Azerbaijanfilm Cinema Studio named after Jafar Jabbarly
Good afternoon.
Sorry, we're lost.
Can we rest here for a bit?
Yes, of course.
Come in.
Wow...
Look at that...
Today the children saw the sea for the first time.
The entire coastline has been cleared now.
"Rose of the Winds"?
Yes.
You worked there?
Mmhmm.
And you descended to the bottom?
It was part of the job.
Were you on the island during the disaster, too?
Yes, I was.
And... you're from a boarding school, right?
Yes.
Do you understand now that this isn't mere curiosity?
You are the first living eyewitness they've met of those events.
Maybe you could speak about them?
Interaction with an eyewitness can't be substituted by films or books.
Are you sure that they...
...need this?
I'm sure.
A sense of responsibility for everything
that happens in the world should be instilled in children from childhood.
Of course,
the details are too hard for children to take.
Do you understand?
All right, I... will try.
I went to the pontoon island "Rose of the Winds"
in order to explore a cemetery
or sunken ships
discovered shortly before my arrival.
AND IT WILL ECHO
based on Gennadiy Tishchenko's science fiction story "Heritage"
We were in a hurry.
According to the seismological forecasts,
an earthquake was expected in this area in about ten days,
as a result of which the sunken ships
for us, us historians, could have been lost forever.
How long will this take?
Two or three dives.
And then, processing the data with Mehti.
By the way, he will meet us in the lower airlock.
I would really like to see the sunken ships.
Take me with you.
- I can't. - But why?
A woman on a ship is a bad omen.
Oh, take me. Please,
I'm begging you, come on...
Oh, all right. But I will go on the first dive alone.
Deal? - Mmhmm.
Later I learned
that this was an eruption of an underwater volcano.
The bathyscaphe's engines were damaged, and...
In the first few days, I waited for help,
but later I realized.
I realized that something very serious had happened on the island.
Yes. Only on the twelfth day,
with the oxygen supplies running low,
did I manage to finally...
finally surface.
How is Anna?
Anna?
Yes.
Of course.
She is alive.
Let's go.
Anna is helping me search for archival materials.
In my opinion, this is a bacteriological weapon.
Or perhaps a chemical one.
It may have come from a ship that sank
or was deliberately sunk in the twentieth century.
A depressurization may have occurred during the eruption.
What is this?
Disinfection.
You see,
an epidemic began two days after you set sail.
When the quarantine was declared, many were already on the mainland.
Modern transport has played a cruel joke on humanity.
People are dying,
as are animals, birds, fish.
They are all carriers of this deadly disease.
All the largest cities on the planet
have declared a quarantine.
But despite the measures taken,
the pandemic continues to spread across the whole planet.
Everything in the infected zones has to be disinfected.
However, as in the Middle Ages,
the best means of disinfection remains fire.
The fight against the spread of the pandemic
is growing in scale.
Already a vaccine is being created that protects against infection.
It is not currently possible to even roughly calculate the number of victims.
And I... I have three days left.
This is all documentary footage.
All this happened in the twentieth century.
But it is difficult to even imagine
what types of weapons were not created in those years.
I will not list all the accidents that occurred in different countries
at chemical plants, nuclear power plants and in secret laboratories.
But chemical and bacteriological weapons were also used deliberately.
One is astounded by the irresponsibility of the people of that time period.
This is footage from a Korean newsreel from the mid-twentieth century.
Bacteriological warfare.
Disinfection is being carried out.
This is vaccination.
And these are the carriers of infection -
insects that were placed in bacteriological bombs.
Do you think that the eruption was accompanied
by the depressurization of a biological weapon on one of the sunken ships?
It is possible that these were simply waste products,
chemical or radioactive,
which then caused mutations in ordinary bacteria
and turned them deadly.
Okay,
today we will send bathyscaphes to visit the sunken ships.
Now regarding the operation:
any infected organisms must certainly be destroyed.
I know the geneticists' objections,
but the approaching typhoon does not give us
any time for deliberations.
But such treatment of the atmosphere and ocean could give rise to new mutations.
An operation of such scale has never been carried out before -
its consequences are simply unpredictable!
Do you have any specific proposals?
Alas, if only I did.
All right, then.
For now, we will send out the expedition.
Are you feeling unwell?
I'm sorry, I didn't know these memories were so difficult for you.
