[GEO] PRIMORSKY REGION, KHASANSKY DISTRICT
[Denis Vashurin]I live in the south of the Primorsky Region
[Denis]It's Russia's south-easternmost part, the furthest corner of the Far East
[Denis]The place feels strange...
like you're in another dimension
HI. I’M DENIS
[GEO] SLAVYANKA SETTLEMENT
I’M 33 YEARS OLD
[Denis]I think two hands were bitten off in the water!
I LOOK MUCH YOUNGER…
[Denis]Probably, what's most important is coming to terms with yourself here and now,
with your soul and your mind
[Denis]Find yourself! Only then will you find harmony with the world around you
HEIGHT - 149 CM
[GEO]CAPE FLOATING TORTOISE FLOATING TORTOISE
AGE I DON’T
[Denis]Hello! My name is Denis. I'm 33. And I'm not like anyone else
[Denis]No, I'm not!
[VO]Denis’ unusual appearance is due to a pituitary disorder, a tiny,
pea-sized gland in the human brain that produces several hormones,
including the one that controls growth.
[VO]Pituitary disorders are not particularly rare but don’t always cause the symptoms that Denis experiences.
[VO]Most importantly though, it’s a deficiency that can be adjusted.
[Denis]I don't have any school pictures
[Denis]I don't know, really. I don't seem to have them. My parents probably do
[Denis]I wanted to show you my school pictures. I might've burnt them in a fit!
[Denis]I would say the most difficult times were those going through puberty,
and then becoming an adult
[Denis]These must be the pictures. Here they are!
[Denis]It's our prom, if I'm not mistaken
[Denis]Ah, yes, it is!
[Denis]This is me with my dad in 2005
[Denis]Birthday party... My classmate...
[Denis]There must be an interesting picture here somewhere
[Denis]This one was sent to me. I don't know them
[Denis]I mean, I only know one of them
[Denis]See? That's at our 'last bell' ceremony
[Denis]I was still pretty chubby then
[Denis]This is another classmate, Yulia...
[Denis]We still keep in touch… Ah! This is the 'last bell' ceremony
[Denis]Speaking of which… This is the prom
[Denis]There were never more than five boys in our class. The rest were girls
[Denis]I visited Kravtsovskiye Waterfalls with my class
[Denis]I was fighting against myself more than anything...
more than against the world, against society, or the people around me
[Denis]Probably, what's most important is coming to terms
with yourself here and now, with your soul and your mind
[Denis]Find yourself! Only then will you find harmony with the world around you
'ÄÅÍÈÑ ÂÀØÓÐÈÍ' YOUTUBE CHANNEL
[Denis]Hi friend! If you've found this video, I suggest you watch it till the end
[VO]Denis has his own YouTube channel.
[VO]It’s packed with adventure and the exotic romance of life in Primorsky region.
[Denis]I thought he'd catch it with his teeth
[Denis]It will run
[Denis]We cut here and that's what we've got
[Denis]The Far East's most poisonous...
[Denis]It's yawning!
WALKER
[Denis]I took my time, about 30 minutes, before choosing Walker
[Denis]There were lots of pups!
[Denis]This is a once-in-a-lifetime dog!
[Denis]Of course, you love any animal you have
[Denis]They're your best friend for life, a partner, a hunting assistant...
[Denis]For instance, he has certain visible traits
[Denis]He's one dog on paper, but in reality he looks a little different
[Denis]He doesn't conform to his breed's standards
[Denis]So, I can say, well...
we're sort of alike, that's what I think
[Denis]I consider myself a member of society
[Denis]Because I'm good at communicating with all kinds of people
[Denis]At least I think so
[Denis]The downside of being an adult is you have to work
[Denis]Some still ask, 'Denis, why work, you're already famous?
[Denis]You're loaded with money'
[Denis]Well, it turns out, I'm not! Ok, I've got to go to work
[Denis]We're now on the premises of the company I work for
[Denis]We provide not just our village, but the whole district with electricity
[Denis]My job is to monitor and answer calls, deal with requests and applications
[Denis]I need to maintain order here and ensure everything's ok
[Denis]Rains, strong winds coming from the sea...
[Denis]Showers of icy rain gum up the power lines and break them
[Denis]On such occasions, most people can expect power cuts
[Denis]So who do they call? They call us!
[Denis]No, we don't handle street lighting. The authority you need to call is on 46-7-50
[Denis]Bingo!
