- Has it been very torturous for you?
- Of course not, Messier.
One must act according to one's statute.
- Is this vodka?
Never, oh Queen! How could I pour vodka to a lady?
This is pure alcohol!
- Drink bravely.
The moon is full and the night is festive...
...I am dining in the tight company of friends and servants.
You health.
- How do you feel?
How was this tiresome ball?
- Tremendous! - Tremendous!
- Charmed, breathless, destroyed...
- How tactful! How intelligent!
The charm and presence! - Couldn't agree more!
Tel me, have you shot this former Baron?
Naturally. How could one not shoot him? He has to be shot.
I wonder, what if they come to arrest you...
They will necessarily come, beautiful Queen, necessarily will.
But nothing interesting will come out of it.
I was worried when he fell. You must be good at sharp shooting?
- Depends on the target.
It is one thing to hit critic Latunsky on the head with a hammer,
...and quite another to hit him...
...in the heart. - Yes, in the heart!
- What sort of critic is this Latunsky?
- Well, there is one critic by that name.
I have crashed his apartment into pieces tonight!
- Why so, for what?
- Messier, he has destroyed one Master.
- You didn't have to do it yourself, why?
- Should I rip his head off?
- Stay here, I'll do it...
...I will go there right now. - No!
No.
I beg you, Messier, this is not necessary.
- As you wish...
- I think it is time for me to go.
It is late...
- Why such a rush?
- It is time...
- I thank you, Messier.
I wish you well, Messier.
Perhaps, some last words before you go?
- Nothing.
Except if you need me again,
...I will do all you want.
lam not tired at all and had a wonderful time at the ball.
If it were to last longer, I would give my knee,
...to the thousands of killers and rapers for a kiss.
- You are rig ht!
You are absolutely right.
You must do as you have.
This was a test.
Never ask for and never beg!
Especially from those who are stronger than you.
They themselves will offer and give.
Have a sit, proud woman.
Now, Margo, what do you want for being a hostess in my ball?
What value do you place on your knee?
Now speak freely, do not hold back,
...for I have made the offer.
- Is it just one wish that I can make?
- Not wish - demand.
You must demand, my Donna.
- I want...
I want Frieda to be stopped given that handkerchief,
...that she used to kill her child.
- What is she doing?.
The possibility of you receiving a bribe...
...from that idiot Frieda is out of the question,
...I don't know what to do.
You must be a person of exceptional kindness.
A person of high morals.
- I am a light-headed person.
I ask for Frieda only because I have been careless to give her hope.
She is waiting Messier, she believes in my might.
If she is deceived, I will not have peace all my life.
It just happened so!
- Hmm, understood.
- Will you do it? - Under no circumstances!
Each department has its own work.
I won't do it.
But you will.
- Will it happen if I say so? - Do it, will you? What a torture...
- Frieda!
- Queen...
- You are forgive.
You are forgiven!
You will not see that handkerchief again.
- Queen...
- Thank you and farewell.
- Well, Begemot...
...we will not gain from the actions of an unpractical human on a nightlight this.
- Certainly, Messier.
- Well,
...that does not count.
Since I did not do anything.
What are you asking for yourself?
Diamond Donna, be more reasonable this time.
Otherwise the fortune may escape your hands.
I wan to have The Master, my lover, back this very second!
You?.
You!.
You...
- I am hallucinating again. - No, no!
Don't be afraid.
Don't weep, Margo it pains me. I am so ill.
- I am with you now.
I am with you.
- Yes...
...he has been well worked on.
- Believe me,
...you will be helped.
Knight, give this man something to drink.
- Here. - Are you afraid to take the drink?
Believe, they will help you.
- This means good luck.
- Is this you, Margo?
- Do not doubt, it is me.
- Look, he is coming back.
- This is better...
...much better. Now let us talk.
- Who are you?
- Now I am no one.
- Where are you from?
I am from the house of sorrow, I am insane.
- Terrible words!
He is the Master, I am warning you.
You must cure him he is worth it.
Do you know to whom you are speaking?
Where are you now, do you know?
- I do.
I had a neighbor in the clinic...
...Ivan Bezdomnyi, the poet, he told me about you.
- Of course, of course...
I had the pleasure of meeting him on the Patriarch's Ponds.
He nearly drove me insane
...proving to me that I do not exist.
You do believe that I am who I am?
- I have no choice... - You must believe, this is him.
Tell me, why is Margarita calling you The Master?
- Her partiality to me...
She holds my novel and my writing much too high.
- What does the novel speak of?
- The novel?.
Of Pontius Pilate.
Of what, of whom?..That is Incredible.
Now, now...
You could not find another subject?
May I borrow it.
I couldn't possibly, I burned the manuscript in the stove.
- Forgive me, but that I don't believe.
It is impossible.
Manuscripts do not burn.
- Here is your manuscript!
Omnipotent, he is Omnipotent!
- Now all is clear.
Margarita?
What do you want, speak now.
I want for us to be returned to that basement...
...on the side street off Arbat.
I want the burning lamp,
And happiness, so all is back to how it has been. - Do not listen, Messier, to the poor woman.
Another man is living there now, and it is not possible to turn...
...things back to how they were.
- Impossible, you say?
True.
We will make an attempt.
Azazel lo!
- Hello...
- Magarych?
- Aloiziy Magarych.
You did, didn't you, having read Latunsky's article make an allegation that the Master...
...keeps illegal books?
You wanted to take over his room...
What are you doing, Margo, you are putting shame on yourself.
I object! There is no shame in what she does.
I added a bathroom!The cost of all repairs!
Good thing you build the bath, he need it too.
Out!
This is even more impressive that what Ivan was telling me.
Excuse me, are you...
...the same cat that boarded the tram?
- I am.
It is good to hear that you are so polite when speaking to a cat.
Usually no one is proper in addressing cats,
...although no cat has given permission to go on a first name basis.
It seems to me, though, that you aren't exactly a cat...
- Thank you.
In either case, they will notice my absence at the clinic.
- Why would they look for you?
