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This film is adapted from the eponymous
novel by Giuliano da Empoli.
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While it is based on historical events,
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it remains an original work of fiction
with artistic intent.
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The characters, as well as their
statements and opinions, are fictional.
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Since Vadim Baranov
stepped down as advisor
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to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin,
the Tzar,
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the legends about him haven't waned,
they've multiplied.
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Most men of power get their aura
from the position they hold.
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When they lose it,
it's like a plug has been pulled.
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Baranov was a different breed.
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Some say he retreated
to a monastery in Mount Athos.
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Others swore they saw him in Ibiza,
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surrounded by coked-up models.
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Still others insist they spotted him
on the front line in Donbas.
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Vadim Baranov went through life
in a swirl of enigmas.
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The sole certainty
was his influence on the Tzar.
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In his fifteen years of service,
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he contributed decisively
to the growth of the Tzar's power.
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He was known
as the Wizard of the Kremlin,
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the New Rasputin.
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He'd Show up unannounced
at the President's office late at night
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to handle urgent matters.
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Perhaps the Tzar himself
would call him in on his personal line.
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Occasionally the two of them
were joined by a prominent minister
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or the CEO
of some state-owned conglomerate,
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but these witnesses
shed no light on the Tzar
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and his advisors' nightly activities.
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When I returned to Moscow
a few years after his disappearance
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Baranov's memory still loomed large.
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The press persisted in attributing to him
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the most baffling measures
taken by the Kremlin.
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As for me, I had just published
an essay in Foreign Affairs
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that created something of a stir.
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It was called: "Vadim Baranov
and the invention of Fake Democracy".
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If you need anything, just dial 9.
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Thank you.
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- Have a good day, Mr. Rowland.
- You too.
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I took a year's sabbatical from Yale
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to write the first biography
of Yevgeny Zamyatin,
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one of Russia's great writers
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and an early antagonist
of Stalin's communist regime.
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I walked in the pale winter light,
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leafed through old books.
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Zamyatin became my obsession.
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He was a visionary,
and not just when it came to Stalin.
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All subsequent dictators as well.
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From Silicon Valley oligarchs
to China's one-party state,
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from Mark Zuckerberg to Xi Jinping.
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His dystopian novel We
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inspired George Orwell's 1984.
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I didn't know you read Zamyatin
in American universities.
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Zamyatin is the oracle of our times.
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How long are you in Moscow?
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I have something to Show you.
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Just outside the city
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gloomy, never-ending woods
stretched all the way to Siberia.
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I felt a mix of curiosity
and apprehension.
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In Russia,
things generally go pretty well.
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But when they go bad,
they go really bad.
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Please follow me, Mr. Rowland.
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May I take your coat?
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I will bring you some tea. Thank you.
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I didn't know you collected old books.
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I don't collect them, I read them.
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There's a major difference.
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So you're a reader of Zamyatin.
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I have something to show you
that you will truly appreciate.
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Do you know what this is?
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A letter Zamyatin wrote to Stalin.
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Asking permission to leave the USSR.
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"Dear Iosif Vissarionovich,
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“just as the Christians created the Devil
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"as a convenient personification
of all evil,
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"so the critics have transformed me
into the Devil of Soviet literature."
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Zamyatin understood too much,
too quickly,
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and made the rash decision
to write about it.
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Please,
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have a seat.
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{\an8}Vladimir Baranov and
The Invention Of Fake Democracy
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- You read it?
- Of course.
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You even took the time to make notes.
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I'm honored.
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Let's not get carried away.
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However, compared to the others,
you did understand something.
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Not much, but something.
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Thank you.
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You said
you consider yourself an artist.
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Let's just say I played
a supporting role. I'm retired now.
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You don't miss the adrenaline?
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Trust me, there is no greater joy
than waking up every morning,
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having coffee
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and taking your daughter to school.
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How did the others take it?
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My leaving?
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Badly, of course.
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Courtiers forgive everyone:
thieves, murderers, traitors.
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But not deserters.
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“What? You don't want
what we're willing to kill for?"
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And the Tzar?
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The Tzar is a different story.
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My father feared this library.
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It belonged to my grandfather.
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Custine, Gracián,
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Machiavelli...
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The skeptics, the disillusioned.
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Hardly the Soviet doxa.
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But to his credit,
he never tried to deny me any of them.
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Your father?
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He ended up director of the Academy of
Social Sciences for the Communist Party.
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His one goal in life was to avoid
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being awakened at dawn
by the KGB banging on his door.
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In his position,
he shouldn't have had to worry.
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No one was safe in the Soviet Union.
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No one is safe in Russia,
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period.
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Not me.
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Not even you.
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When I was young,
the greatest privilege in Moscow
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was the Kremlyovka,
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a food basket
for the Party's senior officials.
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What are we eating today?
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Salmon piroshki,
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lamb cutlets...
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Ultimately, my problem is
that I had a happy childhood.
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And in Russia, that's not normal.
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All the Russian elite
experienced Soviet poverty
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before they gained access
to villas on the Côte d'Azur.
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They still haven't gotten over it.
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Even the Tzar:
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"Me, the kid who grew up
in a shoddy kommunalka
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"in a gloomy courtyard
in Saint Petersburg.
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"Now I'm invited to Buckingham Palace!"
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- Things have changed.
- Not that much.
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For you Westerners, money is essential.
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What matters in Russia
is your proximity to power.
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The Soviet system
was based on privilege,
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not cash.
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Yesterday there wasn't any.
Tomorrow, who knows, so...
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you might as well just blow it all.
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Do you know what a vertushka is?
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It was a telephone without a dial
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that allowed Party leaders
to communicate directly with you.
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Having one meant you'd made it.
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Look. This is a vertushka.
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Gray, like everything Soviet.
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You think Moscow's gray, try Washington.
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God, they're not gray there,
they're dead.
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Anyway, I'm banned
from entering the USA and Europe.
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- Is your father still alive?
- No.
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He might have subsisted
in this world for a long time.
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But then along came Gorbachev
and his glass of milk.
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Glass of milk?
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We could tell Gorbachev
would destroy the Soviet Union.
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It was enough to look at him.
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He took to the rostrum,
they handed him a glass of milk.
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And he proceeded
to double the price of vodka.
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And try to get everyone on milk.
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In Russia!
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Can you imagine?
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No wonder everything spun
out of control.
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That was it for communism
and for my father.
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He lost everything.
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His job, privileges, reputation.
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What about you?
What did you do in those times?
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My father wanted me to be a diplomat.
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But I was never keen on studying.
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I did odd jobs. Found television sets,
cassette decks, and resold them.
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Business was good.
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I started to make more money
than my father. A lot more than my father.
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I was just a know-nothing kid.
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That's why I was better suited
to the new world.
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THE NEW RUSSIANS
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In the early '903,
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Moscow was a dynamic city.
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The place was filled with hope
for a few years. Just a few.
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Banned books
were coming out every week.
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Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak, Bulgakov...
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Art magazines and literary revues
were selling in the millions.
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The Russian appetite for freedom
was insatiable.
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So I enrolled
in the Russian Institute of Theater Arts
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and began living the messy life
of a thespian.
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We were barely 20 and a whole new world
had opened up to us
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just as we were finally strong enough
to conquer it.
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Open the door!
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Open the fucking door
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or I'll bust you up!
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We were so excited we never slept
more than 3 or 4 hours a night.
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We were convinced
it was finally our turn
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to rebuild society on new foundations.
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We could see plays from Europe,
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meet the actors and directors
and talk all night long.
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You really think
freedom will change everything
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and you will live
in a world of culture and poetry?
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Our generation rejected the system.
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Our parents kept their heads down,
not us.
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You won't like what I'm about to say.
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Communism was the reign
of culture and poetry.
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How can you say such a thing?
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Under communism, being a loser
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was the only way
to be a decent human being.
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You were not complicit, at least.
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You! Fuck off!
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Fuck you!
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Perfect.
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You really impressed me.
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Yeah?
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I had to tell you
because it doesn't happen often.
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Well...
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That's interesting...
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Guess you must be pretty important.
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- What exactly impressed you?
- You.
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Your performance.
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What performance?
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Wasn't that you singing?
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You call that singing?
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What do you call it?
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Trendy... bullshit?
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I did that as a favor.
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For who?
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The KGB agents watching us.
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And I'm happy to give them something
to spice up their reports.
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That's a shame, you have talent.
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Because I do what New Yorkers did
15 years ago?
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You're a real Soviet.
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You think the world's
just waiting for you.
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And you're not a real Soviet?
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My parents were poor and crazy.
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They were hippies.
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They carted me around
from commune to commune.
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Now they're old and don't believe
in their old values anymore.
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I tell you,
I'm not gonna end up like them.
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I'd like to discuss a role.
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Would you deign
to take me seriously for a second?
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A role.
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What,
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you mean like the kind
offered to actresses?
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The kind offered to actresses.
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Well, unfortunately,
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I'm not an actress.
And I have no desire to be one.
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I might even say
I've done everything in my power
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not to be one.
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Do you know Yevgeny Zamyatin?
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An icon of the most conventional
avant-gardists.
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I'm not into that stuff.
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With all due respect,
you're missing out.
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I'm putting on a version of his novel We
at the Institute of Theater Arts.
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You take risks.
I might be warming to you a bit.
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- Do you have a car?
- Yes.
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Take me home.
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I'm done with this party.
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In a hurry?
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What? Too fast for you?
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I don't know how I managed
to make contact with Planet Ksenia,
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but I knew immediately
that even if I lived a thousand years,
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I'd never meet anyone else like her.
256
00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,958
Alright, take it again from the top.
Places, please.
257
00:17:58,125 --> 00:18:00,833
Scissors, D-503, places. Let's go!
258
00:18:01,167 --> 00:18:02,500
Which scene?
259
00:18:02,667 --> 00:18:05,083
The scene we've been doing all night,
the mirror scene.
260
00:18:05,250 --> 00:18:08,167
- Should I sit or lie down?
- You should be lying.
261
00:18:08,333 --> 00:18:11,083
When you feel the lights
from the Integral, sit up.
262
00:18:11,250 --> 00:18:14,333
Alright, it's all in the repetition.
263
00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:16,250
This was excellent, thank you ladies.
264
00:18:16,417 --> 00:18:19,667
The dinner scene was far too casual.
I need something more mechanical.
265
00:18:19,833 --> 00:18:22,292
- Is the Integral ready?
- Ready!
266
00:18:22,458 --> 00:18:24,583
Alright, keep your actions going
267
00:18:24,750 --> 00:18:26,833
until you feel the lights
from the Integral,
268
00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,458
at which point you all stand up
and walk towards the windows.
269
00:18:30,625 --> 00:18:32,750
Milana, ready?
270
00:18:32,917 --> 00:18:33,917
Yes!
271
00:18:41,042 --> 00:18:42,708
This is a bad case!
272
00:18:43,083 --> 00:18:45,000
It appears you have developed a soul.
273
00:18:45,250 --> 00:18:47,417
Is it very serious, Doctor?
274
00:18:47,583 --> 00:18:48,833
Untreatable.
275
00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,417
But what exactly is it?
I don't understand.
276
00:18:52,583 --> 00:18:54,250
How can I explain?
277
00:18:54,542 --> 00:18:55,917
Take a surface.
278
00:18:56,083 --> 00:18:57,667
Here, this mirror.
279
00:18:57,958 --> 00:19:00,833
You know that a regular mirror
reflects reality.
280
00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000
This one absorbs it
281
00:19:03,167 --> 00:19:05,792
and retains a trace of everything.
282
00:19:13,375 --> 00:19:14,625
My brothers,
283
00:19:15,042 --> 00:19:17,917
as you all know,
down below in the city
284
00:19:18,083 --> 00:19:20,167
they're building
the Integral Spaceship.
285
00:19:26,125 --> 00:19:28,958
Down with the Integral!
Down with it!
286
00:19:30,250 --> 00:19:31,417
My brothers,
287
00:19:32,292 --> 00:19:35,458
the Integral must be ours.
288
00:19:37,042 --> 00:19:39,083
And she will be ours.
289
00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:43,667
When she rises skywards
for the first time,
290
00:19:43,958 --> 00:19:47,083
we will be the ones aboard.
291
00:19:48,833 --> 00:19:52,875
For we have with us
the builder of the Integral.
292
00:19:54,125 --> 00:19:57,083
He left the city
and came here with me.
293
00:19:58,375 --> 00:19:59,750
To be with you.
294
00:19:59,917 --> 00:20:02,000
Long live the Builder!
295
00:20:20,958 --> 00:20:23,125
Her ambitions may have been vague, but...
296
00:20:23,750 --> 00:20:27,625
Muscovite avant-garde theater
had little chance of satisfying them.
297
00:20:27,875 --> 00:20:30,083
I know,
I lived in Moscow during those years.
298
00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:31,750
There were no limits.
299
00:20:32,042 --> 00:20:35,750
Everything was collapsing
and being rebuilt at once.
300
00:20:36,458 --> 00:20:39,375
It was a fascinating and terrifying time.
301
00:20:39,542 --> 00:20:41,625
Ksenia and I lived in our artistic bubble
302
00:20:41,792 --> 00:20:44,542
while life outside
was rife with possibilities.
303
00:20:44,917 --> 00:20:48,167
Nearly every day, a former classmate
would come with an idea,
304
00:20:48,333 --> 00:20:49,833
a business proposition.
305
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,500
First on his grandfather's bicycle,
306
00:20:52,875 --> 00:20:56,000
then in an armored Bentley,
surrounded by bodyguards.
307
00:20:57,042 --> 00:20:59,167
That's pretty much how it happened
for Dmitry.
308
00:20:59,458 --> 00:21:01,208
- Sidorov?
- Sidorov, yes.
309
00:21:01,375 --> 00:21:02,875
Dmitry Sidorov.
310
00:21:03,958 --> 00:21:05,375
I'd known him in high school.
311
00:21:05,542 --> 00:21:08,417
Now he was head of the Young
Communist League at the university.
312
00:21:08,583 --> 00:21:10,583
Don't think he was a Party apparatchik.
313
00:21:10,750 --> 00:21:11,833
In the late '80$
314
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,542
the student cooperative
was the incubator for Russian capitalism.
315
00:21:16,625 --> 00:21:18,625
I liked hearing about his adventures.
316
00:21:18,792 --> 00:21:22,042
I wanted to write a play
about entrepreneurs like him.
317
00:21:22,208 --> 00:21:23,417
You seen Dmitry?
318
00:21:23,583 --> 00:21:26,042
Saw him 5 minutes ago.
Check the bar.
319
00:21:26,208 --> 00:21:29,500
They were a new social class,
emerging out of nowhere in just months.
320
00:21:30,083 --> 00:21:31,833
It was pretty remarkable.
321
00:21:32,583 --> 00:21:33,833
Vadya!
322
00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:36,667
Good to see you.
323
00:21:36,833 --> 00:21:39,917
This café was my first business
but I used it as a launching pad
324
00:21:40,083 --> 00:21:41,375
for more lucrative endeavors.
325
00:21:41,542 --> 00:21:43,000
Not all of which were legal.
326
00:21:43,167 --> 00:21:46,167
Vadya! Legality is over, forget it.
I'll tell you a story.
327
00:21:46,333 --> 00:21:48,458
No writing, close your eyes.
Pretend I'm your Mama.
328
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,083
Once upon a time,
I come across a supply of cognac.
329
00:21:52,250 --> 00:21:54,750
- You mean fake cognac.
- Who cares? Not the point.
330
00:21:54,917 --> 00:21:57,375
I put it on the market for $50 a bottle.
331
00:21:57,792 --> 00:21:59,042
You hear that?
332
00:22:01,042 --> 00:22:02,917
Nothing.
No one wants it.
333
00:22:03,083 --> 00:22:05,625
I mark it up to $500,
they're fighting for it!
334
00:22:06,708 --> 00:22:08,542
I'm sure you didn't stop at cognac.
335
00:22:08,708 --> 00:22:10,792
Computers, acid-wash jeans,
souvenirs, software...
336
00:22:10,958 --> 00:22:12,875
all thanks to the Student Cooperative.
337
00:22:13,042 --> 00:22:16,292
A few minor cons.
I struggle to believe you.
338
00:22:16,458 --> 00:22:17,833
Can't fool you!
339
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,625
Stories to make you
and your audience laugh.
340
00:22:20,792 --> 00:22:22,083
It's a play!
341
00:22:22,667 --> 00:22:23,875
I came up with a scheme
342
00:22:24,042 --> 00:22:26,583
to facilitate payments
between state-run businesses.
343
00:22:26,750 --> 00:22:29,125
I borrow money
and lend it to others for a fee.
344
00:22:29,292 --> 00:22:31,750
Basically what is known as a bank, but...
345
00:22:32,833 --> 00:22:34,792
no one in this country knows
what a bank is.
346
00:22:38,625 --> 00:22:40,542
Tough questions!
347
00:22:45,583 --> 00:22:48,875
Yes, you could say I created
Russia's first commercial bank.
348
00:22:49,042 --> 00:22:50,792
I'll tell you how.
I found a book:
349
00:22:50,958 --> 00:22:54,250
Commercial Banks of Capitalist Countries.
350
00:22:54,708 --> 00:22:56,000
Remarkable work!
351
00:22:56,167 --> 00:22:59,708
It explains simply and in great detail
how the banking system works.
352
00:22:59,875 --> 00:23:01,958
And I said, hey, I like this.
353
00:23:04,667 --> 00:23:06,833
Would you describe yourself as greedy?
354
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,625
Absolutely. Yes, absolutely.
355
00:23:08,792 --> 00:23:11,000
I didn't use to be,
but I grow greedier by the day.
356
00:23:11,167 --> 00:23:13,958
An asset in my line of work.
I have a banker's personality.
357
00:23:14,125 --> 00:23:15,542
I love money.
358
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,208
- Nice suit.
- Nice shirt.
359
00:23:22,708 --> 00:23:23,708
Good read.
360
00:23:23,875 --> 00:23:26,792
They're behind the times,
you still had your mustache.
361
00:23:26,958 --> 00:23:29,792
Journalists are always behind the times.
You know that, Vadya.
362
00:23:30,458 --> 00:23:31,667
Bloody hick mustache.
363
00:23:31,833 --> 00:23:33,292
You did well to shave it off.
364
00:23:33,458 --> 00:23:35,125
How's the play coming along?
365
00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:37,583
- My play about you?
- Yes.
366
00:23:37,750 --> 00:23:39,792
- I won't write it.
- Why?
367
00:23:39,958 --> 00:23:42,542
Because it's over now.
You can't tell me the truth anymore.
368
00:23:44,625 --> 00:23:45,875
You're right.
369
00:23:47,042 --> 00:23:49,208
But I never could tell you
the whole truth.
370
00:23:49,375 --> 00:23:51,708
But you used to tell me a bit more.
371
00:24:07,167 --> 00:24:10,167
So, this is the famous Dmitry?
372
00:24:10,417 --> 00:24:11,792
I see no other.
373
00:24:12,167 --> 00:24:14,917
Vadim says you're worth
80 million rubles a year.
374
00:24:15,083 --> 00:24:16,958
- Is that true?
- Could be, I don't know.
375
00:24:17,125 --> 00:24:18,833
He also says you're a thug.
376
00:24:20,083 --> 00:24:21,208
Is that so?
377
00:24:21,375 --> 00:24:23,000
Nothing wrong with that.
378
00:24:27,458 --> 00:24:28,708
Ulysse Nardin.
379
00:24:30,042 --> 00:24:32,542
A bit too flashy to be elegant.
380
00:24:32,708 --> 00:24:35,500
Flashy? Says the girl
wearing a fucking bear!
381
00:24:36,417 --> 00:24:38,917
In the world I move in,
it's better to be flashy than elegant.
382
00:24:39,083 --> 00:24:40,083
You get more respect.
383
00:24:41,792 --> 00:24:43,208
Explains your dreadful tie.
384
00:24:43,750 --> 00:24:46,750
Eugenio Marinelli from Naples, va bene!
385
00:24:46,917 --> 00:24:48,417
Bellissima cravata.
386
00:24:48,583 --> 00:24:49,625
Never heard of it.
387
00:24:50,042 --> 00:24:52,083
Of course you haven't, one tiny boutique.
388
00:24:52,250 --> 00:24:54,208
He travels the world
to make ties to measure.
389
00:24:54,375 --> 00:24:56,042
They make ties to measure?
390
00:24:56,208 --> 00:24:58,292
In the world I move in, they can.
391
00:24:58,875 --> 00:25:01,042
You like champagne?
Too flashy for you?
392
00:25:02,958 --> 00:25:06,792
I should have known from that first
encounter that my fate was sealed.
393
00:25:06,958 --> 00:25:08,958
Ksenia would choose Dmitry,
394
00:25:09,125 --> 00:25:11,625
his vulgarity, his energy.
395
00:25:11,792 --> 00:25:13,625
He felt it immediately.
396
00:25:13,792 --> 00:25:15,250
And so did I.
397
00:25:15,417 --> 00:25:17,917
But for a long time
I refused to believe it.
398
00:25:22,667 --> 00:25:23,667
Yes?
399
00:25:24,042 --> 00:25:25,583
Coming, coming...
400
00:25:27,625 --> 00:25:28,750
- Bad time?
- Dmitry?
401
00:25:28,917 --> 00:25:30,542
I wanted to surprise you.
402
00:25:31,333 --> 00:25:33,375
Let's go, let's go!
Are you hungry?
403
00:25:33,542 --> 00:25:36,042
I have some flashy things! Caviar!
404
00:25:40,417 --> 00:25:41,500
From that moment on,
405
00:25:41,833 --> 00:25:44,833
Dmitry became a frequent visitor
to our house.
406
00:25:45,125 --> 00:25:48,042
There I was, thinking he came out
of some deep-rooted respect
407
00:25:48,208 --> 00:25:51,833
for the art Ksenia and I had chosen
to dedicate our lives to.
408
00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:55,917
As if culture still had the power to exert
any influence over the real world.
409
00:25:56,083 --> 00:25:57,542
I love that sound!
410
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,750
The sleek, shiny world of money
was Dmitry's natural habitat.
411
00:26:05,917 --> 00:26:08,083
Nothing could turn him away from it.
412
00:26:09,875 --> 00:26:13,250
But he wanted Ksenia, so he was willing
to spend a little time with us
413
00:26:13,417 --> 00:26:15,958
in the ruins of the city of the dead.
414
00:26:18,083 --> 00:26:19,625
As the months passed,
415
00:26:19,792 --> 00:26:23,500
Ksenia became increasingly receptive
to his largesse.
416
00:26:24,583 --> 00:26:27,167
Everything that initially
defined our friendship,
417
00:26:27,333 --> 00:26:30,792
books we shared, concerts,
the all-night discussions,
418
00:26:31,333 --> 00:26:34,792
had fallen by the wayside in favor
of more money-centric activities.
