1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:04,260 --> 00:00:06,217 For as long as I can remember, 3 00:00:06,380 --> 00:00:09,896 my grandparents have told me stories about my birth, 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 5 00:00:10,060 --> 00:00:13,530 They tended to sugarcoat the unpleasant events In life, 6 00:00:13,700 --> 00:00:17,773 Living an idealised reality was the only possibility. 7 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:21,656 In truth, the setbacks already began at my birth. 8 00:00:21,820 --> 00:00:25,370 I was born into an Ingrian family by mistake, 9 00:00:30,020 --> 00:00:31,499 Listen, young lady. 10 00:00:31,780 --> 00:00:34,932 In the Soviet Union women give birth in silence. 11 00:00:37,740 --> 00:00:42,291 When I say “hop", everybody pushes. 12 00:00:47,860 --> 00:00:50,500 It's no use crying. 13 00:00:50,660 --> 00:00:51,650 And... hop! 14 00:00:52,860 --> 00:00:55,852 Yes, it's coming! 15 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:04,289 Good heavens, it's so small. 16 00:01:13,940 --> 00:01:15,738 Listen... 17 00:01:18,460 --> 00:01:20,212 Why is he so quiet? 18 00:01:20,380 --> 00:01:23,338 He was born prematurely. He has no immune system. 19 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:27,209 His lungs aren't fully developed. Premature babies cry quietly. 20 00:01:27,380 --> 00:01:30,372 Where are you taking him? 21 00:01:37,740 --> 00:01:40,129 Mum! - Johanna! 22 00:01:40,860 --> 00:01:43,374 They took my boy! 23 00:01:43,860 --> 00:01:46,329 RECEPTION 24 00:01:49,180 --> 00:01:52,810 Stop. It's for doctors and patients only. 25 00:01:53,260 --> 00:01:55,171 Open the door! 26 00:01:56,100 --> 00:01:58,091 Immediately! 27 00:02:00,180 --> 00:02:01,853 Hurry! 28 00:02:17,460 --> 00:02:20,498 Oh, come on. If he dies, 29 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:24,338 you don't have to be ashamed of a fatherless child. 30 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:26,377 You ingrate! 31 00:02:26,660 --> 00:02:30,813 What? - Hey, don't start with this again. 32 00:02:31,900 --> 00:02:35,495 You say all sorts of things when you feel emotional. 33 00:02:36,420 --> 00:02:39,014 He doesn't look dead to me. 34 00:02:39,700 --> 00:02:45,173 He looks like Lenin, sleeping in his sarcophagus. 35 00:02:45,340 --> 00:02:48,970 Maybe his father was a relative of Lenin. - Väikki... 36 00:02:50,140 --> 00:02:53,576 Are you drunk? - A bit. 37 00:02:54,340 --> 00:02:57,571 This is an important day to be a bit drunk. 38 00:02:57,740 --> 00:03:00,653 What do you mean there are no incubators? 39 00:03:00,820 --> 00:03:03,334 My daughter is going to die. - Calm down... 40 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:06,492 Do something or I'll call the higher-ups! 41 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:10,376 We're short on incubators, 42 00:03:10,540 --> 00:03:13,214 so we are forced to use your incubator. 43 00:03:13,860 --> 00:03:16,613 My son has no immunity! 44 00:03:18,220 --> 00:03:22,134 You have no right to do this. - Open the door immediately! 45 00:03:22,620 --> 00:03:24,338 I'll contact the authorities! 46 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:26,537 Calm down! 47 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:28,657 Please... 48 00:03:29,020 --> 00:03:32,934 I beg you, miss. Help us. 49 00:03:34,540 --> 00:03:38,090 We have no time to lose. She's going to die. 50 00:03:52,420 --> 00:03:57,017 Please behave yourselves. We shouldn't allow visitors in here. 51 00:03:57,220 --> 00:04:00,850 And comrade, please don't contact the authorities. 52 00:04:02,780 --> 00:04:06,011 Fine. - Thank you. 53 00:04:14,540 --> 00:04:18,454 Look at that. A Soviet romance. 54 00:04:18,820 --> 00:04:21,653 I don't know how to thank you. 55 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:26,497 Lidia Dzhoharevna Durdebayeva. 56 00:04:27,620 --> 00:04:30,294 Johanna Väinovna Tarkkinen. 57 00:04:31,020 --> 00:04:33,580 Now then, let's drink to love! 58 00:04:42,420 --> 00:04:44,616 Tamerlan Ahmedovitch Durdebayev. 59 00:04:45,220 --> 00:04:47,939 Véino Eerovitsch Tarkkinen. 60 00:04:51,620 --> 00:04:54,612 To love! - To love. 61 00:05:01,660 --> 00:05:04,254 From the comforting silence of the incubator 62 00:05:04,420 --> 00:05:06,650 I landed between two warring women. 63 00:05:06,820 --> 00:05:10,370 I instantly found myself between freedom and discipline. 64 00:05:11,980 --> 00:05:14,017 Tarakanin! 65 00:05:19,820 --> 00:05:21,936 Tarkkinen, Tarkkinen... 66 00:05:23,380 --> 00:05:26,736 It says here that the child was due in January. 67 00:05:27,940 --> 00:05:30,932 As you can clearly see, he was born in October. 68 00:05:34,660 --> 00:05:39,939 And why does it say "unknown" under the father's name? 69 00:05:42,220 --> 00:05:44,018 Well... 70 00:05:44,460 --> 00:05:47,179 We don't know much about the father. 71 00:05:48,300 --> 00:05:51,338 You can put "arsehole" in there for all I care. 72 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:55,698 You don't even have an apartment where to bring up the child. 73 00:05:55,860 --> 00:05:59,376 The child should be taken by the Commission for Minors. 74 00:06:01,940 --> 00:06:04,853 There's no need for that. 75 00:06:05,020 --> 00:06:07,899 No need to call anyone. 76 00:06:08,580 --> 00:06:13,097 Let's say he is Leninovitch, son of Lenin. 77 00:06:13,260 --> 00:06:19,939 Lenin was the father of all Soviet children of single mothers. 78 00:06:26,020 --> 00:06:29,570 So that's settled then. 79 00:06:30,020 --> 00:06:33,297 I will also line you up for an apartment. 80 00:06:33,460 --> 00:06:36,213 Thank you! - Thank you so much. 81 00:06:37,420 --> 00:06:39,934 But it will take some time. 82 00:06:41,060 --> 00:06:44,257 Five years, as the houses haven't been built yet. 83 00:06:44,500 --> 00:06:48,334 Five years? - Five, maybe ten. 84 00:06:50,380 --> 00:06:53,896 Your special relationship with Lenin won't help you there. 85 00:07:02,140 --> 00:07:06,373 My student mother wanted to bring me up using experimental methods. 86 00:07:08,140 --> 00:07:11,337 But Grandma wanted me to become a decent Homo Sovieflcus, 87 00:07:12,940 --> 00:07:15,659 It was a battle of ideologies. 88 00:07:23,100 --> 00:07:25,489 Oh, bloody hell! 89 00:07:25,660 --> 00:07:27,014 SILENCE AT 11 PM 90 00:07:30,740 --> 00:07:33,129 GOODBYE SOVIET UNION 91 00:07:33,340 --> 00:07:36,173 My grandparents lived In a closed town. 92 00:07:36,340 --> 00:07:39,412 The border guards not only kept foreigners out 93 00:07:39,580 --> 00:07:41,457 but also local people in. 94 00:07:41,620 --> 00:07:43,054 There you go. 95 00:07:48,340 --> 00:07:51,890 This peculiar place was called Leningrad 3, 96 00:07:52,060 --> 00:07:54,131 which wasn't even on the map. 97 00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:57,213 There was a secret uranium plant in the town 98 00:07:57,380 --> 00:07:59,690 that was never spoken at 99 00:08:00,540 --> 00:08:03,737 Officially it was just a “fabric-dying plant“, 100 00:08:03,900 --> 00:08:06,938 and ii was forbidden to swim in the sea. 101 00:08:11,100 --> 00:08:14,172 The Soviet Union struggled with permanent shortage, 102 00:08:14,340 --> 00:08:18,538 but in Leningrad 3, the only thing we lacked was freedom. 103 00:08:19,660 --> 00:08:23,255 While Gorbachev's glasnost hit the rest of the Soviet Union, 104 00:08:23,420 --> 00:08:27,175 Lenim'sm only got stronger in Leningrad 3. 105 00:08:32,740 --> 00:08:35,380 This is my first childhood memory. 