Stop.
Put your hands on the table.
I…
I was looking for a letter. General asked me…
We’ll see about that.
STAR MEDIA presents
Sergey Makovetsky
Mikhail Porechenkov
Maria Shukshina
Daria Mikhailova
Yulia Peresild
Yevgenia Simonova
Vladimir Simonov, Igor Chernevich, Vladimir Afanasiev
In Trouble in Store
Script by Vladislav Romanov and Yevgenii Latii
With the participation of Sergey Ashkenazi
Production Director: Sergey Ashkenazi Cameraman: Vladimir Klimov R.G.C.
Music by Arkadii Ashkenazi Production Designer: Iraida Shultz
Costume Designer: Regina Khomskaya Makeup Artist: Olga Matveichuk
Editing Directors: Olga Grinshpun and Ekaterna Kirillova
Audio Engineer: Pavel Podlesny Casting by Tatiana Statzman
Executive Producer: Andrey Anokhin
Producers: Vitalii Bordachev and Vlad Ryashin
What did you think? This is the only way we deal with such scum.
A bullet in the head is the only thing I can do for you.
Will you do this yourself? It is disgusting to soil my hands with you.
Whom did you send the information about our project in Yeliseevsky?
Second Secretary of City Committee. I… Me…
You what? Dirty scum.
You’ve betrayed your comrades.
I promoted him, increased his salary and he…
What did you get in return? Answer!
Treatment for my child, I’ve asked you for this for a year.
You were excusing yourself from helping me. You did not lift a finger.
It must be very hard to send a hopelessly ill child abroad.
They save people. They do.
Or at least make the patients’ lives easier.
With encephalosclerosis he is doomed here. You know that.
You’ve sent your family, your wife and children.
The department found the money.
They did not have any grave illness.
Small matter, which can be treated in any of our clinics.
And we had the life of a child, of the whole family.
Nothing? They will live without it?
And they have helped us.
You can help only at an early stage.
You may shoot.
There’s no excuse for betrayal.
I’m not making excuses.
You may try me or shoot me, whatever you like.
Am I under arrest?
And quail eggs are selling well.
Yes.
Send some more. We’ll agree on the price. It won’t be low.
What?
Two sets already?
No, I can’t get a Finnish one.
Yugoslavian sets are very good.
Very well.
Stepan Vasilievch, have I ever let you down?
Okay.
Hug you.
Send me the eggs.
Thank you.
Yes?
Thank you, Georgii Petrovich.
Is everything okay?
Yes, everything’s as usual.
‒ Good luck. ‒ Good bye.
And she said: “For how long am I going to suffer?”
Wait.
Excuse me. Yes, one man came.
I don’t know him.
Pavel, the idea is as follows. It is not a new angle. But it is efficient.
A double agent, ha?
It has never been used in the struggle against short weight of sheep cheese.
But we have to begin one day.
Won’t our spy refuse?
The bastard has no way out.
Either we will turn him to shit or give him another chance.
I am not going to believe him anymore.
So he will stay in his office and will…
Give to the City Committee the information we will tell him to give.
And we will know their maneuvers.
Krasavin will be under your responsibility.
Okay.
You will lead this game and bring here Arimin’s case.
We’ve closed it to quiet the Department
against Misappropriation of Socialist Property.
They dance to the dragons’ tune.
You see, Arimin is Berkutov’s friend. He must know much.
Besides he’s involved in currency machinations, no less than Arimin.
We need to surround them like a pack of wolves. You know them well.
It seems to me so.
Go to work.
We need to tap the places where he comes most frequently.
You know, bathhouses, bars. It’s not me who should teach you.
What else do you want from me?
Do you want me to tap the whole Moscow because of this scum?
Yes, the whole Moscow.
All?
All.
Does Platonova have any children?
A son, he’s a journalism student.
Keep an eye on him.
Let’s go.
Yes.
Georgii Petrovich. Bukin came again.
He’s in the yard.
I’m coming.
Bukin, that’s all, this is it.
Get out of here. You will be fired tomorrow.
My congratulations!
We have won, Georgii. Thank you.
I have worried about you. So they did not abandon you.
They defended you. I was thinking wrong about someone.
Why are we standing here? Let’s go to my office.
