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Olga, Masha and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who had commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with married Colonel Vershinin. Irina works in the local telegraph office, but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town. Starring: Joan Plowright, Jeanne Watts, Louise Purnell, Derek Jacobi, Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier.
Olga, Masha and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who had commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with married Colonel Vershinin. Irina works in the local telegraph office, but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town. Starring: Joan Plowright, Jeanne Watts, Louise Purnell, Derek Jacobi, Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier.
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00:04:29Not many people followed the coffin, although he was a general, brigade commander.
00:04:35Of course, it was raining heavily, showers and sleep.
00:05:07Why do you bring it all back?
00:05:37I woke up this morning?
00:05:38No.
00:05:40No.
00:06:08It was perfectly true.
00:06:11The only trouble.
00:06:12The only trouble is for Marsha.
00:06:13Marsha will come in.
00:06:14I'll spend every day.
00:06:15I'll spend every day.
00:06:18God's help, everything will turn out well.
00:06:21What a fine day.
00:06:24What a fine day.
00:06:24I don't know.
00:06:25I don't know why I've been so happy today.
00:06:26This morning, I remember this morning, I remember this morning, I remember that it was my saint's day.
00:06:30I remember my childhood when Mumu was still alive.
00:06:35Such thoughts.
00:06:38Such thoughts.
00:06:39Such wonderful thoughts stared in my brain.
00:06:41You look really radiant today.
00:06:43André, very beautiful.
00:06:46Marcia, too, is beautiful.
00:06:49André could be good looking, but he's getting fat and it doesn't suit him.
00:06:54And as for me, I've aged.
00:06:56I'm getting thin.
00:06:57Probably because the girls at school make me so cross.
00:07:03Now, today, I'm free.
00:07:05I'm at home.
00:07:06My head doesn't ache.
00:07:08And I feel younger than yesterday.
00:07:12Oh, everything is all right.
00:07:16Everything is God's will.
00:07:18And yet, somehow, I feel that if I had married and could stay at home all day, it would be
00:07:25better.
00:07:26I would have loved my husband.
00:07:30Oh, really?
00:07:31You talk such nonsense.
00:07:33I simply can't listen to you anymore.
00:07:35Oh, I forgot to tell you.
00:07:37Our new battery commander, Vershinin, will be coming to visit you today.
00:07:40Well, that's very nice.
00:07:41The old.
00:07:42Oh, no, I wouldn't say that.
00:07:44Forty-ish.
00:07:44He seems a good sort.
00:07:45Certainly not stupid.
00:07:47But he doesn't talk too much.
00:07:48An interesting man.
00:07:50Oh, not bad.
00:07:51He has a wife and two little girls and a mother-in-law,
00:07:54and he's been married once before, too.
00:07:56Well, he goes visiting everybody and tells them all.
00:07:58He's got a wife and two little girls.
00:07:59Oh, he'll probably tell you about it, too.
00:08:03His wife seems to be a bit unbalanced.
00:08:05She wears a long maidenly plait and speaks in a very high-flown way on philosophy
00:08:10and often tries to commit suicide, apparently to annoy her husband.
00:08:16I've left a woman like that long ago, but he seems to put up with it.
00:08:19He does complain a lot.
00:08:20I can lift only 60 pounds with one hand.
00:08:23But with two hands, I can lift 160, even 200 pounds.
00:08:28I deduce from this that two men are not only twice as strong as one, but three times.
00:08:33Even more.
00:08:34For falling hair, take two ounces of naphthalene and half a bottle of spirits.
00:08:39Dissolve and use daily.
00:08:40I must put this down.
00:08:41So, as I was saying to you, you stick a cork into the bottle.
00:08:44Now, there's a glass tube in that, you see.
00:08:46Then you take a pinch of ordinary...
00:08:47Yvonne Romanich.
00:08:48Dear Yvonne Romanich.
00:08:50My darling, my friend.
00:08:52Tell me, why do I feel so happy today?
00:08:54So, I was sailing with a wide blue sky over me,
00:08:57and big white birds flying around.
00:08:59My little white bird.
00:09:02When I woke up this morning and got up and washed,
00:09:04I suddenly began to think that everything was clear to me in this world,
00:09:08and that I knew how one ought to live.
00:09:10Dear Yvonne Romanich, I know everything.
00:09:14Man must work by the sweat of his brow, no matter who he is.
00:09:18And the meaning and purpose of his life,
00:09:20his happiness and his ecstasy are contained in this alone.
00:09:24Oh, how splendid it is to be a workman who gets up at dawn
00:09:28and breaks stones in the street.
00:09:29Or a shepherd, or a teacher who teaches children.
00:09:33Or an engine driver.
00:09:34Dear God, it is better to be a simple horse, an ox, and be working,
00:09:39rather than a young woman who gets up at midday,
00:09:42has her breakfast in bed, then takes two hours to get dressed.
00:09:45Terrible, that is.
00:09:47I now want to work as desperately as wanting a drink on a hot day.
00:09:51And if I don't get up early and work,
00:09:53you can deny me your friendship, Ivan Romanich.
00:09:55I will, I will, darling.
00:09:57Father made us get up at seven o'clock.
00:09:59Now Irina wakes at seven and lies in bed thinking till at least nine.
00:10:04And her face is deadly serious.
00:10:06I still look upon me as a little girl.
00:10:08That's why you find it strange when I have a serious face.
00:10:11I'm twenty, you know.
00:10:12The longing for work.
00:10:14Oh, God, how well I understand that.
00:10:17I've never done a stroke of work in my whole life.
00:10:20Well, I was born in Petersburg, in cold, idle Petersburg,
00:10:25until someone never knew any work or any trouble.
00:10:27I remember when I used to come home from the cadet school,
00:10:30a football would come off my boots.
00:10:32And when I was naughty, my mother looked on with adoration
00:10:35and was surprised if others didn't do the same.
00:10:37I was protected from work.
00:10:39But not forever, let me tell you.
00:10:42Oh, the time's come when a great cloud's advancing on the soil.
00:10:45Huge storms brewing.
00:10:46It's coming.
00:10:47It's quite near.
00:10:48And very soon it will sweep away all this indifference
00:10:51and laziness and shiftlessness.
00:10:54Putrid boredom from our society.
00:10:56I will work.
00:10:57In 25 or 30 years time, every man will be working.
00:11:00Every human being.
00:11:02I want work.
00:11:03You don't count.
00:11:05In 25 years, you won't be living any longer, thank the Lord.
00:11:10In about two or three years, you will die of a stroke.
00:11:13Or I'll lose my temper and put a bullet in your forehead, my angel.
00:11:18I can safely say I've never done a day's work in my whole life.
00:11:21When I left the university, I just sat and twiddled my thumbs.
00:11:24Never read a single book.
00:11:25Only newspapers.
00:11:27For instance, I know by the papers that there was such a man as Dobroluvov.
00:11:31What he ever wrote.
00:11:32I don't know.
00:11:32God knows.
