1140
02:01:47,800 --> 02:01:51,440
both legs are broken. His spine seems
intact. We need to go.
1141
02:01:51,520 --> 02:01:53,640
Arctic foxes, they'll eat him.
1142
02:01:53,720 --> 02:01:55,880
-And the gun?
-I took the gun.
1143
02:01:56,440 --> 02:01:58,600
Gurin is bad. Yelling, crying.
1144
02:01:59,160 --> 02:02:03,280
I've sent Gray to sleep.
We have to leave in two hours.
1145
02:02:48,920 --> 02:02:52,400
At that moment Baklakov hated Gurin.
1146
02:02:53,240 --> 02:02:57,080
He decided: he must go
to the radio station himself.
1147
02:02:58,200 --> 02:03:01,200
He'd make 170 kilometers in two days.
1148
02:03:01,280 --> 02:03:04,000
He'll save his roommate's legs.
1149
02:03:09,080 --> 02:03:12,760
THE VALLEY OF THE SMALL KITAM RIVER
1150
02:03:13,640 --> 02:03:17,840
As always, after making the decision
Baklakov felt better
1151
02:03:18,360 --> 02:03:21,000
and now he began to be sorry for Gurin.
1152
02:03:21,520 --> 02:03:24,240
If Gurin lost his legs,
it'd be the end of him.
1153
02:03:24,320 --> 02:03:27,760
He was not the kind of person
to live as a cripple.
1154
02:03:48,320 --> 02:03:49,640
Kyaye!
1155
02:03:50,720 --> 02:03:53,840
-God sent you to me again!
-Have you forgotten?
1156
02:03:54,640 --> 02:03:57,920
When you went to the airplane,
we made an agreement.
1157
02:03:58,880 --> 02:04:00,320
I brought everything.
1158
02:04:01,520 --> 02:04:02,720
Left at the base.
1159
02:04:04,240 --> 02:04:07,320
-My engineer broke his legs.
-I know.
1160
02:04:08,360 --> 02:04:10,440
They told me at your base.
1161
02:04:11,320 --> 02:04:12,920
There is a weather station
1162
02:04:13,720 --> 02:04:15,240
170 kilometers from here.
1163
02:04:16,640 --> 02:04:18,320
They can call for a plane.
1164
02:04:19,480 --> 02:04:20,640
I'll take him.
1165
02:07:31,960 --> 02:07:36,840
THE VALLEY OF THE SMALL KITAM RIVER
1166
02:07:40,640 --> 02:07:43,120
Gurin saw himself clearly from the side
1167
02:07:44,160 --> 02:07:48,600
as a mass of actions, words,
accidents and objective facts.
1168
02:07:49,640 --> 02:07:53,440
His own and other people's aphorisms,
his proud aloofness.
1169
02:07:54,320 --> 02:07:59,320
Andrey Gurin, top-grade expert and
individualist philosopher.
1170
02:08:00,920 --> 02:08:03,560
And now he was now lying helpless
1171
02:08:03,640 --> 02:08:05,960
in a stupid valley of a stupid river,
1172
02:08:06,040 --> 02:08:10,480
and an illiterate herdsman was driving
his reindeer to death to save him.
1173
02:09:32,280 --> 02:09:34,040
Now, Baklakov needed to
1174
02:09:34,120 --> 02:09:37,640
coordinate the borders
with Zhora Apryatin's route
1175
02:09:37,720 --> 02:09:40,160
and to work methodically, steadily,
1176
02:09:40,240 --> 02:09:43,560
to work every minute without rest,
1177
02:09:43,640 --> 02:09:46,120
but to get through this double summer.
1178
02:09:46,200 --> 02:09:47,680
THE MARAU HILLS
1179
02:09:52,400 --> 02:09:54,560
I go for two days. Wait for Apryatin.
1180
02:12:26,640 --> 02:12:31,640
We are all doomed here.
We are all doomed to our work.
1181
02:12:31,720 --> 02:12:35,360
Saints in the wilderness
and faithful wives,
1182
02:12:35,440 --> 02:12:39,640
beautiful women and millionaires,
all are doomed to their role in life.
1183
02:12:39,720 --> 02:12:41,880
We are doomed to work,
1184
02:12:41,960 --> 02:12:46,400
and this is the best and highest kind
of doom in the world.
1185
02:12:58,640 --> 02:12:59,480
Gray!
1186
02:13:20,960 --> 02:13:24,280
The plans have changed. We've found gold.
1187
02:13:31,160 --> 02:13:34,960
Let's wait for Apryatin,
and get back to the base.
1188
02:13:50,160 --> 02:13:52,920
Hey! Where are you going to?
1189
02:14:03,080 --> 02:14:04,880
Sergey!
1190
02:16:51,000 --> 02:16:52,720
Welcome!
1191
02:16:53,280 --> 02:16:57,960
Well, Vladimir Mikhailovich,
you'll get money and additional workers.