No, I am in command today.
We are getting in the car and go, I have reserved a table.
You may take Lida with you.
Can I go in the overall?
No, you look like a doctor. And I am healthy today and even happy.
‒ Come on. ‒ I’ll be in a minute.
Doctor Zhivago for two days.
I owe you.
I don’t know how I can…
I know.
With smoked sausage. Your mother is working at Yeliseyevsky, isn’t she?
Okay.
Deer or bear?
I don’t know. I haven’t tried any.
Maria Viktorovna!
Hello, Anton.
Are you angry with me?
Why would I? You’re strange.
I don’t know. Because of my letter.
Yes, if you like.
I told the truth there. But I won’t write anything of this kind anymore.
Why?
Please, madam.
Come on in, guys.
You are welcome.
Freedom is a sweet word.
Who has defiled my private palace?
Two people came for dinner. I will clean everything in a moment.
Same as always?
No, as always won’t go today. We need a feast today.
A feast of freedom and independence. Do you understand me?
Yes, I do, Boris Valerianovich. I am sincerely happy for you.
My heart was paining.
Thank you, Misha.
So? What did he say?
The lackey’s heart pained for this thief.
He’s not a lackey, he is a maitre d’.
Maitre d’, what’s the difference?
Eh!
Eh what?
Nothing.
We are sitting here and eating dried sandwiches.
And they are glutting themselves with caviar and balyk.
Who’s clever after that? They or us?
Of course, they are. But you know…
Don’t speak about our honesty. I know, and I completely agree.
Wait, wait. What did he say?
That’s how they let me out. Because there was no corpus delicti.
I was too hard for their teeth. I was like a rock.
I said I knew nothing and that was all.
This is the only way to behave.
Excuse me, Boris, isn’t Viktor Vasilievich…
No. Lida, my heart, of course,
Grishin has put in a word for me. I don’t deny this.
But if I showed weakness… I don’t know where I would have been now.
I said, no. No and that’s it.
Zara, my girl.
She has waited for me like for a soldier to come back from war.
She never went anywhere. Am I right, honey?
What a liar. He was too hard. People like you…
Quiet. Let me listen.
Clown.
Quiet.
Sometimes you howl because of humiliation.
You don’t know whether they are friends or enemies.
Or the same demons are leading all of us.
You’re doing your business and you’re still guilty.
I’m running round like a squirrel in a cage. I feed them, they take.
They tap me on the shoulder, telling me to keep the rest.
Or those in the lines. And those are turning up their noses.
“It is too little and too expensive.” Would it be better if there were nothing?
I am tired. I could leave this job, but they won’t let me.
They won’t.
A confession of a crook. I am going to cry.
It is not so silly.
We all have gotten entangled. All.
Good bye, Boria. Everything will be like it used to be.
We’ll see each other, we’ll go to a football match.
By the way, I have an invitation ticket to
the box for a match between TsSKA and Spartak.
Very well.
Boria, you need to have a rest. You need to go to the Crimea.
Or forest.
No, Lidochka.
I have almost been to the forest.
I can say, I could hardly escape from the very edge.
Really, it’s a pity you’re leaving so soon. I will drink a couple of glasses more.
So, the program at request of the working people is over.
Wait.
No. Is he breaking the dishes?
Yeah.
Boria, I want to leave the business.
What the hell?
Do you want a higher percent? I will give you.
No, I don’t want to go to jail. I am fed up with these arrests.
The road to provisions business is closed for me.
How am I going to live?
You’re a man. You should think.
There’s nothing to think about. Continue to work.
Give orders to your wife.
I will give orders to you too.
I’m sorry.
Let’s earn 10,000 more each, and then we’ll see.
It’s never enough for you. You will go bust on your greediness.
Your stashes are full of cash.
This is none of your business.
Let me go. Let me go!
I can’t.
Yet.
Have you forgotten how much you owe me?
Forgive me the debt.
I will forgive the debt, hell with you.
Scum.
She wanted to leave and he did not let her.
But they let him go.
So he has dollars stashed. Lots of them. We need to look for it.
Don’t think Zara is an angel. She’s the boss to all dollar prostitutes.
National, Metropol are her employees.
We need to find his dollars as soon as possible.
We will.