Is this you registration card at the hospital?
- Yes. - Here you go...
And here is the list of tenants at your residence.
- Yes. - Whose name is there?
Aloiziy Magarych... Look!
He is gone.
Please note that his name was never there..
If anyone asks, tell them it was a dream.
- That is all, Messier.
- No, it isn't.
What shall we do now with your entourage, my dear Donna?
I personally do not need it.
Dearest Margarita Nikolayevna, please convince them to keep me a witch..
Mr. Jack has proposed to me.
And gave me five gold coins.
- Excuse me, comrades.
I ask you to be kind enough and give me a note,
...that will certify my whereabouts tonight.
I will be showing the note to the police and to my wife.
- We usually do not issue such notes.
But for you we will make an exception.
We shall try
- Gella, take this down..
This is to certify,
...that the holder of this note Nikolay Ivanovich...
...has spent the said night...
...at the Satan's ball
...in the capacity of a transportation vehicle.
Add brackets, Gella, and write "pig".
Now the signature: Begemot.
There you go!
- Thank you, comrades, thank you.
Please let me go, I cannot be vampire...
...I nearly killed Rimsky back then, in (Bella's company.
I am not blood thirsty, please let me go.
- What is this delirium all about?
- Don't worry Messier.
You should not have been rude and should have lied on the phone.
Is that clear? Will you do it again?
- I swear on the holy... I mean...
...I meant you Maje...
Right after dinner... - Fine, go home now!
Well, now back to the side street basement, then?
What about your Novel? Pontius Pilate?
- I hate that novel.
It caused me too much grief.
Please do not listen to him, Messier. He suffered too much.
- You must have subjects to describe.
If you are finished with the procurator, perhaps you could start writing about, what is his name...
...Aloiziy.
- That they won't print.
Besides, it would not be of any interest.
- How will you support yourself?
You will have to live in extreme poverty.
- Gladly, gladly"-
She will come to her senses and leave me.
- I don't think so...
Your novel will...
yet surprise you.
- That is very sad.
- It is not.
No more tragedies.
Well, Margarita Nikolayevna, all is done.
Are you in any way dissatisfied with me?
- Of course not, Messier.
- Please accept this from me, then.
As a memento.
- Farewell.
- Good bye.
- What I fail to understand is...
...why is it still midnight? It should have been morning already?
A holiday midnight is worth making a little longer, isn't it?
Well?
I wish you happiness.
- Open up!
- No one is there.
- The sun came back to Yerushalaim.
But before drowning it light in the Mediterranean
...was sending its farewell rays...
...to the city so hated by the Procurator.
Excellent grapes, but not anywhere near Falerno.
- Cekubo, a thirty year vintage.
How are emotions in this city?
I understand, Procurator, that the emotions are calm.
It is fair to count on having no further riots?
One can only count on one thing in this world...
...that being the might of the Great Caesar.
Let the Gods give him a long life and peace in all frontiers.
You suppose then, that the armies may now leave?
- I suppose, Procurator, that...
...that the Lightning cohort may now depart.
If would be good if they marched through the city before leaving.
- Excellent thought.
I will dismiss them tomorrow...
...and will go myself.
And I swear by the feast of the twelve gods, I would give much,
...to be able to do it today.
- Procurator dislikes Yerushalaim...
- Think of this...
...there is no place on earth more hopeless: magicians, sorcerers, enchanters,
...hordes of prayers and fanatics...
Fanatics!
This messiah alone was worth a look.
The one whose coming they were expecting this year.
Every minute one expects to witness most unpleasant bloodshed.
Troops reshuffled at all times,
...anonymous letters and complaints,
...half of which are about yourself.
You must agree, it is boring.
Either way, back to our business.
Tell me about the execution.
What exactly interests the Procurator?
Were there attempts from the crowd to express indignation?
That is the most important part, of course.
- None...
There weren't even crowds. - Very good.
Did you establish the fact of death yourself?
- Procurator can rest assured.
Were they offered a drink before being placed on the crosses?
- Yes.
He refused to drink. - Who did?
- Forgive me, I did not name him...
...Ha-Notsri.
- A madman.
To die from the sunburns...
Why refused one's legal entitlement?
What expressions did he use?
- He expressed gratitude...
...and said that he does not blame for taking his life.
- Whom doesn't he blame?
- He did not say, Hegemon.
Was he trying to preach in from of the soldiers?
- He did not, Hegemon;...
...this time he was not talkative.
The only thing he said...
...that the foremost sin among sins...
...is cowardice.
- Why was it said?
- It was not clear.
He was weird, although that isn't unusual for him..
- How was his weirdness manifested?
- He was constantly trying...
...to look into the eyes of one or another of the people around him...
...and was always smiling some peculiar smile.
- Nothing else?
- Nothing else.
- Here's the problem on hand.
We have not discovered till now...
...any of his followers or allies...
...which does not preclude from supposing that there are.
Because of this I am asking to...
...immediately yet quietly...
...remove from the face of the earth...
...the bodies of all three executed...
...and secretly bury them,
...so that there no mention of them even
- Yes, Hegemon.
In view of the complexities involved, may I go immediately?
- I will walk with you.
- Two more points...
First, your enormous merits in the difficult capacity...
...of the head of Judeah's secret service,
...give me the pleasant opportunity to report this in Rome.
I am simply doing my duty in Emperor's service...
...and am happy to do so under your direction, Hegemon.
- This pleases me well.
The second question concern this Judah of Kiriaf.
I hear that he received payment,
...for hosting so well this, what is his name...
...the mad philosopher. - Not yet, but he will.
- How great is the amount? - It is unknown, Hegemon.
- Unknown even to you? - Alas, even to me.
But he will be paid tonight, that I know.
He has been called to Kaifa's palace today.
- What a greedy old man from Kriaf.
He is an old man, isn't he? - The Procurator is always right.
But he is incorrect this time.
The man from Kiriaf is young.
- Tell me...
What sort of man is he?
A fanatic? - He is not, Procurator.
