Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024) Movie Script

Reporter: Well, Monsieur "Limonv".
Eddie: Limonov.
Reporter: Ah, right.
Monsieur Limonov, uh, I start again.
Reporter: Ah, right.
Monsieur Limonov, uh, I start again.
Uh, well, monsieur "limonv".
Eddie: Limonov.
Reporter: Limonov. When it is ready,
Look in the car
And you start talking when I say
"action".
And you start talking when I say
"action".
Eddie: do I have to speak in French?
Reporter: Yes, French i-in is fine.
(Lightens the voice)
And ... action!
(Speak French)
Reporter: surname: Limonov.
Name: Eduard.
Also known as Edicka or Eddie-Baby.
Born somewhere
In Russia in '44.
Born somewhere
In Russia in '44.
Known domicile
In the 1950s and 1960s, Charkiv,
large industrial city
of Ukraine, and Moscow.
large industrial city
of Ukraine, and Moscow.
Occupations: student, criminal,
worker, poet.
Emigrated to New York
in the 70s.
Occupations: dishwasher,
butler, poet.
Last known home:
Rue de Turenne, Paris.
Last known home:
Rue de Turenne, Paris.
Eddie, it is difficult to be
A writer in Paris today?
A Russian writer and an immigrant?
A Russian writer and an immigrant?
Being a writer is difficult
everywhere.
Is it difficult
to be an immigrant?
Here, it's okay for me.
Um, writers should
be hunted away
Um, writers should
be hunted away
From their country of origin, yes!
They must be driven out.
Here you are!
This is my opinion.
This is my opinion.
There are two, uh, images
of the Russian writer.
The dissident and the Soviet.
The dissident and the Soviet.
I was...
.. something again,
A new type of writer.
Neither official nor dissident.
If it is not a dissident,
because he doesn't come back
In the Soviet Union?
Eddie: (laughing) some people
do not they manage to imagine
that other places exist.
For me it is not a question
to live here, or there.
For me it is not a question
to live here, or there.
It is nonsense.
I wish you a goodnight.
I wish you a goodnight.
("Walk on the Wild Side" Lou Reed)
("Walk on the Wild Side" Lou Reed)
(Melancholy music)
(Stalin's speech
In Russo on TV)
Man: our country has changed
completely,
thanks to policies
of Perestroika and Glasnost.
thanks to policies
of Perestroika and Glasnost.
And now, finally,
we can report
In Russia some people,
Like today's guest.
In the West, it became a famous
writer
In the West, it became a famous
writer
And it's wonderful
that can now return
in his country of origin,
where his novel,
"We had a great era" is
among the best sellers.
(APPLAUSE)
This is what I was talking about.
I would like to ask the author:
Why a man,
who called himself a dissident,
Why a man,
who called himself a dissident,
Do you intend to defend the KGB?
I have never defined myself
A dissident.
I was just a man in contrast
with the penal code.
I was just a man in contrast
with the penal code.
(APPLAUSE)
I remember her,
When he still lived in Moscow.
We knew each other,
... but it doesn't matter.
What matters is that I
I remember a young poet,
What matters is that I
I remember a young poet,
with long hair,
full of inspiration and talented.
And what I see now, without
any offense, it is a bureaucrat,
And what I see now, without
any offense, it is a bureaucrat,
...a secretary of Komsomol.
And this breaks my heart.
I don't care about his heart.
I don't care about his heart.
(APPLAUSE)
(Russian audio from TV)
It's me, Eddie. And I came back
in the Soviet Union.
It's me, Eddie. And I came back
in the Soviet Union.
Eddie: "It has become a country
much more interesting,
compared to compass life
of the West.
With the Empire in ruins,
The country has sunk in chaos.
With the Empire in ruins,
The country has sunk in chaos.
People feel they are
A waste of space.
For me, however,
it is the opposite.
For me, however,
it is the opposite.
While others are satisfied
of a boring and mediocre life,
I have taken many roads,
while waiting for it to arrive
My moment.
while waiting for it to arrive
My moment.
The moment of the hero.
And when it arrives,
Better to be in the motherland.
You have to live in Russia
long enough,
You have to live in Russia
long enough,
To see the pendulum of time
make a complete movement,
To hear the sound of his blade
that breaks down,
To feel part of the story. "
To feel part of the story. "
(Suspense music)
(Folk music)
(Folk music)
No, but imagine.
No, but imagine.
You are wrong.
Eddie: "Oh, my caring
homeland and maternal,
I cursed you,
for eternal life.
For the living inside you
and the deceased,
For the living inside you
and the deceased,
For young people,
For nudes and demented.
What the fuck
do you do a monster?
Of a Triton like me
who lives in a greenish stream.
Born and raised as a deformity,
In an urban sea full of darkness.
In an urban sea full of darkness.
I live in Charkiv,
A city in Ukraine.
In reality, I am a poet,
But here nobody knows.
In reality, I am a poet,
But here nobody knows.
For them, I'm alone
Another Soma beast,
Useful to reach a number.
The Soviet Union goes on
to numbers,
The Soviet Union goes on
to numbers,
Instead I have a monotony
of planned life.
What I don't understand is:
who makes us one with my talent
In this damned factory?
who makes us one with my talent
In this damned factory?
But the life of Charkiv is this,
or end you stabbed in a fight
or you get drunk to death from boredom,
There is no other option.
There is no other option.
The rules of the motherland make
difficult for his children to bloom. "
Eddie: "But the services will be
repaid, "
"I'll be grateful to you
For donated aid, "
"I'll be grateful to you
For donated aid, "
"And I will turn on a torch
In your honor, "
"Every Russian will
admire the ardor,"
"And it will understand
which intent you have, "
"And it will understand
which intent you have, "
"He will remove his hat
And he will cry for the homeland ".
(APPLAUSE)
(APPLAUSE)
Tolya.
I was wondering,
If Eddie went to Moscow ...
.. with such a poem,
would it be successful?
.. with such a poem,
would it be successful?
Here, this is the Avant-Garde stuff,
It is not good for the official publishing.
You know, to be successful in Moscow,
You have to have the right time.
You know, to be successful in Moscow,
You have to have the right time.
It is a beautiful poem.
It's really beautiful.
You should go to Moscow, Eddie.
Brusilovsky: Mhm, Moscow
very soon will explode.
But because they are
all obsessed From Moscow?
This is an excellent environment
To write, paint,
To party, debate.
Life is beautiful here in Charkiv.
Life is beautiful here in Charkiv.
It is far away
from all that artificiality
and from the vacuous frantic
confusion of the capital.
Here you get a good life.
Right here.
You know, I almost envy you.
About life, I do you
Feel my last poem.
About life, I do you
Feel my last poem.
Brusilovsky: MH-MH. Yes.
Poet: I need a little
of encouragement.
"My dear star, don't run away,"
"This is the moment
to be happy ".
"This is the moment
to be happy ".
"Don't get the limit exceed me ..."
- (Bisbigliando) Hey, Eddie!
Hey? Hey?
I like how to squeeze my eyes.
I like how to squeeze my eyes.
- Mhm.
- As if I solved an enigma.
They are just short -sighted.
- What do you think of him?
- He only says bullshit.
- What do you think of him?
- He only says bullshit.
Because he's gone,
If he likes Charkiv so much?
(Coughing strokes)
Woman: Anna, quick, come.
Woman: Anna, quick, come.
(Man sings a song in English)
(Sciacquone)
Ah! Great job!
These are some of my poems.
Low you read to someone.
Low you read to someone.
Agree.
- Did you copy everything by hand?
- I? Ninth.
- Did you copy everything by hand?
- I? Ninth.
- My fans! They were theirs
to reflect them. - Ah, good for you.
(Indistinct voices in the background)
(Indistinct voices in the background)
Anna: But! Dance well!
- How do you feel?
- Great, I'm fine.
- How do you feel?
- Great, I'm fine.
You need more alcohol.
More food, more music.
(The song continues)
For the first time, finally
This country can choose.
For the first time, finally
This country can choose.
The point is that we will never
have peace, until the capitalists
And the imperialists do not ...
And the imperialists do not ...
(Russian man)
Anna: Savenko.
Anna: Savenko.
Savenko.
You would have due
Cut for a long time.
Not sideways.
Not sideways.
Yes. Now I know.
Did you do it for a woman?
Among other things.
Among other things.
Did they locate you in the asylum?
Yes.
My mother denounced me.
He said it was for my good.
Feel, if you have to do it ...
.. up of men.
.. up of men.
You have to use the rope.
Or the gun.
I too was in a department
psychiatric, it was not bad.
I met people
interesting.
MH-MH.
Like my roommate.
He massacred saws,
looking at me my feet.
looking at me my feet.
Savenko.
- Savenko.
- Mhm.
Savenko.
You need a pseudonym.
I thought about ... Limonov.
- In the sense of lemon?
- MH-MH. Uh ...
.. like 'Limonka'.
In the sense of grenade.
You are just a rogue!
You are just a rogue!
A young rogue!
(Russian)
No.
Anna: careful,
We are going against the wall.
Eddie: "I gave up the factory
And I left Anna.
Both interfered
with my poems.
Both interfered
with my poems.
