PART ONE:
RED MUSTANG
NAT.а аA
PRAIRIEа аNIGHT
The
slope of a hill, on it rises an Indian YOUTH, dressed only in loin-cloth, in
his hands is a bundle.
CAPTION:
Having
climbed up on a hill, he spreads a skin of the buffalo and sits on it. He sings.
NAT.а аA HILLа аDAY
The
Youth sleeps.
NAT.а аA HILLа аNIGHT
The
Youth again sits and sings.
NAT. ааA HILLа
аEVENING
The
wind blows. The Youth sleeps. Suddenly a red
shadow lies on him. He wakes up, looks at the sky, there is a red cloud resembling
the horse.
He
is frightened, he looks at the cloud. The Youth sings. In the sky is a thunder
and lightning. The rain begins. The Youth is shown half-faced, he looks at the
sky, the cloud remains on itТs place and does not
change the form, he continues singing. Tears or drops of
rain roll down by his face.
NAT. A HILL NIGHT
The
Youth goes back: the half of the screen occupies the pre-dawn sky, another half
- ground, he is in the middle.
NAT. INDIAN
The
Youth approaches to camp, comes into one tipi.
INT. AN INDIAN TIPI NIGHT
The
hearth burns. The Youth makes his way deep into the tipi.а There he wakes the
sleeping man.
YOUTH
Grandfather.
GRANDFATHER
- gray-haired old man, wakes up, sits and looks at him.
GRANDFATHER
The vision already has come? Or youТve
frozen?
YOUTH
Grandfather, IТve seen the red mustang in
the sky. The lightning and thunder came from it. It was dancing.
GRANDFATHER
And I think, where from is this rain.
Grandfather
laughs, then his face turns to serious.
ааааааааааааааа
GRANDFATHER
(Continuing)
This is a good vision for the Crow people. Put some brushwood into the fire. Now we shall smoke.
The
Youth feeds the fire. The grandfather takes the pipe and
lights it. The Youth accepts
it from his hands and smokes.
NAT. ааPRAIRIE аааDAY
The Crow war party of ten warriors. They ride upwards on a hill. On a crest of a hill they stop and see the
similar group of Sioux below.
ONE OF CROW
They are Sioux. They cause us on fight.
Crow
group comes down the mountain. Both groups stay in ranks before
each other on the distance of
The
Youth accepts a challenge and rushes to the enemy
with coup stick.
One
of Sioux rides towards. A rabbit runs out of
bushes and it runs directly under the legs of his horse. It frightens, rears up,
the warrior falls, his head hits a stone. He lays unconscious, his eyes are
open, blood on his head.
Second
Sioux tries to shoot with his bow. HorseТs hoof gets
in a hole. The horse falls. His arrow misses and is stuck into ground near the
Youth.
The
third warrior at full tilt aims at the Youth from a gun,
shoots. The Youth issues a war-cry. Sioux misses. Having approached closer, Sioux
tries to knock him down the horse by the butt of his rifle. The Youth evades,
beats him by coup-stick,
The
Youth jumps off from the horse and snatches a gun of Sioux, who lays in dismay, leaning on his elbows. The joyful Youth lifts a gun above his head,
holding it by both hands, shows it to his tribesmen
and issues a shout of victory.
Sioux gets tomahawk, and at this moment he sees the lightning. The
figure of Crow Youth stands just before the lightning.
Sioux sees his magic power and sings a song of death. The young man
turns to Sioux warrior, looks at him with absolution. The Youth sits on his
horse and rides to his tribesmen, they lift spears and
guns to welcome the hero.
THE CROW PEOPLE
(Issuing war-cries)
Red Mustang! Red Mustang!
NAT. ааINDIAN
SETTLEMENT аааDAY
Cloudy. Several
vans go across the prairie in support of ten riders. They are indians, but are dressed in the european clothes: hats, costumes, though with plaits, and over
their costumes are blankets.
CAPTION:
1905.
Vans
approach to a settlement from wooden houses alternated
with indian tipi.
THE
RED MUSTANG, the same Youth, but grown up,
sits on the horse. He has arrived with vans. Other Indian, younger - COYOT
approaches to him. Red Mustang dismounts. They go together in silence.
COYOT
What is the weather at the whites?
RED MUSTANG
We were compelled to sign the contract.
We will have more money and less freedom.
COYOT
(stops and breaks into a smile)
Red Mustang, your daughter was born.
The
red Mustang stops, he smiles happily, embraces Coyot and runs into one of
wooden houses. Opens a door.
INT. аааHOUSE OF
RED MUSTANG аааDAY
Wooden
walls, a calendar with the maiden dancing cancan. Chatter of
the sewing machine. At the machine sits the WIFE of Red
Mustang, she sews. At a stove the OLD WOMAN fries something.
The
door opens, Red Mustang comes in. His wife rises. He runs up to childТs bed, the Wife stands in expectation. Red Mustang slows his step,
cautiously takes newborn and clasps it to his bosom.
Wife
approaches to them, and the three of them embrace. The
Old Woman looks at them happily, she smiles, but
continues to fry.
Red
Mustang looks through a window, swinging his
daughter, and his face becomes troubled.
NAT. аааINDIAN
SETTLEMENT аааDAY
People
on the street approach to a van, and the man in a costume distributes them
buckets, shovels Е (a sight from Red MustangТs window).
INT. аааHOUSE OF RED MUSTANGааа аDAY
Red
Mustang inclines his face to daughter.
RED MUSTANG
We should survive.
NAT. аааA COAST OF THE RIVER NEAR AN INDIAN
SETTLEMENT ааааDAY
On
a coast sits MAY - Red MustangТs daughter, the girl ten
years old, Red Mustang approaches to her, sits down beside. They look at the
river.
RED MUSTANG
Do you miss your friends?