- What else?
- A handsome man.
- What else?
He does have a passion of sorts, perhaps?
- He has but one passion, Procurator.
Passion for money. - Is that so?
It is...
Here the problem...
...I received word that he will be killed tonight.
- You spoke well of me, Procurator.
I do not deserve to be mentioned in your report, since I have no information about this.
- You deserve highest rewards.
But the information is there.
Allow me to inquire, from where you have the information?
- Allow me not to tell you.
Particularly since the information is foggy and may not be plausible.
It is my responsibility to verify all intelligence, it is my work.
Beyond all, I have to believe my instincts,
...that have never deceived me.
The information is that...
...one of Ha-Notsri's secret friends...
...infuriated by the terrible betrayal committed by this...
...moneychanger...
...is planning, together with friends, to kill him tonight.
While the money received for betrayal...
...will be thrown to the high priest with a note attached.
"Returning the money, the curse is on it”.
Imagine the pleasure that the high priest...
...will experience receiving such gifts on a holiday night.
- Not only no pleasure, Procurator,
...but a large scandal will follow.
- I am of the same opinion.
That is why I called you for help in this matter.
All measures are to be taken...
...to protect Judah from Kiriaf. - Hegemon's orders will be executed..
I have to assure the Hegemon, though...
...that the criminals plot is near impossible.
The man has to be traced,
...and slaughtered. They have to know the amount he has received,
...and manage to return the money to Kaifa...
...all of it in one night, tonight.
- And he will be killed tonight.
I have premonition, I tell you.
My premonitions are never wrong.
- So he will be killed, Hegemon?
- Yes.
The only hope is your amazing performance.
At your service. I wish you health and Joy-
- I nearly forgot..
I owe you.
- You do not, truly, Procurator.
- Of course I do.
Remember my entrance into Yerushalaim?
A crowd of beggars. I meant to throw them some money, but had none with me. I had borrowed some from you.
- It must be nothing, Procurator.
- One must remember the little things.
I am expecting your report...
...about the burial as well as this matter concerning Judah from Kiriaf tonight.
Did you hear, Afranius, this very night.
I will be expecting you.
- At your service...
- Unforgivably late...
to make good what is lost with some insignificant, pitiful...
...and belated steps...
The deception of it...
Banga! Banga!
- Show me your bracelet.
- Nizah.
Nizah!
Ah, it is you Judah, I did not recognize you.
They say he who was not recognized will be rich.
- Where are you going, Nizah? - Why do you want to know?
- We have agreed, haven't we?
You said that you will be home all evening, and I was going to...
...visit you. - I became bored.
You have a holiday, what am I to do?
Should I sit and listen how you are breathing our on the terrace?
...And be afraid the servant will tell my husband?
So I decided to walk outside of town and listen to the nightingales.
- Away from town, alone?
- Alone, of course.
- Nizah, allow me to accompany you.
Why are you silent, Nizah? - Will I be bored if you come?
Fine, let us go.
- But where, where?
Walk to the olive groves in Gephsimania, beyond the cypress tree. You know where it is?
I will go ahead, you follow. Do not follow closely, though, give me a lead.
I will go alone. When you cross the stream, go to the grotto
- I do know the place. - I will be there.
Do not come after me, have patience and wait here for some time.
- Nizah... Nizah!
Nizah.
- How much did you get just now?
Speak if your life is dear to you.
- Thirty tetradrahms.
I have it all with me.
I will give you all of it, all!
Only let me keep my life.
Nizah...
- You are alive, aren't you!
I am walking with you, hence I am alive.
We have as much time as we need.
The storm will be here in the evening,
...and cowardice is, no doubt, one of the worst vices.
- I will object, philosopher.
It is the worst vice of all!
You see, I was not afraid then, in the Valley of Maidens,
...when the furious Germans have nearly ripped apart The Rat Killer giant,
...but could you ever think, philosopher,
...that because of a man,
...that has done crimes against the mighty Caesar,
...The Procurator of Judeah would destroy his career?
Yes...
I will.
I will!
This morning I would not,
...but tonight I will. I have weighed everything,
...and am ready to destroy myself.
- We will always be together now.
If one is then the other must be as well.
Whenever my name is spoken, yours will be too.
Mine, the orphan, son of unknown parents,
...and your, the son of an astrologer king and the daughter of a miller,
...the beautiful Pilah.
- Would you please remember.
To mention me...
...the son of an astrologer.
- The head of security awaits.
I am asking to have me placed under investigation, Procurator.
You were correct...
...I was unable to save Judah from Kiriaf.
He was slaughtered.
This bag with money was thrown into the house of the high priest.
The blood on this bag is the blood of Judah from Kiriaf.
- How much money is there, I wonder?
-30 tetradrahms.
- So little.
Where the victim?
- I do not know that.
The search will begin in the morning.
Do you know for certain that he was killed?
Procurator, I have worked in Judeah for 15 years now.
I started under Valerian Grateus. I do not have to see the body...
...to know that the man has been killed.
- Forgive me, Afranius,
...I am still half-asleep,
...that is why I said it.
My sleep is poor...
And I dream of a lunar ray.
Imagine I dream of walking on that ray, a funny thing.
Please report your thoughts on this mission.
Where are you planning to search for him?
Have a sit, head of secret police.
Please report your thoughts on this mission..
Where are you planning to search for him?
Have a sit, head of secret police.
- I plan to start...
...near the olive oil workshop in the gardens of Gephsiman.
- explain, why?
- It is impossible that Judah
...might have been killed inside the city walls.
He was killed near the city.
He was lured out of town.
- Who and how might have lured him?
Yes, Procurator, this is the most important question.
I am not confident that I can resolve it.
- Was there a woman involved?
- No doubt that there wasn't.
This possibility is ruled out.
Such explanation of the killing will only...
...stumble the investigation and mix my thoughts.
- What else could there be?
- I think, the money.
- Excellent thought!
But who could be paying money outside the town at night?
- Oh, no, Procurator, not like that at all.