I moved to Moscow,
Hunting of fame and wealth.
I know I am bad,
I am very proud of it.
I know I am bad,
I am very proud of it.
But I am better than all those
Moscow Svampati strangers.
The workers of the Charkiv Factory
They were simple and honest people.
The workers of the Charkiv Factory
They were simple and honest people.
They smelled, of tobacco,
of vodka and sweat.
On the other hand,
these people have no smell.
On the other hand,
these people have no smell.
Compliant professors
and Lecchini poets,
tame and pseudo rebels.
Gather in their dacies,
their rich second houses
Outside Moscow,
where they read their poems,
praising each other.
where they read their poems,
praising each other.
Liars, without talent,
in need of attention.
Exhibitionists. They walk Tronfi,
As if to say: 'We arrived!'.
Exhibitionists. They walk Tronfi,
As if to say: 'We arrived!'.
They say they are the face
of this generation. With the cock!
I am the face
of this generation! I.
Eddie! "
(Indistinct voices
in the background)
(Indistinct voices
in the background)
What a pleasure to see you.
What a pleasure to see you.
Eddie: "I get longer, more I can,
trying to find ... "
"..tra two mirrors,"
"..tra two mirrors,"
"The desire on my skin, which I have
caressed for so long ".
"The last part of me,
"Finally, I found it."
"Finally, I found it."
(whispering) What do you think?
Eddie: "Why think about others?
It makes no sense ".
"A forgotten face,
A hand that portrays ".
"A forgotten face,
A hand that portrays ".
"In all their inconsistency
Vanish I will see them. "
"What happens,"
"What happens,"
"I will remain on my own."
Evtushenko: in my opinion,
It was wonderful, right?
Let's take a short break. Eh?
Let's take a short break. Eh?
Akhmadulina: "A blessed end".
"Which triumph
will have ever been,"
"What prompted him to run
To conquer the distance? "
"What prompted him to run
To conquer the distance? "
"Here is the man, now look at him
and observe in the fog of time, "
"Of his beautiful face the fair
Costanza ".
"Of his beautiful face the fair
Costanza ".
"In the past, the desert of Egypt
He kept him slave, "
"an marginalized with olive skin,
who ran to loss, "
"an marginalized with olive skin,
who ran to loss, "
"And that he would die,"
"If he hadn't accepted
What to run towards the victory, "
"It's the essence of fate".
- What is his name?
"It's the essence of fate".
- What is his name?
Lena.
Let it go,
it is out of your reach.
Akhmadulina: "But he is alive
and passionate ".
Akhmadulina: "But he is alive
and passionate ".
"The emotions they flex,"
"The golden move
of all the muscles of his body, "
"The most perfect movement
of humanity enclose ".
"Oh, run, flee!
Run, run brother "!
"Oh, run, flee!
Run, run brother "!
"Run, friend!"
"With your strength of mind you
will cut the most coveted goal. "
So, it is true that you studied
your ass in the mirror?
Yes.
I know what you mean.
I know what you mean.
I do it too.
Think if we could see us
entirely.
Not just pieces.
Not just pieces.
360 degrees.
Oh, love!
S sorgir:
Lena! Where are you, honey?
Evtushenko is about to start!
Elena: Arrival!
Your jeans are not bad.
Ah, I made them with my hands.
Come on!
They are the exact copy
of the classic Wrangler.
(Dog barking)
ShH! Good, small! Good!
If you want, I can make a couple of it.
(Dog barking)
If you want, I can make a couple of it.
(Dog barking)
It would be great.
(Dog hears)
Good! Be a good, love!
I bring about a 46.
But they shrink a little, uh,
after the first wash.
But they shrink a little, uh,
after the first wash.
MH-MH.
(Poil)
- I told you to stay good!
But I have to take the measurements.
- Yes, certainly!
- MH-MH!
Cute these glasses!
(Broken glass)
Lena? Everything is fine?
- MH-MH!
I heard a noise.
I heard a noise.
Evtushenko: ".. if cheat,
The consequences will be serious ".
"And it's even worse when,
like a horse you put yourself nitrire,
"harnessed by your boss,
the scammer, "
"harnessed by your boss,
the scammer, "
"That leads you to walk".
"At forty years the gray man yes
begins to dye,
"And if a horse baio
You can't be ... "
Wait, no, where are you going?
Wait, no, where are you going?
- Tomorrow I have to wake up soon!
- Evtushenko: Ah.
Your poem is really ... beautiful.
Evtushenko: As always.
Evtushenko: As always.
Okay, let's continue.
"At forty years the gray man yes
begins to dye, "
"At forty years the gray man yes
begins to dye, "
"And if a horse Baio cannot
Being, be gray, but pezzate ".
"A man at forty years now, now,
it should have learned "
"That the world is certainly not
the square of a market ".
"That the world is certainly not
the square of a market ".
("I'm waiting for the man"
The Velvet Underground, Nico)
So how do you want to do?
Uh ... you have ...
Uh ... you have ...
.. do you have a meter?
In your opinion, do I have it?
Uh, ok, well,
Then we have to do it by hand.
Uh, ok, well,
Then we have to do it by hand.
Let's start.
Ok fine.
Measure the external length
of the leg.
One two three...
.. four, five, you are ...
..seven.
Seven and a quarter.
- And now, the interior
of the leg. Mh-mh?
Agree.
(Coughing strokes)
It is better if ...
It is better if ...
- ..Magari you should ...
Ah, of course!
Better?
MH-MH.
("I'm waiting for the man"
The Velvet Underground, Nico)
("I'm waiting for the man"
The Velvet Underground, Nico)
(Music is stopped)
(Music is stopped)
- Eddie?
- Elena!
- Eddie?
- Elena!
Do you have any idea what hours are they?
- Your jeans!
Thanks for the jeans, Eddie!
I go back to the morning!
My boyfriend has just returned.
Go away, please.
My boyfriend has just returned.
Go away, please.
- What the fuck do you want!
- I have to talk to Elena!
We love each other!
We love each other!
We are destined to be together
forever.
Please, please,
Get in the middle!
Fuck. Fuck!
Fuck. Ah!
("I'm waiting for the man"
The Velvet Underground, Nico)
("I'm waiting for the man"
The Velvet Underground, Nico)
Eddie: "Elena has given up on her
Week life for Eddie exhausted him.
He gave up everything for me.
He gave up everything for me.
For one without a house
And without a penny.
An act of madness,
in the eyes of ordinary people.
I love madness.
For me it doesn't matter.
I love madness.
For me it doesn't matter.
I don't care about logic,
But the pleasure!
Elena and I live for pleasure,
in the face of others,
Elena and I live for pleasure,
in the face of others,
of all those who calculate
everything. Who go fuck!
We will never calculate anything. "
Elena: I'm ready.
Photographer:
Elena, stop like this. Good.
"A knife".
"The knife is a female weapon:
lightning and infidae ".
"We are forced to kill for not
Become heaps of worn meat ".
"We are forced to kill for not
Become heaps of worn meat ".
"Forced to kill creations,
Forced to kill ideas, "
"Forced to kill creations,
Forced to kill ideas, "
"And the soul of other people".
There is no rhyme, nor logic.
Why does he say that?
There is no musicality,
No powerful image.
Like: "The earth is blue
like an orange "?
Like: "The earth is blue
like an orange "?
- Stuff of that kind?
Stuff of that kind.
I write to my way.
In the end,
it's up to her to decide,
In the end,
it's up to her to decide,
But so it risks big.
Let's go, this is harmless stuff.
- This is not the point.
People talk about her, Savenko,
She is attracting attention.
All too much.
Limonov.
What a stupid pseudonym!
It sounds so harsh
What a stupid pseudonym!
It sounds so harsh
In fact, yes.
What am I guilty, exactly?
What am I guilty, exactly?
Distribution of Samizdat.
Is not registered in the Union
writers, right?
This is a criminal offense.
This is a criminal offense.
Eddie: I understand.
And exactly,
What do you want from me?
(Lightens the voice)
(Lightens the voice)
(Knock on the door)
- As soon as he is done,
take a look at him. - MH-MH.
Obviously, there are ways
to eliminate this problem.
Obviously, there are ways
to eliminate this problem.
And which would be?
She has several knowledge.
She has several knowledge.
In precise environments:
Artists, writers.
Often frequent their dacie.
Ah, so you want
What do you become a spy?
It can be defined as he wants.
But the truth is that she has not
Much choice, Savenko.
But the truth is that she has not
Much choice, Savenko.
Or it agrees to collaborate,
Or he will go to prison.
I want an answer, Savenko.
What would you say about exile?
- Exile?
- from the Soviet Union.
- Exile?
- from the Soviet Union.
- And that is?
- Mhm?
Like Brodsky.
I am no less parasitic
or less scroccone of him.
I am no less parasitic
or less scroccone of him.
If you managed to expel
an old stoned
as...
.. as solzenicyn,
.. as solzenicyn,
or that useless fucking beauty
by Brodsky,
you should put me
On the first train that starts.
Instead of compromising
our communist homeland,
Instead of compromising
our communist homeland,
I could do damage to theirs
capitalist society, however.
I am sure I would make such a mess,
to be sent back that cock of circus
to the stone age.
