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This is my first case and you have

a right to reject my assignment

and ask for a more

experienced solicitor

No need

- Sit down

- Thanks... Nailed down.

- Don't worry, just ask questions

- Thanks

Did you have a personal enmity

towards Papishvili?

- Then why did you beat him up?

- I didn't, he locked the door

- Did you break the chandelier?

- Yes

- Why?

- He is a scoundrel.

- So you did have an enmity

towards him? - No

Listen, at the moment your case is

considered to be a serious offence

and may result in you being

jailed for on to six years

But if there was a reason,

a personal enmity,

then it is less serious offence,

jail term from six months to a year

You understand,

it's very important?

There wasnt anything.

Listen, mate, say it was a joke.

Why to put a good man into a jail?

What about the chandelier made of

Venetian glass, 3,000 roubles?

- We'll pay for it. - OK

- I swear we'll pay it off in 3 years.

Tree years! Listen, mate,

Im not interested in any scheme of yours.

- Place of birth.

- Town of Telavi.

- Current address.

- Moscow, Stroitelnaja 23, flat 57.

- Where do you work?

- Depot Number 2.

- Your job?

- An ordinary staff member

What can you say

about the incident?

What can I say? There is metro station

in Moscow named after Bagrationi.

When I pass it my eyes

well up with tears of pride,

I'm proud that this

great man is my compatriot.

Now, when I look at this bench,

I have tear in my eyes,

but different sort of tears,

the tears of shame.

I'm ashamed

to be a Georgian.

Don't get distracted.

This man broke into my flat,

viciously attacked me,

was using swear words...

- Broke a Venetian chandelier!

May I ask a question?

Why did you take a medical certificate

only a week after the incident?

I was busy.

Why didn't you take it

from a local GP?

What's the difference?

Have you known

the defendant before?

No

Listen, friend, you have good eyes,

I can see you are a good man.

They've accused a good man there,

he's never touched him,

but that bad man

bought a certificate,

the solicitor is a little girl,

should be playing dolls,

what's happening, how could they

trust her with a mans life?

Let's go, you'll be a witness too.

Another one.

I can't. I'm the solicitor's father.

- And you?

- Her husband. She told us to leave.

Hachikian!

Witness Hachikian, do I have to

chase you all over Moscow?

You said all witnesses

to leave, I left.

Why chasing?

I'm standing here.

Everybody can see.

Listen, friend, you have good eyes,

I can see you are a good man. Help.

Come with me.

- Sorry, friend.

- Go.

Come in five years!

- I'll help.

- You will.

- Where do you work?

- Depot No 2, Im a driver.

- What can you tell us?

- I can tell you everything.

The victim opened the door and

the defendant said "Hello, dear friend"

The victim said, "sorry,

want to go to the toilet",

then she went outside

and shouted "police, police"

And I said, "Valik-dzhan, let's go home".

So you say that the defendant

did not attack the victim?

Of course not, he went to the toilet

and he couldn't break the door.

He tried to break the door?

Why break?

Listen, my Russian

is not very good.

He knocked at the door

and said he wants to go too.

You ask such questions...

Awkward.

- Did the defendant break the chandelier?

- Yes, he did, why deny it.

When we were leaving he caught it

with a chair accidentally.

I have a question, may I?

Did the defendant feel personal

enmity towards the victim?

He did. He said, "such a big

personal enmity I feel to the victim",

"I can't even eat".

But the defendant states that

he did not know Papishvili.

Listen, how he could know? When he went

to the toilet, Valiko asked, "who was that?"

"Where did he go?

I see him for the first time."

You say the defendant

never met the victim,

why did he come there then?

- We were selling a tire.

His tires are bald, those Zhiguli...

What do they think about?

Messing around

under one's feet...

We've got Volga, not Zhiguli

Listen, did I interrupt you?

Wait. Don't interrupt either.

Sorry.

- Whose tire was that?

- Mine, I bought it for my neighbour.

Valiko didn't have any money,

I wanted to sell it to lend him.

Did he come to Moscow

without money?

Listen, who comes to Moscow without

money? He went to a restaurant,

this and that,

you know... Gone.

- No more questions.

- Sit down, witness.

- I have a question to the defendant.

- Go ahead.

Defendant, you seem

to be a normal person

Came to a flat, chased a man,

broke the furniture. There should

be some reason for that?

No

Valiko, what's "daddy"?

The actions of the defendant should

be qualified under the Act 206, part 2.

I ask the court for a sentence

of two years of jail.

Your turn,

Svetlana Georgievna

After an inquiry to the police department

of Telavi Ive got the answer:

- May I read it?

- Read on.

- Answer to your inquiry...

- Louder, please.

An fight between Papishvili and Mizandari

took place at a restaurant on 15.10.1967.

Mizandari chased Papishvili,

who tried to hide himself in a toilet,

he dipped his head into the toilet

3-4 times, after which was arrested.

Mr. Mizandari refused

to explain his actions.

However his sister,

E.K. Mizandari, said,

that in 1965 she worked at Depot No 2

as a subordinate of Papishvili.

He promised to marry her,

took advantage of her,

however he did not

honour his promise.

E.K. Mizandari left the depot.

She lives in the village of Tarklo,

where she works at a farm.

In 1966 she gave birth to a son Varlaam.

It's not my child.

There is something else.

Concerning the price of the chandelier,

I've got an expert opinion.

It is not Venetian, but made in Voronezh,

and it's recommended

price is 37 roubles 46 kopeks.

I didn't know, Nugzar,

I swear on my honour!

So what?

50 roubles fine and a compensation!

- Rubik-dzhan, are you passing

the Red Bridge in Tbilisi? - Yes

- I'll get off there

- No, I'll give you a lift home

I've got plenty of time, I've asked

for a leave without pay

- Where did you live all this time?

- At some friends from the depot

- Listen, where does that cat work?

- What cat?

The one that didn't

come to the Bolshoi.

She is a stewardess

on international flights.

What do you want?

If a woman every day sees

an actor, an academician,

a cosmonaut, can

touch Ishtojan just like this,

and who are you?

- Stop here, please

- What's wrong?

I won't go

- Thanks for everything, Rubik-dzhan

- We'll see each other later?

I think so.

Wait!

You are 35 already, we don't

take anybody after 35

- My birthday was three days ago.

- You should have come three days before

- I couldn't, I was in jail.

- Where?

In Butyrka, second floor, room 8

- You know what's happened...

- I do. Go to the cashier and get a ticket

- Guys, do you want to buy

a watch? 5 roubles. - Got one.

- 3 roubles.

- Let me have a look.

- Is it shock resistant?

- Shock and magnetic resistant.

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