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Atelier Film-Alexandr

presents

 

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Reveille!

 

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It’s getting hard to bend.

 

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I’ve woken the spider

It can’t settle.

 

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Good morning,
 
Citizen Warden

 

Good morning.

 

Convict Bezotechestvo Boris

 

Born 1971.

 

Article 105 (Part 2)

Life sentence

 

Any questions?

 

When will I have my exercise time?

 

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Hmm… Bezotechestvo

 

17 AUGUST

 

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“ROOM FOR LONG VISITS”

 

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It’s 9.25 already

 

I place my hope in Thee, o Lord.

Lend me Thine ear

 

And guide me

Be for me a firm stronghold

 

 

Lead me out of the nets

That were secretly set for me

 

 

My life has grown weak with sorrow

 

And my years in moaning

 

And my bones have withered

 

I am forgotten in people’s hearts like a dead man.

I am like a broken vessel

 

because I hear the malicious talk of many.

 

It’s awful when they conspire

against me

 

 

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Deliver me from the hands of my enemies

and drive off their darkness.

 

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Sometimes you think

“I’ll come out of my cell and never go back.

 

I’ll end up lying

somewhere in the corridor

 

 I live only through Thy mercy, o Lord.”

 

Forgive me, Lord

For thinking sometimes of death.

 

 

There are times when

I want you to take me to you.

 

I’m at the end of my tether.

 

 

11.02.17

11:09:20

Five, this is post six

People for the medical commission.

 

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Everybody wants something

Everybody needs something.

 

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Some people say that the guards

are nasty

 

 

We’re in here for life
 And they are alongside us

 

Taking care of us

 

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Some are waiting for death,

But here even death runs away.

 

 

So awful

That even death runs away from me

 

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Lord! One thing I ask

 

Do not try me any more

 

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Over the past year

I have had such grave trials

 

 

Physical pain is not frightening

 

Sometimes it’s completely useless

 

 

I realized that while I was in the army

 

You can beat a man to death

 

But you still won’t get your way

 

 

He’ll still defy you

 

But you can kill a man

with a couple of words

 

And he’ll become

as obedient as a slave.

 

That’s the power of the word.

 

18:37:09

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Oh, Mama, Mama

What are you and father doing now?

 

 

I’d like to see

 

I haven’t even seen my own daughter

 

 

And she’ll be EIGHT soon

 

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When I was little I thought that

 

 

if it was raining here it was raining everywhere

 

Until I noticed – we were driving down the road and it was raining

then we went further and it was gone.

 

Young children are all interesting.

 

If only I could go back to childhood now.

 

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O Lord!

How many times did you warn me?

 

 

Sit down Borya, don’t fidget.

Sit quietly. On your arse.

 

But I’m a fool.

You told me in my sleep

 

To quieten down

 

My bones are getting covered with mould

They’re beginning to creak

 

When winter comes,

the wind’ll blow from the north.

 

Again we’ll be freezing.

In winter the floor dries out so much it rings

 

In autumn and spring, though, its damp.

 

 

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We’ll break for a smoke in a moment

. The swill truck’ll drive off soon

 

 

 

There’s always a stink when it stands under the window

 

 

 

You keep finding something to occupy yourself

 

To stop your life being like the life

of the frogs in that fairy-tale “Thumbelina”

 

 

You’ve slept, now you can eat

 

You’ve eaten, now you can sleep

 

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Exercise time! Out you come! Against the wall?

 

Got anything that’s not allowed?

 

No.

 

Stand up! Move!

 

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What a life…

I’ll draw stars on the ceiling

 

 

Open your eyes

and it’s like you’re outdoors

 

Under the open sky

 

 

The lamp instead of the moon

and instead of the sun as well.

 

open your eyes and there’s the sky.

 

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Got anything that’s not allowed?

 

No.

 

Go in!

 

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There used to be capital punishment

 

But now it’s commuted

 

How perverted the human mind is.

 

Everything in the world is perverted.

 

I place my hope in Thee, o Lord.