00:11:35Oh, yes.
00:11:38They're calling to me downstairs.
00:11:40Someone has come to see me.
00:11:42I'll be back in a moment.
00:11:45Do wait!
00:11:47He's after some mischief.
00:11:49Yes, he's got his pompous face on.
00:11:51Something tells me he's going to bring you a present.
00:11:53Oh, how tired of me is.
00:11:54Yes, it's awful.
00:11:55He's always doing such foolish things.
00:11:57A green oak tree beside the main, and on that oak a golden chain.
00:12:03And on that oak a golden chain.
00:12:10You're not in a very good mood today, Marsha.
00:12:13Where are you going?
00:12:16Home.
00:12:17Home.
00:12:17Home.
00:12:18We're going away from a saint's day party.
00:12:20What does it matter?
00:12:22I'll come back again this evening.
00:12:27Goodbye, my dearest.
00:12:29Once more, I wish you'd be well, be happy.
00:12:34In the old days, when Father was still alive,
00:12:37we used to have 30 or 40 officers coming to see us on your saint's day.
00:12:42The house was full of noise.
00:12:45Today, there are one and a half persons, and it's as silent as a desert.
00:12:53I'll go.
00:12:54I'm feeling sad today, and you mustn't listen to me.
00:12:58We'll talk again later, but au revoir for the moment.
00:13:02I'll go away somewhere.
00:13:04How naughty you are, Marsha.
00:13:05I understand you, Marsha.
00:13:08When a man philosophizes, that would be philosophy or sophistry.
00:13:14But when it's a woman or two women, it's gibberish.
00:13:18What do you mean by that, you terrible, frightening man?
00:13:20Nothing.
00:13:22Before he had time to say, oh, the bear had laid him low.
00:13:25Oh, don't snivel.
00:13:27Here, my name.
00:13:28Come in.
00:13:29The boots are clean.
00:13:31From the local council.
00:13:33From Pratapopov.
00:13:34Michail Ivanić.
00:13:35A cake?
00:13:37Oh, thank you.
00:13:37Tell him I'm very grateful.
00:13:39What did you say?
00:13:40Tell him I thank him.
00:13:42Janja, dear.
00:13:43Give him some cake.
00:13:44Theropont, you can go.
00:13:46You'll get some cake.
00:13:47What was that?
00:13:48Go along, Theropont Styridonich.
00:13:51Go along.
00:13:54I don't like that Pratapopov.
00:13:56That Michail Ivanić or Potapic or whatever it is.
00:13:59He ought not to be invited here.
00:14:01I didn't invite him.
00:14:02Oh, well, that's all right.
00:14:04Oh, no.
00:14:05Oh, Anna.
00:14:06Do the one.
00:14:06A saddle.
00:14:07Oh, no.
00:14:08This is quite dreadful.
00:14:10Ivan Romanich, you are past friends.
00:14:12What did I tell you?
00:14:13What are you doing?
00:14:15My dear one.
00:14:15My sweet one.
00:14:17You're all I have.
00:14:18You're the ones I cherish most of this world.
00:14:20I'm an old man.
00:14:21A useless, lonely old man.
00:14:23There's nothing good about me except my love for you.
00:14:25And if it had not been for you, I should not have been long for this world, my dear one.
00:14:28My sweet one.
00:14:29I've loved you from the day you were born.
00:14:31I carried you in my arms.
00:14:33I loved your mama.
00:14:34But why such extravagant presents?
00:14:36Oh, get along with your extravagant presents, indeed.
00:14:38Put this umbrella over there!
00:14:40Extravagant presents, indeed.
00:14:53Oh, my dear.
00:14:55There's a strange colonel who's arrived.
00:14:58He's taken his coat off already.
00:15:00It's coming straight in.
00:15:01It will be very sweet.
00:15:02Now, Irene, you should have been nice to him and polite.
00:15:06Oh, it's time to have lunch and see you.
00:15:09Oh, God!
00:15:17Colonel Vershinin.
00:15:20My confidence.
00:15:23Vershinin.
00:15:24How very glad I am to be here with you at last.
00:15:28Just look at you all.
00:15:30Hi, hi, hi.
00:15:31Please sit down.
00:15:32We're delighted.
00:15:33How glad I am.
00:15:34How glad.
00:15:34But there were three of you.
00:15:36I remember so well.
00:15:38I remember so well.
00:15:38Three girls.
00:15:39I don't remember the faces, but I know that your father, Colonel Proserov, had three young girls.
00:15:43I remember it well and saw them with my own eyes.
00:15:47How time flies.
00:15:49Oh, how it flies.
00:15:52Alexander Ignacevich comes from Moscow.
00:15:55You come from Moscow?
00:15:57Yes.
00:15:57From Moscow.
00:15:58From Moscow.
00:15:59From Moscow.
00:16:00Ola!
00:16:00When your father was battery commander there, I was an officer in the same brigade.
00:16:06I seem to remember your face.
00:16:08I think.
00:16:11I don't remember you.
00:16:13Ola!
00:16:14Ola!
00:16:15Ola!
00:16:16Ola!
00:16:16Ola!
00:16:17Ola!
00:16:17Ola!
00:16:17Colonel Vershinin comes from Moscow!
00:16:19Ola!
00:16:19Ola!
00:16:21You must be old, Sergeyevich, the eldest.
00:16:24You are Maria.
00:16:26And you are Irina the youngest.
00:16:27You come from Moscow?
00:16:29Yes.
00:16:30I studied in Moscow and began my service in Moscow and stayed there for a long time.
00:16:34Then, at last, became battery commander here.
00:16:38Here I am.
00:16:40As you see.
00:16:42I don't really remember you.
00:16:44I only know that there were three of you.
00:16:46But your father remained so clear in my memory.
00:16:49I have only to shut my eyes and I see him now.
00:16:52Oh.
00:16:55I used to come to your house in Moscow.
00:16:57I thought I remembered them all and now suddenly...
00:17:00My name is Aleksandr Ignatievich.
00:17:03No?
00:17:04So you're from Moscow, Aleksandr Ignatievich.
00:17:06What is the price?
00:17:07We're moving there, you know.
00:17:08Yes.
00:17:09We hope to be there in the autumn.
00:17:10It's our home town, you see.
00:17:11We were born there in Bazmania Street.
00:17:13Bazmania?
00:17:14Yes.
00:17:14Oh.
00:17:14Now I remember.
00:17:17The lovesick major.
00:17:19Oh.
00:17:19Do you remember, Aleksandr?
00:17:20That's what we used to call him.
00:17:22You were only a captain then and you were in love with someone.
00:17:25We teased you and called you major.
00:17:28I don't know how.
00:17:30Yes, that's right.
00:17:31The lovesick major.
00:17:32Yes, that's right.
00:17:33You only had a mustache then.
00:17:35You look so much older.
00:17:39How much older?
00:17:42Yes.
00:17:43When you called me the lovesick major, I was young.
00:17:46I was in love.
00:17:48It's all different now.
