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 lgor Porublev
Director of Photography Yury Raysky
Production Designer Valery Filippov
Music by Alexey Shelygin
RTV Producer Valery Todorovsky
Produced by
Alexander Akopov Anatoly Sivushov
General Producer Alexander lnshakov
Episode 10
Spring 1995
Yestrerday on the 25th on the road from Grozny to Argun in Chechnya federal troops were insolently assaulted.
Chechen soldiers destroyed two escort machines and three trucks carrying federal army soldiers.
Twenty-four people are dead and eight injured. As it was reported in the anti-terrorist operation
headquarters in the Northern Caucasus the incident took place early in the morning.
The first escort car was blown up by the radio-controlled land-mine.
The column was stopped and fired at with automatic guns. The federals fired back. The gunfight lasted twenty minutes.
The regional operative headquarters underlined that this has been the third assault by the terrorists
in the last period of time.
Belov, are you nuts?
The investigation is being held at the place of the gunfight. The district is blocked by the army.
As reported by RlAwithin the last 24 hours the army seized one machine-gun, three submachine guns...
You'll wake Vanya.
One machine-gun, three submachine guns, over two and a half thousand cartridges of different calibers.
Two self-made bombs have been destroyed.
How's it?
Fine, but this is for kids. Let's make it fifty meters.
You need a row.
That's what we'll do to all the Americans.
White, bastard, hate him.
Here you go. He'll start biting soon.
-What did you say? -You heard!
Phil, do you understand that our comrade is a shit?
Hey, you, watch you mouth!
Cosmos, stop it.
Shut up you Chechen henchman. l know the truth. 'cause you and your mate
White will send weapons to those who's killing our guys!
Cosmos, you are wrong. You know why it went this way.
Why bother talking to him! Look, you, fucking pacifist, that it was you who started this theme and now
you've been moved aside and you are jealous.
That was because there was no war and you hadn't been circumcised by your pals, you see.
Fuck you, man!
What did you say? Come up here! Hold it!
-Bloody bastard! -Fuck You!
Hold it, both of you. l'll get both down.
So, here are the samples. Here are PKM, bazookas, 400 boxes total, also cartridges in boxes of 100 or 250.
100 is more convenient
Fine, ok. Here are AKMs 7-62, here're TM-65 bastards. These are rifles with SP-5, SP-7 cartridges.
You're welcome to make
SP-5.
Fine, these are mines, antipersonnel, antitank. These are grenades F1, RGD, so, the mines are OZM-72.
Let's see bazookas.
All right, here you are.
Bazookas 300 pieces, and 900 shots.
Here, here, here.
Viva the heroes struggling for independence. Congratulate you to general Ermolov's birhtday!
Sasha get this addict away, or l'll cut off his nose.
Cos, come down here.
One moment, man!
Good stuff.
-lt better be more bazookas. -We can do it.
So, that's it. Let's check the route.
ls that all?
Ah, also, OKZU 500, APS 300 pieces, 50 Grand 9 millimeter cartridges.
Yeah, lsmail, you find out there, maybe they will take an armoured troop-carrier.
We would put it down as a waste metal. Right, Alexander?
Well, it is not impossible.
lt's a great deal. Should we have some champagne?
No, it's too early. Let the cargo arrive to its destination, they'll accept it and then we'll have lots of champagne.
-Whiskey? -And whiskey as well.
So, the cargo will go the Caspian route, after it crosses the border.
Volodia is responsible for it. Volodia, now you check the schedule with lsmail.
Sorry. Come up here.
-Good evening. -l'll be in a minute.
What's that l don't understand, wait, what's wrong? Why are they standing?
Why the hell did you get out? Who told you could?
l wanted to talk to the guys. Have you forgot? That's my theme.
What's your theme? You bloody useless addict.
l'm useless?
You turned into shit in half a year. l'll soon check you out of the thing.
What do you mean check out? Literally?
Morally! Now get in the car. lf you stick out l'll tear your bloody head off.
Get in the car!
Fuck!
Hey, where are you?
l won't jump from here!
Sure you won't. l was joking. Just have a swim.
l don't get it. What do we need there?
Come up here, l'll tell you.
We need to go 'cause l'm responsible for the Caucasus part of the rouet to the mountain princes.
Princes. l remember we read Parfenon at school, l liked it.
You thought they were big men. Their ancestors, half-men half-wolves came down from lchkerian
woods a thousand years ago.
Whoa.
And we have to work with them.
Are you ready?
What if l drown?
You should have put more gold on you. Right, let's do it.
Well, look. Once we take the cargo through. That will be it. They'll become our best friends.
Everything will be in our hands, we won't need White anymore.
So White becomes a waste, the route is ours right?
So, how do you like the plan?
Dangerous.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Right, let's go to the casino.
