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MOSFILM
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Second Artists' Association
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Alisa Freindlikh
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Aleksandr Kaidanovsky
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Anatoly Solonitsyn
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Nikolai Grinko
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in the film
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STALKER
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Scenario:
Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
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Adapted from the novel
Roadside Picnic
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Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Photography: Alexander Knyazhinsky
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Art Direction: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Music: Eduard Artemyev
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Assistant Director: L. Tarkovskaya
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Poems by F.I. Tiutchev
and Arseny Tarkovsky
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Sound: V. Sharun
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Conductor: E. Khachturyan
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Makeup: V. Lvov
Film Editing: L. Feyginova
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Costume Design: N. Fomina
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STALKER
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"Was it a meteorite
or a visitation from outer space?
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Whatever it was, in our small country,
there appeared a miracle - the Zone.
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We sent in troops. Not one returned.
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Then we surrounded the Zone
with a security cordon.
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We did right...
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Although I'm not sure. I'm not sure."
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From an interview with Nobel Prize winner
Professor Wallace to an RAI correspondent.
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Why did you take my watch?
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Where are you going?
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You gave me your word. I believed you.
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You won't think of yourself.
But what about us?
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Think about your daughter.
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She's not even used to you yet,
and you're going back to your old ways.
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You've turned me into an old hag,
ruined my life.
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Quiet. You'll wake up Monkey.
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I can't spend my life waiting for you.
I'll die.
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You were going to get proper work.
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They promised you a decent, normal job.
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I'll be back soon.
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You'll be back in prison.
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Next time, they'll give you ten years
instead of five.
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And you'll have nothing to show
for those ten years.
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Not the Zone, not anything.
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And in ten years, I'll be dead.
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"Prison"? I'm imprisoned everywhere.
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Let me go.
- I won't let you go.
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- Let me go.
- I won't!
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Go on, then!
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And may you rot there!
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I curse the day I met you, you scum!
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God cursed you by sending you that child.
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And he cursed me because of you.
You bastard!
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My dear, the world
is so unutterably boring.
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There's no telepathy, no ghosts,
no flying saucers.
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They can't exist.
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The world is ruined by cast-iron laws.
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These laws are not broken.
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They just can't be broken.
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Don't hope for flying saucers.
That would be too interesting.
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But what about the Bermuda Triangle?
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You're not going to contradict...
- Yes, I am.
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There is no Bermuda Triangle.
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There's Triangle ABC,
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which equals
Triangle A prime, B prime, C prime.
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It's all so tedious, so very tedious.
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In the Middle Ages, life was interesting.
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Every house had its goblin,
each church had God.
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People were young.
Now every fourth person is old.
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It's boring, my angel. It's so boring.
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But you said that the Zone is the product
of a super civilization -
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Which is probably also boring,
also with laws and triangles,
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but without goblins
and, of course, without any God.
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Because if there is a God,
he'll be that very triangle.
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Then I simply don't know.
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It's for me. Good-bye, dear friend.
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This fine lady agreed
to go with us into the Zone.
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She's so brave. Her name is -
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Excuse me, what is your name?
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Are you really a stalker?
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I'll explain everything later.
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Get lost.
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An idiot.
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So you've been drinking?
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I simply had a drink,
as does half of all humanity.
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And the other half also gets drunk,
including women and children.
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I simply had a drink.
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Damn it! Someone spilled something.
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Drink. It's still early.
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How about one for the road?
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What do you think?
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- Take it away.
- Of course, the prohibition law.
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"Alcohol is the scourge of mankind."
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Let's drink beer then.
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Is he coming with us?
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Don't worry. He'll sober up.
He needs to go there, too.
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- Are you really a professor?
- If you wish.
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In that case, let me introduce myself.
My name is -
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They call him the Writer.
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And what's my name?
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You're the professor.
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Of course.
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I'm a writer, so naturally
everyone calls me the Writer.
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- What do you write about?
- About my readers.
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No sense in writing about anything else.
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There's no sense
in writing about anything.
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What are you? A chemist?
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I'd say a physicist.
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That's probably tedious, too.
Searching for the truth.
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You dig here and there.
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Right. The nucleus consists of protons.
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That's a good dig.
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Triangle ABC
equals Triangle A prime, B prime, C prime.
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But with me, it's a different matter.
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I dig for the truth, but, while I do,
something happens to it.
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The truth changes into a pile of -
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I won't say what.
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It's just fine for you.
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Say there's some antique pot in a museum.
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In its own time, it was a trash bin.
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But now it draws admiration for
its simplicity of line and unique form.
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And everyone oohs and aahs over it.
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Suddenly, it turns out
not to be an antique at all.
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It was planted by some joker for a laugh.
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The sounds of admiration die away.
Some connoisseurs!
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This is what you think about all the time?
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God forbid.
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I seldom think. It's bad for me.
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It's impossible to write and keep
thinking about success or failure.
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Naturlich.
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But on the other hand, if my books
aren't being read in 100 years,
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why bother to write?
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Tell me, Professor, why did you
get involved in this business?
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What's the Zone to you?
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Well, in a sense, I'm a scientist.
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What's in it for you?
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A fashionable author...
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...women draped all over you.
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I've lost my inspiration.
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I'm going to beg for some.
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So you've exhausted your talent?
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What? Yes, in a way.
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Do you hear that? That's our train.
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Did you take the top off the car?
- It's off.
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Rueger.
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If I don't come back, tell my wife.
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Damn! I forgot to buy cigarettes.
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Don't go back.
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- What is it?
- Well...
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- You're all like that.
- Like what?
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You believe any superstitious rubbish.
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I'll have to save these for a rainy day.
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Are you really a scientist?
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Get down!
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Keep still!
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See if anyone's there.
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Hurry, for God's sake!
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There's nobody here.
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Go to the other door.
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Get going, Writer.
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Keep your eyes open.
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Did you bring the gasoline can?
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Yes. A full one.
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What I said about going there...
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It's all a lie.
I don't give a damn about inspiration.
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But how can I put a name to...
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...what it is that I want?
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How am I to know I don't want what I want
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or that I really don't want
what I don't want?
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These are intangibles where
the moment you name them,
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their meaning evaporates
like jellyfish in the sun.
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You've seen them around.
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My consciousness
wants the triumph of vegetarianism.
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My subconscious longs for a juicy steak.
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So what do I want?
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I want world supremacy, at the very least.
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Why do they need a train in the Zone?
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It won't go beyond the military post.
The guards won't venture in there.
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Everyone in their places?
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Hurry!
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Listen. Go and see
if there's a railcar there.
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- What railcar?
- Hurry up!
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Get back. I'll go.
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The gasoline can.
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Give it to me.
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Leave your rucksack. It's in the way.
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I see you're traveling light.
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If anyone's hit, don't cry out.
If they spot you, they'll kill you.
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Then when everything's quiet,
crawl back to the post.
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You'll be picked up later.
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Won't they come after us?
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No, they're scared to death of it.
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Of what?
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Here we are, home at last.
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It's so still.
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It's the quietest place on earth.
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You'll see for yourself.
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It's so beautiful. There's no one here.
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We're here.
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Three men can't foul it up in one day.
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Why can't we? Sure we can.
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Strange, the flowers have no scent.
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Don't you feel it?
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It stinks like a swamp.
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No, that's the river.
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There used to be flower beds here,
but Porcupine trampled on them.
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But their scent lingered on
for many years.
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Why did he wipe them out?
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I don't know.
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I asked him why.
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He said, "One day, you'll understand."
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I think he simply began to hate the Zone.
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Is Porcupine his real name?
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No, a nickname. Like yours.
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For years he brought people into the Zone,
and nobody could stop him.
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He was my teacher.
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He opened my eyes.
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They didn't call him Porcupine then,
but Teacher.
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Then something happened to him.
Something broke inside him.
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I think he was being punished.
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Help me. Tie the bandage strips
to these metal nuts.
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I'll just take a walk.
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I need...
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Be careful when you walk here.
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Where did he go?
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Perhaps he just wants to be alone.
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Why? Even with three of us here,
I feel uneasy.
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He's back in the Zone.
Remember, he's a stalker.
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What of it?
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You see, stalking is a kind of vocation.
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- I imagined stalkers to be different.
- How so?
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Like Leatherstocking
or Chingachgook or Big Snake.
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Our stalker’s biography
is more terrifying.
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He was in prison several times,
and he was crippled here.
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His daughter is a mutant,
a so-called Zone victim.
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They say she has no legs.
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What did he mean about the Porcupine?
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What did he mean he was punished?
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What is that, a figure of speech?
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One fine day,
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Porcupine returned from this place
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and suddenly became rich.
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Incredibly rich.
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You call that a punishment?
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Within a week, he had hanged himself.
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- Why?
- Quiet!
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What is it?
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About 20 years ago,
they say a meteorite fell here.
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It razed the settlement.
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They searched for it,
but they found nothing, of course.
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Why "of course"?
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Then people began to vanish.
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Finally, it was decided -
- Well?
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Finally, it was decided
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that this meteorite
was not quite a meteorite.
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So, for a start...
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...they put up barbed wire to stop
the inquisitive taking risks.
258
00:46:31,457 --> 00:46:36,504
Then rumors began that somewhere
in the Zone there's a place...
259
00:46:39,507 --> 00:46:41,676
...where desires come true.
260
00:46:42,343 --> 00:46:48,641
Well, naturally, they started
to guard the Zone like a treasure.