[Denis]Sometimes it's quiet… It's either quiet
or all hell breaks loose! As for people's
politeness and tact, you could write a three-volume book about it You need strong
nerves... I don't know... not to use cuss words, and stay polite while they're
cursing you I'm the one to blame for all the callers' woes But I've grown a thick skin
[Denis]I live in the south of the Primorsky Region
[Denis]I can tell you it's Russia's south-easternmost part, the furthest corner of the Far East
[Denis]Beyond my village there's only China
[Denis]And Korea
[Denis]On either side of us is the Land of the Leopard National Park
[Denis]You can't hunt around here
[Denis]Leopards and tigers are under protection, as are other endangered species
[Denis]Recently, tigers have been frequenting the surrounding villages of the
reserves This year they've hunted and eaten dogs, or have just killed them
[Denis]Many dogs get frightened as soon as they sense them around
[Denis]You can understand what is nearby by looking at a dog
[Denis]We're now on our way to Bezverkhovo
[Denis]It's a village where I spent my childhood
[Denis]My grandma lives there
[Denis]She turned 90 in January
[Denis]She's as tough as nails!
[Denis]Here comes my aunt
[Denis]An ambulance! Looks like something bad might have happened to Grandma Something's happened
[Denis]Hello there! [Denis' Grandma]Hello. A social worker should come…
DENIS' GRANDMA
[Healthcare worker]Do you have permission to film? [Denis' Grandma]Yes, they're filming me
[Healthcare worker]Step away and film from there [Denis' Grandma]Yeah, sure
[Denis' Grandma]Let's go over there
[Denis]Hi, what's up? High blood pressure again?
[Denis' Grandma]That's not it! I'm just rather sick
[Denis]Have you called emergency? Has a doctor been?
[Denis' Grandma]Doctors! Yes, yes, yes...
HEALTHCARE WORKERS REGULARLY CHECK UP ON DENIS' GRANDMA
[Denis' Grandma]Let me put a sweater on, I'm cold
[Denis] Hold on to me. [Denis' Grandma]You're my sweet boy!
[VO]The grandmother was tired and went for a rest.
[VO]Now, Denis is taking us to see an abandoned crypt.
[Denis]This is the well-known Bryner Crypt
[Denis]The Bryners' family vault was established in 1916
[Denis]Construction ended in 1920
[Denis]Made in a classical style
[Denis]The white granite was brought from Finland
[Denis]The top of the crypt was covered with a dome of genuine Venetian glass
[Denis]Family members rested in florally decorated marble caskets
[Denis]The vault entrance was blocked with a massive, epigraphed marble slab
[Denis]It was raided and looted in 1930
[Denis]The bodies disappeared
[Denis]Not afraid...
[Denis]to come face to face with fear...
[Denis]Walker! What is it? What is it, Walker?
[Denis]What's there?
[Denis]Back! To me! Look at him!
[Denis]Not over there! To me! Heel!
[Denis]Walker has sensed something, I don't know what
[Denis]He didn't chase it off, but shrank back instead, and began to bark
[Denis]He didn't move. Then we heard some branches crack
[Denis]I don't know what it was, but judging by the look of the dog,
[Denis]I can only assume it was one of our big Amur cats
[Denis]A dog went missing not far from here
[Denis]They found tiger tracks, and the dog went missing
[Denis]So, a tiger snagged a hound right under its owner's nose
SOMEWHERE HERE, THERE’S A TIGER ON THE PROWL
I'M 33 YEARS OLD I LOOK MUCH YOUNGER…
[Denis]I have to prove more often than other people that I am
actually me! Traffic police stopped me once and asked ridiculous
questions: 'Your age? Your surname? Are you drunk?' So, we got
into a heated argument We had words, and I kind of lost my temper
[Denis]It was one of those moments that really gets to me
[Denis]It's some kind of injustice
[Denis]I don't think they want to stop us See! She was like, 'Get out of here!'
[Denis]See that car over there?
[Denis]There'd been a different one before
[Denis]That's a common thing here
[Denis]In weather like this, what else can you do in such a small town at the edge of Russia?
[Denis]Take a can of Korean coffee, drive to the sea,
or somewhere over there, just relax, take a few
pictures of the sea, hang around, talk and go home
[Denis]As for the opposite sex…
[Denis]It may seem like... Well, how can I put it?
[Denis]Rather unlikely But somehow I've always managed to get along well with
girls There's always been some
sort of attraction and communication
[Denis]These ones are size 38, the rest are 39
[Denis]What a horrible smell!
[Denis]I made a mess of that!