Calm! Calm! Calm, Savenko!
It doesn't work in this way.
And why not?
And why not?
First of all,
it must become famous.
But it just told me
that I am too famous.
I mean, famous in the West.
Ah, yes, of course.
Well, I ... I will become it.
No! Cabbage, he broke.
Well, then, come here.
(GEMITI)
Yes.
Yes.
Accipicchia, congratulations!
(GEMITI)
Speaker: And now the advice
for purchases.
We help this girl
and many others like her
To get back on his feet, finally.
To get back on his feet, finally.
We will help it thanks to our new
Cleaning product for rugs.
Eddie: "We fled from the KGB
and from that tedious existence,
mediocre and vegetative.
I finally got enough
fame with my works,
To push them to drive me.
We remain forever like this,
Young and beautiful.
We remain forever like this,
Young and beautiful.
We always stay happy,
perpetually smiling,
madly in love
the one of the other!
madly in love
the one of the other!
Our new life as a free
He is about to begin! "
("Sunday Morning"
The Velvet Underground, Nico)
("Sunday Morning"
The Velvet Underground, Nico)
Look!
Look!
Hey, look at that?
Hey, look at that?
- How about this?
- I do not know.
Cabbage, this place is crazy!
Stopped!
(HORN)
Oh, look!
(TV audio in the background)
I can be everything you want!
(Pacifist song
in the background)
Come on, give it!
Come on, give it!
Yes, look, it's a madness!
(Sings a pacifist song)
(Sings a pacifist song)
(Sirens in the background)
(Sirens in the background)
(TV audio in the background)
(Solzenicyn
in the background on TV)
(Solzenicyn
in the background on TV)
He is your
favorite writer.
Eddie: "The writer Solzenicyn.
Winner of the Nobel Prize.
Eddie: "The writer Solzenicyn.
Winner of the Nobel Prize.
Pretends to be anti-Soviet
But it is so far in the marrow. "
What is there?
Eddie: "It deserves to drown
In a bucket full of shit,
Eddie: "It deserves to drown
In a bucket full of shit,
For his boring description
of a world without fun.
Better smoking grass,
drinking alcohol,
Better smoking grass,
drinking alcohol,
snort cocaine, to be heroin,
anything.
Better to pull the leather
What to be like you, Solzenicyn.
Deceive, torture,
plunder villas,
Deceive, torture,
plunder villas,
shoot at random from the window.
Enjoy life as much as possible
And fuck the best women. "
Enjoy life as much as possible
And fuck the best women. "
("Amado my" Grace Jones)
(GEMITI)
(GEMITI)
Elena: Oh, you're crazy!
You are splendid!
You are very beautiful!
Can you do it more, honey?
Now come here. You come.
Can you do it more, honey?
Now come here. You come.
Perfect!
Raise your chin!
Raise the chin.
Yes, so.
Brava, honey! Yes, so!
Yes, so!
One more!
Beautiful!
Beautiful!
(Not audible words)
Yes, so, so!
(Not audible words)
Yes, so, so!
Continue like this.
Moreover!
Well, good.
Look here. Yes. Look here.
Yes, so. Perfect.
Look here. Yes. Look here.
Yes, so. Perfect.
Continue like this!
Continue like this!
("Amado my" Grace Jones)
Eddie: I want to come with you.
I will sit in a corner.
Eddie: I want to come with you.
I will sit in a corner.
In silence.
Go for a ride in a museum,
Or something else.
- I will give you moral support.
- Or you could go shopping.
- I will not make jealousy scene.
- idiot.
- I will not make jealousy scene.
- idiot.
- come on, please ...
- Or maybe you go to Fanculo.
(Melancholy music)
Employee: in a week
A check will arrive, by post.
Employee: in a week
A check will arrive, by post.
Employee 2: I can't do
other.
The next!
- Try again.
Man: Okay, thank you.
- Try again.
Man: Okay, thank you.
Eddie: "Now I receive the subsidy.
278 dollars a month.
Eddie: "Now I receive the subsidy.
278 dollars a month.
I live on the shoulders
of American taxpayers.
They pay
And I don't do a fuck.
In the morning you crawl out
from your hot beds
In the morning you crawl out
from your hot beds
And go to make slaves.
I hate being a slave.
I have a expensive white suit
And I don't care.
I have a expensive white suit
And I don't care.
Of course I deserve much more
of a shitty subsidy,
But what are you doing here
of Russian heroes,
When there are people around
How Dal and Warhol?
When there are people around
How Dal and Warhol?
Who cares if they are one of the most
Great living Russian poets?
Who is interested in what I am twisted
and I be able to be stressed,
neglecting my heroic fate?
neglecting my heroic fate?
Here it is full of rich people,
There are bars
on every road corner,
while literature comes
Swinish,
while literature comes
Swinish,
reduced to mere entertainment
between professors during parties.
What the fuck do I need all this? "
Teacher: health care.
Then Eduard, you can tell us
who provides for health care
In your country?
Eddie: the state.
- The state.
Teacher: So if you are sick
go ...?
- In Poliklinika.
In the clinic.
- Polyklinika!
And how much do you pay?
- Nothing.
- Nothing?
- Nothing.
- Nothing?
- MH-MH.
- Woh.
And the education?
Who pays the education?
The state!
So why are you here?
(Laughter)
(Indistinct voices)
The Socialist Workers Party
The Socialist Workers Party
It is the Trotskisti party
Americans.
We need a world revolution!
World Revolution? Yes.
I agree.
- The flyer? Here, please.
- No, I don't need it.
- The flyer? Here, please.
- No, I don't need it.
Count on me.
I'm with reds, blacks, gays,
the Arabs, the Puerto Riche,
and I'm on the side
of those who have nothing to lose.
and I'm on the side of
those who have nothing to lose.
Come to the event
Pro Palestine. But...
..I warn you, they could
There are clashes.
..I warn you, they could
There are clashes.
Ah ... fig.
Let's go.
No, that's not how it works.
No, that's not how it works.
And how does it work?
Here, in short ...
Everyone speaks in turn,
We vote for resolutions ...
Everyone speaks in turn,
We vote for resolutions ...
MH-MH. And then?
And then ...
let's go back to demonstrate.
Fuck.
Fuck you!
Fuck you!
I do not understand.
What did you expect?
I want ... I want everyone
to give up a wake up,
find rifles and assaults
a government agency or ...
find rifles and assaults
a government agency or ...
..DiRottino a plane
Or kill someone.
I don't know, fuck! Something!
Keep, take this.
(Indistinct shouts)
(Traffic noise)
Eddie: "Disappointment. Issor.
Anger.
This is what you feel here.
What do boutiques,
hotels are for use,
bright and luxurious restaurants,
If we immigrants don't have
The possibility of going there?
If we immigrants don't have
The possibility of going there?
You are in the paradise of consumerism where
There is everything, but you are excluded!
Inequality exists
also in the Soviet Union,
...but there is well hidden.
Here economic inequality
is ostentatious,
Here economic inequality
is ostentatious,
it does not even come
questioning.
We should limit ourselves to smiling
And to say that everything is okay?
But for the good of who we lie?
But for the good of who we lie?
For the good of American prestige?
In order to feed
The myth of the West?
Terror is needed.
Terror is needed.
They need corpses hanging
from the street lamps.
What we need ...
it's the revolution! "
("Interlude" Massimo Pupillo)
("Interlude" Massimo Pupillo)
(The door opens)
Did you spend a nice evening?
Did you spend a nice evening?
Go to sleep,
Eddie. I feel bad.
What did you do with?
Um ... Champagne.
Cocktail.
Cocktail.
Cocaine. Excuse me.
Sorry for what?
They invited me to dinner.
They invited me to dinner.
I couldn't say no.
I have to be available,
If I want to work.
So, I stayed there,
to smile and nod.
So, I stayed there,
to smile and nod.
Go to sleep, Edicka.
No, come on, let's talk a little.
Now? What?
Of the two of us, right?
I almost never see you.
We don't fuck.
Please, Eddie, are we talking about
it tomorrow? My head breaks out now.
Please, Eddie, are we talking about
it tomorrow? My head breaks out now.
Come on, tell me?
What happens?
Nothing! Fuck, as soon as I set foot
In the house you will interrogate me.
Nothing! Fuck, as soon as I set foot
In the house you will interrogate me.
Who are you a KGB light?
It's a family thing, huh?
I'm sorry, Lenocka.
Excuse me. I would like ...
Excuse me. I would like ...
..o that I told me the truth.
I swear to you that I don't get angry.
I need you.
It is enough for
me that we are together,
I can accept everything.
Even if you were with another man,
I will accept it.
Even if you were with another man,
I will accept it.
You can also make
a whore if you want.
But I will be your pimp.
You can be the largest whore
of Manhattan, I don't care.
You can be the largest whore
of Manhattan, I don't care.
I will take care of you.
Will I always protect you, mhm?
I will buy you some nice clothes.
The best perfumes. Mhm?
At that time...
.. you've been with someone?
- Yes.
- Mhm.
Who?
A photographer.
He wants to do a service
With Grace Jones and Me.
He wants to do a service
With Grace Jones and Me.
- Type two lesbians, one white
And a black. What is his name?