261
00:46:50,726 --> 00:46:54,605
For who knows what desires
a person might have?
262
00:46:55,398 --> 00:46:58,526
What was it if it wasn't a meteorite?
263
00:47:01,862 --> 00:47:03,447
Nobody knows.
264
00:47:05,241 --> 00:47:07,410
But what do you think it was?
265
00:47:09,370 --> 00:47:13,082
I don't have any idea.
It could have been anything.
266
00:47:15,459 --> 00:47:19,171
A message to mankind,
as a colleague of mine says.
267
00:47:19,672 --> 00:47:21,215
Or a gift.
268
00:47:26,262 --> 00:47:28,139
Some gift.
269
00:47:29,432 --> 00:47:31,600
Why would they want to do that?
270
00:47:31,684 --> 00:47:33,602
To make us happy.
271
00:47:38,107 --> 00:47:42,111
The flowers are blooming again,
but they've no scent.
272
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:48,534
Forgive me for leaving you here,
but it was too early to go on.
273
00:47:52,079 --> 00:47:54,040
Did you hear that?
274
00:47:55,416 --> 00:47:59,879
- Maybe there are people living here.
- Who?
275
00:48:02,465 --> 00:48:04,884
You told me the story yourself.
276
00:48:04,967 --> 00:48:10,473
Those travelers who were here
when the Zone appeared.
277
00:48:10,556 --> 00:48:13,100
There's no one in the Zone.
There can't be.
278
00:48:18,022 --> 00:48:19,774
Are we ready to start?
279
00:49:06,904 --> 00:49:08,322
How do we get back?
280
00:49:09,406 --> 00:49:12,827
- Nobody finds their way back from here.
- What do you mean?
281
00:49:14,161 --> 00:49:16,664
We'll proceed as agreed.
282
00:49:22,253 --> 00:49:25,131
Each time, I'll point out the path.
283
00:49:25,214 --> 00:49:27,174
It's dangerous to veer from it.
284
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,304
Keep the last pole in sight.
285
00:49:33,389 --> 00:49:36,725
You go first, Professor.
286
00:49:49,071 --> 00:49:50,573
Now you.
287
00:49:58,789 --> 00:50:01,167
Try to follow in his tracks.
288
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,915
Lord! Where's -
289
00:51:23,582 --> 00:51:27,628
Did they remain here, the people?
290
00:51:28,295 --> 00:51:31,006
Nobody knows.
291
00:51:31,090 --> 00:51:36,428
I only recall them leaving
from our station to come here to the Zone.
292
00:51:37,137 --> 00:51:39,014
I was still a kid then.
293
00:51:39,598 --> 00:51:43,644
Everyone thought
someone wanted to conquer us.
294
00:51:50,693 --> 00:51:52,444
Go on, Professor.
295
00:52:01,036 --> 00:52:02,538
Now you, Writer.
296
00:54:32,771 --> 00:54:34,523
The Room is over there.
297
00:54:36,817 --> 00:54:38,318
We go this way.
298
00:54:38,861 --> 00:54:43,365
Are you trying to make it seem hard?
You can almost wrap your arms around it.
299
00:54:45,033 --> 00:54:48,203
Yes, but you need very long arms.
300
00:54:49,913 --> 00:54:51,415
We don't have it.
301
00:55:59,107 --> 00:56:00,692
Leave it!
302
00:56:02,444 --> 00:56:04,613
Don't - Don't touch it!
303
00:56:07,783 --> 00:56:09,952
I said don't touch it!
304
00:56:10,035 --> 00:56:14,540
What, are you crazy?
What was that for?
305
00:56:16,750 --> 00:56:19,127
I said this wasn't the place for a stroll.
306
00:56:20,671 --> 00:56:23,507
The Zone demands respect,
otherwise it'll punish you.
307
00:56:23,590 --> 00:56:27,261
Don't try anything like that again.
308
00:56:27,344 --> 00:56:29,304
Has the cat got your tongue?
309
00:56:30,973 --> 00:56:33,642
- I asked you not to.
- Do we go this way?
310
00:56:36,478 --> 00:56:40,983
Yes. To the left.
But we don't go in a direct line.
311
00:56:42,442 --> 00:56:44,570
We'll go roundabout.
312
00:56:45,904 --> 00:56:47,072
Why?
313
00:56:48,824 --> 00:56:52,911
Here, the straight path isn't shortest.
314
00:56:52,995 --> 00:56:55,455
The more indirect, the less risk there is.
315
00:56:55,539 --> 00:56:57,457
Is it fatal to go straight ahead?
316
00:56:57,541 --> 00:57:00,919
- I told you. It's dangerous.
- Is the detour less dangerous?
317
00:57:01,003 --> 00:57:03,130
It's not, but nobody goes straight...
318
00:57:03,213 --> 00:57:04,923
You and your detours!
319
00:57:05,549 --> 00:57:08,260
How about if I just go straight?
- Listen. You -
320
00:57:08,343 --> 00:57:12,347
Why can't we go straight ahead?
It's right under our noses.
321
00:57:12,431 --> 00:57:15,851
It's risky here, risky there.
What the hell.
322
00:57:15,934 --> 00:57:19,187
You know your attitude about this
is very irresponsible.
323
00:57:21,273 --> 00:57:24,443
I'm fed up with your nuts and bandages.
324
00:57:24,526 --> 00:57:28,030
Forget it. I'm going this way.
325
00:57:28,447 --> 00:57:31,491
- The man's crazy.
- And I return the compliment.
326
00:57:32,117 --> 00:57:33,619
May I?
327
00:57:45,797 --> 00:57:47,466
The wind is rising.
328
00:57:49,259 --> 00:57:51,887
Do you feel it? The grass...
329
00:58:00,729 --> 00:58:04,066
Okay, all the more reason.
330
00:58:04,858 --> 00:58:06,360
What do you mean?
331
00:58:23,085 --> 00:58:25,462
- Hold it.
- Take your hands off me.
332
00:58:26,797 --> 00:58:27,964
All right.
333
00:58:29,091 --> 00:58:32,260
Then let the professor be my witness.
334
00:58:32,344 --> 00:58:35,931
I'm didn't send you in there.
You're going of your own free will.
335
00:58:36,014 --> 00:58:38,016
Of my own free will. What else?
336
00:58:39,267 --> 00:58:41,687
Nothing. Go on.
337
00:58:48,652 --> 00:58:50,904
And hope to God you're lucky.
338
00:59:05,794 --> 00:59:07,713
Listen!
339
00:59:07,796 --> 00:59:13,760
If you suddenly notice something
or feel something strange,
340
00:59:13,844 --> 00:59:16,763
turn right back.
341
00:59:16,847 --> 00:59:19,474
Just don't throw a lump of iron
at my head.
342
01:00:29,211 --> 01:00:30,712
Stop! Don't move!
343
01:00:35,759 --> 01:00:39,221
- Why did you do that?
- Do what?
344
01:00:39,304 --> 01:00:41,723
Why did you stop him?
345
01:00:42,557 --> 01:00:44,309
I thought you did.
346
01:01:24,307 --> 01:01:28,395
What happened? Why did you stop me?
347
01:01:29,145 --> 01:01:32,357
- I didn't stop you.
- Who did then?
348
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:33,775
You?
349
01:01:37,445 --> 01:01:39,614
What the hell.
350
01:01:41,616 --> 01:01:44,160
You're a fine one, Mr. Shakespeare.
351
01:01:44,786 --> 01:01:47,789
Afraid to advance, ashamed to retreat.
352
01:01:47,873 --> 01:01:51,459
So you order yourself to stop
in a false voice.
353
01:01:51,543 --> 01:01:53,962
Fear's sobered you up.
354
01:01:54,045 --> 01:01:56,047
- What?
- Shut up.
355
01:01:56,131 --> 01:01:59,509
- Why'd you empty my bottle?
- I demand discipline!
356
01:02:15,525 --> 01:02:17,319
The Zone is...
357
01:02:18,445 --> 01:02:24,034
...a very complex maze of traps.
358
01:02:25,076 --> 01:02:26,828
All of them are death traps.
359
01:02:29,539 --> 01:02:32,918
I don't know what happens here
when humans aren't around.
360
01:02:33,001 --> 01:02:38,340
But as soon as humans appear,
everything begins to change.
361
01:02:41,051 --> 01:02:43,720
Former traps disappear, new ones appear.
362
01:02:45,639 --> 01:02:47,974
Safe ways become impassable.
363
01:02:49,851 --> 01:02:52,729
The way becomes now easy,
364
01:02:52,812 --> 01:02:54,648
now confused beyond words.
365
01:02:59,444 --> 01:03:00,946
This is the Zone.
366
01:03:02,530 --> 01:03:05,867
It might seem capricious.
367
01:03:07,452 --> 01:03:11,623
But at each moment, it's as if we construct it
according to our state of mind.
368
01:03:14,501 --> 01:03:20,090
I won't hide the fact that some people
turned back half-way.
369
01:03:21,424 --> 01:03:24,678
Some perished
on the threshold of the Room.
370
01:03:26,137 --> 01:03:29,349
But everything that happens here
depends on us.
371
01:03:29,724 --> 01:03:33,353
So the Zone lets the good through
and kills the evil?
372
01:03:34,646 --> 01:03:36,439
I don't know. I don't believe that.