Judah was planning on hiding his money in a secret place,
...that no one else would know.
- I understand you now.
He was not lure by others, but by his own thoughts.
Yes-yes, it is so.
I will immediately start tracking the killers that traced Judah outside of the walls.
In the meanwhile, as I have already reported, I must be placed under investigation.
I announce to you, Afranius, that I do not think you must be investigated or punished..
For you are done all you could and no one in the entire world could have done more.
I forgot to ask you...
...how did they deliver the money to Kaifa.
- You see, Procurator,
...that was not difficult. The avengers through the package over the wall.
- Was there a note? - Yes.
Precisely as you had suggested they would.
Stop this, Afranius, what are you doing?
These are the seals from the temple, aren't these?
The Procurator must concern himself with such details.
- Returning the cursed money.
You have all the seals, is that so indeed? - It could not have been otherwise.
Imagine what noise it made at Kaifa's palace.
Yes, Procurator, there was much noise.
When I asked whether someone was paid at his palace,,
...I was told categorically that it has not happened.
- Is that so...
Well, if no one was paid, then no one was.
The more difficult is will be to fins the killers.
- Precisely, Procurator.
- Afranius, another thought.
He didn't kill himself, by any chance?
- No, Procurator,
...please forgive me, but it is hard to believe.
- In this town all is possible.
I would bet,
...that in the next few days rumors will be spread about it...
...around the entire city.
- That may be, Procurator.
- We have clarified it, then.
Let us speak about the burial.
Those executed have been buried, Procurator.
The have you investigated, Afranius, would be a crime.
You deserve highest reward.
How did everything happen?
The secret police crew has reached the hill in the evening.
One of the bodies was missing.
- I should have known it.
- No reason to worry, Procurator.
It was discovered shortly thereafter.
Someone... - Levy Matvey?
- Yes, Procurator.
Levy Matvey was hiding in a cave, waiting for darkness.
The naked body of Yeshua Ha-Notsri was with him.
When the guard entered the cave with a torch,
...Levy fell into a desperate rage and took out a knife.
- Was he arrested?
We have quieted the madman by explaining that...
...the body will be buried. - Was he driven away?
My assistant has let him take part in the burial.
Perhaps it was a mistake?
- No error was made, continue.
I am at a loss, Afranius.
I am dealing with a man that makes no mistakes.
That man is you.
Levy Matvey was taken into the oxcart with the bodies.
In two hours we reached a deserted gorge.
The guard has dug a deep hole there...
...and has buried all three bodies of those executed in it.
- I wish that knew all of it...
I would need to...
...speak with this Levy Matvey.
- He is here, Procurator.
- I thank you, Afranius,
...for all you have done on this matter.
All soldiers that have buried the bodies must be rewarded.
As for you, please take this...
...as a memento.
- This is a big honor, Procurator.
- What is it?
- I am tired...
- Sit down.
- Why didn't you sit in the armchair?
- I am dirty.
- You'll have some food soon.
- I am not hungry.
Why are you lying? You haven't eaten all day.
Maybe even more...
Fine, do not eat.
I have called you,
...to see the knife that you had.
The soldiers took it from me before entering here.
I need it back.
I have to return it to the owner.
I stole it.
- Why?
- To cut the rope.
- Mark!
Let me have the knife.
Don't worry about the knife.
You will have it.
Now I need to see the sheepskin,
...that you carry with you,
...where the words of Yeshua are written.
- You must have it all, don't you.
The last thing that I have.
- I did not say 'give it to me.'
I said 'show it.'
There is no death.
Yesterday we ate sweet fruits of Spring.
We shall see the pure river of life.
Mankind will be looking at the sun...
...through the clear crystal.
No bigger vice than cowardice...
Take it.
You are a man of books, as I can see?
No need for you to walk alone...
...in the beggar's cloths with no place to call your own.
I have a large library in Caesarea.
I am very rich and want to employ you.
You will sort and store manuscripts.
You will be fed and dressed well.
- I don't desire it.
- Why?
You dislike me?
You are afraid of me?
- NO.
It is simple, you will be afraid of me.
It will not be easy for you to look me into the eye,
...after you...
...killed him.
- Do not continue!
Take some money...
You have not learned any of his teachings!
For if you had learned,
...you would have taken something from me.
I mean that before his death he said that he does not blame anyone.
You are cruel.
While he was not cruel.
Where will you go?
- Hegemon, you should know...
...that I will kill
...one man in Yerushalaim.
I want to tell you this, so that you know,
...there will be more blood.
- I know that there will be.
The man you want to kill is me, of course.
- No. I will not be able to kill you.
I am not so foolish to dream of it.
But I will kill Judah from Kiriaf.
And will dedicate the rest of my life to it.
- That you will not be able to do.
Do not disturb yourself with it.
Judah was killed...
...this very night.
- Who?!
Who did it?!
- Do not be jealous.
I think that he had other followers, you were not the only one.
- Who did it?
- I have.
This was too little...
But it was me.
Well?
Will you take something now?
I want a new piece of sheepskin to write on.
Greetings, Nikolay Ivanovich. I am a detective.
I'd like to speak with you about the event
...that took place yesterday on the Patriarch's Ponds.
You were seeking to meet us?
Here we are.
Are you not worried about the faith of Berlioz?
- I am ready to answer all questions.
How far were you from the entrance gate, Ivan Nikolayevich...
...at the moment when...
...Berlioz fell under the tram?
- I was far. - What about the one in checkered pants?
Was he right near the gate?
You know about the checkered pants already?
We know about everything, including the cat..
Almost...
So, where was he?
- He was on the bench nearby.
Ivan Nikolayevich, do you remember exactly...
...that he did not come near the gate when Berlioz fell?
- I do remember. He did not come near.
- I wish you a speedy recovery.
I hope to be soon reading your poems again.
- There will be no more poems.
My poems were bad.
Now I understand it.
- Likhodeyev?
You are under arrest
- I ask to be placed in a secure cell.
I have drunk severely in my office at the Variety Theater,
...and went some place. Where, I do not recall.
