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Anna and Vronsky return to Russia. After a furious Karenin sees Anna visiting their son, she and Vronsky leave. Starring: Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter, Stuart Wilson, David Harries, Robert Swann, Caroline Langrishe.
Anna and Vronsky return to Russia. After a furious Karenin sees Anna visiting their son, she and Vronsky leave. Starring: Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter, Stuart Wilson, David Harries, Robert Swann, Caroline Langrishe.
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01:47well Kitty take them take those dreadful books away burn them yes yes I can do
01:58that now what possessed you to let me see them explained all that Papa agreed
02:05you should but Kostya wasn't an easy thing to do Kitty there are two things
02:11you must know about me first about my religion oh that's nothing you say you
02:16can't be a Christian believe I'm an agnostic what does that mean only that
02:20you don't know which of us does I have enough faith for two but that Kostya
02:28it's awful
02:37I swore to myself I'd never marry you or any girl well it couldn't have been any girl
02:45unless she unless you unless you Kitty knew the worst about me that is the
02:55worst yes those diaries reveal the very worst things of my life but unless you
03:03knew those things excesses and the shame and the degradation I should have come to
03:11one to false pretenses do you see I've not been a good man we could never begin a
03:20fresh life together if there were any secrets between us in that case I ought to
03:28confess to I've been guilty of impurity in my thoughts thoughts
03:40do you mean in spite of all that forgive me yes Kostya after all there are some benefits in my religion I was
03:53taught to forgive
03:55I've been pain
03:59it's a little yeah then keep still I'll change addressing shortly I did well for the doctor
04:05no
04:23what a splendid girl you are nonsense
04:29are you thirsty yes yes I am this is barley water it's supposed to be good for you no no don't move
04:49thank you
04:50Betsy doesn't think it was an accident do you Alexei you were delirious for four
05:07days did I talk a lot all the time who heard me only the doctor who will say nothing no
05:20and you oh I was here but whatever I heard is already forgotten
05:28you needn't dissemble not with me you know all about it don't you oh a great deal don't you
05:40understand I can talk to you as I can't talk to anyone else in the world not to Anna to Anna no
05:46but Alexei I tried to kill myself
05:54because suddenly I felt guilty I was shamed and humiliated all my life I have done what I
06:09wanted I was superior above criticism I followed certain rules and conventions without thought
06:18for example the accepted view of the deceived husband the cuckold I'm not sure that I wish to hear any
06:26a pitiful object an incidental a ludicrous obstacle to my happiness
06:35Alexei you must not excite yourself I'm not excited
06:42but on that night
06:46on that night
06:49Anna presented her husband to me in a very different light
06:51as indeed he did himself
06:58all at once we had exchanged roles
07:03we were both sorrowing because Anna might die
07:08and though he knew and felt very deeply
07:17all the injuries we had inflicted on him
07:22he was generous
07:25kind
07:27dignified
07:30wasn't vindictive or revengeful
07:34and above all not ludicrous
07:39in that scene I was the comic unnecessary clown
07:41and for that because you felt humiliated
07:48no
07:50it was not only because of that
07:54no it was enough
07:56no
08:00I was wretched
08:02because
08:06Anna was lost to me forever
08:07during her illness
08:10during her illness I learned to know her
08:14through and through
08:18I saw her very soul
08:22it seemed to me
08:24until then I'd never truly loved her
08:26and on that night
08:33I knew she was lost to me forever
08:40do you wonder that I wanted to die
08:41do you wonder that I'm not going to die
08:58is it asleep
08:59yes but it's a she
09:01you very well know
09:02doesn't it look like a she
09:03oh you wait little Annie is going to be very beautiful
09:07don't you love her
09:08not the least little bit
09:10why not
09:11well
09:13for one thing she's ugly
09:14oh no
09:16and for another I got sent away to stay with Aunt Katrina
