TSENTRNAUCHFILM
Once whiIe making rounds of the preserve territory
the ranger MikhaIych found an orphaned Iynx cub,
gave him sheIter and raised him Iike his pet.
The previous movie ''The Path of SeIfIess Love''
narrated about their adventurous Iife together,
about a very speciaI connection between a human being
and a wiId predator - the Iynx, named Kunak.
THE LYNХ STEPS ONTO THE PATH
Written by
Leonid BELOKUROV NikoIai KEMARSKI
With Agasi BABAYAN'S assistance
Directed by Agasi BABYAN
Director of Photography AnatoIi KAZNIN
Production Designer Yuri KHOLIN
Music by David KRIVITSKI
EngIish SubtitIes by GaIina BARDINA
Starring:
Dmitri ORLOVSKI FiIimon SERGEYEV
AIso Starring: S. YURTAIKIN
I. KASHINTSEV Ye. MOSKALEV
A. KHARLANOV I. CHURIKOV
Kunak.
What's the rush?
I can't keep in pace with you.
You're no way to rush in our work.
Let's go.
Kunak, what are doing?
Come here.
Oh, Iook, it's got frozen.
These hazeI-hens are in troubIe. They got frozen in the ice.
We shouId set them free.
Go search for them..
Here. Eat.
Exhausted, huh?
Got tired, sonnie?
Now you can imagine how hard it's for me.
I'm oIder than you.
AII right, buddy, Iet's hit the sack.
Go to your pIace.
Kunak! Rise and shine! Look at you! Such a big sIeeper!
Kunak!
I'm not gonna wait for you.
You'II miss breakfast.
I think, you got your femaIe reIative around here.
Mind your manners, Iadies suitor.
Kunak! Kunak!
Hi, Fedya.
Howdy, MikhaIych.
You got here and don't drop by. How come?
Look, it's Iate aIready. And I have a Iong way home.
Then wait. I'II be right back.
Ah, MikhaIych, hi.
Hi, MikhaIych. How you doing?
- Fine, thanks. - Good to hear it.
Hi. Let me heIp you.
What about Kunak? Got back?
Nope.
Don't get upset, MikhaIych.
I understand. It's hard to Iive aIone.
Right...
Look, MykhaIych, Iet's stop by this house, okay?
- Why? - Come on. You won't regret it.
Okay.
Nastya! Nastya, honey! !
- Hi. - Hi.
Show us your IittIe ones.
One sec.
What do you say?
You're sIy as a fox. Decided to give comfort to the oId man.
I'II pick the cutest for you, okay?
Wait, Fedya. SIow down.
Thank you for the present. I appreciate it.
But I'm going to pick a puppy myseIf.
Let's see.
I'II take the one, who'II be the first
to get to its mom.
It'II be your gift to me.
He's so cute.
MikhaIych, he's the same coIor as your previous dog.
His mother is from the AItai region.
So Iet's caII him AItai.
Thank you, Nastya, for your gift.
No probIem.
- See you, Nastya. - Bye.
Kunak!
Sonnie...
Who did it to you, huh?
AItai, Iook, our runaway got better.
Everything wiII be fine.
Let's take off your bandages.
You'II be making rounds with me soon.
Go. Stretch your Iegs.
Where are you heading for, hunters?
Haven't seen you for a whiIe, huh?.
Got out ofjaiI before your time was over, right?
Right, MikhaIych. Due to the amnesty Iaws.
But you can't enter the preserve
without a speciaI permit,
not to mention with a gun.
What the heII are you taIking about? What preserve?
We're geoIogists. FoIIowing the assigned route.
Show the map with this route then.
- What? - And your sportsman's firearm permit.
Look at him. He's so weird.
Doesn't care about himseIf.
Worries over such minor things.
AII right, young men, according to the preserve reguIations...
First prove, it's a preserve.
Zip it up. The court aIready proved it to you once.
We got tired of you, oId man.
Better go where you've been heading.
Damned Iaw-obeyer!
You don't remember ruIes of the taiga, do you?
Three guys never yieId way to one.
Kunak, don't.
Put your guns down.
You're supposed to keep this cat on a Ieash.
What if we've Iost our way? And you're setting this Iynx on us.
Kunak, come here.
CaIm down, Kunak.
Listen, young men. I warned you.
If I ever see you around here, you'II be severeIy penaIized.
And now get out of my hair.
And make sure you never show up around here again.
Like I wouId beIieve you've Iost your way.
What, sonnie?
Let's go, huh?
Kunak.
AItai.
Come here.
Fedya.
Take a Iook.
They're Kunak's offspring, aren't they?
I guess, you're right. I don't count it out.
Let's get out of here. And quick.
You know aII mothers are aIike.
Fedya, Iook, he's a reaI giant.
Right. And so beautifuI.
And get a Ioad of his antIers!
He's a frequent guest in these parts.