MAY
I shall see them all at school soon.
RED MUSTANG
You are sad. Why?
MAY
(turning to him)
Daddy, I do not want to go to school of
white people. I want to stay with you!
(embraces him,
cries)
I want to be always with you, daddy.
RED MUSTANG
I shall be always with you. I have a gift
for you.
He
takes a bundle of a checkered fabric from his pocket, unwraps
it and takes out a wooden red horse.
RED MUSTANG
When you miss me, you
can talk to me through it. It is stronger, than telephone of the white man. No wires, and nobody will overhear us.
Red Mustang smiles. May smiles to him.
NAT. аааWASTE GROUND NEAR A BOARDING SCHOOL аааDAY
The
van goes towards the school.
NAT. аааYARD OF A CATHOLIC BOARDING SCHOOL аааDAY
The
van approaches to the building of the boarding school, stops in the yard, driver helps four indian
girls to get out of the van. Among them is May. The girls are dressed
differently, some in beautiful indian
beaded dress, some - in modest cloth dresses of white style.
Prioresses in black-and-white robes, and quaint headdresses pass them,
they conduct rank of girls dressed in uniform.
INT. ааааCORRIDOR OF A CATHOLIC BOARDING SCHOOLаа аDAY
Prioress with her Assistant conduct four new girls. The girls are perplexed, they look around.
INT. аааROOM OF THE BOARDING SCHOOL аааDAY
Prioress builds the girls in a rank. Her eyes are light-blue, almost colourless, in her hands - a large wooden ruler. She
approaches to a window folds her hands on her breast. Her face is inspired.
THE PRIORESS
(looking at the
window)
I welcome you in our new family, at christian school, where you will live
a new life overflowed by love and humility. We should refuse your dark
past, and with love to Jesus we shall enter the radiant future.
The
Prioress turns to children. Indian girls look on her,
someone with misunderstanding in sight, someone is inspired, someone
looks with suspicion.
May looks down. Prioresses face turns to strict. She comes towards May
and lifts her chin by the ruler.
THE PRIORESS
And your pagan past we shall eradicate utterly.
The
Assistant takes bundles of the girls and inspects them. In
MayТs bag the Prioress finds a photo of her father Red Mustang. She tears a
photo to four parts and throws on the floor. May looks on a photo silently, she
is in tears.
May falls, she is trying to pick up scraps. But Assistant beats her hands
by a ruler. May cries.
Assistant gives to the Prioress red wooden horse.
THE PRIORESS
(addressing to May)
What is it? An amulet?
MAY
It is simply a doll.
THE PRIORESS
You can leave it.
INT. аааROOM OF
A BOARDING SCHOOLаа аDAY
May sits on the chair. Assistant strews her head by a white powder. The
BARBER cuts her hair off.
The
hair falls on the floor with tears, May looks downwards, lifts eyes on the red horse, standing on a little
table and begins to smile. The Barber is contented.
THE BARBER
See, it is not so bad.
May smiles through tears. Her Horse smiles to her.
NAT.
INDIAN RESERVATION DAY
Middle sixties. The red
УmustangФ drives up to remote house. the old indian woman Ц May leaves the car, in her hands is a block
of cigarettes.
Her
daughter ROSE, grandchildren - the girl, five years old, and the boy of seven years follow her. All three carry packages of food,
boyТs hair are cut, all are dressed in the european clothes.
On
the porch Red Mustang meets them.
RED MUSTANG
Hi, daughter.
(embraces May)
He
takes the boy on his hands, lifts highly, then kisses him and puts on the ground.
Takes the girl, as lifts her.
RED MUSTANG
Grow such high.
(puts the girl)
Go in the house.
INT. ааHOUSE OF
RED MUSTANGаа аDAY
All
family - Red Mustang, his daughter May, grand daughter Rose
and the great-grandchildren, sit at the table.
RED MUSTANG
(addressing to May)
I see, youТve became good lady. Well arranged
in the world of the white people. It is good. It is necessary to survive in the
white world, but you should always remember, that we are Crow.
MAY
Father, there everybody pretends,
that he is well arranged. I always regret about those times, which have left.
But I can leave for those times at any moment. On a red
mustang.
RED MUSTANG
I did not know,
that your machine is a time machine.
May, smiling, takes the red wooden horse from a pocket and shows, as if horse
clatters along the table.
MAY
That is my time machine.
(horse jumps over a plate)
It helps me to overcome any obstacles.
RED MUSTANG
(looks at her)
I lived to hear this
words. Daughter, IТm happy.
May smiles. The
screen darkens.
PART TWO:
FIXED ON CRUCIFIXION
NAT.а ааWASTE GROUND NEAR A CATHOLIC BOARDING SCHOOL аааDAY
Desert autumn landscape, the ancient building of the boarding school is
seen in the distance.
INT.а ааROOM OF
BOARDING SCHOOL аааDAY
A basement room, resembling Catholic monastery. MOTHER HELEN, rigid lady, faces to group of the girls - pupils, aged
16. One of the girls is INGA. She is blond.
MOTHER HELEN.
So, have you understood averything?
GIRLS
Yes, mother.
MOTHER HELEN
You can
go. Inga,
stay.
The
girls leave.
ааааааааааааааааа
MOTHER HELEN
Inga, you were guilty three times. YouТve washed utensils disgustingly, the
prioress complained, you was noticed in a sin of masturbation, and under any
pretexts try to avoid studying of psalms.
In punishment - 12 blows of the birch.
INGA
(falls on her knee,
folds hands in a pray)
Mother Helen! Please, donТt do it!
MOTHER HELEN
You should fall on your knee earlier!
Mother Helen lifts IngaТs skirt, under it is
nothing. Mother HelenТs shivering hand stretches to naked thigh, but she draws
her hand aside and begins whipping.