373
01:03:36,523 --> 01:03:41,987
I think it lets through
those who've lost all hope.
374
01:03:42,487 --> 01:03:46,825
Not the good or the bad, but the unhappy.
375
01:03:47,951 --> 01:03:52,247
But even the most unhappy will perish
if they don't know how to behave here.
376
01:04:02,090 --> 01:04:05,719
You're lucky. The Zone warned you.
377
01:04:10,181 --> 01:04:15,603
If you don't mind,
I'll wait here till you come back.
378
01:04:17,439 --> 01:04:19,441
You'll return happy men.
379
01:04:19,816 --> 01:04:22,694
- That's impossible.
- Believe me.
380
01:04:22,777 --> 01:04:24,821
I've got sandwiches and a thermos.
381
01:04:24,904 --> 01:04:27,866
- First, you won't survive an hour.
- And second?
382
01:04:27,949 --> 01:04:30,702
What's more,
nobody returns the same way.
383
01:04:33,413 --> 01:04:35,498
All the same, I'd prefer it.
384
01:04:35,582 --> 01:04:38,209
Then we'll go back immediately.
385
01:04:38,668 --> 01:04:44,799
I'll refund your money
minus a small sum for my trouble.
386
01:04:45,967 --> 01:04:47,844
Sobered up, Professor?
387
01:04:53,266 --> 01:04:56,186
All right. Toss the metal nut.
388
01:05:48,863 --> 01:05:52,534
Part Two
389
01:05:54,702 --> 01:06:00,708
STALKER
390
01:06:03,586 --> 01:06:06,506
Where are you? Come here!
391
01:06:11,928 --> 01:06:13,555
Are you tired?
392
01:06:29,279 --> 01:06:30,947
Oh, Lord.
393
01:06:34,534 --> 01:06:39,205
Judging by his tone of voice,
he'll lecture us again.
394
01:06:58,725 --> 01:07:01,102
May everything come true.
395
01:07:02,812 --> 01:07:04,856
May they believe.
396
01:07:06,774 --> 01:07:09,485
And may they laugh at their own passions.
397
01:07:10,361 --> 01:07:14,908
For what they call passion
is not really the energy of the soul,
398
01:07:14,991 --> 01:07:17,827
but merely friction between the soul
and the outside world.
399
01:07:19,662 --> 01:07:23,833
But, above all, may they believe
in themselves
400
01:07:23,917 --> 01:07:27,545
and become as helpless as children.
401
01:07:27,629 --> 01:07:31,466
For softness is great
and strength is worthless.
402
01:07:36,471 --> 01:07:39,390
When a man is born,
he is soft and pliable.
403
01:07:40,308 --> 01:07:43,019
When he dies, he is strong and hard.
404
01:07:44,687 --> 01:07:47,732
When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable.
405
01:07:48,149 --> 01:07:52,320
But when it is dry and hard, it dies.
406
01:07:53,655 --> 01:07:57,825
Hardness and strength
are death's companions.
407
01:07:59,494 --> 01:08:03,289
Flexibility and softness
are the embodiment of life.
408
01:08:04,916 --> 01:08:09,254
That which has become hard
shall not triumph.
409
01:08:29,357 --> 01:08:30,692
Come here.
410
01:08:32,777 --> 01:08:34,779
It will fit very well.
411
01:08:34,862 --> 01:08:37,407
Soon we'll reach the dry tunnel.
412
01:08:37,490 --> 01:08:39,617
Careful. Don't jinx us.
413
01:08:39,701 --> 01:08:44,414
- Are we already on our way?
- Of course. Why?
414
01:08:44,497 --> 01:08:49,794
I thought you only wanted
to show us something.
415
01:08:49,877 --> 01:08:53,047
What about my rucksack?
- What happened to it?
416
01:08:53,131 --> 01:08:57,385
I left it back there.
I didn't know we were going.
417
01:08:57,885 --> 01:09:01,097
- It can't be helped.
- Why not?
418
01:09:01,180 --> 01:09:03,516
I've got to go back.
- It's not possible.
419
01:09:03,599 --> 01:09:06,519
- I can't go without my rucksack.
- There's no going back.
420
01:09:06,602 --> 01:09:09,731
Nobody goes back
the same way they came.
421
01:09:11,649 --> 01:09:15,320
Forget your rucksack.
What's in it? Diamonds?
422
01:09:15,403 --> 01:09:20,450
You'll lose your way.
The Room will give you all you desire.
423
01:09:20,533 --> 01:09:23,077
It will snow you under with rucksacks.
424
01:09:23,161 --> 01:09:25,663
Is it far to this Room?
425
01:09:25,747 --> 01:09:30,835
Straight ahead, 200 meters,
but there are no direct paths.
426
01:09:30,918 --> 01:09:32,253
Let's go.
427
01:09:33,629 --> 01:09:36,591
Don't let doubt creep in, Professor.
428
01:09:37,342 --> 01:09:39,385
Miracles are outside your experience.
429
01:09:41,387 --> 01:09:44,307
Remember how St. Peter nearly drowned.
430
01:09:48,936 --> 01:09:50,438
Go, Writer.
431
01:09:52,648 --> 01:09:55,943
- Go where?
- Down the ladder.
432
01:10:06,954 --> 01:10:09,123
Professor, where are you?
433
01:12:00,443 --> 01:12:04,405
- This is the dry tunnel.
- You call this dry?
434
01:12:06,324 --> 01:12:11,329
It's a local joke.
Usually we have to swim it.
435
01:12:40,274 --> 01:12:42,527
Wait. Where's the professor?
436
01:12:42,610 --> 01:12:45,947
- What?
- The professor's lost.
437
01:12:46,030 --> 01:12:47,907
Professor! Professor!
438
01:12:47,990 --> 01:12:50,618
He was following you the entire time.
439
01:12:51,410 --> 01:12:54,539
He must have strayed and lost his way.
440
01:12:54,622 --> 01:12:58,417
He didn't lose his way.
He went back for his rucksack.
441
01:12:59,126 --> 01:13:00,836
Now he'll never get out.
442
01:13:02,296 --> 01:13:07,343
- Shall we wait for him?
- We can't. Things change every minute.
443
01:13:07,426 --> 01:13:09,387
The two of us must go on.
444
01:13:38,541 --> 01:13:41,294
Look! What's all this?
445
01:13:41,377 --> 01:13:44,922
- I told you about it.
- About what?
446
01:13:45,006 --> 01:13:47,508
This is the Zone. Do you understand?
447
01:13:47,592 --> 01:13:50,720
We have to hurry. Let's go.
448
01:14:11,699 --> 01:14:13,200
Here he is.
449
01:14:26,589 --> 01:14:30,509
I really appreciate that you...
450
01:14:30,593 --> 01:14:32,345
How did you get here?
451
01:14:34,597 --> 01:14:40,603
Most of the way, I crawled on all fours.
452
01:14:41,937 --> 01:14:44,398
Incredible.
How did you manage to overtake us?
453
01:14:46,067 --> 01:14:47,943
Overtake you?
454
01:14:49,236 --> 01:14:53,157
I came back here for my rucksack.
455
01:14:53,240 --> 01:14:56,118
Where did the metal nut come from?
456
01:14:58,913 --> 01:15:00,373
My God.
457
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:03,709
It's a trap.
458
01:15:07,755 --> 01:15:11,634
Porcupine hung it here on purpose.
459
01:15:15,137 --> 01:15:19,767
How did the Zone let us through?
460
01:15:25,648 --> 01:15:27,108
Lord.
461
01:15:28,317 --> 01:15:30,778
I won't take another step until -
462
01:15:31,946 --> 01:15:33,739
A good deal.
463
01:15:38,953 --> 01:15:40,287
Enough.
464
01:15:41,956 --> 01:15:43,249
So.
465
01:15:55,761 --> 01:15:57,847
We'll all rest here.
466
01:15:57,930 --> 01:16:01,142
But keep away
from that metal nut in any case.
467
01:16:01,225 --> 01:16:05,396
I didn't think Professor would get out.
468
01:16:08,858 --> 01:16:13,070
I never know what sort of people
I'm bringing in.
469
01:16:13,154 --> 01:16:17,533
It's only in here that things
become clear, when it's too late.
470
01:16:18,659 --> 01:16:23,956
The main thing is that the professor's
rucksack and spare pants are safe.
471
01:16:25,249 --> 01:16:28,586
Don't poke your nose
into another guy's drawers,
472
01:16:28,669 --> 01:16:30,379
if you know what I mean.
473
01:16:30,463 --> 01:16:32,840
What's there to understand?
474
01:16:33,758 --> 01:16:39,764
Don't pull my leg with your binomial theorem
and your psychological explanations.
475
01:16:40,139 --> 01:16:42,933
We're out of favor at the institute.
476
01:16:43,017 --> 01:16:45,311
We're refused funds for an expedition.
477
01:16:46,562 --> 01:16:51,108
So let's fill the rucksack
with manometers, shit-ometers...
478
01:16:52,693 --> 01:16:54,987
...slip into the Zone illegally...
479
01:16:56,530 --> 01:16:58,991
...and check all the local miracles
with algebra.
480
01:17:01,744 --> 01:17:05,080
No one in the world
has any conception about the Zone,
481
01:17:05,164 --> 01:17:07,458
so it'll be a sensation.
