Peculiarities of the National Hunt

LENFILM STUDIOS PRESENT

Ville Haapassalo, Alexey Buldakov, Victor Bychkov

Semyon Strugachyov, Serguey Koupriyanov, Serguey Russkin, Serguey Gussinsky

in film by Alexandr Rogozhkin

PECULIARITIES OF NATIONAL HUNTING

Editing Director Tamara Denissova, Editor Nelli Arzhakova

Make-up Nataliya Ratkevich, Director Alexandr Vassiliev

Composer Vladislav Panchenko, Sound technician

Costume designer Tatiana Dorozhkina Art directors Igor Timoshchenko, Valentina Adekayevskaya

Cameraman Andrey Zhegalov

Financial director Mikhail Kirilyuk

Producer Alexandr Golutva

Screenplay and production Alexandr Rogozhkin

- Bravo, Nikolenka! - Good for you, Nikolenka.

- Well, I can do that too. - Here you are, hold it.

Everyone can do that with a dagger.

Did you see that?

Zakharka! Don't mutilate the boys.

Daddy!

Well, let's start from the Otradnevsky enclosure?

I think we shouldn't set all packs on. We'll pursue by two groups.

- Well, shall we begin from the Otradnevsky enclosure? - Yes.

Here you are.

Let's go! And you dare! Don't do it as the last time.

Those with hounds, go!

Rayvo!

Rayvo!

Rayvo!

Why so much alcohol? Hunting is recreation.

I'm afraid even that much won't be enough.

After all, did You want to know what is the real Russian hunting is?

Yes, I did. But I don't like to drink.

It's voluntary with us. Nobody will pour out by force.

Zhenya, I'll have a walk.

Don't be lost. Don't talk to the locals. For them, a foreigner is just a wonder.

- They may take you for a spy. - What?

Eh, you'll never perceive the features of Russian out-of-the-way parts.

Pardon, it's really inconvenient to trouble you, but my trumpets are burning.

I'm dying completely. Be so kind as to present me a small sum.

Forgive me for troubling you.

Well, the trumpets are burning. Make a donation. Don't let...

- I see, shall I exchange? - Yes, sir.

Thank you ever so much.

Are there many foreigners?

What are you speaking about? What foreigners here? The border is near.

Civilization.

- Are you gonna hunting? - Yea, yea, hunting with General Buldakov.

You've got a very strange number plates.

Devil knows what kind these plates are. We've won that in an international lottery.

- So, you were lucky. - Lucky.

- Hi, Zhenka! - Hullo!

We've already loaded. Move! Mikhalych is as angry as the devil!

- And you're a brick. - You know, I've taken more.

Well, they've already swept all.

- Here's Rayvo. - Hi!

- Serguey Olegovich. - Khaapassalo.

- Sayenko... Are you a Finn? - Finn.

- Do you speak Russian? - No, no, Russian is a very difficult language.

Rayvo writes a book about Russian hunting.

Russian hunting? Russian hunting is a very good one. A bear...

Elephant. Russian elephant.

Russian elephant...

Russian elephant is the best friend of the Finnish elephant.

Do you get me?

All right. This is...

- Let's urgently load aboard the ship. - Yes, good.

You'd better drive the car to the parking Lot. Otherwise it'll be stripped to the skin in no time.

Well, how much we should wait? We'll set sail in 5 minutes.

Mikhalych, we hadn't time to load vodka. If we don't take vodka,

...then we'll fulfill the normative. - Vodka we take!

Oh, here is our Finnish guest.

Well? Welcome to the land of your ancestors!

- Rayvo. - Soloveychik.

I studied Finnish at school.

Mikhalych is a general.

- Belt out something in Finnish. - Will I?

Name? Rank? Location of your unit?

GI Khaapassalo! Aerodrome protection company!

If you want to live, take us to the rocket installation.

We don't have any rocket installations.

I see, you studied the Finnish language at military school.

Well, all I knew I've told you.

Mikhalych, what were you asking him about? I hope, without anything specific military?

He asked how to get to the Lenin Museum.

- Did he? - Yes, he did.

- Rayvo, are you all right? - Everything's normal.

Comrade General, battery commander, is interested what will be your next orders.

Let's sail off. Anchors aweigh!

Aye. Anchors aweigh!

We've forgotten, comrade general! We've forgotten a small box!

Comrade General, we've forgotten a small box!

Ahoy, Rayvo, come on.

Sorry. I don't drink. I don't want to drink.

- What does he say? - He says that he doesn't drink.

- Doesn't drink? - No.

We know how you don't drink. Don't break the tradition, otherwise there'll be no hunting.

