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Katya GORINA
Natasha, Alik, are you back?
Alik, my heartfelt congratulations on your return.
Calm down, no one's back yet.
- Will they be much longer? - I don't know.
When are you coming back?
Whenever they arrive, I'll come back.
- You won't stay for a while? - As if I would!
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- Stay for a bit. - Absolutely no way.
S I S T E R S
Mum, I need to go to the toilet.
For heavens sake! Can't you sit still?
Not long now.
They are signing someone out, and Alik is next.
Written by Gulshad OMAROVA
Sergei BODROV sr. Sergei BODROV
Director of Photography Valery MARTINOV
Production Designer Vladimir KARTASHOV
Mum, dod you know what a 'prison' is?
There! There's Dad!
Produced by Sergei SELYANOV
- What's this then? - It's from a cold.
- Alik! Hello! - Hi.
- Congratulations on getting out. - The same to you.
Can we talk for a moment?
Alik, the question of the money's come up.
Kostya's asking.
The cops took the money. Ask them.
They say they didn't tale it.
And?
And we need to get it back.
Come on, Dad, I need to go to the toilet.
The meat's probably dried right out.
You are not supposed to cook it for three hours.
We were waiting so long! I'm worn out.
Well, get used to it. It won't be the last time.
Hello, Uncle Misha.
Don't touch!
Mum, what's she giving orders for?
Don't pick. Go sit at the table.
I'll bring everything in.
- How's grandma? - Fine. Give her a call.
- Have you boiled the beetroot? - Yes.
- And I've done some ironing for you. - I'd have done it myself.
You can iron your husband's shirts yourself.
I haven't touched them.
I am already like Cinderella round here.
Cut it out and take the fish in.
- Hi there. Hello.
Off already? Have you taken the chicken?
Here is some money for grandma.
- Thanks. You'll phone, right? - I'll phone tomorrow.
Can you pick Dina up from schooI tomorrow?
No, I've got training.
You can pick her up from music then.
Bye.
Come, on, Sveta, he is not such a bad man.
After all, he helps you with the shopping and gives you money.
Stolen money. They don't lock up good men.
Nowadays they do. Someone tells tales.
After all, they let him out almost straight away.
Paid someone some money - got let out.
Anyway, let me listen.
Don't take too long.
Sveta, hey Sveta! Shall we go to the pictures?
I've already seen everything that's on.
Maybe to a cafe, then?
- What, you've got some money then? - Yes.
Probably stole it from your parents.
No, I earned it at camp!
- Are we going to a cafe then? - What for?
Well, people go out to places, don't they?
People do a lot of stupid things, don't they?
How romantic!
Isn't it about time you got married, Malinina?
Klimkin, have you got any goaI in your life?
Well, I'd like to go and live in Germany.
They treat Jews OKthere.
- And you? - I'll go to Chechnya, as a sniper.
- How? - On a contract.
On whose side?
On our side, of course. Not for the Chechens!
Could you really shoot someone then?
If I had to I could.
Sveta, I wanted to ask you. Your Dad's a Chechen, isn't he?
Is he from Chechnya?
Listen. Firstly, he is not my Dad. That's first.
Secondly, he's from Daghestan, and that's a big difference.
- Mum, can't he buy you a dishwasher? - What for?
- Why waste the money? - You're right.
It's so hard getting the money in the first place.
Oh, come on, really.
Don't forget to pick the kid up from music.
Don't worry, I am not going to forget about your kid.
- You asleep? - No.
- What's up? - Not much.
Maybe Dina should start going to some club, too?
Wouldn't hurt. Otherwise she'll grow up a pansy weakling.
You're exaggerating, she plays the violin,
goes to her teacher, draws.
Have you seen her drawings?
She'll need to go to an analyst soon.
Can you light me a cigarette?
My nails are wet.
And give me an ashtray.
He promised we'd go skiing in Austria.
Just don't break your neck there.
I don't want to be left looking after your kid.
No, I think we're all going.
Do you love him, mum?
Yes.
Why?
He's my husband.
Who was Dad then?
Just tell yourself you never had a dad.
So, my place has been taken?
Yes, Alik, that's what was decided.
You've still got to give the cash back though.
How much do they say was there?
Today, one million.
Give it back today, and your place is free.
One million?
I want my place freed up today.
Dad!
- Go in. - OK.
Everything OK?
There were two of them hanging around the music schooI.
- Who were they? - Kostya's men, in a Pajero.
Right, stay here.
Don't touch the blinds. Don't use the phone.
Got it?
- There's food there. - But I've got training tomorrow.