MOTHER HELEN
In the name of the Father the
Son and Sacred Spirit Е
To expel from her a
demon, to rescue her soul, the godТs slave Inga.
Inga is in tears, she looks at the large bronze crucifixion, hanging on a stone
wall. We see a portrait of the bronze Christ, looking on her with grief.
Having whipped Inga, Mother Helen leans to her
ass by a cheek and strokes it.
MOTHER HELEN
Girl, do you think, itТs easy? ItТs heavy,
for all of us are guilty by the original sin.
Mother
HelenТs face is stricken with passion.
Tear-stained Inga looks at the crucifixion.
We
see the crucifixion, closely, itТs arms are
outstretched to the whole screen.
NAT. аааTHE HOSPITAL YARDаа аDAY
The
red machine "Mustang" approaches, the door opens, we see womanТs legs
in black stockings, high-heeled shoes. The door is clapped, signalization peeps, the legs go.
We
see the back of the sexual woman with a beautiful figure. We see her face,
self-confident, with scarlet plump lips and beaty-spot. A wavy light hair. It is Inga,
grown-up.
INT. ааCORRIDOR OF THE HOSPITAL аааDAY
Inga goes along the corridor, she passes patients, waiting for their turn. She stops, points by a finger with red nail on a door.
INGA
Who is the last?
The
visitors are silent. One of the girl points on an OLD WOMAN.
Inga sits next to the Old
Woman. Silence.
Inga
(asks Old Woman
in a whisper)
There is a man or a woman?
Old Woman doesnТt answer.
INGA
Excuse me, there
is a man or a woman?
Old Woman looks at her discontentedly, but doesnТt answer.
Inga rises, approaches to
the GIRL and asks the same question.
INGA
Excuse me, there is
a man or a woman?
THE GIRL
I think, man.
Inga comes back, to her
seat.
All
sit in strained silence. We hear, as the door opens, somebody comes into the
surgery somebody comes out.
Inga is nervous. She takes
out a nail-file, begins to make manicure. Nervously throws a nail-file into the
bag.
The
door of the surgery opens again.
The
WOMAN approaches to her.
THE WOMAN
YouТre the last?
INGA
Yes.
The
Old Woman leaves the surgery, now is IngaТs
turn.
Inga rises, and quickly goes
away.
THE WOMAN
Do you go?
Inga begins to run.
She
slows her step on the stairs. Stops, turns and rises back slowly, covering her face with a hand. She takes a seat,
the Woman leaves the surgery, looking at her like at mad.
INT.ааа SURGERYаа
аDAY
Inga comes in, puts a card
on a table. By the table sits doctor, his name is MAX. He looks in a card.
MAX
Undress, and take your place.
In
the rear is shown gynecological chair. Behind it we see
undressing Inga.
Max approaches to the chair. His face is serious.
Inga lays,
with fear and expectation on her face.
Again
we see doctorТs serious face. He makes something.
Inga begans to smile to herself.
MAX
Dress.
Max stands by the sink, he removes and throws
out gloves, washes hands. Sits down by his table and examines some papers.
Inga is already dressed.
MAX
All is in the order. The analyses are good.
(not tearing away
from his papers)
Can I ask you a personal question?
INGA
YouТre at work.
MAX
(writing something
in a card)
Excuse me.
INGA
(looks at him)
Ask.
Max is bewildered, he looks at the girl.
аааааааа MAX
Are you married?
INGA
And you wanted to make a date?
Max smiles, gives her a card.
MAX
Something like
that.
INGA
(accepts a card,
smiling)
Well, I shall think.
Inga leaves a surgery, we see her going by the corridor. As soon as аshe turns to the
staircase and there is alone, she leans to the wall, looks up and smiles.
INT. аааMUSEUM
аааDAY
Historical or ethnographic hall.
Max and Inga go on a
background of the Egyptian mummies, ancient amphora, prehistoric
drawings ets. Inga holds his
hand.
INGA
You always make
appointments in a museum?
MAX
(smiling)
YouТre an exception.
INGA
It is a compliment?
MAX
Yes, if you want.
INGA
And why a museum?
MAX
I think, if the
man is not bored in a museum, he can feel the time. And I should not play for
him. Neither Chaplin,
nor Bill Gates.
INGA
My husband always played. A hero. And he was good in this role. He is always like on
the war, even when in bed.
INT. аааINGAТS
FLAT аааNIGHT
Max and Inga lay on a large
bed, smoke.
INGA
Do you have wife?
MAX
ItТs a long story. Two times I was
divorced. Now IТm married the third time.
INGA
And what you have told to your wife?
MAX
That I have an appointment, probably, I
shall come tomorrow.
INGA
And she?
MAX
Was happy to rest from me
even a day.
INGA
You love her?
MAX
Yes.
INGA
(turns to him)
And me?
MAX
(looking in her
eyes)
You too.
INGA
And whom stronger?
MAX
Must I throw a coin?
INGA
(Smiles)
YouТre such mysterious Е
The
Inga stands on all fours (on her hands and knees), representing a cat, purrs, climbs on him.
The
sexual intercourse, woman is above. Inga is slightly
covered by white sheet. The bed is white, and all other
room is in darkness.
A
grey kat, sitting in a corner,
looks at them.
NAT. ааSTREET NEAR
INGAТS HOUSEааа NIGHT
A
taxi stops near the entrance. The man with rucksack
leaves it, pays off with the taxi driver. It is OSKAR. He is dressed in
soldier's uniform boots. Goes along the street, heels knock.
INT. ааINGAТS
FLAT аааNIGHT
The cat jumps, slightly opens a door in a corridor, goes there.
INT. аааENTRANCE аааNIGHT
The
legs in soldier's boots rise by the stairs.
