The Excursionist (Ekskursantė)

Is everything OK, mum?

Let me listen.

He's kicking!

I love you, brother.

I know the way back, we will come back! Look!

I love you too, mum.

After WWII Europe was divided into two parts

and Lithuania was left on the eastern side of the iron curtain.

Soon after that Stalin's regime broke traditional lifestyle,

brutally suppressing any resistance.

Using cattle wagons, hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians were exiled to Soviet Gulags to the north and east.

Open!

Bring light here!

Attention! Take the bodies out of here! Fast!

One, two, three - lift!

Mother, mother! I want my mother! Let me go!

Lock it with a sliding bolt!

Your mum was taken to the hospital. Now it's yours.

Lay with me a little bit longer...

It is waiting for me, Stepanida, a bright tomorrow...

You don't love me, Vitiok...

Auf Wiedersehen! I'll come next time.

Your dog turned into a werewolf.

- I wanted to go the toilet, but it wraaa~~ - Impossible.

Pioneer's promise! Look through the window!

Yes, looks furious...

- You won't be able to get out of the house now. - We will see about that!

This is real pass-through yard. There is some beast with a human's face.

And your dog got inside too! Soon we will...

Vitiok! Don't you incur a sin!

Don't!

"Housewife"!

What do you think you're doing?

Baikal! Come to me!

What are you doing?

What is in there?

- Vitiok, what was in there? - I'll check.

Wow...

What a finding!

Interesting - whose? In 100 km radius there are only wolves.

Well? What well? What well?

I don't want her in my house!

I want a child from you, I don't need a someone else's!

What to do?

Take her to the village council.

You can cook good, Stepanida, but you are stupid...

I told you, how I was found in a taiga at roughly the same age...

I wasn't sent to the pawnshop, but harbored at home, I was taken care of...

It would be a pleasure for you to take care of her!

>She doesn't need someone else's kid!

Careful...

I won't hand her as some recyclabe material! You won't live to that!

Here you go...

Hello, granny Nadia!

Hello!

- Here, look what I found for you! - Potato again?

No.

This time something else.

What?

Oh god! Where did you find her?

I was driving home from work, she was laying on the side of the road.

- You should have taken her to Stepanida. - Your daughter does not want someone else's kid.

She should have saved her own.

You shouldn't have said that, granny Nadia. She got very offended.

Get out... As you wish, granny Nadia.

God...

Breathe!

Oh God!

Here you go.

Good...

Where?!

Hold your dog! Sit!

Give me this shit. Fuck!

Guard! Don't gawk!

Jump!

Faster, run! While they haven't noticed.

Where? To the west, where the sun is setting.

Run!

Throw the bodies there, into the river.

Clear? Yes, sir!

Sit, bitch, I am telling you!

Calm down...

Drink!

Good...

Come on, drink.

Calm down, calm down...

Here you go, you have recovered...

What is your name?

Can you hear me?

This is your bread, this - honey.

You have to say "this is my..." Whatever, you'll learn.

Baikal, come here!

What would I do without you?

All mine are dead.

But I am not alone. God is always with me.

And you are not alone.

All of us are like branches of God.

God cleans up good branches, so that they would give fruits.

and burns the bad ones...

Fire!

Hello!

Don't you remember me?

Don't you remember that time when you were at my place?

My name is Stepanida. I brought something to you.

Here, a coat.

Almost new.

A dress. And shoes.

If they are be too big, put on more socks.

Do you like it?

Is she deaf?

You are the deaf one. You didn't visit your mother for three years!

You don't live overseas.

- You hurt my feelings... - By saying the truth?

Let's forget the past. Let's forget.

Thank you for the stuff. It will be useful And your daughter in heaven will be happy.

I bought you presents: matches,

sugar, salt,

and for the holidays - eggs.

Say, why did you come?

Since Vytka drove out with her, he did not came back.

I thought that he may sometimes visit you.

And why do you think that he is yours? Vytka is nobody's.

And how is she?

Diligent...

She is not a Russian. She is not an orthodox, she makes a sign of a cross differently.

But she understands my words.

I used to talk with myself before,

now Marija hears me out.

If Vytiok will show up, tell him that I'm waiting for him.

I can that much...

I am Maša!

I am not Maša! I am Marija!

I am not afraid of anything!

Here, Maša, this is all that I earned in the collective farm during the year.

Thank you.

Christmas tree!

Oh my God! It is Christmas!

Angel!

Just like a real one.

And this is your father? Yes.

And this is your mother? Yes.

Are they alive?

Yes... I don't know.

And this is your house.

House.

Beautiful, big...

And here is a barn.

This is a kitty, doggy, goat. You are a rich bride!

Child of rich farmers. Who taught you to work?

Father and mother.

And all of you were exiled to Siberia?

Well, how should I put it... Driven away in a train...

Don't worry, Maša...

You know, what they say - you have to go to sleep with a heartache,

and in the morning it will already be melted and turned into a cloud.

Hello, granny Nadia!

Hello.

Are you executing Stalin's nature's reorganization plan?

But you have to plant trees first, only then you can cut them down.

Praiseworthy!

So, it's time to sign USSR's people's economy development loan papers.

It says here, that you have to pay 25 rubles.

Be afraid of the God! Where will I take this money from? I am making a borscht soup out of black cabbage,

I don't know what to make bread from, because I was given only 10 kg of wheat in advance.

Where is the girl from?

She is a relative of a granddaughter... From a neighbor district.

Why isn't she at school? It is not holiday yet.

Ask her...

So will we sign the loan papers?

- Where will I take so many money? - Don't pose, hag.

All I need is your sign, money will be discounted at the end of the year by the management.

Be healthy (Goodbye).

What is your name? Why don't you speak? Did you swallow your tongue?

Whatever, I have business without you. Meteorite.

Well, well... God did not protect...

Let's go.

When you were saying goodbye....

Next to granny Nadia it is uncomfortable to say. She is a polite woman.

She didn't even ask about Stepanida.

What would I say?

Maša, wake up! You'll sleep later.

Now it is time for a special class -

"Guide for the travelers in Svedepija"

So, the first rule - keep quiet.

If you will be beaten, you can whine, but don't speak.

They will get bored and leave you alone. Do you understand?

Second precept: if they will make you speak - lie.

Lie in a such a way, so that they would think that you are crazy. They will leave you alone.

And third, the last rule: act in your own discretion.

Own discretion?

Yes, if you see somebody's something and you really need it - take it.

In Svedepija everybody are guilty against you, so everything what belongs to them is yours. Do you get it?

Ok, you will understand later...

People are starving and yet they are shoving their muzzles there too... (regarding Russian propaganda messages).

So, another practical lesson of my special course.

First part - these are your documents. Your last name - Kalinkina

Name is the same - Maša.

You are going to Uzlovaja station to the doctor and back.

This is your photo.

Well, not your's, but it has a stamp.