Don't worry. I'll train you myself later.
- I'm not staying here with her. - You'll stay and you'll behave.
Something smells here.
- Alik, I'll stay with them. - You are coming with me.
Everything's to look normaI.
Kids're at their relatives. We're at home.
You're right, there's some sort of smell.
Dina, you do what Sveta says, and I'll come tomorrow.
And you be in bed by nine.
The fish has gone off.
What if the owners come back?
Don't worry, they won't be back. The owner died recently.
- Why've you painted yourself up? - I like it.
- Where did you get the lipstick? - From the bathroom.
Go and wash it off.
I think we were told not to use the phone.
Can you keep quiet?
Grandma? Hi, it's me. I'm staying at the Klimkins' dacha.
I'll be back tomorrow. Don't worry about me.
Have you taken your medicine?
Alright then, bye.
Don't you know that Iying is wrong?
Who told you that?
My Dad.
And did he tell you why they want to kidnap you?
They steaI a lot of kids nowadays.
Better if they'd kidnapped you. Then I wouldn't be stuck here.
At some dead guy's apartment.
You only listen to your Tsoi.
He must have died a hundred years ago.
Firstly, he was killed. Because of someone like you.
Some stupid girI jumped out into the road.
He crashed to avoid her.
Hi. You promised you'd phone.
I don't know if I should come round or not. Call me.
This is from the car service.
We've changed the filters last Tuesday.
Tell us when we can deliver the car. Goodbye.
Dima, it's Mum. Please, ring.
Grandma's been taken to the hospitaI.
- Do you want a banana? - Alright.
Give me for bread!
- Where're your parents? - Got no parents.
You parents probably force you to beg?
- Where're your mum and dad? - In prison.
Give me for bread!
Here's some bread.
Bitch!
I tell you, they are not hungry. They don't take bread.
They just want money! I always do that - I check.
Hot pies! Meat or potato pies. Pies anyone?
Let's have a pie!
- Young man, are they fresh? - Very fresh.
- Two meat pies then. - 12 rubles.
- How much? - Potato are five, meat are six.
- What do you want? - Potato.
Thank you.
- Did you phone Dad? - Who else?
- Where are we going? - Mum's relatives live here.
- Do they know we are coming? - Mum probably phoned them.
Hello, are your parents home?
Mum! Sveta's here. Natasha's daughter!
With the other daughter!
Hello, Auntie Zoya.
Hello.
Auntie Zoya, this is Dina.
Can we stay with you for a day?
Valera!
Didn't Mum phone you?
What?
Hello, Uncle Valera.
Hello.
Hi.
- Natasha's? - Yes.
Get in the house, sharpish!
Some sort of trouble?
They were supposed to pick us up.
We need to phone them, to tell them we are here.
Natasha called, but Sveta, you have to understand.
Understand me, I've got two kids to look after.
If you need something, OK.
But just as long as we won't have any trouble afterwards.
Oh, we'll be off then. Goodbye.
We don't smoke here, Alik.
What've you come for? Have you brought the money?
Kostya, just tell me one thing. Do you believe me or the cops?
I believe that someone's got to pay.
If you want to listen, listen. I didn't take the money.
I swear on my kid's life!
And it's not you that's asking me for it!
I came to you myself, Kostya.
We are not children.
Leave the kid alone. I won't run from you.
It's not you I need. I need the money.
And your kid now costs two million.
- I'm hungry. - I haven't eaten anything either.
You can buy ice cream over there.
I've only got three rubles left.
just enough for a telephone token.
Maybe we could ask someone.
- What? - Well, for money, or bread.
You want to start begging on trains?
We could sing. And people will give us money.
Sing if you've got the bareface cheek.
Just be carefuI they don't put you in a nuthouse.
Let's go.
Pies!
Stand back.
Hey, what about me?
Where are the owners? Are they dead?
No, they are alive for the time being.
Who lives here?
Leave me alone! What difference does it make to you?
I am sick of chasing round strange houses with you.
Don't you understand why are we hiding? Want me to explain?
It's because your dad's a gangster.
And you're a gangster's daughter.
Liar! Liar! He's not a gangster!
A gangster. A reaI gangster. And a thief.
Got it. And then where did they go?
No one knows? Have a look on that line.
CarefuI how you tip off the police.
They were in Kurovskaya.
They dropped in on some relatives.
They wouldn't let them in.
What do you expect? People are afraid.
It's only you that's never afraid.
Find them that money!
It's too late to find the money.
Now we have to find the children.
Tomorrow I'll find them myself and we'll get out of here.