INT. аааINGAТS
FLAT CORRIDOR аааNIGHT
The
key slowly turns, the door opens, we see Oskar. On a floor lays a rectangular of light
and a long shadow of Oskar. Oscar puts rucksack on
the floor, stretches cat, unlaces boots.
We
see him from a back going towards the room. Behind runs the cat.
Oskar approaches to the door and gently
opens it.
He
watches Inga fucking. He isnТt noticed.
Oskar look
indifferently.
Beautiful erotic shootings.
Inga groans, hair fall down beautifully.
Oscar takes a gun, clicks safety catch.
This
click stops the pair. Max and Inga
turn their heads and look at him frightened.
Oskar, holding a pistol in
one hand, switches the light by another.
OSCAR
IТve disturbed you?
They
look at him silently.
OSCAR
Continue.
They
look at him(it).
Oscar screws a muffler on the pistol.
OSCAR
Let's die beautifully. I say, continue.
Inga and Max are silent.
Oscar strikes Inga a swinging blow by a
pistol, she falls.
OSCAR
а(to Max)
Get up!
Max
rises, wrapped in the sheet, Oscar kicks him in the groin. Max is
bent. Oscar kicks him on the face. Max overturns and falls. The third blow Ц by
the pistol - comes down on his head.
Oscar stands by the table, takes cigarettes from it, smokes.
ааааааааааааа
OSCAR
Expensive cigarettes.
Oscar leaves the room. Switches off the light. Blackout.
OSCAR
а(behind the screen)
Good night.
INT. аааINGAТS
FLATаа аNIGHT
The hours on the wall show three. Camera slides down. On the floor lays Max,
with closed eyes and blood on his head. The floor is flooded with water. The light
is turned off.
Max
opens eyes, looks at the water, rises, approaches to Inga,
pulls her about, she comes to sences.
INGA
What is it?
MAX
Water.
And whereТs husband?
INGA
I donТt know.
Inga rises, goes to the corridor,
full of water, runs.
INGA
(Shouts)
Oscar!
She
slips on wet floor and falls.
INGA
Oscar!
Rises,
opens a door of the bathroom. Bright light hurts her
eyes.
INT.аа аBATHROOMаа аNIGHT
They
see hanged Oscar, his back to the spectator. The bathroom
is full of water. Inga approaches to Oskar, embraces him, slowly sits down, her arms slip to OscarТs
legs.
She is standing, takes MaxТs hand, they go in the room together.
Max
calls to police.
They
sit in wet clothes and wait. They begin to feel bored.
Inga switches on the tape
recorder, walks towards Max.
They
begin a slow dance.
They
are kissed. Their hands go down each otherТs backs.
Camera follows them.
Camera
shows bare feet, plashing in the water. In the rear we see
open door of the bathroom and hanged Oscar.
INT. ааPOLICE аааMORNING
Max
is sitting at the table. Before him is INVESTIGATOR, on a table - dictophone.
MAX
When I came
to senses Ц the whole room was full of water. Inga went
to the corridor and cried.
INVESTIGATOR
He was his back to you or face?
MAX
Back.
INVESTIGATOR
Well, thanks. I shall call you, or send a
summons.
NAT. аааCEMETERYаа аDAY
The PRIEST, Inga and four
terrible-looking DIGGERS with shovels. The Priest
is praying. Inga takes a
pinch of ground and throws it so, as if salts. Then she turns, lowers a veil, goes away.
The
Diggers begin digging, Inga
is visible on a background.
Inga sits in the red лmustang╗, the
car starts.
INT. аааMAXТS FLATаа
аNIGHT
Max
is watching TV. The phone calls. Max takes it. On
a wall behind his the Catholic bronze cross is seen.
INGAТS VOICE IN THE PHONE
I do not want to stay here, IТve decided
to sell my flat, it is bad.
MAX
WhereТre you?
INGAТS VOICE
At your entrance.
Max
with the phone approaches to a window, looks at her, she is sitting in red car
with the phone and looks at him.
MAX
Will you come to
me, or we shall walk?
INGA
At first we shall take a walk.
INT. аааINGAТS CARааа
NIGHT
Max
and Inga are silent. Inga
drives the car. She is in tears, he is smoking.
Inga stops the car.
INGA
Do you want to speak something?
MAX
I thought, silence is rather
good.
INGA
Why you can not calm me? I thought, youТre
wise, and youТre - just like others.
MAX
(continues to
smoke)
If you want, I can leave.
INGA
Do not hurt me more.
Inga falls on him. Max strikes
her.
INGA
You lied me that you are married.
MAX
Maybe.
INGA
Why you never answer on a question
directly?
MAX
Instinct of
self-preservation.
Inga begins to kiss him
passionately. Climbs on him, the sexual act begins. One
of the passing cars signals.
NAT. аааCOAST OF
THE SEA ааааNIGHT
Max
and Inga are swimming.
INGA
(spins in the
water)
Do you know, what I want most of all?
MAX
To be a mermaid?
INGA
Not now, but it
was my dream forа long
time. To be a mermaid, but not on the pan, and not in aquarium.
(Laughs)
MAX
Well then, maybe, you want to live on a desert
island, only you and me and nobody is around.
INGA
(flings by head, her hair fan out)
No, we are already on the desert island.
Inga comes to Max, puts her
hands to his breast, nestles to him.
INGA
I want to become a gold fish to fulfil all your desires.
(lifts her eyes,
looks at him)
But you must want somethingЕ
NAT.аа аCAFE аааDAY
Max
is sitting at a little table. Inga comes to him.
INGA
All is excellent,
(kisses him)
IТve sold the flat. Now I shall talk about
sale of my car.
MAX
Do you really want to sell it?
INGA
I donТt need it.
MAX
When is the meeting?
INGA
In thirty minutes in this cafe.
MAKS
So we have time to drink a cup of coffee.
They
drink coffee.