I have drank Starka vodka, do not know where it was.
I slept under some wall, don't where that was either...
...then again.
Varenukha, your behavior is silly and far from thoughtful...
...and is obstructing the important investigation. For that you will answer.
- I am lying!
I am lying, but only because of my fear!
I am fearful of Woand's gang and their revenge. They had me once already.
lam asking, I beg you, I dream of being placed in a bullet proof cell...
- Everyone wants a bullet proof cell! - These rascals have scared them well.
Relax, Varenukha,
...we will protect you without placing you in a cell.
Tell us the truth.
I never slept under any walls, not have I drank the vodka. I was beaten, though, by two of them:
...the red haired one and the one with no shoes on...
- Looking like a cat? - Yes-yes-yes-yes!
I spent two days in Apartment 50 in a capacity...
...of an advanced reconnaissance vampire...
...I nearly caused the death of our dear financial director Rimskiy.
- Damn...
- Well...
...it isn't easy...
to believe in your tale. - Wait.
- A certificate.
The bearer of this document Nikolay Ivanovich,
...has spent the night... Behemoth.
How could it be possible?
- It was Natasha, the neighbor's maid.
She flew out the window, has saddled me and has driven me out offside of Moscow.
Yielding to the violence, I was forced to submit.
I have a favor to ask you.
- About the bullet-proof cell? - No.
Do not tell anything to my spouse.
Have you seen in your office window the suspect named Gella?
Have you had conversations in your office with Varenukha, the theater administrator?
What took you to Leningrad?
I became ill and left town no knowing my actions MHe cTano.
Lock me up in a bullet-proof cell...
- Of course.
Well.
Three groups on assignment! Immediately!
Sadovaya Street number 302-B!
Apartment 50 is showing some action!
- What are these steps outside?
- They are coming to arrest us.
- O!. Well-well...
In the apartment.
- See that...
Comrade Sidorov!
- This is great.
- That is a clean job.
- I am not naughty, I bother no one.
I fix cook-tops.
It is my responsibility to warn you that cats are ancient and untouchable animals.
Well, the untouchable ventriloquist, come here now.
- This is the end!
- Take him.
Watch the legs, comrade commander!
Devil...
The only thing than can save a mortally wounded cat is a gulp of gasoline.
Doesn't let go!
- Th row the net!
- It is stuck!
- Don't move! - Take him alive!
Don't move I said!
I don't see the reason to be abrupt with me.
- Tear down!
Get him!
- I call fora duel!
God damned!
Give me the cartridge!
- Quiet, quiet...
What is happening in the apartment?
It distracts me
Must be Behemoth, damned animal
Messier, the Sun is coming down. It is time for us to go
Forgive me, I have no more time for talk, we must go.
Grab him!
Everybody out of the apartment!
Use the back door! Is this the fire department? Run, run to the right!
Sadovaya 302-B, come immediately!
Faster!
Faster, to the backyard!
- Chase them everywhere in Moscow!
Send telegrams to all key railroad crossings!
Have them apprehended death or alive!
Careful.
Careful...
- Cats are not allowed.
- Pardon me, did you say cats?
Where have you seen the cat?
- We only accept foreign currency.
My dear, how do you know I haven't the currency?
Are you judging by the dress?
Never do that, dearest guard.
You may commit a very serious mistake.
- Maybe I have a full primus of cash!
- Excellent store.
- Yes...
- An excellent store. - Yes.
- Mama, I want candy.
- Come, daughter. We have no money. - Mama, please buy it...
- Is it nice?
- World class... - I like good.
Bad - do not like.
This department is very impressive as well.
Good looking foreigner.
- No, Basson...
...you are incorrect. In this gentleman's face there is something missing.
Yes?
- Please...
- How many? - One!
How much as the tangerines?
- Three rubles per kilogram.
- That bites, ay-ay!
Behemoth, have some.
- Om
- What are you doing?!
What are you doing, have you lost your mind?
I will explain. Do not touch the merchandise!
Wait a minute...
Put the goods back!
Wait, I will... What are you doing?
I... Don't rush, one must eat slowly, no one is going to take it away.
- Give me the check! - Wait a little, will you?
- Palosich! Palosich!
Give me the check! - Dearest little beauty,
...what can we do, no foreign currency on us today, what are you gonna do?
I do solemnly swear, though...
...that no later than Monday
we will pay it all back.
What are you... Give me the check!
Well? We live very close, On Sadovaya Street.
You know, where the fire is. Management...
We will call the police!
- Palosich!.
Palosich!.
- What are you doing, bastard?
- Palosich! Palosich!.
Palosich! - Excuse me, citizens.
Whistle!
- Citizens!
What in the world is happening?
What is it?
lam asking all of you!
What is going on?
Poor man...
This poor man... fixes burners all day long.
He is hungry!
Where can he find foreign currency?
- Quit it!
Where from, I ask you? From where, I am asking you?!
- He is right!
- He is exhausted...
...of thirst and hunger.
He is hot.
And so the poor thing takes a single tangerine for a taste, 3 kopeks worth!
While these here started whistling like nightingales in the spring forest!
The police is busy without you!
Is he allowed?
Why is he allowed?!
- Who the hell are you?
- Who the hell is he?
I am curious.
- Where did you come from? - Where did you come from?
What for? Were we lonely without him?
Did we invite him or what?
- Did we invite?
- Of course, he is all dressed up.
His mug is well fed, salmon and all!
Foreign currency everywhere!
While our man...
...he is ours...
Comrades, I am bitter...
...the bitterness.
What are you doing, citizen?
- Help!
He is not a foreigner... - Help, murder!
- This is not proper! - Police, they are killing me!
Block the back door.
They are inside
Stop! Do not move!
Orderly, citizens, orderly!
Everybody step back!
- Don't move!
- Ha! This is the writer's union.
You know, Behemoth, I have heard so many good things about this establishment.
Think of, how pleasant it is that right here under this roof...
...exist several thousand passionate enthusiasts,
...that have made a conscientious decision to unselfishly give their lives...