You must drink. This is a Russian hunting tradition.

Come on! Yeah, yeah!

Well, this one to our meeting.

What I like in you, Mikhalych,

...is that you pronounce capacious and meaty toasts.

Toasts at hunting must be short.

Like a command. Like a shot.

Or else, there'll be no time left for rest.

I come here so many times and still cannot stop wondering:

...what beauty, isn't it?

You only look around. Do you know why there's so much spite in people?

They live in cities, never going to nature, and spite accumulates in their souls.

And the outlet is crimes.

If they could come here though once, roam a little bit, relieve themselves...

I mean...

...they would have lived much easier.

- Mikhalych. - Well, this one to beauty.

Look, he's our man.

- Leave him alone. Let him rest. - Don't worry.

He's tired. Working in the police, Criminal Investigation Department.

Let him sleep.

All right.

Here come wolfhounds. People in charge, don't fall behind.

Fellow Ivan, do you wish fruit?

Thanks, dear, thanks.

Yegor!

Here you are.

Don't fall behind.

Forward. Forward. Forward!

Come on. C'mon, c'mon, let's go.

Let's go! Let's go!

Come on! Come on!

Kouzmich!

- Kouzmich! - Kouzmich!

Let's go to the bank. We'll disembark ourselves.

Yes sir! A transport!

This belongs to Kouzmich. I know, know. Letter "K" is drawn over there.

Here!

Come here!

Easy, easy.

Kouzmich!

Well, Kouzmich, meet the guests!

Kouzmich!

There he is, in the kitchen-garden. Meditating.

Kouzmich! Well, that's enough to meditate. Meet the guests.

Well, Kouzmich...

- Kouzmich? - Kouzmich...

- General! - Kouzmich!

Vanka! Mikhalych has taken sonny Vanka here!

- What son? - So, this is a Finn, Kouzmich.

- I have a daughter. - Lyova!

Kouzmich, you have acquired one more cow, haven't you?

What for? I can hardly cope with one. And wild boars are gone. Gone. Gone far away.

What have you taken the Finn for? The Finn is interested in wild boars, and I have only elks.

Get out of here! Get out!

Zhenya, when, at last, will the hunting begin?

- As soon as the people have a rest we'll go hunting. - Have you come to sleep?

- What does he say? - He asks, when will the hunting begin?

Soon, the hunting will be soon. We'll go there, to the remote cordon.

Why the remote cordon? This will take more than 20 kilometers.

There are many elks. Many elks. AII...

Elk is a big animal. Huge antlers, big eyes.

Oh, yeah, yeah, we have excellent girls. Big-eyed. Well, you understand.

- You take her there, to a grove, and there you... her... - Whom, elk?!

Well, brother, there's beautiful nature there. She loses her wits, and you... her...

- You and I? - We go together. You and I, together. Do you see?

- Zhenya, what did he say? - He says that he'll do it with you.

No, no! This is not for me. I love women.

You don't be afraid, girls are near. It's elks what're gone far away.

Elks're gone too far, and girls are near. You only give a whistle, it'll be enough for all.

- You and I, we'll give whistles together, they'll come running. - No, no...

Stop, stop! You may not come here! You may not come here!

Turn away! You may not come here!

What? What do you do?

Well. Who's done it?

Kouzmich, we thought you were calling us, so we went in your direction.

Are you upset? Kouzmich, Don't be upset!

Kouzmich!

Well, to the friendship.

No, I still don't understand, why to the remote cordon?

How the beast could escape?

How? On feet, on feet. He escaped on feet. Over there.

Zhenya, Kouzmich said that he makes love to elks.

Yes, he loves elks. An elk-cow lived with him for about two years.

Mikhalych. Mikhalych, you, as a military man, give me an advice, what shall I do?

It could be nice to bring a cow to my brother-in-law, to the remote cordon.

I don't need it, and it's exactly what he needs.

Well, now I see, why to the remote cordon.

He needs to transport the cow to his brother-in-law. Have you heard?

So, we'll be transporting it by boat, won't we?

Mikhalych, rack your brains, so far you're a general.

Advise me, how can I deliver the cow to my brother-in-law?

- By plane. - Are you making fun of me? There are only bombers here.

Bomb compartments.

Only I'm not your helping hand in this business. Make an arrangement yourself.

Haven't I given you an idea? I have.

Well, this one to the brotherhood.

Oh! Oh, my arm!

Cold water!

Mikhalych, don't swim beyond the buoys.

I feel as if I'm falling to pieces.

My arms, legs, heart and soul. I'm all separating.

What does he say?

He's well.