419
00:26:34,958 --> 00:26:37,208
Gallery and discotheque openings,
420
00:26:37,375 --> 00:26:39,833
dinners at White Sun or Ermitazh.
421
00:26:40,125 --> 00:26:43,500
Ksenia was getting higher by the minute
on Dmitry's lifestyle.
422
00:26:43,667 --> 00:26:45,542
Vadya's dancing!
423
00:27:01,292 --> 00:27:02,958
Vadya! Smile!
424
00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:04,875
I'm smiling!
425
00:27:05,417 --> 00:27:07,708
Communism is dead.
There's a whole new world to invent.
426
00:27:07,875 --> 00:27:09,667
You're gonna be a part of it.
427
00:27:18,667 --> 00:27:21,958
You know Vadya,
he doesn't like to go out.
428
00:27:22,125 --> 00:27:24,792
What he likes is going home.
429
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,458
I remember waking up one night
and gazing at her for a long time.
430
00:27:49,250 --> 00:27:52,708
I felt so tired, even though
I hadn't accomplished anything yet.
431
00:27:52,875 --> 00:27:57,000
I nurtured the illusion that
Ksenia would perceive my greatness.
432
00:27:57,250 --> 00:27:58,958
But as the days passed,
433
00:27:59,125 --> 00:28:02,042
I noticed that the way she saw me
was changing.
434
00:28:02,208 --> 00:28:05,917
What began as a vague look of irony
was morphing into contempt.
435
00:28:06,375 --> 00:28:09,417
"You're stronger than I am
because you don't love me,"
436
00:28:09,583 --> 00:28:11,083
I wanted to tell her.
437
00:28:12,375 --> 00:28:14,750
My pain only augmented her boredom.
438
00:28:21,042 --> 00:28:22,292
Stop the car.
439
00:28:22,708 --> 00:28:24,125
Stop the car!
440
00:28:25,417 --> 00:28:26,917
Stop the fucking car!
441
00:28:38,208 --> 00:28:39,792
You want some water?
442
00:28:45,167 --> 00:28:46,333
There you go.
443
00:28:56,375 --> 00:28:57,167
Dmitry,
444
00:28:57,333 --> 00:28:59,583
I've told you 10 times
you drive too rough!
445
00:28:59,750 --> 00:29:00,542
I know no other way.
446
00:29:00,708 --> 00:29:03,083
Let Vadim take the wheel
or I hitchhike home.
447
00:29:04,958 --> 00:29:07,375
Do you wanna, like,
go in the back, or...
448
00:29:07,542 --> 00:29:10,833
That's sweet of you, honey,
but I get even sicker in the back.
449
00:29:57,333 --> 00:29:59,458
There's something I forgot to tell you.
450
00:29:59,833 --> 00:30:01,042
I'm listening.
451
00:30:02,583 --> 00:30:03,583
I'm leaving.
452
00:30:08,625 --> 00:30:10,708
Is that all you can muster?
453
00:30:11,292 --> 00:30:13,542
You saw me in the car with Dmitry.
Think I missed that?
454
00:30:16,917 --> 00:30:19,542
It's been over between us
for a long time.
455
00:30:30,583 --> 00:30:31,625
Come in.
456
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,750
You're not disturbing me.
457
00:30:34,333 --> 00:30:35,750
I was afraid to wake you.
458
00:30:35,917 --> 00:30:37,167
Have a seat.
459
00:30:39,708 --> 00:30:43,417
Finally I have an excuse
to stay in bed all day.
460
00:30:43,583 --> 00:30:46,917
Rereading the classics and dozing.
That suits me.
461
00:30:47,083 --> 00:30:48,708
There's the illness.
462
00:30:48,875 --> 00:30:50,292
This may surprise you,
463
00:30:50,458 --> 00:30:53,208
but illness is not necessarily
a serious thing.
464
00:30:53,667 --> 00:30:55,208
Serious things,
465
00:30:55,625 --> 00:30:57,208
like effort and work,
466
00:30:57,375 --> 00:31:00,083
are the burden of people in good health.
467
00:31:00,250 --> 00:31:02,167
The dying have nothing more to do.
468
00:31:02,333 --> 00:31:04,833
They can just enjoy their days.
469
00:31:19,250 --> 00:31:21,458
I left Ksenia.
470
00:31:22,625 --> 00:31:23,917
I know.
471
00:31:25,125 --> 00:31:28,167
You'll have a dozen opportunities
to start over.
472
00:31:29,083 --> 00:31:32,125
I expected to suffer terribly, but...
473
00:31:32,875 --> 00:31:34,792
I feel lighter, and strong.
474
00:31:35,750 --> 00:31:36,750
You see.
475
00:31:36,792 --> 00:31:39,750
But theater is no longer enough for me.
476
00:31:40,792 --> 00:31:43,542
Losing Ksenia has made me ambitious.
477
00:31:43,917 --> 00:31:45,125
Ambitious now?
478
00:31:46,375 --> 00:31:47,958
That's unexpected.
479
00:31:48,667 --> 00:31:50,833
But all the better.
I'll take it as good news.
480
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,250
I cannot bear
the writer's failure to affect reality.
481
00:31:54,417 --> 00:31:56,917
I want to be part of my times,
482
00:31:57,083 --> 00:31:58,792
not just a witness.
483
00:31:59,125 --> 00:32:00,375
You know what?
484
00:32:01,917 --> 00:32:03,792
I'll leave your times to you.
485
00:32:04,250 --> 00:32:05,292
With no regrets.
486
00:32:10,208 --> 00:32:11,500
This is Sputnik.
487
00:32:11,667 --> 00:32:13,667
The only one allowed inside.
488
00:32:13,833 --> 00:32:15,792
Come here, Sputy, say hi.
489
00:32:16,083 --> 00:32:17,833
My daughter loves him.
490
00:32:18,750 --> 00:32:22,375
In the end, my father had an attack
and died very suddenly.
491
00:32:23,125 --> 00:32:26,875
The ceremony wasn't exactly
headline news.
492
00:32:27,958 --> 00:32:31,125
Four poor souls followed the hearse
in a beat-up car
493
00:32:31,292 --> 00:32:34,500
while the shiny SUVs
of the nouveaux riches sped past them.
494
00:32:34,667 --> 00:32:36,208
He died too late.
495
00:32:36,708 --> 00:32:39,167
He probably would have wanted
a nicer funeral.
496
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:41,333
But in the end
he didn't give a damn.
497
00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:44,000
At least, I hope he didn't.
498
00:32:51,583 --> 00:32:53,542
I needed to get my mind off things,
499
00:32:53,708 --> 00:32:57,417
and Moscow in the mid-903
was the perfect place to do that.
500
00:32:57,875 --> 00:32:59,875
Imagine all those young men and women
501
00:33:00,042 --> 00:33:03,917
suddenly seeing a new world
of possibility opening up before them.
502
00:33:04,083 --> 00:33:05,833
They could become
whatever they wanted,
503
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,500
amass fortunes, travel the world.
504
00:33:08,667 --> 00:33:10,917
It was enough to make your head spin.
505
00:33:11,417 --> 00:33:13,458
It was a time of incredible violence.
506
00:33:13,625 --> 00:33:17,000
There was gunfire everywhere,
for the most frivolous reasons.
507
00:33:17,167 --> 00:33:20,083
Men of no importance
were escorted by private militia
508
00:33:20,250 --> 00:33:22,708
until the day they were blown sky-high.
509
00:33:26,917 --> 00:33:30,250
Turning my theater experience
into a career as a TV producer
510
00:33:30,417 --> 00:33:33,917
was like going from a horse and cart
to 3 Lamborghini.
511
00:33:34,167 --> 00:33:35,792
One day I was in a kitchen
512
00:33:35,958 --> 00:33:38,667
rhapsodizing about Mayakovsky
and drinking hot tea.
513
00:33:38,958 --> 00:33:40,708
The next, I was nursing a latte
514
00:33:40,875 --> 00:33:44,042
in an open space
designed by Dutch architects.
515
00:33:44,750 --> 00:33:47,708
Forget Channel One, forget state TV.
516
00:33:48,042 --> 00:33:49,917
We're a private company.
Times have changed.
517
00:33:50,083 --> 00:33:52,250
We're going to do game shows
and politics.
518
00:33:52,417 --> 00:33:53,458
But different.
519
00:33:53,625 --> 00:33:57,625
The Soviets tried to smother this country
under a lid of boredom.
520
00:33:57,792 --> 00:34:00,667
First rule, don't be boring.
521
00:34:02,083 --> 00:34:05,458
There's one project that stands out
from the others. This one.
522
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,375
Do you know why?
523
00:34:09,042 --> 00:34:12,208
Because it has
all the Russian stereotypes,
524
00:34:12,375 --> 00:34:13,583
not a single one left out.
525
00:34:14,625 --> 00:34:16,167
The provincial Babushka,
526
00:34:16,333 --> 00:34:17,750
the nihilistic student,
527
00:34:17,917 --> 00:34:18,958
the ambitious slut.
528
00:34:19,125 --> 00:34:21,417
I read it. It stinks.
529
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,750
- I read them all, they all stink!
- Especially that one.
530
00:34:25,917 --> 00:34:28,375
Except that it'll work.
531
00:34:28,542 --> 00:34:30,583
We're not just producing shows,
532
00:34:30,750 --> 00:34:33,375
all the other institutions have collapsed.
533
00:34:33,750 --> 00:34:36,042
It's now up to TV to show the way.
534
00:34:36,375 --> 00:34:38,500
Maybe a reality show
about finishing schools
535
00:34:38,667 --> 00:34:42,083
that teach young girls to attract
freshly minted millionaires?
536
00:34:42,542 --> 00:34:44,458
Not bad.
Does that genuinely exist?
537
00:34:44,625 --> 00:34:47,917
It totally exists.
It's big and it's getting bigger.
538
00:34:50,917 --> 00:34:53,500
My dream
is to be an international superstar.
539
00:34:56,542 --> 00:35:00,083
My dream is to buy my mom
the most beautiful house in Krasnoyarsk.
540
00:35:04,375 --> 00:35:06,708
My dream is to be the trophy wife
541
00:35:06,875 --> 00:35:09,750
of the richest oligarch in Russia
542
00:35:09,917 --> 00:35:12,500
and live my life in Monte Carlo.
543
00:35:12,917 --> 00:35:14,583
She's the one.
544
00:35:14,750 --> 00:35:16,875
No, seriously, she's the one.
545
00:35:17,250 --> 00:35:19,083
It's an excellent project
546
00:35:19,250 --> 00:35:21,833
and this girl rightfully belongs in it.
547
00:35:25,333 --> 00:35:27,375
At that time, the owner of RTP
548
00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:31,458
was a mathematician who'd become
a billionaire, Boris Berezovsky.
549
00:35:31,625 --> 00:35:35,125
He bought an old palace
on Novokuznetskaya Street.
550
00:35:35,667 --> 00:35:37,875
It was meant to be
the headquarters of his business
551
00:35:38,042 --> 00:35:40,208
but Berezovsky
did something else with it,
552
00:35:40,375 --> 00:35:42,125
something far more special.
553
00:35:42,292 --> 00:35:45,375
Made it a club of sorts,
the LogoVaz Club.
554
00:35:49,292 --> 00:35:50,958
It was very exclusive.
555
00:35:51,125 --> 00:35:55,333
The crème de la crème of politics,
big business, show biz and crime.
556
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:58,667
So picture the scene:
the Caucasus, we're in Chechnya.
557
00:35:59,417 --> 00:36:01,083
And I'm standing in front of a warlord
558
00:36:01,250 --> 00:36:03,875
who has taken Russian officers hostage.
559
00:36:04,042 --> 00:36:05,375
And it's no joke.
560
00:36:06,208 --> 00:36:08,542
He's already beheaded one of them.
561
00:36:09,125 --> 00:36:12,167
But it wasn't politics, it was business.
He wanted cash.
562
00:36:12,333 --> 00:36:14,208
Right now.
I don't have cash on me.
563
00:36:14,375 --> 00:36:16,417
I don't walk around with wads of cash.
564
00:36:16,583 --> 00:36:19,042
But I notice him eyeing my watch.
565
00:36:19,208 --> 00:36:21,458
A Patek Philippe Nautilus like this one.
566
00:36:22,375 --> 00:36:23,750
So I say to him,
567
00:36:23,917 --> 00:36:25,458
"You like my watch?
568
00:36:25,750 --> 00:36:28,708
"Know how much it's worth?
More than your hostages."
569
00:36:28,875 --> 00:36:32,958
And he says, "I know exactly what
it's worth: $800,000, used.“
570
00:36:33,125 --> 00:36:35,667
That floored me.
He knew the exact price.
571
00:36:35,833 --> 00:36:37,458
Rustam was no fool.
572
00:36:37,792 --> 00:36:38,917
He said,
573
00:36:39,208 --> 00:36:41,417
“If you take the hostages home,
574
00:36:41,583 --> 00:36:44,458
“the publicity you'll get on TV
is worth more than $800,000."
575
00:36:44,625 --> 00:36:48,667
And he gave me this vacuous
soldier's stare. Zero bullshit.
576
00:36:49,708 --> 00:36:52,292
"So you come out ahead. Is it a deal?"
577
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,917
I gave him my watch,
took the hostages home.
578
00:36:56,083 --> 00:36:58,667
It was the opening story
on the evening news.
579
00:37:00,292 --> 00:37:03,542
In those days my modest achievements
as a TV producer
580
00:37:03,708 --> 00:37:07,000
got me the occasional invitation
to LogoVaz club.
581
00:37:07,542 --> 00:37:10,792
Usually, Berezovsky would summon me
for an update on some project
582
00:37:10,958 --> 00:37:13,917
or to suggest
I hire some random relative
583
00:37:14,083 --> 00:37:16,417
or equally random mistress.
584
00:37:18,083 --> 00:37:19,083
Come in.
585
00:37:21,292 --> 00:37:23,042
- Vadya!
- Boris.
586
00:37:25,250 --> 00:37:28,208
Our friend Vadya is a wizard.
587
00:37:28,792 --> 00:37:30,125
With his help,
588
00:37:30,750 --> 00:37:32,792
we pulverize our opponents.
589
00:37:34,208 --> 00:37:35,792
You happy where you are?
590
00:37:36,750 --> 00:37:38,208
I'm not sure I understand.
591
00:37:38,375 --> 00:37:42,708
In this country you run the same risk,
dog in the fight or no.
592
00:37:43,333 --> 00:37:44,708
I'll tell you my story,
593
00:37:44,875 --> 00:37:46,417
you'll see what I mean.
594
00:37:46,833 --> 00:37:49,458
So I was perfectly content
doing my own thing.
595
00:37:49,625 --> 00:37:53,208
I'd built a smart, modern, clean business.
596
00:37:53,375 --> 00:37:55,875
From what I hear
your business was more of a scam.
597
00:37:56,042 --> 00:37:59,125
You resold stolen cars
right off the assembly line.
598
00:38:02,125 --> 00:38:04,750
- I was doing what everyone was doing.
- Only worse.
599
00:38:04,917 --> 00:38:08,083
You weren't choosy about your partners
and their methods. No offense.
600
00:38:08,250 --> 00:38:09,333
Anyway.
601
00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:14,958
One day this bastard tries to steal
my business out from under me.
602
00:38:15,125 --> 00:38:17,958
What do you think he does?
Open a competing dealership?
603
00:38:18,125 --> 00:38:20,583
Try to beat me fair and square,
like in the US or Europe?
604
00:38:20,750 --> 00:38:22,542
No Boris, that's not what he did.
605
00:38:22,708 --> 00:38:27,042
That son of a bitch
filled an old Opel with TNT,
606
00:38:27,208 --> 00:38:28,708
parked it on my route home,
607
00:38:28,875 --> 00:38:31,833
and as I passed,
he pushed a remote and boom...
608
00:38:32,917 --> 00:38:34,542
no more Berezovsky.
609
00:38:35,750 --> 00:38:37,083
At least that was the plan.
610
00:38:37,250 --> 00:38:39,833
Unfortunately,
it didn't work out for him.
611
00:38:40,958 --> 00:38:44,542
And I ended up
with my chauffeur's head in my arms.
612
00:38:45,458 --> 00:38:46,833
I survived.
613
00:38:47,833 --> 00:38:50,958
But that day I realized
that if you don't grab power,
614
00:38:51,125 --> 00:38:52,292
power grabs you.
615
00:38:52,833 --> 00:38:55,458
So I went to Switzerland
for two weeks to recover
616
00:38:55,625 --> 00:38:58,167
and do you know what I did
when I got back to Moscow?
617
00:38:59,042 --> 00:39:00,708
You learned to play tennis.
618
00:39:00,875 --> 00:39:03,458
And it wasn't easy.
I hate the sport.
619
00:39:04,042 --> 00:39:05,708
You hate all sports!
620
00:39:08,083 --> 00:39:11,292
The old President, Boris Yeltsin,
was in decline.
621
00:39:12,083 --> 00:39:14,583
He overdid it on the vodka, they say.
622
00:39:14,750 --> 00:39:17,042
He had a sports club
built on Sparrow Hills
623
00:39:17,208 --> 00:39:19,083
that looked out over Moscow.
624
00:39:19,542 --> 00:39:22,833
He spent all his spare time
playing tennis there.
625
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,417
It was the only way to get near him.
626
00:39:27,667 --> 00:39:29,458
Let's face it, Boris was finished.
627
00:39:29,625 --> 00:39:32,000
Elections were coming,
his numbers were in the dumps.
628
00:39:32,167 --> 00:39:35,500
His whole retinue of petty schemers
were at rock bottom.
629
00:39:35,667 --> 00:39:38,208
They quickly understood
I was their only hope.
630
00:39:38,708 --> 00:39:39,875
We hadn't lost yet.
631
00:39:50,042 --> 00:39:51,250
Listen to me,
632
00:39:51,667 --> 00:39:53,333
Boris Nikolayevich.
633
00:39:53,708 --> 00:39:57,458
Russia still needs you.
Your courage and your...
634
00:39:57,625 --> 00:39:58,958
integrity.
635
00:39:59,542 --> 00:40:01,500
No one loves me anymore.
636
00:40:01,708 --> 00:40:03,333
I saved democracy,
637
00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:05,250
but democracy here means
638
00:40:05,417 --> 00:40:07,917
that everyone has become poor.
639
00:40:08,333 --> 00:40:11,250
Except for a few smart devils like you,
640
00:40:11,417 --> 00:40:13,542
who've gotten filthy rich!
641
00:40:15,667 --> 00:40:17,250
Well, if you give me
642
00:40:17,750 --> 00:40:19,583
control of state TV,
643
00:40:20,792 --> 00:40:24,167
I will give you an election campaign
like you've never seen.
644
00:40:24,333 --> 00:40:27,958
You're in dire straits now,
but in 2 months you'll be on top.
645
00:40:30,583 --> 00:40:34,375
This is how I took control of Channel 1.
RTP, as it's now called.
646
00:40:34,542 --> 00:40:35,875
And for the record,
647
00:40:36,625 --> 00:40:39,208
I kept my word.
I revived him in the polls.
648
00:40:39,375 --> 00:40:41,208
What you did was sink his rivals.
649
00:40:41,583 --> 00:40:43,750
A bunch of Communist nostalgics.
A cinch.
650
00:40:43,917 --> 00:40:46,167
You defended your interests,
those of oligarchs.
651
00:40:48,833 --> 00:40:50,833
True. 80 what?
652
00:40:51,208 --> 00:40:53,792
- All part of the democratic process.
- Right!
653
00:40:53,958 --> 00:40:56,792
When you have
a very loose notion of democracy.
654
00:41:04,625 --> 00:41:06,333
Over the course of the rallies
655
00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:08,333
the old man began to enjoy himself.
656
00:41:08,958 --> 00:41:10,083
Problem was,
657
00:41:10,250 --> 00:41:12,750
two weeks before the election
he had a heart attack.
658
00:41:12,917 --> 00:41:14,167
That was a close call.
659
00:41:14,958 --> 00:41:18,958
The very day he was supposed
to record his final speech to the nation.
660
00:41:19,125 --> 00:41:20,667
Obviously we canceled everything.
661
00:41:20,833 --> 00:41:23,792
But a few days later,
the rumors began to spread,
662
00:41:23,958 --> 00:41:25,292
he had to show up.
663
00:41:25,458 --> 00:41:27,875
Except his doctor
wouldn't let him leave his residence.
664
00:41:28,042 --> 00:41:31,708
Too risky.
So we figured, to keep up appearances,
665
00:41:32,208 --> 00:41:34,458
we'd bring the Kremlin furniture to him.
666
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,500
OK, flags.
Put the flags in the stands.
667
00:41:43,542 --> 00:41:46,708
Put the national flag on the left.
Check the distance.
668
00:41:47,250 --> 00:41:49,500
The President is on his way down.
669
00:42:04,083 --> 00:42:06,292
Good morning, Boris Nikolayevich!
670
00:42:06,625 --> 00:42:08,333
Come see what we've done.
671
00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:10,750
A perfect copy of your Kremlin office.
672
00:42:10,917 --> 00:42:12,875
No one will notice the difference.
673
00:42:13,875 --> 00:42:15,542
Help him with the chair.
674
00:42:49,750 --> 00:42:51,833
Russian citizens...
675
00:42:52,833 --> 00:42:54,167
it's why...
676
00:42:56,458 --> 00:42:58,375
the motherland...
677
00:42:59,833 --> 00:43:01,167
Let's try again.
678
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,958
Misha, can you slow down the prompter?
679
00:43:09,958 --> 00:43:11,250
Once again, please.
680
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:13,917
Russian citizens...
681
00:43:15,250 --> 00:43:17,208
the 3rd of July
682
00:43:18,375 --> 00:43:20,250
elections day...
683
00:43:21,500 --> 00:43:22,500
you'll not...
684
00:43:22,875 --> 00:43:24,417
only vote for Yeltsin...
685
00:43:24,583 --> 00:43:26,750
This is not going to work.
686
00:43:30,417 --> 00:43:32,083
Just make him move his lips
687
00:43:32,250 --> 00:43:35,583
and we'll dub in bits
from his old speeches.
688
00:43:36,500 --> 00:43:38,750
Yeltsin was reelected by a landslide.
689
00:43:38,917 --> 00:43:40,917
And then he fell back into lethargy.
690
00:43:41,083 --> 00:43:43,292
He had two more heart attacks.
691
00:43:43,458 --> 00:43:45,167
For four years of his 2nd term,
692
00:43:45,333 --> 00:43:47,958
Berezovsky was the real leader
of Russia.
693
00:43:48,125 --> 00:43:50,917
The oligarchs raked in
everything they could.
694
00:43:51,083 --> 00:43:55,667
That's how my old pal, Dmitry Sidorov,
bought himself a fossil fuel giant
695
00:43:55,833 --> 00:43:58,375
for a mere 168 million.