...to serving the muses.
- Just like pineapples in a greenhouse.
- Sweet eeriness rises to the heart,
...when one thinks that in this very building is maturing...
...the new author of Don Quixote or Faustus,
...or even, I'll be damned,The Dead Souls!
- A terrifying thought. - Yes, but...
...I say but with an emphasis on this word...
...it will happen if they don't rot.
Pineapples do rot, it happens all the time!
By the way, what are they doing out on the terrace?
- They are dining!
Adding to the above, I shall note that they have a very charming and inexpensive little restaurant.
Not unlike any tourist before a long trip,
...I have a desire to have a bite.
I would also down a large mug of ice cold beer. - I would join you.
- Your badges!
One thousand apologies, what badges?
- Are you writers?
- Naturally... take off your hat.
- Your badges!
- Darling... - I am no darling.
- What a pity...
Fine, if you don't want to, you don't have to be a darling...
You see, would you ask Dostoevsky for a badge,
...to make sure that he is a writer?
Take any five pages from his novel and you will know without seeing a badge that he is...
...a writer. I would think that never had any badges, don't you think?
- I would bet that he didn't.
- You are not Dostoevsky! - You never know, never know...
- Dostoevsky is dead. - What?!
- I protest! Dostoevsky is immortal. - Let them through, Sofia Pavlovna.
- What are you names?
- Panayev. - Skabichevsky.
- Look at this.
- How may I be of service?
I have an excellent smoked fish. It was intended for the architects' conference.
- We would like some appetizers and...
- I understand.
Would you care for a hazel-hen filet. - Sure, sure...
- Please forgive me for a minute.
I will personally supervise the filets.
- Operator, give me NKVD, urgently.
.Oh!.
- This is hazel-hen.
Don't move.
- They are like children.
In accordance with the descriptions
...citizens Volman and Vol per were apprehended in Leningrad.
In the towns of Saratov, Kiiv, and Kharkiv three people named Volodin were arrested.
Mr. Volokh in the city of Kazan.
In Penza they arrested Mr. Vetchinkevich, a PhD in chemistry, for reasons unknown.
True, he is very tall and is of a very dark complexion.
In various locales were caught 9 Korovins,
...4 Korovkins and 2 Karavaevs.
A citizen was restrained and taken off the Sevastopol train in Belgorod.
That particular citizen was showing tricks to the other passengers.
In Yaroslavl at dinner time,
...some citizen with a primus came into a restaurant,
...having received it from repair.
Two guards have ran away once they saw him,
...right after he steps into the wardrobe room.
All other workers and all customers ran off as well.
Somehow the cash register contents mysteriously disappeared.
Sadly, black cats became the victims of the search.
For instance, in Armavir one such innocent animal...
...was brought to the police...
...with front paws tied...
- Get out of here!
...capital punishment in the form of firing squad.
With confiscation of all possessions.
- An interesting city, isn't it?
- I prefer Rome, Messier.
- It is a matter of taste.
What is that smoke in the boulevard?
- The Writer's Union is burning...
...So-called Griboedov.
I suppose that the inseparable Korovyev and Behemoth went there?
- No doubt, Messier.
Leave us alone.
- Ba!.
This is the least of all places where you might have been expected.
What brings you here, uninvited...
...yet no unexpected guest?
I've come to you, the Evil Spirit and the Protector of Shadows.
If you have come to me, why did you not greet me, former...
tax collector?
I have no desire to wish you well by greeting you.
You will have to accept things as they are.
Would you be so kind to consider this question:
...what would be the purpose of Good if there were no Evil?
What would the Earth be like, if there were no shadows?
The shadows are cast by objects and people.
Here is the shadow of my sword.
The trees and the being also cast shadows.
You wouldn't want the strip the entire globe,
...by moving from its face...
...all trees and all living things...
...in the name of your fantasy of enjoying the naked light?
You are a fool.
Now speak and be short, do not tire me. What is your business?
- He has sent me.
What did He want you to convey, slave.?
- I am no slave!
lam His disciple.
We speak in different languages, as always.
The things we speak of do not change, though.
So...
- He has red the master's writings...
...and is asking you to take the master with you and reward him with peace.
Is it so difficult for you to do, The Spirit of Evil?
Nothing is difficult for me and you know it well.
Why don't you take him into your Light?
- He did not deserve Light.
He deserved Peace.
It will be done. Pass it on and leave me now.
He is also asking to take the woman that has loved and has suffered because of him.
We would never guess if it weren't for you.
Leave now.
- Messier?.
- Fly to them and make it so.
You are an intelligent person and were never crazy.
Yet you are certain that last night we visited...
the Satan?
- I am absolutely serious.
- Oh, well.
In that circumstance we now have two mental cases instead of one.
This is devil knows what!
Devil knows what! Now I am not even sure that this food is not going to fall...
through the ground or fly out of the window.
- It will not fly away!
Devil, devil - how happy I am that entered in an agreement with him!
Now, darling, you will have to live with...
a witch!
You did start resembling a witch, do you know that?
- I don't deny it.
I am a witch!
- Fine... - And I am quite happy with it.
- Fine...
Be a witch.
Very good.
So, I was stolen from the clinic.
They may not even miss me. - Nope.
But tell me, for Christ sake, how are we going to support ourselves?
There you go...
...here it starts. - Shhh...
- Aloisiy, are you home?
- He was arrested yesterday.
Who is asking, what is your name?
You have suffered so much, my poor man.
No one knows it except me.
Look...
...your hair is gray...
...and the wrinkle near you mouth is deep.
My darling, my only one, do not thing of anything.
You have thought more than enough.
I will be thinking from now on.
And I promise...
I guarantee...
...that everything will be impossibly bright.
- I am not afraid of anything, Margo.
I have been scared too many times and too much, nothing could scare me now.
...but I feel sorry for you, Margo...
This is why I say again and again.
Come to your senses, do not break your own life living with a sick and desperately poor man.
Return home.
