| NIGHTE WOLVES | |||
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| 08/07/2014 | VO= VOICE OVER, AS = ALEXANDER ZALDOSTANOV, NW = NIGHT WOLVES | ||
| 04:21 | CHARCATER | DIALOGUE | PICTURE |
| 00:00:00 | VO | (In the gathering gloom) The Wolves are prowling. | NIGHT WOLVES ARCHIVE. NIGHT RIDER APPROACH ON MOTORBIKES |
| 00:00:06 | VO | A bikers gang like no other. Theirs is a roar to stir the soal of Russia from decades of slumber. | NIGHT WOLVES ARCHIVE. NIGHT RIDER APPROACH ON MOTORBIKES |
| 00:00:20 | VO | We've come to the layer of the Night Wolves. Home to the rebels with claws and the cause. | GVS OF NIGHT WOLVES HQ. |
| 00:00:26 | VO | to hitch a ride with the outlaws who have hung out with the highest in the land | |
| 00:00:33 | ALEXANDER ZALDOSTANOV (AS) | Yesm you know I was against the ideas of communism. But I liked my big country. And they had something that we miss now. | IV WITH ALEXANDER (AS) WALKING THROUGH HQ |
| 00:00:50 | VO | These warriors of the road share a mission with Vladamir Putin and that's to make this nation great again. | NW ARCHIVE. ALEXANDER RIDING DAYTIME. |
| 00:00:59 | VO | What is it about these middle aged men and their motorbikes | |
| 00:01:02 | VO | The Night Wolves. They're show men. They're a 5000 strong army of activists who road the length of Ukraine to take aid to pro-Russian rebels. But they're most famous for the company they keep. | NIGHT WOLVES PROMO (HOWLING ANIMATED WOLF) |
| 00:01:22 | VO | When they road together was it more than the macho posturing for which President Putin is well known. And was this their first encounter 5 years ago more than a manly handshake and hug? | ARCHIVE OF PUTIN ON BIKE W NIGHT WOLVES |
| 00:01:35 | VO | The way Alexander Zaldastanov remebers the moment, it was a meeting of minds. He's the Night Wolves imposing leader, a Rasputin look alike with tatoos. | |
| 00:01:45 | AS | You know everytime I see the President, I see sincerity in his eyes. So thius connection still exists, despite the fact that we live in completely different worlds. You know I'm like an alien for these kind of people. I really think our President is a great person. And he's the only one I'm not ashamed of. He's the one who loves Russia for real. | AS I/V |
| 00:02:26 | VO | His club is a place of loud bikes and even louder music. Butr Alexander stands squarely for God and for mother Russia. And the scary exterior conceals many surprises. He ditched medicine when a movie changed his life. | AS WALKING IN NW HQ AT NIGHT. |
| 00:02:48 | AS | I never thought we'd be able to to create Mad Max city here. In today's Russia. But it's as real now as the reunion of Russia and Crimea. | AS IV WATCHING MAD MAX MOVIE |
| 00:03:02 | VO | Mad Max, the cult movie of motorcycles, machismo and mayhem, with Mel Gibson as an avenging force in and world without law or order. It seem like in this Alexander found inspiriation. | MAD MAX CLIP OF MOVIE |
| 00:03:19 | AS | This film is kind of about Russia. The country is ruined and we are looking at its fragments. We feel pain because we want to glue them back together. It's impossible to survive separately. | AS IV WATCHING MAD MAX MOVIE |
| 00:03:35 | AS | This now typical from Mad Max, this motorbike.... | ALEXANDER ENTERS WORKSHOP |
| 00:03:38 | VO | So Alexander played the version of Mad Max for real. In to his inner sanctum where he proudly displays his life's work. Salvaging not fragments of society but scraps of metal, turning them into all manner of mechanical fantasy. | |
| 00:04:00 | AS | Just look at this, I give you 100% at all exhibitions this bike wil be place number 1. | ALEXANDER IN WORKSHOP |
| 04:05 | VO | It feels as if the rusting of the whole Soviet era has ended up here to be refashioned and reinvented for the21st centruy and so somehow recover a nation's former glory. | HQ WELDING |
| 04:21 | AS | I see only one minus in the Soviet Union that I didn't understand. They were against the God, the Christian religion. This was the biggest minus. They start to, to try to, build up the country without God. | ALEX INTERVIEW |
| 04:44 | VO | He's not the only Muscovite to see the transformation of the past 25 years, to marvel at the wealth of Russia's oil and gas boom and to wonder at the cost. Not so much the corruption for which this country is renownd. But to mourn the loss of empire, or prestige of Russia's superpower place on the World stage. | GVS MOSCOW |
| 05:08 | VO | The Night Wolves first hit the orad in the 1980's. Back then, they were a kind of leather clad rebellion against the straight jacket of Communism. Collectively they raised a greesy fist to the Kremlin. But times have changed. These days they're not so much outsiders as outriders for the President himself. | NIGHT WOLVES BIKING ON RORAL ROAD |
| 05:28 | VO | The appreciation society is mutual. Last year Putin awarded Alexander a medal of honour for what he called services to patriotic eductaion. While in the President the Wolves see a man who can restore old certainties. And some of Russia's old borders too. | STILLS OF ALEXANDER AND PUTIN |
| 05:50 | VO | In spectacular rallies that command huge crowds, the Wolves spread their revivalist message, their mass outporings of patriotic fervour, celbrating the symbols of Soviet power and starring Alexander in yet another guise as romantic poet. | WOLVES ARCHIVE OF RALLY |
| 06:11 | AS | Sebastopol... I dedicate this to you. This is for those whose bodies are washed with the smell of freedom of the sea and the mountains. | |
| 06:23 | VO | This was Sebastapol, the city of Alexandr's birth, in a show staged before its reunion with Russia. | |
| 06:33 | VO | He was back again in February. A propoganda coup for Moscow in its campaign to wret contorol of the region from Kiev. | WOLVCES YOUTUBE CLIP IN UKRAIN. ALEXANDER ON BIKE. |
| 06:41 | VO | There are plenty of their fellow countrymen who dissagree but if you see history through the same prism as the Night Wolves Ukraine is by rights Russian too. | NW ARCHIVE. ALEXANDER ON BIKE. |
| 06:53 | AS | I belive that what happened to my country is a flagrant injustice. People who were united were artificially divided. I was bormn in Ukraine, spent my childhood in Sebastapol and I live in Moscow. For me there is only one country and whatever others say, Ukraine is part of the Russian world. | AS INTERVIEW WLKING |
| 07:22 | VO | To reunite Russia and Ukraine. That's a lot to ask, even if your pal is the president. In the end it might be that the world of Mad Max Moscow is just as fantastic, just as real, as the film that inspired it. | GVS NW HQ. BACKING TRUCK. |