Where’s deer?
I asked.
We have 12 carcasses left.
We gave six to National, and six more have been ordered.
We need to increase the deliveries.
Okay.
Hello.
How’s your boy?
I’ve sent him to a camp. Thank you for the voucher.
You are welcome. Where are the candied roasted nuts?
The delivery will be in the afternoon.
Good.
Hello.
So? Will you come to my office?
Smooth your hair a bit.
Hello.
Let’s open the store.
I did not want to complain. Usually we do not complain here.
But I am not going to stand this boorishness.
I don’t give her bread free of charge.
And she stopped starching and ironing my uniform.
Why did you stop to starch seller Levshina’s uniform?
I starch everyone’s uniforms.
It’s not my fault if she does not bring it.
Don’t lie. I bring it to you every day. And you don’t iron it.
She said in clear terms,
“I’m not going to starch if you don’t give me bread.”
Everyone heard this.
What can you say, Venera Ivanovna?
She is lying.
Am I worse than everyone else?
Everyone is stealing what they can in bags.
Who is stealing?
Everyone is. Everyone is stealing under your nose.
The whole country is stealing, and I can’t take a loaf of bread.
Then fire me. Fire me according to the law, if you are so honest.
Then you will have to fire everyone and yourself.
Excuse me, director. This is not what I was going to say.
I wanted to say…
You will quit at your own will.
If you won’t, I will fire you according to the law.
Do you understand?
Yes.
You may go.
And you go to work.
We need to keep an eye on one guy.
What are he friends, where he goes, what are his relations, weaknesses?
Find something.
Don’t contact him.
‒ I see. ‒ Who’s he?
‒ Anton Platonov. ‒ Anton…
What’s wrong?
I got too pensive.
Here’s a photo and address.
Look. Why me all the time? Why don’t you send Kapustin?
You will go. Kapustin has a task of his own.
You’re a mobile person now. I will give you tickets for gasoline.
Okay. What do you need from him?
His mother is deputy director of Yeliseevsky store.
He’s her only child, thus her major weakness.
Look, stop borrowing my cigarettes.
Do you grudge?
Do you know Galina Brezhneva? A nice-looking lady?
Galina Leonidovna, nice to see you.
Stop, George. We’ve been on short terms with each other for 100 years.
Look, Georgii. I have a big problem. It’s my friend’s birthday.
I wanted to congratulate her.
She says, I would invite you to my place, but there’s nothing to eat.
You can’t let two poor ladies starve.
Of course, I won’t.
Zoia, organize this please.
May I choose the food according to my taste?
Of course. I trust you.
Thank you.
So? Why are you standing?
I’ll be in a minute.
To Dad.
Good health to him.
Yeah.
Do you know that I am leaving?
Where?
I don’t know.
What are you waiting for?
Zhora, wish me mutual love.
I wish you this from the bottom of my heart.
You heart is deep as the sea.
Good bye, Olympic fairy-tale.
Tell them we know about Arimin’s dollar stashes and that
I have personally went to the prosecutor’s office for an order.
Tell them there will be searches.
Besides, tell them there is evidence. You don’t know who gave it.
Is it clear?
Bye, girls and boys.
You have helped me as always.
I’ve completely forgotten. I haven’t taken money. Write it on my account.
We are friends. Later I will pay for everything at once.
I love you.
Good luck, Galina Leonidovna.
You are always welcome.
Chao!
It’s the seventh order nobody pays for.
Pay from the reserve.
I have. She has no shame.
With such a dad shame is an unnecessary category.
I think her dad does not know anything about her deeds.
He only pretends to.
They say he does not let her set her foot on his threshold.
But it’s none of our business.
Our business is to indulge her and her friends with cervelat and cold baked pork.
Yes.
Yes, everyone has the duties of his own.
By the way, considering cervelat and pork, you will have to go to Kostroma.
The old agreement with them is coming to an end, and we need to sign a new one.
Vera used to go previously, now you will go.
You will relax a bit. Men are gallant there.
Society lions from the Black Earth Region?
You know well that business trip pleasures are not my piece of cake.
Vera can enter any time.
Let her enter.
There will be a scandal.
You’ve become a coward.
Maybe. I am afraid of temptations.