 

I do not doubt, Lord,

That Thou will bring me to freedom

 

 

It’s just all things in their time.

 

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What is it today?

 

Pea.

 

Pea?

 

 

There’s porridge today.

No fish.

 

How many days is the bread for?

 

Three days.

 

Any milk?

 

No

 

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That’s all. Thanks.

 

Title: BORIS BEZOTECHESTVO
ARTICLE……

 

ESCAPE RISK

KILLED THREE PEOPLE

 

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They want to poison us.

Cabbage and sprats in tomato sauce

 

 

Food like that’ll make any stomach ache.

 

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It looks fine

 

But even dogs won’t eat

the meat from the soup.

 

That’s a human being for you.

There’s no muck that’ll finish him off.

 

 

O Lord, Heavenly Father

 

 

Bless this food and bread

that Thou sendest me to eat

 

 

 

 

Bless it that it may be of benefit to me

 

 

Bless in the name of the Father,

 

the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen

 

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You need to have something to keep you occupied,

but now there’s nothing to do

 

Still you go to bed and the time has flown by unnoticed

 

Should I go mad?

I haven’t tried that for a long time

 

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40:43:06

It’s not easy any more

to do a handstand

 

The fodder here is so light

 

 

I can’t manage handstands any more

 

Just press-ups

 

You can tell right away that I’m not 17 any more, but 35 – 36 soon.

 

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Yes, the “Count” is changing

 

Did time in solitary

And started to burst out laughing.

He didn’t do that before.

 

Could I end up doing that?

 

 

I can’t let that happen.

 

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42:18:15

54800 – at last!

 

It’s as if it senses that

I want to compete with it.

 

 

Lord, what a life

sitting in prison and pressing buttons

 

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Well, that’s me shaved

 

Ask someone on the outside

to shave without a mirror. He’ll be shocked.

 

 

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What, he’ll say, without a mirror?

I’ll cut myself to bits, he’ll say.

 

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Vitka next-door shaves blind.

 

He is blind, but he shaves himself.

 

He doesn’t need a mirror.

Can’t see anyway.

 

So why shouldn’t I shave without a mirror?

 

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Why is it that in hospital

You don’t feel like you’re in a common grave?

 

It’s a different atmosphere

 

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Of course, I won’t get any real treatment there,

but I will get a rest.

 

I wonder, will they send me or not?

 

 

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The Public Prosecutor General was replaced

and you immediately detect changes.

 

 

 

Many prisoners are counting on some changes for the better.

 

 

 

But nothing’s certain.

 

The majority hope,

but they know that
it’s just to reassure themselves.

 

 

They write appeals.

 

I write them too.

Up to now they just pass the buck…

 

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We were at the wedding for two days.

 

How did it go?

 

The first day my brother smashed up the car – my Lada

 

 

I said get it mended.

Dad says we’ll have to sell it

 

 

 

 

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Ill have coffee. Let it stand.

I’ll make a brew in the evening.

 

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Hey! Spider!

You’ll starve to death here.

 

 

Listen. I’m not a fly.

 

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There it is!

 

Hey, spider,

your lunch flew away. I didn’t catch it.

 

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Author and director      Alexander Gutman

Camera            Maxim Efros
                        Nikolai Volkov
                        Alexander Gutman

 

Sound director  Leonid Lerner

Music                           Vladimir Tarasov

Sound mixing                Alexander Dudarev

Editing assistants           Yelena Arno

                                    Konstantin Firevich

                                    Vladimir Lokotko

                                    Ivan Opionyshev

 

Line producer               Tatiana Yakovleva

 

Joint financing               YLEISRADIO (Finland)

                                     Iikka Vehkalahti

 

Coproduction                EUREKA  MEDIA  (Poland)

                                     Krzysztof  Kopczynski

                                     TELEWIZJA POLSKA TVP 1

 

The production team thanks

Major V.P. Smirnov

Yury Klepikov

Boris Khlebnikov

 

The Federal Penal Service of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

 

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

 

Producer                      Alexander Gutman

 

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