Let's go. Casino's better.
-Where's Sasha? -ln the VlP room.
-l choose, everything to zero, everything. -How much is here?
About fifty thousand.
What? Hey, man, you must have mistaken.
What's up with you, Phil, sit fucking down. Hey, turn it.
33 black.
Lost everything?
l've got the watch, ''Rado''...Fifty grand.
They don't take watches they've got rules. Right?
Why are your rules that stupid?
Right let's go.
-Why are your rules that stupid? -Get up.
Phil, give him tips.
Thanks. Come on let's go.
Take a seat here.
-Brother stop drinking. -Come on.
Must have gambled away over a hundred grand? Tomorrow you'll feel sorry. Here smell ammonium.
Come on, helps you recover.
Here, take it.
Hey, Phil, You are a sadist really, hey smell it yourself. Let the bird smell it.
Easy easy don't hurt the bird. What's wrong with you?
The bird, what's your name, bird?
Honestly, Phil, l feel sorry for the bird. l don't feel sorry for a man.
Man is a beast; l won't begrudge a bullet for a man. And the bird flies.
ln the sky and l feel sorry for it 'cause a bird is God's creation.
How are you? Feeling better?
Fine. Maybe we should let it out?
Come on, get up, let's go, come on.
l'm fine. Hey this is for women, what's wrong with you?
Here my little bitches Do you know the Piatnitsky Choir? Right, line up and altogether
Cmos Yurievich, excuse me, the guests are worried. Could you quiet down a bit?
-Shut up, motherfucker. -Yes sir.
-Brother, are you all right? -Fine.
-Sure? -Yes.
-All right so let's go. -Go where?
-What do you mean ''where''? Home. -What home? What's wrong with you?
Wait, it was you who said ''let's go home''''.
What? Don't lie to my or l gave you birth and l'll give you death.
Sanya, you will sure but just stop drinking.
Right, l think so too. Just call on the bar.
Sanya, in the bar it's either tea or coffee, or home.
Let it be coffee, right either tea or coffee.
Valera, Valera, Valera.
50 whiskey.
Sanya, l'm coming. Hello mister Kordon.
Nice to see you.
Anya, you look fine.
Doing my best.
Came to gamble? Have spare money?
Valera, lntroduce me to Alexander.
Bad timing. Do you really need it? Brother we have agreed.
Alexander, meet Andrey Kordon--A show business shark.
Sasha, a killer-whale. Are you a predator?
No, l'm a mammal.
Let's sit.
Good evening, the purpose of your visit?
Gambling, gambling. What's our life? Just a game.
Maybe let's have a snack first.
Oh, l feel like winning today. Oh, l'll win.
Moscow is a wonderful city in its way, you're right, Valera. Take Vegas casinos. There are some old ladies,
Japanese, chaps from Oklahoma, cowboys. And here there is cream of the nation, gene pool.
The most valuable specimens.
lndividuals.
Who is that you're talking about?
l once watched ''in the world of nature'' and they said Darwin was all wrong.
-Belov is here. Did you see? -Yeh.
l'll be in a minute.
Also specimens, wonderfully viable.
Look be a good boy, go have a walk. Volodya and l need to Talk.
Well, l'll go and gamble a bit.
Let's talk heart-to-heat, Vladimir Yevgenievich.
Right, to hell with Darwin. Kordon, when is money coming?
Valera, you can't shoot me just for a hundred grand? Anya, why are you not eating?
Another one right now.
And for me as well.
Why didn't you let them kill me?
Why do you want to know? You live and be happy.
l want to understand. l feel worried when l don't understand something.
Hey, there are lot of things that you do not understand.
So, you tell me.
So, well. Cards on the table, guns away. Back then in 1989 it was me who put the gun into your place.
Hey, so it was not me who shot you brother?
Nope. Not you.
-Who then? -l have no idea.
Why did you hang it on me then?
Cause you're an impudent son of a bitch who thinks he's the smartest guy
and who doesn't care about anyone.
No, Volodia, it's you who is a son of a bitch. No l understand why they sacked you from militia.
That's a hurting point. l'd been the best detective. l'd been working like a slave, l would have been
a colonel now, no less. But you stuck in my way like a turnpike son of a bitch.
like a pain in my ass. You deprived me of the job l loved
and now l have to socialize with the scum that l hate.
Andrey, just don't stir up trouble.
Valera, something's going to happen there.
But now you, smart-ass will work for me, my man, my servant till l say to the butchers ''hoick,
take him, tear him into pieces'' Because now l have the state at my back, you understand?
Oh, sorry.
Gene pool.
Alexander Nikolaevich everybody has agreed that the casino is a land of peace, no rows.
Don't teach me. Let's say l'm Saddam Hussein.
Look, buddy no one agreed personally with you right.