106 00:08:35,540 --> 00:08:37,816 I still had my bangs, 107 00:08:37,980 --> 00:08:40,813 so I was an easy target for the iota! kids. 108 00:08:45,100 --> 00:08:49,139 Fortunately, Uncle Kolya taught them who I was related to, 109 00:08:49,380 --> 00:08:51,849 Run, you little bastards! 110 00:08:52,020 --> 00:08:54,534 At home we listened to the Finnish radio, 111 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:57,692 leaving the tap running because of KGB. 112 00:08:57,860 --> 00:09:02,013 That is how we learned the truth about Chernobyl. 113 00:09:02,300 --> 00:09:07,659 ...the citizens of the nearby residential areas have been evacuated, 114 00:09:10,140 --> 00:09:13,496 Uncle Kolya avoided being posted to ground zero 115 00:09:13,900 --> 00:09:15,652 by going on sick leave. 116 00:09:24,140 --> 00:09:26,450 Mother came to see me once a month, 117 00:09:26,620 --> 00:09:30,932 She brought her boyfriends with her, but luckily also presents. 118 00:09:31,660 --> 00:09:34,732 I vividly remember the day I got my first friend, 119 00:09:34,900 --> 00:09:36,777 Crocodile Gena. 120 00:09:37,740 --> 00:09:41,654 You didn't run out on your friend. Make room for me. 121 00:09:42,700 --> 00:09:45,135 Crocodile Gena, play us the accordion. 122 00:09:58,260 --> 00:10:02,094 Usually people had to wait for decades to get a private car, 123 00:10:02,380 --> 00:10:06,931 but one of Mother's boyfriends gave me my very own Moskvitch. 124 00:10:18,060 --> 00:10:20,529 Hey lad, stop! Call for backup! 125 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:24,375 Gena and I tried to drive to Tallinn with it to see my mother. 126 00:10:24,540 --> 00:10:29,091 Comrade Tarkkinen, it's the militia You're expected at home. 127 00:10:29,260 --> 00:10:30,819 Stop! 128 00:10:40,460 --> 00:10:43,134 But all we could do was wait. 129 00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:11,295 Stop! 130 00:11:12,100 --> 00:11:16,856 Look at her. Such a weird hairdo and everything. 131 00:11:17,020 --> 00:11:19,694 Came here empty-handed and with no boyfriend. 132 00:11:19,860 --> 00:11:21,851 Quit being a fool! 133 00:11:22,020 --> 00:11:23,818 Mum! 134 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:29,135 What did that border guard want? 135 00:11:30,740 --> 00:11:32,413 He didn't like my badge. 136 00:11:32,820 --> 00:11:36,017 What badge? What did it say? 137 00:11:36,180 --> 00:11:39,536 “We oppose the Afghan war. " - You silly pheasant! 138 00:12:16,100 --> 00:12:19,331 Have you told Grandma our secret? 139 00:12:24,340 --> 00:12:27,492 Not yet, but I will. 140 00:12:33,060 --> 00:12:34,778 Hands off! 141 00:12:34,940 --> 00:12:37,580 Leave me be, this is important. 142 00:12:38,140 --> 00:12:40,177 A small toast. 143 00:12:42,020 --> 00:12:46,935 So they want to send you to Afghanistan, Kolya? 144 00:12:48,780 --> 00:12:51,772 But you're limping. 145 00:12:53,820 --> 00:12:57,097 You must break your other leg as well, then. 146 00:12:58,220 --> 00:13:03,659 It's no use. A proper heart attack is what I need. 147 00:13:03,820 --> 00:13:06,380 How's that for a toast, Véiné. 148 00:13:09,020 --> 00:13:11,375 I have a present for you. 149 00:13:13,020 --> 00:13:15,694 The boarder guard confiscated one, 150 00:13:16,060 --> 00:13:19,576 but it's a good thing I have plenty of them left. 151 00:13:19,740 --> 00:13:23,210 You can get punched in the face for that in here. 152 00:13:23,380 --> 00:13:25,018 Don't touch. 153 00:13:25,180 --> 00:13:28,775 Is Afghanistan as dangerous as Chernobyl? - No. 154 00:13:30,180 --> 00:13:34,492 I'll take my magic suit with me. It will protect me. 155 00:13:34,700 --> 00:13:38,898 You can even swim in Leningrad 3's waters with this. 156 00:13:39,700 --> 00:13:42,374 Now you're telling stories. - Really? 157 00:13:42,820 --> 00:13:44,697 Am I? 158 00:13:57,820 --> 00:14:01,700 Damn it, Véikki. Are you taking pictures of the plant? 159 00:14:01,860 --> 00:14:04,056 That's enough, Mum. 160 00:14:05,700 --> 00:14:08,055 I'm taking Johannes with me. 161 00:14:08,980 --> 00:14:13,019 Taking him where? - To Tallinn. 162 00:14:15,300 --> 00:14:19,692 To Tallinn, huh? And where will you live? 163 00:14:19,980 --> 00:14:23,575 In that horrible student hostel? 164 00:14:24,820 --> 00:14:29,018 Why can't you get a normal hairdo and live a normal life. 165 00:14:29,180 --> 00:14:31,740 Hairdo, hairdo... Leave my hair out of this! 166 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:35,973 Johannes is missing nothing here. All his friends are here... 167 00:14:36,140 --> 00:14:39,610 Gena is coming with us. He's the only friend I have anyway. 168 00:14:39,780 --> 00:14:41,214 What? 169 00:14:41,380 --> 00:14:46,819 You want to leave Grandma after everything I've done for you? 170 00:14:46,980 --> 00:14:50,939 Leave my child alone! Don't be such a pain in the neck. 171 00:14:51,100 --> 00:14:54,138 I won't allow it. - You've ruined my life! 172 00:15:04,380 --> 00:15:07,338 I'll swim to Tallinn if I have to. 173 00:15:08,060 --> 00:15:10,495 Johannes! 174 00:15:20,580 --> 00:15:22,253 Mum! 175 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:31,537 This is all your fault! 176 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:34,533 Out of the way, I'm a specialist. 177 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:37,772 He swallowed a lot of sea water. 178 00:15:39,020 --> 00:15:45,130 We have a case of blue algae poisoning. Department 3. 179 00:15:56,620 --> 00:15:58,213 Mum! 180 00:15:58,980 --> 00:16:01,654 You're not allowed to take photos in here! 181 00:16:01,820 --> 00:16:05,450 This is not blue algae poisoning. I demand an investigation! 182 00:16:07,660 --> 00:16:09,537 Good day. 183 00:16:09,700 --> 00:16:12,579 What's going on, comrades? 184 00:16:12,740 --> 00:16:15,573 This woman was taking photos. 185 00:16:16,820 --> 00:16:19,414 Right. Hand me the camera. 186 00:16:19,580 --> 00:16:21,810 This place need some glasnost. 187 00:16:21,980 --> 00:16:24,699 What Glasnost? Give me the camera. 188 00:16:25,460 --> 00:16:28,134 Just settle down now. 189 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:32,339 Listen to your mother. - So, give me the camera. 190 00:16:32,660 --> 00:16:35,459 You want the camera? You can have it! 191 00:16:37,020 --> 00:16:38,931 Keep your hands off my boy! 192 00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:50,094 Johannes, don't be afraid. 193 00:16:50,940 --> 00:16:54,649 You were already in a sarcophagus when you were born. 194 00:16:54,860 --> 00:16:57,818 Grandpa promises that everything will be ok. 195 00:16:58,420 --> 00:17:05,451 Johannes, grab the crocodile's hand. 196 00:17:22,980 --> 00:17:26,769 As my mother demanded an investigation into my poisoning, 197 00:17:26,940 --> 00:17:30,934 the officials begun to doubt her ability to raise me. 198 00:17:34,580 --> 00:17:38,255 I lost half my hair to the Soviet Union due to the radiation, 199 00:17:38,420 --> 00:17:42,493 and my mother's haircut went through perestros'ka in KGB's hands. 200 00:17:43,060 --> 00:17:45,256 Uncle Kolya was sent to Afghanistan, 201 00:17:45,420 --> 00:17:47,889 and my grandparents lost their home. 202 00:17:48,060 --> 00:17:51,451 Only my radioactive friend was left across the border. 203 00:17:54,620 --> 00:17:57,533 CROCODILE GENA (1985-1988) 204 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:31,697 That's not how you tie a Young Pioneer's scarf. 205 00:18:31,860 --> 00:18:36,138 You're not fit to raise the boy by yourself. 