Jean-Pierre.
It is Belgian.
It is Belgian.
Did you fuck us?
MH-MH.
As?
As?
- In what sense "how"?
- How did you fuck you?
In which holes?
Everyone.
And I put a dildo in his ass.
What is a dildo?
What is a dildo?
A fake cock ...
..t but vibrates.
I understand.
No!
- Leave me.
- Troy!
You are a lousy whore!
(Shouts)
(Coughing strokes)
("Interlude" Massimo Pupillo)
("Interlude" Massimo Pupillo)
(TV) The firefighters are
immediately rushed to the place,
But they couldn't save
the two spouses,
and the fire spread
Also to the adjacent apartments.
and the fire spread
Also to the adjacent apartments.
The second accident concerns
A woman who was attacked ...
Eddie: Jean-Pierre!
Son of a whore.
Son of a whore.
You fucked my wife!
Man: call the police.
- Hey! Do you want to
know how we got married?
- Hey! Do you want to know
how we got married?
- Jean Pierre!
- What do you want from me?
Do you really think I'm a jerk?
We got married
In a fucking church!
We got married
In a fucking church!
Hey, guys!
With thirty fucking icons
And a hundred fucking candles!
- Stop!
And a hundred fucking candles!
- Stop!
- son of a whore!
- My name is Brian!
-B-R-I-A-N. - Friend, if you don't
Go, I call the police!
- Crying of the cock!
- Now enough! What the hell!
- Crying of the cock!
- Now enough! What the hell!
- Are you OK?
- Yes.
Brian?
Brian!
Don't go smoothly!
(TV audio in the background)
(TV audio in the background)
(Sirens in the background)
(Cupa Music)
(Traffic noises)
HI.
They are Eddie.
- Can you give me a sip?
- Friend...
..Mare of fuck.
..Mare of fuck.
I said fuck you.
I said fuck you.
What is your name?
What the fuck do you want?
Ohh! Oh, oh! Ohh! Ohh! Ohh!
Ohh! Oh, oh! Ohh! Ohh! Ohh!
I love you!
I love you!
Let's make love.
I love you.
(Sirens in the background)
Fuck me.
(GEMITI)
(Shouts of pain)
(Shouts of pain)
Fuck!
(laughing) Fuck, I don't believe it!
- Shut up!
(laughing) Fuck, I don't believe it!
- Shut up!
They may feel.
Chris: Love.
My little one.
My name is Eddie.
I have no one
that takes care of me.
You...
You...
..tu will you take care of me?
- Yes, little, I will do it.
- Will you do it?
Giuri that you will never leave me?
I will never leave you.
- And you will never betray me?
- No, small.
- And you will never betray me?
- No, small.
If I had to betray me ...
..I will kill you!
Hey! Fuck.
Hey! Fuck.
- kill you!
- Wait, small! Calm! Calm!
Calm!
Is calm.
Calm.
Calm.
Eddie: "Give a cleaned up, Eddie.
You have the sand in your hair,
inside the ears,
You have the sand in your hair,
inside the ears,
In boots, everywhere.
Give a sprinkling and go!
You are a whore back home,
After the night shift.
You are a whore back home,
After the night shift.
Now I'm free.
I don't know what this is used
for me Freedom, but I'm free.
I feel it.
I feel it.
And this feeling, Eddie,
makes you want to dance. "
Look at New York!
Fuck, Eddie is dancing!
Look at New York!
Fuck, Eddie is dancing!
("Eddie's Dance" Massimo Pupillo)
Guess a little?
I just got fucked!
Man: shut up, jerk!
It's five in the morning!
Man: shut up, jerk!
It's five in the morning!
Who is the best!
I am the best.
Who is the best?
I'm the best!
Who is the best?
I'm the best!
Who is the best?
I'm the best!
Man: We want to sleep, go!
Man2: plant it, you broke your balls.
("Walk on the Wild Side" Lou Reed)
("Walk on the Wild Side" Lou Reed)
(Traffic noise)
Eddie: Who are you waiting for?
- Certainly not you.
Eddie: Who are you waiting for?
- Certainly not you.
(Indistinct voices)
Stop breaking. What the fuck,
they don't end anymore.
By now, they are days
who do not pass to withdraw them.
Manhattan sucks,
It is dirty lurida.
Manhattan sucks,
It is dirty lurida.
It is just a little stink.
Explain to me ...
Eddie: "For sure, when it reads
my novel,
The whole world will fall at my feet.
I just have to explain it to people
on which all this will depend.
But they are all too concentrated
on oneself,
But they are all too concentrated
on oneself,
They do not have time
for the brilliant Eddie.
The glory of the world sleeps
like an exhausted prostitute,
who has no concern to satisfy me. "
who has no concern to satisfy me. "
What the fuck do you look, asshole!
Fuck you!
Shmakov: Probably in Brodsky
You won't like your book.
So don't count too much
on his review.
So don't count too much
on his review.
Eddie: Shmakov, remember that I have
no rivals. It's not my fault.
They don't need my talent,
nor here, nor in the Soviet Union.
Fuck Brodsky and his opinion.
Fuck Brodsky and his opinion.
Shmakov: Of course, Iosif is a genius,
But it belongs to the old school.
Listening and reading his poems is
How to listen to classical music,
Listening and reading his poems is
How to listen to classical music,
Prokofiev or,
for example, Britten.
But reading your book,
It seems to read the Beatnik or ...
But reading your book,
It seems to read the Beatnik or ...
..y listen to Lou Reed,
"Walk on the Wild Side".
Your EDICKA is
Just a bad boy.
Your EDICKA is
Just a bad boy.
I know, the book is brilliant.
I deserve fame,
I just have to publish it.
The perfect monologue
of the perfect loser.
- I'm not a loser.
- No, but your protagonist is.
I'm not a loser.
I know what passes
for the mind of a loser.
I know what passes
for the mind of a loser.
He is so desperate to take
a rifle and shoot on the crowd,
and if I know how to describe it,
I'm not a loser.
("Walk on the Wild Side" Lou Reed)
You are a loser!
Fennel immigrant.
Nobody wants you, you are alone
Like a dog and without hopes.
What do you hope do you have?
What do you hope do you have?
Or I can become famous,
Or I finish assassinated.
You always wear white.
A ray of light
in this kingdom of darkness.
A ray of light
in this kingdom of darkness.
You are splendid.
That you would do, if a million
Dollars pushed you down from the sky?
That you would do, if a million
Dollars pushed you down from the sky?
I would buy weapons
And I would unleash a riot.
In each country.
Ah, I prefer to make the good life,
Ah, I prefer to make the good life,
I want to shine,
I want to be surrounded
from many beautiful things and ...
Fuck you! Poverty is beautiful.
Fuck you! Poverty is beautiful.
I've always been poor
And it's beautiful.
I like everything, The garbage
on the streets is beautiful,
...The revolution is beautiful.
Ah, Eddie ...
Woman: be careful, evil yes
hides around every corner!
Save your children
Save your children
There is something wrong.
It is clear that there is something
wrong in this city.
- Maybe the end of the times could
having arrived? - Yes!
- Maybe the end of the times could
having arrived? - Yes!
Well!
New York? Yes? Fuck you!
You understand, worse it is, the more I like it.
You are very direct in your book.
It's all right?
You are very direct in your book.
It's all right?
I can write
Only what happens to me.
Brodsky's comments
Did they upset you?
I don't give a damn.
Well, Barysnikov was enthusiastic about it.
When they told him who I was,
Barysnikov said:
When they told him who I was,
Barysnikov said:
"Oh, he is just another Russian."
I love this answer. Yes!
That's right, I'm just another Russian.
("Walk on the Wild Side" Lou Reed)
("Walk on the Wild Side" Lou Reed)
(Sounds "Walk on the wild side")
Shmakov: Eddie, you are gorgeous,
You are beautiful.
- No, no, no, no.
- So, it's not all true.
- No, no, no, no.
- So, it's not all true.
It's not what I want,
Not now.
Excuse me. Eddie!
I am sorry.
I am sorry.
(Shouts and shots)
(CRY)
(CRY)
Eddie!
(Police sirens)
Call an ambulance!
No!
("Eddie's Dance" Massimo Pupillo)
("Eddie's Dance" Massimo Pupillo)
Eddie!
- Do I have to cut it?
Eddie: No, thank you, I think about it.
Do you need something else, Eduard?
Two hectors of Parma. Thin cut.
Certain.
Eddie: "Eddie is dead!
Long life to Eddie!
Now I work as a butler,
my boss, master and slavery,
It is the multimiliary Stephen.
my boss, master and slavery,
It is the multimiliary Stephen.
Stephen pays well
And I'm not proud of it.
On the other hand, the most important thing
For a writer they are the experiences.
On the other hand, the most important thing
For a writer they are the experiences.
I know I am not a true
domestic, I'm just an impostor.
A writer who interprets
The role of a servant.
A writer who interprets
The role of a servant.
I write in the morning,
send my manuscripts, every now and then,
and I receive letters of refusal
by the publishers.
My identity as a writer
It is reduced to this.
I dedicate all the rest of my time
to serve my master.
So, maybe it's true
that I am a servant.
So, maybe it's true
that I am a servant.