1192
02:16:59,280 --> 02:17:02,400
But Robykin keeps fighting
to closing the Survey.
1193
02:17:02,480 --> 02:17:07,080
They want to set up an expanded
search party for tin instead of us.
1194
02:17:07,600 --> 02:17:09,360
They want you to head it.
1195
02:17:11,040 --> 02:17:13,400
Tangled knots must be cut immediately.
1196
02:17:16,080 --> 02:17:18,040
I will continue searching for gold.
1197
02:17:18,120 --> 02:17:20,680
Use my experience as a mining engineer.
1198
02:17:21,960 --> 02:17:27,560
I know the Territory has gold.
And I know that we will find it.
1199
02:19:18,680 --> 02:19:20,480
Good morning, comrade Chief!
1200
02:19:21,240 --> 02:19:23,840
Ah! Profound moderation of alcohol.
1201
02:19:25,680 --> 02:19:28,360
He was the one
who found the 350-gram nugget.
1202
02:19:28,440 --> 02:19:30,440
Is it really such a feat, Sir?
1203
02:19:30,520 --> 02:19:32,840
I gave up the booze to keep our luck!
1204
02:19:32,920 --> 02:19:36,280
And maintain the strength
of the national currency.
1205
02:19:36,360 --> 02:19:39,960
Gigolov heroically refused
the alcohol he was offered.
1206
02:19:40,520 --> 02:19:42,280
-Wasn't that the case?
-Yes.
1207
02:19:43,880 --> 02:19:47,840
That's a lush fur-coat you have.
Just right for walking down Broadway.
1208
02:19:47,920 --> 02:19:50,080
-All the chicks'll be yours!
1209
02:19:56,200 --> 02:19:59,000
The first human flight in space!
1210
02:19:59,080 --> 02:20:03,440
Our soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin in space!
1211
02:20:03,520 --> 02:20:05,720
Hurrah, comrades! Hurrah!
1212
02:20:05,800 --> 02:20:08,440
Hurrah!
1213
02:20:11,160 --> 02:20:14,720
We are now transmitting the message
about the first human
1214
02:20:15,560 --> 02:20:18,200
into space!
1215
02:20:19,600 --> 02:20:22,840
It's April 12th, 1961.
1216
02:20:23,720 --> 02:20:28,360
A Soviet astronaut reached
1217
02:20:29,000 --> 02:20:33,400
the orbit of the earth
1218
02:20:33,480 --> 02:20:37,640
for the first time in history.
1219
02:23:18,520 --> 02:23:21,440
Chinkov's prevision was fulfilled.
1220
02:23:21,520 --> 02:23:25,880
They discovered
the Territory's gold-bearing node.
1221
02:23:25,960 --> 02:23:29,880
All this happened
in another century and in another world.
1222
02:23:40,840 --> 02:23:42,440
If there were a higher power
1223
02:23:42,520 --> 02:23:45,800
that could bring back everyone
related to this story
1224
02:23:45,880 --> 02:23:49,240
who died on the route
or lost their way on the continent,
1225
02:23:49,320 --> 02:23:51,520
they would've done it all over again.
1226
02:23:51,600 --> 02:23:53,080
Not for the sake of money,
1227
02:23:53,160 --> 02:23:57,200
they'd learned the true worth
of it in the Territory.
1228
02:23:57,680 --> 02:23:59,280
And not in the name of duty,
1229
02:23:59,360 --> 02:24:03,440
one's true duty lies within,
rather than in words.
1230
02:24:03,520 --> 02:24:04,960
And not for glory.
1231
02:24:05,960 --> 02:24:07,920
But for the sake of the unknown,
1232
02:24:08,000 --> 02:24:12,040
which is the beginning and the drive
of any person's life
1233
02:24:13,080 --> 02:24:17,680
Maybe it's all about being supported
by the thought of those past years,
1234
02:24:17,760 --> 02:24:19,680
when you didn't choose the easy way,
1235
02:24:19,760 --> 02:24:22,440
when you saw the hard
and beautiful reality,
1236
02:24:22,520 --> 02:24:25,320
and lived as a man, a human, should live.
1237
02:24:26,800 --> 02:24:29,680
Today is the consequence of yesterday.
1238
02:24:30,680 --> 02:24:33,640
And all of our tomorrows
are born of our todays.
1239
02:24:33,720 --> 02:24:36,760
Then why weren't you
on those tractor sledges?
1240
02:24:36,840 --> 02:24:40,600
And why wasn't your face
seared by that frosty February wind?
1241
02:24:41,160 --> 02:24:44,120
Where were you? What have you been doing?
1242
02:24:44,600 --> 02:24:46,360
Are you proud of your life?
1243
02:24:47,720 --> 02:24:52,960
TO OUR PARENTS, WHO DREAMED
OF A PEACEFUL AND HAPPY LIFE