09:19and she's jolly ugly too
09:21she's got a nose like a handle
09:25now I come to think of it she has
09:28and she's got whiskers
09:29and a scratchy sort of voice
09:31because one thing and another that old room is a perfect nuisance
09:35darling you shouldn't speak of her so wasn't she kind to you
09:38oh I suppose so
09:41you're so boring there
09:47oh this cheeky thing I can't do it
09:50well I'm sure I can't
09:58yes
10:01what are you doing
10:12at least you haven't got whiskers
10:15you're a monster
10:16ogre
10:17oh
10:18oh
10:18oh
10:19oh
10:19oh
10:19oh
10:20oh
10:20oh
10:20oh
10:21oh
10:21oh
10:21oh
10:22oh
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10:23oh
10:24oh
10:24oh
10:24oh
10:25oh
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10:26oh
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10:27oh
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10:28oh
10:28oh
10:29oh
10:29oh
10:30oh
10:30oh
10:31come along their castle's waiting
10:46i should have thought that just for once
10:49yes madame
10:50it doesn't matter
10:53oh how do you feel today
10:54i'm better thank you
10:55good
10:58you you find the uh the tonic beneficial
11:00much better
11:03yes
11:06well
11:08what is it alexei do you want to tell me something
11:10well yes as a matter of fact there was something and uh well if you really are feeling better
11:15then perhaps i think we might i think we might come in
11:22excuse me sir
11:23hmm
11:24the nurse says it's time for the baby's feed
11:26shall i take her madam
11:27yes yes and uh
11:29yes and uh
11:45a dear little love isn't she sir
11:48that child what about her well it's uh she's uh she's very small are you surprised she hasn't
12:07been three weeks in the world no no i suppose not what are you going to tell me
12:14oh so it's something important to you yes and uh distressing 10 days ago
12:26i've been asked to inform you that count vronsky suffered an accident 10 days ago
12:37an accident what happened i've been told that he's recovering and is now convalescent
12:43thank god
12:47are you sure yes what sort of an accident what happened some mishap with a revolver it was
12:59fired off by chance while he was cleaning it that is a lie you know it's a lie count vronsky does not
13:04clean revolvers what happened that's all i can say who told you can't his varia fedorovna
13:11varia is not a liar i don't believe a word of this
13:1610 days ago the day i first began to live again
13:20what are you hiding from me
13:24did you
13:27you and me not a duel a duel that was never possible never on that day least of all
13:38and i told you all about it yes i believed you but now he went away and i've not seen him since
13:43now on my solemn oath that is the truth if it is where's the rest of it tell me i shall know what
13:49happened to him i demand to be told i have a right to be told i will have the truth
13:54very well
13:56very well
13:57did he shoot himself
14:01i think so
14:04did he
14:05yes
14:07oh god
14:11why
14:14i
14:20i have no idea
14:22haven't you
14:23none at all
14:24no
14:25no how could you understand
14:28but thank you
14:30and uh
14:33will you please
14:34go away
14:37me
14:47me
14:49me
14:51me
14:57me
14:59me
15:01me
15:03me
15:05me
15:07Caesar. come along in. dear fellow good to see you up and about. perfectly fit
15:13again. a little discomfort but it's nothing. well you always keep yourself in
15:18good trim. that's half the battle. I'll drink them. what will you? nothing strong. too
15:23early. and last some wine perhaps. sit down then. thank you. cigarettes if your
15:31help. well after we spoke together last week I went to work. as I told you in my
15:43letter I hope to have something definite to tell you today. and you have? yes my
15:49dear boy I have. where do I go? Tashkent. Tashkent? never occurred to me that Tashkent
15:58was a particularly comical place to be posted to. rather the reverse in fact.
16:02it's difficult. well it can have its moments. the Uzbeks are not exactly
16:07civilized. and the Afghans on the border. precisely. so why do you laugh? oh it was
16:14only Tashkent, Mamanx, Dastrakan.
16:21it's just a joke I remembered. ah I'm sorry what's the posting?
16:26cavalry commander at the garrison? what? with the rank of colonel. oh that's first rate.