00:17:50Oh, but you've hardly a single grey hair.
00:17:52You may have grown older, but you're not really old.
00:17:56Well, I'm no longer young.
00:18:00How long is it since you left Moscow?
00:18:02Eleven years.
00:18:02Yes.
00:18:03Marsha, why are you crying?
00:18:05Oh, it's nothing.
00:18:07Whereabouts did you live?
00:18:09On the old Bazmania street.
00:18:11Oh, so did we.
00:18:12For a time I lived on the Nyemetskaya.
00:18:15From there I would go to the Crimson Barracks.
00:18:17There's a gloomy bridge there with the water rushing noisily under it.
00:18:20It made a lonely man for you very sad.
00:18:24Hear how beautiful and wide the river is.
00:18:27Such a rich river.
00:18:28Yes, but it's cold.
00:18:30It's cold here and there are mosquitoes.
00:18:32No, no, you're wrong.
00:18:34The climate here is so good, so healthy a real slav climate.
00:18:37Woods and the river and birches too.
00:18:40Dear modest birches.
00:18:42I love them more than any other tree in the world.
00:18:44It must be so good.
00:18:47The only odd thing is that the station is so far away.
00:18:50Twenty versts and nobody seems to know why.
00:18:53I know why.
00:18:56Because if the station were near, it wouldn't be far.
00:18:59And since it is far, it can't be near.
00:19:03Always ready with a little joke, aren't you, Vassili, Vassili.
00:19:06Now I too remember you.
00:19:08Yes, I do.
00:19:09I knew your mother.
00:19:11That good woman she was, may her soul rest in peace.
00:19:13Mama is buried in Moscow.
00:19:15In the Novo Davici convent.
00:19:17Would you believe it, I'm already beginning to forget her face.
00:19:21It'll be the same with us.
00:19:23We won't be remembered.
00:19:25Just forgotten.
00:19:27Yes.
00:19:29Forgotten.
00:19:30Such is our fate.
00:19:31There is nothing we can do about it.
00:19:34Oh, please.
00:19:36The things that appear to us to be serious, significant, important will in time be forgotten or seem unimportant.
00:19:43And what is interesting is that we are quite unable to realize at this moment which things will be valuable
00:19:49and momentous and which things will be ridiculous and pathetic.
00:19:53Didn't the discoveries of Copernicus or even of Columbus appear at first useless and ridiculous, while some trifling rubbish written
00:20:00by a crank seem to be truth itself?
00:20:03And it may well be that this present life of ours to which we are so resigned will in time
00:20:08appear strange, uncomfortable, unintelligent, not pure enough.
00:20:13Maybe even sinful.
00:20:14Oh, who knows?
00:20:16Perhaps our life will be honored and remembered with respect.
00:20:20But after all, we have no tortures or executions or invasions nowadays.
00:20:25So much suffering.
00:20:26So much suffering.
00:20:30If a Baron could do without food, if only you let him philosophize.
00:20:33Silly Basilic, I do beg you to leave me in peace.
00:20:36So boring, really.
00:20:41This suffering, which we are witnessing now, and how much of it there is, it does prove that our society
00:20:47has achieved a certain degree of moral fiber.
00:20:50Yes.
00:20:51Of course, of course.
00:20:53You've just said, Baron, that our life may be praised to the skies, but people are small, no matter what
00:20:57you say.
00:20:58Look how small I am.
00:20:59When you tell me my life can be noble and exalted, you're just trying to cheer me up, aren't you?
00:21:05That is our brother, Andre.
00:21:08He's a scientist.
00:21:09He will be a professor soon.
00:21:11Papa was a soldier, but his son chose to be a scientist.
00:21:13Which is what Papa wanted.
00:21:15We've been teasing him today.
00:21:17He thinks he's fallen in love.
00:21:19Yes, with a young local girl.
00:21:20She's coming to see us today.
00:21:21The way she dresses.
00:21:23It isn't that it's just ugly or old-fashioned.
00:21:26It's simply pathetic.
00:21:27She puts on a weird yellow skirt with a vulgar little fringe.
00:21:31And a red blouse.
00:21:33And her cheeks are so utterly scrumpt.
00:21:35So scrumpt.
00:21:37Andre's not in love with her.
00:21:38I can't believe it.
00:21:39He's got too much taste with her.
00:21:41I heard yesterday she was to marry Brother Popple.
00:21:45He's the chairman of the local council.
00:21:47And he's just right for her.
00:21:51Andruska!
00:21:54Will you come in just for a moment, darling?
00:21:56Colonel Veshinin.
00:21:58The new battery commander.
00:22:03This is my brother, Andre Sergeyevich.
00:22:07Veshinin.
00:22:08Prozorov.
00:22:10You're our new battery commander.
00:22:12Just fancy Alexander Ignatich comes from Moscow.
00:22:16Oh, is that so?
00:22:17Well, good luck to you.
00:22:19My sisters won't give you any peace from now on.
00:22:22Oh, I've managed to bore them already.
00:22:24Look what a pretty frame Andre gave me today.
00:22:27He made it himself.
00:22:28Oh, yes.
00:22:29Very nice.
00:22:30He also made this one on the piano.
00:22:32He's a scientist.
00:22:33Plays the violin and does carpentry in a word of versatile talent.
00:22:39Andre, don't go.
00:22:40He has a terrible habit of always going away.
00:22:42Come here.
00:22:43Come back, Andruska.
00:22:46Why are you so touchy today?
00:22:49We used to call Alexander Ignatich the lovesick major once upon a time,
00:22:53and he wasn't at all, actually.
00:22:54Not at all.
00:22:54So I'm going to call you the lovesick...
00:22:56Oh, the lovesick professor.
00:22:57Steve in love.
00:22:59Oh, I say you stop it.
00:23:00Oh, nature has created us for love, for love.
00:23:03Stop it.
00:23:03Please stop it.
00:23:04That's enough.
00:23:07Sorry.
00:23:10I didn't sleep all night.
00:23:11I'm not at my best, as they say.
00:23:15I read until four and lay down, but all in vain.
00:23:20I thought of this and that, and then it was dawn with the sun pouring into my bedroom.
00:23:25I want to translate a book from the English during the summer while I'm here.
00:23:29You can read English.
00:23:30Oh.
00:23:30Oh.
00:23:31Yes.
00:23:32Our father, may he rest in peace, bullied us into learning.
00:23:36It's a funny...
00:23:38Oh, it's a silly thing to say, but since his death I've begun to put on weight.
00:23:41Oh.
00:23:42I've grown fat in one year.
00:23:44It's as if my body had freed itself from all that browbeating.
00:23:51Well, thanks to father, my sisters and I know French, German, English, and Irina also has some Italian.
00:24:00But what it cost him?
00:24:01To know three languages in this town is an unnecessary luxury.
00:24:06Not even a luxury, but a useless appendage like a sixth finger.
00:24:11We have a lot of superfluous knowledge.
00:24:14How can you say that?