I feel sorry for you, that is why I say this.
You are a miserable man that believes in nothing.
The entire last night I spent naked and cold because of you...
I have lost my true nature and replaced it with other...
I have sat alone in a room for months and was thinking about but one thing...
...about the thunder over Yerushalaim!
I have cried my eyes out...
And now when happiness has fallen upon us, you are driving me away?
I will leave...
...I will leave, but you must know...
...that you are a cruel man...
...they have sterilized your soul...
I see a desert in your eyes.
You shoulders, these are burdened shoulders.
They crippled you.
- Enough. You have put me to shame.
I will never come back to this topic again.
I know that we are both victims of mental illness that
I may have passed to you...
We will carry the burden together, then.
- I swear on your life...
...I swear by the son of astrologer you have rightly guessed, everything will be well!
- Surely...
...when people have been robbed...
...as have been, they seek salvation with the evil forces.
- Evil or not, is it not the same for us?
lam hungry.
- Peace on you!
- This is Azazello!
How nice, how good, you see this? They haven't forgotten us.
- Cover yourself, at least. - I don't give a damn.
Forgive me Azazello, that I am naked.
Not at all, I have seen women that were not only naked,
...but had their own skin completely taken off them.
Such a cute little basement, I'll be damned.
One question comes to mind, though...
...what is to be done in basement like this?
- That is what I say. - Why do you disturb me, Azazello?
Somehow... - Not at all, not at all...
I had no such intention to disturb you..
I was just saying myself, somehow...
Oh, I nearly forgot, Messier was sending his greetings.
We has also asked to say that he is inviting you...
...to join him for a little trip. If you are interested, of course.
- With pleasure.
We hope you would not mind, Margarita Nikolayevna?
- I would certainly not.
- Wonderful, this is how I like it.
Fast and certain, not like the other time...
...in the Alexandrovsky Park.
Don't remind me, Azazallo. I was foolish then.
One shouldn't blame me too harshly, though...
...it is not every day that one meets...
the devils forces. - Of course, of course.
It if did happen every day...
it would be nice. - I like swiftness myself.
Swiftness and nakedness.
- I forgot again, another thing.
Too much running around. Messier has sent you a gift.
Falerno wine!
Please note, it is the same wine that the Procurator was drinking.
- Woland's health.
- Margo!
Poisoner...
- Natasha...
Someone, help...
- Everything is fine.
- Why, Azazello?
For what?
What have you done to me?
- Why are you so nervous?
- I didn't expect that...
Murderer! - He will get up shortly.
- Poisoner...
Insult is the usual reward for the work done well.
Are you blind? Open your eyes!
- Margo?
Margo!
Margo...
What does this mean? - It means that your time has come.
The storm is roaring, it getting dark.
The horses are kicking ground, and the little garden is shaking.
Say farewell to the basement!
Be quick!
- I understand, you have...
...killed us.
We are dead.
How...intelligent.
- How can you say this?
Your lady friend calls you Master.
You are still capable of thinking.
How can you be dead?
I understand everything you say.
You are one thousand times correct! - Why in order to think oneself alive,
...one necessarily has to be in some basement?
To have on a shirt and a pair of hospital underpants...
It is is laughable.
- The Migty Woland!
He did create a much better story that I have.
Do take the novel with you, wherever you go.
- No need...
I know every word of it by heart.
- In that case, fire.
Fire, from which it all began and where it all will end!
- Fire! Fire!
- Burn, old life.
- Burn, suffering!
- I will cut off the hand!
- I want to say farewell!
I will wait for you here. Say good bye, but be quick!
- It's you.
I wait and wait for you to come.
There you are neighbor.
- I am here,
...but will no longer be your neighbor, to my regret.
I am flying away.
Forever.
- I knew that.
I guessed.
Have you met him?
- Yes.
I came to say good bye,
...because...
...you were the only person I knew lately.
- This is very good that you came here.
I keep my word.
I won't be writing little rhymes any more.
I am interested in another subject now.
I want to write about other things.
All the time that I was here...
...has taught me much.
- That is very good.
It is good.
Why don't you continue his story.
- Aren't you going to?
Although...
I should not be asking such questions...
- No, I will not be writing about him.
I will be occupied with other matters.
Did you hear that?
- It is the storm.
- No, they are calling me.
It is time.
- Wait!
Another word.
Did you find her?
- Yes.
- Was she true to you?
- Here she is.
- Poor, poor man...
- How beautiful.
See, how well it all ended for us.
Not so with me.
Although...
...maybe it ended well for me too.
- Well.
Let me kiss you on the forehead...
...and everything will be well for you.
That you'll have to believe.
I have seen all and I know all.
- Farewell, pupil.
- Praskovya Fyodorovna!
What? What happened? Is it the storm?
It is alright, we will help you now.
I will call for a doctor. - No, Praskovya Fyodorovna.
No need to call a doctor.
Nothing special has happened to me.
I know it now.
Don't be afraid.
Better tell me this, Praskovya Fyodorovna,
...what has happened in the room next to mine, room 118?
- In 118? Nothing happened.
- Praskovya Fyodorovna...
...you are an honest person.
Do you think I will be wrecking havoc now?
I will not be, Praskovya Fyodorovna.
So you can tell me straight.
I can feel it through the wall.
- Your neighbor has died.
Just now.
- I knew that.
I can assure you...
...that another person in town has died just now.
I even now who.
A woman.
- Why has he changed so dramatically?
This knight has made a bad joke once.
His pun related to the nature of Light and Darkness...
...was not very successful.
The knight was forced to keep making jokes a little longer...
...much longer than he might have thought.
This is the kind of night, though, when accounts are being settled.
The knight has paid and closed his.
I wanted to show you the hero of your book.
For almost two thousand years he is sits in that terrace and sleeps.
Only when the moon is full...
...insomnia sets in and tortures him.
His dedicated guard dog cannot sleep, either.
He who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.
- What does he say?
He says that there no peace for him even under the moon...
...and that his position is terrible.