16:32I knew you'd think so. old Sir Pelnikoff commands at Tashkent. you'll like him but
16:40he won't stray out much. you'll have all the action you want. I can't tell you how
16:46grateful. rubbish. it's just the sort of place I'd hoped for. 2,000 miles from
16:52Petersburg hey? you see too much and you assume more than you see.
16:59enough said. let's be practical. I've spoken to your colonel about your release
17:05from the regiment. that's agreed. I've also had a few discreet and confidential
17:09words up there. that's agreed. they forgive and forget.
17:13forgive what? dear fellow your refusal of Warsaw. oh yes of course. you'd forgotten it.
17:21they hadn't I assure you. so here's to the future.
17:30the future. and let me tell you Vronsky for you this is only the beginning.
17:40the beginning. no seriously Anna I think it's quite enchanting. I've told all sorts
17:47of people about it. don't be surprised when you go about again to find that
17:51short hair is all the rage. will you stop talking such nonsense Betsy and tell me
17:55what I want to know. now what might that be? is he really well again? how does he look?
18:00thinner I would say. not so cheerful. serious in fact and really rather dull but as
18:07handsome as ever. oh dear if only he had fallen in love with me instead of you how
18:12much simpler things would be. could you have loved him? to distraction darling.
18:18for a few months at least. you think so? it could never be as simple as that.
18:24not with him. perhaps you're right.
18:30where is Tashkent? don't you know? do you? I have the roughest of rough ideas. it's
18:39far far away. southeast. all among the primitive Cosbics. Cosbics? Uzbex? probably. and I'm
18:47told they live in tents. drink camel's milk and hold their wives in common. total
18:51squalor. who told you? alexia? another thing. the men all go armed to the teeth and
18:55shoot on sight. no in fact your brother told me. steva? he's here in
19:00Petersburg. coming to see you today. he asked me to tell you. oh that is good.
19:04I've longed to see steva. and I have another message for you.
19:09oh? you must have known that he'd send one. what is it? when a man is being posted all those
19:16thousands of miles away he naturally likes to make a round of farewell visits.
19:20what did he say? for alexia a great deal. let's see. what did he say? the exact words. why are you so cruel?
19:27am I darling? I don't mean to be. but sieving it all down he wants to see you.
19:34no. he said among many other things but this I do remember. he said to see her once more.
19:40just once more and then bury myself. bury myself and die. that's what he said.
19:46now don't you think. no. you refuse to see him. I must not and I shall not. but Anna dear if he
19:54weren't going away perhaps forever. no. I could understand but surely your husband is above all
19:59that. for his sake. you mean he would agree? yes. I'm sure he would. I know he would.
20:07well then can't you all be civilized? after all you surely want to say goodbye to a man
20:13who shot himself on your account? that is exactly exactly why I can't.
20:21oh there you are. I'd hoped to see you at the palace but you were so busily engaged I came on here.
20:27Anna is looking so much better don't you think? yes.
20:30that's a trifle feverish. my fault entirely we've been talking too much. selfish of me.
20:37I'll go now. no wait a moment.
20:41I want to tell you something. I can't have any secrets from you nor do I wish to.
20:46Anna dear forgive me but I really must go now. wait I want you to hear.
20:52Betsy says that Count Vronsky is leaving for Tashkent and he wants to come and say goodbye
20:58and I have told her that I cannot receive him. and I have told Anna perhaps you heard that I think
21:04it's ridiculous. Betsy please. I can't see him. it's out of the question. I don't want to see him.
21:19you see? it's impossible. I don't see anything. I'm submerged utterly out of my depth.
21:27well goodbye precious. look after yourself.
21:39that woman
21:43I am grateful to you for your decision.
21:49well I agree that since he's going away there's no reason whatever for
21:52can Vronsky to come here. I have said so.
21:57why repeat it? well the question is of course yours to decide.
22:01I have decided it.
22:02yes. and I'm glad that my wish coincides with yours.
22:12good.
22:14now may we close the subject?
22:16yes certainly.
22:21oh by the way I've sent for the doctor.