00:24:17A lot of superfluous knowledge?
00:24:21I don't believe there could be a town, however tedious or dismal, where an intelligent, educated person would be superfluous.
00:24:28Let us say that there are a hundred thousand people in this town, a backward and uncouth place, of course,
00:24:34and that there are only three people like yourself.
00:24:38It is obvious that you cannot conquer the dark mass that surrounds you in your own lifetime.
00:24:45Gradually, you'll have to surrender and get lost in the crowd.
00:24:48Life will stifle you, but you won't disappear.
00:24:55Your influence will remain.
00:24:59After you, there will appear perhaps six people like you, then twelve, and so on, until at last, people like
00:25:05you will become the majority.
00:25:08In two or three hundred years, life on this earth will be unbelievably beautiful.
00:25:16Wonderful.
00:25:20Ah.
00:25:23But that is the sort of life man needs.
00:25:27And though it isn't here yet, he must foresee it.
00:25:32Expect it.
00:25:34Dream about it.
00:25:35Prepare himself for it.
00:25:39But to do that, he must be able to see and know more than his father and grandfather were able
00:25:44to see and know.
00:25:47And you complain of having too much knowledge.
00:26:01I'll stay to lunch.
00:26:04You should have written all this down.
00:26:06In two or three hundred years' time, you say life will be beautiful.
00:26:10Wonderful, that is true.
00:26:11But to participate in it now, even from afar, one must prepare oneself for it.
00:26:14One must work.
00:26:15Yes.
00:26:15Yes.
00:26:16Yes.
00:26:19What beautiful flowers you have here.
00:26:21And such pleasant rooms, I envy you.
00:26:23All my life I've hung about in pokey little places with two chairs, a sofa, and stoves that were all
00:26:29smoking.
00:26:30That's the sort of thing I've missed all my life.
00:26:33Flowers like this.
00:26:37Well, that's how it is.
00:26:40Yes.
00:26:40Yes, one must work.
00:26:42Yes.
00:26:44I suppose you're saying to yourself he's an emotional German.
00:26:48But I am Russian.
00:26:49I don't even speak German.
00:26:50My father is of the Orthodox faith.
00:26:54I often wonder what it would be like to start like anew with full awareness, so that one life, which
00:26:59is over, would be, so to speak, a rough draft, and the next one, the final version.
00:27:05In that case, I think each of us would try not to repeat himself, would create at least a new
00:27:10background.
00:27:11A place like this, with flowers and a lot of light.
00:27:16I have a wife, two daughters, but my wife is a sick woman, and so on and so forth.
00:27:27Well, if I were to begin life again, I wouldn't have married.
00:27:31No, no, no.
00:27:33How old you do, everybody?
00:27:34My dear sister, let me congratulate you on your saint's day and wish you with all my heart the best
00:27:40of health and all that one can wish to a girl of your age.
00:27:43And also, present you with this little book.
00:27:45It is the history of our school for the last 50 years.
00:27:48Written by me.
00:27:49A trifling, silly little book written because of nothing better to do.
00:27:51But we did all the same.
00:27:53How do you do, everybody?
00:27:55Call Egan.
00:27:55Teacher in the local school.
00:27:57Member of the local council.
00:27:58There she is.
00:27:59You will find in this book a list of all those who left the school in the last 50 years.
00:28:06But you already gave me this book for Easter.
00:28:09Is it possible?
00:28:11In that case, give it back to me.
00:28:13Or even better, give it to the colonel.
00:28:15Take it, colonel.
00:28:16You might read it one day when you're bored.
00:28:19All of my dear.
00:28:20I'm extremely glad to have made your acquaintance.
00:28:22You're going?
00:28:23Oh, no.
00:28:23Please, you must stay tonight.
00:28:25Yes, please do.
00:28:26But I find myself unexpectedly at a saint's day party.
00:28:28Forgive me, I didn't know and I didn't congratulate you.
00:28:31Today, my friends, is a Sunday, a day of rest.
00:28:33So let us rest and make merry in accordance with our respective years and position.
00:28:38Masha loves me.
00:28:39My wife loves me.
00:28:41Oh, I'm cheerful today.
00:28:42I'm in a good mood.
00:28:43Masha, we're going to the director today at four o'clock.
00:28:46There's going to be an outing for the teachers and their families.
00:28:48I won't go.
00:28:48Dear Masha, why?
00:28:49We'll talk about it later.
00:28:50But we've been invited.
00:28:51Oh, very well, I'll go.
00:28:53Only leave me in peace now, please.
00:28:55I'd rather spend the evening at the director's.
00:28:57In spite of the state of his health, that man tries above all to be sociable.
00:29:01He's an excellent, an enlightened character.
00:29:03A splendid man.
00:29:04Yesterday, after the council meeting, he said to me,
00:29:06I'm tired.
00:29:07You're illich.
00:29:08I'm tired.
00:29:08Ah, your clock is seven minutes fast.
00:29:10Yes, he said.
00:29:11I'm tired.
00:29:12You people are all coming to lunch.
00:29:14There's a meat pie.
00:29:15Meat pie.
00:29:15Meat pie.
00:29:16Wonderful.
00:29:17Now, just one thing.
00:29:18You'll not have anything to drink today, if you hear me back.
00:29:20Oh, but my dear lady, I'm purposely all right.
00:29:22Now, it's two years.
00:29:22All the same, don't you dare have anything to drink.
00:29:25Don't you dare.
00:29:26Might have to spend another boring evening at the director's.
00:29:29Oh, I wouldn't go if I would do.
00:29:31It's quite simple.
00:29:32Don't go.
00:29:32Don't go, darling.
00:29:33Don't go, don't go.
00:29:34It's easy enough to say.
00:29:36What a damned unbearable life.
00:29:38Now, now.
00:29:39Let's sink on.
00:29:44Ah, that's quite enough.
00:29:48That's quite enough.
00:29:49chairman.
00:29:50There you go.
00:29:51You're a little bit.
00:29:53I'm a teacher and in this house I'm one of the family.
00:29:55Marsha's husband.
00:29:56She's kind.
00:29:57Very kind.
00:30:00I'll have some of that dark vodka.
00:30:02I feel so happy here.
00:30:04Your health.
00:30:07Marsha's out of thoughts today.
00:30:10You see, she married when she was 18, when he seemed to her the cleverest of men.
00:30:15When I was different, he's the kindest, but not the cleverest of men.
00:30:19Andre, aren't you ever coming?
00:30:21Coming, Carol.
00:30:23Carol.
00:30:26What are you thinking about?
00:30:29Nothing, ma.
00:30:32I don't like this Stallone of yours.
00:30:35I'm not afraid of him. He talks such nonsense.
00:30:37Yes, he's a strange man.
00:30:40Oh, I feel sorry for him.
00:30:41He does annoy me at times, but I feel more sorry than annoyed.
00:30:45I think he must be shy.
00:30:46You know, when we're alone together, he can be most intelligent and friendly,
00:30:49but in company, he gets coarse and quals.