A servant who interprets
the part of a writer. "
- Hi, Eddie.
- Gentleman.
Have you managed to write today?
The usual two hours in the morning,
Gentleman.
Ah,
It is the most productive moment.
Ah, they will be here for six.
- Everything will be ready, sir.
- Well, well.
- Everything will be ready, sir.
- Well, well.
- His lemonade, Lord.
- Thank you.
What's on the menu?
Crudits and CharCuterie,
followed by a magnificent steak
Mared and chocolate mousse.
followed by a magnificent steak
Mared and chocolate mousse.
Ah, well, excellent. Really excellent.
See what I have here.
A tribute by a French customer.
A tribute by a French customer.
Eh?
Gentleman...
Listen, er, Atlas is the man
that you have to know.
Richard is a publisher,
one of the important ones.
Richard is a publisher,
one of the important ones.
Publish Solzenicyn
and holds his American rights.
Do you want a drop, Eddie?
Yes, Lord.
After.
Ok, uh ...
..Senti,
Would you prepare the guest room?
Would you prepare the guest room?
- Yes, Lord. - Evtushenko maybe yes
stop to sleep.
It is one of your most famous poets.
Do you know?
Yes, Lord.
What do you think of him?
He makes the court both to the Soviet Union
than to the West.
He makes the court both to the Soviet Union
than to the West.
It agrees with everyone,
But he says nothing.
And it does it good.
Eddie, Russian writers are
In vogue in the United States, now.
Eddie, Russian writers are
In vogue in the United States, now.
Evtushenko is one of those
more requested.
Gentleman.
Ah, feel ...
.. where are my glasses?
On the bedside table, sir.
On the bedside table, sir.
Ah, ok, thanks!
Guest: I'm from the idea that Tarkovsky
make a new type of cinema,
not the usual nonsense
Hollywood.
not the usual nonsense
Hollywood.
Guest 2: you are perfectly right.
Guest: Use of structures
very atypical narratives
and unconventional.
Guest 2: yes, I like it, but sometimes
I struggle to understand his films.
Guest 2: yes, I like it, but sometimes
I struggle to understand his films.
Yes, he is a dissident
in the panorama ...
- Is it said that?
- (Together) Krashov.
- Krashov. It sounds like ...
- Krashov.
- Krashov. It sounds like ...
- Krashov.
- .. if they were breaking all the
Body bones. - Krashov. Krashov.
Dinner is ready, sir.
- Thanks, Eddie.
- Um, gentlemen, ...
- Thanks, Eddie.
- Um, gentlemen, ...
.. the dinner is served.
Our Eddie has prepared
of the magnificent steaks.
- Thank you.
- Say to sit. - Optimal.
Eddie: "What a wasting of the cock. I am
destined to be someone else.
Eddie: "What a wasting of the cock. I am
destined to be someone else.
I have all my life in front of me,
This is certain.
But I'm sturated the rotten people,
of this planet,
of strange dreams, dawn,
of the sunsets
of strange dreams, dawn,
of the sunsets
and the repugnant perspective
to age.
If you now do this,
You will be young forever.
By tonight, the whole world you
He will know and look at your face.
Your photo will be
in all newspapers.
You will no longer be Eduard,
the unknown butler,
But a protagonist of the story.
Shoot, Eddie!
The world that rejected you
For all these years,
The world that rejected you
For all these years,
He will begin to talk only about you.
Shoot, Eddie! Shoot!
They will publish everything I have
written, until the last line.
And before they put me
on the electric chair,
I will still have time to bask me
Beetly in glory.
Shoot, Eddie!
Thus, you will have all the glory
of the world.
Thus, you will have all the glory
of the world.
An instant glory
It is extraordinary.
(Shot and jolly)
(Phone rings)
Yes, sir?
Yes, sir?
Stephen: Eddie, go down, please.
We need you.
Yes, Lord.
Yeventhenko: wow!
Stephen: This is my kingdom.
- Look, Jackson Pollock.
- Ah.
- Look, Jackson Pollock.
- Ah.
- Action Painting.
- Yes.
Stephen: Rothko. Latvian painting.
Yeventhenko: Ah, is it Latvian?
Stephen: a very nice shit
gold,
Stephen: a very nice shit
gold,
I don't know where fuck bought it
My wife. Ah, look, look!
- Eddie! Evtushenko!
- Oh, my God!
- Eddie, my brother!
- Eddie is the best.
- Eddie, my brother!
- Eddie is the best.
It is an extraordinary butler.
- Eddie is here!
- We eat?
- No, let's drink.
- We drink vodka. Vodka, yes. Thank you.
- We drink. We drink.
- We drink vodka. Vodka, yes. Thank you.
- We drink. We drink.
Yeventhenko: everything is done
in the name of the present. You know ...
Stephen: Mhm.
Yeventhenko: .. I was a poet.
If you really want to know,
I was a poet. Yes.
An unofficial and underground poet.
Stephen: Yes. Mhm.
Yeventhenko: But now it's over
And I'm one of you.
Yeventhenko: But now it's over
And I'm one of you.
- I'm a scum. I...
- Eddie!
- I am the one they give from
Eating, ski ... - Come!
- He is a poet. Yes.
- Yes, he is a poet.
- Yes, a real poet, believe me. Yes.
- Eddie, come on, sit seated.
- And I also remember a ...
- You come. Sit on, on, sit!
- And I also remember a ...
- You come. Sit on, on, sit!
..Frase of the type ...
"I will tighten it into the grip
of my mind, "
"But for no one ..."
- I don't write more poems now.
"But for no one ..."
- I don't write more poems now.
Good for you, Eddie. Listen.
- Eddie, keep your drink!
- I want to tell you something.
- Come on, drink.
- I will have to ask for some favor,
To make you publish.
But I will give him a contract,
I promise it. And you will do the same.
Yes, you too must promise it.
- And the answer is yes! Yes, fuck!
- Oh, well!
Yeventhenko: from Kolyma. Mhm?
From the white hell of the Kolyma,
From the white hell of the Kolyma,
We went to the 'area'.
It's like a prison.
Through ... through
A brummy freezing.
Through ... through
A brummy freezing.
And I noticed a cigarette butt
with red lipstick above.
And I noticed a cigarette butt
with red lipstick above.
I don't know why.
Stephen: Mhm.
Yevtushenko: and then I courses away
from the row to have it.
- Yes.
To take it.
("Le Megot" Dina Vienny
In the background)
("Le Megot" Dina Vienny
In the background)
Now I no longer see a woman
For about ... - Ah, yes, Eddie!
- .. Curcamento four years.
- Bravo.
Yeventhenko: understand? Follow me?
Well, well.
Yeventhenko: understand? Follow me?
Well, well.
Yeventhenko: Did he hear me?
Follow me?
Do you feel, the girl?
She didn't write the song.
He wrote it, Juz Aleskovsky,
while he was in prison,
He wrote it, Juz Aleskovsky,
while he was in prison,
But this is not the point ...
I have to go piss.
Sorry, I'll be back right away.
- Ohh! I am fine.
- Attentive, my friend. Mhm?
- Ohh! I am fine.
- Attentive, my friend. Mhm?
(Yevtushenko Canticchia)
Eddie. Eddie, Eddie!
You know how you will become
A great writer?
And you ... sit, sit down. Sit.
And you ... sit, sit down. Sit.
And you will certainly become
A great writer.
- Mhm.
- Trust me,
I never make a mistake.
I never make a mistake.
First, you will be published ...
..In France.
Then you will return to Russia and ...
Then you will return to Russia and ...
.. you will do it straight in prison.
And I will sail you.
At that precise moment,
At that precise moment,
You will become a great Russian writer.
Think about it.
Where is the bathroom?
Where is the bathroom?
Mhm?
Stephen!
(Traffic noise)
(Traffic noise)
("They will like" Massimo Pupillo)
("They will like" Massimo Pupillo)
Eddie: "Everyone will come.
The thugs and shy.
Eddie: "Everyone will come.
The thugs and shy.
The drug dealers
and those who distribute
Bordelli flyers.
They will come.
Masturbators and fans
of pornography.
Masturbators and fans
of pornography.
They will come.
Those who wander alone in museums
and those who alone browse
The books
and those who alone browse
The books
In the corridors of libraries
Christian.
They will come.
Those who waste time from Macy's
and from Alexander's,
Those who waste time from Macy's
and from Alexander's,
without even a penny in the pocket.
They will come.
Those who only drink coffee
For two hours in a row at the counter,
Those who only drink coffee
For two hours in a row at the counter,
looking sadly
out of the window.
They will come.
The losers in love, in money
and in work
and those who have been
so unfortunate
to be born in a poor family.
They will come.
Those who are tired of everything,
Bank employees
and the clerks,
who have already wasted
their life in interminable works
who have already wasted
their life in interminable works
and without meaning. They will come.
Miners who can not stand anymore
the mine,
The workers who detest
their factory.
The workers who detest
their factory.
They will come.
The homeless and the slippers that do not
they endure their families more.
The homeless and the slippers that do not
they endure their families more.
They will come.
Soldiers from the barracks,
Students from universities.
They will come.
The valiant and the strong
of every social class.
The valiant and the strong
of every social class.