22:23why? I don't need him.
22:25oh no it's the child. he keeps on crying.
22:28they say that the wet nurse hasn't enough milk.
22:30why didn't you let me nurse her myself? I wanted to.
22:32you know the doctor said.
22:33I begged to nurse her but I wasn't allowed to.
22:35and now I am blamed for it.
22:36nobody's blaming you.
22:37yes they are.
22:39especially you. well we shall soon put a stop to that.
22:43and now I don't think it wants to be a duty source of conduct.
22:48why didn't you know Mama McFleary?
22:54mother me if you were a candidate in their business.
22:56look sorry we can happen not being saved while they were an a teacher.
23:01Hannah??
23:03Steve I'm sorry to keep your wedding.
23:06what do you say?
23:08you are sheijn 싶은 stuffs you are lying to them?
23:08you are you herney house aren't lying to you?
23:12oh my dear girl oh it's so good to see you oh you look fine better than I'd hoped you always say
23:30the right thing don't you how is everything as bad as it can be I've discovered I'm incapable
23:35of nursing my child any better than the nurse so what's that matter get another nurse we have
23:39well then because of it my husband and I quarreled entirely my fault so it's a miserable day today
23:46and all other days past and future now you mustn't say that you mustn't even think it tomorrow tomorrow
23:52will be the same Steve what am I to do oh my dear I was unhappy before I used to think one couldn't
24:05be more unhappy but now I you see I'm caught I'm in a dreadful kind of trap people say that women love
24:17men even for their vices some do certainly well I hate one man because of his virtues isn't that
24:24horrible but it's true I can't live with him can you understand the very sight of him affects me
24:31physically he touches my hand I feel ill his voice grates on my nerves so that I could scream
24:39the way he moves talks every time in mannerism it's awful Steve a yet here is a good kind patient clever
24:49man I'm not worth his little finger but I hate him above all I hate him for his generosity
24:58so you see Steve a I should have died a month ago because I'm not fit to live oh and you're
25:05exaggerating everything nothing so very terrible it is I'm lost lost it's worse because I'm not quite
25:12lost I can't say it's ended yet but it will when it comes the end will be dreadful I feel as though I'm
25:21flying headlong over a precipice I can't stop myself I ought not to try a thought and thought and
25:28there is only one way out no you're wrong now sit down try to be calm and listen to me you're not
25:39thinking clearly so you can't see your position as well as I do now listen you married him without love
25:47without knowing what love can be that was a mistake let's admit it a fearful mistake but a fact that has
25:54to be faced then what happens you fall in love with another man here a misfortune but also an
26:02accomplished fact we'll face that too and then finally your husband accepts the situation and forgives
26:11you now you say it's impossible for you to live with him I don't know I don't know yes you do you
26:18said yourself you couldn't endure him no I take it back but you can't because that too is a fact do you
26:25think he doesn't know it of course he does so he's wretched and what good can come of that none but
26:33there's no hope anywhere there's nothing to be done oh you're wrong there's one thing a divorce no no yes
26:39you said yourself that he's kind and generous and it's true but now the only kindness anybody can
26:45do is to separate you legally and forever not only for your sake but for his Steve I shall I talk to him
26:56would you do you really think if only God helps me to speak as I feel
27:05I'll go to him now
27:09I'll go to him now
27:39may I come in
27:53hmm oh am I disturbing you no no
27:56you've seen your sister yes we had a long talk and I think a useful one
28:04yes that is something that I have not enjoyed for some time
28:10smoke if you will
28:12yes thank you
28:16the position of you both is so different now do you object if I talk about it
28:20no no it's a subject that is seldom from my mind
28:24so let us begin with this
28:26I have
28:30written her this letter
28:32surely you don't want me to read it
28:34no I shall read it
28:36I can see that my presence is disagreeable to you
28:40and though this is painful to me
28:42I'm convinced that it cannot be otherwise
28:44God is my witness that when you were so ill I resolved with my whole heart
28:50to forget all that came between us and begin life anew
28:54my only desire then as now was for your welfare
28:58the welfare of your soul
29:00and now I see I have not attained that
29:02tell me yourself
29:04what would give you true happiness and peace of mind
29:08I put myself in your hands and trust to your feeling
29:12of what is right
29:14well that is what I wanted to say to her
29:19I must know what she wants
29:21yes yes I understand
29:25look here you know it won't do
29:28why not?