00:30:52Don't go yet.
00:30:55Let them sit down.
00:30:57Let me stay with you for a little while.
00:31:04What are you thinking about?
00:31:09You are 20, and I'm not yet 30.
00:31:17How many years we have in front of us.
00:31:19A long, long line of days all filled with my love.
00:31:23Nicolae Lovovitch, don't talk to me about love.
00:31:28I have a desperate desire to love, and to fight, and to work.
00:31:33This desire is mingled with my love for you, Irina.
00:31:38It so happens you are beautiful.
00:31:41Therefore, life seems beautiful.
00:31:47What are you thinking about?
00:31:51You say life is beautiful.
00:31:55Yes, but what if it only seems to be so?
00:31:59For us three, life has not yet been beautiful.
00:32:01It has stifled us like ugly weeds.
00:32:05Stifle flowers in the garden.
00:32:07Crime.
00:32:09It's a crime.
00:32:12What must work is, work, it's because we don't know what work is,
00:32:16that we are sad and look upon life so gloomily.
00:32:18You see, we were born of people who had nothing but contempt for work.
00:32:22Exactly.
00:32:27I started lunch already.
00:32:29I'm late.
00:32:32Dear Irina Sergeyevna, my congratulations.
00:32:37You have so many visitors, I feel quite embarrassed.
00:32:40How do you do, Baron?
00:32:41Yes, Natalia, you bother.
00:32:43How do you do, my dear?
00:32:47Once more congratulations.
00:32:50There are so many visitors, I do feel terribly embarrassed.
00:32:54You shouldn't feel embarrassed.
00:32:56It's only, old friend.
00:32:58Dear, a green bell.
00:33:00It's quite wrong.
00:33:01Why?
00:33:01Is there some superstition about it?
00:33:03No, no.
00:33:04It's just a little, um, wrong.
00:33:07Somehow, uh, odd.
00:33:09Really?
00:33:11Well, it's not so berry green.
00:33:13It's rather a tasteful shade.
00:33:15Do look.
00:33:20May I use this, please?
00:33:21The Tali-Ban of Colonel Bishy.
00:33:23I'm very happy to meet you.
00:33:25I met her.
00:33:27I wish you a nice future husband, Irina.
00:33:29Time for you to marry.
00:33:32Natalia Ivanovna, I wish you a fiancé, too.
00:33:34Natalia Ivanovna already has a fiancé, eh?
00:33:42I'm going to drink some wine.
00:33:44Good for you, master, my darling.
00:33:46To our jolly life.
00:33:48Nunc est vivendum.
00:33:49Come what may.
00:33:52Oh, man.
00:33:53Get a bad mark for conduct.
00:33:56Well.
00:34:06Um, this is delicious.
00:34:08What is it flavoured with?
00:34:09Cockroaches.
00:34:13We're having roast turkey and apple pie for supper.
00:34:16Thank God I'm at home all day.
00:34:18In the evening, too.
00:34:19Please all come this evening.
00:34:21May I come, too?
00:34:22Oh, please do, Colonel.
00:34:24They're not fussy in this house.
00:34:33For nature has created us for love, for love.
00:34:37Stop all this.
00:34:37Aren't you tired of it?
00:34:39It's our lunching already.
00:34:41Aren't you?
00:34:42Oh, yes.
00:34:45There we see.
00:34:47Oh, no.
00:34:48Everyone look this way, please.
00:34:50Everybody look this way.
00:34:55One more, please.
00:35:00Irina, thank you.
00:35:02It's quite splendid.
00:35:04I've been walking all the morning with me boys.
00:35:07I'm sportsmaster at school.
00:35:08You may move, Irina, thank you.
00:35:10You may move.
00:35:11You're looking very attractive today.
00:35:13I've bought a musical top for you, by the way.
00:35:16It makes a wonderful sound.
00:35:18Listen, everyone.
00:35:19Listen to this.
00:35:28I've never had one with three chords like this.
00:35:34Green oak tree beside the main, and on that oak, golden chip.
00:35:41Why do I keep saying that?
00:35:43It's been going through my mind all the morning.
00:35:46The wise old cat to it attached goes round and round as if you wish.
00:35:54We are 13 at the table.
00:35:56Do you, do you really attach any more?
00:35:59It's not superstition, my friend.
00:36:01If it's not 13 at the table, it means that somebody is in love.
00:36:06Would it be you, Ivan Romanek?
00:36:08God bless her.
00:36:10I know I'm an old sinner, but why Natalia Ivanovna has blushed that I cannot understand?
00:36:16I know I'm a good man.
00:36:19Please, please, don't do it.
00:36:21Please, don't do it.
00:36:21Come on, please.
00:36:22Please, wait.
00:36:23It is so a shame.
00:36:25What's happening?
00:36:26They're all teasing me.
00:36:29I know it's bad manners to get up from the table as I'd be just nuts.
00:36:32But I can't.
00:36:33Please, my dearest.
00:36:34I beg you, I'm for you.
00:36:35Don't be upset.
00:36:35I assure you, they're only joking.
00:36:38They're teasing you in a perfectly good-natured way.
00:36:41Oh, my dearest, my sweet one, they're all good, kind people.
00:36:45They're fond of both of us.
00:36:47Come over here where they can't see us.
00:36:49I'm so unaccustomed to social gatherings.
00:36:53Oh, youth.
00:36:54Wonderful, beautiful youth.
00:36:56Oh, my dearest, my sweet one, please, don't be upset.
00:37:00Believe me, believe me, I feel so happy.
00:37:03My soul is full of love, of ecstasy.
00:37:08They don't see us, they can't.
00:37:10No.
00:37:13Why, oh, why did I fall in love with you when I did?
00:37:17I don't understand anything.
00:37:19My dearest, my darling, my pure one, be my wife.
00:37:29I love you.
00:37:33I love you as I've never loved before.
00:37:42Oh, thank you.
00:37:43Happy birthday.
00:37:44There we are.
00:37:46Oh, the boys!
00:37:49Here they come.
00:37:50What?
00:37:51What?
00:37:52What?
00:37:53No!
00:37:57Oh, the boys, there we are.
00:37:59Oh, the boys.
00:37:59My, the boys,ty...
00:38:04Oh, the boys.
00:38:05Oh, ah, my, the boys!
00:38:08Oh, ah, my, the boys, oh.
00:38:15Oh, my.
00:38:16Oh, my, the boys don't think it was innovation.
00:38:19Oh, my, the boys, if we realization to.
00:38:23Oh, my boy, the girls don't know anything about it.
00:38:23Ah, my boy.
00:38:34Andrusia? What are you doing, Andrusia?
00:38:42It's nothing. I just wanted to see there were no unnecessary lights.
00:38:45What is it, Natasha?
00:38:47I was just seeing about the lights.
00:38:49It's carnival week. The serpents are all in the states
00:38:52so one's got to keep one's eyes open to see that nothing happens.