INGA
I want to danceЕ
(Sings something)
We
hear the signal of the car, they turn and see, unfamiliar
man standing near IngaТs car. He signals through an
open window. This man is BORIS.
Inga waves her hand, Boris smiles, comes to them.
BORIS
Good day.
(shakes hands
with Max)
Boris.
MAX
Max.
BORIS
And we, as I think, studied together in
MAX
What year?
BORIS
Eighty ninth.
MAX
Very pleasant.
Boris sits down, Max rises.
MAX
Excuse me, I shall leave you, IТll go to buy newspapers.
Crosses the road.
Inga opens her bag and gives some papers and keys to Boris.
INGA
I wish you good luck.
BORIS
I want to tell, that my dream has come
true. I saw this car in my dreams from childhood. If you suddenly need my help,
or you want to look at mustang - call on this telephone.
Rises,
kisses her hand, gives her a card.
INGA
It was very pleasant to get acquainted
with you.
BORIS
So it was to me
INGA
Good luck
BORIS
Thanks.
Boris leaves.
Max
is coming back to cafe. Between him and Inga pass two
girls in monastic robes and prioress. Camera is focused on them.
Inga looks at them disturbed.
One of the girls turns to us, it is Inga in
childhood.
Max
approaches.
MAX
Strange man.
We never even said УHalloФ.
Inga smiles, omits her face,
drives her finger on a table.
INGA
And I like him.
The
Max lights a cigarette.
INGA
(pulls him about)
I think we should by a bottle of vine and
go to your home.
INT. аааMAXТS
FLATааа NIGHT
Vine
is poured in a glass.
Inga, naked
and drunk, approaches to a bed, on which Max is laying.
INGA
Drink.
MAX
I donТt want.
She
sits on a bed, gulps from the glass also dances with two
glasses in hands.
INGA
Drink, Max, please.
She
drains her glass at one draught, puts it on a floor and begins to kiss Max. She
kisses him in lips, his neck, breast, the heavy sighs are audible. They begin
sex. She is above.
Her
eyes are closed, she groans. She slowly opens eyes and sees
before herself the crucifixion, hanging on the wall.
INGA
(sobers up, shouts)
I can not stand this any more!
Falls,
rises in tears.
INGA
(to the
crucifixion)
Why do you pursue me all my life!
The
cross is shown largely.
INGA
I hate you! Leave me, you hear?
She
jumps, breaks the crucifixion off the wall and throws it in
the window. It crushes window glass and flies in the night. Silence.
The quiet starlit sky is shown through the broken wndow.
INT. аааTHE BUSаа аDAY
Inga is sitting in the bus. She
wears black dress, black veil. The bus is stopped by police, the patrol enters,
checks the documents. They leave the bus, it goes further. It stops in a field, in the distance lonely
monastery is seen. It is the same building, where was May.
Inga with a suitcase goes towards
monastery. We see her black silhouette on an autumn landscape.
PART
THREE: SEVENTEENTH KILOMETER
NAT.а ааCEMETERYаа аNIGHT
Near
a cemetery is a two-storied house, the light is burning
in it.
INT. аааCOUNTRY HOUSE аааNIGHT
Room in the ground floor.
HOSE Ц a fat Latin-American opens a window. ItТs raining. Hose
approaches to the radio, turns it on. Sounds VagnerТs, лFlight of
Valkiries╗. Hose ecoes to it, stuffs a cigarette. When it is stuffed, Hose sits in an armchair, looks on Mona LisaТs
reproduction on the wall. Inserts the cigarette into teeth, takes a toy
pistol - lighter, lights it.
A
knock is audible.
Hose looks at the toy clock in the shape of Mickey-mouse, it shows
three. He puts a cigarette and a lighter on a coffee table, opens a drawer,
there is nothing, except the real pistol. He takes a revolver, rises from his armchair,
thrusts it behind under the аbelt, approaches to the door. Looks in a
peephole, quietly opens the door.
The
WOMAN comes in, but we see only her hands. The hands get from a bag a purse,
from a purse - money, stretch it to Hose.
THE WOMAN
As usual.
Hose goes to the room, approaches to the stuffed owl, presses on itТs eye, with his hand under itТs tail, therefrom
he takes a little packet. He gives a packet to the Woman (we see only their
hands again).
HOSE
Maybe youТll stay?
THE WOMAN
Thanks, not now maybe next time.
HOSE
(Smiling)
Next time can never come Е
THE WOMAN
Good bye.
HOSE
Good luck.
The
Woman leaves, he closes the door.
Counting
money, he approaches to Mona LisaТs reproduction, moves it aside,
we see the safe, in a niche. He opens a door, puts there money, closes, puts
picture on itТs place, turns to the camera. Suddenly
his eyes stop in one point, he looks frightened.
A sound of a shot is heard and Mona Lisa is painted in red sparks. Music
лFlight Valkiries╗ proceeds.
Behind
a window is thunder and lightning.
NAT.а ааCEMETERYаа аNIGHT
Raining. The
STRANGER in coat with a hood runs through the cemetery. Gun
shots or peals of thunder are heard. The stranger continues to run. He passes grave
fencings, slips in pools, dodges from the tree branches. Finally he runs out on
the road. Suddenly he is lit by car headlights. Muffled stroke is heard, he overturns.
The
Stranger is laying on the ground in an unnatural pose, his legs are bound, hands are stretched like lashes.
DRIVER
opens a door, runs up to him, examines his pulse. We donТt see DriverТs
face.
Driver
opens StrangerТs eyelids, and lights in his face by torch.
Having
convinced, that the man is dead, Driver pulls him in the ditch, slips on a wet grass, falls.
DRIVER
(Rising)
Motherfucker.
Comes back to the car. Finds on
his way a packet, wants to throw it out, but gropes something interesting in it.