[Anya]It's very heavy - Take this one, it's light
[Anya]This one is lighter
[Denis]I don't know why, but things have always come easy to me
[Denis]So far, I've been using the No. 7. This is a nice one. Is it 10 kg, or what?
[Denis]Perhaps, it's all about your presence, your charisma...
[Denis]A charm of sorts: vibes you exude, invisible ones...
[Denis]Maybe girls can tune in to them subconsciously, somehow
[Anya]Good!
[Denis]Ah… This one?
[Denis]Oh yeah!
[Denis]Why does it roll that way? First, it follows the path, then it suddenly curves away
[Denis]I need to throw it harder
[Denis]Damn! Too hard!
[Denis]What are you doing? What are you doing?
[Denis]How did I meet Anya?
[Denis]The usual way. How it normally happens...
[Denis]I guess 90% of people in the world search online, on the internet
[Denis]Let's order pizza
[Denis]She's a good housekeeper
[Denis]She's very down-to-earth, she's not picky about stuff
[Denis]She likes to spend time with me
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[Denis]Easy does it, one, two... Look at the traces, the ice is about to crack
[VO]While filming, Denis and Anya had quite an argument. So, we had to adjust the romantic storyline a little.
[Denis]Skate on! Why do you keep going towards the bank?
[Anya]I'm scared
[Denis]Actually, we've agreed not to bring up private relationships anymore
[Denis]Right, let's not talk about it. I'd rather not talk about it
[Denis]I'm not saying anything!
[Denis]It's pretty dirty
[Denis]There's a mallard over there, on the ice. Interesting!
[Denis]We're on the Gamov Peninsula
[Denis]It's low tide now
[Denis]This is a former military research center
[GEO]VITYAZ BAY, FORMER NAVY DOLPHINARIUM
[Denis]It's where fur seals were trained The military used them for reconnaissance missions
[Denis]And not far from this lab, from this bay, the first
recorded white shark attack took place on a human:
two hands were bitten off in the water, if I'm not mistaken
[Denis]Uh-huh!
[Denis]A very small opening
[Denis]You won't fit through
[Denis]Ok...
[Denis]Damn!
[Denis]It's my first time here. The echo is quite extreme
[Denis]They put glass on here so, no one would sneak in
[Denis]There's a pool here too
[Denis]During the war, mammals were trained here
for various military exercises and operations
[Denis]This place gives off strange vibes:
some futuristic-looking dome, traces of scientific experiments,
like you've travelled into another dimension
[Denis]Man, what happened?
[Denis]I'm caught on something
[Denis]No... What's this?
[Denis]I know I get really tired of cities
[Denis]I perk up...
when I come to a forest, or when I go hunting,
or just relax by the water, or take off hiking
[Denis]That's how I reboot
[Denis]Stay! Stay! Wait!
[Denis]People often leave nasty
comments on my videos... that I'm a
terrible man, actually! How can
[Denis]I possibly justify going hunting?
[Denis]That's slaughter, after all Mud! We might get stuck here
and that would be it Take a look ahead, it's the end of the road
[Denis]Happy? Good news, I did it for you
[Denis]Bad news, we have to pull it out together!
[Denis]I've probably hunted for as long as I can remember
[Denis]I have memories from the age of three
[Denis]Dad used to take me to the forest, to the swamps
[Denis]I learned everything from my dad
[Denis]He's a hunter with a capital 'H'. I've still got a lot to learn
[Denis]The battle continues...
[Denis]And Lenin is young once again, And youthful October's ahead!
[Denis]We're stuck big time!
[Denis]Let's dig it out. Left side's stuck too! Give me a moment to get it in place
[Denis]Hey! A vehicle's approaching
[Denis]Well, we're stuck pretty good
[Denis]I didn't want to take this route, I knew we'd get stuck
[Denis]But I went anyway. Serves me right, no one else to blame
[Denis]Well, we have to pull it out. The clay is heavy
[Denis]You sink ankle deep, just under your own weight!
[Denis]What can I say?
[Denis]Do you think I should've braked?
[Denis]Alright, I've called Aleksandr. He's on his way. He'll help us out
[Aleksandr]Hi, I'm Aleksandr. I've been friends with Denis Vashurin for over 15 years
SANYCH
[Denis]Sanych, this thread is stripped, you know?
[Denis]You see?
[Aleksandr]I was in the fifth grade
[Aleksandr]He was a little older than me
[Aleksandr]There was roughly a 5-year gap between us
[Aleksandr]Actually, it all started with an argument... a conflict
[Aleksandr]We almost came to blows!
[Denis]Sanych, it just won't budge
[Denis]I tried spraying and yanking it. It's stripped clean
[Denis]We're dead in the water!