206 00:18:36,636 --> 00:18:38,547 Especially in a place like this. 207 00:18:39,756 --> 00:18:44,227 Demobilising the Soviet soldiers has proved difficult... 208 00:18:44,396 --> 00:18:47,115 Any news (mm mm Kuhn? 209 00:18:48,956 --> 00:18:53,268 "Some of them have had to remain in Afghanistan. 210 00:18:54,036 --> 00:18:57,427 Our young soldiers WEI! be rewarded for their courage... 211 00:18:57,796 --> 00:19:02,393 Listen, Väikki. Hasn't the boy suffered enough? 212 00:19:02,556 --> 00:19:05,912 From now on, news about Afghanistan are off-limits. 213 00:19:06,076 --> 00:19:09,194 And no beer in the morning. 214 00:19:09,356 --> 00:19:12,075 You have to drive us to school. 215 00:19:16,116 --> 00:19:18,392 Johanna Tarkkinen? 216 00:19:32,316 --> 00:19:35,035 I've been expelled from the university. 217 00:19:35,196 --> 00:19:37,790 We have to leave this place, too. 218 00:19:45,156 --> 00:19:48,911 Johannes, you have to go. You're going to be late. 219 00:19:49,076 --> 00:19:52,546 You are going to school and I am finishing my studies. 220 00:20:00,876 --> 00:20:03,231 Johannes darling. 221 00:20:04,636 --> 00:20:08,470 If life in Leningrad 3 was stuck in the 19505, 222 00:20:08,636 --> 00:20:13,915 in my new surroundings the pulsating '805 was In full swing. 223 00:20:17,356 --> 00:20:21,429 Attention. We will gather In the gym In a few moments. 224 00:20:21,596 --> 00:20:23,746 Everything was different 225 00:20:26,836 --> 00:20:28,588 And I mean everything! 226 00:20:36,956 --> 00:20:40,551 Johannes Leninovitch Tarkkinen. Stop defacing the statue. 227 00:20:42,276 --> 00:20:45,155 You guys catch that? - No. 228 00:20:45,396 --> 00:20:49,230 Do you speak Estonian? You speak like some mongol. 229 00:20:49,836 --> 00:20:52,305 You can't deface comrade Lenin like that. 230 00:21:00,356 --> 00:21:02,393 Stop that. 231 00:21:02,996 --> 00:21:04,794 Shut up, fatty. 232 00:21:04,956 --> 00:21:07,516 You were born here yet can't even speak Estonian. 233 00:21:13,276 --> 00:21:17,190 Goddamn idiots! Let me teach you some geography. 234 00:21:17,356 --> 00:21:20,553 We are from Chechnya. We don't need to learn Estonian. 235 00:21:20,716 --> 00:21:23,595 Estonians. Get away from there and fast. 236 00:21:23,756 --> 00:21:26,635 Run, you cowards. 237 00:21:30,716 --> 00:21:33,947 Thanks, you saved my skin. I owe you one. 238 00:21:34,116 --> 00:21:38,314 No, you don't. Just ignore those karat Estonians. 239 00:21:39,916 --> 00:21:42,954 This is for you. - Thank you. 240 00:21:44,796 --> 00:21:46,946 What does karat mean? 241 00:21:47,116 --> 00:21:49,949 It's Estonian for "damn". They keep saying it. 242 00:21:50,356 --> 00:21:53,314 I'm Gennadi Tamerlanovitch Durdebayev. 243 00:21:53,476 --> 00:21:55,592 This is my sister Vera. 244 00:21:56,276 --> 00:21:59,394 Gennadi... Like Crocodile Gena? 245 00:22:00,236 --> 00:22:03,752 Johannes Leninovitch Tarkkinen. - Leninovitch? 246 00:22:03,916 --> 00:22:06,271 Was your father really Lenin? 247 00:22:06,436 --> 00:22:11,590 Grandpa says that Lenin is the father of all fatherless children. 248 00:22:11,756 --> 00:22:14,066 No wonder you got beaten up. 249 00:22:14,756 --> 00:22:17,794 So you are not Estonian? - I'm Ingrian. 250 00:22:17,956 --> 00:22:21,312 Ingrian? Never heard of it. 251 00:22:28,556 --> 00:22:31,070 I got my ass kicked the very first day. 252 00:22:31,236 --> 00:22:34,513 But my plastic crocodile friend was replaced bye real Gena 253 00:22:34,676 --> 00:22:36,553 and his sister. 254 00:22:44,876 --> 00:22:47,265 Vera seemed uncannily familial: 255 00:22:55,396 --> 00:22:58,434 We had already met each other In the Incubator. 256 00:23:38,236 --> 00:23:40,068 Come in. 257 00:23:40,236 --> 00:23:43,991 This belongs to Tamerlan's navigator Timofeyev. 258 00:23:44,156 --> 00:23:46,272 Three rooms. A shared kitchen. 259 00:23:46,436 --> 00:23:49,554 Our part with Tamerlan is over there, also three rooms. 260 00:23:49,716 --> 00:23:53,755 What do you saw Till my husband gets back from Afghanistan? 261 00:23:53,916 --> 00:23:57,432 It's better than living in that overcrowded dorm. 262 00:23:58,236 --> 00:24:01,069 Well, we got evicted from there as well. 263 00:24:01,236 --> 00:24:04,274 In that case you should definitely move in here. 264 00:24:04,436 --> 00:24:06,791 You helped me so much in the hospital. 265 00:24:06,956 --> 00:24:09,186 Let me help you in turn. 266 00:24:09,956 --> 00:24:13,108 My new life in Tallinn was like a dream. 267 00:24:13,276 --> 00:24:16,155 As long as the owner of the apartment 268 00:24:16,316 --> 00:24:19,388 would never come back from Afghanistan, 269 00:24:26,516 --> 00:24:29,668 Vera's and Gena's mother had a hair salon in the basement. 270 00:24:29,836 --> 00:24:33,147 and it's by-products were perfect props for our war games. 271 00:24:33,316 --> 00:24:35,910 I always played the role an Afghan enemy, 272 00:24:36,076 --> 00:24:39,467 but it gave me the perfect excuse to spend time with Vera. 273 00:24:39,636 --> 00:24:42,947 let's show them the meaning of socialistic industry 274 00:24:43,116 --> 00:24:46,393 That'll make them forget their religious imagery 275 00:24:46,556 --> 00:24:48,752 Afghanistan 276 00:24:49,996 --> 00:24:54,229 Unfortunately, Mother wasn't able to adjust to life under Grandma's rule, 277 00:25:26,676 --> 00:25:28,747 Still no hair... 278 00:25:28,916 --> 00:25:31,226 At first I thought it was hereditary, 279 00:25:31,396 --> 00:25:34,149 but you have a thick, full hair. 280 00:25:36,436 --> 00:25:38,746 Johannes had an accident. 281 00:25:40,596 --> 00:25:43,065 That's what made him bald? 282 00:25:45,236 --> 00:25:47,227 Poor boy... 283 00:25:50,476 --> 00:25:52,626 Don't apply too much. 284 00:25:53,956 --> 00:25:56,755 If only we had that Western stuff 285 00:25:56,916 --> 00:25:59,510 that all the pros use, Johnson & Johnson. 286 00:25:59,676 --> 00:26:02,395 I'm sure the result would be better. 287 00:26:06,036 --> 00:26:08,073 Why so sad? 288 00:26:11,916 --> 00:26:14,271 I have to find a job. 289 00:26:15,276 --> 00:26:19,315 Otherwise we can't have a life. I constantly argue with my mum. 290 00:26:19,676 --> 00:26:23,032 And soon your Tamerlan will be back home from the war. 291 00:26:23,236 --> 00:26:25,625 Don't you understand? 292 00:26:26,476 --> 00:26:28,228 The men will come back, 293 00:26:28,396 --> 00:26:31,070 but not necessarily straight back to their wives. 294 00:26:31,316 --> 00:26:33,512 When is Dad coming home then? 295 00:26:33,876 --> 00:26:35,992 How should I know? 296 00:26:36,876 --> 00:26:39,868 As a woman, my job is to wait. And yours too. 297 00:26:42,276 --> 00:26:45,587 Good evening, comrades. 298 00:26:46,036 --> 00:26:48,755 The following is an official announcement. 299 00:26:49,236 --> 00:26:52,911 The Soviet Union has decided to pull Its troops from Afghanistan. 300 00:26:53,076 --> 00:26:56,785 No Soviet soldiers will remain in Afghanistan... 301 00:27:00,396 --> 00:27:04,230 Why are you listening to news about Afghanistan again? 302 00:27:04,876 --> 00:27:08,346 Grandma is coming soon. You'll get us in trouble. 303 00:27:08,516 --> 00:27:11,872 Have there been any news about uncle Kolya? 304 00:27:12,476 --> 00:27:14,547 Johannes... 305 00:27:14,916 --> 00:27:17,192 We won't hear of him on the radio 306 00:27:18,516 --> 00:27:20,792 nor see him on the TV. 307 00:27:22,196 --> 00:27:24,836 We should prepare for the worst: 308 00:27:24,996 --> 00:27:28,193 we might never hear from him again. 309 00:27:29,476 --> 00:27:34,346 This is not acceptable. - At least I'm helping Lidia. 