29:29because already she's
29:31crushed
29:33literally crushed by your generosity
29:36if she reads that she'll be incapable of telling you anything
29:40you think so?
29:41I know it
29:44but then
29:47what is to be done?
29:49I mean in God's name what more can I do?
29:52only this I think
29:53you must tell her how you propose to end the situation
29:56end it but how?
29:57well there's a way out of every situation
29:59Anna would never admit it
30:01but there is one way out
30:03and that is to terminate your relations finally and completely
30:09divorce?
30:11yes divorce
30:12you know my feelings
30:14yet at one time you would have solved on it
30:16that was a different matter
30:17there is only one point to be considered
30:20whether either party wishes to marry again
30:23if not
30:25it's very simple
30:29simple
30:30I've thought endlessly about this
30:38to begin with there's my son
30:40he can't stay with his mother
30:41well why not?
30:42well because she'll have another family
30:43illegitimate but a family
30:46then what would Seriosha's position be?
30:50apart from that a divorce would mean giving my wife over to destruction
30:53but why?
30:55well because these liaisons never last
30:58in two or three years Vronsky will throw her over
31:00or she herself will enter into a new liaison
31:03oh this can be so
31:04when there are no
31:05true ties of religion and law
31:09and my consenting to a divorce
31:12I would be the cause of her ruin
31:14aren't you forgetting one supremely important fact?
31:18what?
31:19that they love each other
31:20what?
31:37so if
31:39any man take thy coat
31:44let him have thy cloak also
31:50very well
31:56I agree to a divorce
32:01and I shall take the disgrace on my own head
32:07as for my son
32:10Emma herself must decide about that
32:20what?
32:27Herman?
32:28Herman!
32:30quickly my coat now in a carriage
32:50oh
32:52Alexey
32:54oh Alexey
32:56no no no
32:58you must listen
33:02you must listen
33:04oh
33:06oh Alexey my beloved
33:07I have waited for you
33:09oh my dearest
33:11dearest love
33:12as long as we live
33:14as long as we both live Anna
33:16as long as we both live
33:18look at you
33:20so pretty
33:22just like a funny little boy
33:25how pale you are
33:27am I what I've been ill?
33:29yes but you'll soon get better
33:31we will go to Italy
33:33have you ever been there?
33:34no
33:35should we really?
33:36we go to Italy?
33:37to Florence
33:38to Naples
33:39to Rome
33:40to Venice
33:41it's warm there
33:42and you'll glow in the sunshine
33:43and get better
33:44and you won't go to Tester Kent?
33:46no
33:47I will not
33:48and if anyone so much as raises an eyebrow
33:50I'll resign from the army
33:55I know this is the only thing now
33:59it's the only true thing for us
34:14thank you
34:34all well?
34:35perfect
34:36little Annie has really taken to the new wepness
34:38good
34:39the baby is full up to here
34:41and fast asleep. that is very good. you were lucky to get a woman who could travel with us.
34:45yes poor Sasha if her own baby hadn't died.
34:49she's quite in love with Annie and as for Anoushka she's completely besotted.
34:53and you?
34:55I...
34:58I have no words to say what I feel.
35:03Alexei there is something I ought to explain.
35:06you haven't asked me you wouldn't be. surely there's no need.
35:10I must have and then I'll never mention it again.
35:14when my husband agreed to give me the divorce when he told Steve I could decide for myself
35:19about Sereoza all I could feel at first was joy I thought to be free of him to have my son to have
35:27you that's all I have ever wanted. he finally refused the divorce and left Sereoza with him.
35:33is that what you wanted to explain? yes my love I know why you refused.