696
00:43:58,583 --> 00:44:01,583
It would go on to make him
3 billion a year.
697
00:44:02,167 --> 00:44:03,250
Olya!
698
00:44:04,667 --> 00:44:06,958
Berezovsky sensed the winds were turning.
699
00:44:07,792 --> 00:44:10,417
The Russians were tired
and needed order.
700
00:44:10,833 --> 00:44:14,958
They'd grown up in a motherland,
now all they had was a supermarket.
701
00:44:15,125 --> 00:44:18,167
Our challenge was to come up
with a solution before someone else did.
702
00:44:18,333 --> 00:44:19,542
So yes.
703
00:44:21,125 --> 00:44:22,875
I have friends in the Kremlin.
704
00:44:23,333 --> 00:44:25,417
And I lend a hand from time to time.
705
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,625
But the scenario has completely changed.
706
00:44:28,792 --> 00:44:31,833
It's no longer a matter
of supporting the current regime.
707
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:33,875
We need to invent something new.
708
00:44:34,042 --> 00:44:35,875
Something and someone.
709
00:44:36,042 --> 00:44:38,083
The President won't make it
to the end of his term.
710
00:44:38,250 --> 00:44:41,208
Someone to embody it, of course.
That's the easy part.
711
00:44:42,208 --> 00:44:43,333
But what we need,
712
00:44:43,500 --> 00:44:46,750
first, is a party
for everyone to rally around.
713
00:44:47,250 --> 00:44:48,792
The Unity Party.
714
00:44:52,167 --> 00:44:53,917
What do you think, Vadya?
715
00:44:54,833 --> 00:44:56,458
I already have an emblem.
716
00:44:57,542 --> 00:44:58,667
The bear.
717
00:44:58,958 --> 00:45:00,792
Symbol of the Russian soul.
718
00:45:04,042 --> 00:45:05,583
So, will you join us?
719
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,542
I don't know, Boris.
I like my job.
720
00:45:08,708 --> 00:45:09,958
It's the same job.
721
00:45:11,833 --> 00:45:15,667
I'm merely suggesting
that you graduate to the next level.
722
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:17,667
Stop making up stories,
723
00:45:17,833 --> 00:45:19,708
start inventing reality.
724
00:45:20,250 --> 00:45:21,250
With me.
725
00:45:27,250 --> 00:45:29,917
LUBYANKA
HEADQUARTERS OF THE FSB
726
00:45:32,625 --> 00:45:35,458
The head of the FSB
would make a good candidate.
727
00:45:36,708 --> 00:45:38,333
The old geezer trusts him,
728
00:45:38,500 --> 00:45:40,875
he's shown his mettle
at decisive moments
729
00:45:41,042 --> 00:45:42,792
and he's a modest guy.
730
00:45:42,958 --> 00:45:44,250
You'll like him.
731
00:45:53,333 --> 00:45:55,500
Director Putin will see you now.
732
00:46:05,917 --> 00:46:07,292
Come, sit.
733
00:46:09,625 --> 00:46:10,625
Sit.
734
00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:14,000
I know why you're here.
735
00:46:14,417 --> 00:46:16,458
You're the best-informed man in Russia.
736
00:46:16,625 --> 00:46:19,292
I've been thinking it over,
Boris Abramovich.
737
00:46:21,500 --> 00:46:22,708
You see,
738
00:46:22,875 --> 00:46:26,917
the Secret Service
has all the advantages of politics
739
00:46:28,083 --> 00:46:30,083
without any of the drawbacks.
740
00:46:32,125 --> 00:46:34,083
I'm at the center of the system.
741
00:46:34,250 --> 00:46:36,875
I'm well positioned.
I hear, I see everything.
742
00:46:37,208 --> 00:46:40,917
I can effectively intervene
to protect the President, his family.
743
00:46:41,083 --> 00:46:43,250
I've done it before, I'll do it again.
744
00:46:45,500 --> 00:46:47,750
You take me out of here,
put me in government,
745
00:46:47,917 --> 00:46:51,125
they chew me up, spit me out
like every other Prime Minister
746
00:46:51,292 --> 00:46:53,875
these past years,
these past months, right?
747
00:46:54,042 --> 00:46:56,792
And you lose the most loyal guardian
of the State.
748
00:46:56,958 --> 00:46:58,500
If we don't act quickly,
749
00:46:58,667 --> 00:47:02,375
within a year there'll be no more
President or family to protect.
750
00:47:03,333 --> 00:47:06,167
The first thing
the new head of the Kremlin will do
751
00:47:06,333 --> 00:47:08,250
is replace you.
752
00:47:09,208 --> 00:47:10,500
Why me?
753
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:13,458
I'm a civil servant.
754
00:47:14,833 --> 00:47:16,917
Sure, I've given...
755
00:47:18,458 --> 00:47:20,333
a couple of speeches in public,
756
00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:22,833
but they were never earth-shattering.
757
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,458
The President steps into a room
and sniffs the air,
758
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,750
everyone's on his side in two minutes,
laughing, crying,
759
00:47:29,917 --> 00:47:31,375
like chatting in his kitchen.
760
00:47:31,542 --> 00:47:33,833
I'm not that man.
I'm not cut from that cloth.
761
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,583
If I may, Vladimir Vladimirovich,
762
00:47:37,417 --> 00:47:39,292
that's exactly what this is about.
763
00:47:39,875 --> 00:47:42,792
The President
has a one-of—a-kind personality.
764
00:47:42,958 --> 00:47:45,625
His human qualities were essential
for moving our country
765
00:47:45,792 --> 00:47:49,375
from the old Soviet Union
to today's Russia.
766
00:47:49,917 --> 00:47:51,833
But he's all used up.
767
00:47:52,208 --> 00:47:53,917
We need someone different.
768
00:47:54,083 --> 00:47:55,417
A clean break.
769
00:47:55,917 --> 00:47:58,708
If the President names you Prime Minister,
Vladimir Vladimirovich,
770
00:47:58,875 --> 00:48:01,458
you will represent legitimate authority.
771
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,042
Russians need stability and security.
772
00:48:05,250 --> 00:48:08,167
You're young, athletic, energetic.
773
00:48:08,333 --> 00:48:09,542
Something about you says,
774
00:48:09,708 --> 00:48:12,875
"I can handle
the full responsibility of command.“
775
00:48:13,708 --> 00:48:17,167
Your career in the secret services
guarantees you're trustworthy.
776
00:48:17,833 --> 00:48:20,708
And being a man of few words
will work in your favor.
777
00:48:21,292 --> 00:48:22,292
Not against you.
778
00:48:22,333 --> 00:48:24,333
Russians are tired of carnival barkers.
779
00:48:25,042 --> 00:48:27,542
And the campaign we have in mind
780
00:48:28,833 --> 00:48:32,750
won't be the usual rallies
and empty promises.
781
00:48:32,917 --> 00:48:35,500
We want to take the risk
of portraying you
782
00:48:35,667 --> 00:48:38,250
as a different brand of politician.
783
00:48:38,417 --> 00:48:41,875
Vladimir Vladimirovich,
I don't know much about politics
784
00:48:42,042 --> 00:48:44,792
but I do know a few things
about communication.
785
00:48:44,958 --> 00:48:48,042
There are two dimensions in a society.
786
00:48:48,208 --> 00:48:50,500
The horizontal axis
that is daily life
787
00:48:50,667 --> 00:48:53,500
and the vertical axis,
which is authority.
788
00:48:54,042 --> 00:48:55,917
The Soviet system was vertical
789
00:48:56,083 --> 00:48:58,333
then all of a sudden
since the end of the Soviet period
790
00:48:58,500 --> 00:49:00,500
it has become horizontal.
791
00:49:00,667 --> 00:49:04,583
Too much horizontality
is synonymous with chaos.
792
00:49:04,750 --> 00:49:07,167
Russians dream of verticality.
793
00:49:07,333 --> 00:49:08,833
A psychoanalyst would say
794
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,542
they're waiting for a leader
to obliterate the language of the mother
795
00:49:12,708 --> 00:49:15,375
and impose the word of the father
once again.
796
00:49:15,542 --> 00:49:17,708
Public opinion coalesces fast.
797
00:49:17,875 --> 00:49:21,792
We only have a few months
to convince the Russian people
798
00:49:22,500 --> 00:49:25,208
that you are the man of the hour.
799
00:49:28,458 --> 00:49:31,583
And remember,
you won't be on your own.
800
00:49:31,958 --> 00:49:35,750
I'll be there by your side
to help you and to advise you
801
00:49:35,917 --> 00:49:37,333
whenever you need me.
802
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:43,417
It's in the bag.
803
00:49:44,875 --> 00:49:48,083
He's no rocket scientist,
but for now he'll do just fine.
804
00:49:50,625 --> 00:49:53,083
I nodded along and laughed with him.
805
00:49:53,250 --> 00:49:57,375
But things were a bit more complicated
than Berezovsky seemed to grasp.
806
00:50:01,208 --> 00:50:04,375
When he addressed him
with his own brand of chummy joviality,
807
00:50:04,542 --> 00:50:07,667
I sensed a hint of annoyance
in Putin's gaze.
808
00:50:08,333 --> 00:50:10,000
And then there was that flash of irony
809
00:50:10,167 --> 00:50:13,167
when Boris promised to guide him
every step of the way.
810
00:50:14,667 --> 00:50:17,333
It seemed the very idea
of being guided by this man
811
00:50:17,500 --> 00:50:20,750
was wildly funny to the FSB chief.
812
00:50:24,750 --> 00:50:26,708
Hurry up, Vadim Alexeyevich.
813
00:50:26,875 --> 00:50:29,125
Vladimir Vladimirovich is waiting.
814
00:50:41,750 --> 00:50:43,208
Good afternoon, sir.
815
00:50:44,042 --> 00:50:45,125
Recommendations?
816
00:50:45,292 --> 00:50:47,583
Today we have excellent sea scallops
817
00:50:47,750 --> 00:50:49,208
with cauliflower mousseline...
818
00:50:49,375 --> 00:50:50,375
A bowl of kasha.
819
00:50:50,417 --> 00:50:52,500
- Two.
- Certainly, sir.
820
00:50:55,500 --> 00:50:57,792
I have a lot of respect for Berezovsky.
821
00:50:58,542 --> 00:51:00,000
I'm grateful
822
00:51:00,500 --> 00:51:02,542
for his offer, but if...
823
00:51:03,583 --> 00:51:05,167
I embark
824
00:51:05,875 --> 00:51:07,125
on this...
825
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:10,083
journey,
826
00:51:10,708 --> 00:51:12,958
I'll be relying on my own strengths.
827
00:51:13,125 --> 00:51:15,042
Not someone else's.
828
00:51:15,625 --> 00:51:17,750
The Russian president cannot
829
00:51:17,917 --> 00:51:19,792
and must not
830
00:51:20,208 --> 00:51:22,750
be subservient to anyone.
831
00:51:24,333 --> 00:51:25,833
It's unthinkable to me.
832
00:51:27,542 --> 00:51:30,333
Your analysis the other day
was very interesting.
833
00:51:30,500 --> 00:51:33,667
But first we should clarify something.
834
00:51:35,458 --> 00:51:36,833
If you accept my offer,
835
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,750
you'll be working exclusively for me,
836
00:51:40,958 --> 00:51:42,125
Vadim Alexeyevich.
837
00:51:51,375 --> 00:51:53,958
I've been thinking
about your concept of verticality.
838
00:51:54,583 --> 00:51:55,750
It's potent.
839
00:51:56,792 --> 00:51:58,833
But it cannot remain abstract.
840
00:52:00,792 --> 00:52:04,750
We need a well-defined arena where we can
restore the verticality of power.
841
00:52:04,917 --> 00:52:08,500
Otherwise we'll appear helpless,
like all politicians in this country.
842
00:52:08,667 --> 00:52:10,292
Indeed, Vladimir Vladimirovich,
843
00:52:10,458 --> 00:52:12,792
but we can't just snap our fingers.
844
00:52:13,458 --> 00:52:15,500
There is always the unexpected.
845
00:52:15,667 --> 00:52:18,042
Which is always a result of incompetence.
846
00:52:18,208 --> 00:52:20,583
- We're at the mercy of circumstance.
- Circumstance?
847
00:52:20,750 --> 00:52:22,583
It's staring us in the face.
848
00:52:23,958 --> 00:52:24,958
Don't you see it?
849
00:52:28,042 --> 00:52:30,208
The Islamic fundamentalists
850
00:52:31,250 --> 00:52:33,958
are no longer content with just Chechnya.
851
00:52:35,750 --> 00:52:36,833
They want Dagestan,
852
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,792
Ingushetia, Bashkortostan.
853
00:52:41,917 --> 00:52:43,667
We let them have them,
854
00:52:44,917 --> 00:52:48,250
in a few years there'll be nothing left
of the Russian Federation.
855
00:52:48,625 --> 00:52:51,833
I would think twice
before getting involved in that mess.
856
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:53,292
These past few years
857
00:52:53,458 --> 00:52:56,208
Chechnya has killed
more political careers in Moscow
858
00:52:56,375 --> 00:52:58,250
than enemies on the battlefield.
859
00:52:58,667 --> 00:53:01,583
None of them have put enough energy
into the issue.
860
00:53:01,750 --> 00:53:04,750
Those politicians want a war
861
00:53:04,917 --> 00:53:07,458
that dare not speak its name.
862
00:53:07,917 --> 00:53:09,833
A humane war,
863
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:11,792
like the Americans do.
864
00:53:12,708 --> 00:53:14,667
I'm talking about something else.
865
00:53:15,500 --> 00:53:18,083
I'm not interested
in winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
866
00:53:18,250 --> 00:53:19,708
What interests me
867
00:53:20,708 --> 00:53:24,208
is restoring integrity
to the Russian Federation.
868
00:53:24,375 --> 00:53:26,000
I won't comment on geopolitics.
869
00:53:26,292 --> 00:53:28,458
That's not my field of expertise.
870
00:53:28,917 --> 00:53:30,917
What I will say, however,
871
00:53:31,625 --> 00:53:33,750
is that it's political suicide.
872
00:53:34,583 --> 00:53:36,125
I think you're mistaken.
873
00:53:37,583 --> 00:53:41,250
You've let Westerners persuade you
that an electoral campaign has to be
874
00:53:41,417 --> 00:53:45,500
two teams of economists
discussing PowerPoint presentations.
875
00:53:48,667 --> 00:53:49,958
In Russia,
876
00:53:50,792 --> 00:53:51,958
power
877
00:53:53,042 --> 00:53:55,042
is something else entirely.
878
00:53:58,542 --> 00:54:02,250
That day, I didn't understand
precisely what Putin meant.
879
00:54:02,750 --> 00:54:05,208
But I left the lunch with one certainty:
880
00:54:05,375 --> 00:54:08,750
Berezovsky had just made
the biggest mistake of his life.
881
00:54:10,625 --> 00:54:12,250
In the early days of August,
882
00:54:12,417 --> 00:54:14,625
Boris Yeltsin chose a new Prime Minister,
883
00:54:14,792 --> 00:54:16,125
unknown to most.
884
00:54:16,458 --> 00:54:20,583
The choice of Vladimir Putin
was greeted with general skepticism.
885
00:54:20,750 --> 00:54:24,750
He was the fifth head of government
Yeltsin had enthroned in under a year.
886
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,417
Our offices were
in the former House of Soviets,
887
00:54:29,583 --> 00:54:31,458
dubbed the Russian White House.
888
00:54:31,625 --> 00:54:35,333
A giant block of naphthalene
on the banks of the Moskva River.
889
00:54:36,042 --> 00:54:38,833
A whole floor had been freed up
for new hires.
890
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,458
Putin knew there were only a few weeks
left to harness public opinion.
891
00:54:42,625 --> 00:54:44,125
He had no time to lose.
892
00:54:46,667 --> 00:54:50,333
Tell that son of a bitch
the Prime Minister wants results.
893
00:54:50,500 --> 00:54:51,875
Doesn't matter how.
894
00:54:52,333 --> 00:54:55,583
Sorry, but the media
doesn't set our agenda, politics does.
895
00:54:55,958 --> 00:54:58,333
We're here to produce results,
896
00:54:58,500 --> 00:54:59,958
not limp excuses.
897
00:55:00,875 --> 00:55:03,708
I have the polls you requested.
You must crunch the numbers.
898
00:55:03,875 --> 00:55:06,167
I'll meet you later.
I have to see Gusinsky first.
899
00:55:06,333 --> 00:55:07,333
We're on the right track.
900
00:55:07,375 --> 00:55:09,792
Dmitry Anatolyevich,
we shouldn't be on the right track,
901
00:55:09,958 --> 00:55:11,875
we should already be there.
902
00:55:17,250 --> 00:55:18,667
Where's Gusinsky?
903
00:55:18,833 --> 00:55:20,625
Unfortunately he couldn't make it.
904
00:55:22,042 --> 00:55:24,000
Are we not important enough for him?
905
00:55:24,167 --> 00:55:24,875
He's abroad.
906
00:55:25,042 --> 00:55:27,542
So who are you, his messengers?
907
00:55:27,917 --> 00:55:29,333
We run the NW network.
908
00:55:30,708 --> 00:55:33,583
Please give Mr. Gusinsky
the following message:
909
00:55:34,042 --> 00:55:37,042
The policies of the Russian Federation
910
00:55:37,208 --> 00:55:40,792
are not to be decided
in the offices of NTV.
911
00:55:40,958 --> 00:55:43,083
That never crossed Mr. Gusinsky's mind.
912
00:55:43,250 --> 00:55:45,625
I watch Kukly,
your political puppet show.
913
00:55:45,792 --> 00:55:49,125
Sometimes I find it funny.
I laugh, I do!
914
00:55:49,958 --> 00:55:54,000
Unfortunately the Prime Minister
doesn't share your sense of humor.
915
00:55:54,375 --> 00:55:57,083
He suspects Mr. Gusinsky
may have a bone to pick with him.
916
00:55:57,250 --> 00:55:59,542
No way, never in a million years.
917
00:55:59,708 --> 00:56:02,208
Shame he's not here
to explain that himself.
918
00:56:02,375 --> 00:56:06,208
You represent
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as a midget.
919
00:56:06,375 --> 00:56:07,625
That's not correct...
920
00:56:07,792 --> 00:56:10,292
A deformed dwarf
manipulated by oligarchs.
921
00:56:10,458 --> 00:56:12,917
In the minds of the gagmen,
he's more of a child.
922
00:56:13,083 --> 00:56:14,375
Yes, exactly.
923
00:56:14,542 --> 00:56:17,917
And you see that as grounds for laughter,
an infantile gnome?
924
00:56:18,083 --> 00:56:19,417
It's a satirical show.
925
00:56:19,583 --> 00:56:22,625
The Prime Minister determines the line
between satire and insult,
926
00:56:22,792 --> 00:56:24,625
especially during election season.
927
00:56:24,792 --> 00:56:27,583
The PM has determined a line
that must not be crossed.
928
00:56:27,750 --> 00:56:30,417
I believe Mr. Gusinsky
can guess where that line is.
929
00:56:30,583 --> 00:56:32,667
If not, he'll find out at his own expense.
930
00:56:32,833 --> 00:56:33,958
Good day!
931
00:56:36,125 --> 00:56:40,167
Of course I was working 18-hour days.
Back-to-back meetings with the PM,
932
00:56:40,333 --> 00:56:44,333
every single one of them involving
decisions of major historical importance.
933
00:56:44,500 --> 00:56:47,375
The deeper I sank
into the routine of governing men,
934
00:56:47,542 --> 00:56:50,167
the more the world seemed rife
with misunderstanding
935
00:56:50,333 --> 00:56:52,042
and missed opportunities.
936
00:56:52,583 --> 00:56:54,833
And that's
when the unexpected happened.
937
00:56:57,083 --> 00:56:59,375
One autumn night, just after midnight,
938
00:56:59,542 --> 00:57:02,667
a terrific rumbling
tore through the darkness of the capital.
939
00:57:02,833 --> 00:57:05,375
On Guryanova Street
on the outskirts of Moscow,
940
00:57:05,542 --> 00:57:07,208
hundreds of kilos of explosives
941
00:57:07,375 --> 00:57:10,333
literally cut a 9-story
apartment complex in two.
942
00:57:11,958 --> 00:57:15,708
Dozens of sleeping families
were swallowed up alive by the explosion.
943
00:57:15,875 --> 00:57:17,125
Four days later,
944
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:21,583
a second explosion rocked the city
at 5 in the morning,
945
00:57:21,750 --> 00:57:23,875
destroying another building
in the suburbs.
946
00:57:24,208 --> 00:57:26,000
Over a hundred victims.
947
00:57:26,458 --> 00:57:28,292
It was our September 11th.
948
00:57:28,458 --> 00:57:30,917
Before that,
the Chechen War felt remote.
949
00:57:31,083 --> 00:57:34,208
But when buildings started blowing up
in the Moscow suburbs,
950
00:57:34,375 --> 00:57:37,375
Russians found themselves
with a war at their front door.
951
00:57:38,542 --> 00:57:39,625
Of course,
952
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:41,250
you know what...
953
00:57:41,750 --> 00:57:43,208
people say?
954
00:57:45,333 --> 00:57:47,333
They say we were behind it.
955
00:57:48,125 --> 00:57:50,417
By "we" I mean the FSB.
956
00:57:50,583 --> 00:57:52,250
It isn't just a rumor.
957
00:57:53,083 --> 00:57:55,375
There's serious evidence to back it up.
958
00:57:55,792 --> 00:57:57,125
Frankly, I don't know.
959
00:57:57,958 --> 00:58:01,833
If this is a bona fide secret,
thank God nobody shared it with me.
960
00:58:02,333 --> 00:58:04,250
Why would we have done that?
961
00:58:04,417 --> 00:58:05,583
We were certain to win.
962
00:58:05,792 --> 00:58:07,417
To instill fear.
963
00:58:07,750 --> 00:58:11,167
So the Russian people
would feel threatened by the Chechens.
964
00:58:12,708 --> 00:58:15,125
To justify the second Chechen War.
965
00:58:15,292 --> 00:58:18,083
Perfectly timed to warm public opinion
966
00:58:18,250 --> 00:58:22,125
to a coming authoritarian regime.
967
00:58:25,417 --> 00:58:27,042
I don't like public speaking.
968
00:58:27,208 --> 00:58:29,875
Right now the people
need to hear your voice.
969
00:58:30,042 --> 00:58:33,208
Here, on a state visit,
not from the Kremlin Palace.
970
00:58:33,792 --> 00:58:35,708
Give them a sense of urgency.
971
00:58:36,125 --> 00:58:37,500
I'm not an actor.
972
00:58:38,458 --> 00:58:40,625
I'll give them a simple statement.
973
00:58:46,500 --> 00:58:48,917
Word has it you've ordered
the bombing of Grozny Airport
974
00:58:49,083 --> 00:58:50,708
in retaliation for the attacks.