310 00:27:34,516 --> 00:27:37,952 Väikki! I told you not to listen to news about Afghanistan. 311 00:27:38,796 --> 00:27:41,914 Look, he's not listening. 312 00:27:43,236 --> 00:27:45,512 Switch to another channel. 313 00:27:49,196 --> 00:27:52,905 ...these people are real Finns 314 00:27:53,076 --> 00:27:57,070 who were sent there during the Swedish reign, 315 00:27:57,236 --> 00:28:00,945 They should now be allowed to move back to Finland, 316 00:28:02,516 --> 00:28:04,666 Tarkkinen... 317 00:28:12,276 --> 00:28:14,995 Have you heard the Finnish president's call 318 00:28:15,156 --> 00:28:17,796 for all Ingrians to return home? 319 00:28:18,596 --> 00:28:21,588 You wish to return as well? 320 00:28:26,156 --> 00:28:29,911 I'm not leaving, I'm only getting a job. 321 00:28:30,356 --> 00:28:32,711 I want to buy a flat. 322 00:28:33,076 --> 00:28:36,990 What's wrong with the one you have now? 323 00:28:37,276 --> 00:28:39,233 I don't own an apartment. 324 00:28:39,396 --> 00:28:42,912 We're temporarily living in my friend's apartment. 325 00:28:54,556 --> 00:28:57,947 Perhaps you are also to blame for your unemployment. 326 00:28:58,116 --> 00:29:01,234 Secret object. Leningrad 3. 327 00:29:01,436 --> 00:29:04,667 That's why you don't have an apartment. Look. 328 00:29:06,396 --> 00:29:08,228 Radiation. 329 00:29:10,516 --> 00:29:14,908 You wanted perestroika to come to Leningrad 3 as well. 330 00:29:16,156 --> 00:29:18,466 And now it is everywhere. 331 00:29:19,196 --> 00:29:22,507 But you want to run away to Finland. 332 00:29:22,716 --> 00:29:26,505 Tell me why you want to leave. What's the problem? 333 00:29:28,836 --> 00:29:31,669 Perhaps it was a mistake... 334 00:29:32,596 --> 00:29:34,746 I mean with Glasnost. 335 00:29:35,236 --> 00:29:38,388 Like I said, I need work. 336 00:29:40,276 --> 00:29:43,792 I have to take care of my family. 337 00:29:51,356 --> 00:29:53,996 Take it easy... 338 00:29:57,316 --> 00:30:00,035 How much will you be paid each month? 339 00:30:00,196 --> 00:30:02,028 I don't know... 340 00:30:02,196 --> 00:30:05,666 A cleaning woman gets about five to ten thousand marks. 341 00:30:11,956 --> 00:30:15,950 I can get you a permission to travel abroad. 342 00:30:16,796 --> 00:30:18,230 Permission... 343 00:30:18,396 --> 00:30:22,754 On the condition that you pay one quarter of your income to me. 344 00:30:23,756 --> 00:30:27,033 Yes, of course, one quarter. I understand... 345 00:30:27,196 --> 00:30:29,949 And you'll be behind the iron curtain. 346 00:30:31,076 --> 00:30:33,590 You'll be there for two years. 347 00:30:35,876 --> 00:30:37,594 Two years? 348 00:30:37,756 --> 00:30:40,555 Therefore your son will stay here. 349 00:30:41,996 --> 00:30:43,634 Why? 350 00:30:44,076 --> 00:30:46,636 In that case I have to reconsider... 351 00:30:46,796 --> 00:30:50,346 There's nothing to consider. Do you want to lose your son? 352 00:30:50,516 --> 00:30:52,109 You understand? 353 00:31:14,236 --> 00:31:17,513 Johannes, look at me. 354 00:31:18,556 --> 00:31:20,593 I'll come back. 355 00:31:22,436 --> 00:31:25,315 My mother promised to bring presents from West, 356 00:31:25,476 --> 00:31:28,707 just as she did when she lived in Tallinn. 357 00:31:34,836 --> 00:31:38,716 Johannes, you should really start talking now. 358 00:31:40,676 --> 00:31:42,747 At least smile a little. 359 00:31:42,916 --> 00:31:46,546 You're breaking Grandma's heart. 360 00:31:46,716 --> 00:31:49,230 Leave the poor boy alone. 361 00:31:50,716 --> 00:31:52,753 He needs time to think. 362 00:32:00,076 --> 00:32:03,387 Are you smiling? - What are you doing? 363 00:32:04,556 --> 00:32:06,513 It's called consoling, you idiot. 364 00:32:06,956 --> 00:32:10,870 I'm the idiot? Let's see what happens when dad gets home. 365 00:32:11,036 --> 00:32:13,710 What's the problem? - You're a girl and he's a boy. 366 00:32:13,956 --> 00:32:17,347 Listen, little Crocodile Gena. 367 00:32:17,516 --> 00:32:21,555 Johannes is a still a small boy and he needs consoling. 368 00:32:21,716 --> 00:32:25,596 Now take your sister's hand. 369 00:32:27,156 --> 00:32:30,114 Go ahead, Gennadi Tamerlanovitch! 370 00:32:30,836 --> 00:32:33,589 Good. Now everyone's happy. 371 00:32:39,996 --> 00:32:43,114 Freedom to Estonia, freedom to Estonia! 372 00:32:45,636 --> 00:32:48,150 Other people wanted things to change, too. 373 00:32:49,036 --> 00:32:50,595 But not all of them. 374 00:32:52,876 --> 00:32:54,833 Line up. 375 00:32:54,996 --> 00:32:59,513 Because of these demonstrations, 376 00:32:59,676 --> 00:33:02,987 our lessons will be held in the gym. 377 00:33:03,676 --> 00:33:06,555 Victory Day, May 9, 378 00:33:06,996 --> 00:33:09,670 is the most important day of all. 379 00:33:10,156 --> 00:33:13,353 Attention! Right face. 380 00:33:19,676 --> 00:33:24,512 The Western states consider themselves freedom fighters, which is untrue. 381 00:33:24,676 --> 00:33:28,749 In fact, the Soviet army liberated Europe 382 00:33:28,916 --> 00:33:32,147 and its people from the concentration camps. 383 00:33:32,316 --> 00:33:34,466 We can't forget this. 384 00:33:34,636 --> 00:33:36,115 Johannes. 385 00:33:41,396 --> 00:33:43,626 Johannes! 386 00:33:44,596 --> 00:33:48,908 Perhaps you went too far, comrade Ivanova? 387 00:33:52,236 --> 00:33:56,628 A 10-year-old has no reason to see dying people at a concentration camp. 388 00:33:57,276 --> 00:34:00,632 Didn't you consider the effect such thing will have 389 00:34:00,796 --> 00:34:02,707 on a small boy's mind? 390 00:34:03,516 --> 00:34:06,110 Johannes's reaction is normal. 391 00:34:06,276 --> 00:34:09,826 I'm more worried about the lack of reaction from the others. 392 00:34:09,996 --> 00:34:13,387 Children this young are unable to handle such imagery. 393 00:34:13,556 --> 00:34:16,628 There you go, an expert opinion. 394 00:34:16,916 --> 00:34:20,989 What was it that scared you? Was it theJews and how they... 395 00:34:21,156 --> 00:34:23,033 He doesn't understand. 396 00:34:23,196 --> 00:34:26,826 Johannes, she asked what scared you the most in this film. 397 00:34:26,996 --> 00:34:29,146 Was it the Jews? 398 00:34:29,796 --> 00:34:31,309 Or what? 399 00:34:32,436 --> 00:34:34,427 Mother. 400 00:34:35,076 --> 00:34:37,033 Mother? 401 00:34:37,436 --> 00:34:41,748 His mother works in Finland. Temporarily. 402 00:34:41,916 --> 00:34:45,875 And she left her only child alone? - No, she didn't leave him... 403 00:34:46,036 --> 00:34:49,427 But Johannes hasn't cried once since. 404 00:34:50,876 --> 00:34:55,393 It's okay to cry if you want to. But if you can't, 405 00:34:55,556 --> 00:34:58,628 then try to express your feelings through games. 406 00:34:58,796 --> 00:35:04,314 Have you ever heard of special therapy dolls? 407 00:35:04,916 --> 00:35:09,387 This here is your mother, and this one is you. 408 00:35:09,556 --> 00:35:13,265 "I love you." 409 00:35:15,116 --> 00:35:17,426 This part is ok. 410 00:35:19,356 --> 00:35:23,111 Rub this to the back, both sides and temples. 411 00:35:27,356 --> 00:35:29,313 Is your mother here? 412 00:35:31,876 --> 00:35:33,753 Lidia... 413 00:35:35,516 --> 00:35:41,148 Tamerlan was a brave soldier, the best father, a true comrade... 414 00:35:45,996 --> 00:35:48,636 The Fatherland will never forget him. 415 00:36:36,036 --> 00:36:38,312 We are mourning with you. 416 00:36:43,996 --> 00:36:48,115 As navigator Timufeyev Viktor Ivanovitch had no relatives, 417 00:36:48,276 --> 00:36:53,908 headquarters decided that you should have his remains. 418 00:37:11,436 --> 00:37:14,155 Lidotshka, darling. 