35:44you said to yourself I have wronged my husband
35:48and I've hurt him enough. yes that was it.
35:52I didn't want to profit from his misery but more than that I deserved punishment.
35:58I felt I ought to be punished by losing my reputation my son. so you decided to make yourself miserable.
36:08yes. and are you? no. no. that's the whole point. I'm not. I don't care two straws for my reputation.
36:19I feel no shame no disgrace being with you.
36:22as for Sereoza well I think I knew months ago that one day I would have to choose between you and him.
36:33and I've chosen. and all I can say is that I'm happy. I'm wildly wildly. I'm unpardonably happy.
36:52where is it to go sir? hasn't your master told you? no sir he just said take it down.
36:59then put it in the cellar wrapped in a sheet. very well sir.
37:05let us a few personal ones in the small full group. thank you.
37:35and as Lydia Ivanovna she writes to me every day every day asking me to do something or the other.
37:40preside at a meeting. so do not then. I have enough to do.
37:44she has a great deal of influence. you imagine I don't know that.
37:48then excuse me but she could be very useful. she's an excellent organizer.
37:54yes I'll consider it. let's go.
38:04prince and princess Chabatsky invite you to the marriage of their daughter with a man called
38:09Konstantin Dimitreyevich Levin. oh yes I remember meeting him.
38:16why they should ask me. shall you go?
38:18go? go? go? I don't believe so.
38:27what on earth should I be doing? at a wedding?
38:39yes the billiard room. do you know so much forgotten what a jolly place this is?
38:44I mean the whole club. how we like it. except for the schlooping.
38:48schlooping? there's one.
38:52you don't know the word? it's a club term.
38:55you remember the old game of egg rolling?
38:58I think so.
38:59well you go on rolling and rolling your hard boiled egg and it's so cracked it won't roll anymore then it
39:05becomes a schlooping. well we keep on coming and coming to the club till we turn into schlooping.
39:11oh don't laugh. you know Prince Strachensky? used to talk a lot about schloopics. then one day
39:19he looked in and said to the hall porter Vasily the fat one. morning Vasily. who's here? any schloopics?
39:26Vasily said you'll make the third sir. so you see my lad we all come to it in the end.
39:32ah steva. well i'll leave you two to your billiards. oh a glass of champagne first sir.
39:45thank you. no i'm for the card room where i shall win or lose my customary 10 roubles.
39:51good luck sir. and thank you for an excellent dinner.
39:53a waiter. steva. has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to have such a father-in-law?
40:05yes.
40:08and now you're going to have a share in him. is there something ironic about the prince?
40:13thank you Stefan. i suppose you're surrounded by women all your life. domestic women i mean.
40:19you believe a man develops irony as a sort of extra skin. you're coming on Kostya. you're coming on.
40:27well here's to Kitty. to Kitty. and your marriage. yes marriage.
40:33are you nervous now? afraid of it? no. no it's not marriage i'm afraid of. no?
40:40it's the fuss. the ceremony. standing up in church in front of all the people.
40:45well does Kitty object to that? it's the one thing we argue about. she's looking forward to it.
40:51naturally. it's their great day. so you must pretend that you do too.
40:56impossible. if you don't you'll spoil it for her.
40:59oh by the way i've been meaning to mention this knowing your views.
41:02you've got the certificate to show you've been to confession and taken the sacrament.
41:06no. why?
41:07they won't marry you without it. what? i never even thought it must be seven years.
41:15no certificate. no marriage. steve. it's true. you must confess and take the sacrament.
41:22how can i? it's only four days. well that'll do. see the priest. he's a good sensible man.
41:27he'll pull the tooth out for you before you know where you are.
41:30now come along. i'll pay you a hundred up. give you 15 to start.
41:44the priest stands invisible before you to receive your confession.
41:57do you believe in the doctrines of the holy apostolic church?
42:01i have doubted. i doubt everything. to doubt is a natural human weakness but we must pray to our
42:07merciful lord to strengthen us. what are your principal sins?
42:10i doubt everything. that is my principal sin. what do you doubt in particular?