975
00:58:50,875 --> 00:58:52,292
Don't you think such actions
976
00:58:52,458 --> 00:58:53,958
could aggravate the situation?
977
00:58:54,708 --> 00:58:56,542
I'm tired of this kind of question.
978
00:58:56,708 --> 00:58:59,542
We'll get the terrorists
wherever they're hiding.
979
00:58:59,708 --> 00:59:01,708
If they're in an airport,
we'll strike the airport,
980
00:59:01,833 --> 00:59:03,708
if they're in the shitter,
excuse my language,
981
00:59:03,875 --> 00:59:06,083
but we'll get them in the shitter.
982
00:59:06,958 --> 00:59:09,625
You have no idea
the impact that one sentence
983
00:59:09,792 --> 00:59:11,208
had on the Russian people.
984
00:59:11,375 --> 00:59:14,167
Finally, we were hearing
a voice of command and control.
985
00:59:14,333 --> 00:59:16,792
Russians hadn't heard that
in the longest time.
986
00:59:16,958 --> 00:59:18,375
Stalin's voice?
987
00:59:18,542 --> 00:59:20,042
Not Yeltsin's in any case.
988
00:59:20,208 --> 00:59:21,833
Or Gorbachev's.
989
00:59:22,542 --> 00:59:25,750
That day, Putin became the Tzar.
990
00:59:27,292 --> 00:59:30,333
THE POWER VERTICAL
991
00:59:39,042 --> 00:59:41,792
Mr. Prime Minister,
we can't land at Gudermes,
992
00:59:41,958 --> 00:59:43,833
visibility is too poor.
993
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:47,083
I planned to spend New Year's Eve
with our troops. Understand?
994
00:59:47,250 --> 00:59:48,458
We must land!
995
00:59:48,792 --> 00:59:50,167
No, we must land!
996
00:59:50,333 --> 00:59:53,542
We need 150 meters of visibility.
997
00:59:53,708 --> 00:59:56,667
We've got scarcely 100.
It's too dangerous.
998
01:00:04,042 --> 01:00:07,250
We have troops stationed in Dagestan.
999
01:00:08,125 --> 01:00:11,333
They're ready for inspection.
Could serve as an alternative.
1000
01:00:17,875 --> 01:00:20,500
If the Tzar wanted
to ring in the New Year in Chechnya,
1001
01:00:20,667 --> 01:00:22,250
well then, that's where we'd go.
1002
01:00:22,625 --> 01:00:27,250
At I am. we got into some jeeps
and headed for the mountain passes.
1003
01:00:57,083 --> 01:00:59,917
33rd division, Lieutenant Colonel Fedorov.
1004
01:01:00,083 --> 01:01:02,167
Welcome on the base, Mr. Putin.
1005
01:01:02,958 --> 01:01:05,542
Men, what you're doing is so important.
1006
01:01:06,458 --> 01:01:09,125
People believe in you.
I'm here to tell you that.
1007
01:01:09,292 --> 01:01:11,708
We're proud of you.
You're working hard.
1008
01:01:12,875 --> 01:01:16,125
I know what you and your men have done.
Very courageous.
1009
01:01:16,958 --> 01:01:19,583
I want you to know the Russian people
1010
01:01:19,875 --> 01:01:21,167
think of you
1011
01:01:21,333 --> 01:01:22,792
and are proud of you.
1012
01:01:23,292 --> 01:01:24,458
Happy New Year.
1013
01:02:40,292 --> 01:02:41,542
Wait, wait.
1014
01:02:43,750 --> 01:02:46,625
I would love to drink a toast
to the health of the wounded
1015
01:02:46,792 --> 01:02:48,208
and to wish
1016
01:02:48,833 --> 01:02:51,625
everyone present here
a happy new year,
1017
01:02:52,208 --> 01:02:55,083
but we have serious tasks ahead.
1018
01:02:56,375 --> 01:02:57,875
As you all know,
1019
01:02:58,917 --> 01:03:02,500
we're not only fighting for the honor
and dignity of our country,
1020
01:03:02,667 --> 01:03:06,625
we're fighting to prevent Russia
from disintegrating.
1021
01:03:09,375 --> 01:03:12,625
We can't afford one second of weakness,
not one second.
1022
01:03:14,125 --> 01:03:15,958
If we let our guard down,
1023
01:03:16,625 --> 01:03:18,208
all those who died,
1024
01:03:18,833 --> 01:03:20,167
died in vain.
1025
01:03:21,583 --> 01:03:24,167
So I suggest we put our glasses down.
1026
01:03:27,542 --> 01:03:30,250
We will toast, but... later.
1027
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:39,750
I am leaving...
1028
01:03:42,250 --> 01:03:45,000
Leaving before the end of my term.
1029
01:03:45,792 --> 01:03:49,083
I understand that it is necessary.
1030
01:03:50,250 --> 01:03:52,083
Russia must enter
1031
01:03:52,583 --> 01:03:55,750
a new millennium
with new political leaders,
1032
01:03:56,625 --> 01:03:59,625
and I leave you all
in the trusted hands
1033
01:03:59,792 --> 01:04:03,458
of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
1034
01:04:08,875 --> 01:04:10,542
The Yeltsin era is over.
1035
01:04:10,708 --> 01:04:13,375
Your friend Berezovsky has to know
1036
01:04:13,542 --> 01:04:16,333
I'm fed up with his bullshit memos.
1037
01:04:16,708 --> 01:04:18,708
I thought he was our friend.
1038
01:04:18,875 --> 01:04:20,958
Boris is a very smart man.
1039
01:04:21,125 --> 01:04:24,333
But his intelligence is no safeguard
for his stupidity.
1040
01:04:26,375 --> 01:04:27,375
Better bring him in.
1041
01:04:33,833 --> 01:04:35,333
Boris Abramovich.
1042
01:04:35,958 --> 01:04:37,042
Come.
1043
01:04:38,042 --> 01:04:39,042
Sit.
1044
01:04:42,542 --> 01:04:44,500
I've read your messages,
1045
01:04:44,667 --> 01:04:46,417
some Of your memos.
1046
01:04:47,042 --> 01:04:49,917
You've always offered good advice.
I'm all ears.
1047
01:04:50,083 --> 01:04:52,292
Volodya, you made me wait an hour...
1048
01:04:52,458 --> 01:04:54,000
You asked for this meeting.
1049
01:04:54,583 --> 01:04:55,917
Here we are.
1050
01:04:58,083 --> 01:04:59,083
Go ahead.
1051
01:05:01,875 --> 01:05:03,417
Well, I'll be brief.
1052
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:07,000
We're becoming too negative, Volodya.
1053
01:05:07,167 --> 01:05:09,458
Too dark.
We're at war, fine, we get it.
1054
01:05:09,625 --> 01:05:11,375
You're a great general,
1055
01:05:11,542 --> 01:05:14,917
you'll lead us all to victory,
but let's make an effort.
1056
01:05:15,375 --> 01:05:18,625
Give these poor Russians
a little bit of hope, too.
1057
01:05:18,792 --> 01:05:21,917
Otherwise rather than voting for you,
they'll jump out the window.
1058
01:05:23,083 --> 01:05:25,000
Rallies and concerts,
1059
01:05:25,167 --> 01:05:26,833
TV commercials, posters!
1060
01:05:27,250 --> 01:05:28,583
We need to make a splash.
1061
01:05:28,750 --> 01:05:29,583
Who'll pay for that?
1062
01:05:29,750 --> 01:05:30,750
I will, of course!
1063
01:05:31,542 --> 01:05:32,917
I heard you passed up
1064
01:05:33,083 --> 01:05:34,625
free public TV airtime?
1065
01:05:34,792 --> 01:05:35,875
That's correct.
1066
01:05:36,042 --> 01:05:37,917
It's our choice. Our strategy.
1067
01:05:38,083 --> 01:05:40,083
We'll see if the facts prove us right.
1068
01:05:40,250 --> 01:05:43,917
If you keep this up,
people will forget you're a candidate.
1069
01:05:44,083 --> 01:05:45,667
Don't be ridiculous, Boris.
1070
01:05:45,958 --> 01:05:49,208
I've been interim President for 3 months.
We're the government.
1071
01:05:50,708 --> 01:05:53,750
Our campaign is the news,
what we're doing,
1072
01:05:54,667 --> 01:05:56,542
the history we're making.
1073
01:05:58,083 --> 01:06:00,458
Nobody believes advertising anymore.
1074
01:06:00,625 --> 01:06:04,042
Facts are the only advertising
we're interested in.
1075
01:06:07,875 --> 01:06:10,083
The Tzar had reinstated
the Power Vertical
1076
01:06:10,250 --> 01:06:12,625
and voters were grateful to him for it.
1077
01:06:12,792 --> 01:06:16,083
He was elected President of
the Russian Federation with no runoff.
1078
01:06:18,125 --> 01:06:21,708
Berezovsky stopped bombarding the Kremlin
with unanswered phone calls.
1079
01:06:21,875 --> 01:06:24,958
Naturally, his media mocked
the pompous inauguration ceremony.
1080
01:06:25,667 --> 01:06:27,792
But Boris was waiting
for something else:
1081
01:06:28,458 --> 01:06:31,792
a chance to Show the Tzar
who was really in charge.
1082
01:06:38,750 --> 01:06:41,458
SOCHI
SUMMER RESIDENCE OF RUSSIAN PRESIDENTS
1083
01:07:11,583 --> 01:07:13,208
- More?
- Yes.
1084
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:18,250
I remember, you like yours...
1085
01:07:18,958 --> 01:07:20,542
medium rare.
1086
01:07:21,625 --> 01:07:23,375
Thank you for remembering.
1087
01:07:34,833 --> 01:07:35,833
Sir...
1088
01:07:58,333 --> 01:08:00,667
On August 12, 2000, the Kursk,
1089
01:08:00,833 --> 01:08:03,208
one of the world's
largest nuclear submarines,
1090
01:08:03,375 --> 01:08:06,542
sank during a training exercise
in the Barents Sea.
1091
01:08:07,458 --> 01:08:09,000
There were a hundred crewmen aboard.
1092
01:08:09,958 --> 01:08:12,125
Some of them died instantly.
1093
01:08:12,292 --> 01:08:14,625
Others were trapped
at the bottom of the sea.
1094
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:19,708
This was the opportunity
Berezovsky had been waiting for.
1095
01:08:27,375 --> 01:08:30,917
We rented a helicopter to keep an eye
on the area where the sub sank.
1096
01:08:31,083 --> 01:08:32,750
- Has it been identified?
- Yes.
1097
01:08:32,917 --> 01:08:35,750
The information just dropped,
but no rescue team is on site.
1098
01:08:35,917 --> 01:08:38,625
Revolting,
that's what we have to expose.
1099
01:08:38,792 --> 01:08:40,583
Russian experts
won't go on the record.
1100
01:08:40,750 --> 01:08:42,667
- Find them abroad.
- We have a crew in Germany.
1101
01:08:42,833 --> 01:08:46,000
They say NATO forces offered their help,
1102
01:08:46,167 --> 01:08:47,917
but the Russian navy turned it down.
1103
01:08:48,083 --> 01:08:49,500
They're spy ships.
1104
01:08:49,667 --> 01:08:51,958
Russia can't humiliate herself
in front of them.
1105
01:08:52,458 --> 01:08:54,458
Can't humiliate herself
in front of them?
1106
01:08:54,625 --> 01:08:57,875
Go find the families,
ask them what they think!
1107
01:08:58,042 --> 01:08:59,922
- That's what we're doing.
- TV's about emotion.
1108
01:09:00,083 --> 01:09:03,750
The emotion's with the families.
Can you imagine their anguish?
1109
01:09:03,917 --> 01:09:07,458
Their loved ones may still be alive,
trapped inside a watertight container,
1110
01:09:07,625 --> 01:09:09,625
waiting for a rescue
that may never come!
1111
01:09:11,750 --> 01:09:14,000
How long will this last?
1112
01:09:14,167 --> 01:09:16,667
Our sons are paid 50 dollars a month,
1113
01:09:16,833 --> 01:09:20,125
and now they're locked in this tin can!
1114
01:09:21,042 --> 01:09:25,542
What good did it do me to raise my son?
Do you have children?
1115
01:09:26,750 --> 01:09:28,583
Who can understand us?
1116
01:09:28,750 --> 01:09:31,625
You people in power
never understand anything!
1117
01:09:31,792 --> 01:09:33,958
You only think about getting fat!
1118
01:09:34,125 --> 01:09:38,583
Our sailors have nothing to live on
and you let them die.
1119
01:09:39,292 --> 01:09:41,458
The situation was out of control.
1120
01:09:41,625 --> 01:09:43,083
I rushed to Sochi.
1121
01:09:43,250 --> 01:09:46,292
I couldn't understand
why Putin wasn't on the ground.
1122
01:09:48,542 --> 01:09:50,542
What would you have me do?
1123
01:09:52,625 --> 01:09:54,417
They're all dead, it's obvious.
1124
01:09:54,583 --> 01:09:56,708
We can't say it until we reach them.
1125
01:09:56,875 --> 01:09:59,542
According to all the experts,
there are survivors on board.
1126
01:09:59,708 --> 01:10:01,958
That's a fact.
We have to save them.
1127
01:10:02,125 --> 01:10:05,167
Whether they're dead or alive,
Berezovsky's circus is about hurting me.
1128
01:10:05,333 --> 01:10:07,042
Everyone is waiting for you to act.
1129
01:10:07,292 --> 01:10:09,917
I act when I decide the time is right.
1130
01:10:11,083 --> 01:10:13,750
Your composure has enhanced
your popularity thus far,
1131
01:10:13,917 --> 01:10:15,458
but it's becoming a liability.
1132
01:10:16,042 --> 01:10:19,375
The Russian people are suffering
and you're not with them.
1133
01:10:19,542 --> 01:10:20,833
This is a serious matter.
1134
01:10:22,667 --> 01:10:25,542
Since the authorities
are still refusing to budge,
1135
01:10:26,042 --> 01:10:28,833
RTP has created a fund
for the families of the sailors.
1136
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:30,542
Call this number to support...
1137
01:10:31,500 --> 01:10:32,667
Do you realize?
1138
01:10:33,375 --> 01:10:37,417
They destroyed the State,
pillaged it for ten years,
1139
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:40,417
bankrupted our army,
now they're raising money!
1140
01:10:40,583 --> 01:10:41,583
Fucking bastards!
1141
01:10:41,708 --> 01:10:43,083
Why don't they sell
1142
01:10:43,250 --> 01:10:45,833
their fucking chalets in Saint-Moritz!
1143
01:10:48,042 --> 01:10:50,042
Get that son of a bitch on the phone.
1144
01:10:59,833 --> 01:11:01,625
Do you realize what you're doing?
1145
01:11:02,208 --> 01:11:05,250
Your network
is giving round-the—clock airtime
1146
01:11:05,417 --> 01:11:07,833
to whores
pretending to be sailors' wives.
1147
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:09,920
What are you talking about?
You out of your mind?
1148
01:11:09,958 --> 01:11:11,667
They're not whores,
they're the real wives!
1149
01:11:11,833 --> 01:11:14,708
You're State television, Boris,
1150
01:11:14,875 --> 01:11:17,042
and you're conspiring
against the Presidency!
1151
01:11:17,208 --> 01:11:18,833
What does that mean?
1152
01:11:19,167 --> 01:11:22,083
What does this mean, exactly?
I'm asking you a question!
1153
01:11:22,250 --> 01:11:24,333
I have a question for you,
Vladimir Vladimirovich.
1154
01:11:24,500 --> 01:11:27,625
What the hell are you doing
vacationing on the Black Sea?
1155
01:11:27,792 --> 01:11:30,000
Shouldn't you be in Murmansk
running operations?
1156
01:11:30,167 --> 01:11:31,250
Where are you?
1157
01:11:31,750 --> 01:11:33,583
Fucking laughing! Where are you?
1158
01:11:33,750 --> 01:11:35,583
Côte d'Azur, right?
What are you doing there?
1159
01:11:35,750 --> 01:11:36,458
C'mon!
1160
01:11:36,625 --> 01:11:38,958
I'm not the President,
nobody gives a damn where I am!
1161
01:11:39,125 --> 01:11:41,500
Plus, it so happens I am in Moscow!
1162
01:11:42,083 --> 01:11:44,208
Just think about it, Volodya.
1163
01:11:44,375 --> 01:11:46,500
If you go and console the sailors' wives,
1164
01:11:46,667 --> 01:11:48,625
your ratings will go through the roof.
1165
01:11:48,833 --> 01:11:52,750
And our network
will put its full firepower behind you.
1166
01:11:53,208 --> 01:11:55,250
And you know that's substantial.
1167
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:02,083
Well?
1168
01:12:02,875 --> 01:12:05,667
We're going back to Moscow.
Set up that fucking meeting.
1169
01:12:05,833 --> 01:12:07,125
We have no choice.
1170
01:12:15,292 --> 01:12:17,625
And once this mess is behind us,
1171
01:12:18,375 --> 01:12:20,708
we'll take care of your friend Boris.
1172
01:12:23,833 --> 01:12:26,458
How could Boris
have deluded himself into thinking
1173
01:12:26,625 --> 01:12:29,167
he'd tolerate a relationship of equals
1174
01:12:29,333 --> 01:12:30,958
with one of his subjects?
1175
01:12:31,125 --> 01:12:33,208
All the oligarchs got it wrong.
1176
01:12:34,208 --> 01:12:36,708
When they decided to bet on Putin, they...
1177
01:12:37,917 --> 01:12:41,250
thought they were changing straw men
and not the whole system.
1178
01:12:41,417 --> 01:12:44,917
Taking over Berezovsky's network
was a piece of cake.
1179
01:12:45,333 --> 01:12:49,208
He wasn't the majority shareholder.
He only had 49%.
1180
01:12:49,542 --> 01:12:52,792
All it took was a call to the CEO of RTP
1181
01:12:52,958 --> 01:12:55,917
and he was now to take his orders
from the Kremlin.
1182
01:13:05,708 --> 01:13:08,792
He doesn't mean you any harm.
He respects you.
1183
01:13:08,958 --> 01:13:12,500
You stay safely in Moscow,
do whatever business you like.
1184
01:13:12,792 --> 01:13:15,625
But you must stay out of politics
once and for all.
1185
01:13:16,042 --> 01:13:18,042
Politics is his business.
1186
01:13:18,833 --> 01:13:22,333
Putin is the pure product of the KGB.
1187
01:13:24,125 --> 01:13:26,083
Its fiercest species.
1188
01:13:26,542 --> 01:13:29,958
He will put Russia in shackles.
1189
01:13:30,125 --> 01:13:33,875
And all we've done in the last 10 years
to turn it into a normal country
1190
01:13:34,042 --> 01:13:35,750
will be swept away.
1191
01:13:36,125 --> 01:13:37,833
Even you, Vadya.
1192
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:40,625
You're creating a regime
worse than the Soviet Union.
1193
01:13:40,792 --> 01:13:42,125
At least back then,
1194
01:13:42,333 --> 01:13:45,917
the Party could muzzle
the KGB guard dogs.
1195
01:13:46,083 --> 01:13:48,250
But now the Party no longer exists.
1196
01:13:48,417 --> 01:13:50,750
The FSB is worse than the KGB.
1197
01:13:50,917 --> 01:13:52,750
Who's gonna stop them, you?
1198
01:13:52,917 --> 01:13:55,583
Certainly not.
You've become one of them.
1199
01:13:56,208 --> 01:13:58,667
They're vicious animals.
1200
01:13:58,833 --> 01:14:00,833
They come from the void.
1201
01:14:01,208 --> 01:14:03,500
They've cleared their path
with a Sledgehammer.
1202
01:14:03,667 --> 01:14:05,875
No rules, no limits.
1203
01:14:06,042 --> 01:14:09,750
They're hungry.
It's brutish hunger.
1204
01:14:10,333 --> 01:14:12,250
They were humiliated.
1205
01:14:12,458 --> 01:14:15,625
They're descended
from centuries of humiliation.
1206
01:14:16,875 --> 01:14:20,125
They have to grab everything right away.
1207
01:14:20,875 --> 01:14:23,708
Because they know the tables will turn.
1208
01:14:23,875 --> 01:14:25,125
Maybe, Boris.
1209
01:14:25,500 --> 01:14:26,917
I don't know.
1210
01:14:27,958 --> 01:14:32,042
What I do know is that Russia
has always been forged this way.
1211
01:14:32,583 --> 01:14:34,167
With an axe.
1212
01:14:34,333 --> 01:14:38,083
UNITED NATIONS HQ
NEW YORK
1213
01:14:38,250 --> 01:14:41,292
Cautiously,
Berezovsky chose exile in London.
1214
01:14:41,458 --> 01:14:44,417
Meanwhile,
we were taking off for New York.
1215
01:14:44,583 --> 01:14:45,708
When you reach the top,
1216
01:14:45,875 --> 01:14:49,375
politics propels you onto
the world stage with no preparation.
1217
01:14:49,917 --> 01:14:52,125
The world's greats become your peers.
1218
01:14:52,417 --> 01:14:54,000
But they're a closed circle.
1219
01:14:54,167 --> 01:14:56,750
They've had time to get acquainted,
learn the ground rules.
1220
01:14:57,667 --> 01:15:00,958
However much you may be feared
and respected in your own country,
1221
01:15:01,125 --> 01:15:04,000
here,
you're just the new kid on the block.
1222
01:15:04,667 --> 01:15:06,667
The Waldorf Astoria is the best hotel.
1223
01:15:06,833 --> 01:15:10,042
Protocol has booked us a whole floor.
20 rooms.
1224
01:15:11,917 --> 01:15:13,167
Penthouse?
1225
01:15:13,750 --> 01:15:14,750
No.
1226
01:15:15,583 --> 01:15:16,583
Why not?
1227
01:15:16,917 --> 01:15:20,167
Top 3 floors are booked by the year
for the Saudis.
1228
01:15:21,708 --> 01:15:23,167
Won't take more than an hour.
1229
01:15:23,333 --> 01:15:27,333
15 minutes to the TV studio,
half-hour interview, 15 minutes back.
1230
01:15:29,250 --> 01:15:30,833
It's a good hit for us.
1231
01:15:42,083 --> 01:15:43,250
What's this?
1232
01:15:44,208 --> 01:15:45,500
It's the freeze.
1233
01:15:46,875 --> 01:15:49,750
The US President's motorcade
is on the move.
1234
01:15:49,917 --> 01:15:51,667
No one else can budge.
1235
01:15:54,958 --> 01:15:56,417
How long does it last?
1236
01:15:58,208 --> 01:15:59,250
Depends.
1237
01:16:04,542 --> 01:16:07,083
So what's it like being a spy?
1238
01:16:07,250 --> 01:16:09,750
Not very different
from being a journalist.
