Stalin Page #5

He's to know where you are.

Hello, yes? Sergei.

It's your husband.

He wants to talk to you.

Koba, she's coming.

You're going to Moscow?

Tell comrade Stalin what is happening!

Tell him they have taken all:

our lands,

all food, our lives.

They send us away...

comrade Stalin doesn't know!

Tell him! Tell comrade Stalin!

Beria!

Don't dance with your life -

you get in the way.

She's a wonderful dancer you say.

You say! Tell her to show us.

Don't stop! Play, play!

Nadya! We'd be hoping you'd come.

So, you're back. Good, good.

I have a message for you.

My wife delivers messages.

From an old woman.

My wife delivers messages

from old women.

The train stopped at a station.

On one side there was a freight train.

Cars filled with people

being deported.

Bodies pitched out onto the rails...

One station! How many more are there!?

A woman ran to me,

begging me to tell Stalin,

"The Great Stalin" that people

were being starved to death.

If only the great Stalin knew

then he would save his people.

But YOU celebrate the 15-th

anniversary of the revolution

and comrade Stalin feeds his friends

while his people starve.

Is this what the revolution was for?

Play! Play!

I'd better go.

Nadya!

I loved him, Zina! I loved him!

He'll never forgive me.

He'll punish me, punishes everyone.

Perhaps you should go away for a while.

- Where, where can I away from Stalin go?

Where they join of others.

Know - to a camp.

Yes, he would send me to a camp!

No, he wouldn't do that.

- No, you think not?

I would talk to him.

No?

Be careful.

Protect yourself. I'll beg for you.

I will go away somewhere,

you were right.

I will go with you.

- No!

My friend, my dear friend.

I have to go away alone.

Have to go alone. Just go away.

You were right.

You knew.

You take care of everyone

while I am away. Huh?

I depend on you for this.

I love you.

Koba!

Koba!

Cover her.

He told me that Nadya left him

as it can't be.

That's why he didn't come

to the funeral?

My friend has buried his heart today.

His heart?

- He's berried his heart with a lie -

that come to me that

all she died of appendicitis.

Yes, he loved her. Yes, he killed her.

Yes, he is killing millions

on the country-side

and yes, our eyes are shut.

Who are we? What are we?

What are we now?

Why did you betray me? why?

My father called the famine

a fairy-tale.

And sold to other nations the grain

that would have saved his own people.

He used the money to industrialize

our nation of peasants.

The people were pushed day and night

to make themselves greater,

Russia greater, Stalin greater.

All I knew was that my mother had been

dead for two years and we missed her.

Wake up! Wake up, sleepy head!

Wake up, Wake up!

My little house-keeper is bringing me

tedious this afternoon. Why?

Grandma's taking me

to Nikolai's wedding.

Is that so. .

Sacha Vasiliyevna?

It's not only us that Hitler

is threatening, it's the world.

We need a new strategy;

we need to unite the word.

You're such an idealist, Bukharin.

Where's the bride? This is for the bride!

Anya Michaylovna,

for years I've been waiting for you

to be old enough to drink this.

Thank you, Uncle Sergei!

- And this, Nikolai's for you.

What?

What's that?

Oh! A fox!

I had this creature in the sites of my

gun but it looked straight in my eyes.

"There's a renaissance man" it said,

"You should take me as a present".

Tell the truth, Kirov,

you were scared to death.

You tell the truth:

how did you win this girl?

It was I who want him and it wasn't easy.

I pretended I was younger than he was.

So I want to make a toast now.

To Nikolai! My gentle,

open-hearted husband.

So believes in the goodness

of people because he is good.

To Nikolai!

Hum, another guest!

Bukharchick, congratulations!

You forgot! Forgot.

Congratulations!

Papa!

Did you think you would merry our

Nikolai, and Stalin not know about it?

Nikolai, Nikolai,

you've outgone me again.

We all love you, Nikolai.

Stalin loves him. Lenin loved him.

My dearest, dearest Nadya...

loved him.

Is that not so?

What a beautiful bride! And I wish

you both the greatest happiness!

Kirov. We need talk.

We'll send Yagoda's deputy

to Leningrad.

What for?

There're people that want to get you.

No, believe me, believe me.

Unsuspected ones...

trusted by you.

You have placed

one of your own men in Leningrad?

The central committee...

The central committee have,

without consulting me,

sent the man to NKVD in Leningrad?

He will be deputy...

to your man Medved.

Thank you, comrade Stalin.

I have to get back to Leningrad.

Kirov was a popular man.

People who had turned

against my father and his methods...

saw Kirov as their best hope

for salvation.

And my father knew.

Yes.

Yes. One moment, please.

It's Stalin!

This is Yagoda.

Yes, comrade Stalin!

That summer my father reorganized

state security.

And appointed Yagoda chief.

My father had many houses but the one

he lived in most was just outside Moscow.

It was a fortress

with walls and guards.

My father began to spend most

of his time behind these walls.

Charlie Chaplin Yagoda,

Charlie Chaplin.

Every film shown in Russia had to be

personally approved by my father.

He loved American films the most:

musicals, gangster movies, comedies.

Charlie Chaplin was his favorite.

Is the German material ready?

- Yes, Koba.

You go on, this one would not

interest you, Svetlana, go on.

Can you find your way back without me?

Oh, don't worry about papa, no... go!

Did you come to comrade Kirov last night?

A very popular man, isnt he?

Yes.

In Moscow it's not as in Leningrad.

- Yes.

And Sergei is so - an exceptional leader,

always considerate and always...

decisive?

- Yes.

Do you not think he is aware of it?

- Aware of... what, comrade Stalin?

The conspiracy! To make him

General Secretary instead of me.

It's... hard to know, comrade Stalin.

It's your business to know.

bLeningrad

December 1, 1934/b

In the car, comrade Kirov,

at least drove the curtains.

For safety.

- For safety, my friend, I have you.

Comrade Medved. NKVD.

You were in charge of

comrade's Kirov security?

Yes, comrade Stalin!

Comrade Nicolayev,

why did you kill comrade Kirov, why?

I, I, ...

- Don't lie!

You keep lying to comrade Stalin.

You didn't that alone, no.

But who helped you?

Co... comrade Yagoda.

No, no. No.

You never saw

comrade Yagoda before today.

You NEVER saw...

comrade Yagoda before today.

Is that true?

It was someone else, who approached you -

who would hate comrade Kirov?

One of Zinoviev's people, right?

But, you can't remember who. You need

help in remembering who.

We've arrested your wife, your mother, ...

Know you want them released, don't you?

We'll send you to a new place, new home,

new body-guard - to be very careful.

But... what am I... going...

to remember?

What you're told: Names, places, ...

everything you've forgotten.

Yes. Here, do you want.

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