Trouble in Store (Дело гастронома № 1)

Moscow, 1982

“Berezka”

Calm down.

Moscow KGB.

Close the shop, send the buyers away but make the personnel stay.

Aye-aye!

Why without knocking?

Moscow Department of the KGB, Senior Lieutenant Shershov.

This is the search warrant for your office.

Is this foreign currency yours?

Star Media presents

Sergey Makovetskiy

Mikhail Porechenkov

Maria Shukshina

Daria Mikhaylova

Yulia Peresild

Yevgenia Simonova

VLADIMIR SIMONOV, IGOR CHERNEVICH VLADIMIR AFANASYEV

in TROUBLE IN STORE

Created by Vladislav Romanov and Yevgeniy Latiy

with Sergey Ashkenazi

Directed by Sergey Ashkenazi

Director of Photography Vladimir Klimov

Music by Alexei Ashkenazi

Production designer IRAIDA SHULTS Costume designer REGINA KHOMSKAYA

Makeup artist OLGA MATVEYCHUK

Editing OLGA GRINSHPUN & YEKATERINA KIRILLOVA

Sound supervisor PAVEL PODLESNY Casting TATIANA STATSMAN

Executive producer ANDREY ANOKHIN

Produced by Vitaliy Bordachev and Vlad Ryashin

Episode 1

Good morning.

Good morning. To the Trade Department.

Are you leaving in the morning?

I don’t have classes today.

I want to go to the summer cottage with my parents.

Will you go with us?

Today is not a Sunday. What shall I tell my general?

I don’t know.

Tell him that you will think the operation plan over in the open air.

He’ll say that I’m a madman

and send me to the madhouse for examination.

Then tell him that you love your wife and want to spend some time with her.

In the middle of the working week?

I don’t know. He is a human too and he should understand.

I bet he plays truant a lot.

He is General and I’m still Major.

It makes no difference for me.

Forgive me, I’m just being capricious. What are you doing now?

Are you hunting somebody down?

I am. Why are you asking? You were never interested.

Right. But I have to talk to you about something.

‒ Hello. ‒ Hello.

‒ Good afternoon, Georgiy Petrovitch. ‒ Hello.

Hello, Georgiy Petrovitch.

Right on time, as always.

Yes. I’m on time.

He is sick.

But later I’ll send some papers to him to sign at home.

I may bring him something if you need me to.

This is a trifle.

I’ll send a courier.

Sure, we’ll do everything.

How are respected Lidia Alexandrovna and Anechka doing?

Thank you, they are fine.

Pay my respects to them.

We’ll be waiting for your courier.

Durer.

Is that an original?

It’s a copy.

Eduard Dmitrievitch, we have no doubts

that you have great money in foreign currency.

We’ll find it, believe me. It’s silly to ask you to open your hiding place yourself.

But I’ll still do it, because honest admission of guilt mitigates the sentence.

Am I already accused?

No, but you’re arrested.

And there is only one step between the arrest and the court.

Especially with currency deals.

We’ve already found 2,000 dollars. How will we live now?

We’ll live as we used to live.

Here you go. This is your order.

Take the change, please.

The aroma is heavenly.

You know how to please a soldier. Thank you.

You’re welcome.

Do you know what I noticed, Georgiy Petrovitch?

Every Thursday when we visit your superiors you’re pretty upset.

Look at yourself.

You’re right. I’m talking nonsense.

Shall we go to the City Council?

Right.

Hello.

Hello.

Is Vera Ivanovna here?

She is. How may I help you?

It’s a personal matter.

Vera Ivanovna, may I?

Hello.

Sit down, Georgiy Petrovitch.

Thank you. I have little time.

The three boxes are for the secretaries and the biggest one is for Grishin.

Very good. Starshinov told me that Nicolay Ivanovitch is sick.

He is.

It’s OK. I was musing about something, Georgiy…

We shall give some bonuses to the departments’ chiefs.

What do you think?

We’ll do that, Gennadiy Fedorovitch. Next week.

Good, for they are working hard…

Any problems or requests?

I have only one request — about a room for my driver.

He’s been working with me for long and we’ve written a letter to you about that.

I believe we’ve already sent the papers to the Moscow City Council.

It’s good to be a priest. Everybody tells them the truth.

But to me… everyone lies to me. This is very bad.

The fact that we failed to find currency in your apartment doesn’t mean anything.

There is a summer cottage, apartments of your relatives and this office.

Why not hide it here?

A husband and a wife are one Devil, forgive me for this saying.

The search warrant will be brought here in half an hour,

and we’ll start… after a prayer.

Your colleagues-communists will be happy.

May be we’ll fail to find anything.

But the shame is long-lived.

What do you want from me?

Nothing in particular. Just tell me where.

Start the engine.

Take me to my office and then go to the Moscow City Council for an order.

You were given a room. So say goodbye to your hostel.

What’s wrong? Are you happy?

Yes I am. You know, I’ve lost all hope.

I even changed my mind about marrying. Thank you so…

Stop it! I helped you, yes. So what?

I had such an opportunity. Go, Kolya!

So… can I use your phone?

No need to call anywhere.

The money is here.

Where?

Here.

How original!

On the other hand, it’ll always be popular in Russia to hide

the most valuable things behind the icons.

Open it, don’t be shy.

I’ll tell you something, Georgiy Petrovitch.

Please don’t interrupt me. You’re a good man.

They are rare nowadays. And thank you very much.

I owe you… for the rest of my life.

Stop it. Work well. I don’t need anything else.

Watch the road. You?re happy enough to get into a crash.

Never!

So, there are 10,000 dollars is every package.

Four packages. 40,000 dollars, right?

I admitted my guilt because I don’t want innocent people

to get in trouble and ruin their honest name.

Do you mean the director of the store?

Yes. My superiors have nothing to do with it.

It was noble. I can’t make your happy, though.

40,000 dollars is a serious theft.

Vera Ivanovna, you’re under arrest.

What are you doing? Georgiy Petrovitch might see it!

Vera Ivanovna, we quarreled with our linen keeper!

She took my glue, I scolded her for that,

and now she won’t starch my uniform!

Not now, Tamara.

I’ll come tomorrow.

What kind of music does Andropov like?

Chamber music.

Andropov was awarded with a Nobel prize for physics.

He proved that knocks spread faster than sound. Good.

General Poltakov is here. Shall I let him in?

Yes. I am already waiting for him.

Did you hear?

I did. Who could be making up such silly stuff?

If people make up stories about you it means

that they consider you to be one of their kind.

And we shall be one with the nation.

We shall see to their interests.

Tell me, Anatoliy… do people make up jokes about you?

No, Yuriy Vladimirovitch. At least I haven’t heard any.

It means you don’t deserve it. Well…

How is Anilin’s case going?

We confiscated 40,000. The money was in his wife’s safe.

Let me remind you that Vera Ivanovna is the deputy director

of the director Central Food Shop.

The money was in the safe behind Lenin’s portrait.

How cynical!

Everything is clear with him.

Did he admit his guilt?

He is asking for a lawyer! How cheeky!

Explain him where he is.

He is in the internal prison of the KGB.

We’ll remind him about that, have no doubts.

But Anilin is not our main hero.

You’re right, Yuriy Vladimirovitch. His wife is a thread leading to…

Berkutov. He is the main character.

He has spoilt all the government officials with his stolen sausages.

He is hiding behind his defenders like behind the Chinese wall.

Shchelokov, Grishin,

Churbanov and his wife, the General Secretary…

But mind — one wrong move, and we’re done.

What about Rimin?