1239
01:16:10,458 --> 01:16:14,375
Your job is to gather information,
to synthesize it.
1240
01:16:15,083 --> 01:16:19,000
You show it to the decision makers
who can use that information.
1241
01:16:19,167 --> 01:16:20,500
Did you enjoy it?
1242
01:16:20,667 --> 01:16:23,917
Working in intelligence
allowed me to broaden my vision.
1243
01:16:24,250 --> 01:16:27,000
To acquire certain skills.
1244
01:16:28,125 --> 01:16:31,333
Skills of management,
focusing on priorities.
1245
01:16:32,542 --> 01:16:34,417
A learning experience.
1246
01:16:35,292 --> 01:16:38,458
The Kursk tragedy shook everyone.
1247
01:16:38,750 --> 01:16:41,208
Can you tell me what happened?
1248
01:16:41,708 --> 01:16:44,292
What happened to the submarine?
1249
01:16:45,667 --> 01:16:47,083
It sank.
1250
01:16:56,417 --> 01:16:57,708
If fucking Martians
1251
01:16:57,875 --> 01:16:59,958
were to seize power in Moscow,
1252
01:17:00,125 --> 01:17:03,208
the US would immediately see them
as a legitimate government,
1253
01:17:03,375 --> 01:17:06,000
just as long
as they didn't go near their interests
1254
01:17:06,167 --> 01:17:09,500
and deferred to them as the big boss.
1255
01:17:10,167 --> 01:17:13,375
The trouble is,
they think they won the Cold War,
1256
01:17:13,542 --> 01:17:15,417
but the Soviet Union
1257
01:17:15,708 --> 01:17:17,042
didn't lose it.
1258
01:17:17,375 --> 01:17:21,333
The Cold War ended because
we freed ourselves from a dictatorship,
1259
01:17:21,500 --> 01:17:23,458
which is not the same thing.
1260
01:17:23,875 --> 01:17:25,708
We dismantled the Warsaw Pact.
1261
01:17:25,875 --> 01:17:27,792
We offered them an olive branch.
1262
01:17:27,958 --> 01:17:29,208
Not surrender.
1263
01:17:30,542 --> 01:17:32,458
They should bear that in mind.
1264
01:17:33,083 --> 01:17:34,333
Just once in a while.
1265
01:17:52,708 --> 01:17:54,458
Limonov respects you.
1266
01:17:54,625 --> 01:17:56,292
I thought he despised me.
1267
01:17:56,542 --> 01:17:58,042
He's a visionary.
1268
01:17:58,500 --> 01:18:01,333
Everyone has a place in his party.
1269
01:18:02,583 --> 01:18:06,417
So what do you think
of my revolutionary avant—garde?
1270
01:18:06,583 --> 01:18:09,500
The Kremlin isn't exactly
quaking in its boots.
1271
01:18:09,667 --> 01:18:12,208
The Kremlin is very wrong.
Sit down.
1272
01:18:13,667 --> 01:18:16,167
So, how was the trip?
1273
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:18,792
You know what it's like over there.
1274
01:18:18,958 --> 01:18:20,917
Always fairly amusing I guess.
1275
01:18:21,792 --> 01:18:25,250
New York can be fun,
as long as you avoid the Americans.
1276
01:18:26,458 --> 01:18:28,333
Which one do you prefer, Eduard?
1277
01:18:29,917 --> 01:18:30,917
This one!
1278
01:18:32,500 --> 01:18:35,333
Have you ever been
to one of their posh dinners?
1279
01:18:35,500 --> 01:18:37,708
All the men have been
to Princeton or Yale.
1280
01:18:37,875 --> 01:18:40,542
They all have children
who go to the same schools.
1281
01:18:40,708 --> 01:18:42,083
At least when I was younger
1282
01:18:42,250 --> 01:18:45,917
I could screw one of their
buxom blonde wives in the bathroom.
1283
01:18:46,083 --> 01:18:49,875
The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.
It's the same everywhere.
1284
01:18:50,417 --> 01:18:53,667
Vadya, America has destroyed
the bourgeoisie.
1285
01:18:53,833 --> 01:18:55,333
The bourgeoisie had values.
1286
01:18:55,500 --> 01:18:58,375
These people only believe in numbers.
1287
01:18:58,542 --> 01:19:00,500
They're boring as hell.
1288
01:19:02,167 --> 01:19:04,042
Imperialism isn't the problem,
1289
01:19:04,208 --> 01:19:05,708
American culture is.
1290
01:19:05,875 --> 01:19:10,125
You were attracted to it, until
it swallowed you up and spat you out.
1291
01:19:10,292 --> 01:19:11,417
Watching Yeltsin
1292
01:19:11,583 --> 01:19:15,333
turn Russia into a cheap version
of the American nursing home
1293
01:19:15,500 --> 01:19:18,083
prompted me to form
the National Bolshevik Party.
1294
01:19:18,250 --> 01:19:20,292
And you know why I called it that?
1295
01:19:20,458 --> 01:19:21,708
To infuriate you!
1296
01:19:22,042 --> 01:19:23,417
Nazbol!
1297
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:26,625
We bring together former Stalinists,
1298
01:19:26,792 --> 01:19:29,500
homosexuals and punks,
1299
01:19:29,667 --> 01:19:31,375
anarchists, skinheads,
1300
01:19:31,542 --> 01:19:33,000
religious fanatics
1301
01:19:33,167 --> 01:19:35,083
from Buddhist to Orthodox!
1302
01:19:35,250 --> 01:19:39,042
The hardest part is keeping them
from smashing each other's heads in.
1303
01:19:39,208 --> 01:19:40,958
You can be sure
they will sooner or later.
1304
01:19:41,125 --> 01:19:42,625
You don't understand.
1305
01:19:42,792 --> 01:19:46,292
These young people want to escape
the boredom of ordinary life.
1306
01:19:46,583 --> 01:19:48,292
They crave heroics.
1307
01:19:49,083 --> 01:19:51,167
It would be a shame to waste that.
1308
01:19:53,083 --> 01:19:54,625
May I burn a cigarette, Sergei?
1309
01:19:54,792 --> 01:19:55,792
Yes.
1310
01:19:55,833 --> 01:19:57,333
I need a walk.
1311
01:20:01,333 --> 01:20:04,292
I'd always seen Eduard Limonov
as a brilliant sociopath
1312
01:20:04,458 --> 01:20:07,250
with no political acumen whatsoever.
1313
01:20:07,417 --> 01:20:10,583
So I wasn't yet ready to recognize
that he was right.
1314
01:20:11,625 --> 01:20:14,958
But for the first time
I saw his reasoning for what it was.
1315
01:20:15,750 --> 01:20:18,250
Not the result of rigorous analysis
1316
01:20:18,417 --> 01:20:20,792
but far more than casual intuition.
1317
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:29,333
END OF THE OLIGARCHS
1318
01:20:29,500 --> 01:20:30,500
Come in.
1319
01:20:31,292 --> 01:20:32,792
Vladimir Vladimirovich,
1320
01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:35,000
Vadim Alexeyevich is here to see you.
1321
01:20:35,625 --> 01:20:36,792
You may come in.
1322
01:20:41,750 --> 01:20:45,042
How are my ratings?
Elections are coming, Vadya.
1323
01:20:45,208 --> 01:20:46,208
No need to worry.
1324
01:20:46,375 --> 01:20:49,458
Around 60%.
Closest candidate gets no more than 12%.
1325
01:20:49,625 --> 01:20:51,518
I'm not interested in them,
they're insignificant.
1326
01:20:51,542 --> 01:20:53,417
One Russian is more popular than I am.
1327
01:20:54,667 --> 01:20:55,792
Stalin.
1328
01:20:56,958 --> 01:20:58,792
I believe he's been dead
for some time.
1329
01:20:58,958 --> 01:21:01,833
You intellectuals insist on denouncing
the horrors of the Gulag.
1330
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:05,750
You think Stalin was popular
in spite of the killings. Wrong.
1331
01:21:05,917 --> 01:21:08,167
Stalin was popular
because of the killings,
1332
01:21:08,333 --> 01:21:11,958
because he knew how to handle
a thief, a traitor.
1333
01:21:13,375 --> 01:21:17,667
Know what Stalin did when
the Soviet-run trains started to derail?
1334
01:21:17,833 --> 01:21:18,667
No, I don't.
1335
01:21:18,833 --> 01:21:21,250
He had the head of the railway
shot for sabotage.
1336
01:21:21,708 --> 01:21:24,917
It didn't solve the problem,
possibly aggravated it.
1337
01:21:25,083 --> 01:21:28,458
But it allowed an outlet for fury.
1338
01:21:29,375 --> 01:21:30,958
Fury is a structural given.
1339
01:21:31,125 --> 01:21:33,583
No point fighting it,
it must be managed.
1340
01:21:34,708 --> 01:21:36,708
- You want to feed the fury.
- Yes.
1341
01:21:36,875 --> 01:21:38,542
People want a head to roll.
1342
01:21:39,500 --> 01:21:40,500
Whose?
1343
01:21:40,625 --> 01:21:42,583
The most arrogant oligarch.
1344
01:21:43,375 --> 01:21:44,458
Dmitry Sidorov.
1345
01:21:46,208 --> 01:21:47,708
Your former friend.
1346
01:21:48,500 --> 01:21:50,667
I'm told he ran off with your woman.
1347
01:21:51,250 --> 01:21:52,375
Must make you happy.
1348
01:21:52,542 --> 01:21:55,417
Didn't last long.
Let bygones be bygones.
1349
01:21:55,583 --> 01:21:58,792
He's planning to sell a majority share
of his fossil fuel empire
1350
01:21:58,958 --> 01:22:00,167
to Exxon Mobil.
1351
01:22:00,333 --> 01:22:01,833
Been at it long enough.
1352
01:22:02,292 --> 01:22:04,333
He'll make himself
20 billion dollars richer
1353
01:22:04,500 --> 01:22:08,292
by putting our fossil fuel giant
in the hands of American investors.
1354
01:22:08,458 --> 01:22:11,083
You could say a Russian company
will acquire international status.
1355
01:22:11,250 --> 01:22:12,750
I won't say that, it isn't true.
1356
01:22:12,917 --> 01:22:16,667
He's gathered a huge war chest
to run against me in the 2007 election.
1357
01:22:16,833 --> 01:22:17,833
How do you know?
1358
01:22:17,917 --> 01:22:19,750
How do you think?
We tapped his phone.
1359
01:22:24,875 --> 01:22:26,208
"Nonentity."
1360
01:22:27,500 --> 01:22:31,083
That's what he calls me
when he speaks to his friends in DC.
1361
01:22:31,250 --> 01:22:33,083
"A nonentity."
1362
01:22:33,250 --> 01:22:36,917
He explains that when elected,
he'll change the constitution
1363
01:22:37,083 --> 01:22:40,042
and dismantle the nuclear arsenal.
1364
01:22:40,250 --> 01:22:41,542
“Nonentity!”
1365
01:22:42,750 --> 01:22:43,833
“Nonentity!”
1366
01:22:45,917 --> 01:22:47,125
This man...
1367
01:22:47,833 --> 01:22:50,542
has fed me more mud than I can swallow.
1368
01:22:55,208 --> 01:22:56,375
So I've ordered
1369
01:22:56,542 --> 01:22:58,542
Dmitry Sidorov be arrested
1370
01:22:58,875 --> 01:23:00,458
tomorrow at dawn.
1371
01:23:00,625 --> 01:23:03,208
He's heading to Siberia,
has to stop to refuel.
1372
01:23:03,375 --> 01:23:04,583
That's where we'll take him.
1373
01:23:04,750 --> 01:23:07,625
Cameramen, photographers,
they'll all be on site.
1374
01:23:07,792 --> 01:23:10,375
Your job
is to orchestrate it for the media.
1375
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:25,375
OK...
1376
01:23:28,917 --> 01:23:30,042
This is it.
1377
01:23:31,625 --> 01:23:32,625
Here we are.
1378
01:23:32,708 --> 01:23:34,208
The news went all around the world.
1379
01:23:34,750 --> 01:23:39,083
The immediate effect was to remind people
money can't protect you from everything.
1380
01:23:39,458 --> 01:23:42,458
Of course for you Westerners,
this is totally taboo.
1381
01:23:42,625 --> 01:23:45,000
A politician arrested, why not?
1382
01:23:45,500 --> 01:23:47,750
But a billionaire? Unthinkable.
1383
01:23:48,208 --> 01:23:50,375
Your society
was founded on the principle
1384
01:23:50,542 --> 01:23:52,500
that there is no power
greater than money.
1385
01:23:54,292 --> 01:23:59,042
My job was to fit Dmitry's fall from grace
into a successful TV format.
1386
01:23:59,208 --> 01:24:00,917
This wasn't difficult.
1387
01:24:01,250 --> 01:24:04,458
The masses have always loved
to watch a powerful man's head roll.
1388
01:24:04,625 --> 01:24:07,417
There's no bloodier dictator
than the people.
1389
01:24:09,083 --> 01:24:10,458
Once Sidorov was arrested,
1390
01:24:10,625 --> 01:24:12,917
Putin's reelection was a mere formality.
1391
01:24:13,667 --> 01:24:15,042
From that point forward,
1392
01:24:15,208 --> 01:24:18,542
the Russian government began
undergoing a profound change.
1393
01:24:18,708 --> 01:24:21,292
The power struggle shifted
from the public stage
1394
01:24:21,458 --> 01:24:22,667
to the Tzar's inner circle.
1395
01:24:23,333 --> 01:24:26,708
The State once again depended
on court intrigue.
1396
01:24:27,375 --> 01:24:29,268
There are those
with an office close to the Tzar's
1397
01:24:29,292 --> 01:24:31,583
and those with a direct line to him.
1398
01:24:31,750 --> 01:24:33,917
Those who accompany him
on overseas missions,
1399
01:24:34,083 --> 01:24:36,417
and those who vacation with him
in Sochi.
1400
01:24:36,958 --> 01:24:40,250
No detail can be overlooked,
no matter how trivial.
1401
01:24:40,583 --> 01:24:42,417
From seating plans at gala dinners,
1402
01:24:42,583 --> 01:24:45,250
to waiting times
in the President's antechamber.
1403
01:24:45,417 --> 01:24:48,042
Nothing escapes a courtier's attention.
1404
01:24:50,583 --> 01:24:53,833
I adapted to the new regime
as I adapt to everything.
1405
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:56,167
Some were far better at it than I was.
1406
01:24:56,333 --> 01:24:58,000
Like Igor Sechin.
1407
01:24:58,958 --> 01:25:01,250
Especially Igor Sechin.
1408
01:25:02,250 --> 01:25:03,500
Like many men of his kind
1409
01:25:03,667 --> 01:25:06,417
he drew his strength
from being underestimated.
1410
01:25:06,917 --> 01:25:10,667
When the period of the courtiers came,
he was in his element.
1411
01:25:10,833 --> 01:25:13,625
Indeed, he was head courtier.
1412
01:25:15,417 --> 01:25:17,000
With Dmitri Sidorov in prison,
1413
01:25:17,167 --> 01:25:19,208
the problem was what to do
with his company.
1414
01:25:19,625 --> 01:25:21,958
Sechin gobbled it up in a single bite.
1415
01:25:22,125 --> 01:25:25,792
Judicial receivership,
public auction with just one participant,
1416
01:25:25,958 --> 01:25:29,083
and it ends up in the hands
of a financial group so opaque
1417
01:25:29,250 --> 01:25:31,083
it doesn't even have a phone number.
1418
01:25:31,250 --> 01:25:33,417
Well, did you get what you want?
1419
01:25:33,583 --> 01:25:34,917
Got what the Tzar wanted.
1420
01:25:35,083 --> 01:25:37,083
He wanted Dmitry's business for himself?
1421
01:25:37,250 --> 01:25:39,667
What he wants
is to destroy the oligarchs.
1422
01:25:39,833 --> 01:25:42,042
And replace them
with siloviki like yourself?
1423
01:25:42,208 --> 01:25:44,917
Russia has always needed strongmen.
1424
01:25:45,292 --> 01:25:47,958
Soldiers, spies, police.
1425
01:25:48,542 --> 01:25:49,833
That's how I got where I am.
1426
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:52,042
And why you take what you want.
Well done.
1427
01:25:52,208 --> 01:25:54,958
If that's how you wish to put it,
Vadim Alexeyevich.
1428
01:25:56,875 --> 01:25:58,125
Watch out.
1429
01:25:58,708 --> 01:26:02,250
He's back from the G20 in Berlin.
Tired, bad-tempered.
1430
01:26:05,083 --> 01:26:07,250
It's always the same,
they treat me like I'm...
1431
01:26:07,417 --> 01:26:09,375
the president of Finland.
1432
01:26:09,917 --> 01:26:13,500
They better watch out.
They need to be very careful.
1433
01:26:13,958 --> 01:26:17,458
The ability to inspire fear
is a poor man's sole weapon
1434
01:26:17,625 --> 01:26:20,625
when he's defending his dignity.
I learned that on the street.
1435
01:26:21,042 --> 01:26:23,500
Trouble is, Mr. President,
by spooking our enemies
1436
01:26:23,667 --> 01:26:26,042
we're in danger
of spooking the markets too.
1437
01:26:26,208 --> 01:26:27,417
We can't afford that.
1438
01:26:27,583 --> 01:26:30,250
The markets never ruled Russia, Vadya.
1439
01:26:30,417 --> 01:26:31,917
Maybe once.
1440
01:26:32,667 --> 01:26:34,417
Maybe once under Yeltsin.
1441
01:26:34,583 --> 01:26:37,208
What was the result then?
Law of the jungle.
1442
01:26:39,042 --> 01:26:40,500
We need...
1443
01:26:40,833 --> 01:26:41,833
to take control.
1444
01:26:42,292 --> 01:26:44,875
Take control of all the wealth
of the country.
1445
01:26:45,167 --> 01:26:49,292
The forests, the mines, the gas,
and the petrol.
1446
01:26:50,417 --> 01:26:53,125
We'll see to it
that it serves the interests
1447
01:26:53,375 --> 01:26:56,125
and the glory of the Russian people.
1448
01:26:58,667 --> 01:27:00,208
Like with Dmitry.
1449
01:27:00,375 --> 01:27:01,375
What about Dmitry?
1450
01:27:02,167 --> 01:27:04,417
Well, the oil monopolies
1451
01:27:04,583 --> 01:27:07,833
went directly
from Sidorov's pocket to Sechin's.
1452
01:27:08,958 --> 01:27:12,542
What's that got to do with the interest
and glory of the Russian people?
1453
01:27:41,458 --> 01:27:44,292
Lovely weather,
you should have a dip before you leave.
1454
01:27:44,458 --> 01:27:46,417
Thanks, another time.
1455
01:27:46,708 --> 01:27:47,917
You prefer Sochi?
1456
01:27:48,958 --> 01:27:50,333
You know why I'm here.
1457
01:27:52,125 --> 01:27:54,000
I'd like to hear you say it.
1458
01:27:54,417 --> 01:27:57,125
- There's a rumor...
- You didn't come about a rumor.
1459
01:28:03,792 --> 01:28:05,500
We have very reliable intel
1460
01:28:05,667 --> 01:28:08,458
that you're one of
the Ukrainian protesters' main supporters.
1461
01:28:08,625 --> 01:28:09,458
Since you know...
1462
01:28:09,625 --> 01:28:11,000
Putin is spitting mad.
1463
01:28:11,167 --> 01:28:12,167
I was worried,
1464
01:28:12,208 --> 01:28:14,792
but in fact
you come bearing good news.
1465
01:28:14,958 --> 01:28:18,583
Ukraine has been an integral part
of Russian territory for centuries.
1466
01:28:18,750 --> 01:28:21,042
- You genuinely believe that?
- I'm just the messenger!
1467
01:28:22,375 --> 01:28:23,750
Know what he said?
1468
01:28:24,375 --> 01:28:26,167
"Go and see that fucker!
1469
01:28:26,333 --> 01:28:28,042
"Tell him he's gone too far
1470
01:28:28,208 --> 01:28:29,792
"and try to reason with him.“
1471
01:28:31,292 --> 01:28:33,708
- Know what his problem is?
- I know what you think it is.
1472
01:28:33,875 --> 01:28:38,292
That he's not your regular politician,
that he's KGB, a spy.
1473
01:28:38,708 --> 01:28:39,708
He's not a spy.
1474
01:28:39,833 --> 01:28:43,667
A spy's job is to gather accurate intel,
but he's a counterspy.
1475
01:28:43,833 --> 01:28:46,667
A counterspy's job is to be paranoid,
1476
01:28:46,833 --> 01:28:49,167
to see conspiracies everywhere,
1477
01:28:49,333 --> 01:28:51,000
and to invent them if necessary.
1478
01:28:51,167 --> 01:28:53,125
You've been in exile too long.
1479
01:28:53,417 --> 01:28:54,542
You've lost touch.
1480
01:28:54,708 --> 01:28:57,583
As if the poor Ukrainians
don't have every reason to revolt
1481
01:28:57,750 --> 01:28:59,667
against a pro-Russian government.
1482
01:28:59,833 --> 01:29:03,000
You know who the main supporters
of the Ukrainian protesters are?
1483
01:29:03,167 --> 01:29:05,667
The CIA, the US State Department,
1484
01:29:05,833 --> 01:29:07,583
major American foundations,
1485
01:29:07,750 --> 01:29:09,833
George Soros and you,
1486
01:29:10,000 --> 01:29:12,375
to the tune of 30 million dollars!
1487
01:29:12,542 --> 01:29:13,708
Or so I've heard.
1488
01:29:13,875 --> 01:29:15,125
Well, that's politics, Vadya.
1489
01:29:15,625 --> 01:29:17,125
Do you know what else it is?
1490
01:29:17,458 --> 01:29:18,708
It's democracy.
1491
01:29:19,417 --> 01:29:22,167
You forgot the meaning
of that word long ago.
1492
01:29:27,667 --> 01:29:29,667
Remember, I'm not here by choice.
1493
01:29:29,833 --> 01:29:32,333
I'm living in exile here, Vadya.
1494
01:29:33,042 --> 01:29:36,792
If I even set foot in Russia,
I'll end up in Siberia like Sidorov.
1495
01:29:38,375 --> 01:29:39,375
Boris,
1496
01:29:39,542 --> 01:29:42,667
despite our differences,
the Tzar is still your friend.
1497
01:29:42,833 --> 01:29:45,208
You were permitted
to sell your Russian assets.
1498
01:29:45,375 --> 01:29:47,792
1.3 billion, correct?
1499
01:29:47,958 --> 01:29:49,158
Far less than they were worth.
1500
01:29:57,500 --> 01:29:59,292
What if I keep on at it?
1501
01:30:01,750 --> 01:30:03,417
You gonna send hit men for me?
1502
01:30:06,833 --> 01:30:07,833
Look.
1503
01:30:08,125 --> 01:30:09,750
I've got some of my own.
