Ancestral Land

Star Media presents

Alexei Kravchenko, Svetlana Kolpakova

Yuriy Borisov, Arina Zharkova

Maksim Kerin, Alina Lanina

Maria Smolnikova, Vitaliy Khayev

Sergey Sosnovskiy, Maria Kuznetsova

Sergey Peregudov, Vladislav Vetrov

Viktoria Tolstoganova, Leonid Gromov

Created and directed by Milena Fadeyeva

0Director of Photography Radik Askarov, R.G.G.

Art Director - Sergey Kokovkin

Costumes by Alexei Kamyshov

Music by Ivan Uryupin

Montage by Marina Vasilyeva

Sound Director - Leonid Shushakov

Executive Producers - Eduard Aliyev, Tatyana Statsman

Produced by Ekaterina Pogorzhelskaya

Produced by Andrey Anokhin, Vlad Ryashin

Movie of Milena Fadeyeva

THE ANCESTRAL LAND

Don't splay your legs as if you're yawning

or the baby may jump out.

We don't need the baby here. Wait until the hospital.

Father!

Praskovya the midwife died.

Now we have to cover a hundred miles along the beaten track.

Go, go!

- Mikhalitch, help! - Wait, let me throw the loop.

Grigoriy, bend more! We'll get this huge tree down in no time!

Sevka, why are you whistling?

What a whistler! Don't whistle, Sevastyan, or you'll invite trouble!

- Guys, is Makar Morozov here? - Here. Why?

What is it?

Makar, your Daria is in labour. Grandpa Lukyan took her to the hospital.

Your wife collapsed in the field.

Stop, Morozov! Where are you going? Who will work instead of you?

Grigoriy Ilyitch, my wife is in labour!

I have liabilities and I lack people.

Three people are drunk for the fifth day in a row.

I won't let you go! No, Makar! I'll let you go home in the end of the week.

Your Daria will be fine. Work!

If you dare leave, I will fire you from the communal farm. Work, Makar, work!

Keep working, guys! Our wives will give birth without us!

Come on, work, men! Come on! Don't sleep!

Come on, guys!

Shout, honey, shout!

Shout, honey! Cry!

Oh, Jesus! What a weather!

A boy! What a big boy!

Yes, my honey...

My honey...

Be quiet... be quiet...

Look! What are you doing? Who let you come in here? Get out!

- He is crying so much! - It's not he but she. It's a girl.

She is crying because she wants her mother. It's understandable.

She spent nine months in her mother's womb.

She got used to her mother's warmth...

- And her mother... - She is gone. She died giving birth.

May I feed her?

All right, feed her if you have enough milk.

Maybe she'll calm down and stop crying. Sit down here.

The girl is clinging to you!

- Hello, dad. - Daddy!

Alenka, my beauty, come to dad! Aleshka, why do you look so scared?

Makar...

My honey...

Why did you go in labour before your term?

- I... - Nobody could deliver the baby.

It's good that grandpa Lukyan took you to the hospital.

Well? Is it a son or a daughter?

- Makarushka... - Let's go look who we have!

Makarushka... But this is... there...

There are two of them!

A brother and a sister.

Makarushka... The girl is... She is...

I am... My fool! I'm glad to have a son and a daughter.

Look! The son looks so much like you. And the daughter... like me.

My honeys! Look! The girl took after the Morozovs' kin for sure!

My honey! You're my honey too! My dear children!

I'll call my daughter Varvara and my son Stepan!

Seven Years Later

Stepka! Stop, bastard! Stop!

I'll cut you with the axe when I catch you! Stepka!

Stop!

Stepka!

Guys!

I'll cut him with the axe when I catch him!

I'll show you how to cut! You'll stop cutting to the end of your days!

- Listen to me first, Makar! - Step away!

Makar! Your son is a thief! He is a thief, do you get it?

What did you steal?

Here.

- What did you need it for? - I wanted to give it to mum.

He stole it in the shop in the broad daylight!

Today, he stole a necklace from the village shop,

and tomorrow he'll start steaking the kolkhoz's property!

Here you go, choke on it!

Stop!

I'll show you how to steal, bastard! How could you?