Try to take his picture.
They know they're not supposed to fIy so Iow
over the preserve territory.
Look, watch out.
Too bad. The bear cub is in big troubIe.
Right, he can't get out of this trap himseIf.
And his mother won't Iet us heIp him.
MikhaIych, and if we fire in the air to scare her away?
She fears nothing now.
Fedya, if you can, pray that the cub stays intact and in one piece.
Come on, MikhaIych! You gotta be kidding!
Look at you, MikhaIych! You're a reaI sniper.
True. That's what I was during the war.
A nice ride!
Who is this guy? An inspector or something?
Just my passenger. He's with me.
I guess, he's a big shot, huh?
Much knowIedge is a dangerous thing. Remember it.
This chopper is very usefuI for those, who make their Iiving from the taiga.
IncredibIe. You can see so weII what's going on down there.
A bear.
Where?
Over there. Right on the spit.
Look, Iet's try to get it, huh?
You've got to be kidding me.
Come on, what are you afraid of?
Let's get it, okay? This is no big deaI. I swear.
AII right.
Let's give it a shot.
There's a bear down there. We're going to get it.
Kunak!
Kunak, foIIow me!
What a moron! CouIdn't wait tiII the bear got onto the shore.
Who knows? Maybe it's even better it turned out this way.
Let's make it a deaI - there was neither a bear nor shooting. Understand?
Kunak!
Don't, Kunak.
Get down.
Leave him aIone.
He's big enough.
And can deaI with his grief himseIf.
Let's go.
AItai! Kunak!
Where's Mashka? Go bring her home. Quick.
- Hi, MikhaIych. - Hi, Fedya.
I want to taIk to you.
Okay, I'm aII ears.
Kunak, Ieave me aIone, pIease.
Take a seat over there.
I'II give you some fantastic kvass.
Thanks, MikhaIych.
It's reaIIy hot today.
I checked it.
The chopper was rented out to the geoIogists.
It had Ieft the base with some equipment on board.
Your kvass is reaIIy good.
And the mother bear has never showed up.
But she can't have vanished into thin air, right?
However it was impossibIe to drag her onboard, unIess the chopper had Ianded.
But there're no traces of its Ianding around.
And this is a fact.
But there's another thing, Fedya, And I think it's way more important.
This IocaI Lekha was out there, with the geoIogists.
And this Lekha means troubIe.
I'm not sure, though.
Go, buIIy. Go.
You got it, right?
Yes, you got it.
Mashka.
To you pIace.
Are you upset?
Don't get upset.
We'II track them down. Those SOBs.
We can't fight it. There'II be others.
This is not that simpIe.
Kids shouId be taught to perform acts of kindness since chiIdhood.
Besides, Iaw shouId be tightened.
I bet, we can't do without tightened measures.
But Iove is more powerfuI.
That's what I think. And I pin aII my hopes on Iove.
Look, Fedya,
Iet's go to the far hiII tomorrow. Huh?
- To the geoIogists? - Right.
It's circIing over the preserve again.
Looks very suspicious to me.
Come on, puII him onto the tarpauIin.
Why did I get invoIved in aII this?
What's wrong with you?
Stay caIm and don't worry about anything.
Everything wiII be fine.
For who? How wiII I expIain why I brought her down?
Why did I get invoIved in aII this?
- Is it a Iong way from here? - No, not reaIIy.
If he picked that cIearing to bring the chopper down.
There's no other good Ianding pIace around here.
Kunak!
Kunak.
Go. Search.
It's 48-973.
I copy you. Taking off in 10 minutes.
We're aImost there.
HeIp me.
Why so Iong?
Guys, there's a Iynx in there.
Where did it come from?
Are you nuts? There's a tank of fueI and equipment there.
- What if I scare it away with a stick? - AII right. Do it.
- We're dead meat. - Shoot it.
- Get out of here or you'II be caught. - We wiII be caught? And you?
Don't worry about me.
You're reaIIy something.
Look, this is Kunak.
There's no choice. Shoot him.
Go ahead. You're the best gunman. Wait. From there.
Put down the gun!
You're incorrigibIe, as I see.
Fedya...
Look, they kiIIed that giant.
Bastards.
Watch your tongue.
What did I teII you, MikhaIych? Law shouId be tightened.
And you keep saying about this Iove.
Load your trophy on board.
Did you hear me? Why are you standing there?
What is it? Your own idea or did they heIp you?
Look at you! Got invoIved with this scum.
ProbabIy we'II go, too? What do you say? It's just you against them aII.
ReIax, MikhaIych. They won't be abIe to use their guns for a reaIIy Iong whiIe.
Kunak, foIIow me.
AItai, Kunak, Iet's go.
So this is the end of another story
from the Iives of our friends.
WiII we ever meet them again?
Who knows...
Afterword:
no animaIs were hurt or kiIIed during the making of this movie.
The End