42:19everything. sometimes i even doubt the existence of god.
42:24what doubt can you have of the creator when you contemplate his works? who adorned the celestial
42:30vault with stars? who decked the earth with her beauty? how could those things be without a creator?
42:36i don't know. you are about to enter into holy matrimony and god may bless you with children.
42:46what will you say to your child when he asks you? papa who made the lovely things in the world?
42:53the earth, the water, the sun, the flowers, the grass? will you really say that you don't know?
43:00and if he should ask you about the life to come what will you tell him? will you abandon him to the
43:07allurements of the world and the devil? wouldn't that be wrong?
43:11so therefore pray hard pray that your doubts may be resolved. our lord god jesus christ in the
43:21grace and bounty of his loving kindness pardon this his child
43:24go in peace. go in peace and sin no more.
43:54come along here. thank you thank you
44:11oh yes oh indeed yes i should think you do very well here. i am most obliged to you. not at all.
44:19i only wish i could afford such a place myself. i want you to meet madame karenina.
44:25we are traveling together. indeed. i should be delighted.
44:30anna.
44:34this is an old friend of mine sergey pedrovich kolonishev. a happy exer.
44:39enchanted madame. we owe you a great deal do we not? you found this place for us?
44:43oh you like it then? immensely. oh i'm glad. i'm glad.
44:49well it seems strange to see you out of uniform. i resign my commission. yes well you never did a
44:54more sensible thing. we were together you know in the core of pages. he stayed and became a
44:59distinguished officer. i left. what do you do now? well i write. i write trivia for the most part i
45:07suppose. but also each day something of my great work. and may we know what it is? well it's the
45:14second part of my earlier work. the two principles. you may have read the first part. yes.
45:21are there many russians here? well as far as i know one only apart from ourselves you may
45:25have heard of him an artist called mikhailov. a man of people you understand. uneducated but
45:31skillful no doubt about that. i have heard of him. he's a portrait painter if i'm not mistaken. yes and
45:35a good one too. he's had many commissions but he's abandoned it in favor of religious paintings. so
45:40he's hard up? yes i said imagine he must be. are you interested in art madame? i am interested
45:48although i know little about it. alexei is the expert. this is his work.
46:00good. very good. yours? well i had no idea that you painted. well i did years ago but i gave it up.
46:07good heavens. could give it up just like that. i mean not to not to use such a talent. i'm not
46:13raphael you know. just an amateur though i do try to improve. tell me sergey do you know mikhailov?
46:20slightly yes. would you like to meet him? i should like to see his work. would you Anna? very much.
46:27well then you shall. i'm told he's unapproachable in certain moods. an artist's prerogative but
46:32oh i can arrange it for you in a few days. oh indeed yes i can arrange it for you. excuse me.
46:43oh my dear fellow this is really progressed since i last saw it. yes a great deal of progression.
47:04and to think that neither the academy nor the government have seen fit to offer their
47:08passage. that be true. true enough your excellency. that's why i'm here.
47:17that's disgraceful. what strikes me particularly is the figure of pilot. one knows that man so well
47:24does one not. a capital good-natured fellow but an official to his very backbone. blind to the meaning
47:29of what he's doing. you see that in him? well naturally. the living man. don't you agree madame?
47:37yes yes but of all things i admire the expression of christ. the expression? i mean the look on his
47:43face. how shall i put it? one can see that he is sorry for pilot. of course. but of course it must be so.
47:53there must be pity in christ's face because there has to be love. you know.
47:57no peace not of this world. readiness for death. and a sense of the vanity of words.
48:08the pilot knows nothing of all that because he is the eternal official. the
48:13the incarnation of the carnal. but there has to be pity in christ's face because the...
48:22excuse me. no no please go on. what you say is most interesting.
48:25for example when you decide to paint something like this do you do these themes occur to you as
48:31a process of intellect of conscious thought? intellect means nothing at least not to me.
48:35i feel something and so i paint it. now inspiration. pure inspiration.