1504
01:30:11,375 --> 01:30:13,125
And they're better than yours.
1505
01:30:13,750 --> 01:30:15,958
Because I pay them ten times more.
1506
01:30:17,708 --> 01:30:20,333
I didn't come here to threaten you.
1507
01:30:21,292 --> 01:30:23,500
I understand your resentment.
1508
01:30:24,292 --> 01:30:26,333
But you can't turn against your country.
1509
01:30:26,500 --> 01:30:28,583
Putin's Russia isn't my country.
1510
01:30:29,542 --> 01:30:33,292
In spite of all our flaws,
we managed to build a free country
1511
01:30:33,458 --> 01:30:35,833
where you could do what you want,
say what you want
1512
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:37,667
for the first time in Russian history.
1513
01:30:37,833 --> 01:30:40,708
And you have wrecked all that
in just a few years.
1514
01:30:42,208 --> 01:30:45,250
You turned Russia back into
what it always was...
1515
01:30:46,708 --> 01:30:48,375
a prison the size of a country.
1516
01:30:49,667 --> 01:30:51,708
Just like in the Soviet times.
1517
01:31:34,625 --> 01:31:35,667
Hello.
1518
01:31:38,292 --> 01:31:39,625
Is this your boat?
1519
01:31:40,125 --> 01:31:41,583
Nothing is ever mine.
1520
01:31:42,542 --> 01:31:44,500
At least not in the way you mean.
1521
01:31:45,458 --> 01:31:47,000
Oligarch money?
1522
01:31:47,792 --> 01:31:49,167
Are you afraid?
1523
01:31:50,333 --> 01:31:52,125
Afraid your masters will find out?
1524
01:31:52,292 --> 01:31:53,417
Masters?
1525
01:31:53,708 --> 01:31:54,875
From what I hear,
1526
01:31:55,042 --> 01:31:56,750
you're in the service to power now.
1527
01:31:56,917 --> 01:31:58,500
I suppose so.
1528
01:31:59,458 --> 01:32:02,458
You don't like
Vladimir Vladimirovich very much.
1529
01:32:02,625 --> 01:32:03,917
No, you're right.
1530
01:32:04,083 --> 01:32:05,542
I don't like power.
1531
01:32:05,958 --> 01:32:09,042
I like it even less
when you pretend it's modern art.
1532
01:32:09,208 --> 01:32:11,500
Sorry Vadya, but I find you despicable.
1533
01:32:11,667 --> 01:32:12,708
Despicable?
1534
01:32:13,792 --> 01:32:14,792
That's a bit harsh.
1535
01:32:14,833 --> 01:32:16,167
You've earned it.
1536
01:32:17,667 --> 01:32:18,875
You dodged my question.
1537
01:32:19,042 --> 01:32:21,833
Are we being bankrolled
by oligarchs as we speak?
1538
01:32:23,208 --> 01:32:26,917
This boat belongs to
a businessman from Portland.
1539
01:32:27,083 --> 01:32:29,667
He invented some software
when he was 24,
1540
01:32:29,833 --> 01:32:31,375
was a multi-millionaire by 26
1541
01:32:31,542 --> 01:32:34,500
and sold his company
to Microsoft by 28.
1542
01:32:34,667 --> 01:32:37,083
Been bored stiff ever since.
1543
01:32:38,292 --> 01:32:42,292
He'd like to have another idea
in his lifetime but it's slow in coming.
1544
01:32:42,792 --> 01:32:44,042
You sleeping with him?
1545
01:32:45,208 --> 01:32:46,500
Absolutely not.
1546
01:32:47,417 --> 01:32:49,417
When I have an idea
of a line of jewelry,
1547
01:32:49,583 --> 01:32:51,000
he funds it.
1548
01:32:51,333 --> 01:32:53,167
Sometimes he makes a bit of money.
1549
01:32:53,333 --> 01:32:56,042
I mean,
clearly chump change to him.
1550
01:32:56,417 --> 01:32:58,375
He lends you his boat
when you fancy it?
1551
01:32:58,667 --> 01:32:59,667
Yes.
1552
01:33:00,167 --> 01:33:03,833
When I'm bored of this world,
which is often,
1553
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:06,167
I take refuge here.
1554
01:33:06,583 --> 01:33:08,083
A gilded cage.
1555
01:33:08,250 --> 01:33:09,750
Your comfort zone.
1556
01:33:11,750 --> 01:33:13,458
I loved Dmitry.
1557
01:33:15,292 --> 01:33:17,625
We had fun for a few months.
1558
01:33:17,792 --> 01:33:20,625
I loved the crazy wind that was blowing.
1559
01:33:20,792 --> 01:33:22,375
Then you got rid of him too.
1560
01:33:22,542 --> 01:33:23,875
I wasn't cruel.
1561
01:33:24,042 --> 01:33:25,417
Not that time.
1562
01:33:27,333 --> 01:33:28,583
We grew apart.
1563
01:33:28,750 --> 01:33:30,583
Dmitry got interested in oil.
1564
01:33:30,750 --> 01:33:32,958
That didn't bring him much luck.
1565
01:33:35,333 --> 01:33:38,208
But for a few years
I preferred Los Angeles
1566
01:33:38,375 --> 01:33:39,458
to anywhere else.
1567
01:33:39,708 --> 01:33:41,792
Was Hollywood up to your standards?
1568
01:33:42,083 --> 01:33:43,583
Hollywood!
1569
01:33:44,083 --> 01:33:48,000
I stayed away from Hollywood.
It's like Moscow.
1570
01:33:48,333 --> 01:33:52,500
Only power relationships count,
the rest is insignificant.
1571
01:33:52,667 --> 01:33:53,917
I liked the desert,
1572
01:33:54,083 --> 01:33:56,750
I liked the ocean waves,
1573
01:33:58,000 --> 01:34:00,958
driving along the Pacific Coast Highway...
1574
01:34:02,042 --> 01:34:05,333
and when I felt like going to Japan,
I went to Japan.
1575
01:34:18,625 --> 01:34:20,667
This is the prettiest cove.
1576
01:34:22,667 --> 01:34:24,208
Your plane awaits.
1577
01:34:29,042 --> 01:34:30,708
Tonight I'll be in Moscow.
1578
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:33,542
How miserable.
1579
01:34:42,208 --> 01:34:45,458
ORANGE REVOLUTION
1580
01:34:46,708 --> 01:34:49,208
MAIDAN INDEPENDANCE SQUARE
UKRAINE 2004
1581
01:34:49,375 --> 01:34:51,542
The following autumn, as expected,
1582
01:34:51,708 --> 01:34:54,042
the situation in Ukraine worsened.
1583
01:34:54,208 --> 01:34:57,333
The protesters refused
to accept the election results.
1584
01:34:58,083 --> 01:35:00,542
Hundreds of thousands of them
occupied the Maiden,
1585
01:35:00,708 --> 01:35:04,125
Kiev's central square,
with songs, orange ribbons,
1586
01:35:04,292 --> 01:35:07,458
multicolored tents
and pro-Western slogans.
1587
01:35:09,292 --> 01:35:10,625
Don't disperse!
1588
01:35:11,458 --> 01:35:12,958
Stay on the Madam!
1589
01:35:13,417 --> 01:35:17,667
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians
are joining us!
1590
01:35:18,750 --> 01:35:20,958
Suddenly, international observers
1591
01:35:21,375 --> 01:35:24,667
came out of the woodwork
to dispute the results of the election
1592
01:35:24,833 --> 01:35:28,000
which were won by
pro-Russian candidate Yanukovych.
1593
01:35:29,042 --> 01:35:32,792
Those elections were notoriously rigged.
I happened to be there.
1594
01:35:32,958 --> 01:35:34,292
Really?
1595
01:35:34,792 --> 01:35:36,625
There'd just been a vote in Iraq
1596
01:35:36,792 --> 01:35:39,167
with American soldiers
controlling polling stations,
1597
01:35:39,333 --> 01:35:42,708
and everyone thought that was fine.
But not in Ukraine.
1598
01:35:43,083 --> 01:35:45,208
No, in Ukraine
there had to be another vote,
1599
01:35:45,375 --> 01:35:47,542
because the result wasn't right.
1600
01:35:47,708 --> 01:35:50,417
They called that farce
the Orange Revolution,
1601
01:35:50,583 --> 01:35:54,083
and the previous year in Georgia
it was the Rose Revolution.
1602
01:35:54,250 --> 01:35:58,583
Another poetic revolution,
all pretty girls and lofty ideals.
1603
01:35:58,750 --> 01:36:03,083
Yet another stooge of the Americans
is catapulted to power.
1604
01:36:03,500 --> 01:36:07,583
Do you seriously believe
it takes a CIA conspiracy
1605
01:36:07,750 --> 01:36:09,833
to make Ukrainians
want to flee Russia's orbit
1606
01:36:10,000 --> 01:36:11,792
in favor of the European Union?
1607
01:36:11,958 --> 01:36:13,667
What people do you mean?
1608
01:36:13,958 --> 01:36:17,583
Do you really think everyone
finds your Europe so attractive?
1609
01:36:17,750 --> 01:36:21,125
We don't need a crystal ball
to see that Russia's turn is coming.
1610
01:36:21,292 --> 01:36:24,250
The next lovely color-coded revolution
will be in Moscow.
1611
01:36:24,417 --> 01:36:28,667
The future president of Russia
will have a degree from Yale.
1612
01:36:29,333 --> 01:36:31,958
That process seemed inevitable.
1613
01:36:32,333 --> 01:36:35,250
The young people were fed up with us,
and the Americans
1614
01:36:35,417 --> 01:36:37,583
were making the most of that rebellion.
1615
01:36:37,750 --> 01:36:40,750
We'd have to be stronger than them
to survive.
1616
01:36:41,125 --> 01:36:43,458
Now the old methods
had outlived their usefulness,
1617
01:36:43,625 --> 01:36:46,083
locking up agitators,
expelling diplomats...
1618
01:36:46,250 --> 01:36:49,667
If we were in a bad mood that day,
eliminating opponents.
1619
01:36:49,833 --> 01:36:51,292
I don't believe in any of that.
1620
01:36:53,167 --> 01:36:56,333
So I took a chance
and tried a different tack.
1621
01:37:09,833 --> 01:37:13,625
The President has been informed
of your arrival. He sends his greetings.
1622
01:37:19,542 --> 01:37:21,417
Alexander Sergeyevich,
1623
01:37:21,792 --> 01:37:25,292
I've been following you
and your Night Wolves for a few years.
1624
01:37:25,458 --> 01:37:27,167
I'm impressed.
1625
01:37:27,333 --> 01:37:30,625
You take those lost souls and...
1626
01:37:31,208 --> 01:37:34,375
give them a home,
a sense of discipline.
1627
01:37:34,542 --> 01:37:35,583
Our group
1628
01:37:35,750 --> 01:37:37,667
gives them two things they lacked:
1629
01:37:37,833 --> 01:37:40,208
fraternity and strength.
1630
01:37:40,792 --> 01:37:44,167
You aren't just a biker gang,
you're true Russian patriots.
1631
01:37:44,333 --> 01:37:45,375
We have values.
1632
01:37:45,542 --> 01:37:47,083
Russian values.
1633
01:37:47,250 --> 01:37:50,750
Those of our Holy Mother,
the Orthodox Church.
1634
01:37:50,917 --> 01:37:54,667
I understand, Alexander Sergeyevich,
and so does the President.
1635
01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:57,292
Wolves are not merely predators,
1636
01:37:57,458 --> 01:37:59,875
they're also
the guardians of the forest.
1637
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:03,083
Did you see what happened
in Ukraine?
1638
01:38:03,250 --> 01:38:04,708
Yes. Revolution.
1639
01:38:04,875 --> 01:38:06,250
A coup.
1640
01:38:07,708 --> 01:38:09,167
Do you know who took power?
1641
01:38:09,333 --> 01:38:11,375
- The Americans.
- Spot on!
1642
01:38:12,125 --> 01:38:16,708
They set up a youth organization,
paid for free concerts in Maidan Square.
1643
01:38:17,292 --> 01:38:21,083
I bet even the orange ribbon
was thought up by an adman.
1644
01:38:21,292 --> 01:38:23,542
Everything is geared to the young
1645
01:38:23,708 --> 01:38:27,042
because their energy is the most
precious commodity out there.
1646
01:38:27,208 --> 01:38:30,875
Their frustration,
their desire to change the world.
1647
01:38:31,042 --> 01:38:32,542
Young people need a cause.
1648
01:38:32,708 --> 01:38:34,083
And an enemy.
1649
01:38:34,958 --> 01:38:37,042
We need to find them
a cause and an enemy
1650
01:38:37,208 --> 01:38:39,875
before they choose those things
for themselves.
1651
01:38:40,042 --> 01:38:43,292
Or worse, the Americans choose for them.
1652
01:38:43,458 --> 01:38:45,417
Except we can't do that.
1653
01:38:45,583 --> 01:38:47,292
Look around you, Alexander,
1654
01:38:47,458 --> 01:38:49,917
all we have here
are bureaucrats in suits.
1655
01:38:50,083 --> 01:38:51,458
We're the adults,
1656
01:38:51,625 --> 01:38:54,542
we're in power.
We're their true enemy.
1657
01:38:55,250 --> 01:38:57,000
You're younger than me, I believe.
1658
01:38:57,167 --> 01:38:59,083
You've taken a different path.
1659
01:38:59,292 --> 01:39:02,667
You embody freedom and adventure.
Your vitality is undimmed.
1660
01:39:02,833 --> 01:39:04,458
Young people can feel that.
1661
01:39:05,042 --> 01:39:07,500
The Tzar is with you.
He's your brother.
1662
01:39:07,750 --> 01:39:09,250
He's no bureaucrat.
1663
01:39:09,417 --> 01:39:11,875
He likes speed, he does judo, he hunts.
1664
01:39:12,042 --> 01:39:14,833
He is of the race of conquerors.
1665
01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:18,125
Do you think he'd join
one of our rallies?
1666
01:39:18,292 --> 01:39:19,292
Of course.
1667
01:39:19,375 --> 01:39:21,333
The Night Wolves will be honored.
1668
01:39:21,500 --> 01:39:24,083
We'll hold a rally
for all the young patriots.
1669
01:39:24,250 --> 01:39:27,000
We'll kick off the struggle
against our true foe:
1670
01:39:27,167 --> 01:39:29,917
the decadent West and its false values.
1671
01:39:30,083 --> 01:39:32,625
Maidan, but in reverse.
1672
01:39:32,792 --> 01:39:33,917
Exactly.
1673
01:39:34,083 --> 01:39:36,917
Russia must become a place
1674
01:39:37,083 --> 01:39:39,958
where people can vent their rage
against the world
1675
01:39:40,125 --> 01:39:42,833
while remaining
faithful servants to the Tzar.
1676
01:39:43,000 --> 01:39:43,750
Basically,
1677
01:39:43,917 --> 01:39:46,875
you want to make revolution impossible.
1678
01:39:47,292 --> 01:39:50,500
Let's just say
we want to remove the need for one.
1679
01:39:53,333 --> 01:39:54,667
Without a drop of vodka,
1680
01:39:54,833 --> 01:39:58,083
Zaldostanov left the Kremlin intoxicated.
1681
01:39:58,250 --> 01:40:01,750
Little did he know my next meeting
was with the intriguing spokesperson
1682
01:40:01,917 --> 01:40:04,500
of an Orthodox renaissance movement...
1683
01:40:06,833 --> 01:40:11,292
Followed by the head of a group
of strikingly crusty young communists...
1684
01:40:12,625 --> 01:40:15,667
And the leader
of the Spartak supporters.
1685
01:40:15,833 --> 01:40:17,625
I recruited them all:
1686
01:40:17,792 --> 01:40:19,208
bikers and hooligans,
1687
01:40:19,375 --> 01:40:23,042
anarchists and skinheads,
communists and religious fanatics,
1688
01:40:23,208 --> 01:40:25,917
from the far right to the far left
and beyond.
1689
01:40:26,208 --> 01:40:27,792
After what happened in Ukraine,
1690
01:40:27,958 --> 01:40:31,042
we could no longer leave
the forces of fury unchecked.
1691
01:40:31,500 --> 01:40:34,000
Monopolizing power
was no longer enough,
1692
01:40:34,167 --> 01:40:36,750
we needed to monopolize subversion.
1693
01:40:42,542 --> 01:40:44,833
So who didn't I bring on board?
1694
01:40:45,417 --> 01:40:49,458
The technocrats responsible
for the disasters of the '90s,
1695
01:40:49,875 --> 01:40:51,667
the remaining oligarchs,
1696
01:40:52,208 --> 01:40:54,583
the politically correct banner-wavers.
1697
01:40:54,875 --> 01:40:56,292
The vegans...
1698
01:40:56,458 --> 01:40:57,625
Actually,
1699
01:40:58,500 --> 01:41:01,292
I needed those characters
in the opposition.
1700
01:41:01,833 --> 01:41:03,333
They were my best players.
1701
01:41:15,167 --> 01:41:17,125
Virgin Mary, Mother of God
1702
01:41:17,292 --> 01:41:19,250
Banish Putin, banish Putin!
1703
01:41:19,417 --> 01:41:21,208
Black robes brag, gold epaulettes
1704
01:41:21,375 --> 01:41:23,083
All parishioners genuflect!
1705
01:41:24,750 --> 01:41:26,667
Freedom's ghost has gone to heaven
1706
01:41:26,833 --> 01:41:28,458
Gay Pride's chained and in detention!
1707
01:41:28,625 --> 01:41:31,625
When Pussy Riot marched
into the Cathedral of Christ the Savior
1708
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:35,333
yelling Obscenities
against Putin and Patriarch Kirill,
1709
01:41:35,583 --> 01:41:38,000
we went up five points
in the opinion polls.
1710
01:41:38,500 --> 01:41:40,542
I thought they were heroic, personally.
1711
01:41:40,875 --> 01:41:42,500
They go about it the wrong way.
1712
01:41:42,667 --> 01:41:45,792
They score against their own team.
In politics, the sanction is swift.
1713
01:41:46,167 --> 01:41:47,875
The sanction cuts both ways.
1714
01:41:48,458 --> 01:41:50,667
It gave them worldwide recognition.
1715
01:41:51,667 --> 01:41:54,000
I'd love to come, especially if she's not.
1716
01:41:54,167 --> 01:41:55,833
Wait, I will be back.
1717
01:41:56,958 --> 01:41:58,458
Vadim!
1718
01:41:58,875 --> 01:42:00,167
Miss Chekhova.
1719
01:42:00,333 --> 01:42:03,083
I'm so flattered
you blessed us with your presence.
1720
01:42:03,250 --> 01:42:06,583
Don't mock me.
You know how influential your salon is.
1721
01:42:06,750 --> 01:42:07,792
Love,
1722
01:42:07,958 --> 01:42:11,250
society gossip
has never had much influence on power.
1723
01:42:11,750 --> 01:42:15,375
Thanks to you
I can rub shoulders with my opponents.
1724
01:42:15,708 --> 01:42:16,875
Indeed.
1725
01:42:17,875 --> 01:42:20,500
Garry Kasparov is here.
1726
01:42:24,042 --> 01:42:27,000
Chess champions
have never gone far in politics.
1727
01:42:27,167 --> 01:42:28,542
Vadim Baranov.
1728
01:42:29,208 --> 01:42:30,958
The Wizard of the Kremlin.
1729
01:42:31,125 --> 01:42:31,833
That's me.
1730
01:42:32,000 --> 01:42:34,000
I hear you've given
your doctrine a name.
1731
01:42:34,167 --> 01:42:36,458
Indeed. "Sovereign Democracy."
1732
01:42:36,625 --> 01:42:40,375
Russia needs to be a democracy
to benefit from globalization.
1733
01:42:40,542 --> 01:42:44,417
I see no traces of democracy
in our society, but do carry on.
1734
01:42:44,583 --> 01:42:47,250
Sovereignty is politically synonymous
with stability.
1735
01:42:47,417 --> 01:42:50,708
The more stable the regime,
the more competitive it is.
1736
01:42:50,875 --> 01:42:54,125
You know what people say
of your "sovereign democracy?"
1737
01:42:54,292 --> 01:42:55,958
That it is to democracy
1738
01:42:56,125 --> 01:42:59,083
what an electric chair is to a chair.
1739
01:43:02,333 --> 01:43:04,792
A bit of clever wit! At least it's funny.
1740
01:43:13,083 --> 01:43:14,833
You left the Côte d'Azur.
1741
01:43:15,375 --> 01:43:17,167
I never stay anywhere for long.
1742
01:43:17,792 --> 01:43:20,000
You know me,
it's not one of my attributes.
1743
01:43:20,167 --> 01:43:21,625
Are you living in Moscow?
1744
01:43:22,417 --> 01:43:25,250
When I'm here,
I stay at the Hotel Metropol.
1745
01:43:25,417 --> 01:43:26,708
I rent a suite year-round.
1746
01:43:26,875 --> 01:43:28,042
Are you inviting me?
1747
01:43:32,958 --> 01:43:35,667
Do you remember my dear friend,
the dog-man?
1748
01:43:36,042 --> 01:43:37,167
Of course.
1749
01:43:37,333 --> 01:43:38,333
Arseny.
1750
01:43:38,458 --> 01:43:40,000
He's an acclaimed director now.
1751
01:43:40,333 --> 01:43:43,042
He's putting on Monteverdi's Orfeo.
1752
01:43:43,625 --> 01:43:47,958
He's turning the whole theater
into a pagan basilica.
1753
01:43:48,792 --> 01:43:50,583
He calls it a space liturgy.
1754
01:43:51,708 --> 01:43:53,750
I was his high priestess in Paris.
1755
01:43:55,125 --> 01:43:56,250
You want to come?
1756
01:43:57,042 --> 01:43:59,917
Maybe that kind of provocation
no longer interests you.
1757
01:44:07,250 --> 01:44:09,500
I'm not sure I remember who you are.
1758
01:44:09,667 --> 01:44:11,458
I get lost in all your mazes.
1759
01:44:11,625 --> 01:44:12,875
It's a game.
1760
01:44:13,708 --> 01:44:16,417
Politics is really
the only game worth playing.
1761
01:44:16,833 --> 01:44:18,125
You've become cynical.
1762
01:44:18,750 --> 01:44:21,500
You've reached the limit
of your intelligence.
1763
01:44:21,667 --> 01:44:22,792
Cynical.
1764
01:44:23,625 --> 01:44:24,792
Possibly.
1765
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:27,000
But not only.
1766
01:44:27,083 --> 01:44:28,375
I don't know.
1767
01:44:30,250 --> 01:44:32,250
I'll have to get back to you on it.
1768
01:44:35,625 --> 01:44:38,000
As for now, I'm not sure.
1769
01:44:38,958 --> 01:44:40,667
Come with me to the opera.