-Let's go, Phil. -Let's go, brother.
Nope, not going.
Hey. Where are you going? Do you understand what you are doing?
Who you are stopping? Here is you Lord, you understand? lt's me who decides whetheryou live in this world or not?
l clear the world of the beasts like you. You, beast, acknowledge your God. Hold it!
You like criminals? lt's not good, darling.
lt's not good to be unfaithful to your darling, sleeping with men.
And that is not your bloody business.
Don't swear.
Shut up bitch. ls it better?
Andrey what's wrong with you? Wanna get bloody punched?
Come up here, you, victim!
Anya l'll give you a call.
-Easy easy. -What...
-Any pain relievers? -No.
As soon as we get done with the cargo l'll tear him into pieces. All his bloody family.
Go, go.
Daddy!
Daddy, daddy. Our daddy is having fun somewhere.
Daddy's having fun.
Yeh, well we'll go for a walk now with uncle Maxim, right?
Walk.
Right go for a walk... and in the evening when daddy comes we'll beat him up.
He won't ask for more.
Here, bang! Let's go get dressed for the walk.
Mommy!
-Anya, have you got any pickle? -Want some?
-Good girl... will you? -Nope.
Hey, leave it.
Andrey must feel hurt... Hey, when l'm drunk l'm so much like an orangutan,
it's a shame. l'm ashamed you know. Do you depend on him much?
Well... two leading roles a year, we go to festivals together, he's got a house in Los Angeles.
Hey, cool. ls it there? Great.
lt depends.
lt sucks to depend on somebody doesn't it?
Well, you always depend on somebody.
-Shit. -Turn it off.
Right. Yeah.
Sanya, l just had a call. They say, Cosmos had a car crash. How is he? He is not. l mean he is dead!
Drove into a truck. Sanya l don't know a thing. Going to the hospital they'll tell us everything.
Open bloody up, shit. All right l'll call you back.
-Something happened? -A friend crashed.
Excuse me, would you please.
You're here about Cosmos Yurievich?
Yeah, they said they had taken him here.
Please, wait a little the doctor will come soon.
-Doctor? -Yes.
So, he is alive, isn't he?
His father took him home already.
Stupid shit!
Dad, open up. l'm not here!
Don't take it off.
lt's Sasha.
Sasha, will you?
Well, you to need to talk and l will watch the news.
Phil told me you were dead, l went to the hospital.
l wish l were dead.
-May l put your leg to the floor? -Sure.
No offence brother. l have to press it sometimes or it will tumble down to hell.
But you really look bloody bad. Drugs will kill you.
lf you switch to heroin, that will be the fucking end.
lt's not about that, Sanya, open it, l can't. l've been thinking for long...
when that started in Chechnya l've got overloaded. Why the hell do we need it?
What are you talking about?
You know better what l'm talking about. l used to think that l must demonstrate
that l was the coolest guy ever, so l proved that. Now what? Are we killing our chaps?
Soldiers first, then each other... And Bee, he doesn't give a fuck. For a buck he'll kill anyone.
Do you think l like it all? They just took me and bent down. There's no way back. lt's like in a plane.
You can't step out, no reverse speed. You just get in and fly.
And wait till a wing breaks down.
Or until you fly in a truck.
Or until the terrorists bang with a Stinger
Do you know when we got in this plane? On October 3, 1989, at a fight in Ramenskoe
lt was me who shot Fly.
Cos, take Phil away!
Sanya, you must understand. There was no choice. He would have stabbed you the next moment.
l just didn't get it, Cosmos, who shot?
That barrel-chested one.
Captain Kasianov, may l come in? ls your son at home?
-Yes, what's happened? -ls your son at home?
That one with gray hair, he shot at the air. Who shot Fly?
Well, he might have shot once at the air and then at him.
Belov, you are at aim!
Here! Bastards.
l didn't tell you then because l was scared when cops got it on to you. Who would want to go to jail.
Well, l can't say l didn't think about you.
Cos, Cos, bloody hell.
A fucking monster you are. lf you were my wife l would say that you, bitch, has broken all my life.
But you're not the wife, you're a brother. Have you got another beer? My head's cracking.
Dad, is there any more beer?
Good man.
-So? -12 past three.
Look, maybe we've mistaken? Should there be at three in the morning?
Why is that? Maybe Volodia is a great expert in telecommunications?
He's mocking l swear.
l'm worried. lt's 10 million at stake.
11.
Makes no difference.
Hello, yeah!
-Dear man, is it you? -Yes.
We're following the cargo. Passed checkpoint two. Everything goes ok.
Upon arrival the second communication according to the schedule. Understand?
You may call the recipients. Bye.
Bitch.
What?
No, nothing. Everything's fine, tomorrow the customers will receive the cargo.