419 00:37:14,316 --> 00:37:17,195 Calm down. I'll take Timofeyev. 420 00:37:20,436 --> 00:37:24,145 Gennadi Tamerlanovitch. Look at me. 421 00:37:24,836 --> 00:37:28,909 You are the head of the family now. 422 00:37:29,756 --> 00:37:32,145 Straighten your back. 423 00:37:34,756 --> 00:37:38,750 My dreams came true We got Timofeyev's flat. 424 00:37:38,916 --> 00:37:41,908 However, Vera's tears feit like a high price for it. 425 00:37:52,476 --> 00:37:54,433 What's that for? 426 00:37:54,596 --> 00:37:57,065 Wrap it around your body and blow yourself up. 427 00:37:57,236 --> 00:38:00,433 Are you mad? I'm not blowing myself up! 428 00:38:00,596 --> 00:38:04,271 Coward. Are you scared of fireworks? 429 00:38:04,436 --> 00:38:07,952 I won't allow my sister to play with a coward. 430 00:38:10,156 --> 00:38:12,909 If I win this battle, 431 00:38:13,396 --> 00:38:15,353 then Vera is mine. 432 00:38:17,236 --> 00:38:18,590 Got it? 433 00:38:21,636 --> 00:38:26,187 You've never won anything. You don't even know how to fight. 434 00:38:28,316 --> 00:38:32,389 Gena, this is not Caucasus. I can choose who I play with. 435 00:38:34,316 --> 00:38:35,465 Get off! 436 00:38:35,636 --> 00:38:38,947 This is your last battle. From now on you play alone. 437 00:38:40,556 --> 00:38:42,354 Leave him alone. 438 00:38:45,636 --> 00:38:47,866 And the price only got higher. 439 00:38:54,716 --> 00:38:56,992 Gena said you came up with this. 440 00:38:59,196 --> 00:39:00,675 Howie Vera? 441 00:39:01,916 --> 00:39:05,546 Answer me! Who came up with this idiotic game? 442 00:39:05,716 --> 00:39:08,469 It wasn't me. It was Gena. 443 00:39:08,636 --> 00:39:11,389 It was you. You wanted to impress Vera. 444 00:39:11,556 --> 00:39:13,866 We'll talk about this at home. 445 00:39:14,956 --> 00:39:19,029 Could you please go for a break? The finger will be okay. 446 00:39:19,756 --> 00:39:21,713 Johannes. 447 00:39:21,876 --> 00:39:25,107 Do you understand that you've ruined her life? 448 00:39:25,276 --> 00:39:27,552 Who'd want her with only one eye? 449 00:39:28,276 --> 00:39:30,426 I would. 450 00:39:39,156 --> 00:39:41,033 My husband is dead. 451 00:39:42,476 --> 00:39:45,229 My daughter might lose her eye. 452 00:39:45,396 --> 00:39:48,627 What have I done to desewe this? - Lidia... 453 00:39:50,316 --> 00:39:54,310 Gena plays war games because he is upset about his father's death. 454 00:39:54,756 --> 00:39:59,193 Why on earth would Johannes wear an explosive belt? 455 00:39:59,356 --> 00:40:01,825 That's a completely absurd idea. 456 00:40:02,756 --> 00:40:05,714 Gena, look at me. 457 00:40:07,676 --> 00:40:11,465 Are you sure that it was Johannes's idea? 458 00:40:16,996 --> 00:40:20,227 That's it. I forbid you from playing together anymore. 459 00:40:21,156 --> 00:40:23,909 And tomorrow I'll decide what to do with you. 460 00:40:30,396 --> 00:40:35,106 Where did he get such an idea? 461 00:40:35,356 --> 00:40:37,916 Johannes doesn't speak at all, 462 00:40:40,036 --> 00:40:42,676 Your mother wants to talk to you. 463 00:40:44,676 --> 00:40:46,633 This call is not free! 464 00:40:47,916 --> 00:40:49,145 Johannes. 465 00:40:49,436 --> 00:40:51,188 Listen to me. 466 00:40:51,356 --> 00:40:53,347 Everything will be okay. 467 00:40:53,516 --> 00:40:55,712 Mother loves you. 468 00:40:57,476 --> 00:40:59,433 Väikki! 469 00:40:59,596 --> 00:41:02,793 Look! The boy lost his marbles. 470 00:41:09,556 --> 00:41:11,786 Calm down. 471 00:41:44,836 --> 00:41:46,349 Johannes! 472 00:41:47,276 --> 00:41:49,586 You must hurry to school. 473 00:41:50,676 --> 00:41:52,906 For heaven's sake... 474 00:41:54,716 --> 00:41:57,868 You have to be ready in two minutes. 475 00:42:09,396 --> 00:42:11,228 Johannes. 476 00:42:11,396 --> 00:42:17,551 Grandma said that you're old enough 477 00:42:17,716 --> 00:42:21,914 to dress up yourself from now on. 478 00:42:22,476 --> 00:42:24,387 Good news. 479 00:42:24,556 --> 00:42:28,151 But Grandma will still tie your Young Pioneer's scarf. 480 00:42:31,076 --> 00:42:34,387 Now here is the bad news. 481 00:42:35,396 --> 00:42:38,036 Lidia wants us... 482 00:42:38,956 --> 00:42:44,156 ...to move away from here. 483 00:42:49,156 --> 00:42:51,386 Stop sulking. 484 00:42:52,516 --> 00:42:56,146 I have a real surprise for you this evening. 485 00:42:56,556 --> 00:42:59,628 It will make you jump for joy. 486 00:42:59,796 --> 00:43:01,434 Trust me. 487 00:43:23,756 --> 00:43:26,225 Tarkkinen, late again? 488 00:43:26,716 --> 00:43:29,674 From now on your place is at the back. 489 00:43:30,396 --> 00:43:34,515 We're just watching a documentary about our city 490 00:43:34,756 --> 00:43:36,952 where everything is wonderful. 491 00:43:51,036 --> 00:43:53,710 Vera, I'm really sorry. 492 00:43:54,516 --> 00:43:56,075 Get lost! - Gena. 493 00:43:56,236 --> 00:43:59,627 Shove off! Don't you get it? 494 00:43:59,796 --> 00:44:02,310 We can't play with you anymore! 495 00:44:02,676 --> 00:44:06,067 You made those belts because you were jealous! 496 00:44:06,236 --> 00:44:08,227 No, I didn't! 497 00:44:08,396 --> 00:44:10,956 Everybody loves you yet nothing is enough. 498 00:44:11,116 --> 00:44:13,232 Stay away from us! 499 00:44:14,956 --> 00:44:18,074 Freedom to Estonia... Freedom to Estonia. 500 00:44:18,236 --> 00:44:22,230 Children... Vera, Gena. Let's go home, quickly. 501 00:44:23,436 --> 00:44:25,791 Take that damn monument down! 502 00:44:25,956 --> 00:44:29,631 I would love to, but I'm not authorised to do so. 503 00:44:29,796 --> 00:44:33,676 This is a school. We're not involved in politics in any way. 504 00:44:33,836 --> 00:44:35,986 Not involved in politics, huh? 505 00:44:36,156 --> 00:44:38,227 What are you doing? 506 00:44:55,036 --> 00:44:58,631 Hey look, that's Lenin's relative! 507 00:44:58,796 --> 00:45:01,470 That's Lenin's relative! 508 00:45:04,836 --> 00:45:07,749 Where are your Chechen friends now? 509 00:45:07,916 --> 00:45:10,271 Where's your grandfather? 510 00:45:43,676 --> 00:45:46,031 Bloody hell. 511 00:45:51,676 --> 00:45:54,589 We have to cut your hair again. 512 00:45:57,996 --> 00:45:59,987 I'll cut it. 513 00:46:01,636 --> 00:46:03,513 Johannes. 514 00:46:03,716 --> 00:46:09,029 I must apologise, I drank myself into oblivion. 515 00:46:09,196 --> 00:46:12,314 And because of me, Grandpa lost his sense of time. 516 00:46:13,676 --> 00:46:17,510 Kolya, let's put on our hazmat suits. 517 00:46:17,796 --> 00:46:23,906 Let's go to the school and tell who Johannes is related to. 518 00:46:28,636 --> 00:46:30,991 Cheers, old men. 519 00:46:33,076 --> 00:46:34,987 I'll be... 520 00:46:35,956 --> 00:46:38,630 I know that I'm not really Lenin's son. 521 00:46:39,516 --> 00:46:41,553 Look who's all grown up. 522 00:46:41,716 --> 00:46:44,834 Makes a toast and drinks lemonade from a vodka bottle. 523 00:46:45,236 --> 00:46:48,831 And doesn't believe our fairytales any more. 524 00:46:50,076 --> 00:46:51,874 Johannes... 525 00:46:52,076 --> 00:46:57,105 I'll ask you a personal question while the tap's running. 526 00:47:04,676 --> 00:47:07,316 Grandpa says that you're interested in girls. 527 00:47:07,476 --> 00:47:09,592 I'm not. 528 00:47:09,756 --> 00:47:12,066 So you're interested in boys, then? 529 00:47:12,236 --> 00:47:15,513 Then you must have the taps running all the time. 530 00:47:19,996 --> 00:47:22,306 Hey,Johannes. 531 00:47:22,476 --> 00:47:25,309 Now we'll teach you how to dance. 532 00:47:26,796 --> 00:47:28,673 Väinö! 533 00:47:37,076 --> 00:47:40,671 The first step in love is holding hands. 