ARSENAL The revolution epic story
Screenplay by, director - Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Cinematography by D. Demutskyi
Production design by: Y. Shpinel, V. Miuller
Cast: Tymish - S. Svashenko Red Army man - G. Kharkov Bespectacled German soldier - A. Buchma
German officer - D. Erdman German soldier - S. Petrov Nationalist - Mikhaylovskiy
Nikolay II - A. Yevdakov
PRODUCTION of the All-Ukrainian Administration of Photography and Cinematography (VUFKU) 1928
Oh, a mother had three sons
There was a war
The mother doesn't have three sons
September, 12. I killed a crow. The weather is nice.
Niki.
- You've missed your aim, Ivan.
There exist gases that amuse a human soul.
- Where is the enemy?
- Everything rushed and buzzed along Ukrainian paths.
- Give back, foe, our Ukrainian boots!
- For three hundred years I was tortured by the damned Katsap.
- Is it about me?
Arrived at the post, at ''Volynskyi''.
- I can't go further, comrades. Here is a slope. The breaks broke.
- You drive? - No.
- You drive?
- Calm down, lads, we'll fix the breaks by ourselves.
- By the name of the Ukrainian People's Republic, lay down the weapons!
- By the name of the Ukrainian nation?
- Who said that?
- How to steer the train?
Move, Havrylo!
- Hey, move, Havrylo!
- Hey, move, move up, Havrylo!
- Turn the piston!
- I will become an engine operator.
- Who?
- Demobilized soldier from the Arsenal, I have an honour to come back.
- Ukrainian?
- Deserter?
- Go back, Timish, to the barracks. The time will come and revolution committee will call you.
- Let us pray to God for our God-saved free mother-Ukraine...
- Orthodox people!
Gymnasia pupils!
Students!
Teachers!
Co-operators!
Actors!
- Long live!
- Let, let it be!
Let! Let! Let it be!
- For three hundred years we were...
- The Christ will rise from the dead!
- The Christ has risen from the dead!
- Do you know who Bohdan Khmelnytskyi was?
- One of the Khokhol's generals.
- Soldiers! The Central Council calls upon you!
- I wonder, can we kill bourgeois and officers on a street if we meet them?
- And you are Ukrainian?
- Yes, a worker.
- We have the congress here as good people do - the first Pan-Ukrainian one.
- This is that Ukrainian presidium, which the teacher told us about.
- The representative of the Bolsheviks is taking the floor.
- We, workers, we support Ukraine too, but we demand factories, land...
- The Soviet power!
- Let us see how you will commit the self-justice over unarmed representatives of workers and peasants!
- Well, good, you say that the power is Ukrainian, than whom land belongs?
- And land belongs to lords or peasants?
- The floor is taken by general ataman Symon Petliura.
- Gentlemen, we have received the greeting from the Black Sea Fleet.
- Do not lie to our brothers and sons, because they'll see soon your
reality and you will be cursed by all Ukraine's sons.
- Do not rely on the Black Sea Fleet,
because we will be the first ones who will aim twenty-inch guns at you.
- Gentlemen, this is mistake... I'm voting, gentlemen.
- Who is for to considerthis a mistake?
- Who is against?
Dreadnought Maria!
Three apostles!
Donbas! Poltava!
Bohunians!
Taraschanians!
Arsenal was listening.
Strike.
The proletariat is cancelling trains.
Arsenal.
Well, lads, let us start working!
- Come on!
- It seems they are shooting already.
- I bow low...
- I bow down to the raw earth for you...
- And what is the address?
- Whom should the letter be addressed to?
- He bowed down to the raw earth for you...
- And asked everybody of you whether one can kill bourgeoises and officers outdoors if one meets them.
- Yes you can!
Bakhmach and Nizhyn are flooded with blood.
- Hey you, my brothers, comrades in arms...
- Served for four years and was in four wars...
- And one year as a civil, brothers...
- Petliura wounded me by a bullet, and I feel my heroic death.
- Bury me at home for a half an hour. I have not seen it for nine years. Hurry up, brothers, Arsenal is dying.
- Hey, you, our battle horses!
- Hurry up to bury our friend...
- The dead fighter of the revolution!
- We hear...
- We hear, our masters!
- We are rushing on our 24 legs!
- Take, mother, we have no time to explain. Our life and death are revolutionary.
- Armoured vehicle "Vilna Ukraina" ("Free Ukraine").
- You toppled over our "Free Ukraine".
- Stand with your face to the wall so I could kill you in your back.
- Can you if I look into your eyes?
- And why can I?
Seventy second hour.
- What weather will we have tomorrow?
- We stopped... I think that tomorrow we will be done. We stopped... We moved and then stopped.
- Shells!
- Where is the father?
- Where is the husband?
- Where is the son?
- Where is metalworker? -We do not have one.
- Where is the smith? - We do not have one.
- Freeze! Name yourself!
- A Ukrainian worker. Shoot at me!
- Down! Down... You are wearing an armour, or what?
The film was restored on the "MOSFILM" studio in 1972
Music, conductor - V. Ovchinnikov
The End