00:38:55Well, last night, at midnight, I was going through the dining room
00:38:58and there was a candle, a light on the table.
00:39:01I couldn't even get anyone to tell me who this is.
00:39:04What is the time?
00:39:07What do I think?
00:39:09Neither Olga nor Irina are home yet.
00:39:12They aren't back from work, driving themselves hard, the poor girl.
00:39:16Olga at the teacher's meeting, Irina at the telegraph office.
00:39:19Well, this morning I said to your sister,
00:39:22take care of yourself, Irina, darling.
00:39:26Oh, she won't listen.
00:39:28You say it's a quarter past eight?
00:39:30Yes.
00:39:33I'm afraid Bobby gets not at all well.
00:39:36Oh, why is he so cold?
00:39:39Yesterday he had a temperature
00:39:41and today he's icy cold from head to foot.
00:39:44I'm so afraid.
00:39:45It's nothing, Natasha. The boy's all right.
00:39:47Still, it's better that he stays on a diet.
00:39:50Well, I'm afraid for him.
00:39:52Also, they tell me that some of the carnival people are coming here at about ten.
00:39:58It's better that they shouldn't come, Andrusia.
00:40:01I don't think I can do anything about it.
00:40:04They were invited after all.
00:40:06The child woke up this morning, looked at me and suddenly smiled.
00:40:11He must have recognized me.
00:40:14I said to him,
00:40:15Good morning, Bobby.
00:40:17Good morning, my little boy.
00:40:19And he kept on smiling.
00:40:22The children understand.
00:40:23I assure you, they understand perfectly.
00:40:28So, I'll go and tell the servants that the carnival people shouldn't be allowed in.
00:40:34That is for the sisters to decide.
00:40:37They are the mistresses here after all.
00:40:42I'll tell them too.
00:40:44Kindly.
00:40:47I ordered some sour milk for supper.
00:40:50The doctor says you ought to eat nothing but sour milk, or you'll never get any dinner.
00:40:55Oh, Bobby feels so cold.
00:40:58I'm afraid he may be too cold in his room.
00:41:00He ought to be moved into another room, at least until the warm weather settles in.
00:41:04For instance, Irina's room.
00:41:08Now, that's just right for a child.
00:41:11It's dry and sunny all day long.
00:41:15I must tell her.
00:41:17She can sleep for a time in the same room as Olga.
00:41:21Anyway, she's never at home during the day.
00:41:24Only at night.
00:41:28Andrusha, darling.
00:41:30Why don't you say something?
00:41:37I was thinking about something.
00:41:40Anyway, what is there to say?
00:41:44Yes.
00:41:48What was it I wanted to tell you?
00:41:51Oh, yes.
00:41:53Therrapont.
00:41:54He's come from the council office and wants to see you.
00:41:56Tell him to come in.
00:42:03Good evening, old fellow.
00:42:05What have you got for me?
00:42:06The chairman sent a book.
00:42:08And a paper of some kind.
00:42:10Here it is.
00:42:13Why have you come so late?
00:42:15It's past eight o'clock.
00:42:17What did you say?
00:42:18I said you're late.
00:42:19It's gone eight.
00:42:21Oh, yes, sir.
00:42:22I came when it was still light.
00:42:24But they wouldn't let me in.
00:42:26The master's busy, they said.
00:42:28Well, if he's busy, he's busy.
00:42:29I said I'm in no hazard.
00:42:31What did you say?
00:42:33Nothing.
00:42:37It's a holiday tomorrow.
00:42:40Oh, I'll come into the office all of a sudden.
00:42:43Find something to do.
00:42:45Too boring on her.
00:42:46Oh.
00:42:49Dear old man.
00:42:52How deceptive life can be.
00:42:56How abruptly it can change.
00:43:00This morning.
00:43:02Because I had nothing better to do.
00:43:04Out of sheer boredom, I picked up this book.
00:43:07My old university lectures.
00:43:13I couldn't help laughing.
00:43:15Good gracious.
00:43:17I'm secretary of the local council.
00:43:21For that to pop off his chairman.
00:43:24I'm the secretary.
00:43:26All I can hope for is to become a member of that council.
00:43:30I, who dream every night that I'm a professor at the Moscow University.
00:43:36A famous scientist of whom my native land is proud.
00:43:41Sorry.
00:43:42Didn't catch that.
00:43:45Can't hear very well.
00:43:47If you could hear, I probably wouldn't be talking to you.
00:43:51I've got to talk to somebody.
00:43:54My wife doesn't understand me.
00:44:01And for some reason, I'm afraid of my sisters.
00:44:06I'm afraid that they should ridicule me.
00:44:10Make me feel ashamed.
00:44:19I don't drink.
00:44:21I know taverns.
00:44:23But how happy I would be to be sitting now in Teerstoff.
00:44:29In Moscow.
00:44:31Or the great Moscovsky Hotel, my friend.
00:44:34A foreman was telling us in the town hall a few days ago
00:44:37that in Moscow, a group of merchants were eating blinis.
00:44:42And one of them had 40 of them and he's supposed to have died.
00:44:48It was 40 or 50 that he had to come revenge.
00:44:51You sit in a restaurant in Moscow.
00:44:53A big restaurant.
00:44:54You know nobody.
00:44:55Nobody knows you.
00:44:55But you don't feel a stranger.
00:44:57Here.
00:44:58You know everybody.
00:45:00Everybody knows you.
00:45:01But you don't belong.
00:45:09No.
00:45:14No.
00:45:15You are lonely and you don't belong.
00:45:19What was that?
00:45:21Nothing.
00:45:22Nothing.
00:45:24The same foreman said.
00:45:26Maybe he was lying.
00:45:29That an enormous rope is stretched right across Moscow.
00:45:35A rope?
00:45:38What for?
00:45:39I don't know, sir.
00:45:41That's what the foreman said.
00:45:50It's rubbish.
00:45:55Have you ever been to Moscow?
00:45:59No, I haven't.
00:46:01God didn't grant it.
00:46:03It's rubbish.
00:46:09It's rubbish.
00:46:09It's rubbish.
00:46:11It's rubbish.
00:46:13It's rubbish.
00:46:13May I go, sir?
00:46:15Oh, yes.
00:46:16Yes, you may go.
00:46:17Keep well.
00:46:19Keep.
00:46:25You come to collect these papers in the morning.
00:46:29Let's go now.
00:46:32I can't believe it.
00:46:41What a life.
00:46:45Yes, what a life.
00:46:51I don't know.
00:46:52I don't know.
00:46:55I don't know.
00:46:57I suppose a lot depends on habit.
00:47:00For instance, for a long time after father's death, we couldn't get used to not having orderlies.
00:47:07But no, I don't think it is habit.
00:47:09I believe I'm stating a simple fact.
00:47:12It may be different in other places, but in this town, the most decent, educated, civilized people are the military.
00:47:30I was only 18 when I was married.
00:47:35I was afraid of my husband.
00:47:39He was a schoolmaster and I'd only just finished high school myself.