48:39do you mean do i take a deep breath? well i do. and then i begin to paint and draw and hope that this
48:47time it'll be better than the last. yes but surely that's a matter of technique.
48:50technique. technique eh? from that point of view all i can see are my own shortcomings.
48:59now do you see christ's foot? well? it's a foreshortening.
49:05i've just noticed the foreshortening is wrong and so i must correct it.
49:08and still the picture will have 50 technical errors.
49:14do you know michael angelo's david? yeah a masterpiece. true.
49:17alexei. excuse me. the head is too big for the body and so is the hands. there is a technique.
49:26and yet still it is a masterpiece.
49:29what exactly are you saying? are you impressed? immensely. so am i.
49:36look at this. oh that's exquisite the little boy. he's the big one so eager to catch a fish but
49:42the little one. what is he thinking of? it doesn't matter does it? michailov persuades us that he is thinking.
49:54anna i would like him to paint your portrait. oh my dearest why mine? you are doing that
49:59already that's the only one i want. let him paint honey. no.
50:02i shall paint you. i mean and what is more. have you painted god as man or man become god? excuse me
50:14is this painting for sale?
50:18yes yes it's for sale. then i should like to buy it please. we both like it very much.
50:23there's another thing. would you paint a portrait of madame karenina? i don't do portraits now.
50:32yes so i believe. but this one.
50:53yes yes i will paint that face. and the cell behind it. i'll try to paint that too.
51:13so you see countess it seems that my private affairs are public property.
51:23in society exactly. they cannot guess at the truth how it was not you who performed that
51:28high act of forgiveness at which i was filled with rapture but he he who dwells within your heart.
51:35no doubt no doubt. i have been quite enough humiliated. don't say that.
51:40but i do say it because it's true. i mean do they think i'm blind? do they think i'm not aware of the
51:47jokes? the laughter behind my back? they're very servants. they know not what they do.
51:56only yesterday i had to go out of the room. i couldn't bear the way my son looked at me.
52:02oh he asked me nothing but he wanted to and there was a look in his eyes.
52:06that's for me to deal with as i can. my more immediate problems are of a practical nature.
52:17for several hours today i've had to arrange this. settle that.
52:21household matters arising from my new solitary state. domestic affairs. the engagement of staff.
52:26the payment of petty accounts. laundry. fish. i tell you countess there are limits to a man's
52:32endurance and i have reached mine. i understand my dear friend. i understand it all.
52:39succor and consolation you will find. not in me though i have come expressly to help you.
52:44if i could take all these petty cares from your shoulders. if you could do that.
52:48i see a woman's word a woman's guiding hand is needed. will you entrust everything to me?
52:55me? you will. i am rewarded. but my dear friend think no more of laughter and humiliation. for he
53:04that humbleth himself shall be exalted. and you mustn't thank me. i do. no you must thank him
53:10and ask his help. in him alone we shall find peace. comfort. salvation. and love.
53:22i'm indeed grateful to you for your deeds and your words. the deeds are yet to do.
53:29and i'm set to work as your housekeeper. but first i'm going to see seriosha.
53:40yes. queen to queen to bishop four. now then black knight to queen three. now it takes the queen.
54:06seriosha.
54:10have you noticed in chess problems how the queen never does anything?
54:14so it's a pawn or a bishop but never the queen.
54:18seriosha.
54:20yes countess.
54:21you know who i am.
54:22of course.
54:25your dear papa has asked me to come here to look after you.
54:30thank you. but i don't need to be looked after.
54:33you do child. you do.
54:35i don't think so. a castle teaches me.
54:38i don't need. anyway.
54:39it passes them to go to school.
54:41there are higher more important things than school. seriosha.
54:45papa doesn't think so.
54:47oh but he does.
54:50it's a question of loving care.
54:54seriosha.
54:55i have sad news to tell you. very sad news. but god will console you.
55:01will he?
55:02he will dear. and is it about mama?
55:05yes.
55:09your dear mama is dead.
55:12for you.
55:23yes.
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