I know a very good method to get rid of temptations.
Yield.
No?
Fine.
I am ready to leave you for the sake of your calmness.
When am I supposed to go?
Where?
To Kostroma.
Tomorrow.
Okay.
Georgii Petrovich.
What?
Nothing.
Liusia, please.
You are young and beautiful. Why do you need me?
I am old and worn out. Go, I am begging you.
Go to work.
‒ Have a seat. ‒ No, I…
‒ Have a seat. ‒ Thank you.
Do you want to scare Arimin and make him go to the cache?
Absolutely.
He will want to hide his money in some other place, but we…
You are right.
Most importantly, Krasavin should not to spoil everything.
No, he’s going to do his utmost. I can’t look in his lying eyes.
Maybe you will forget about my beard now.
This is an agreement for Kostroma.
Kolia will give you a lift to the train.
Each parcel will have the name of the addressee.
They are used to getting them. So they won’t ask you anything.
And don’t talk much, tell them you are from Berkutov, and that’s it.
Farewell. Bye.
You are saying good bye in such a formal manner.
Cardiology. Go on the call.
I told her, everything or nothing. No other way.
It is leaking in one place. You need much money.
Hello, guys.
Hello.
Kolia, calm down.
Do you have the materials?
Of course.
Do we have about 10 minutes?
Yes.
You, Georgii Petrovich?
Father.
Have a seat.
Let’s talk while you have some time.
They can send me at any minute.
So, they will.
I want to tell you the following thing.
I want to help you.
Don’t worry, I’m not offering you money. I’ve got it that you are proud.
But there are other things.
You want to become a doctor, but you can’t enter the institute.
I will enter.
Please, don’t be stubborn. There’s no sense and it is not constructive.
You will carry this box for five years.
Then you will enter.
Ten years in vain. And you are 22 now.
I was in one place yesterday.
They have enrolled you to the second medicine institute.
How? The entering exams are over.
I failed chemistry, and I entered the First Institute.
You are right. You failed it in the First one.
But you will pass it in the Second one.
We need to keep to the formalities. There will be a certificate that you were sick.
You could not take the exams with the rest.
Now you will pass it antedate and they will enroll you as a candidate.
Then they will expel somebody.
They will take you for this student’s place.
They said they expel up to 20 percent of students.
How is it possible?
I don’t want you to think I am a briber,
but I really have possibilities.
And it will be a sin not to make use of it.
And I will regret if you don’t understand me.
No, I will understand, because they failed me unfairly.
I knew everything.
So, one more reason.
There’s one more thing.
I could go to your place and tell your mom and you about this.
But I decided not to do so.
Why? Mom would be glad.
This is the reason.
You see, you can’t return the past. And it does not matter whose fault is this.
You can’t return it.
What is the reason in pretending that we are a family?
What if…
What if she has feelings for me?
You know, I think she has.
I don’t love her. Everything’s over.
That terrible day for us both vanished. I am sorry for being so outspoken.
You are an adult, and I want to speak to you on equal terms.
Am I right or not?
You are right. Probably.
Very good.
Mr. Arimin?
Who are you? What do you need?
State Security Committee. Senior Lieutenant Shershov.
Yes, I will do everything.
Okay. Good bye.
Where’re your bosses?
They all have left.
A person from the deputy head of the Interior Ministry Churbanov is calling.
They are asking for something light for a stand-up party.
His adjutant will come soon.
Where’s Zoya?
She did not report.
She whispered about something with Georgii Petrovich and left soon after him.
Wait for me. I’ll be in a minute.
A sleeping car with a separate shower.
I will bring the parcels to the train.
Thank you, Kolia. Do you want some tea?
I won’t refuse.
I haven’t danced for ages.
Since the wedding, I think.
My husband does not like dancing.
He does not go anywhere.
Why? Who is your husband?
A person. He’s intelligent and strong. Do you like it?
Intelligent, clever…
But he does not love you.
I am silly and weak. And I love you more than life.
You are home.
Yes, I am.
What’s wrong?
Why such tone? Where’s your mother?
Mom is in her bedroom. And you deserve this tone.
I don’t understand.
Explain what’s going on.
Where have you been since 3 p.m.?
Me?
Why do you care, daughter?