534 00:47:42,556 --> 00:47:47,585 But before your first kiss, you should know how to dance. 535 00:47:49,116 --> 00:47:52,632 But remember to be tender. 536 00:47:52,796 --> 00:47:54,833 Yes, really tender. 537 00:47:59,836 --> 00:48:01,509 Come on. 538 00:48:01,676 --> 00:48:03,394 Come, come... 539 00:48:11,156 --> 00:48:13,033 Surprise! 540 00:48:13,516 --> 00:48:15,473 Kolya! 541 00:48:16,156 --> 00:48:20,115 Good heavens! Where did you come from? 542 00:48:22,436 --> 00:48:24,871 Dad? 543 00:48:25,316 --> 00:48:27,432 What are you...? 544 00:48:30,196 --> 00:48:32,392 What's happened to Johannes's hair? 545 00:48:37,316 --> 00:48:40,274 This time I didn't come empty-handed. 546 00:48:41,636 --> 00:48:46,028 Mother, you already argued enough on our way here. 547 00:48:46,196 --> 00:48:51,350 Look who's come here to play a mother. 548 00:48:57,476 --> 00:48:59,228 Johannes. 549 00:48:59,396 --> 00:49:04,516 If you manage to get a banana in your mouth in the Soviet Union, 550 00:49:05,436 --> 00:49:07,996 you eat it with your eyes closed. 551 00:49:10,676 --> 00:49:13,031 Imagine we lived half our lives 552 00:49:13,556 --> 00:49:16,196 before we got to taste this. 553 00:49:34,196 --> 00:49:38,633 Don't worry. And don't worry about your hair. 554 00:49:39,156 --> 00:49:41,796 It will grow back eventually. 555 00:49:43,196 --> 00:49:45,153 This is you. 556 00:49:46,516 --> 00:49:50,191 This is Johannes, and this is his family. 557 00:49:50,356 --> 00:49:52,267 Nothing but dolls! 558 00:49:52,436 --> 00:49:56,509 And Johannes hasn't smiled once since you left. 559 00:50:02,116 --> 00:50:05,347 We'll make Johannes smile again. 560 00:50:10,676 --> 00:50:12,952 And another doll! 561 00:50:13,996 --> 00:50:16,146 Keep on digging. 562 00:50:20,716 --> 00:50:22,468 Is this...? 563 00:50:22,636 --> 00:50:24,627 It's Soviet Ken. 564 00:50:24,836 --> 00:50:27,555 And they, Johannes, are your new friends. 565 00:50:27,716 --> 00:50:30,356 They'll make Johannes happy again. 566 00:50:30,516 --> 00:50:33,793 This is kurat, damn it. 567 00:50:34,796 --> 00:50:36,309 Look. 568 00:50:41,476 --> 00:50:42,989 Oh my. 569 00:50:45,796 --> 00:50:51,474 Look how Gorbachev always sings the same song. 570 00:51:01,996 --> 00:51:04,875 Mother's most amazing gift was a satellite dish, 571 00:51:05,036 --> 00:51:09,189 which warmed the mighty heart of our small family. 572 00:51:40,756 --> 00:51:44,306 Suddenlyl was the brightest star in our school, 573 00:51:44,636 --> 00:51:47,515 Hello perestroika, democracy 574 00:51:47,676 --> 00:51:50,395 Another country is free from dictatorship 575 00:51:50,556 --> 00:51:53,116 Hello perestroika, hello happiness 576 00:51:53,276 --> 00:51:55,745 The red flag no longer fills us with dread 577 00:52:13,956 --> 00:52:17,995 The Soviet Union helped its brother nations, 578 00:52:18,156 --> 00:52:22,753 so do we have the right to call them our occupiers? 579 00:52:23,316 --> 00:52:25,193 Of course not. 580 00:52:29,716 --> 00:52:34,426 Johannes Leninovitch Tarkkinen. Come here. 581 00:52:51,876 --> 00:52:54,470 You look like a traffic light. 582 00:52:58,756 --> 00:53:02,511 Dumle... Nazi chocolate. 583 00:53:04,716 --> 00:53:10,029 Your mother brings you presents that a Soviet child does not need. 584 00:53:10,236 --> 00:53:13,274 Please explain to your comrades 585 00:53:13,476 --> 00:53:17,390 how the Western world makes you happy. 586 00:53:19,156 --> 00:53:24,913 Imagine a world where people and robots live together. 587 00:53:31,596 --> 00:53:34,793 And which has a whole mountain of Dumles in it. 588 00:53:34,956 --> 00:53:38,790 And cities where people live in skyscrapers. 589 00:53:51,556 --> 00:53:56,153 Ladies and gentlemen, our perfect plastic world 590 00:53:56,316 --> 00:54:01,516 presents our sponsor Johnson &Johnson. 591 00:54:05,636 --> 00:54:08,788 We are very worried about Johannes 592 00:54:08,996 --> 00:54:11,192 and his troubling behaviour. 593 00:54:11,356 --> 00:54:15,748 He used to be proud of his patronymic, Leninovitch, 594 00:54:15,916 --> 00:54:20,308 but now he imagines that the West is a heaven on earth, 595 00:54:20,476 --> 00:54:23,673 sponsored by Johnson & Johnson. 596 00:54:25,316 --> 00:54:27,671 Johannes, come and sit down. 597 00:54:35,356 --> 00:54:38,633 Do you think l'm a bad mother because I work in Finland? 598 00:54:38,796 --> 00:54:41,436 Is my son a moron for dreaming of the wrong things? 599 00:54:41,596 --> 00:54:45,271 This is not about ideology. - What then? 600 00:54:46,836 --> 00:54:50,192 Here we have a complaint from Lidia Durder... 601 00:54:50,356 --> 00:54:54,145 Durdebayeva. - Lidia is an illiterate from a backwater town! 602 00:54:54,316 --> 00:54:56,990 Nevertheless, her complaint is on my desk 603 00:54:57,156 --> 00:55:00,194 and she writes that your son has attacked her son. 604 00:55:00,356 --> 00:55:02,996 It was Gena who attacked me! 605 00:55:03,916 --> 00:55:06,112 Johannes, be quiet. 606 00:55:07,076 --> 00:55:11,547 Johannes, would you want your mother to stay here 607 00:55:11,756 --> 00:55:14,066 and not go to Finland? 608 00:55:16,836 --> 00:55:18,793 What do you want? 609 00:55:18,956 --> 00:55:20,549 To move to the West! 610 00:55:25,036 --> 00:55:27,346 What are you writing there? 611 00:55:29,876 --> 00:55:32,311 How dare you? - What are you doing? 612 00:55:32,516 --> 00:55:34,109 THE BOY HAS NO FATHER... 613 00:55:34,276 --> 00:55:37,906 How dare you. - Comrades, calm down. 614 00:55:38,076 --> 00:55:40,829 Wait, miss. Think about what you're doing. 615 00:55:40,996 --> 00:55:43,465 I warn you. We'll be forced to contact 616 00:55:43,636 --> 00:55:45,468 the Commission for Minors. 617 00:55:45,996 --> 00:55:48,306 I don't have much of a choice. 618 00:55:50,756 --> 00:55:52,827 Johanna! 619 00:55:52,996 --> 00:55:54,794 Wait. 620 00:55:55,436 --> 00:55:56,835 Johanna! 621 00:55:59,676 --> 00:56:01,747 Try knocking your own head! 622 00:56:01,916 --> 00:56:06,194 I'll tell the officials that you are living here without a permit. 623 00:56:06,356 --> 00:56:09,155 Wait, Lidia. - I'm fed up with this. 624 00:56:09,316 --> 00:56:11,990 I would like to pay a few months' rent. 625 00:56:12,156 --> 00:56:14,306 What? - In cash. 626 00:56:14,476 --> 00:56:18,709 I don't need your charity. I get Tamerlan's pension and... 627 00:56:18,876 --> 00:56:20,913 Are you serious? 628 00:56:21,516 --> 00:56:23,905 The rouble is worthless. 629 00:56:24,076 --> 00:56:26,590 It's as good as toilet paper. 630 00:56:27,076 --> 00:56:29,352 But I will pay you. 631 00:56:29,676 --> 00:56:32,589 In Western currency. 632 00:56:34,316 --> 00:56:38,628 And as a bonus, a few bottles of Johnson &Johnson. 633 00:56:48,036 --> 00:56:49,674 I want to apologise. 634 00:56:50,076 --> 00:56:52,511 I'm sorry it wasn't me who lost the eye. 635 00:56:57,076 --> 00:56:58,874 Fine. 636 00:56:59,036 --> 00:57:02,267 But I still forbid our children from playing together. 637 00:57:04,276 --> 00:57:07,394 How is your finger? Can you move it? 638 00:57:22,996 --> 00:57:27,069 Everything is correct. One fourth of my salary. 639 00:57:28,716 --> 00:57:33,028 That's what they all say, but you can't be too careful with money. 640 00:57:41,516 --> 00:57:46,306 How much would it cost to take my son to Finland with me? 641 00:57:50,556 --> 00:57:53,150 Could it be arranged somehow? 642 00:57:57,756 --> 00:57:59,906 “Lapin Kulta." 643 00:58:04,716 --> 00:58:07,276 Foams just like in the Western ads. 644 00:58:10,716 --> 00:58:13,276 Tastes like capitalism, too. 645 00:58:31,716 --> 00:58:34,310 I think it can be arranged. 