Sergey Bezrukov
Dmitry Dyuzhev
Pavel Maykov
Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Yekaterina Guseva
Andrey Panin
in the film
by Alexey Sidorov
The Brigade
Written by Alexey Sidorov
Alexandr Veledinsky and lgor Porublev
Director of Photography Yury Raysky
Production Designer Valery Filippov
Music by Alexey Shelygin
Russian TV Producer Valery Todorovsky
Produced by
Alexander Akopov and Anatoly Sivushev
General Producer Alexander lnshakov
Episode 4
Don't we have more to drink?
Cos,
time to go.
l won't go alone.
The White can't do it, too.
Shall we play?
l'll lose anyway.
Did you beat her, or what?
Anya, are you alive there?
Yep.
Why don't you go to bed?
No more booze?
Cosmos, wait for me.
Gimme the keys.
-What keys? - l'll drive.
l'm the Formula 1 racer.
Racer, look, your car.
lf you smash it, you won't
have the Michael Jackson car.
Close the door.
l don't want to.
Then l'll open mine.
We'll fly to the city, take the cash
and grab some booze.
That's all for now,
l'll withdraw the rest tomorrow.
Thank you.
Don't mention it.
Tania,
can you explain what happens with our children?
l don't know when it started.
Sasha was always so fair.
Where have you been?
Dad, gimme some money.
A couple of hundred until the day aftertomorrow.
You're not going anywhere.
Take it off.
l've got to go.
l'll smash it!
You're not going anywhere!
What a father you are? lf you can't give money to your son?
Hello,
Auntie Tania.
Hi, Cosmos.
l'm sorry,
Sasha is OK.
ls Belov in the country house?
Mind your own business.
What d'you mean?
l'm your father, you bastard!
l gave you the keys, and he killed a man.
He's my friend, and l'll take care of him,
got it?
You'll be jailed, sonny.
l don't care,
lemme go.
Nadia!
Cigars, coffee and my notebooks,
pronto!
Bee, gimme a light.
Y'know,
l always dreamt about being a scuba diver.
You will be.
Me, a volcanist.
You will be.
ls it so?
What's wrong with her?
She's just tired, my little one.
Let's swap, shall we?
Fuck it, my head's splitting.
No means no.
What takes Cosmos so long?
All of you stay where you are.
The house is sealed.
Belov, you're targeted.
Bee, are you with me?
Belov, put your hands on your head.
Coming already, lemme tie my shoelaces.
There's a fence in the back of There's a fence in the back of
l count to 3
and open fire.
On count 1.
Mommy.
Hush.
Bee, don't be a drag, beat it!
Sasha!
Your hand.
They'll kill us.
C'mon.
To the woods! Move it, Bee.
Eat it!
Right, l've got it.
What time is there in Melbourne,
noon?
Don't fret, Pyotr Mefodich,
l don't wish you problems like this.
Take care.
You're the general, you can help.
l don't usually ask you for something.
Thanks a lot, old friend.
Phil, don't sleep.
What's that?
Here we are.
Cosmos,
where've you been?
-What's wrong? -Sasha is wounded.
There's a fuzz,
we barely got through.
Who's that?
A cop, he was a lookout. We took him with the car.
What's up, bro'?
Careful, he's got a hole in his side.
Sasha, are you alive?
They machine-gunned us.
We were lucky to make it.
Put him into the Lincoln.
-Be careful about it.
Brothers, what's up? Beat it.
Sasha, bear with it.
The God suffered too.
Don't forget the emergency kit.
Patience, bro', we've got to see it.
Oh shit,
Oh shit, how did you manage it?
Bullets are fools,
so was l.
What shall we do with the cop?
l'll be back.
Sasha, it'll hurt now.
Bear with it, brother.
Come here.
Guys do you realize
that it'll that it'll be your end? l'm the police.
We do, no sweat.
Listen to me carefully.
We're the same age.
By mother,
we've been framed.
Don't interfere in this.
lf you rat on us,
if you sing,
we'll cut you to pieces.
lf you don't, you'll get 5 grand.
5,
l won't deceive you.
Think about it.
See you later.
Stand here, by the parapet,
and squeeze your hand,
not to let the blood out.
Cos, we've got to find a hospital.
What hospital, are you nuts?
They'll bust us any place.
-l don't know what to do. -You always know something.
Fuck off.
We've got to beat it.
Over the Urals.
Brothers, thank you,
l'll never forget it.
Come on already.
l swear,
l'll never desert you.