Yes, we did it. We actually did it!
Cross yourfingers. Call Vakha, let him fly home and supervise the arrival. Give me a cigarette. Fine.
Hello! Vakha!
Sanya, just give me a hint. What are you up to?
Leave it, Phil, the less you know, the better you sleep. Did you say all as l had asked?
Yes, l did, but he is a unique motherfucker. How can you talk to him?
All the politicians are motherfuckers. You just have to learn to deal with them.
To have their interests correspond with your own.
Hey, stop that. lt's you philosophy again.
Wait and you'll know everything. Where's Max? Where's the car?
-We're bloody late! -How do l know! There he is.
-Thank you. -You're welcome.
Larisa, if Belov calls, tell him that his problem is being solved.
l will, Viktor Petrovich.
Where're those highlanders? What an irresponsible people.
Don't worry, we're in the place, everything's fine, they'll come soon. Why are you so worried?
First, there's enough weapons for an army! Second, we must communicate to Moscow!
Did we pull it through half the continent to have this shit here upon arrival!
Calm down. And you can give a call from here.
l've told you a hundred times you need a field to make a call!
Coming.
Hey watch the line! Enough, enough!
Well, take it.
Bee, don't fuss around, sit down, l already feel giddy.
A check.
5 minutes l would understand, 20. Sasha, lt's been 2 hours so far.
Hold on. l'll take it!
Yeh, Vakha. We're waiting. What? Sure?
l'll call you back.
So, what?
The cargo was blown up upon arrival.
What? l don't get it.
Hello, yes, Olechka.
- l dan't get it, what? -Wait a moment. That's it, forget.
There's nothing. Adieu aux armes.
Why are you laughing, Sasha? Why is he laughing?!
Yes, my sweetheart.
We've lost enormous money, why are you laughing?!
Easy, easy. We'll make it up in money, won't we?
Money? Here's your money! Here's your paper.
Easy, take it easy. No, everything's fine.
Bloody idiot.
- Take it back with my gratitude. -Who worked there?
Army Special Squad lt was like a tornado. The weapons are completely destroyed, no witnesses.
Sasha, don't let it bother you that you went against the feds.
This is one of very few agencies that really cares about safety of this country.
And the fact that we destroyed your cargo actually works for this as well.
Your personal connection to them is another thing.
But anyway you are untouchable while we are together.
Are we together?
l worked with your papers about the Fund. You'll have great benefits in import.
Er, thanks. Anyway one has to depend on somebody.
Well good luck.
Klue-klue, or crack and that's it.
- An insolent fellow you are, Alexander. - Thank you.
-Vanka. - This one, this, this.
Vanka, which car shall we buy for you? A Ferrari or a Mercedes?
- l think l should buy a Ferrari. - Drive the car.
Mercedes is better of course. lt's a serial one l think, huh, Vanka? ''Brabus'' is much better.
Bang, bang.
Yeah? Come on, get it to the garage. Don't break it, let it stay for a while.
We'll buy you one later. Drive it to the garage.
Broke.
-Will you sleep? -Yes.
- Come on, get in. -Yes?
Get in yourself, l'll help you. Come on here, can you, Tarzan?
Here here come on come on.
- Can't. -You can you do. Come on.
Here you are, flying, Vanka.
Hey come on down. Lay down right.
l'll be coming to read you a tale, right. Come on, sleep now, l'll be coming..
- Tales. - l'll come soon.
What's that? Family duties that's what it's all about?
- Something like that. - Do you know what it is?
-Are you busy? And what is it? - The list of charges.
Hmm. Phil, remember someone offered a Ferrari? Will you find out how much and call me.
-Are you listening to me? - Sure.
- l'll walk, is it ok? - Go for it.
So here we go, Belov Alexander Nikolaevich is charged with the following crimes.
Well.
A. Neglecting his family. B. Refuse to renovate the house.
Right.
- C. Making me use credit cards. -You need to, Olenka.
D. Wears stubble which stings.
E. Spent three nights away from home without any reasonable excuse.
What can you say to these charges? l'm especially interested in the last one.
As far as the stubble is concerned, l've shaved, that's it.
No, about sleeping away.
Well. l declare that it's a clear provocation.
l've had a hard time and l've been securing my family safety.
So, everything is fine. As far as all the rest goes, well... here is my compensation.
What is it?
A house. A court and a swimming pool, 4 bedrooms.
State of Florida.
So many monsters, damn.
- Sashka! - Keep quiet, oryou'll wake Vanya.
- Don't get it. Hey, Olka, they killed me. - Curse that tongue of yours, Sashka.
- Hey, mate, are you Russian? - Russian, Russian, a peaceful local.
-Where from? - Risen from hell.
-Where to? - l'd need to a hospital.
Jump here.
Go!