Since when have you begun to take interest in my affairs?
Since you stopped taking care of them.
Lida, darling.
You went to her place.
I know everything.
I went there too and I saw your car.
There’s no sense to deny.
I did not go there.
Who was there?
The ghost of Hamlet’s father?
Kolia brought the ticket to the train.
For how long are you going to lie?
Will it come to an end?
Why are you silent?
Can you tell the truth for once?
I will kill you.
I will take a knife in the butcher’s and cut your throat.
I love you very much, too.
Go away.
I can’t live this way anymore. I don’t want to and I won’t.
Why?
You are old. You are old already.
I am old.
But I haven’t been to Zoya’s.
Where have you been?
I will tell you, okay.
You know that I have been married before you.
Hello, Mom.
Hello.
Where have you been?
You are so…
What?
I don’t know. Happy?
I took a walk and went to a cafe with a girl.
‒ You are not hungry then? ‒ No.
‒ Did you drink alcohol? ‒ A bit.
Red wine.
Where are you going?
To Kostroma for a couple of days, a business trip.
Why are you so sad, when you speaking about Kostroma?
I don’t know.
This is a wonderful city.
I am worried for some reason.
Has anything happened?
No.
I don’t understand what’s wrong with me. But I don’t want to go.
Mom, you have to go.
Go, go. You can’t stick to sausages forever.
You can go crazy.
You will relax.
Is that all?
No.
I will continue to help him.
What about her?
Is that for sure?
God.
I want to believe you.
Anton, stop it. Someone will see us.
Mom will be absent for four days. Will you come?
Never.
Please.
Make I take one cigarette?
She teaches literature to them.
She’s a merry teacher.
She’s Skachko’s wife.
His wife?
His wife.
Hello, detectives. What are you doing?
Discussing.
What are you discussing? Let me see.
Who’s he?
Anton Platonov.
Zoya Sergeevna Platonova’s son.
‒ Have you been following on him for long? ‒ Two days.
Should we stop it?
No.
May I go?
I will live at your place for a while.
You’re welcome, I am living alone.
Yes, Comrade Andropov.
We have detained Arimin. I am sure he begins to talk.
Thank you. We are working.
Good bye.
Yes, it’s me.
What?
Dead? What are you talking about?
He strangled himself to death.
When did he die?
About 40 minutes ago.
What’s the difference?
40 or 15?
The road to Berkut is closed now.
Yes, a direct and right one.
Who was on duty?
Me.
I looked into the eyelid a few minutes before he died.
He was sitting quietly on his bed.
Hasn’t he left a note?
Nothing.
Can we take him to the morgue?
I think so.
Pavel?
Yes. Of course.
There are two people in this room.
Me and Lenin.
Why are you silent? Arimin is dead.
And it’s your fault.
It was your duty to check the supervision regime.
It should have been reinforced.
Do you know what is going to happen now?
I will tell you. His friends will make a stink.
“You are monsters and butchers.
You tortured an innocent person to death in prison.”
They will turn us to shit.
It was my fault, general.
What am I supposed to do with your fault now?
What is more important,
where should we find a better way to approach Berkutov?
I don’t care that this thief hung himself up.
Hell with him. He deserved it. But Berkutov, Berkutov…
What can we do about him?
I don’t know, general.
I don’t know.
How much did you take from him?
55,000 dollars, Leonid Ilyich.
You’re kidding me.
We have counted everything to kopek.
This is an economic counter revolution.
This is how Vladimir Ilyich Lenin called these things.
Punish this thief with all severity.
He has punished himself already.
He hung himself in Lefortovo.
He knew that the punishment would be severe.
Good.
At least this one’s conscience spoke.
What about the others?
They have multiplied like rats.
And their conscience is silent.
You implied I should not touch one persons.
I understand that you are kind. And Grishin covers them.
But we won’t build developed socialism at these circumstances.
I give you a word of a communist. We won’t.
One more thing. They are staining your crystal pure name.
The rumor has it in Moscow that these dirty threads are leading to you.
You’re lying.
No.
Nobody heard me lying.
I would torture this scum with file-hard iron, but my hands are tied.
Only can unbind them.
Then the thankful people will write your name in history in golden letters.
Well, do what you need.
Doctor Zhivago