482
01:17:07,541 --> 01:17:12,004
Television,
your lady fans getting hot flashes,
483
01:17:12,087 --> 01:17:14,381
people carrying brooms
as if they were laurel wreaths.
484
01:17:15,132 --> 01:17:21,472
Then our professor appears all in white
and declaims,
485
01:17:22,056 --> 01:17:25,643
"Mene, mene. Tekel upharsin."
486
01:17:25,726 --> 01:17:32,650
Naturally, everyone gapes and shouts,
"Give him the Nobel Prize!"
487
01:17:35,569 --> 01:17:41,992
You bedraggled hack writer.
You homegrown psychologist.
488
01:17:42,076 --> 01:17:47,873
Fit only to scribble graffiti
in lavatories, you talentless clod.
489
01:17:49,041 --> 01:17:53,212
That's feeble stuff. Call that an insult?
490
01:17:54,421 --> 01:17:57,591
You don't know how it's done.
491
01:17:57,675 --> 01:18:01,512
All right.
Suppose I'm after a Nobel Prize.
492
01:18:01,595 --> 01:18:04,765
What are you after?
493
01:18:04,849 --> 01:18:09,687
Want to bestow on mankind
the pearls of your bought inspiration?
494
01:18:11,105 --> 01:18:13,190
I spit on mankind.
495
01:18:14,149 --> 01:18:19,113
In all of your mankind,
only one man interests me.
496
01:18:19,196 --> 01:18:21,031
And that's me.
497
01:18:21,115 --> 01:18:26,871
Am I worth anything,
or am I shit like certain other people?
498
01:18:26,954 --> 01:18:30,541
What if you find out
that's indeed what you are?
499
01:18:30,624 --> 01:18:35,880
Know something, Einstein?
I don't want to argue with you.
500
01:18:38,966 --> 01:18:42,970
Truth is born in arguments, damn it.
501
01:18:46,056 --> 01:18:49,101
Listen, Chingachgook.
502
01:18:52,354 --> 01:18:56,233
You've brought so many people here.
503
01:18:58,319 --> 01:19:00,988
Not as many as I would like.
504
01:19:01,071 --> 01:19:03,908
It doesn't matter.
505
01:19:03,991 --> 01:19:07,453
Why did they come? What were they after?
506
01:19:07,536 --> 01:19:09,204
Happiness, more than anything.
507
01:19:09,288 --> 01:19:13,167
Yes, but what kind of happiness?
508
01:19:16,003 --> 01:19:20,382
People don't like to reveal
their innermost thoughts.
509
01:19:20,466 --> 01:19:24,345
Anyway, that concerns neither you nor me.
510
01:19:24,428 --> 01:19:27,139
You've been lucky.
511
01:19:27,222 --> 01:19:31,602
All my life, I have never seen
one happy person.
512
01:19:31,685 --> 01:19:33,979
Nor have I.
513
01:19:34,063 --> 01:19:37,483
They return from the Room,
and I guide them back.
514
01:19:37,566 --> 01:19:39,777
And we never meet again.
515
01:19:42,196 --> 01:19:44,865
Wishes don't come true immediately,
you know.
516
01:19:46,367 --> 01:19:52,289
And you've never wanted
to make use of this Room?
517
01:19:57,211 --> 01:19:59,463
I'm fine as I am.
518
01:20:51,724 --> 01:20:54,268
Professor, listen.
519
01:20:56,520 --> 01:20:59,440
I'm thinking about inspiration you can buy.
520
01:21:02,151 --> 01:21:09,158
Suppose I return to our godforsaken city
a genius. Understand?
521
01:21:16,331 --> 01:21:20,961
But a man writes because he's tormented,
unsure of himself.
522
01:21:23,297 --> 01:21:28,886
He has to keep proving his worth
to himself and to others.
523
01:21:31,930 --> 01:21:34,975
But if I'm convinced I'm a genius...
524
01:21:37,436 --> 01:21:39,563
...then why do I need to write?
525
01:21:41,899 --> 01:21:43,650
What's the deal?
526
01:21:46,445 --> 01:21:52,493
Anyway, I must say we exist in order to -
527
01:21:52,576 --> 01:21:55,829
Just leave me in peace.
528
01:21:58,123 --> 01:22:02,294
Let me nap a little.
I didn't sleep all last night.
529
01:22:03,337 --> 01:22:06,465
Keep your complexes to yourself.
530
01:22:06,548 --> 01:22:11,553
At any rate, all your technology -
531
01:22:15,224 --> 01:22:17,643
all those blast furnaces, wheels...
532
01:22:19,728 --> 01:22:23,774
...and suchlike hustle and bustle
533
01:22:23,857 --> 01:22:27,528
so that people can work less
and consume more...
534
01:22:29,404 --> 01:22:32,366
...they're all crutches, artificial limbs.
535
01:22:35,202 --> 01:22:38,747
Mankind exists in order to -
536
01:22:41,458 --> 01:22:43,794
to create works of art.
537
01:22:45,462 --> 01:22:50,884
At least that's unselfish
compared with all other human activities.
538
01:22:53,178 --> 01:22:58,392
Great illusions. Images of absolute truth.
539
01:23:00,269 --> 01:23:02,896
Are you listening to me, Professor?
540
01:23:04,481 --> 01:23:07,609
What unselfishness are you talking about?
541
01:23:07,693 --> 01:23:11,697
People keep dying of hunger.
Have you been living on the moon?
542
01:23:21,331 --> 01:23:25,002
And this is our intellectual aristocracy.
543
01:23:26,712 --> 01:23:29,715
You're unable to think in abstract terms.
544
01:23:31,508 --> 01:23:37,181
Why don't you teach me
the meaning of life...
545
01:23:40,601 --> 01:23:42,769
...and, at the same time, how to think.
546
01:23:43,604 --> 01:23:45,189
It's useless.
547
01:23:47,232 --> 01:23:49,902
You may be a professor,
but you're ignorant.
548
01:24:39,826 --> 01:24:44,164
"And, lo, there was a great earthquake;
549
01:24:45,666 --> 01:24:49,002
And the sun became black
as sackcloth of hair...
550
01:24:50,003 --> 01:24:53,090
...and the moon became as blood;
551
01:24:54,299 --> 01:24:58,136
And the stars of heaven
fell unto the earth,
552
01:24:58,220 --> 01:25:02,432
even as a fig tree casts its unripe figs
553
01:25:02,516 --> 01:25:06,311
when it is shaken by a mighty wind.
554
01:25:06,979 --> 01:25:11,108
And the heavens departed as a scroll;
555
01:25:11,191 --> 01:25:18,031
and every mountain and island
was moved out of its place.
556
01:25:21,910 --> 01:25:27,416
And the kings of the earth
and the great men
557
01:25:27,499 --> 01:25:33,213
and the rich men and the generals
and the mighty men...
558
01:25:34,631 --> 01:25:39,803
...and all free men
hid themselves in the dens
559
01:25:39,886 --> 01:25:41,847
and in the rocks of the mountains;
560
01:25:41,930 --> 01:25:44,266
And they said to the mountains and rocks,
561
01:25:44,349 --> 01:25:50,689
'Fall on us and hide us from
the face of him that sits on the throne,
562
01:25:50,772 --> 01:25:53,650
and from the wrath of the Lamb.
563
01:25:53,734 --> 01:25:57,988
For the great day of his wrath has come,
564
01:25:58,071 --> 01:26:02,034
and who shall be able to stand?'"
565
01:29:03,423 --> 01:29:05,592
"That same day...
566
01:29:07,219 --> 01:29:09,888
...two of them...
567
01:29:10,764 --> 01:29:17,771
...were going to a village called Emmaus.
568
01:29:18,522 --> 01:29:22,359
And it came to pass
569
01:29:22,442 --> 01:29:29,950
that Jesus himself drew near
and walked with them,
570
01:29:30,450 --> 01:29:34,454
but they did not recognize him.
571
01:29:36,039 --> 01:29:38,250
'What manner of discussions are these...
572
01:29:40,877 --> 01:29:45,131
...that you have one to another
as you walk and are sad?'
573
01:29:45,215 --> 01:29:46,967
And one of them, named" -
574
01:30:01,314 --> 01:30:02,816
You awake?
575
01:30:08,989 --> 01:30:14,869
You were talking about
the meaning of our life...
576
01:30:16,329 --> 01:30:18,290
...the unselfishness of art.
577
01:30:22,210 --> 01:30:24,004
Now, take music.
578
01:30:30,385 --> 01:30:34,097
It's connected least of all with reality.
579
01:30:34,180 --> 01:30:38,101
Or, if connected, then it's without ideas.
580
01:30:38,184 --> 01:30:42,147
It's merely empty sound
without associations.
581
01:30:47,193 --> 01:30:52,616
Nevertheless, music miraculously
penetrates your very soul.
582
01:30:56,328 --> 01:31:00,206
What chord in us
responds to its harmonies...
583
01:31:01,333 --> 01:31:05,295
...transforming it
into a source of delight,
584
01:31:05,378 --> 01:31:08,673
uniting us and shattering us?
585
01:31:10,091 --> 01:31:14,220
Why is all this necessary?
And, above all, for whom?
586
01:31:17,432 --> 01:31:22,854
You'll reply, "For no one and no reason."
587
01:31:24,606 --> 01:31:28,485
No. I doubt that.
588
01:31:31,404 --> 01:31:34,574
For everything in the final reckoning
has a meaning.