It is a pack of money, Driver quickly throws it back
in the packet, runs with it in the car. The car darts off.
INT. аааCAFE аааDAY
At a little table sits young beautiful brunette JANNA, she reads a newspaper. The door of cafe is open,
a middle-aged dark-haired man comes in. ItТs BORIS. He smiles, but looks strained
and disturbed. Approaches to Janna, kisses her in cheek, sits
down beside.
JANNA
How did you come?
BORIS
Perfectly.
JANNA
It is good.
WAITER
approaches, stretches the menu.
Janna looks in the menu.
JANNA
Two biscuitsЕ Will you?
(Boris
nods)
Then three.
Chocolate, pomegranate
juice and kebab.
(to Boris)
Have you chosen?
BORIS
Two coffee with
cognac two sandwiches.
And, please, tulips.
Waiter
leaves, they are in good spirits.
BORIS
LetТs make a holiday!
JANNA
Did your grandmother die and leave a great
inheritance?
BORIS
How did you know?
JANNA
IТm hereditary medicine
woman of the Sioux tribe.
(makes a
frightening grimace, opening her palms wide)
They
laugh.
Through
the window we see the police car stopped near cafe, Boris changes his countenance.
JANNA
WhatТs happened?
BORIS
Nothing, why do you think?
At
this moment POLICEMAN comes in cafe. Boris is trying not to look
at Policeman, but his attention is
riveted to him. The policeman approaches to the counter, takes ice-cream and goes
away.
Janna is puzzled, she suspects something.
BORIS
а(looking in her eyes)
IТve knocked down a cat when driving. CanТt forget it.
Janna, looks at his eyes, takes his hand, puts it
to her cheek, smiles.
Waiter
brings the order.
JANNA
I missed it all in my childhoodЕ Now, when
I have what I wanted in childhood, I regret that the past will never return.
BORIS
Imagine,
that youТre little and eat.
Janna closes her eyes, bites off a cake, chews and smiles happily.
BORIS
Have you managed?
JANNA
а(Nods)
Yes Е ItТs niceЕ
BORIS
I sometimes buy toys, of which I dreamed when
was little. They are automatically sent in my childhood.
JANNA
The real time machine!
BORIS
Know, we sometimes really can go to the
past and in the past change our present.
JANNA
What way?
She moves to him, clings to him, not paying attention to the visitors, begins
to kiss him, Boris is confused, looks around.
The
lonely old man, watching on them, turns away.
The
girl eating ice-cream, looks at them with open mouth.
BORIS
It is very simple.
JANNA
а(sensually)
Will you learn me?
BORIS
а(kisses her nose)
You should simply recollect any moment in
your life and look at it from different point. And then you begin to appreciate
nowadays reality another way.
JANNA
(seriously)
You should write the book about it.
She
sits on her chair again, takes her cake by two fingers,
and sends it in bright mouth.
Boris drinks coffee at one draught. Weakens a tie.
NAT. аааBRIDGE
аааDAY
They
walk along the bridge.
JANNA
WhereТre we going?
BORIS
Surprise.
Janna smiles.
JANNA
Want to make me a proposal?
BORIS
Yes, but not today. I have an important news for you.
They
go down the shore of the river. Booris scoops a handful of water, washes his face. Wipes
hands with a handkerchief.
BORIS
(smoking)
I really have got the inheritance. From grandmother.
JANNA
Grandmother?
So, IТm really a medicine woman? See, you never spoke to me, that you
have grandmother.
BORIS
There was no occasion.
JANNA
Well, congratulations. Also accept my
condolences.
(stretches hand
to him)
BORIS
I want you to go with me to
JANNA
I never was there.
INT. аааBORISТS FLATаа аDAY
The
door opens, enter Boris and Janna. Janna throws her coat and
handbag on the sofa, sits. Camera shows different toys overcrowding the flat: airplanes,
tanks, teddy-bears, a
Mickey-mouse clock.
JANNA
ThereТre a lot of things, you missed in
childhood.
My God, IТm so tired Е
Boris opens a bar, pours two glasses of vine, they drink.
INT. аааBORISТS BEDROOM аааNIGHT
Moonlight. They lay
on the bed, Boris over Janna and gently kisses her, both are naked.
Lay
beside.
BORIS
JANNA
Yes, really, I desire to go away. I want
to live on the seacoast, to have many children Е To paintЕ I want,а our children to speak
spanish. When we shall go?
BORIS
As soon as I shall finish my
business here.
JANNA
а(turns to him)
Will you really take me?
BORIS
(smiles happily)
And you want to go separately?
INT. аааBORISТS BEDROOM аааMORNING
Boris
rises, dresses, drinks coffee, leaves.
NAT. аааSTREETаа аMORNING
Boris goes out of his house. Sits in the red car, drives off.
INT.а ааBORISТS
BEDROOM аааMORNING
Janna cautiously observes departure of the car from the window. She is naked.
She
begins to search something all around the flat. Janna
opens wardrobes, bookcases, saucepans, basket with a
dirty linenЕ shakes up the books. Disembowels
a toy bear, ripping it by knife.
JANNA
(hysterically)
What have you done with this money?
What for, what for? What for you go to
this
She
begins to rush about the flat and comes into rage. She
falls on the floor and begins to cry.
INT.а ааBORISТS BATHROOM аааMORNING
Janna faces to a mirror.
JANNAТS REFLECTION
You calm down, you should set yourselves
to rights, you should clean allЕ You understand me, bitch?! Understand or not? Well, if you understand, smile!
Janna dries tears, looks and smiles to the reflection. The reflection
smiles to her in answer.
NAT. аааSTREET
аааMORNING
Janna goes along the street, stops at the telephone and dials a familiar
number.
JANNA
(in a business-like
tone)
Hi. It is necessary to meet. In three on the same place.