[Aleksandr]I couldn't believe he was that much older than me
[Aleksandr]He seemed to be my age
[Aleksandr]That's why I couldn't even imagine he was in the 10th grade,
while I was in the 5th
[Denis]I can't see a damn thing!
[Denis]I said, I can't see anything!
[Denis]Can anyone signal?
[Denis]Why haven't you closed it? Close it, Sanych! Close it!
[Denis]I'm going back! Close it!
[Denis]Come round this way!
[Aleksandr]He's a responsible person
[Aleksandr]If he says he'll do something, he'll do everything he can to make it happen
[Aleksandr]He doesn't seem strange to me anymore
[Aleksandr]He's just Denis, my friend
[Denis]Oh! There they are! And the second old chap's there too
ÌHey! Who are you looking for?
[Gamekeepers]Look who's here!
[Denis]I don't have a permit
[Gamekeepers]Hi! - How are you doing?
[Denis]You could've stopped to help. I was stuck
[Gamekeepers]Why didn't anyone wave?
[Denis]I don't know this vehicle. Where's Surf?
[Gamekeepers]Great to see you!
[Gamekeepers]You could've waved!
[Denis]I saw it when it was too late. Yeah…
[Gamekeepers]You see the car's all dirty and he's standing there, why didn't you wave?
[Gamekeepers]He did nothing…
[Gamekeepers]I had a tow cable. Someone should've waved
[Denis]How could I know?
GAMEKEEPERS: ALEKSANDR ANDREY Only later, did I think, oh right... 1st time I saw the car!
[Gamekeepers]We were agog: a man standing by the road and not waving!
[Gamekeepers]Pour water on it, don't let it dry up
[Denis]I'll wash it and sort it out at work. It'll be fine
[Denis]Dad went to Bezverkhovo
[Gamekeepers]He's just been on the phone
[Denis]What's he up to?
[Gamekeepers]He's kicked off, killed 3 ducks already
[Gamekeepers]Ok, see you! - I'll get going. Good luck!
[Gamekeepers]And he was just standing there by the road. He might've let us know
[Denis]We were waiting for a car. It's all good
[Denis]We need to film. Ok, good luck!
[Denis]I love all kinds of hunting. Hunts in the spring tend to be the shortest,
but they're the most memorable every year There are a lot of birds,
it's interesting, and spring is coming There's water, it starts getting
warmer, and temperatures are above zero I go for swans and geese
[Denis]Walker!
[Denis]Heel, I'm telling you! Where are you going? Heel!
[Denis]The spring hunt is only about shooting drakes
[Denis]The spring is the ducks' mating season
[Denis]You're not allowed to shoot flying birds. You can only shoot a sitting drake
[Denis]And you definitely need to make sure that it really is a drake
[Denis]You can use dummies. A decoy. A female. A pintail whistle's allowed...
[Denis]There used to be a test range here, then it moved elsewhere
[GEO]FORMER TEST RANGE DUMMY SHELL
[Denis]Seeing shells, bullets and whatnot is an absolutely normal thing round here
[Denis]This one's a dummy shell, so, nothing to worry about
[Denis]It doesn't even have a detonator
[Denis]If hunting, for you, is a sign of savagery
and beastliness, then so be it... I'll live my
savage ways... in the wild You can carry on
living in your high-tech era We'll see who survives
[VO]On that day, Denis had limited success in his hunting.
[VO]So, no ducks were harmed in the making of this film.
[Denis]In duck lingo, it means let's go, there's nothing doing here
WRITTEN BY ANDREY MOLODYKH DIRECTED BY ALEKSANDR PANOV CAMERA OPERATOR
STANISLAV GURYANOV PRODUCER MARIANNA DRAVNEL VIDEO EDITORS SERGEY
MIKHAILOV LEONID MIKHAILOV ANDREY VASYUTKIN SOUND EDITOR SERGEY
EVSTIGNEEV TRANSLATORS ALIK BERDUKOV ALEKSANDR PETROV NARRATOR DAVID
A. WATSON STYLE EDITOR STEVE ELLIOTT MOTION DESIGN ROMAN KONDRATEV
EDITOR ALEKSANDRA ERMOLAEVA DEPUTY HEAD OF RTDOC CHANNEL GALINA
ARKHIPOVA HEAD OF RTDOC CHANNEL EKATERINA YAKOVLEVA SPECIAL THANKS
TO DENIS VASHURIN FOR PROVIDING VIDEO CONTENT FROM HIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL