 A later re @-@ editing of the film opens with images of orchards and blue sky , showing a stone obelisk with Turgenev 's name on it . It is next revealed that Stepok 's mother has been beaten to death by his father . In a dark hut , Samokhin complains that his son has a greater loyalty to the Soviet than his own family , as Stepok enters from the bright day outside . His father quotes from the Bible : " If the son betrays his father , kill him like a dog ! " Samokhin is arrested for arson , and Stepok leaves with a Communist functionary . The other arsonists take refuge in the local church , and are soon arrested . The arsonists are nearly lynched , but are saved from the villagers ' wrath by Stepok . The villagers transform the church into a clubhouse , symbolically ridiculing religion or the clergy . 