1770
01:44:42,917 --> 01:44:44,750
We'll dine at the Metropol.
1771
01:45:17,792 --> 01:45:19,875
I'm tired, Ksenia.
1772
01:45:20,333 --> 01:45:21,542
What of?
1773
01:45:23,458 --> 01:45:25,917
Using your black magic
in the service of power?
1774
01:45:26,833 --> 01:45:29,667
The other day I caught a glimpse
of myself in a mirror,
1775
01:45:29,833 --> 01:45:31,458
only it wasn't me.
1776
01:45:32,000 --> 01:45:33,458
It was my father.
1777
01:45:33,750 --> 01:45:35,667
My father's face imprinted on mine
1778
01:45:36,042 --> 01:45:37,958
despite my best efforts.
1779
01:45:39,958 --> 01:45:41,167
Let's go in.
1780
01:45:42,417 --> 01:45:43,792
I'm cold.
1781
01:45:47,625 --> 01:45:50,208
Last time you asked me a question.
1782
01:45:50,792 --> 01:45:51,958
Remember?
1783
01:45:52,458 --> 01:45:54,042
You told me you needed some time.
1784
01:45:54,208 --> 01:45:55,708
Now I can answer.
1785
01:45:55,958 --> 01:45:58,250
You aren't just cynical.
1786
01:45:58,667 --> 01:46:00,625
You have chosen
1787
01:46:00,792 --> 01:46:02,333
to espouse your times.
1788
01:46:02,500 --> 01:46:05,125
You could just as easily
have run away from them.
1789
01:46:05,292 --> 01:46:06,333
Do you like these times?
1790
01:46:06,500 --> 01:46:07,833
They're ours.
1791
01:46:09,958 --> 01:46:12,500
We're no better or worse than they are.
1792
01:46:12,917 --> 01:46:16,542
I don't think I'm kidding myself.
I embody the worst of them.
1793
01:46:17,125 --> 01:46:20,000
You think you're gonna have
to answer for them one day.
1794
01:46:20,167 --> 01:46:21,875
Do you believe in the future?
1795
01:46:22,542 --> 01:46:23,708
I don't.
1796
01:46:24,083 --> 01:46:26,708
The future doesn't give a shit about us.
1797
01:46:27,750 --> 01:46:31,625
“Our wound is raw
beneath the yoke of these times.
1798
01:46:33,500 --> 01:46:34,667
“See,
1799
01:46:35,583 --> 01:46:38,042
"behind the forest we walk,
1800
01:46:38,208 --> 01:46:39,583
"trembling,
1801
01:46:40,375 --> 01:46:42,708
“how a castle already lit
1802
01:46:42,958 --> 01:46:44,667
“in the evening awaits."
1803
01:46:44,833 --> 01:46:46,000
Rilke.
1804
01:46:46,875 --> 01:46:48,125
I'd forgotten.
1805
01:47:09,667 --> 01:47:12,458
I've never been fascinated
by St. Petersburg.
1806
01:47:12,625 --> 01:47:14,958
It's a museum city, stuck in the past.
1807
01:47:15,458 --> 01:47:18,500
The Tzar, on the other hand,
can only fully relax there
1808
01:47:18,667 --> 01:47:20,500
with his oldest, truest friends:
1809
01:47:21,083 --> 01:47:25,125
3 motley crew of former FSB agents,
black belt judokas
1810
01:47:25,458 --> 01:47:28,250
and real-life thugs
who have hit the big time.
1811
01:47:28,417 --> 01:47:31,917
They, it must be said,
were straight out of Richard ”I.
1812
01:47:32,333 --> 01:47:35,417
In just a few years,
the shady provincial dealers
1813
01:47:35,583 --> 01:47:38,667
had amassed wealth worthy of Gulf emirs.
1814
01:47:46,667 --> 01:47:47,792
Remarkable!
1815
01:47:50,542 --> 01:47:51,875
Delightful.
1816
01:47:57,250 --> 01:47:58,417
OK, guys.
1817
01:48:15,458 --> 01:48:16,708
Our new chef's
1818
01:48:16,875 --> 01:48:19,500
specialty is truffle risotto.
1819
01:48:22,708 --> 01:48:26,417
Let me know if I should keep him
or send him back to Italy.
1820
01:48:27,542 --> 01:48:28,792
Bon appétit.
1821
01:48:30,167 --> 01:48:32,625
Genia, you let us down.
1822
01:48:32,792 --> 01:48:36,583
You serve us truffle risotto,
but where is the arugula?
1823
01:48:37,583 --> 01:48:40,208
Shall I remind you
that our ice hockey team
1824
01:48:40,375 --> 01:48:43,250
finished the last championship
in sixth place?
1825
01:48:45,500 --> 01:48:48,208
We moved up seven spots in the ranking
1826
01:48:48,375 --> 01:48:50,375
and overtook Dynamo Moscow.
1827
01:48:50,667 --> 01:48:52,250
Wait till next year,
1828
01:48:52,417 --> 01:48:53,458
you will see!
1829
01:48:53,625 --> 01:48:56,875
Well then,
you'll have your arugula next year.
1830
01:48:58,083 --> 01:49:00,292
You can't find decent arugula
in Russia.
1831
01:49:01,042 --> 01:49:04,292
But I've just bought an estate
by the Black Sea in order to grow it.
1832
01:49:04,458 --> 01:49:07,250
It will be magnificent,
but there's a wait.
1833
01:49:07,625 --> 01:49:08,833
Keep the chef!
1834
01:49:09,375 --> 01:49:11,042
He knows what he's doing.
1835
01:49:12,292 --> 01:49:15,042
His flight home
to Pisa was already booked...
1836
01:49:15,208 --> 01:49:16,458
on Ryanair!
1837
01:49:21,417 --> 01:49:24,500
Yevgeny clearly has high standards.
1838
01:49:24,667 --> 01:49:28,792
But his talent goes beyond food.
It touches on geopolitics.
1839
01:49:30,125 --> 01:49:32,667
Even some subjects
we've been discussing lately.
1840
01:49:32,833 --> 01:49:36,208
It would be good
if you two had a word, Vadya.
1841
01:49:39,792 --> 01:49:42,625
I didn't know Prigozhin well.
Except as a restaurateur.
1842
01:49:42,792 --> 01:49:45,083
But I did know Putin
had been shepherding his ascent
1843
01:49:45,250 --> 01:49:47,333
with unwavering benevolence.
1844
01:49:48,167 --> 01:49:49,750
A 5-minute flight.
1845
01:49:49,917 --> 01:49:51,208
Shortly after taking off
1846
01:49:51,375 --> 01:49:54,167
we began maneuvers
to land on Kamenny island,
1847
01:49:54,458 --> 01:49:57,417
where the Tzar's close friends
lived in the grandest palaces
1848
01:49:57,583 --> 01:49:59,417
of the imperial aristocracy.
1849
01:50:03,583 --> 01:50:07,458
I'm not an intellectual like you,
but life has taught me a few lessons.
1850
01:50:07,625 --> 01:50:09,333
And not only in jail!
1851
01:50:10,292 --> 01:50:11,833
I don't doubt that.
1852
01:50:12,333 --> 01:50:14,125
Do you know how I started out?
1853
01:50:14,292 --> 01:50:17,292
My partners and I
obtained Saint Petersburg's
1854
01:50:17,458 --> 01:50:19,208
first-ever casino license.
1855
01:50:19,375 --> 01:50:22,708
Or the Tzar gave it to you,
when he was deputy mayor there?
1856
01:50:22,875 --> 01:50:24,292
Know what a casino is?
1857
01:50:24,667 --> 01:50:27,542
A monument to human irrationality.
1858
01:50:27,875 --> 01:50:32,333
Why the hell throw away your money
when all the odds are against you?
1859
01:50:32,667 --> 01:50:35,375
When you bet on human irrationality,
you always win.
1860
01:50:35,542 --> 01:50:36,625
Sure.
1861
01:50:37,000 --> 01:50:39,042
Sure. Take an average guy.
1862
01:50:39,208 --> 01:50:41,083
As long as he's comfortable,
1863
01:50:41,250 --> 01:50:44,958
has a safe job,
can take family holidays at the seaside,
1864
01:50:45,125 --> 01:50:46,917
has a retirement plan...
1865
01:50:47,083 --> 01:50:48,625
he stays put.
1866
01:50:48,792 --> 01:50:51,042
But if things don't look so good...
1867
01:50:51,375 --> 01:50:53,667
If he loses his job, his house,
1868
01:50:53,833 --> 01:50:56,208
if the future is less certain...
1869
01:50:56,500 --> 01:50:58,167
will he play it safe?
1870
01:50:58,750 --> 01:50:59,750
Hardly!
1871
01:50:59,833 --> 01:51:04,083
He'll prefer risk
to a hopeless status quo.
1872
01:51:04,250 --> 01:51:06,958
Chaos becomes
more attractive than order.
1873
01:51:07,125 --> 01:51:11,125
Westerners see China, India,
thank God, Russia,
1874
01:51:11,292 --> 01:51:13,958
making great strides
while they're stalling.
1875
01:51:14,125 --> 01:51:17,042
And they're willing to make
the most unreasonable bets.
1876
01:51:17,208 --> 01:51:18,958
Our job is to encourage them.
1877
01:51:19,125 --> 01:51:20,458
The Internet.
1878
01:51:21,208 --> 01:51:23,750
It's the battleground of modern warfare.
1879
01:51:23,917 --> 01:51:25,125
I built the tool.
1880
01:51:26,042 --> 01:51:28,583
Now the Tzar wants you to take over.
1881
01:51:34,333 --> 01:51:37,208
"Internet Research Agency."
I thought up the name.
1882
01:51:37,375 --> 01:51:39,792
Sounds good, right? What do you think?
1883
01:51:40,625 --> 01:51:41,792
Anton!
1884
01:51:42,542 --> 01:51:44,333
Our managing editor.
1885
01:51:45,083 --> 01:51:47,292
He has a PhD
in international relations
1886
01:51:47,458 --> 01:51:50,000
and speaks every language
you can think of.
1887
01:51:50,250 --> 01:51:51,833
Pleased to meet you, Anton.
1888
01:51:52,000 --> 01:51:54,042
Tell him what you guys are doing here.
1889
01:51:54,208 --> 01:51:55,750
Influence. Information.
1890
01:51:55,917 --> 01:51:59,250
The Russian point of view on the West,
for Westerners.
1891
01:51:59,417 --> 01:52:02,208
They're convinced their media
and elites lie about everything,
1892
01:52:02,375 --> 01:52:04,500
so they'll buy alternative versions.
1893
01:52:04,667 --> 01:52:07,792
The message we're sending is that
we tell the truth.
1894
01:52:08,083 --> 01:52:10,083
Russia tells the truth.
1895
01:52:10,458 --> 01:52:11,625
Like Russia Today.
1896
01:52:11,792 --> 01:52:14,375
Except that we work in social media,
not TV.
1897
01:52:15,250 --> 01:52:16,750
Shall we get some coffee?
1898
01:52:17,000 --> 01:52:19,958
We have a nice little break area.
Sofas, houseplants.
1899
01:52:20,125 --> 01:52:21,708
And ping pong tables.
1900
01:52:21,875 --> 01:52:24,083
You go on. We'll catch up with you.
1901
01:52:27,708 --> 01:52:29,250
Yevgeny, you'll...
1902
01:52:29,917 --> 01:52:32,750
have to explain
because I don't quite get it.
1903
01:52:32,917 --> 01:52:34,000
Something wrong?
1904
01:52:34,708 --> 01:52:35,917
Can we talk?
1905
01:52:36,083 --> 01:52:37,083
Sure.
1906
01:52:42,542 --> 01:52:46,042
I thought our goal was to affect mindsets
in Europe and the States.
1907
01:52:46,208 --> 01:52:47,958
Get into people's heads.
1908
01:52:48,125 --> 01:52:49,750
And now you bring me Anton?
1909
01:52:49,917 --> 01:52:53,000
- He's the best.
- That's exactly the problem.
1910
01:52:53,333 --> 01:52:57,167
Don't you realize that Westerners
aren't interested in politics anymore?
1911
01:52:57,333 --> 01:53:00,917
If we want to screw them over, we should
talk about anything but politics.
1912
01:53:01,083 --> 01:53:02,708
We don't need Anton.
1913
01:53:02,875 --> 01:53:05,000
- Who do we need?
- We need idiots.
1914
01:53:05,167 --> 01:53:07,583
Highly addictive ones.
1915
01:53:07,917 --> 01:53:09,625
(“Fiber-dependent otakus,
1916
01:53:09,792 --> 01:53:12,667
beauty-advice bimbos,
YouTube conspiracy theorists...
1917
01:53:12,833 --> 01:53:14,792
Anything that generates clicks.
1918
01:53:14,958 --> 01:53:18,333
But we have to get our message
through at some point.
1919
01:53:19,458 --> 01:53:21,333
Who do you think we are?
1920
01:53:21,500 --> 01:53:23,125
The Komintern'?
1921
01:53:23,292 --> 01:53:26,458
I regret to inform you
that the Soviet Union is gone.
1922
01:53:26,625 --> 01:53:30,875
No more party line,
no message to get across either, Yevgeny.
1923
01:53:31,042 --> 01:53:32,458
Just wire.
1924
01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:35,750
Come on, let's go.
We're wasting our time here.
1925
01:53:39,083 --> 01:53:40,917
What wire do you mean?
1926
01:53:41,333 --> 01:53:43,167
How do you break a wire?
1927
01:53:43,500 --> 01:53:46,083
You twist it one way,
and then the other.
1928
01:53:46,250 --> 01:53:48,125
That's what we're going to do, Yevgeny.
1929
01:53:48,292 --> 01:53:50,083
And how do you do that?
1930
01:53:50,917 --> 01:53:54,083
Build your network
and see who takes the bait.
1931
01:53:54,250 --> 01:53:58,042
They'll all have an obsession.
Which? The clicks will show us.
1932
01:53:58,208 --> 01:54:02,208
One will be an anti-vaxxer,
another will be pro-life or pro-choice.
1933
01:54:02,375 --> 01:54:05,875
It doesn't matter.
We won't convert anyone.
1934
01:54:06,042 --> 01:54:08,917
We just need them all
to have something that drives them nuts
1935
01:54:09,083 --> 01:54:11,625
and someone who enrages them.
1936
01:54:11,792 --> 01:54:12,958
It's infallible.
1937
01:54:13,125 --> 01:54:16,083
No preferences, no arguments.
1938
01:54:16,250 --> 01:54:17,458
Just wire.
1939
01:54:17,625 --> 01:54:21,083
We twist it one way
and then the other until it breaks.
1940
01:54:21,542 --> 01:54:23,333
I got it. Wire.
1941
01:54:24,208 --> 01:54:26,708
But everything is traceable
on the Internet,
1942
01:54:26,875 --> 01:54:29,292
and sooner or later we'll get caught.
1943
01:54:29,958 --> 01:54:32,542
Yes, we will.
And that's what we're after.
1944
01:54:32,708 --> 01:54:35,333
Serving our allies is predictable.
But how will they react
1945
01:54:35,500 --> 01:54:38,958
when they realize we're also supporting
our own opponents?
1946
01:54:39,125 --> 01:54:40,875
They'll think we're fools.
1947
01:54:41,042 --> 01:54:44,083
They'll go insane!
Lose their bearings.
1948
01:54:44,250 --> 01:54:46,583
All they'll know is that
we've gotten into their heads
1949
01:54:46,750 --> 01:54:49,625
and are playing with
their neural circuits as we please.
1950
01:54:50,458 --> 01:54:52,792
The Americans wrote the algorithm.
1951
01:54:52,958 --> 01:54:54,083
We'll use it too,
1952
01:54:54,250 --> 01:54:55,792
only better than them.
1953
01:54:55,958 --> 01:54:59,542
Anyone accusing us of plotting
against democracy will be an ally.
1954
01:54:59,708 --> 01:55:02,250
They'll build the myth
that we're all-powerful.
1955
01:55:02,417 --> 01:55:05,958
It'll be the greatest of all secrets
because everyone will know it:
1956
01:55:06,125 --> 01:55:09,542
the Russians are controlling
the modern world.
1957
01:55:09,708 --> 01:55:11,292
They are its masters.
1958
01:55:12,750 --> 01:55:15,625
That's the interesting thing
about politics, Yevgeny.
1959
01:55:15,792 --> 01:55:18,083
Anything that makes you seem strong
1960
01:55:18,250 --> 01:55:20,958
actually increases that strength.
1961
01:55:26,792 --> 01:55:28,833
LONDON
2013
1962
01:55:38,000 --> 01:55:39,000
Borya.
1963
01:55:39,333 --> 01:55:40,333
Vadya.
1964
01:55:43,167 --> 01:55:45,167
Do you come bearing a message?
1965
01:55:45,333 --> 01:55:47,500
Sorry Borya, no message.
1966
01:55:47,750 --> 01:55:49,417
So, to what do I owe this?
1967
01:55:49,583 --> 01:55:50,750
Purely pleasure.
1968
01:55:53,208 --> 01:55:55,667
You're in London to see
the British Olympic Association?
1969
01:55:57,375 --> 01:55:59,250
You're well informed, as ever.
1970
01:55:59,417 --> 01:56:02,500
The Sochi Olympics seem to be
all the Tzar cares about these days.
1971
01:56:02,667 --> 01:56:07,167
The President was kind enough to let me
supervise the opening ceremony.
1972
01:56:07,333 --> 01:56:10,542
I hope you'll be giving out medals
to the best political assassination.
1973
01:56:10,708 --> 01:56:12,292
I don't know, Boris.
1974
01:56:12,458 --> 01:56:15,125
The main thing is
for Russia to come out on top.
1975
01:56:16,792 --> 01:56:18,333
I'm not worried.
1976
01:56:19,333 --> 01:56:20,750
You'll find...
1977
01:56:21,000 --> 01:56:23,000
the worst possible solution.
1978
01:56:23,625 --> 01:56:25,042
You always do.
1979
01:56:36,917 --> 01:56:40,583
Well, you may not
have a message for me, but...
1980
01:56:42,375 --> 01:56:44,083
I have one for him.
1981
01:56:47,500 --> 01:56:49,417
Come on, there's no polonium in it.
1982
01:56:49,917 --> 01:56:52,917
It's a letter to the Tzar.
I wrote it from the heart.
1983
01:56:53,250 --> 01:56:55,000
You can read it if you want to.
1984
01:57:00,625 --> 01:57:03,125
"I beg you to grant me
your forgiveness as a Christian..."
1985
01:57:03,292 --> 01:57:04,708
Are you serious?
1986
01:57:04,875 --> 01:57:08,375
I'm appealing to his faith,
and I'm offering my services.
1987
01:57:08,542 --> 01:57:11,375
“Based on the experience I've gained..."
1988
01:57:16,250 --> 01:57:19,042
Listen, honestly, no way!
1989
01:57:20,792 --> 01:57:22,042
Times have changed.
1990
01:57:22,208 --> 01:57:24,833
You're not in the running anymore.
Sorry if I'm being cruel.
1991
01:57:25,000 --> 01:57:26,833
I'm appealing to his humanity.
1992
01:57:27,708 --> 01:57:29,208
Who are you kidding?
1993
01:57:29,375 --> 01:57:31,542
"The hardship of exile?"
1994
01:57:31,708 --> 01:57:33,125
"The passage of time..."
1995
01:57:33,292 --> 01:57:36,250
"Death drawing near.“ I get it.
1996
01:57:36,833 --> 01:57:38,583
But I don't think it'll make him blink.
1997
01:57:38,750 --> 01:57:42,625
The comfort of spending my final days
in our motherland.
1998
01:57:42,792 --> 01:57:44,833
You don't think he'll understand that?
1999
01:57:51,500 --> 01:57:53,000
I have to go now.
2000
01:58:00,875 --> 01:58:03,250
Just give him the letter, anyway.
2001
01:58:04,542 --> 01:58:06,125
I think it might cut it.
2002
01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:08,583
I genuinely do.
2003
01:58:11,292 --> 01:58:13,750
I wish I could've told him
it would work.
2004
01:58:13,917 --> 01:58:15,250
That the Tzar would be moved
2005
01:58:15,417 --> 01:58:19,208
and we'd all sit together
at the Olympics in the WP box seats.
2006
01:58:20,208 --> 01:58:21,625
I was fond of him.
2007
01:58:21,792 --> 01:58:25,417
He wasn't a saint,
but there was a childlike joy about him.
2008
01:58:25,667 --> 01:58:27,792
Ever since the Tzar
had banished his kind,
2009
01:58:27,958 --> 01:58:31,750
all that was left were strongmen
and their grim determination.
2010
01:58:32,458 --> 01:58:36,458
Worst of all,
I'd played a part in making it happen.
2011
01:58:38,667 --> 01:58:39,667
So...
2012
01:58:39,875 --> 01:58:41,167
Did it go well?
2013
01:58:41,542 --> 01:58:43,292
How could it possibly?
2014
01:58:43,458 --> 01:58:46,375
He helped you.
You could give him a hand.
2015
01:58:46,542 --> 01:58:49,375
Boris sees
the Sochi Olympics approaching.
2016
01:58:49,542 --> 01:58:51,875
There's still plenty of money
to be made,
2017
01:58:52,042 --> 01:58:54,708
even if everyone's already
lined their pockets.
2018
01:58:55,125 --> 01:58:57,125
Present company included.
2019
01:58:58,625 --> 01:59:00,083
Do you like those?
2020
01:59:00,250 --> 01:59:02,292
They're the main costumes
for the Opening Ceremony.
2021
01:59:02,458 --> 01:59:03,667
Most importantly,
2022
01:59:03,833 --> 01:59:06,333
does the British Olympic Association
like them?
2023
01:59:06,500 --> 01:59:07,792
Who cares?
2024
01:59:08,042 --> 01:59:11,708
They've already had to swallow a Winter
Olympics at a balmy seaside resort.
2025
01:59:12,000 --> 01:59:14,917
Totally devoid
of athletic infrastructure.
2026
01:59:16,083 --> 01:59:18,000
Have you seen the others?
2027
01:59:19,083 --> 01:59:21,042
No. Not really, no.
2028
01:59:27,958 --> 01:59:32,042
Look. Each island represents
a period in our history.
2029
01:59:32,208 --> 01:59:34,750
They're animatronic
and float in midair.
2030
01:59:34,917 --> 01:59:38,542
Our entire literary history
will go marching by.
2031
01:59:38,708 --> 01:59:41,375
All the domes of Saint Basil's
will fly away.
2032
01:59:41,542 --> 01:59:43,958
And then... Swan Lake.
2033
01:59:46,708 --> 01:59:47,958
Like it?
2034
01:59:51,583 --> 01:59:54,250
Vadya, that Russia doesn't exist.
2035
01:59:56,708 --> 01:59:58,333
At least not anymore.