646 00:58:37,636 --> 00:58:40,105 But it will be a bit more expensive. 647 00:58:42,316 --> 00:58:44,068 Twenty thousand. 648 00:58:46,076 --> 00:58:48,147 Twenty thousand? 649 00:58:48,796 --> 00:58:50,707 Finnish marks? 650 00:58:50,876 --> 00:58:53,470 Well, not dollars of course. 651 00:58:53,676 --> 00:58:57,226 I'm not a huge arsehole, just a small one. 652 00:59:03,316 --> 00:59:06,149 Nothing was free in the Soviet Union, 653 00:59:06,316 --> 00:59:08,512 particularly friendship. 654 00:59:12,116 --> 00:59:13,470 Hi! 655 00:59:13,636 --> 00:59:16,594 What the hell's that gadget on your balcony? 656 00:59:18,996 --> 00:59:20,794 A satellite dish. 657 00:59:20,956 --> 00:59:23,914 Do you use it to contact aliens or American spies? 658 00:59:24,076 --> 00:59:29,230 Americans speak to me through thousands of channels. 659 00:59:29,516 --> 00:59:31,473 Thousands? 660 00:59:32,796 --> 00:59:35,993 And (in you SM have “me super Dumas? 661 00:59:37,676 --> 00:59:38,711 Catch! 662 00:59:42,596 --> 00:59:45,110 Are you an idiot? Can't you throw properly? 663 00:59:45,276 --> 00:59:47,711 I have plenty of them, don't worry. 664 00:59:48,916 --> 00:59:51,226 You can take what you want. 665 00:59:57,636 --> 01:00:01,425 You need to peel it before eating. 666 01:00:03,316 --> 01:00:06,513 Peel the rest yourself. - Okay. 667 01:00:10,876 --> 01:00:15,268 You know, in the Soviet Union you eat bananas with your eyes closed. 668 01:00:16,636 --> 01:00:21,790 I came here to watch TV, not sit around with my eyes closed. 669 01:00:24,716 --> 01:00:26,115 Wow... 670 01:00:30,236 --> 01:00:32,512 Vera would love that. 671 01:00:33,276 --> 01:00:35,028 True. 672 01:00:41,636 --> 01:00:44,025 Vera, listen... 673 01:00:46,236 --> 01:00:47,874 I'm begging you. 674 01:00:48,036 --> 01:00:52,348 Let's play together for one last time. 675 01:00:57,276 --> 01:00:59,187 Oh, how cool. 676 01:00:59,356 --> 01:01:02,235 It's not a Sky Dancer Barbie, but close enough. 677 01:01:02,756 --> 01:01:05,908 But this is... - Soviet Ken, yes. 678 01:01:08,996 --> 01:01:11,465 Let's play father and mother. 679 01:01:43,396 --> 01:01:46,548 Vera and I slept during the day and played at night. 680 01:01:46,716 --> 01:01:49,993 Not even Soviet propaganda could keep us awake. 681 01:01:52,676 --> 01:01:56,146 Being sleepy we never noticed that the world around us 682 01:01:56,316 --> 01:01:58,830 was changing quicker than ourselves, 683 01:02:10,796 --> 01:02:12,025 Good day. 684 01:02:15,516 --> 01:02:18,668 I am from the Commission for Minors. 685 01:02:19,676 --> 01:02:21,667 Galina Arbusova. 686 01:02:24,076 --> 01:02:27,114 Could we talk about Johannes? 687 01:02:29,956 --> 01:02:33,995 Johannes's problems started immediately after his mother left. 688 01:02:36,276 --> 01:02:38,836 Yes... what kind of problems? 689 01:02:39,236 --> 01:02:42,115 He slept during classes throughout last semester. 690 01:02:42,276 --> 01:02:43,914 Slept? 691 01:02:44,996 --> 01:02:50,548 Has he been sleeping during the day on his summer holidays as well? 692 01:02:51,476 --> 01:02:56,949 He runs through fields and meadows during the day. 693 01:02:57,756 --> 01:02:59,508 Johannes? 694 01:03:00,036 --> 01:03:03,950 Of course I sleep. What else would I be doing at night? 695 01:03:05,356 --> 01:03:08,587 Yes, and he sleeps at night. 696 01:03:26,956 --> 01:03:28,913 Well I'll be... 697 01:03:29,876 --> 01:03:32,186 Lights and everything. 698 01:03:36,756 --> 01:03:39,430 It's comrade Gorbachev himself. 699 01:03:40,476 --> 01:03:44,834 Even dressed in his yellow sportswear. 700 01:03:47,756 --> 01:03:51,272 And who is that doll? - This is my family. 701 01:03:52,596 --> 01:03:56,829 This skinny Barbie is from the West. 702 01:03:58,756 --> 01:04:01,714 And this meatball Gorbachev is from the East. 703 01:04:03,036 --> 01:04:05,073 Your family, huh... 704 01:04:07,276 --> 01:04:08,949 Poor child. 705 01:04:09,716 --> 01:04:13,755 Okay then. Let's play together. 706 01:04:18,236 --> 01:04:23,185 Good day, comrade Gorbachev. 707 01:04:25,116 --> 01:04:28,950 Could comrade Gorbachev 708 01:04:29,636 --> 01:04:33,266 introduce this American lady... 709 01:04:33,956 --> 01:04:36,106 ...to our Soviet country? 710 01:04:36,876 --> 01:04:40,073 In the Soviet Union people have to queue everywhere. 711 01:04:40,236 --> 01:04:42,227 Nobody has sneakers. 712 01:04:42,396 --> 01:04:44,910 We only have one type of chocolate and beer. 713 01:04:45,076 --> 01:04:47,067 Bananas are a luxury of the few, 714 01:04:47,236 --> 01:04:49,796 and during the winter we only eat pickles. 715 01:04:53,156 --> 01:04:55,033 Comrade Gorbachev! 716 01:04:55,196 --> 01:04:58,746 How rude of you to talk like that about your home country. 717 01:04:59,476 --> 01:05:02,832 You should be put under house arrest. 718 01:05:02,996 --> 01:05:06,990 You didn't let me finish, comrade therapeutic doll. 719 01:05:07,356 --> 01:05:11,145 We may have shortage of many things, but love is not one of them. 720 01:05:11,316 --> 01:05:14,991 When you're in love, you need nothing but air to breath. 721 01:05:16,796 --> 01:05:19,914 Well, that was nicely said. 722 01:05:21,596 --> 01:05:25,669 What else does a Soviet person who's in love need? 723 01:05:31,476 --> 01:05:34,195 Dear heavens, no. Nothing like that. 724 01:05:35,436 --> 01:05:37,950 Look at me. 725 01:05:40,876 --> 01:05:43,311 Before a kiss 726 01:05:43,956 --> 01:05:46,709 you need to look a girl in the eye. 727 01:05:47,396 --> 01:05:51,185 The eyes tell you if a girl wants to kiss you or not. 728 01:05:52,116 --> 01:05:55,552 Otherwise you'll get a slap in the face. 729 01:05:55,876 --> 01:05:58,026 You understand? 730 01:06:06,876 --> 01:06:09,789 You are so sweet. 731 01:06:10,676 --> 01:06:14,385 You have such a lovely boy. - Thank you. 732 01:06:18,436 --> 01:06:21,315 Hello. 733 01:06:29,196 --> 01:06:31,551 The boy is just in love. 734 01:06:32,236 --> 01:06:35,467 And it's hard to sleep when you're in love. 735 01:06:39,116 --> 01:06:42,825 I think that you should officially apply for 736 01:06:43,236 --> 01:06:47,309 Johannes's legal custody. 737 01:06:47,476 --> 01:06:49,387 Think about it. 738 01:06:49,556 --> 01:06:52,355 Thank you for your hospitality. 739 01:06:52,516 --> 01:06:53,915 See you. 740 01:06:54,516 --> 01:06:59,545 Do you want to get Grandma and Grandad evicted? 741 01:07:14,396 --> 01:07:16,626 Hi. - What's the situation? 742 01:07:16,796 --> 01:07:20,107 Can we come? - Grandma knows about us. 743 01:07:20,716 --> 01:07:22,354 Here, catch. 744 01:07:25,356 --> 01:07:27,313 What is this? 745 01:07:27,476 --> 01:07:29,945 I'm sorry, but the Dumles are finished. 746 01:07:30,116 --> 01:07:32,869 I'll figure something out. - You'd better. 747 01:07:33,036 --> 01:07:35,835 And you can have your crappy chocolate bar. 748 01:07:39,996 --> 01:07:43,910 How are our children? - They fell asleep to the anthem. 749 01:07:44,356 --> 01:07:46,632 I want to see them. 750 01:07:46,796 --> 01:07:50,835 Hey, what are you doing? Get back. 751 01:07:50,996 --> 01:07:54,193 Are you crazy? - Calm down, I'm just joking. 752 01:07:54,356 --> 01:07:57,394 Gena is organising some sort of "military exercise". 753 01:07:59,396 --> 01:08:01,706 I need to go, they're calling me. 754 01:08:01,876 --> 01:08:03,549 See you tomorrow. - See you. 755 01:08:20,396 --> 01:08:23,388 Even though the world around us had changed so much, 756 01:08:23,556 --> 01:08:26,594 Vera and I frolicked around just like before. 