589
01:31:36,493 --> 01:31:40,288
A meaning and a reason.
590
01:32:09,275 --> 01:32:12,779
You mean we go there?
591
01:32:15,532 --> 01:32:19,494
Unfortunately, there's no other way.
592
01:32:34,884 --> 01:32:39,222
It's rather gloomy, eh, Professor?
593
01:32:43,351 --> 01:32:46,146
I don't think I should go first here.
594
01:32:47,355 --> 01:32:50,066
Big Snake never volunteers.
595
01:32:51,901 --> 01:32:56,489
Obviously, we'll have to draw lots.
596
01:32:57,323 --> 01:33:00,076
Here, I'd prefer some volunteer.
597
01:33:03,288 --> 01:33:04,873
Got any matches?
598
01:33:13,214 --> 01:33:14,382
Thanks.
599
01:33:26,853 --> 01:33:28,688
The long match goes first.
600
01:33:31,858 --> 01:33:33,401
The long one.
601
01:33:40,366 --> 01:33:43,787
This time, you were out of luck.
602
01:33:59,177 --> 01:34:02,263
How about throwing a metal nut?
603
01:34:02,347 --> 01:34:04,682
Of course. You're welcome to.
604
01:34:42,095 --> 01:34:43,596
Another one?
605
01:34:52,564 --> 01:34:53,898
All right.
606
01:34:55,483 --> 01:34:56,818
I'm going.
607
01:36:43,716 --> 01:36:45,343
Hurry, Professor.
608
01:40:55,885 --> 01:40:57,470
Over here.
609
01:41:00,640 --> 01:41:03,059
There's some sort of door over here.
610
01:41:20,243 --> 01:41:21,786
Now it's over there.
611
01:41:22,995 --> 01:41:24,956
Open the door and go in.
612
01:41:33,381 --> 01:41:37,301
Me again? I should go in there?
613
01:41:37,385 --> 01:41:39,095
You drew your lot.
614
01:41:41,180 --> 01:41:43,015
You mustn't hang about.
615
01:41:47,687 --> 01:41:49,689
What have you got there?
616
01:41:49,772 --> 01:41:51,774
You can't go in there with a gun!
617
01:41:52,608 --> 01:41:55,444
You'll be killed, and you'll doom us!
618
01:41:55,528 --> 01:41:57,280
Remember the tanks!
619
01:41:58,197 --> 01:41:59,949
Put it away, I beg you.
620
01:42:00,032 --> 01:42:01,909
Don't you understand?
621
01:42:03,661 --> 01:42:06,747
If anything happens, I can get you out.
622
01:42:06,831 --> 01:42:08,332
But like this -
623
01:42:09,333 --> 01:42:11,877
Please, I beg you. And who -
624
01:42:13,879 --> 01:42:16,465
Who will you shoot at in there?
625
01:42:29,520 --> 01:42:31,939
Go! We've very little time.
626
01:42:35,943 --> 01:42:37,445
There's water here.
627
01:42:38,779 --> 01:42:41,365
Never mind. Hold onto the rail.
628
01:43:27,787 --> 01:43:31,832
Don't go any farther.
Wait for us up there by the exit.
629
01:43:46,347 --> 01:43:48,474
I hope you've nothing like that.
630
01:43:49,600 --> 01:43:52,311
- Like what?
- Like a pistol.
631
01:43:52,686 --> 01:43:55,231
I've an ampoule, for an emergency.
632
01:43:56,482 --> 01:44:00,945
- What kind of ampoule?
- For protection. Poison.
633
01:44:01,028 --> 01:44:04,281
Good God, you mean you came here to die?
634
01:44:10,496 --> 01:44:13,040
That's how it is, just in case.
635
01:44:40,651 --> 01:44:42,445
Back!
636
01:44:42,862 --> 01:44:45,156
Return, it's suicide!
637
01:44:45,239 --> 01:44:47,241
I told you to wait at the exit.
638
01:44:48,617 --> 01:44:50,035
Don't move!
639
01:45:36,582 --> 01:45:38,167
It's all because of your pipe.
640
01:45:38,250 --> 01:45:40,211
- What?
- Never mind.
641
01:45:40,794 --> 01:45:43,547
You should have gone first.
642
01:45:43,631 --> 01:45:46,592
He took the wrong turn out of fright.
643
01:47:32,865 --> 01:47:36,160
Another experiment.
644
01:47:38,537 --> 01:47:44,251
Experiments, facts or truth
as a last resort.
645
01:47:45,794 --> 01:47:49,214
But there's no such things as facts,
especially here.
646
01:47:50,758 --> 01:47:55,304
All this is someone's idiotic invention.
647
01:47:55,387 --> 01:47:57,640
Can't you tell?
648
01:48:00,184 --> 01:48:03,062
You, of course,
want to know whose invention.
649
01:48:05,773 --> 01:48:10,569
What good will it do you to know?
650
01:48:11,111 --> 01:48:15,449
Whose conscience will be bothered by it?
Mine?
651
01:48:16,575 --> 01:48:20,204
I have no conscience, only nerves.
652
01:48:20,871 --> 01:48:24,500
Some bastard abuses you, you're hurt.
653
01:48:24,583 --> 01:48:28,170
A different bastard praises you, you're hurt.
654
01:48:28,253 --> 01:48:33,175
You put your heart and soul
into your work, and they devour you.
655
01:48:35,386 --> 01:48:38,430
They even devour the filth in your soul.
656
01:48:39,682 --> 01:48:41,934
They're all literate.
657
01:48:44,061 --> 01:48:46,939
They all have voracious appetites.
658
01:48:47,981 --> 01:48:55,322
They all keep crowding round -
journalists, editors, critics,
659
01:48:55,406 --> 01:48:57,658
a constant stream of women.
660
01:48:58,575 --> 01:49:01,620
All of them clamoring for more.
661
01:49:04,998 --> 01:49:07,292
What kind of writer am I...
662
01:49:08,544 --> 01:49:10,713
...if I detest writing?
663
01:49:12,673 --> 01:49:16,719
If it's torture for me,
a painful, shameful occupation,
664
01:49:16,802 --> 01:49:19,221
something akin to extruding hemorrhoids.
665
01:49:22,808 --> 01:49:26,812
I used to think my books
helped some people to become better,
666
01:49:26,895 --> 01:49:28,897
but nobody needs me.
667
01:49:29,481 --> 01:49:33,694
If I die, in a couple days,
they'll find someone else to devour.
668
01:49:37,489 --> 01:49:39,533
I wanted to change them,
669
01:49:39,616 --> 01:49:44,538
but they've changed me
to fit their own image.
670
01:49:49,585 --> 01:49:54,381
Once, the future was only
a continuation of the present.
671
01:49:54,465 --> 01:49:58,135
All its changes loomed somewhere
beyond the horizon.
672
01:49:59,178 --> 01:50:01,847
But now the future's
a part of the present.
673
01:50:09,688 --> 01:50:11,774
Are they prepared for this?
674
01:50:12,733 --> 01:50:16,987
They don't want to know anything.
All they do is gobble.
675
01:50:31,710 --> 01:50:33,378
You certainly are lucky.
676
01:50:34,379 --> 01:50:39,384
Now you'll live to be a hundred.
677
01:50:53,232 --> 01:50:57,319
Why not forever?
678
01:51:00,405 --> 01:51:02,241
Like the Wandering Jew.
679
01:51:42,781 --> 01:51:46,535
You must surely be a fine person.
680
01:51:46,618 --> 01:51:49,121
Not that I doubted it.
681
01:51:49,204 --> 01:51:53,000
You must have been through such agony.
682
01:51:54,543 --> 01:51:57,546
This pipe is the most terrible part
of the Zone.
683
01:51:57,629 --> 01:52:03,051
They call it the meat grinder.
How many people has it ground up?
684
01:52:08,348 --> 01:52:11,602
Porcupine sent his brother through
instead of himself.
685
01:52:15,188 --> 01:52:17,566
He was so sensitive, so gifted.
686
01:52:19,985 --> 01:52:21,570
Listen to this.
687
01:52:23,488 --> 01:52:27,534
Now the summer is passed,
it might never have been;
688
01:52:28,660 --> 01:52:33,081
It is warm in the sun,
but it isn't enough;
689
01:52:33,707 --> 01:52:39,546
All that I could attain,
like a five-fingered leaf,
690
01:52:39,630 --> 01:52:44,384
fell straight into my hand,
but it isn't enough;
691
01:52:45,177 --> 01:52:50,557
Neither evil nor good
has yet vanished in vain;
692
01:52:50,641 --> 01:52:55,103
It all burned and was light,
but it isn't enough;
693
01:52:55,854 --> 01:53:00,525
Life has been like a shield
and has offered protection;
694
01:53:01,360 --> 01:53:05,697
I have been very lucky,
but it isn't enough;
695
01:53:06,531 --> 01:53:11,954
The leaves were not burned,
the boughs were not broken;
696
01:53:12,037 --> 01:53:17,125
The day shines like glass,
but it isn't enough.
697
01:53:19,211 --> 01:53:22,089
Fine, isn't it? That's his poem.
698
01:53:22,172 --> 01:53:26,301
Why are you evading things? "Fine" indeed!
699
01:53:26,385 --> 01:53:28,470
It makes me sick to look at you.
700
01:53:28,553 --> 01:53:32,432
You can't imagine how glad I am
that we made it.