Are you preparing to die or what?
l swear on all l've got.
l swear not to renounce my oath, ever.
l swear to stick to my words.
l swear.
l took a rap for him.
What did you take?
Oh, Tatiana Nikolayevna,
where do we live?
lt all will take time of course,
but people will help and the case will be soft-pedaled.
ln the meantime,
you send your, Sasha to the relatives. Far from Moscow.
He'll come back in a year.
Jesus,
Yury Rostislavovich,
how could l ever thank you?
No way.
Please understand,
l'm afraid of losing my son, too.
Let's think
our interests coincide.
Thank you so much.
l think your Sasha
will come to his senses.
Spring 1991
l'll shoot
all those bastards.
Where do you take me?
lvanych, how d'you feel?
l'm fine, what about you?
Slava, you should've fucking
detonate it under the front wheel.
Lemme down!
- ls it OK? - OK.
We agreed to blow up
the first wheel as soon as the bike goes past.
Gotcha. lt was OK though.
Good.
You cunt, you pressed the button.
Clean job.
You little one,
fucking move it.
What a smoke again!
l told you, less smoke!
Yusup Abdurakhmanych, when is the lunch?
Aren't you hungry, boys?
Will you take lunch?
Phil, introduce us to the director,
we can come in handy.
We'll present ourselves as artists,
beat the shit out of someone.
Alright, l will.
Put the cap down, it's the prop.
lf he likes me, l'll be in movies.
Andrey, l'm sorry.
One second.
Jenya, call Dyachenko,
where's the lunch?
Here, a friend of mine wanted to meet you.
Andrey.
Cosmos.
Victor.
They are my friends.
Please to meet you, Andrey.
Does it look OK?
Right, it's the real 1941, great.
Andrey.
The director's sort of funny.
Girls, is the lunch coming?
Who are the girls?
- Make-up. - Right.
OK, guys, we'll be shot.
Yeah, in the head.
Fuck off.
Everything is the mess, even the movies.
Fascists are different.
l borrowed Mein Kampf
from the director.
''And then a sword becomes a plough,
and then the bloody
tears wash the land''.
But we did it with
their Ordnung.
And Hitler kaput.
That's true.
That's what l think, brothers.
We've got our share in Northern markets
and 3 car services.
Gamers pay us a little.
But we still live,
like, in poverty.
And no one respects us.
l wouldn't say that.
Wait.
We still have no purpose, we don't develop.
lt's all peanuts. We live like logs.
That's true, Sasha.
Gimme a smoke.
Here you are.
The Course lnvest.
lsn't it a bit grand?
Why?
The company's new, no-one takes care of it yet.
What do they do?
A small business.
My ex-neighbor
Arthur Lapshin
has recently moved into a new office.
- Do l know him? - No.
Non-ferrous metals,
computers, real estate.
Lots of dough.
But no-one knows where from.
Are they young communists?
Sasha,
l can tell you one thing.
A bird in your hands is better
than a turd in your guts.
-You stick to shallow waters. -Phil, are you through?
Yeah, today was the last day.
You'll arrange it yourself.
Right now. Let's go?
l'll give you an automatic.
Can l help you?
Tell Arthur, Vitya here.
One second.
Roger.
Come on in.
lsn't opening the door included in your job description?
Gotcha,
self-service.
Guys, wait here.
Your hands.
You look it.
Phil, enough of it, let's go.
Arthur, can you sign it?
l told you already. l sign everything before 10.
And no later.
Hey, Vitya, howdy. Can l help?
How do you do, Little Arthur.
Look how fat you are.
l earn my food, unlike others.
This is Sasha, this is Valera.
Arthur.
Pleasure, l heard a lot about you.
But l didn't hear about you.
OK, what's up?
l need to go in 10 minutes.
Shit.
Yeah, right,
l'll be there in 15 minutes.
Guys, l don't offer you tea or coffee.
We've drunk some beer'n'fish.
Vitya, do you have some business to discuss?
Let's hear it, l've got to go.
Nice leather, like the BMW salon.
Little Arthur, d'you have a car?
Little Sasha, go look.
l'll go,
'cause we only have an old Lincoln.
What's that?
A hatchet.
Why?
To hatchet.
Are you nuts?
Him?
Shall we start
with the fingers?
-Are you crazy, Sasha? - Go shut the door.
Or the head?
Yeah, it can still think for40 sec.
Where did you get those sickos?
Better listen
to what he says.
Let me sharpen the pencil.
Here you go.
Tell the secretary,
you're in the meeting.
Phil, he doesn't want to.
You do.