Will come to distinguish themselves
And to seek glory.
They will all be there.
They will all be there.
They will smear the weapons
and will end this order,
once and for all. "
Ethan: ".. and the guard
Revolutionary of the bankruptcy conquest "
Ethan: ".. and the guard
Revolutionary of the bankruptcy conquest "
"One city after another,"
"Starting with an explosion
in the big city of New York ".
"America will be freed and I,
Eddie, Guido La Marcia "
"And everyone knows me and love me."
In my opinion, he has his own personality.
In my opinion, he has his own personality.
There is a precise idea behind
and, uh ...
..a hero, right? Already.
Yes, however, something is missing.
(Indistinct voices)
Have you ever seen "taxi driver"?
Have you ever seen "taxi driver"?
Mhm, no.
It's a movie,
Your book reminds me.
You have to see it. It could inspire you
For the development of the plot,
Because your book doesn't have much.
- Okay, yes, I will look at him.
Because your book doesn't have much.
- Okay, yes, I will look at him.
When does Tanya Brown come?
We need her.
This is great.
- I make it come to the morning.
- Get it early.
I want stuff like this
on my desk. It is fabulous.
- All right.
- Do you have a cigarette? I only have these.
Man: I have these, they have a bass
Cianuro content.
Ethan: What?
Man: cyanide.
Ethan: What?
Man: cyanide.
Ethan: Do they really exist?
Man: Yes.
Ethan: I didn't know.
Do you have a light?
Man: No.
Ethan: Ok, yes.
Low cyanide content.
If they really invent them all.
Taxi driver. Robert De Niro, right?
So, De Niro is a taxi driver
who would like ...
.. it would have to take out all the scum
human with a 45 magnum.
Instead, your hero wants
that the scum takes control
Instead, your hero wants
that the scum takes control
to destroy civilization.
There is a nice difference, I would say.
There is a nice difference, I would say.
Yes, yes.
Yes.
Uh ...
Uh ...
(BUZZ)
Do you know what the problem is?
The problem is your protagonist.
How is it called?
- Eddie.
Eddie, right. Eddie.
Eddie.
Eddie ...
..Eddie never changes. You understand?
The only thing he wants is fucking
Everyone and everything.
You know, women, men,
self, and ...
..Ivole destroying everything.
You, however, Eduard,
You live in a beautiful house.
In a very wealthy neighborhood.
You live in a beautiful house.
In a very wealthy neighborhood.
Now, do an easy job.
You are not the last wheel of the cart
of bourgeois society,
Since, in a sense,
You benefit from it.
Since, in a sense,
You benefit from it.
Bastard.
You considered the idea of making
Your protagonist ...
..athe leal ...
..athe leal ...
..yed this society?
Towards civilization? Mhm?
More relaxed, more satisfied.
More relaxed, more satisfied.
Piece of shit.
In short,
Shouldn't it change, sooner or later?
Find your place in society?
Emancipate yourself?
Find your place in society?
Emancipate yourself?
I don't know, being able to redeem yourself!
Crack.
How, sorry? What did you say?
How, sorry? What did you say?
Yes, I understood.
I understand. I will work there.
(Phone rings)
Optimal!
Excuse me. Ready?
Jim! Jim!
I have been looking for you for a week!
Jim! Jim!
I have been looking for you for a week!
How are you? Where are you?
Ah, of course.
- Oh! Fuck!
- And it is careful.
("Interlude" Massimo Pupillo)
- After we go for two shots
A basketball? - I cannot.
- After we go for two shots
A basketball? - I cannot.
I promised my son that
I would have accompanied him by a friend.
Are you bad?
A bit'.
Let's take two steps?
Bloomingdale? I buy something to you
of cute. Everything you want.
- Do you have the money?
- Mhm. Of course.
- Do you have the money?
- Mhm. Of course.
I do the butler now,
I'm rich.
- Why don't we have lunch, instead?
- Certain.
Elena: when you strangled me it is
State very exciting.
But I understood that,
If it had happened again,
You would have gone all the way.
You would have gone all the way.
That's why I left you.
Eddie: You're right, I would have done it.
I would have gone all the way.
Are you now with someone?
A girl as it would survive
In this city?
Too bad he's a real asshole.
Anything that spends is pinned.
It gives me 100 dollars to shop
And everything is written
on a notebook cabbage.
And everything is written
on a notebook cabbage.
Can you believe it?
So. I told him:
"You should pointed out every fucking of
blowjob under the 'received' voice ".
"You should pointed out every fucking of
blowjob under the 'received' voice ".
He likes it so much when I do
The braids and dressed as a schoolgirl.
And afterwards I put it in my throat.
Lenocka ...
..I am a failed writer
And you a failed model.
And you a failed model.
Elena: just leave me
From this city!
I will go to Madrid.
Maybe there I will find work.
Eddie: Listen, Lena ...
..Lecka,
Let's leave everything behind.
Let's give ourselves a second occasion.
Let's give ourselves a second occasion.
I have already ready a plan.
The only thing that really matters
In life, it is love.
The only thing that really matters
In life, it is love.
Be lucky enough to ...
.. to count on someone,
And you can count on me.
.. to count on someone,
And you can count on me.
I am strong
And I will always be for you.
We cannot go home,
We cannot go home,
But we can leave
This disgusting city
and go to a quiet place.
Yes, i-ego I will find a job
in ... in Texas or anywhere,
Any one.
I will work in a service station
And...
I will work in a service station
And...
..and we will put on the family.
You will prepare the soup,
I will tell you
how it went to work,
And then at night we will sleep embraced
And I'll tell you that I will love you forever.
And then at night we will sleep embraced
And I'll tell you that I will love you forever.
And in the end ...
..The I will close my eyes ...
And you will close mine.
It's simple, it's ...
It's simple, it's ...
("Interlude" Massimo Pupillo)
Oh, Edicka, you are so sweet! Really.
Oh, Edicka, you are so sweet! Really.
But they are all bullshit.
This is not me and you know.
This is not me and you know.
And it's not you either.
You were born to become a hero,
Edickka. You don't have to forget it.
You were born to become a hero,
Edickka. You don't have to forget it.
It is your destiny.
Other than the butler!
(LAUGH)
Other than the butler!
(LAUGH)
Carlos!
Elena: that's
My "ticket for Madrid".
Elena: that's
My "ticket for Madrid".
Wish me good luck.
Thanks for everything, Eddie.
Vamos!
Let's go!
Here is the bill. DO YOU WANT OTHER?
Here is the bill. DO YOU WANT OTHER?
Eddie: Another one.
I do it double it.
Eddie: Another one.
I do it double it.
Eddie: "My life is insignificant.
Vague on the empty streets of New York,
gritting the teeth from anger.
Vague on the empty streets of New York,
gritting the teeth from anger.
Fuck your world.
Here there is no place for me.
So what happened to it?
Who knows. It is a mystery.
So what happened to it?
Who knows. It is a mystery.
In conclusion,
I am one who is willing to everything.
And you are waiting
that I give you something.
And you are waiting
that I give you something.
I know it is so. You are waiting.
So I will try an act of heroism.
So I will try an act of heroism.
My insignificant death.
Other than trying.
I will give you what you want. "
("Pretty Vacant" Sex Pistols)
("Pretty Vacant" Sex Pistols)
(Original audio in the background)
(Original audio in the background)
("Pretty Vacant" Sex Pistols)
("Pretty Vacant" Sex Pistols)
(Indistinct voices)
Eddie: "Eddie lives in Paris!
I am beautiful
Like an orchid in the snow.
I am beautiful
Like an orchid in the snow.
In France I am the same person
that I was in America.
Are the places that adapt to me,
not vice versa.
Countries change,
Countries change,
But the hero always remains the same.
In Paris, I published 17 books,
More than Solzenicyn.
In Paris, I published 17 books,
More than Solzenicyn.
Now I'm famous. Long life to Eddie. "
So,
True, Mr. "Limonv", who ...
True, Mr. "Limonv", who ...
Limonov.
Limonov. Excuse me,
I am French.
- At that time...
Eddie: I know.
- At that time...
Eddie: I know.
Director: Start again, please.
It is true that it is able to write
Only of a topic?
That is, of himself?
He hit the center.
Um, i-ei I threw this ...
This ... liberty,
To earn some money.
To earn some money.
But the truth is
that I never ...
..considered
like a real man of letters and ...
..considered
like a real man of letters and ...
.. I would never want to become
like one of those ...
.. "big" than sixty years old
receive the legion of honor,
.. "big" than sixty years old
receive the legion of honor,
they die of prostate cancer
in their villa on the French Riviera
and they are buried ...
..al pre-lachaise.
..al pre-lachaise.
I consider myself a very active one,
Do you understand?
I am one who works hard.
I worked throughout my life
With my hands and ...
.. for me, in life there are things
more interesting than ...
- ..write.
- Certain.
It was cooking jeans
To earn a living in Moscow.
It was cooking jeans
To earn a living in Moscow.
I made the tailor, the metalworker
And I did the pasta,
The butler, the thief.
I did everything.
The butler, the thief.
I did everything.
I have always worked in my life
And I know what to work ...
..fa disgust.
The workers are the cuckolds
of history.