701
01:53:32,516 --> 01:53:34,977
Your conduct was exemplary.
702
01:53:36,061 --> 01:53:39,564
You're fine, honest men.
I'm proud I was right.
703
01:53:39,648 --> 01:53:42,818
So he's happy we got back.
So happy he could choke.
704
01:53:43,860 --> 01:53:47,572
Fate! Zone! So I'm a fine fellow.
705
01:53:48,156 --> 01:53:51,618
Do you think I didn't see you
offer me two long matches?
706
01:53:51,702 --> 01:53:53,912
- You don't understand.
- No, of course not.
707
01:53:53,996 --> 01:54:00,335
I'm sorry, Professor, but this louse
chose you as his favorite.
708
01:54:00,419 --> 01:54:02,087
What are you going on about?
709
01:54:02,170 --> 01:54:05,882
He shoved me into the pipe
because I'm a second-rate person.
710
01:54:06,675 --> 01:54:09,136
Meat grinder! What a word!
711
01:54:10,178 --> 01:54:15,017
What right have you to choose who lives,
who goes into the meat grinder?
712
01:54:15,100 --> 01:54:17,352
You made the choice.
713
01:54:17,436 --> 01:54:22,232
What choice did I have -
one of two long matchsticks?
714
01:54:22,315 --> 01:54:24,568
Forget the matches.
715
01:54:24,651 --> 01:54:28,488
Back by the metal nut,
the Zone let you through
716
01:54:28,572 --> 01:54:31,783
to pass through the meat grinder.
717
01:54:32,284 --> 01:54:34,494
Is that for you?
- Who knows?
718
01:54:35,620 --> 01:54:40,417
I never choose. You can't imagine how
terrible it is to make the wrong choice.
719
01:54:41,501 --> 01:54:43,962
But someone has to go first.
720
01:54:44,046 --> 01:54:47,466
Yes? No, this isn't the clinic.
721
01:54:49,259 --> 01:54:52,888
Someone has to go first!
How would you like it?
722
01:54:59,978 --> 01:55:01,563
Don't touch it!
723
01:55:22,167 --> 01:55:25,045
- Yes?
- Laboratory Nine, please.
724
01:55:26,588 --> 01:55:28,173
One minute.
725
01:55:34,471 --> 01:55:35,597
I'm listening.
726
01:55:35,680 --> 01:55:38,892
- I hope I haven't disturbed you.
- What do you want?
727
01:55:40,352 --> 01:55:42,187
Just a few words.
728
01:55:42,270 --> 01:55:47,150
You hid it. I found it
in the old building, Bunker 4.
729
01:55:49,611 --> 01:55:53,198
Are you listening?
- I'll inform the security service.
730
01:55:53,281 --> 01:55:58,870
Go on! Inform on me, write a denunciation.
731
01:55:58,954 --> 01:56:03,333
Set my colleagues against me.
But you're late.
732
01:56:03,416 --> 01:56:06,253
I'm just two steps away
from the place itself.
733
01:56:07,963 --> 01:56:09,798
Are you listening to me?
734
01:56:09,881 --> 01:56:12,467
You realize
this finishes you as a scientist?
735
01:56:12,551 --> 01:56:13,802
So be happy.
736
01:56:13,885 --> 01:56:16,888
Do you realize what happens if you dare?
737
01:56:19,349 --> 01:56:21,059
Trying to scare me again?
738
01:56:23,228 --> 01:56:29,151
Yes, all my life I've been scared.
Even of you.
739
01:56:29,234 --> 01:56:32,821
You don't scare me anymore.
740
01:56:32,904 --> 01:56:36,324
My God, you're not even Herostratus.
741
01:56:36,408 --> 01:56:43,290
You just wanted to trip me up because,
20 years ago, I slept with your wife.
742
01:56:43,373 --> 01:56:47,669
You've finally managed
to settle the score.
743
01:56:47,752 --> 01:56:52,090
Go on, do your dirty work.
744
01:56:53,216 --> 01:56:54,926
Don't dare hang up on me.
745
01:56:56,720 --> 01:56:59,764
Prison isn't the worst thing
that awaits you.
746
01:57:00,056 --> 01:57:03,185
You'll never forgive yourself for this.
747
01:57:03,268 --> 01:57:07,898
I can see you hanging from your belt
over a prison latrine.
748
01:57:10,901 --> 01:57:14,362
What are you up to, Professor?
749
01:57:15,906 --> 01:57:20,619
Imagine what will happen
when everyone believes in this Room...
750
01:57:22,120 --> 01:57:25,207
...and when they all come hurrying here.
751
01:57:26,208 --> 01:57:31,796
It's only a question of time.
Not today, but tomorrow.
752
01:57:31,880 --> 01:57:33,882
And in the thousands.
753
01:57:33,965 --> 01:57:37,219
All these would-be emperors,
grand inquisitors,
754
01:57:37,302 --> 01:57:39,054
fuhrers of all shades.
755
01:57:39,137 --> 01:57:43,308
The so-called saviors of mankind!
756
01:57:43,391 --> 01:57:47,979
And not for money or inspiration,
but to remake the world.
757
01:57:48,063 --> 01:57:52,776
- I'll never bring that sort here.
- What do you understand?
758
01:57:54,152 --> 01:57:56,821
You're not the only stalker in the world.
759
01:57:56,905 --> 01:58:02,702
No stalker knows what ideas the people
you bring here take away with them.
760
01:58:03,411 --> 01:58:06,331
The number of motiveless crimes
is growing.
761
01:58:06,414 --> 01:58:08,250
Isn't that your work?
762
01:58:08,333 --> 01:58:10,001
What about the military coups?
763
01:58:11,461 --> 01:58:15,131
The mafia in the governments,
couldn't they be your clients?
764
01:58:15,757 --> 01:58:17,592
What about the lasers,
765
01:58:17,676 --> 01:58:24,474
the deadly bacteria hidden away
in vaults for the time being?
766
01:58:24,557 --> 01:58:27,769
Stop this sociological drivel!
767
01:58:27,852 --> 01:58:29,938
Do you really believe
in these fairy tales?
768
01:58:30,021 --> 01:58:34,776
Not in the good ones,
but in the terrifying ones, yes.
769
01:58:34,859 --> 01:58:36,945
Just stop it.
770
01:58:37,028 --> 01:58:43,076
No single individual can have
enough hatred or love
771
01:58:43,159 --> 01:58:45,954
to spread over all mankind.
772
01:58:47,122 --> 01:58:52,961
You desire money, a woman.
Or you want your boss to get run over.
773
01:58:53,044 --> 01:58:55,297
That's neither here nor there.
774
01:58:55,380 --> 01:58:58,425
But world domination, a just society,
775
01:58:58,508 --> 01:59:00,677
the kingdom of heaven on earth.
776
01:59:00,760 --> 01:59:05,640
Those aren't desires,
but an ideology, actions, concepts.
777
01:59:07,142 --> 01:59:12,439
Subconscious compassion
cannot yet be realized
778
01:59:12,522 --> 01:59:15,233
as a common instinctive desire.
779
01:59:16,026 --> 01:59:20,113
You can't be happy at the expense
of others' unhappiness.
780
01:59:21,156 --> 01:59:27,954
I see you've decided to smash humanity
with some inconceivable boon.
781
01:59:29,372 --> 01:59:31,875
Yet I'm completely calm.
782
01:59:31,958 --> 01:59:35,962
I'm not worried about you or myself
or mankind.
783
01:59:37,422 --> 01:59:39,924
Nothing will come of it.
784
01:59:40,967 --> 01:59:44,888
At best,
you'll receive your Nobel Prize...
785
01:59:46,348 --> 01:59:51,519
...or more probably something
quite inconceivable
786
01:59:51,603 --> 01:59:54,105
which you haven't even thought about.
787
01:59:54,439 --> 01:59:56,232
A telephone.
788
01:59:57,734 --> 02:00:02,113
You dream of one thing
and get something quite different.
789
02:00:04,074 --> 02:00:05,784
Why did you do that?
790
02:00:20,090 --> 02:00:23,593
A telephone, electricity.
791
02:00:27,639 --> 02:00:30,475
Look, sleeping pills.
792
02:00:31,267 --> 02:00:34,687
This sort isn't prescribed anymore.
Where did they come from?
793
02:00:39,442 --> 02:00:41,444
Shall we go there?
794
02:00:42,278 --> 02:00:46,741
It'll soon be evening,
too dark to get back.
795
02:00:53,873 --> 02:00:56,501
By the way,
796
02:00:56,584 --> 02:01:01,297
I can see that all this poetry reciting
and walking around
797
02:01:01,381 --> 02:01:05,176
is a new, original way of apologizing.
798
02:01:05,260 --> 02:01:06,761
I understand you.
799
02:01:08,888 --> 02:01:12,475
A difficult childhood environment.
800
02:01:12,559 --> 02:01:14,686
But don't fool yourself.
801
02:01:17,313 --> 02:01:19,065
I don't forgive you.
802
02:01:19,899 --> 02:01:22,068
Don't. Please.
803
02:02:14,787 --> 02:02:17,957
Professor, come here.
804
02:02:51,616 --> 02:02:55,370
Just a moment. No need to rush.
805
02:02:55,453 --> 02:02:57,622
I'm not rushing anywhere.
806
02:03:48,339 --> 02:03:50,174
Don't get angry.