What's his patronymic?
Veniaminych.
Arthur Veniaminych is in the meeting.
Oh, the cognac.
Who wants it?
Good cognac. Martell.
Want some?
lt's good.
Cosmos got it for graduation from his dad.
l remember.
You were drunk
like a swine.
Puked all over the toilet.
l never puke.
Come on.
A very important meeting.
As usual.
Don't smoke,
it kills your brain.
Throw the stone.
Don't go there,
we'll lose again.
Take it off the head.
You see, we're losing.
And we're betting on you, Arthur.
Sasha, your move.
Ouch, why do you prick me?
Sorry,
my hand trembled.
l'm not a whale to stick harpoons into.
- Stand still. - l do.
Be careful, darling.
Madam, the beauty needs sacrifice.
The bride will look like
a slender birch.
Granny,
should l let my hair loose?
No, you'd better pick it up.
Who's the groom?
God knows.
He's a scientist, a volcanist.
A scoundrelist,
to be more exact.
Come on, granny.
Now, the decisive game.
What's the score?
7:0, Alexander Belov wins.
7's my fave number.
You should win once, for decorum, huh?
What kind of a boss you are if you can't play?
Wanna drink?
You've lost, Arthur.
Put my rare cognac back!
Get off my desk,
scum.
Don't scream at us,
we talk to you politely.
Bee, pour him,
he needs a drink.
You're unwise, Arthur.
Another game?
Arthur Veniaminych?
Shut up, you moron!
Arthur, l understand,
but you should see my point too.
We're all different,
yet sometimes
...our interests overlap.
Arthur, your health.
To our mutual satisfaction.
Well, do you see what is needed from you?
Yes, Sasha, l do.
How did they fight?
l don't see a thing.
ls it real?
You bet. And heavy too.
Lemme try.
-About 10 kilo. - Lemme.
l feel comfortable in it.
Are you raving mad?
Hush, you castigators.
The people came to you
to discuss business.
And you behave like a damned fool. Too bad, Arthur.
Believe me, this is just
a reaction to your behavior.
l lost a loan through you today.
What does one loan mean?
Listen,
you're in big business, right?
You should have some troubles.
Let me send you my lawyer.
He's very sharp, specializes in international law.
He'll look through your contracts,
maybe he'll give you some advice.
Well, if he's sharp...
He's very sharp. Super.
Why not?
lt's a deal then.
By the way, l'm late myself.
Castigators,
follow me.
All the best to you.
May l help you?
Belov sent me.
l've got an appointment with Arthur.
Step right in.
Thank you.
Do you know the way?
Straight and around the corner.
Thank you, all the best to you.
He's here.
We should've sent
the guys with him.
Yeah, it was too much.
White thinks he's in the movies.
Numerous fractures,
concussion,
we even had to
trepanate the skull.
Listen, can you hold it?
Sit tight. Sorry, lady.
He'll live
but be an invalid.
Have you operated on him?
Yes.
The thing is,
my temp is about
50-56 degrees.
ln this case, you should be quarantined.
Can you do it right here?
l'll drop by and thank you later.
Could you make sure he's
treated right here?
We'll try our best.
Thank you.
Castigators, let's go.
What did the doc say?
Shitty business.
Are you Belov?
Did you see him?
He's a walking corpse now,
because of you.
l'm sorry, it just happened this way.
l told him many times
not to deal with criminals.
Bee, don't forget to help her financially.
Jesus,
it was for some sucker.
Money rule everywhere.
Sasha?
Quit it, will you?
What?
You're so smart,
but you're a brigand.
Funny, a brigand.
l thought for some time,
either they kill me
or jail me.
Remember that time, in the country
l swore to the boys,
and then for 1.5 years in the Urals
l thought and thought,
and then it just happened.
So much time has passed.
The life's just mad,
like in the Age of Reptiles.
A day at the beach.
And the ocean of money.
You know how we'll live soon?
ln a year or so?
So, I don't understand exactly. How much?
600 tons of aluminum,
half is scrapped
Who are they?
l checked, they're real.
The risk's big,
but it's the cash.
Lyuda, tea and alum... shit, lemon.
Cash!
Call Dushanbe, let Bako
get the shipment ready.
The contract should be tough.
And go there
to control the loading.
Arthur, what...
Why are you still here?
Double-time, run!
ln my native Tajikiathe chestnuts bloom.
Got to count it.
Arthur, it's not our first
year in business.
And not the last one, thank God.
Count it.
lt's 50%.
We're waiting for the metal.
Why are you standing there, count!