The workers are the cuckolds
of history.
They are always betrayed
And it is happening again,
right now.
right now.
Mhm.
Uh, in a recent article,
seems repentant to have left
The Soviet Union.
Everyone does nothing but ...
..epetere with parrot
This bullshit.
And that is that the Soviet Union was
a kind of empire of evil,
And that is that the Soviet Union was
a kind of empire of evil,
or something similar,
But for us, for those who lived there,
For those who grew up,
He fell in love,
He had children and died there,
It wasn't like that.
After all,
The Soviet Union ...
After all,
The Soviet Union ...
.. it is a ... a huge mess,
But let's say that in the mess you do
I always have fun.
Then, for her,
The fall of the Berlin Wall is
A ... - A catastrophe.
- A catastrophe.
Esther: Holy Heaven.
- What does he say?
Okay, so what was it?
- What does he say?
Okay, so what was it?
It was a victory,
According to your opinion?
But of course, it was the end
of a nightmare. Of a ...
.. despotic sudden
who had begun under Stalin.
.. despotic sudden
who had begun under Stalin.
Stalin?
If it hadn't been for Stalin,
Now you would all talk about German.
Everyone. Twenty million Russians
they gave life ...
Everyone. Twenty million Russians
they gave life ...
- We know.
.. to save Europe from the Nazis.
- And my father was injured
in that war. - My father too.
And as soon as the Germans have deployed
their tanks in the Ardenne,
You pissed on you,
You emptied your pockets,
you have dropped the branches
And you folded at ninety degrees.
you have dropped the branches
And you folded at ninety degrees.
And who tells me about the million
Di Innocenti killed by Stalin?
You can't do an omelette
Without breaking eggs.
Paul: Holy Christ. Oh, my God.
Paul: Holy Christ. Oh, my God.
The entire communist doctrine was
A farce.
A giant with clay feet
that is now collapsing
like a castle of cards.
That is, she believes that the era
Is the ideologies over?
That is, she believes that the era
Is the ideologies over?
And that we are witnessing
At the end of the story?
It can be said that we are approaching us
more and more
It can be said that we are approaching us
more and more
to a global acceptance
of democracy ... - Please.
.. of the free market and the state
by law, since the seventeenth century,
.. of the free market and the state
by law, since the seventeenth century,
with some setbacks.
And now
that his empire is collapsing,
Russia still thinks
to be unique,
Russia still thinks
to be unique,
invincible and destined
to the size.
Unfortunately, the Russians do not have
known more
that autocratic tyranny,
And then there was
A bloody revolution
which raised
a primitive ideology
to the rank of a false blind faith.
Russia needs ...
Russia needs ...
You are a smooth slut.
Hear the word "Russia",
pronounced by that lousy of yours
fucking mouth,
pronounced by that lousy of yours
fucking mouth,
It makes me come to vomit!
- Ohh!
- Stia calm! Is it drunk by chance?
- The story is not dead!
- The story will return sooner or later!
- But she is a woman!
And he will all kick you in the ass!
Fucking assholes!
And he will all kick you in the ass!
Fucking assholes!
("Eddie's Dance" Massimo Pupillo)
Look, he did.
Eddie: Does it hurt?
- Vichy? Vichy? Do you like it?
- He leaves. Go away.
- Vichy? Vichy? Do you like it?
- He leaves. Go away.
And what do you want? Fuck you!
Beatrice: send someone
of security!
- Fuck you!
Security!
- Fuck you!
Security!
What he thought
When Herrafeev knew
that she would come to Moscow,
and that it would have been published
From the Oscan Semyonov?
and that it would have been published
From the Oscan Semyonov?
I don't have ... I didn't think about anything.
What do you like about this country?
- What do you like about Russia?
- People.
Woman: she said she didn't
never considered a dissident.
Okay, but she ...
..t but what he thinks of the dissidents
Soviets, in general?
..t but what he thinks of the dissidents
Soviets, in general?
They like to put
their dissenceing on display,
so that everyone will see it.
Woman: thank you very much.
Woman: thank you very much.
Worker: Eduard Veniaminovic ...
Worker: Eduard Veniaminovic ...
.. I work in the same foundry
in which she also worked.
So ...
..I and some of my colleagues
we read
His book on America.
And you know, there is that step
in which she describes ...
in which she does ...
in which she describes ...
in which she does ...
..In short...
..fa sex with a color of color,
is that so?
..fa sex with a color of color,
is that so?
At that time? It is true?
It's all true.
(Verses of amazement)
And it was fantastic.
Every man should do it,
At least once.
Every man should do it,
At least once.
- I will tell my colleagues,
Yes, please.
All right. Thank you.
A coffee, please.
A coffee, please.
Yes.
- Thank you.
- His rest.
Carre: Mosieur Limonov?
- Yes?
- Nice to see it.
Carrere: Did you return definitively?
Carrere: Did you return definitively?
Eddie: I'm here for publication
of my new book.
He invited me the publishing house.
Can I sit?
Can I sit?
I read some of his books.
I liked them a lot.
I liked them a lot.
It's the second time I come here.
This is a very fascinating era.
Uh, I know there are
Many problems, but ...
Uh, I know there are
Many problems, but ...
It is not up to me to judge.
The Russians know how to die, but they know
very little of the art of living.
But their faces, the faces
of people, they are like this ...
But their faces, the faces
of people, they are like this ...
.. so vitali, so ... so real.
In the West, everyone has faces
From Bambocci.
In the West, everyone has faces
From Bambocci.
There everything is allowed
And nothing is important.
Here is the opposite,
nothing is allowed
And everything is important.
It would be a real shame losing
All this with change.
It would be a real shame losing
All this with change.
Mhm. Yes.
As in Africa, it would be a true
Too bad if everyone turned out.
As in Africa, it would be a true
Too bad if everyone turned out.
No more exotic photographs.
But the soul cannot be lost
of this country.
But the soul cannot be lost
of this country.
(Metallic noise)
(Metallic noise)
I hope that one day Russia ve
He puts him in the ass right.
So you will know what it is feeling.
Then we will see what you have to say.
("Don't touch the Autumn" Butyrka)
Mother: Who is it?
Dad! Mom! It's me.
It's me, Eddie.
It's me, Eddie.
We have all that in the house
that we need. Mhm.
We have all that in the house
that we need. Mhm.
We have thirty kilos of sugar,
a whole bag of cereals,
a whole bag of cereals,
And the basement is packed
of food.
We don't need anything,
do you understand?
Who will take the apartment
When will we no longer be there?
Who will take the apartment
When will we no longer be there?
If you come to live here,
The apartment will be up to you.
If you come to live here,
The apartment will be up to you.
- Mhm.
- You are fine here.
It is quiet and welcoming.
I only stop a few days.
- Mhn?
- I will remain only for a few days.
- Mhn?
- I will remain only for a few days.
They published my book.
- Ahh!
- press conferences, readings,
etc. I have many things to do.
- MH-MH.
etc. I have many things to do.
- MH-MH.
Mother: and ...
..th wife?
Don't have a wife?
Children?
Children?
Ninth. Still no, no children.
"Not yet".
You are 46 years old, Eddie.
Father: Gorbachev.
Mhm, that bastard will destroy
This country!
Mhm, that bastard will destroy
This country!
I just read a story
on a woman,
who punished his daughter,
chaining it in the courtyard,
who punished his daughter,
chaining it in the courtyard,
with a temperature
of thirty degrees sub -zero. Mhm.
The girl's arms and legs
they were so frozen,
who had to amputate them.
And when from the hospital
they brought home
what was left of her,
they brought home
what was left of her,
his mother's lover has raped
that stump of a girl,
putting it pregnant.
And afterwards, his son was also
chained outside the cold. Mhm.
And afterwards, his son was also
chained outside the cold. Mhm.
This is why we have
fought in all these years?
This is why we have
fought in all these years?
It looks like a lie.
No, it's true!
I read it in the newspaper.
Eddie: Which?
- Which newspaper? Let me see it.
- Let it go! No!
The newspapers do not lie.
The newspapers do not lie.
(TV audio in the background)
Mother: leave it on.
Heat the house.
Mother: leave it on.
Heat the house.
And then it makes me feel as if there
It was another alive soul in here.
If I did this in France,
It would cost me thousands of francs.
If I did this in France,
It would cost me thousands of francs.
You are saying that the government is there
So greedy to make you pay the gas?
- Yes.
- Ohh!
Gorbachev and his Committees want
do the same thing here.
Gorbachev and his Committees want
do the same thing here.
Look at them.
They are crazy.
And who the hell
is this Sakharov, huh?
And who the hell
is this Sakharov, huh?
It is as if they buried
Stalin again.
(TV) We will pour tears
For idealist visionaries,
(TV) We will pour tears
For idealist visionaries,
Those we greet today
because they made too much noise,
But we will be able to keep ...
They are anti -Soviet bullshit.
They are anti -Soviet bullshit.
We are surrounded by enemies.
Stalin would have put them
back immediately in line.
Stalin would have put them
back immediately in line.
Do you want some soup?
Do you want some soup?
(TV) Three Russian citizens
and one Latvian,
Movement members
National-Bolshevik,
they were sentenced today
for terrorism.
they were sentenced today
for terrorism.