757 01:08:26,756 --> 01:08:31,307 We were sure that nothing would change between us. 758 01:08:53,436 --> 01:08:55,825 Your finger is almost healed. 759 01:09:04,236 --> 01:09:06,352 Can you see anything? 760 01:09:07,396 --> 01:09:09,512 I can see something. 761 01:09:14,876 --> 01:09:16,389 Ouch! 762 01:09:17,756 --> 01:09:20,316 Take a look at this. My own troop carrier. 763 01:09:20,476 --> 01:09:22,547 Death to Afghans! 764 01:09:28,636 --> 01:09:31,867 Are you the two Afghan terrorists 765 01:09:32,676 --> 01:09:36,635 these guys have been looking for all over the Soviet Union? 766 01:09:39,676 --> 01:09:42,395 Don't be afraid. Hop on. 767 01:09:42,556 --> 01:09:45,150 You can show us the way to Tallinn. 768 01:09:52,636 --> 01:09:55,628 Come on, youngsters. Let's rejoice. 769 01:09:55,916 --> 01:09:59,193 Hurray! Hurray! 770 01:10:13,276 --> 01:10:15,552 Well, youngsters... 771 01:10:16,556 --> 01:10:18,513 We have a slight problem. 772 01:10:18,676 --> 01:10:21,634 We're out of gas, so the war ends here. 773 01:10:24,156 --> 01:10:26,591 The battle was shorter than expected. 774 01:10:29,636 --> 01:10:31,468 I propose a toast. 775 01:10:32,316 --> 01:10:36,105 It is sad how everything ends without a battle. 776 01:10:38,316 --> 01:10:43,026 The sun setting on the Soviet Union. 777 01:10:53,756 --> 01:10:57,067 I think this is a perfect moment. - For what? 778 01:11:03,716 --> 01:11:07,107 Johannes! What are you doing on a tank? 779 01:11:10,516 --> 01:11:13,907 Where did you come from? - Be quiet. 780 01:11:14,076 --> 01:11:16,875 You can't begin to understand what's going on. 781 01:11:17,396 --> 01:11:20,229 Listen, not a single word in Russian now. 782 01:11:26,316 --> 01:11:29,229 Are you Estonians or Russians? - We are Ingrians. 783 01:11:29,396 --> 01:11:31,990 And a few Chechens in the backseat. 784 01:11:34,556 --> 01:11:36,786 And you? - A Tatar. 785 01:11:38,196 --> 01:11:40,790 What an international taxi you have. 786 01:11:40,956 --> 01:11:43,755 See any Russian tanks on your way? - Only a small one. 787 01:11:43,916 --> 01:11:46,430 And it had run out of gas. 788 01:11:48,476 --> 01:11:51,594 You happen to have a can of gas in your trunk? - No. 789 01:11:51,756 --> 01:11:54,111 Do you mind if I check? 790 01:12:00,196 --> 01:12:02,107 Have a safe journey! 791 01:12:10,756 --> 01:12:12,793 Where have you been? 792 01:12:14,436 --> 01:12:17,155 Answer me! I already called the militia. 793 01:12:17,796 --> 01:12:20,754 Have you been... 794 01:12:22,156 --> 01:12:24,306 ...playing war again? 795 01:12:24,476 --> 01:12:26,547 March! Go to your room. 796 01:12:26,716 --> 01:12:29,151 Right this instant! 797 01:12:35,196 --> 01:12:39,667 I see you're unable to stick to what we agreed. 798 01:12:41,196 --> 01:12:43,631 I want you gone by tomorrow morning. 799 01:12:43,796 --> 01:12:45,116 Lidia... 800 01:12:45,636 --> 01:12:48,708 Have you been watching the news lately? 801 01:12:48,916 --> 01:12:52,671 What about it? - You may be the one who is thrown out. 802 01:12:53,356 --> 01:12:56,189 When Estonia becomes independent, 803 01:12:56,356 --> 01:13:00,827 drunk Soviet soldiers and their families will he the first to be thrown out. 804 01:13:05,036 --> 01:13:08,188 Start packing. We'll leave for Finland in the morning. 805 01:13:08,356 --> 01:13:10,666 You're grounded until then. 806 01:13:15,436 --> 01:13:17,632 I don't want to go to the West! 807 01:13:17,796 --> 01:13:22,108 The president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, has been unseated. 808 01:13:30,036 --> 01:13:34,633 ...is going to impose a curfew on fire areas where resistance arises. 809 01:13:35,036 --> 01:13:38,666 The streets of Moscow are full of tanks and crowds of people... 810 01:13:43,756 --> 01:13:48,193 “Moscow is now filled with war equipment, 811 01:13:48,956 --> 01:13:53,712 Various tanks and troop carriers have rolled into the city. 812 01:13:55,036 --> 01:13:59,314 They are there to prevent any illegal activities. 813 01:13:59,876 --> 01:14:03,665 Meanwhile, Yeltsin has declared the coup illegal. 814 01:14:04,836 --> 01:14:09,626 The Soviet army already prepared for this show of force at Easter, 815 01:14:09,796 --> 01:14:13,710 But {his is no drill. President Gorbachev has been overthrown, 816 01:14:13,876 --> 01:14:15,787 the country is under martial law 817 01:14:15,956 --> 01:14:20,553 and if is led by the Committee on the State of Emergency", 818 01:14:30,556 --> 01:14:33,196 People are stunned by the presence of Me tanks, 819 01:14:33,356 --> 01:14:36,030 and some people have blocked their path,. 820 01:14:36,396 --> 01:14:39,229 We survived Lenin and Stalin. 821 01:14:41,196 --> 01:14:43,631 And the Great Patriotic War. 822 01:14:43,796 --> 01:14:46,106 We'll survive this as well. 823 01:14:57,516 --> 01:15:00,030 What? Are you crazy? 824 01:15:00,876 --> 01:15:04,153 A little. - Did you climb here? 825 01:15:06,956 --> 01:15:08,754 You're crazy... 826 01:15:13,036 --> 01:15:15,710 Where is Gena? - He's being punished. 827 01:15:15,876 --> 01:15:18,789 Wonderful. Finally. 828 01:15:21,596 --> 01:15:23,667 Give me a hand. 829 01:15:31,836 --> 01:15:36,785 Vera, my mum wants to take me with her to the West. 830 01:15:38,716 --> 01:15:40,707 May I have this dance? 831 01:15:52,236 --> 01:15:54,193 Have you packed already? 832 01:15:57,756 --> 01:15:58,746 Johannes? 833 01:16:02,876 --> 01:16:05,675 You dance pretty well for a first-timer. 834 01:16:05,836 --> 01:16:08,066 This is not my first time. 835 01:16:08,236 --> 01:16:11,433 Uncle Kolya and Grandpa taught me. 836 01:16:13,476 --> 01:16:17,356 I'm sorry, but I need to see both of your eyes. 837 01:16:20,916 --> 01:16:23,988 Mum. Johannes has run away. 838 01:16:24,156 --> 01:16:27,194 Where has he gone? - To Lidia's place. 839 01:16:32,236 --> 01:16:33,715 Väikki! 840 01:16:35,756 --> 01:16:38,316 You Estonians came to drive us out already? 841 01:16:38,596 --> 01:16:41,748 Johannes is here. - How dare you! 842 01:16:42,516 --> 01:16:45,474 Johannes, are you there? - Damn. 843 01:16:45,636 --> 01:16:49,152 Johannes? Väikki, come on, will you! 844 01:16:49,316 --> 01:16:52,627 Hurry, break the door open. - Let's not break anything. 845 01:16:52,796 --> 01:16:55,470 Vera, open the door! 846 01:16:56,276 --> 01:16:59,792 Johannes, listen to a specialist. 847 01:17:01,756 --> 01:17:06,227 Listen to us. Open the door! A war is about to begin. 848 01:17:37,036 --> 01:17:40,472 Congratulations. Soviet romance. 849 01:17:41,036 --> 01:17:43,346 Congratulations. Good boy. 850 01:17:50,276 --> 01:17:52,313 Get the hell out of here. 851 01:18:08,676 --> 01:18:10,587 What now? 852 01:18:13,596 --> 01:18:16,668 I didn't come empty-handed this time either. 853 01:18:18,316 --> 01:18:20,546 I can't accept this. - Listen... 854 01:18:20,716 --> 01:18:23,788 Let me play a millionaire for once. 855 01:18:23,956 --> 01:18:27,267 Soon I'll be just a cleaning woman at a nursing home. 856 01:18:34,036 --> 01:18:36,710 Although life in Finland was different 857 01:18:36,876 --> 01:18:40,756 it became dear to me that people were the same everywhere. 858 01:18:40,916 --> 01:18:43,226 Life remained pretty much the same. 859 01:18:43,396 --> 01:18:47,913 If in the Soviet Union people had money but nothing to buy, 860 01:18:48,076 --> 01:18:50,465 in the West it was the other way around. 861 01:18:50,636 --> 01:18:53,435 Although I finally had my mother to myself, 862 01:18:53,596 --> 01:18:57,829 after my first kiss I realised that I aiso needed a girlfriend. 863 01:19:09,476 --> 01:19:12,867 IN MEMORY OF EERO “VÄIKKI” VIROLAINEN