00:47:44He seemed to be then so terribly erudite.
00:47:48Intelligent, important.
00:47:51Alas, it isn't the same now.
00:47:54I see.
00:47:55Oh, I'm not really talking about my husband.
00:47:58I've got used to him.
00:48:00But among civilians in general, there are so many offensive, uneducated people.
00:48:07I'm upset.
00:48:08I feel insulted by vulgarity.
00:48:12I suffer when I find that a man hasn't sufficient subtlety, gentleness, courtesy.
00:48:23When I'm with my husband's colleagues, I really suffer.
00:48:35I really am very thirsty.
00:48:37I would love a glass of tea.
00:48:39It'll be served presently.
00:48:54High-flown ideas are very characteristic of the Russian.
00:48:59But tell me, why does he aim so low in life? Why?
00:49:02Why?
00:49:03Why is he always unhappy with his wife and children?
00:49:07Why are his wife and children unhappy with him?
00:49:11I sound rather depressed today.
00:49:14Maybe.
00:49:18But I haven't eaten anything since this morning.
00:49:21My...
00:49:21daughter is unwell.
00:49:23And when my girls are unwell, I'm overcome with anxiety, eaten up with remorse, because they have such a mother.
00:49:32Oh, if only you could have seen her this morning.
00:49:35What a mediocre person she is.
00:49:38We began to quarrel at seven o'clock. At nine, I banged the door and went away.
00:49:46I never talk about it.
00:49:50And it is strange that it is only to you I can complain.
00:50:08Don't be angry with me.
00:50:11I have no one in the world except you.
00:50:13No one.
00:50:17What a noise this stove makes.
00:50:21Shortly before my father died, the wind howled in the chimney just like that.
00:50:29Are you... superstitious?
00:50:31Yes.
00:50:33That is strange.
00:50:36You are a remarkable, a wonderful woman.
00:50:39Yes, remarkable, wonderful.
00:50:42It is dark here.
00:50:44But I can see your eyes shining.
00:50:54There's more light here.
00:50:58I love.
00:51:03I love.
00:51:09I love.
00:51:10I love.
00:51:15I love your eyes, the way you move, which I see in my dreams.
00:51:18It's a wonderful, remarkable woman.
00:51:20When you say such things to me, I can't help laughing. I don't know why.
00:51:24Even though I'm frightened.
00:51:27Don't say it again, I bet you.
00:51:40Oh, never mind. Go on saying it.
00:51:44What does it matter?
00:51:46What difference does it make?
00:51:49Somebody come and talk about somebody.
00:51:50People always think that I'm German and I don't really know why.
00:51:54Possibly it's my name.
00:51:55I have a triple surname.
00:51:57It is Tusembach Kroener Altschauer.
00:51:59But I am Russian.
00:52:01Orthodox like yourself.
00:52:03There's very little German left in me.
00:52:06Possibly only patience.
00:52:08And the stubbornness with which I pester you.
00:52:11I see you home every evening.
00:52:13I am.
00:52:13And I shall come and see you home from the post office for the next 10 or 20 years.
00:52:19If you haven't sent me packing before then.
00:52:22It's you.
00:52:24How are you?
00:52:27Last I'm home.
00:52:29A woman came just before I left to send a telegram to her brother in Saratov
00:52:33to tell him that her son died today.
00:52:35Only she couldn't remember the address so she just sent it off without one to Saratov.
00:52:40She was crying.
00:52:41For no reason at all, I was rude to her.
00:52:43I've no time for you, I said.
00:52:45So silly of me.
00:52:48The carnival people are coming tonight?
00:52:50Yes.
00:52:52I want to rest. I'm so tired.
00:52:54When you come home from work, you seem such a young, pathetic little thinker.
00:53:01No, I don't like the post office.
00:53:04I don't like it.
00:53:05You've grown thin.
00:53:06And you do look younger too.
00:53:09Somehow like a boy.
00:53:10That's the way she does her hair.
00:53:15Must look for another job.
00:53:18This one doesn't suit me.
00:53:19Somehow it likes everything that I've wanted so much.
00:53:22It's work like poetry.
00:53:26Without any thought behind it.
00:53:30That's the doctor knocking.
00:53:31Answer him, Nikolai Lovovitch.
00:53:33I can't, I'm too tired.
00:53:41You'll be coming at once.
00:53:44Yesterday he and Andre were at the club and again they lost all their money gambling.
00:53:49We really must do something about it.
00:53:50I was told that Andre lost 200 roubles.
00:53:53What can we do?
00:53:55A fortnight ago he lost money.
00:53:58Before that in December.
00:54:01Oh, I wish he'd hurry up and lose it all.
00:54:03Perhaps then we could leave this town.
00:54:05Dear God, I dream of Moscow every night.
00:54:09I feel as if I'm going mad.
00:54:12We're moving there in June in the still.
00:54:16February, March, April, May.
00:54:18Almost half a year.
00:54:20All we can do is to make sure Natasha doesn't find out about it.
00:54:23Oh, I don't think she cares.
00:54:25There he is.
00:54:26Has he paid his rent?
00:54:29No, not a penny for the last eight months.
00:54:31How pompous he looks sitting there.
00:54:38Why are you so silent, Alexander Ignatovich?
00:54:41I don't know.
00:54:42I want some tea.
00:54:45Half a kingdom for a glass of tea.
00:54:50I haven't eaten anything since this morning.
00:54:52What is it?
00:54:54Come over here.
00:54:57Come over here.
00:55:01Come over here.
00:55:01I can't be without you.
00:55:19Well, if we aren't to have any tea,
00:55:23let's philosophize.
00:55:24Yes, let's.
00:55:25What about?
00:55:26What about?
00:55:27Well, the life that will come after us in two or three hundred years.
00:55:31After us, men will fly about in balloons,
00:55:35and suits will be cut in a different fashion.
00:55:37Yes, perhaps the sixth sense will be discovered and developed.
00:55:42But life will be the same as it's always been.
00:55:46A hard life.
00:55:47Full of mystery and happiness.
00:55:51And even in a thousand years, man will still go on sighing.
00:55:54Oh, how hard life can be.
00:55:58And at the same time, just as now, he'll be afraid of death.
00:56:04He won't want to die.
00:56:10Let me think.
00:56:11If you ask me, everything will gradually change on this earth
00:56:15and is already changing before our eyes.
00:56:17In two or three hundred years, or even a thousand,
00:56:20it doesn't really matter how long,
00:56:22a new happy life will be established.
00:56:25Of course, we won't be part of it, but we do live for it now.
00:56:29Work, yes, and suffer.
00:56:31Building it up.
00:56:33And this alone is the aim of our existence.
00:56:37Happiness will be the reward of our descendants.
00:56:42What's the matter?
00:56:44I don't know.
00:56:47I've been laughing like that since this morning.
00:56:52According to you, one shouldn't even dream of happiness.
00:56:55But what if I am happy?
00:56:57No.
00:56:59It's perfectly clear that we don't understand one another.