Bako, hi.
Ship it immediately.
What d'you mean, a lot?
This is the contract.
Alright.
No longer.
l've got a tight schedule.
No, l believe in you.
Send my love to Delaraux.
Be in touch.
My darling gook.
Cuba's far, Cuba's near...
Lyuda, the fax from
New York arrived.
Well, report it.
The invoices are ready,
l agreed it with the boss.
Got to be lubricated.
The loaders, etc.
Now we'll
look at our aluminum.
The winged metal.
lt works good.
Where's the champagne?
All set.
My dear comrades, the red
ribbon is cut,
and the first shipments
of Tajik aluminum
are pouring into Moscow.
What the hell?
l don't get it,
what the
fucking hell?
Run and check
other cars.
What's that?
l ask you, stupid moron?
All empty,
no-one knows when
they swiped it.
l'll swipe you now!
Soviet Circus is the mother of miracles.
Hey boys, it's all ours now.
Yeah, MacKenna's Gold.
They uncoupled the cars in Ufa,
coupled the empty ones,
then sealed them
and off they went.
That freak will be ours now.
lmmure it with the Bee.
Well, commander, as agreed.
You seal them, the money's later.
Arthur,
we depend on that metal too.
l understand,
but you should understand it, too.
Look at this fucking railroad map.
Look, here's Moscow,
Here's Moscow,
here's Tajikistan.
They never worked in better times.
Just look at this distance.
Arthur,
this your problem.
Yes, but...
Wait.
We're ready to wait for a week.
Do you know this song?
People die for precious metals.
l'm sorry, Belov's on line.
Alexander Belov.
Who?
He asks about your mood.
Tell him, l'm not here,
l died.
No, l'm off
to Tajikistan.
l'm in Mongolia.
No, that's no good.
Wait.
Lyuda.
Put me through to Pyotr.
Alright.
Bastard.
Swine.
So if they sent
you to La Scala?
What else is there?
The Boston Symphony Orchestra.
So what will you do? Leave me?
Go to that shitty America?
l want to perform solo...
...and l won't leave you.
l know, my sweet.
What are you doing?
OK. Break your leg.
l'll be waiting for you. lt's OK.
You're going with me.
Lemme close the trunk.
Take a walk.
Well, lamer, tell me.
What are you interested in?
Where's the metal?
l have it.
l'll give it back when Arthur
takes my man
as a companion.
Why should he do it?
He shouldn't have kicked my lawyer in the head.
You pressured him.
l came to discuss business,
no-one asked him to be rude.
Alright, what's done is done. Return the metal...
...and the case's closed.
Go find it.
600 Mt is not a needle.
Are you responsible
for your words?
l always am.
Pray now, you bitch.
Wait a bit, darling. Look here.
When they push me,
l go to the end, got it?
Tell your bulls to take a walk,
we're going downtown.
On count 3 l pull the pin.
One...
Two...
Three...
Boys, you go,
we'll have a ride.
A+. You drive.
Don't shake it. l'll put it
back in to be on the safe side.
l didn't get it.
Here we are.
Let's take a seat, Olya.
Music is cruel.
lt's a bloody business.
Believe me,
an old professor.
l've seen it all.
You've got to have an extraordinary talent
to reach the top.
You're gifted, but will you
be content
with the 6th stand in the orchestra.
lt's not even opera, it's drama.
l respect you and your parents
we were very close.
l don't think it's fair
not to tell you.
Thank you for your candidness.
l'm sorry, someone waits for me downstairs. izvinite.
Good-bye.
Where have you been?
l went for the cigarettes.
-What did they tell you? - lt's OK.
l'm staying in Moscow.
That's marvelous, little Olya.
We'll live and be happy and
wealthy.
lt's not nice to be late.
OK, OK. Well?
He was adequate,
no blue funk.
Threatened with a hand grenade.
He's got it in him.
That's good. Gimme the tape.
- Have you recorded it? -Yes.
What shall l tell Arthur?
lnstructions are along the way.
Take care.
lgor Leonidovich,
report it.
The subject has been observed by
the territorial agent since '90.
Attempted an extortion on a
business in our sphere.
The applied scheme revealed his
tactical abilities,
considering his age, 23.
Our agent posing as criminal
protection
was involved in combat contact with the subject.
The record was analyzed by the
F Dept.
Here's their conclusion:
extraordinary willpower,
emotionally stable,
motivated as the leader.
The special service personnel
at his place of service
confirm those characteristics.
So what do you suggest?
l'd suggest to work on Belov
more closely.