He speaks so always when he is awake...
but when he sleeps, he sees the same dream...
...the moon walk...
He wants to go on that walk and to speak with prisoner Ha-Notsri...
...to whom he says he has not finished talking...
on the fourteenth day of the spring month of Nisanu.
Alas,
...for some reason he is never able to step on that walk, and no one comes to him.
To his speech about the moon...
...he often ads that more than anything in this world he hates...
...his eternal life and unheard fame.
He says that he would gladly trade his fate with that of the poor drifter...
Levy Matvey.
- Let him go!
Let him 90!
Do not shout in the mountains...
He is used to avanches...
And it will not bother him.
You don't have to ask for him, Margarita, because he has been asked for by the Other,
...the one with whom he so strives to speak.
Well, now...
...your novel could be ended but with one phrase.
Go ahead, end it!
- You are free!
You are free! He is waiting for you!
Do I go where he went? - No.
Why chase what has already ended?
We shall not disturb them.
Perhaps, their conversation will be meaningful.
- Over there, in that case?
No.
What will you do in that little basement?
Well, then...
...what I am offering and what was asked on your behalf by Yeshua, is even better...
Oh, thrice romantical master!
Do you not wish to walk with your lady under the cherry trees...
...beginning to bloom and listen to Schubert's music?
Would you not like to write under the candles with a goose feather?
There, there...
...where the house is ready and the old hand is waiting.
The candles are lit.
But they will go out soon, wen you meet dawn.
This way, Master, this way.
Farewell.
It is time.
- Farewell. - Farewell.
Listen, silence, listen...
Take pleasure in what you were not allowed to in life...
...and the silence.
There, ahead, is your eternal home...
...that you were given in reward. The venecian window...
...and the grapes, it rises to the roof.
I know that in the evening those will come, who you love,
...for whom you care, and who will not disturb you.
They will play for you, they will sing...
You shall see how candles lit the room...
You will fall asleep with a smile on your lips...
Sleep will give you strength...
...You will reason wisely...
...and will not be able to chase me away.
I will be the keeper of your rest.
I feel that someone is releasing me,
as I have just released the hero I created.
The hero has gone into the abyss...
...gone with no coming back, forgiven on a Sunday morning,
...the son of an astrologer king...
...the cruel 5th Procurator of Judaea, Rider Pontius Pilate.
- The purpose of our conference,
...that we called together in the citadel of science, the Moscow Planetarium,
...is the dismissal of obscurantist,
...antiscientific and politically harmful rumors...
...that have been circulating in Moscow and its region for several years now.
I have to warn you...
...that the point of view that will be presented here...
...is the only one that is correct.
Any other interpretation of the known events...
...either because of certain citizens ignorance...
...or malicious intent...
...will be prevented as the act of an enemy.
The general conclusion is:
...a gang of hypnotists wasat work.
This is in line with the materialist teaching of Professor Pavlov.
The investigators and experienced psychiatrists established...
...that the gang of hypnotists whose members...
...at least one of them...
...most likely the one named Korovyev...
were hypnotists of extraordinary ability and strength...
"...capable of being seen in locations different...
...from their actual whereabouts.
In light of this everything becomes clear.
Even the worrisome and inexplicable for so many
...unassailability of the cat...
...that has been under intense fire in apartment 50 when an attempt for made for its arrest.
There was no cat on the chandelier!
It did not return fire.
They were shooting at an empty spot, while Korovyev...
...could have been behind their backs instilling the image of
...tha cat on the chandelier.
He must have been making faces while enjoying his enormous...
...ability used in criminal ways.
Likhodeyev...
...never flew to Yalta.
That sort of thing even Korovyev couldn't do.
After fainting in his flat,
...scared by the trock with a cat that Korovyev did to him...
...he was laying in his apartment with a mushroom on his fork,
...until Korovyev didn't mockingly put...
...a felt hat on his head...
...and sent him to the Moscow airport.
He has made the police believe...
...that Likhodeyev is coming off the plane from Sevastopol.
When the police in Yalta was stating...
...that they saw Likhodeyev with no shoes...
...and were sending the letters to Moscow with no copies on file.
From all of that we derive a sad but an indestructible conclusion,
...that the gang of hypnotists was able...
...to hypnotise across a large distance.
On a huge distance...
...and not only individuals but groups of people.
Under such circumstances...
...they could drive mad people with rather firm psyche.
Among such people is a professor of the Institute of History and Philosophy...
...and in the past a well known poet Ivan Nikolayevich Fonarev-Bezdomny.
He was cured after much effort...
...by the professor Stravitsky of the Institute of Experimental Psychiatry.
In light of this, a deck of cards in someone's pocket in positively nothing to speak of!
Disappeared dresses, meowing berets and similar tricks...
...can be done routinely...
...by any professional hypnotist of medium strength on any stage.
Among such trivial tricks are the severed head of the announcer,
...meowing hat and the talking cat.
Any ventriloquist with basic skills...
...can show the public a cat like that.
One can hardly doubt that...
...Korovyev's art went much farther than basic skills.
I thank you comrades, for the applause.
This, I think, concludes our conference.
- Goddess...
Goddess...
lam such an idiot...
- Another victim of the Moon.
Another victim, like myself.
- What an idiot...
...why?
Why did I not go with her?
Got scared, old ass?
Got a certificate...
Now live with it, old imbecile.
- Nikolay Ivanovich?
What are these fantasies?
You'll catch malaria!
Come, let us drink tea.
Fresh air, I am getting fresh air, dear. Such wonderful air tonight.
- Oh, gods...
What vulgar execution!
Tell me, it did not happen, did it?
I beg you, tell, did it happen?
- Of course not.
You had a false vision.
- Can you swear it was?
- I swear...
- I need nothing else.
- That was the end, then?
- It was, pupil.
- Of course it was.
It all ended.
As everything ends.
I will kiss you on the forehead,
...and no one will disturb you until the next full moon.
Neither the vicious killer Gesta,
...nor the cruel 5th procurator of Judaea...
...Rider Pontius Pilate.