2036
01:59:59,375 --> 02:00:02,417
But they're the ones
who inspired us back then.
2037
02:00:03,042 --> 02:00:04,542
It's too late now.
2038
02:00:06,625 --> 02:00:07,875
You know that.
2039
02:00:12,583 --> 02:00:14,458
You won't save your soul.
2040
02:00:16,875 --> 02:00:20,125
The ceremony is just a mask
for the dictatorship,
2041
02:00:20,292 --> 02:00:21,125
and the rest...
2042
02:00:21,292 --> 02:00:23,250
is just empty pretext.
2043
02:00:26,083 --> 02:00:27,667
I see through you.
2044
02:00:31,292 --> 02:00:33,417
It doesn't mean I don't love you.
2045
02:00:34,917 --> 02:00:37,500
But I'm not gonna be
your partner in crime.
2046
02:00:44,125 --> 02:00:46,708
- Can I offer a drink?
- Champagne, please.
2047
02:00:47,250 --> 02:00:48,917
Same. Thanks.
2048
02:00:56,167 --> 02:00:57,667
The Tzar is...
2049
02:00:59,292 --> 02:01:01,208
going to free our old friend Dmitry.
2050
02:01:04,625 --> 02:01:08,125
Are you sure? It isn't the first time
you've told me that.
2051
02:01:08,292 --> 02:01:10,500
He'll do it
two weeks before the Games start.
2052
02:01:11,917 --> 02:01:14,333
Western media will have a field day.
2053
02:01:14,833 --> 02:01:16,125
That's the idea.
2054
02:01:29,500 --> 02:01:32,167
You never asked me what I did today.
2055
02:01:32,458 --> 02:01:34,167
Not shopping...
2056
02:01:35,292 --> 02:01:37,083
that's not like you.
2057
02:01:37,625 --> 02:01:39,875
Something edgier.
2058
02:01:40,042 --> 02:01:41,875
Drop the sarcasm, will you?
2059
02:01:42,042 --> 02:01:43,875
I was trying to guess.
2060
02:01:44,042 --> 02:01:45,875
I went to the gynecologist.
2061
02:01:50,833 --> 02:01:51,833
I'm pregnant.
2062
02:02:03,667 --> 02:02:04,500
You look...
2063
02:02:04,667 --> 02:02:06,667
I'm a little shocked, yes.
2064
02:02:11,375 --> 02:02:13,458
Actually, I'm blown away.
2065
02:02:15,542 --> 02:02:17,125
I have no words.
2066
02:02:25,875 --> 02:02:28,917
WAR IN CRIMEA
2067
02:02:29,083 --> 02:02:30,917
According to early police reports
2068
02:02:31,083 --> 02:02:33,958
Boris Berezovsky's death
is consistent with hanging.
2069
02:02:34,125 --> 02:02:37,625
Berezovsky was found dead last night
in his Ascot residence.
2070
02:02:37,792 --> 02:02:40,500
Pathologists have found
no signs of a struggle.
2071
02:02:40,667 --> 02:02:42,833
Access has been closed
until the results of the tests
2072
02:02:43,000 --> 02:02:46,083
for chemical, biological
and nuclear agents.
2073
02:02:51,708 --> 02:02:53,667
It had to end this way.
2074
02:02:54,125 --> 02:02:55,708
Exile was too painful for him.
2075
02:02:57,792 --> 02:02:59,042
I'll miss him.
2076
02:02:59,458 --> 02:03:01,750
He painted an appalling image
of the opposition.
2077
02:03:01,917 --> 02:03:03,625
That was priceless for us.
2078
02:03:04,792 --> 02:03:07,625
This is the program
for the opening ceremony.
2079
02:03:08,792 --> 02:03:10,917
Updated according to your notes.
2080
02:03:17,917 --> 02:03:19,875
What is “Daft Punk“?
2081
02:03:20,042 --> 02:03:22,000
Electronic music.
2082
02:03:22,167 --> 02:03:23,667
No. 1 worldwide.
2083
02:03:24,833 --> 02:03:27,708
Two Frenchmen
who never remove their robot helmets.
2084
02:03:27,875 --> 02:03:30,292
This setup wasn't in the previous draft.
2085
02:03:30,458 --> 02:03:33,917
They won 5 Grammy awards last week.
We have to get up to date.
2086
02:03:34,083 --> 02:03:36,208
You've asked the police choir
to sing their song?
2087
02:03:37,208 --> 02:03:39,625
He's turning the whole ceremony
into a farce.
2088
02:03:43,000 --> 02:03:45,208
Explain your rationale to Igor.
2089
02:03:45,875 --> 02:03:49,500
Today it's what people want to dance to.
It's that simple.
2090
02:03:49,667 --> 02:03:50,917
It'll be ridiculous.
2091
02:03:51,083 --> 02:03:52,250
It'll be kitsch.
2092
02:03:52,417 --> 02:03:55,042
The entire world,
three billion spectators
2093
02:03:55,208 --> 02:03:57,500
are waiting for the greatest show
they've ever seen.
2094
02:03:57,667 --> 02:04:00,792
It can only be
the apotheosis of kitsch.
2095
02:04:01,792 --> 02:04:05,125
Kitsch is the only language
available to us
2096
02:04:05,292 --> 02:04:07,792
if we are to communicate
with the masses.
2097
02:04:07,958 --> 02:04:11,167
- We want to show them our Russia.
- They don't want to see your Russia.
2098
02:04:11,333 --> 02:04:14,917
Besides, you have nothing to show
and everything to hide.
2099
02:04:15,500 --> 02:04:18,208
We want to paint the picture
of an open Russia.
2100
02:04:18,625 --> 02:04:21,833
Sure-footed,
but also capable of smiling.
2101
02:04:22,000 --> 02:04:24,583
Today's world requires self-deprecation.
2102
02:04:24,750 --> 02:04:27,375
Not your balalaikas, Igor.
2103
02:04:27,542 --> 02:04:30,750
Do you understand what I'm saying
or is it gibberish to you?
2104
02:04:31,708 --> 02:04:32,708
What can you do?
2105
02:04:35,000 --> 02:04:36,208
Vadya...
2106
02:04:36,708 --> 02:04:38,125
is an acrobat.
2107
02:04:38,583 --> 02:04:42,042
An artist for politicians,
a politician for artists.
2108
02:04:42,208 --> 02:04:43,750
Be careful, Vadya.
2109
02:04:44,083 --> 02:04:46,583
Sooner or later
you might miss the trapeze.
2110
02:04:46,917 --> 02:04:48,917
Fall flat on your face.
2111
02:04:52,625 --> 02:04:53,917
I declare
2112
02:04:54,083 --> 02:04:57,083
the 22nd Winter Olympic Games
2113
02:04:57,250 --> 02:04:59,417
of Sochi open.
2114
02:05:02,000 --> 02:05:04,333
That was probably
the night I should have left.
2115
02:05:04,500 --> 02:05:07,708
Closed the book at that page.
It was a good ending for me.
2116
02:05:22,000 --> 02:05:25,208
The Ukrainian independence movement
seized on the Olympic ceasefire
2117
02:05:25,375 --> 02:05:27,542
to occupy Maidan Square again.
2118
02:05:29,083 --> 02:05:31,167
Two days before the end of the Games
2119
02:05:31,333 --> 02:05:33,792
they ousted
pro-Russian President Yanukovych,
2120
02:05:33,958 --> 02:05:35,667
who fled the same day.
2121
02:05:36,750 --> 02:05:38,667
The chaos that ensued
gave the Tzar
2122
02:05:38,833 --> 02:05:41,333
a golden opportunity
to invade Ukraine.
2123
02:05:44,833 --> 02:05:47,708
Russian snipers
killed over a hundred protesters.
2124
02:05:48,250 --> 02:05:49,958
They say you were in charge.
2125
02:05:51,875 --> 02:05:53,167
Who says?
2126
02:05:53,333 --> 02:05:54,625
Ukrainians.
2127
02:05:55,458 --> 02:05:57,083
From your own emails.
2128
02:05:58,417 --> 02:06:01,000
They say you have Ukrainian blood
on your hands.
2129
02:06:09,792 --> 02:06:12,000
The night before the closing ceremony
2130
02:06:12,333 --> 02:06:14,333
following his grand plan,
2131
02:06:14,833 --> 02:06:17,375
the Tzar decided to annex Crimea.
2132
02:06:19,458 --> 02:06:22,000
Crimea was part of Ukraine.
2133
02:06:23,208 --> 02:06:27,208
We weren't about to send regular troops
to invade a sovereign country.
2134
02:06:28,750 --> 02:06:33,167
You sent in Russian soldiers
who weren't wearing any national insignia.
2135
02:06:33,333 --> 02:06:37,042
"Little green men",
as your fellow journalists used to say.
2136
02:06:37,208 --> 02:06:41,000
When Zaldostanov and his Night Wolves
brought their circus to Crimea,
2137
02:06:41,167 --> 02:06:42,625
you were pulling the strings.
2138
02:06:42,792 --> 02:06:43,792
True.
2139
02:06:43,833 --> 02:06:46,042
I gave them a supporting part.
2140
02:06:47,042 --> 02:06:49,000
Supporting actors are important.
2141
02:06:50,542 --> 02:06:52,542
As long as they don't get
too carried away.
2142
02:07:16,875 --> 02:07:18,792
Have you seen our flags?
2143
02:07:19,375 --> 02:07:22,167
We're not using
the Federation ones anymore.
2144
02:07:22,667 --> 02:07:24,708
We have something else in mind.
2145
02:07:24,875 --> 02:07:29,000
We're no longer a federation, Vadya.
We're conquering new lands.
2146
02:07:30,833 --> 02:07:34,083
We have taken back Crimea
from the Ukrainians.
2147
02:07:34,542 --> 02:07:36,833
Soon all of Donbas will be Russian.
2148
02:07:37,000 --> 02:07:38,833
It's high time to take stock.
2149
02:07:39,292 --> 02:07:41,042
Take stock. Truly.
2150
02:07:41,417 --> 02:07:43,125
I'm a man of action.
2151
02:07:43,292 --> 02:07:45,667
We're here to support the Russian army.
2152
02:07:45,833 --> 02:07:47,917
Help them bring you victory.
2153
02:07:48,083 --> 02:07:50,000
Who said anything about victory?
2154
02:07:51,375 --> 02:07:54,167
What we want in Ukraine isn't conquest.
2155
02:07:54,542 --> 02:07:55,958
It's chaos.
2156
02:07:57,167 --> 02:07:58,917
The Ukrainians fooled themselves
2157
02:07:59,083 --> 02:08:01,917
into thinking their Orange Revolution
would get them into Europe,
2158
02:08:02,083 --> 02:08:05,042
but it's going to take them back
to the Middle Ages.
2159
02:08:05,208 --> 02:08:08,583
If you listen to Westerners' promises
it always ends like that.
2160
02:08:08,750 --> 02:08:10,458
They drop you at the first hurdle
2161
02:08:10,625 --> 02:08:12,792
and you're left alone,
your country in ruins.
2162
02:08:12,958 --> 02:08:14,667
That's the moral of the story.
2163
02:08:15,667 --> 02:08:18,500
You see, Alexander?
This war isn't fought in real life,
2164
02:08:18,667 --> 02:08:20,500
but in the people's minds,
2165
02:08:20,667 --> 02:08:22,167
on the TV news.
2166
02:08:22,333 --> 02:08:25,125
In Moscow, Kiev, Berlin.
2167
02:08:25,500 --> 02:08:29,500
You're actors in a play
that goes over your heads
2168
02:08:29,667 --> 02:08:32,333
and resonates far beyond these borders.
2169
02:08:37,750 --> 02:08:41,583
Either you agree to be a pawn in my game,
with the attendant advantages,
2170
02:08:41,750 --> 02:08:42,458
or you don't.
2171
02:08:42,625 --> 02:08:45,500
But remember, I can pull
the plug on you whenever I like.
2172
02:08:46,000 --> 02:08:49,375
And then things will get
a great deal more complicated for you,
2173
02:08:49,542 --> 02:08:52,792
your Wolves
and your little business ventures.
2174
02:08:53,667 --> 02:08:54,708
Which are flourishing,
2175
02:08:54,875 --> 02:08:56,333
from what I gather.
2176
02:09:14,500 --> 02:09:16,833
Can I bother you for a moment,
Vadim Alexeyevich?
2177
02:09:17,125 --> 02:09:18,250
Go right ahead.
2178
02:09:20,125 --> 02:09:22,792
How did your trip to Lugansk go?
Well?
2179
02:09:22,958 --> 02:09:25,792
I'm sure you've read
your services' reports.
2180
02:09:27,500 --> 02:09:29,833
We have news from the Americans.
2181
02:09:30,417 --> 02:09:31,417
What news?
2182
02:09:31,542 --> 02:09:33,417
Seems they've drawn up a blacklist
2183
02:09:33,583 --> 02:09:35,833
of people forbidden on their soil.
2184
02:09:36,000 --> 02:09:37,583
Your name is on it.
2185
02:09:38,500 --> 02:09:41,208
You'll have to forget
about going to New York for a while.
2186
02:09:42,542 --> 02:09:45,708
Their sanctions for the takeover
of Crimea. When do they start?
2187
02:09:45,875 --> 02:09:47,000
This Monday.
2188
02:09:48,292 --> 02:09:51,208
Good thing I stopped liking New York
a long time ago.
2189
02:09:52,167 --> 02:09:54,458
I've heard something else, too.
2190
02:09:56,708 --> 02:09:57,750
Go on.
2191
02:09:58,417 --> 02:10:00,125
It'll be official tomorrow.
2192
02:10:00,458 --> 02:10:04,208
Your name is also
on the Europeans' shortlist.
2193
02:10:05,375 --> 02:10:06,500
Paris,
2194
02:10:06,792 --> 02:10:07,833
London,
2195
02:10:08,292 --> 02:10:09,292
no more.
2196
02:10:10,417 --> 02:10:12,375
I'm told you'll miss Naples.
2197
02:10:16,167 --> 02:10:18,625
I won't bother you any longer,
Vadim Alexeyevich.
2198
02:10:19,042 --> 02:10:21,333
I'm sure you have arrangements to make.
2199
02:10:21,500 --> 02:10:22,542
And fast.
2200
02:11:05,750 --> 02:11:07,333
Lionia, have you heard?
2201
02:11:08,083 --> 02:11:10,333
Yes, tonight
or tomorrow at the latest.
2202
02:11:11,208 --> 02:11:13,583
No, no interviews, just a press release.
2203
02:11:13,750 --> 02:11:15,583
Can you take this down?
2204
02:11:17,625 --> 02:11:19,583
"I see this sanction as an Oscar
2205
02:11:19,750 --> 02:11:22,458
"awarded for my entire political career.
2206
02:11:23,250 --> 02:11:26,625
"It means I have served my country
honorably." Full stop.
2207
02:11:27,792 --> 02:11:29,042
No, that's all.
2208
02:11:29,208 --> 02:11:30,292
Thank you.
2209
02:12:05,208 --> 02:12:06,250
Ksenia,
2210
02:12:07,500 --> 02:12:10,500
pack your bags,
I'll be over in 15 minutes.
2211
02:12:12,667 --> 02:12:15,250
A few hours later
we landed in Stockholm
2212
02:12:15,417 --> 02:12:17,750
for our last European weekend.
2213
02:13:00,625 --> 02:13:02,750
I suppose it was bound to happen.
2214
02:13:04,083 --> 02:13:06,000
Only you could avoid it.
2215
02:13:06,167 --> 02:13:07,333
By resigning.
2216
02:13:07,500 --> 02:13:08,583
For instance.
2217
02:13:11,208 --> 02:13:15,042
Power is addictive.
It's a tough habit to kick.
2218
02:13:15,208 --> 02:13:17,417
Before, when you spouted
that kind of truism,
2219
02:13:17,583 --> 02:13:19,333
I could hear the irony.
2220
02:13:20,042 --> 02:13:21,083
Not anymore.
2221
02:13:21,250 --> 02:13:22,375
There was none.
2222
02:13:23,583 --> 02:13:25,625
The war in Ukraine is like the rest.
2223
02:13:26,167 --> 02:13:28,583
I never wanted it.
I even opposed it.
2224
02:13:28,875 --> 02:13:30,000
If you say so.
2225
02:13:30,167 --> 02:13:31,292
Indeed.
2226
02:13:31,917 --> 02:13:33,333
I do say so.
2227
02:13:34,000 --> 02:13:37,458
And I also say that once the Tzar
had made up his mind,
2228
02:13:38,042 --> 02:13:40,667
I did everything I could
to see it succeed.
2229
02:13:40,917 --> 02:13:42,333
Out of habit.
2230
02:13:43,667 --> 02:13:44,917
Out of pride.
2231
02:13:46,083 --> 02:13:47,458
And because I could.
2232
02:13:47,625 --> 02:13:48,833
With no compunction.
2233
02:13:49,000 --> 02:13:50,042
That's true.
2234
02:13:50,208 --> 02:13:52,083
That's how it's always been.
2235
02:13:52,750 --> 02:13:56,333
With the Moscow bombings
and the war in Chechnya.
2236
02:13:57,042 --> 02:13:59,500
With Dmitry's arrest
and Berezovsky's fall.
2237
02:13:59,667 --> 02:14:03,000
And now the murders on the Maidan.
2238
02:14:03,875 --> 02:14:06,417
I never wanted any of those things, yet...
2239
02:14:06,583 --> 02:14:09,292
each depended on my tireless labor.
2240
02:14:09,750 --> 02:14:11,417
And now you're tired.
2241
02:14:12,375 --> 02:14:14,500
Russia devoured my grandfather.
2242
02:14:15,750 --> 02:14:18,583
You met my father,
it devoured him too.
2243
02:14:19,458 --> 02:14:22,042
I don't know about me.
I don't know if I'll be saved.
2244
02:14:22,208 --> 02:14:23,458
Probably not.
2245
02:14:25,125 --> 02:14:27,125
In any case, it's too late.
2246
02:14:30,500 --> 02:14:32,458
But our child will be saved.
2247
02:14:56,292 --> 02:14:57,375
Ksenia?
2248
02:15:00,875 --> 02:15:02,042
Ksenia!
2249
02:15:45,583 --> 02:15:48,750
Going to Novo-Ogaryovo
was never much of a thrill.
2250
02:15:48,917 --> 02:15:51,083
The bleak, sporty mood pained me.
2251
02:15:51,250 --> 02:15:55,417
After I got back from Stockholm
I almost never set foot there again.
2252
02:15:55,583 --> 02:15:59,167
A prince's trust is not a privilege,
but a conviction.
2253
02:15:59,583 --> 02:16:03,042
I had played my part.
I was no longer of any use.
2254
02:16:03,667 --> 02:16:06,625
I let him get out of the habit
of seeing me.
2255
02:16:06,792 --> 02:16:07,958
That's all.
2256
02:16:09,208 --> 02:16:11,292
He gets up early
and breakfasts on fresh eggs
2257
02:16:11,458 --> 02:16:14,042
sent by Patriarch Kirill from his farm.
2258
02:16:14,208 --> 02:16:17,083
If there's an emergency,
he reads his confidential notes
2259
02:16:17,250 --> 02:16:19,125
and makes his wishes known.
2260
02:16:19,708 --> 02:16:20,708
Next,
2261
02:16:20,792 --> 02:16:22,375
he swims a kilometer.
2262
02:16:22,667 --> 02:16:24,917
His first visitors wait by the pool.
2263
02:16:25,083 --> 02:16:28,083
Ministers, advisors, CEOs.
2264
02:16:28,500 --> 02:16:32,542
The presidential motorcade only leaves
for the Kremlin in the early afternoon.
2265
02:16:33,208 --> 02:16:35,583
The streets are closed
half an hour prior.
2266
02:16:35,750 --> 02:16:38,292
Putin drives
from Novo-Ogaryovo to the Kremlin
2267
02:16:38,458 --> 02:16:40,125
through his frozen capital.
2268
02:16:40,833 --> 02:16:42,708
And his real day begins.
2269
02:16:44,125 --> 02:16:46,542
Sometimes only ending at dawn.
2270
02:16:49,625 --> 02:16:51,458
One man stays awake
2271
02:16:52,792 --> 02:16:56,583
while everyone else who matters
in Moscow shares his vigil.
2272
02:16:57,208 --> 02:16:59,125
Like in Stalin's day.
2273
02:17:01,167 --> 02:17:04,000
Who's that? Who's this?
2274
02:17:05,750 --> 02:17:07,167
Hi, my sweet one.
2275
02:17:08,208 --> 02:17:09,792
Can I play with Machka?
2276
02:17:09,958 --> 02:17:12,083
Of course you can.
You're not bothering us.
2277
02:17:13,458 --> 02:17:14,750
Where is she?
2278
02:17:15,083 --> 02:17:16,625
Where's that Machka?
2279
02:17:16,792 --> 02:17:18,167
- Is she under the table?
- No.
2280
02:17:18,333 --> 02:17:19,833
- She's not under the table?
- No.
2281
02:17:20,000 --> 02:17:21,333
- Is she under the cushion?
- No.
2282
02:17:21,500 --> 02:17:22,792
- Are you sure?
- No.
2283
02:17:22,958 --> 02:17:24,583
- Is she under the piano?
- No.
2284
02:17:27,083 --> 02:17:28,583
There she is.
2285
02:17:38,708 --> 02:17:42,125
All the happiness I've known
in the world is concentrated in her.
2286
02:17:42,958 --> 02:17:44,042
Daddy,
2287
02:17:44,208 --> 02:17:47,333
what do you think Machka would say
if she could talk?
2288
02:17:47,792 --> 02:17:49,250
I think she'd say,
2289
02:17:49,417 --> 02:17:51,292
"I'd have more fun with a real rabbit."
2290
02:17:51,458 --> 02:17:52,458
Daddy!
2291
02:17:53,250 --> 02:17:54,458
She'd say,
2292
02:17:54,792 --> 02:17:56,958
"I like you best of all, Anya,
2293
02:17:57,292 --> 02:17:59,375
"I only want to play with you."
2294
02:18:01,250 --> 02:18:02,958
Cats aren't my favorite thing.
2295
02:18:03,125 --> 02:18:05,792
But how much longer
will I be able to make her happy?
2296
02:18:06,917 --> 02:18:09,375
I never felt fear before Anya.
2297
02:18:09,583 --> 02:18:13,292
From the moment I first laid eyes on her,
I've been living in terror.
2298
02:18:13,458 --> 02:18:16,375
I realize my life is in her hands,
not the other way around.
2299
02:18:17,333 --> 02:18:19,750
My daughter doesn't count
the hours or the days.
2300
02:18:21,000 --> 02:18:22,958
I've always lived in the future.
2301
02:18:25,375 --> 02:18:27,458
And she has given me the present.
2302
02:20:11,750 --> 02:20:14,000
THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN
2303
02:24:47,083 --> 02:24:49,792
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