Don't pick it up.
Can I try again?
This phone is for work.
Please.
Tanya, it's me again. Where was that call from?
Tanya, have a look and see where it is.
Revyakava. OK, thanks.
Hi, Klimkin, it's me.
Lyosha, something's up. I need some money.
A lot.
However much you've got. When can you give it to me?
Come afterwards then. I'm at your dacha.
You've forgotten where your dacha is?
Zelenovod village, number 15.
And bring something to eat.
Dina!
Idiot! I've got my make-me-invisible hat on.
What're you shouting for?
Idiot!
If you want we can go out somewhere?
Alright.
What sort of dance is that?
It's a belly dance.
I'm getting sick from the height.
So? Me too.
Will we be spinning round much longer?
UntiI we are really sick.
Have you ever kissed with anyone?
As if!
Well, have you got a boyfriend?
There is one.
- And? - Nothing.
They are just kids at that age.
The old man scared them. They were waiting for someone.
They hit the old man and burnt the house down.
First time I have ever seen them here.
Aforeign-make car. A Pajero.
- What happened? - Afire.
Listen, Lyosha,you see, they want to kidnap her.
- Chechens? - I don't know.
What've Chechens got to do with it? We have to get out of here.
This is for you.
Did you bring the money?
You see, I was offered this CD-ROM.
A new one. So I've only got ten rubles left.
- Why did you come then? - Well, we agreed.
You'll probably catch it from your parents now.
No. You mixed up the dachas.
We're at Number 17. That's ours over there.
Why are you two smiling like idiots?
My hat's just gone up in flames.
What are we going to do now?
We could go to the police and try telling them everything.
I don't think we should go to the police.
They might put dad back to prison.
Get in. What're you waiting for?
I'm not going.
- What can they do to us? - Maybe nothing to you.
- Hello. - Hello.
We came on an excursion and got lost.
It's easy to get lost.
I've got to phone my parents.
- Do you know where there's a phone? - Not far. Get in.
Go and eat.
Can I make a phone call?
The lamp's burnt out.
You'll be walking along at night
and suddenly - the lights go out!
You'll think you've been wiped out.
- How old are you? - Thirteen.
- Do you want to work? - I don't know. Doing what?
What can you do?
She can shoot.
Your sister?
Yes.
I can play the violin. And sing.
Good.
Come on, stand up.
Come here. Where are you from?
From town. We got left behind our tour group.
Easy now, honey!
- Do you have flees? - Don't touch!
I'll tell my dad you touched me!
My dad's a gangster. He's called Alik Meshersky.
And this is my sister.
To the market!
I play on a two-quarter size.
You mean you can't play the violin?
This is a full-size, for grown-ups.
You have to play for grown-ups.
What, like an idiot? It won't come out right!
Doesn't have to sound right. Has to sound pitifuI.
15 rubles a bottle. We get a ruble for each one.
What am I supposed to trundle about on the trains with them?
They sell well at the market as well.
Hey, darling! What's this place called?
Kurovskaya station.
Have you got any beer?
Cola, Pepsi, Sprite.
Listen, get us some beer, would you?
Hey, have you people got any gangsters round here?
Bring it over, alright?
Again? I can't believe it!
- Have these guns been sighted? - Of course. Of course, always.
Roma doesn't need sighted guns!
Come on!
Missed again!
- Who's next then? - No way.
Can I?
Alright. What're you betting?
- What do you mean? - We are playing for money.
Bet your box.
It's not mine.
You can lose someone else's stuff.
Well done, darling.
- How was the gun? - Nothing speciaI.
You get that, darky?
Will you be my bodyguard?
- Alright. - It's a deaI.
You grow up a bit, and I'll take you out of here. To Moscow.
No scum bothering you round here, is there?
If someone touches you, just tell me.
- Want one? - We've got some money of our own.
We'll wait here.
- Are the police looking for you? - Yes.
Wait here.
What's he giving orders for?
What about the money?
We're not prostitutes, we just got lost.
We are on a schooI trip.
- Name and surname? - Malakhova Svetlana.
- Date of birth? - 19.04.19,87.
- Address? - ,8 Arsenalnaya, Apartment 4.
- Your sister? - Yes.
You look different.
- Name and surname? - Murtazaeva Di...
- Doesn't she know her own name? - She knows.
Then let her answer for herself. Name, surname and date of birth.
Murtazaeva, Dinara Albertovna,
06.24.
'O6.24' of what? Year of birth?
1991.
- Your parents are looking for you. - I know.
Well, go and ring.