The Riga court judged
a criminal act
their threat to detonate the
bell tower of a church in Latvia.
Party activists of
Eduard Limonov have been sentenced
Party activists of
Eduard Limonov have been sentenced
to ten years in prison.
From what has emerged,
more or less in November,
Activists would look for
more or less in November,
Activists would look for
to perform other acts
of terrorism.
They want war.
Make you underneath.
We were born for the war.
It is natural.
There is nothing to be ashamed of.
It is natural.
There is nothing to be ashamed of.
War is bullshit.
Fuck. Fuck the war.
Eddie: "I said they would be
coming. And look! I'm already here.
Eddie: "I said they would be
coming. And look! I'm already here.
Young, angry and desperate.
We have nothing to lose.
We are thirsty for power.
We have nothing to lose.
We are thirsty for power.
For now we are clandestines,
This bunker is all that
we have
And we are already
too tight In here.
And we are already
too tight In here.
We are a young
political party
that makes all those tremble
criminal authorities.
A party of 300 Spartans.
And I command them.
A party of 300 Spartans.
And I command them.
I. Eddie. "
Man: # to be honest,
I was already drunk,
# When we ordered
the pe'ieni,
# When we ordered
the pe'ieni,
# out of the station
by Savelovsky.
# Among us, poor monkeys,
He said ... #
# Among us, poor monkeys,
He said ... #
Eddie: "Russia awaits us,
With fear and trepidation.
Like a virgin
in a bombed house,
...waiting for a beautiful
and strong man that takes it.
waiting for a beautiful
and strong man that takes it.
So, what it matters if it is
A little dangerous?
The enemies will be crushed.
There is nothing to fear.
Even if on the horizon it looms
war and death,
Even if on the horizon it looms
war and death,
You should join the pack.
Or you are with us,
Or you are against us. "
Eddie: Today we are assisting
to the Russian revolution.
Even just be here,
It fills me with great pride.
Even just be here,
It fills me with great pride.
This revolution is certainly
A reason to celebrate.
And even if today, for some reason,
At a certain point, it should fail
And even if today, for some reason,
At a certain point, it should fail
I am at peace.
I am not ashamed of my country.
If I say "civil war",
What does he answer me?
If I say "civil war",
What does he answer me?
It is music for my ears.
(Shouts of the crowd)
(Shouts of the crowd)
A good bourgeois,
He is a dead bourgeois!
(in chorus) a good bourgeois,
He is a dead bourgeois!
(in chorus) a good bourgeois,
He is a dead bourgeois!
(in chorus) a good bourgeois,
He is a dead bourgeois!
(in chorus) a good bourgeois,
He is a dead bourgeois!
Let's stop liberal rot
that the brain poisons us!
Let's stop liberal rot
that the brain poisons us!
Let's stop liberal rot
that the brain poisons us!
Let's stop liberal rot
that the brain poisons us!
Man: capitalism is alone
A pile of shit!
Man: capitalism is alone
A pile of shit!
(in chorus) capitalism is alone
A pile of shit!
(in chorus) capitalism is alone
A pile of shit!
(Sing in Russian)
Eddie: If you have your heart
of a rebel,
Eddie: If you have your heart
of a rebel,
If your heroes are Jim Morrison,
Lenin, Mishima, Baader:
Congratulations!
You are already
a member of our party.
You are already
a member of our party.
Reporter: Mr. Limonov, who I am
The members of his party?
Eddie: they are young and are tired
to live in a shitty country.
Eddie: they are young and are tired
to live in a shitty country.
They don't want to be
of pathetic peasants,
or assholes who only think
to money, or the agents of the KGB.
We overthrized this cursed,
this ... this lousy regime,
We overthrized this cursed,
this ... this lousy regime,
in which we are not there
never recognized.
And from now on, I guarantee you
that, even if we drown in the blood,
And from now on, I guarantee you
that, even if we drown in the blood,
Our honor will be Salvo,
forever.
Our grandchildren will say:
"Yes, they poured into the streets."
"They found the courage
to do so, even if unarmed ".
"They found the courage
to do so, even if unarmed ".
Reporter: you stormed
The Tower of Ostankino?
Eddie: they will say: "They got off
On the street to make a mess, "
"As in 1945!"
"As in 1945!"
Eddie: they call me an extremist,
a fascist,
Eddie: they call me an extremist,
a fascist,
But you know it's not true at all.
Kuznetsov: Yes, I know,
But your party will never be
officially recognized.
But your party will never be
officially recognized.
I planned and organized
Everything I, arrest me.
And let the guys go.
It doesn't work in this way.
It doesn't work in this way.
It is not the Republic of bananas,
The law exists.
We have 7,000 members,
It is very simple.
If you don't
officially recognize us,
we will be obliged
to act illegally.
we will be obliged
to act illegally.
That you are trying to tell me,
Exactly?
What I mean is:
If you get stuck
the legal recognition process,
If you get stuck
the legal recognition process,
then we will be forced
to use other methods.
to use other methods.
Tell me your slogans then.
This "Limonka" grenade
on the flyer,
It is a reference to your pseudonym
Or is it a call to weapons?
It is a reference to your pseudonym
Or is it a call to weapons?
Images of this type
of ammunition are not prohibited
by law, and our slogans
They are nothing but poems.
by law, and our slogans
They are nothing but poems.
(Kuznetsov Ride)
Kuznetsov: I told you,
A long time ago,
you had chosen
a horrible pseudonym.
you had chosen
a horrible pseudonym.
Don't remember it
Our conversation?
It's late to change it
Andrej Sergeevic.
It's late to change it
Andrej Sergeevic.
It's never too late,
Eduard Veniaminovic.
Your parents are good people,
Your parents are good people,
your father worked
For us for years.
Because you despise so much
your life?
You are a writer.
You are a writer.
An engineer of the human soul.
Politics is dirty.
Write your books,
sit and put to write,
Do not choose this path.
sit and put to write,
Do not choose this path.
Agree, yes,
I will continue to write.
Though ...
..I am asking you
to give me a hand, that's all.
..I am asking you
to give me a hand, that's all.
So, will you help me or not?
Oh, I can't help you.
Oh, I can't help you.
Let's waste time then.
Do as you like.
But it's not me
that I asked for this meeting.
Now...
..I would have another
thing to offer you.
What is it about?
The President's Office
is putting up
a group of strategy experts,
of geopolitics, and things like that.
a group of strategy experts,
of geopolitics, and things like that.
It would be right for you.
At that time?
Then, it would be the job
Perfect for you.
Great salary,
Great salary,
A Dacia, a car, an office.
Also, you will also be in contact
directed with the president.
Also, you will also be in contact
directed with the president.
In direct contact?
It would have perfect sense.
If you think about the platform
of your party,
it is practically identical
to what the government wants.
The president is a professional,
A very attentive and patient man.
Is leading Russia
in the right direction,
At the right pace. Are underway
of great changes.
At the right pace. Are underway
of great changes.
It's time to be serious.
Eduard Veniaminovic?
("Eddie's Dance" Massimo Pupillo)
("Eddie's Dance" Massimo Pupillo)
(Unbelievable cry)
(Unbelievable cry)
("Eddie's Dance" Massimo Pupillo)
(Dog barking)
Eddie: "Woe to die in winter.
Snows.
Eddie: "Woe to die in winter.
Snows.
It seems that today does not want
more stop.
I don't have to go.
Mei parents are dead.
I don't have to go.
Mei parents are dead.
My friends are gone.
I have no dear person in the world.
I have no dear person in the world.
No companion of drinking.
I stopped drinking.
There is no one waiting for me.
There is no one.
There is no one waiting for me.
There is no one.
I also disappeared
from circulation.
I am the prisoner Savenko.
They dragged me into Siberia,
they locked me
They dragged me into Siberia,
they locked me
And they removed my voice.
It's cold.
It is empty.
Snows."
Yes!
(Melancholy music)
(Melancholy music)
(BUZZ)
Eddie: "I'm not anywhere,
Yet I'm here with all of myself.
Eddie: "I'm not anywhere,
Yet I'm here with all of myself.
I died,
But I've never been so alive.
There is nothing,
but there is everything.
There is nothing,
but there is everything.
What will happen now?
What's after world fame?
After the prison? After all that
What happened to me?
Maybe I should invent
A new religion?
Maybe I should invent
A new religion?
Or unleash a new war?
Certainly, Eddie,
from "true hero" as you are,
You will not die of old age,
in your bed.
It would be so unfair.
It would be horrible. "
- Open the gate.
- Can the book be autographed?
Yes, but of course.
We will miss you,
Eduard Veniaminovic.
Thank you.
(Shouts of joy)
Excuse me, Eduard Veniaminovic,
Can we do it again?
- His exit, we were wrong.
- Again?
- Yes. Eduard Veniaminovic,
another thing.
- Yes. Eduard Veniaminovic,
another thing.
Can we put a radiomicrophone?
Yes, certainly.
In Russia let's say:
"If you come to the dance,
You must be ready to dance ".
"If you come to the dance,
You must be ready to dance ".
- Ready?
- Yes.
We remake it, please.
Action!
(Shouts of joy)