807
02:03:53,511 --> 02:03:55,555
But I have to tell you.
808
02:04:02,604 --> 02:04:07,400
We're now standing at the threshold.
809
02:04:15,283 --> 02:04:20,204
This is the most important moment...
in your life.
810
02:04:23,541 --> 02:04:25,877
You must know that...
811
02:04:27,211 --> 02:04:32,050
...your most cherished desire
will come true here.
812
02:04:33,926 --> 02:04:39,557
Your sincerest wish, the desire
that has made you suffer most.
813
02:05:08,961 --> 02:05:10,588
There's no need to speak.
814
02:05:14,342 --> 02:05:20,098
You must only... concentrate
815
02:05:20,181 --> 02:05:23,267
and recall all your past life.
816
02:05:26,354 --> 02:05:31,609
When a man thinks of the past,
he becomes kinder.
817
02:05:32,694 --> 02:05:34,195
But the main thing -
818
02:06:08,104 --> 02:06:09,605
The main thing is...
819
02:06:14,360 --> 02:06:15,862
...you must believe.
820
02:06:25,329 --> 02:06:26,956
Now go.
821
02:06:32,837 --> 02:06:34,589
Who wants to go first?
822
02:06:39,677 --> 02:06:41,345
Perhaps you?
823
02:06:43,014 --> 02:06:46,058
Me? No, I don't want to.
824
02:06:47,185 --> 02:06:49,145
I know it's not easy.
825
02:06:49,228 --> 02:06:52,231
But don't worry. That will soon pass.
826
02:06:53,524 --> 02:06:57,945
I'm not sure... that it will.
827
02:07:00,072 --> 02:07:03,576
Firstly, if I begin to recall my life...
828
02:07:05,286 --> 02:07:07,205
...I shall hardly become kinder.
829
02:07:09,040 --> 02:07:13,878
And then, can't you see
how shameful all this is?
830
02:07:31,729 --> 02:07:33,564
To humiliate yourself.
831
02:07:34,565 --> 02:07:37,026
To snivel and to pray.
832
02:07:37,902 --> 02:07:39,654
What's bad about praying?
833
02:07:42,114 --> 02:07:44,075
That's your pride speaking.
834
02:07:46,035 --> 02:07:51,082
Relax. You're just not ready.
That happens.
835
02:07:54,001 --> 02:07:55,753
Perhaps you'll go first?
836
02:08:03,928 --> 02:08:05,263
Me?
837
02:08:16,065 --> 02:08:21,112
Voilà ! Here we have
the professor's new invention.
838
02:08:22,154 --> 02:08:26,242
A device for testing the human soul.
A soul meter.
839
02:08:26,784 --> 02:08:29,495
It's just a bomb.
840
02:08:29,579 --> 02:08:30,580
What?
841
02:08:32,790 --> 02:08:35,626
- You're joking.
- No.
842
02:08:37,837 --> 02:08:40,047
It's just a 20-kiloton bomb.
843
02:08:41,507 --> 02:08:42,633
What for?
844
02:08:53,603 --> 02:08:57,273
I assembled it with some friends.
845
02:08:59,358 --> 02:09:03,154
With some former colleagues.
846
02:09:07,491 --> 02:09:10,953
This place, evidently,
won't bring anyone happiness.
847
02:09:15,499 --> 02:09:20,087
And if it falls into evil hands...
848
02:09:22,465 --> 02:09:24,634
However, I really don't know now.
849
02:09:26,677 --> 02:09:28,471
Once we had the idea...
850
02:09:31,474 --> 02:09:34,143
...that the Zone should not be destroyed.
851
02:09:35,519 --> 02:09:41,233
Even if it was a miracle,
it was a part of nature.
852
02:09:41,776 --> 02:09:44,362
And in a certain sense, it means hope.
853
02:09:46,656 --> 02:09:51,035
They hid this bomb, but I've found it.
854
02:09:51,410 --> 02:09:54,205
It's an old building, Bunker 4.
855
02:09:59,293 --> 02:10:02,964
Obviously there must be a principle -
856
02:10:04,298 --> 02:10:06,968
never to perform irreversible actions.
857
02:10:07,218 --> 02:10:09,553
I understand that. I'm no maniac.
858
02:10:13,975 --> 02:10:19,438
But as long as this canker
is open to any scoundrel...
859
02:10:22,149 --> 02:10:23,943
...there can be no rest.
860
02:10:31,784 --> 02:10:34,912
Maybe something inside us won't permit it?
861
02:10:41,419 --> 02:10:44,046
Poor guy, he's made himself a problem.
862
02:11:08,154 --> 02:11:09,321
Give it to me.
863
02:11:24,086 --> 02:11:25,755
Give it to me!
864
02:11:30,593 --> 02:11:32,553
You're an intelligent man.
865
02:11:40,227 --> 02:11:43,314
- What's that for?
- You hypocritical louse!
866
02:11:45,649 --> 02:11:51,363
Why - Why are you doing this to me?
867
02:11:51,447 --> 02:11:54,992
He wants to destroy your hope.
868
02:12:18,182 --> 02:12:21,519
There's nothing else left
to people on Earth.
869
02:12:22,686 --> 02:12:29,443
This is the only place to come to
when all hope is gone.
870
02:12:32,530 --> 02:12:37,868
You have to come here.
Then why destroy hope?
871
02:12:38,536 --> 02:12:40,538
Shut up!
872
02:12:42,748 --> 02:12:46,293
I see through you.
873
02:12:46,377 --> 02:12:49,463
You don't give a damn about others.
874
02:12:49,547 --> 02:12:55,302
You earn your money from our... misery.
875
02:12:55,386 --> 02:12:58,764
It's not even the money. You enjoy this.
876
02:12:58,848 --> 02:13:00,808
Here you're czar and God.
877
02:13:00,891 --> 02:13:05,271
You louse, you decide
who's to die and who's to live.
878
02:13:05,354 --> 02:13:07,690
He chooses, he decides.
879
02:13:09,191 --> 02:13:13,654
I know why the stalker himself
never enters the Room.
880
02:13:13,737 --> 02:13:19,160
What for?
You're drunk with power out here.
881
02:13:19,243 --> 02:13:21,287
With mystery! With authority!
882
02:13:21,370 --> 02:13:24,582
That's not true. You're wrong.
883
02:13:29,920 --> 02:13:32,423
A stalker is forbidden to enter the Room.
884
02:13:32,506 --> 02:13:36,468
Especially for his own selfish reasons.
885
02:13:37,261 --> 02:13:39,096
Remember Porcupine.
886
02:13:41,891 --> 02:13:44,059
Yes, I'm a louse.
887
02:13:44,143 --> 02:13:47,479
I've never achieved anything,
and I can't do anything here.
888
02:13:49,899 --> 02:13:52,026
I have nothing to give my wife.
889
02:13:53,402 --> 02:13:58,157
I can't have any friends,
but don't deprive me of what's mine.
890
02:13:58,240 --> 02:14:01,911
They took everything from me
behind the barbed wire.
891
02:14:06,123 --> 02:14:08,751
Everything I have is here.
892
02:14:08,834 --> 02:14:11,337
Here, in the Zone.
893
02:14:12,880 --> 02:14:17,718
My happiness, my freedom, dignity.
They're all here.
894
02:14:19,803 --> 02:14:23,599
The people I bring are unhappy like me.
895
02:14:23,682 --> 02:14:27,436
They've nothing left to hope for.
Nobody can help them.
896
02:14:28,729 --> 02:14:34,693
But I can - a louse.
A louse can help them!
897
02:14:37,363 --> 02:14:39,990
I weep for joy because I can help them.
898
02:14:42,076 --> 02:14:43,827
I ask for nothing more.
899
02:15:06,308 --> 02:15:08,018
I don't know. Maybe.
900
02:15:09,103 --> 02:15:11,522
Anyway, forgive me, but -
901
02:15:12,815 --> 02:15:14,775
You're simply one of God's fools.
902
02:15:17,027 --> 02:15:19,697
You've no conception
of what's happening here.
903
02:15:23,993 --> 02:15:27,204
Why do you think Porcupine
hanged himself?
904
02:15:27,538 --> 02:15:34,128
He came to the Zone for profit,
and his brother died for money.
905
02:15:34,211 --> 02:15:38,132
I understand that,
but why did he hang himself?
906
02:15:38,215 --> 02:15:42,219
Why didn't he come back?
Not for money, but for his brother.
907
02:15:43,721 --> 02:15:45,472
Is that how he repented?
908
02:15:45,556 --> 02:15:49,977
He wanted to.
But within a few days, he hanged himself.
909
02:15:50,060 --> 02:15:56,066
He realized that it is one's
most secret desire that is granted here.
910
02:16:04,575 --> 02:16:06,869
What are you yelling about?
911
02:16:15,169 --> 02:16:19,840
What comes true here is that which
reflects the essence of your nature.
912
02:16:19,923 --> 02:16:23,010
It is within you. It governs you.
913
02:16:23,093 --> 02:16:26,597
Yet you are ignorant of it.
914
02:16:26,680 --> 02:16:31,352
You've understood nothing.
Greed didn't do Porcupine in.
915
02:16:31,435 --> 02:16:35,147
He crawled on his knees
to plead for his brother,
916
02:16:35,230 --> 02:16:37,483
but he got a pile of money.
917
02:16:37,566 --> 02:16:40,444
He couldn't get anything else.