NAT. аааBENCH IN THE PARKаа аDAY
On
a bench sits Janna, reading the newspaper. We see man's
legs, going towards her. It is legs of the JOURNALIST. Journalist sits down on
a bench next to Janna, but we donТt see his face (we see them from a back).
JANNA
You write good articles.
JOURNALIST
Inspiration.
JANNA
And by the order?
JOURNALIST
IТm a creative man. All depends on
inspiration Е and inspiration Ц on money.
JANNA
I need an article. IТll pay you.
JOURNALIST
For a heart attack?
JANNA
Something about it.
JOURNALIST
And responsibility?
JANNA
The newspaper is needed in one copy. Except
you, me and one son of a bitch nobody will see it.
JOURNALIST
Plot is yours?
JANNA
I believe, yes.
They
kiss.
NAT. аааHIGHWAY аааDAY
The
red machine goes along the highway. There are Boris
and Janna. Janna reads the newspaper aloud.
JANNA
An accident or deliberate
murder.
At night since Thursday to Friday near the
cemetery on
Boris abruptly stops the machine, seizes the newspaper and begins to
re-read to himself. In the newspaper we see identikit resembling Boris.
JANNA
DonТt speak anything, IТve understood all.
TheyТre searching for you. I know, where you can hide.
My aunt has a summer cottage on the thirteenth kilometer. I
think, it is time to escape. You will live there for a
while, and I shall buy the tickets on the nearest ship.
NAT. аааNEAR SUMMER COTTAGEааа NIGHT
The light is burning in the window. The car approaches to the house, Janna
goes out, knocks conventionally. Boris opens the door. Janna is anxious.
INT.аа аSUMMER
COTTAGEааа NIGHT
Janna comes in.
JANNA
TheyТre searching you. Everywhere.
Your photos are all around the cityЕ
They think, that you killed drug dealer and then got rid of your partner. The
police shadows your flat.
BORIS
But I havenТt killed anybodyЕ
Janna embraces him, cries.
JANNA
I believe you. And it is me only, who believes
you, that is the problem, dear.
BORIS
Maybe I should surrender?
JANNA
I wanted to tell you something. I am
pregnant. We will have a child. I do not want, you to be in prison when itТll
be born. We should make everything to escape.
IТve already done all. We have two tickets
on a ship. WeТll sail tomorrow at night.
BORIS
(kisses her)
DearЕ maybe, youТll stay tonight?
JANNA
I must prepare things and documents. WeТll
meet tomorrow.
BORIS
Well. But where?
JANNA
In the city it is impossible, it is
dangerous. ThereТre patrols on the road. How do you think, where they wait us
the less?
BORIS
(smiling)
Near the cemetery, on
seventeenth kilometer.
JANNA
Quite a good idea.
BORIS
Are you kidding?
JANNA
It is not a time for jokes. If you really
knew the situation, you would agree with me.
BORIS
Well. But where and when?
JANNA
Near old chapel at three oТclock. I shall drive, twinkle two
times by headlights, you will answer to me by the lamp. Two
times. So:
Janna blinks two times by the lamp, gives it to Boris.
JANNA
(continues)
We will meet and go.
Take with yourself only the most necessary.
Probably, tomorrow will be a rain, I brought you a raincoat.
NAT. аааCEMETERY NEAR CHAPELаа аNIGHT
Boris in the raincoat stands and smokes. It is raining. The car
approaches. The headlights flash two times. Boris takes a package, goes on a
signal. In the answer Boris blinks two times by the lamp. Towards him goes an unindentified figure, dazzling him by a light.
BORIS
Janna, is it you? Janna, where are you?
The
lantern blinds him, he closes by hand. Two shots are heard.
In the sky are lightning and thunder.
Boris runs on pools, making his way through the trees and branches.
JANNAТS VOICE
Boris, it is me, Boris, stop!
He
runs out on the road, the car drives towaeds
him, it has no time to brake and knocks him down.
The
driver goes out. He approaches to Boris, feels his pulse.
INT. аааHOSEТS HOUSEааа NIGHT
Mona Lisa on the wall. Before it sits Hose.
He stuffs a cigarette. Takes a toy pistol - lighter. Knocking at the door is heard.
Hose stands up, opens the door. There stands Janna in black hat with a veil.
INT.аа аTHE
CARаа аNIGHT
Raining. Boris is
driving the car. The УFlight of ValkiriesФ
is heard from the car radio, it is supplemented by
the uniform sound of working windscreen-wipers.
INT. аааHOSEТS BEDROOM аааNIGHT
We
see fat HoseТs ass in trousers, revolver sticks
out of his belt,а
female legs in black stockings and high-heeled shoes clasp his thighs.
The woman groans, Hose wheezes.
INT.аа аTHE
CARаа аNIGHT
Boris drives the car, windscreen-wipers
work. The car passes a pole of
INT. аааHOSEТS BEDROOM аааNIGHT
We
see the JannaТs face, she groans rhythmically. If to
conjecture her pose, she stands on fours.
INT.аа аTHE
CARаа аNIGHT
Boris drives, windscreen-wipers work. Sounds лFlight of WalkiriesФ
Boris notices something on the road. It is a cat. He brakes, the creaking car, stops right
before the cat. He leans back on the seat dripping with sweat. Switches off the music. Drives back, stops on the side,
lights a cigarette. Silence, only rain taps and windscreen-wipers go there and here with a weak sound. The cat pretentiously goes further
and disappears in darkness.
INT.аа аTHE
CARаа аMORNING
Sunny day. Boris awakens in his car. Some car passes him. Boris lights a
cigarette. The car starts. It passes
NAT. аааHIGHWAY аааMORNING
We
see the straight road in the perspective, BorisТs car
goes in the distance. As the road falls down and rises up, the
car disappears behind a hill and emerges again. Cheerful music sounds from the
radio, the car disappears in the distance.