Why are you putting me to shame?

I'll teach you out of stealing! For the rest of your life!

Daddy! Don't touch Stepka! Don't touch!

Dad, don't touch Stepka! Don't touch!

What are you doing? I hit you with the belt. My honey. Does it hurt?

Tell me, Varyusha! Say at least a word!

Beat me up but don't touch Stepka! I won't let you beat Stepka up!

You're my little defender! My honey!

Come on, troublemaker!

Here, here...

I feel as if boiling water is pouring on my head.

- I must be dying! - Mum! Mum, let's go to the hospital!

Makar will take you. Why wait for the doctor if he is drunk?

I won't go anywhere! I was born in his house and I'll die here!

- Shall I call Stepanida? - Who else do you want to call?

Don't cry so much, Yevdokiya! It tears my heart apart!

I will die!

If you die, we'll bury you. Then I'll follow you.

Dad, what do we do? I can't look at my mother dying...

- Lesha? Lesha, grandma Dunya... - Lesha, I'm dying!

Don't wail, grandma Dunya. Grandpa, bring the sharpest knife, fire and a bowl.

- What for? - Bring it, I tell you!

What is going on?

Lesha, what are you going to do?

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Lesha!

- Lesha! - Don't do it.

Don't!

Don't!

He is stabbing his own grandma! With a knife!

Father?

Hold this.

What?

What is wrong with grandpa?

How are you, mum?

I feel better.

Did you get scared, old fool?

I feel unwell...

He doesn't love you. He is in love with Auntie Katerina!

Varka, stop kissing the icon! There is no God!

God exists! Mum says that if not for God...

Don't listen to our mum.

She is uneducated. Teachers in school say that God doesn't exist.

Who is there instead of God?

Stop crossing yourself.

Lenin replaced God. We have his portrait at school.

We shall hang his portrait here instead of icons too.

Varya, Varya! Varya! Come here!

What is there in the plate?

Is Ignat Akimov smiling to you from the plate?

You are going to be a member of the Komsomol, Alenka, but you tell fortunes!

You don't know anything about the Komsomol!

Look, a ring! Can you see it?

Does it mean that I'll marry Ignat?

He won't marry you!

He was kissing Auntie Katerina by the river. I saw it with my own eyes!

He was kissing her and touching her in different places.

Dream on, Alenka! What a fool you are!

Varya! Stop! Come back!

Future belongs to the preventive medicine.

This science goes hand-in-hand with the treatments

and will bring unquestionable benefits to the mankind...

Alesha, I shall go to the city.

I want to lock the school up. People steal too much.

Yes, one moment.

Are you reading about doctor Pirogov?

Yes, about him.

Take a book with you. You may bring it back tomorrow.

- May I? - You may.

- Thank you! - Be seated.

Alesha, I was thinking.

You shall go to the city. You shall get proper education.

Become a doctor. You're a good person and a smart one as well.

Who is waiting for me in the city, Ivan Andreyevitch?

Nobody is waiting for you right now.

But I have a variant.

We shall discuss it.

There is a man in the city, quite a specific man but a kind one.

His name is Pavel Arkadyevitch Babakhin. He is a director of a drama theatre.

My sister Anyuta works there.

Pavel Arkadyevitch has wide connections.

Babakhin never refuses to help anybody.

We shall try this variant.

Daria, do you hear? My Mashka likes your Alexei.

He passed our house by yesterday, and she nearly fell out of the window.

Stop it! Our Lesha doesn't care for the girls.

Books replace all the girls for him.

He is like a scientist... a doctor.

- Am I right, Alenka? - Yes, a doctor.

Kuznetsova? Katerina! Go to the farm, replace Valentina there.

Why me?

Matrena Nicolayevna, why do you always send me to do the hardest work?

You don't notice other women, just me alone!

Don't argue and do as you're told or I'll complain to the chairman.

Come on, go! Ignat will give you a ride.

He will pass the farm on his way to the sawmill.

Ignat? Ignat Kuzmitch, come here!

Alenka!

Where are you going? Do you hear me?

- Hi, Katya. - We have seen each other today, Ignat.