918
02:16:41,153 --> 02:16:44,698
Porcupine was given the essence
of his true nature.
919
02:16:44,782 --> 02:16:49,703
Conscience and soul-searching
were all invented by the mind.
920
02:16:49,787 --> 02:16:51,914
When he realized all that,
he hanged himself.
921
02:16:56,835 --> 02:16:58,587
I won't go into your Room.
922
02:17:00,672 --> 02:17:05,928
I don't want to pour the filth in my soul
onto anyone's head -
923
02:17:06,011 --> 02:17:08,305
even yours -
924
02:17:08,389 --> 02:17:10,557
and then hang myself as Porcupine did.
925
02:17:12,142 --> 02:17:17,189
Better to stay grunting
in my stinking private villa.
926
02:17:19,608 --> 02:17:25,197
You're a bad judge of human nature
927
02:17:25,280 --> 02:17:27,866
if you bring people like me into the Zone.
928
02:17:35,874 --> 02:17:43,257
How did you learn
that this miracle actually exists?
929
02:17:44,716 --> 02:17:49,430
Who told you that desires
really come true here?
930
02:17:51,723 --> 02:17:56,353
Do you know one man
who was made happy here?
931
02:17:57,646 --> 02:17:59,606
Perhaps Porcupine?
932
02:18:04,486 --> 02:18:09,116
And who told you about the Zone,
933
02:18:09,199 --> 02:18:12,786
about Porcupine, about this Room?
934
02:18:14,371 --> 02:18:15,539
He did.
935
02:19:20,562 --> 02:19:22,814
I don't understand anything at all.
936
02:19:24,441 --> 02:19:26,944
What's the sense in coming here?
937
02:20:50,444 --> 02:20:51,945
It's so still.
938
02:20:53,530 --> 02:20:55,032
Can you hear it?
939
02:21:00,370 --> 02:21:03,498
Suppose I chuck it all in...
940
02:21:05,375 --> 02:21:09,796
...get my wife and Monkey
and come here to live...
941
02:21:13,550 --> 02:21:14,885
...forever.
942
02:21:17,387 --> 02:21:18,889
There's nobody here.
943
02:21:20,223 --> 02:21:22,059
No one will hurt them.
944
02:25:37,147 --> 02:25:38,857
You came back.
945
02:25:44,905 --> 02:25:46,656
Where did the dog come from?
946
02:25:48,158 --> 02:25:52,162
It tagged along. Don't chase it away.
947
02:26:09,512 --> 02:26:12,641
Well, shall we go?
948
02:26:13,600 --> 02:26:15,352
Monkey's waiting.
949
02:26:19,230 --> 02:26:20,565
Are we going?
950
02:26:34,996 --> 02:26:36,998
Does anybody want a dog?
951
02:26:40,377 --> 02:26:42,712
I've got five already.
952
02:26:52,889 --> 02:26:55,392
So you like dogs?
953
02:26:55,976 --> 02:26:57,477
What?
954
02:26:57,560 --> 02:26:58,895
That's good.
955
02:27:04,776 --> 02:27:07,070
All right, let's go.
956
02:30:10,128 --> 02:30:12,130
If you only knew how tired I am.
957
02:30:14,174 --> 02:30:15,967
Only God knows.
958
02:30:18,052 --> 02:30:21,139
They still call themselves
the intelligentsia.
959
02:30:21,222 --> 02:30:24,809
Writers! Scientists!
- Calm down.
960
02:30:24,893 --> 02:30:27,437
They don't believe in anything.
961
02:30:27,520 --> 02:30:32,525
Their capacity for faith has atrophied -
962
02:30:32,609 --> 02:30:34,402
- Calm yourself.
- ...through lack of use.
963
02:30:36,154 --> 02:30:40,116
Stop it. Come, lie down. Don't worry.
964
02:30:40,200 --> 02:30:44,746
It's damp. You can't stay here.
965
02:30:48,541 --> 02:30:50,043
Take it off.
966
02:32:01,322 --> 02:32:03,241
My God, what kind people are they?
967
02:32:03,324 --> 02:32:07,620
Calm down. It isn't their fault.
968
02:32:07,704 --> 02:32:10,415
They should be pitied, not abused.
969
02:32:10,498 --> 02:32:12,834
Their eyes are blank.
970
02:32:25,722 --> 02:32:29,267
They're thinking
how not to sell themselves cheap,
971
02:32:29,350 --> 02:32:34,939
how to get paid
for every breath they take.
972
02:32:38,109 --> 02:32:42,613
They know they were born
to "be someone," to be an elite!
973
02:32:45,533 --> 02:32:47,243
They say, "You live but once."
974
02:32:49,579 --> 02:32:52,332
How can such people believe
in anything at all?
975
02:32:53,708 --> 02:32:55,418
Relax now.
976
02:32:55,501 --> 02:32:59,589
Try to get some sleep.
977
02:33:00,631 --> 02:33:02,133
Go to sleep.
978
02:33:05,595 --> 02:33:09,223
Nobody believes. Not only those two.
979
02:33:10,600 --> 02:33:11,934
Nobody.
980
02:33:12,435 --> 02:33:14,187
Who shall I take there?
981
02:33:18,441 --> 02:33:20,777
Oh, Lord.
982
02:33:20,860 --> 02:33:22,362
The most terrible thing...
983
02:33:24,906 --> 02:33:31,079
...is that nobody needs that Room
and all my efforts are in vain.
984
02:33:32,455 --> 02:33:35,416
Why do you say that? Don't.
985
02:33:41,798 --> 02:33:43,841
I'll never go there again with anyone.
986
02:33:47,178 --> 02:33:51,599
If you want, I'll go there with you.
Do you want that?
987
02:33:54,060 --> 02:33:56,521
Do you think I've nothing to ask for?
988
02:34:01,609 --> 02:34:02,819
No.
989
02:34:06,656 --> 02:34:09,033
You mustn't.
- Why?
990
02:34:12,328 --> 02:34:13,538
No.
991
02:34:18,709 --> 02:34:22,422
What if you fail, too?
992
02:34:58,708 --> 02:35:01,544
You know, Mama was very opposed to it.
993
02:35:03,880 --> 02:35:08,509
You've probably already guessed
that he's one of God's fools.
994
02:35:11,471 --> 02:35:13,806
Everyone around here used to laugh at him.
995
02:35:13,890 --> 02:35:16,684
He was such a wretched muddler.
996
02:35:19,312 --> 02:35:21,564
Mama used to say,
997
02:35:21,647 --> 02:35:26,027
"He's a stalker, a marked man,
an eternal jailbird.
998
02:35:26,110 --> 02:35:28,988
Remember the kind of children
stalkers have."
999
02:35:29,071 --> 02:35:31,949
I didn't even argue.
1000
02:35:34,869 --> 02:35:37,246
I knew all about it -
1001
02:35:37,330 --> 02:35:43,127
that he was a marked man, a jailbird,
about the kids.
1002
02:35:46,964 --> 02:35:49,008
Only what could I do?
1003
02:35:49,091 --> 02:35:51,802
I was sure I'd be happy with him.
1004
02:35:54,388 --> 02:35:56,557
I knew there'd be a lot of sorrow.
1005
02:35:58,184 --> 02:36:03,105
But I'd rather know
bittersweet happiness...
1006
02:36:04,774 --> 02:36:06,609
...than a gray, uneventful life.
1007
02:36:11,614 --> 02:36:15,034
Perhaps I invented all this later.
1008
02:36:24,752 --> 02:36:29,674
But when he came up to me and said,
"Come with me," I went.
1009
02:36:31,300 --> 02:36:34,011
And I've never regretted it.
1010
02:36:37,807 --> 02:36:39,141
Never.
1011
02:36:41,894 --> 02:36:45,022
There was a lot of grief
1012
02:36:45,106 --> 02:36:47,441
and fear and pain.
1013
02:36:47,525 --> 02:36:51,153
But I've never regretted it
nor envied anyone.
1014
02:36:53,239 --> 02:36:55,157
It's just fate.
1015
02:36:56,784 --> 02:36:59,203
It's life. It's us.
1016
02:37:04,667 --> 02:37:08,421
And if there were no sorrow in our lives,
it wouldn't be better.
1017
02:37:10,131 --> 02:37:11,716
It would be worse.
1018
02:37:14,427 --> 02:37:19,223
Because then
there would be no happiness either.
1019
02:37:21,767 --> 02:37:24,145
And there'd be no hope.
1020
02:37:27,481 --> 02:37:28,691
So...
1021
02:38:15,154 --> 02:38:18,783
I love those eyes of yours, my friend,
1022
02:38:18,866 --> 02:38:23,496
Their sparkling, flashing, fiery wonder;
1023
02:38:23,579 --> 02:38:27,333
When suddenly those lids ascend,
1024
02:38:27,416 --> 02:38:30,836
Then lightning rips the sky asunder;
1025
02:38:30,920 --> 02:38:35,007
You swiftly glance, and there's an end;
1026
02:38:35,091 --> 02:38:38,678
There's greater charm, though, to admire
1027
02:38:38,761 --> 02:38:42,223
When lowered are those eyes divine
1028
02:38:42,306 --> 02:38:45,851
Ln moments kissed by passion's fire;
1029
02:38:45,935 --> 02:38:50,022
When through the downcast lashes shine
1030
02:38:50,106 --> 02:38:56,612
The smoldering embers of desire...