Everything is fine.
Alas, this happens to me sometimes. I... I will continue.
Maybe you shouldn't?
Thank you, I really do feel better.
And so, a day after
my return to the island,
an expedition was sent to the eruption area.
And since I knew this area better than others,
the sunken ship with its deadly cargo
chanced to be found by us -
me and Mehti.
The analyzed compounds
lead to mutations in the bacteria present in highly developed organisms.
The immune system of these organisms
is unable to fight the mutant bacteria that have penetrated it,
as a result of which the infected organisms are doomed to death.
Yes,
the vaccine has been tested on animals.
Yes, the results are promising.
But it is impossible to vaccinate all the animals on the planet.
To destroy all the infected organisms,
such high doses of chemicals and radiation would be required
that such treatment of the ocean would not go unpunished..
It seems to me that at some turning point in history,
our civilization took a wrong turn.
No, I am not calling for a return to nature.
but it is simply vitally important to foresee the possible consequences of our every step.
Humanity is too powerful to allow itself to be careless,
even in the smallest things.
You'll see,
everything will be fine.
Fine?
But look here.
Is this fine?
And look over here.
Is this also fine? And look... - Anna!
- This too?
Tomorrow you will not be able to look at me without disgust!
Anna!
Forgive me. It seems that I again...
You see, we really had no other choice then,
and we were forced
to carry out an operation to destroy all
the infected birds, fish,
and animals in our region.
Otherwise,
everything would have simply disappeared.
All living things, all forms of life on our planet.
Do you understand?
Everyone, everyone, everyone!
The typhoon is already a hundred kilometers from the island!
The entire population is mobilizing to destroy the infected organisms.
Gather at the third pier.
I repeat.
Everyone, everyone, everyone! The typhoon is already a hundred kilometers from the island!
The entire population is mobilizing to destroy the infected organisms.
Gather at the third pier.
I'm sorry.
I know everything, but this is very urgent.
The biomass found at the bottom continues to increase in size.
Let's go. They're waiting for us.
And finally, the last day came.
Or rather, the last morning.
Come in.
Here is the last recording.
With the help of robots,
we managed to take several samples of this strange substance.
It seems that the treatment of the ocean led to the birth of a qualitatively new form of life,
also based on carbon,
but with a different molecular structure,
similar to known proteins and amino acids.
Like a cancerous tumor, the substance is growing rapidly.
And by yesterday evening its size had reached almost twenty kilometers.
Now it is impossible to predict...
"Rose of the Winds" speaking, "Rose of the Winds" speaking! Over!
The serum that protects against infection
has also been delivered to Australia, Antarctica and outer space settlements.
After universal vaccination, the planetary quarantine will be lifted
and normal transport operations will be restored.
Calling "Rose of the Winds"! Calling "Rose of the Winds"!
According to orbital stations, the size of the biomass
that has risen from the ocean floor has already exceeded 50 km in diameter.
I repeat.
In 1970,
near the Bahamas islands,
11,000 warheads were sunk
that contained nerve agents.
In the late 1970s,
a leak of toxic substances
at one of the chemical plants in northern Italy
caused painful illnesses among the local population
and resulted in the birth of mutant children.
By the early 1980s,
in the USA were created 300,000 tons
of toxic substances.
Of these, up to fifty thousand tons were nerve agents.
At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean,
near the shores of Ireland,
more than 100,000 tons of hazardous substances have accumulated.
Man has created that which nature had not created in billions of years of evolution.
The legacy of modern civilization
may echo with monstrous cataclysms
in tens, hundreds and thousands of years.
screenwriter and director Gennadiy Tishchenko
art directors Vagif Mamedov, Gennadiy Tishchneko, N. Narimanbekova
camera (animation) Ramiz Agayev camera (live action) A. Melkumov
composer E. Fel sound Marat Iskenderov montage R. Kambarova
animators Vagif Mamedov, Gennadiy Tishchenko
artists F. Kuliyeva, E. Melkumova, G. Bakhri, G. Ismaylov, B. Gaflanov
ass. director S. Kurbanova ass. camera Z. Hagani
script editor Ch. Garyagdy
actors Fahraddin Manafov, N. Georgiyeva, Z. Haydarova, D. Shakhmuradov
production directors R. Abdullayeva, G. Nazarova
The End (c) Azerbaijanfilm, 1987
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