PART
FOUR: RETURN OF RED MUSTANG
NAT. аааTHE HOUSE IN THE INDIAN RESERVATIONааа NIGHT
Camera
shows one-storied little house.
INT. аааTHE HOUSE IN THE INDIAN RESERVATIONааа NIGHT
At
the table sits young Indian Ц BILL, he has long hair and
checkered shirt. Behind him on the wall is American flag with Indian, photos of
the chiefs. Bill is drinking. A dog barks in the yard. Somebody knocks at the
door.
BILL
(Nods aside)
Go, open the door!
Appears
a young Indian woman - MAY, she is the grand daughter of those
May, who was in the beginning. She opens the door.
We
see BillТs face. He is trying to make out who is on a
threshold.
The
figure on a threshold is dim, then BillТs sight is
focused on it, we see JOE Ц BillТs friend.
BILL
Joe! Hi, brother!
Joe sits at the table with him, puts a new bottle.
BILL
(aside)
Fry meat!
MAY
(behind the screen)
We have no meat!
Bill beats the table by hand.
BILL
No meat! When they return our buffalo?
JOE
Want to return the
buffalo?
BILL
Yes, I want, if not the buffalo, then compensation at least.
JOE
(Rises)
Imagine, Bill:
knock in the door,
(he knocks on a
table)
Who is it?
You come to the door, open it,
(opens the door)
And there stands indian agent, in the white
jacket and hat, with a cigar in his mouth. You look on him and you аcan understand
nothing.
And he comes to the table,
(approaches to the
table)
Pours a glass of vineЕ
(pours a glass)
BILL
And speaks: brother, letТs have a drinkЕ
JOE
(Overturns a glass)
No, he takes
some paper, and begins to read in English without any accent:
(assumes a dignified air, reads on his palm)
The American government, dear mister Bill, is sorry for innocent killed buffalo and stolen ground. Our commission
estimated a damage, caused personally to you, mister Bill,
as 100 buffalo heads and a box of Scottish whiskey.
And you do not trust your ears! And you go out, move aside the agentЕ
(goes on a threshold, moving May)
And you see the entire herd of wild
buffalo, peacefully nibbling grass on your garden.
NAT. аааBILLТS HOUSEаа аNIGHT
JOE
(continuing)
Bill, come here, and look! Hundred buffalo!
You want to touch them, to count them.
Bill and Joe begin to swing their arms in the darkness, trying to fumble
for an animal.
INT. аааBILLТS
HOUSEаа аNIGHT
May collects a traveling bag.
BILL
May, where are you going?
MAY
I should be in the city tommorow. Bye.
BILL
So you do not want to count our buffalo
with us? And what if the government deceived us again! What
for you want to become a film-director. What for to go to that city of whites.
May passes them, stops, turns and looks in BillТs eyes,
light outgoing from the door covers her face.
MAY
My grandfather Red Mustang spoke, that the art is a great medicine. It can cure people. The same as our ancient ceremonies.
BILL
Who is your Red Mustang,
who knows him? Joe, do you know Red Mustang?
Joe spreads his hands.
JOE
NoЕ
BILL
I do not know him too, nobody knows. Maybe
these buffalo remember him?
(peers into
darkness, from under his hand)
May stands looking on Bill.
MAY
аI
know.
She
goes into the night.
May is going away from the house, behind her on a threshold stands
BillТs drunk silhouette with a gun.
BILL
(Shouts)
аMay! Forgive me!
He
shoots in the air.
ааааааааааааааааа
May doesnТt turn, she goes, looks in the sky, smiles to a star.
BILL
Forgive me! May!
NAT.аа аPRAIRIEаа аDAY
Red
Mustang rides the horse.
May goes on foot.
Red
Mustang drives to her, but she does not see him.
May stops, Red Mustang stops near her.
May turns and sees her great-grandfather.
RED MUSTANG
I wanted to see you. YouТre very beautiful
and clever. YouТre like your grandmother. I shall be always with you. Even if you lose my amulet. I love you, May.
INT. аааGRANDMOTHERТS HOUSEаа аMORNING
May opens her eyes. The face of Red mustang turns to the portrait which
has been stuck together from four parts. The portrait hangs on a wall. May smiles to a portrait and looks on the wooden red horse.
ааааааааааааааааа
GRANDMOTHER MAY
May! Get up, dear. It is time.
Grandmother
May puts in a bag parcels with food.
GRANDMOTHER MAY
Your parents and your grandfather couldnТt
even dream about it. You have chosen a good path.
She
gives May a bag. Embraces and kisses her.
NAT.ааа NEAR GRANDMOTHERТS HOUSEааа MORNING
The
granddaughter May runs downstairs. Her grandmother stands at
the door and looks on her, they wave in farewell to each other.
NAT. аааHIGHWAY аааMORNING
The
granddaughter May is going along the road. Some car
passes her.
Suddenly May stops and turns. The red car is approaching to her.
It
stops, the door opens, we see Boris. He smiles.
BORIS
I hope you will not take my scalpЕ
MAY
(smiling)
Crow
never were at war with the Whites.
ааааааа
BORIS
Well, then get in.
They
go further.
BORIS
The car old, but good.
MAY
My grandmother had the same car. It was
stolen. But I have another red Mustang.
May takes from the bag a red horse.
MAY
My grandmother spoke, that nobody needs it
except usЕ
BORIS
And what is it?
MAY
Grandmother spoke, that it is the
telephone, by which we can speak with everyone, whom we like. Even with those,
who passed away.
Boris
looks suspiciously, thinking, that she is a little bit mad.
They go in silence, he smokes.
BORIS
(behind the screen)
Can I talk on your telephone?
MAY
(after a small
pause, seriously)
If you have somebody to talk
withЕ
In
silence the car goes afar.