We've found the children, Murtazaeva and Malakhova.
Yes, there're here.
Pick them up at the Oktyabrsky police department.
Next time we'll put you in the cells, got that?
- Pavlovich, should I take them over? - Stay here.
Let's go.
- Hello. - Hello, Dina.
- Yours? - Yes, thank you.
It's them.
Please, don't hand us over.
They want to kidnap her.
Her dad's a gangster - it's because of him.
They might kill. They are all gangsters.
Let's go!
- Hang on a second. - Get out.
Drop it.
What the hell! I said drop it! Are you nuts?
Seifullin, where are you?
Why're you always hiding?
Didn't hear, didn't hear. I fell asleep in the barn.
The dog woke me up.
I'll lock you up. You try hiding one more time.
Hide? What for?
I've been working all day. Sober as a judge.
You should put something cold on it, like ice cream
Alexander Pavlovich! Some tea perhaps?
Mister, have you got anything cold?
I see.
Will this do? Be my guest.
Mister, maybe we should take her to a doctor?
Misters traveI on the metro with briefcases.
Stay here and don't make a move.
Thank you.
Sniper!
So, your dad's a gangster?
Seifullin, be carefuI with them.
Can you take me to the village?
Get off!
I need to buy a newspaper.
Do you think they'll pick us up soon?
They should do.
I already want to go home.
I know.
Sveta, maybe they've gone somewhere?
What if we spend all our lives wandering around like this.
We'll just ask that nice policeman and he'll find them.
- And if he doesn't? - He'll find them.
He is a policeman, after all.
So you think all policemen are nice?
I don't get mixed up with them, so they leave me alone.
I've noticed.
Why has he taken us in then?
For money, most likely. To get money from your dad.
I know my dad's a gangster.
But he loves me.
We're going skiing in Austria. Your dad dumped you though.
We don't know who has dumped who yet.
- What's wrong? - My head hurts.
You've got a temperature. Get some sleep.
Eat a little.
Where did you get the lipstick?
In the apartment where we hid the first night.
- You mean you stole it? - Yes.
What a family!
What are you going to be, Sveta, when you grow up?
I don't know. I could become a bodyguard.
My dream is we grow up and become performers, together.
We'll dance the belly dance!
Who are you?
She's got sick.
Get out!
I'm the boss here!
She is sick. Don't touch!
It's mine!
I'll phone the police!
They told you to stay put and not to make a move!
I'm not afraid of cops
Go and sleep in your barn!
Is there a chemist's around here?
- Hello. - Hello.
- Where is Sveta? - She is sick.
Her nerves probably.
- Has dad phoned you? - No.
If he phones, tell him we're living here
with an old man, not Russian, near the dam.
Aspirin, please, and something for nerves.
You didn't notice it?
Where's the kid?
I don't know.
How much did Alik promise you? Tell the truth?
He's greedy! I'll give you double.
Stubborn cop. Why are you so stubborn?
Already got loads of money? Or bags of health?
Where's the kid?
It was a two! Two!
Allah sees all! It was a four!
- Sveta, he's Iying! Cheat! - I am a cheat?
I'll tell Alexander Pavlovich!
He already knows everything - I'm an honest man.
You're a rotten cheat! Let's play on.
- Hello? - It's Alik.
- Well? - Tell Kostya I'm in place.
- Have you brought it all? - Yes, we have.
We are on our way.
Sveta, what are you going to do afterwards?
After what?
Well, when you get home?
Keep training. And you?
Maybe I'll go somewhere.
- Let's go together? - Where to?
India if you want.
We'll earn some money. And go, together.
They take in difficult children in Tibetan monasteries there.
Firstly, that's in China.
Run! Run for it!
Daddy!
Be carefuI, there's glass in there.
Be carefuI on those skis.
I can't be thinking about skis.
I've got to by everything, furniture, everything.
- Have they finished the repairs? - They said so.
I'll have to double check.
Though it is Europe, it's the same old story.
What about a schooI?
Mum, they've got schools there too, don't worry!
Have you put any food in?
10 kilograms, enough for the trip.
- Where's Sveta? - She's coming.
Well, this is it.
Sveta!
We are off!
Are you coming out?
Sveta...
- So, good luck. - Bye.
Are you coming with us?
No.
Here you go.
Sveta, will we see each other again?
Yes.
Well, off to your training or you'll be late.
I haven't got any training today.
Cast
Oksana Akinshina Katya Gorina
Roman Ageev Tatiana Kolganova
Dmitry Orlov Kirill Pirogov
Alexander Bashirov Andrei Krasko