00:57:01Now, how can I convince you?
00:57:05Go on, laugh.
00:57:07But not in two or three hundred years.
00:57:10But even in a million years.
00:57:12Life will be the same as it's always been.
00:57:14It doesn't change.
00:57:15It's constant.
00:57:16It follows its own rules which don't concern us,
00:57:18or at least which we'll never learn about.
00:57:20All the same, the meaning.
00:57:22The meaning?
00:57:24Look, it's snowing.
00:57:26What's the meaning of that?
00:57:28One must know what one is living for.
00:57:31Otherwise, everything is nonsense.
00:57:33It's not worth a stroll.
00:57:41All the same, it is a pity that youth has gone by.
00:57:46Today is the third place.
00:57:46Uh-huh.
00:57:46Uh-huh.
00:57:51Goagle said how tedious it is to live in this world, my friend.
00:57:55I say, what a task it is to argue with you, my friends, to hell with you.
00:58:01Balzac was married in Berdychev.
00:58:04Ha!
00:58:05I must put that down in my book.
00:58:11Balzac was married in Berdychev. Balzac was married in Berdychev.
00:58:18A nice cast. Did you know, Maria Sergierna, I've handed in my resignation?
00:58:23I heard about it. I don't see that any good can come of it. I don't like civilians.
00:58:30Oh, never mind. I'm not even good-looking. What sort of soldier do I make?
00:58:37Well, never mind anyway. I'll work.
00:58:39I'll work at least one day in my life so that I can come home in the evening and drop
00:58:43into bed exhausted,
00:58:45fall asleep at once.
00:58:49Workmen probably sleep like logs.
00:58:51I've just bought you these crayons from Pitsikoff's in the Moskovskaya, and this little penknife.
00:58:57Still treat me like a little girl, but I'm grown up, you know.
00:59:01I also bought one for myself. Look at it.
00:59:03It has one blade and another, and it has one for cleaning your ears, another for cleaning your nails.
00:59:11Doctor, how old are you?
00:59:13Me, 32.
00:59:15I'll show you another patience when you finish this.
00:59:19Heavens, what a wind.
00:59:23Yes.
00:59:25I'm tired of the winter.
00:59:28I've almost forgotten what summer was like.
00:59:31Marsha, my dear, come and have your tea.
00:59:33Oh, bring it here, Nanya. I won't go there.
00:59:39Please, Your Honor. Forgive me, sir. I've forgotten your names.
00:59:44Nanya.
00:59:45Coming.
00:59:47Breastfed babies understand everything.
00:59:50I say to him, good morning, Bobic. Good morning, my little boy.
00:59:55And he looks at me in a special way.
00:59:59Oh, you probably think that it is the mother in me speaking.
01:00:02But no, no, I assure you, he is a remarkable child.
01:00:07If that child were mine, I would have it grilled in a pan and eat it.
01:00:17Such a rude, uneducated man.
01:00:26Happy people don't notice whether it's summer or winter.
01:00:31If I lived in Moscow, I wouldn't care what the weather was like.
01:00:37I've been reading recently the diary of a French cabinet minister written in prison.
01:00:44He had been found guilty in the Panama Canal affair.
01:00:50With what ecstasy and delight he speaks of the birds which he sees from his cell window
01:00:56and which he never noticed before.
01:01:01Now, of course, being free once more, he doesn't notice the bird.
01:01:08In the same way you won't notice Moscow when you live in it.
01:01:13We have no happiness and won't ever have any.
01:01:16All we do is wish for it.
01:01:19Where are the sweets?
01:01:21Hello, Leighton.
01:01:22What, all of them?
01:01:22A letter for you, sir.
01:01:23For me.
01:01:26From my daughter.
01:01:34Yes.
01:01:35Of course.
01:01:40Forgive me, Maria Sergeyevna.
01:01:41If I slip away quietly, I won't stay for tea.
01:01:45These eternal dramas.
01:01:47What is it?
01:01:49May I know?
01:01:55My wife has tried to take poison again.
01:01:57I'll go without disturbing anyone.
01:02:00It's all so dreadfully unpleasant.
01:02:04Dearest.
01:02:06Wonderful, wonderful moment.
01:02:10I'll sleep away quietly.
01:02:16Now, where's he gone just as I brought the tea?
01:02:19What a strange man.
01:02:22Oh, get out of the way and stop pestering me.
01:02:24I'm sick to death of you.
01:02:26You old nuisance.
01:02:27What are you?
01:02:27You should care to you about, Marcia.
01:02:29Oh, come on.
01:02:29Let somebody sit down spreading the cards all over the table.
01:02:32You're a spitfire, Marcia.
01:02:34Well, if I'm a spitfire, don't talk to me and don't touch me.
01:02:36Don't touch her.
01:02:37Don't touch her.
01:02:37Oh, you.
01:02:38You're over 60.
01:02:39Babble away like a little schoolboy.
01:02:41Nobody ever knows what the hell you're talking about.
01:02:43Oh, Marcia, dear.
01:02:45Why use such expressions?
01:02:47With your beautiful appearance, you could be, if I may say so, quite fascinating in decent society,
01:02:54if it were not for your manner of speaking.
01:02:58Je vous prie, pardonnez-moi, Marie, mais vous avez des manières un peu grossières.
01:03:05Oh, monsieur.
01:03:06I'm amazed.
01:03:07There's some more bread.
01:03:09Il paraît que mon Bobby déjà ne dort pas.
01:03:12He's awake.
01:03:15He's not been very well today.
01:03:18I shall go to him.
01:03:22Where did the colonel go?
01:03:24He's gone home.
01:03:26He's got some peculiar trouble with his wife again.
01:03:35Oh, Marcia, darling.
01:03:36Let's make peace, shall we?
01:03:45Let's have some brandy.
01:03:49I should probably have to play the piano all night.
01:03:51Nothing but rubbish.
01:03:53I expect...
01:03:53Why make peace?
01:03:55I'll never quarrel with you.
01:03:58You always give the impression there's something...
01:04:02...something wrong in between.
01:04:06You have a strange nature, I must admit.
01:04:08I may be strange, but who is not?
01:04:13Alieko Kerr Bureau.
01:04:16Pushkin.
01:04:17Yes.
01:04:18Yes, jeez.
01:04:21What's Alieko got to do with it?
01:04:30I'm all right when I'm alone with someone.
01:04:32I'm just like everybody else.
01:04:34But as soon as there's a crowd round me, I'm gloomy, shy...
01:04:37...and to talk absolute rubbish.
01:04:39All the same, I'm more honest and straightforward than most.
01:04:42And I can prove it.
01:04:45I'm often cross with you.
01:04:48You will keep pestering me when we're in front of the others.
01:04:56For all that, for some reason, I...
01:05:00...I like you.
01:05:11I'm going to get drunk tonight.
01:05:13Let's have some more brandy, shall we?
01:05:15Let's.
01:05:19I've never had anything against you, Baron.
01:05:23But I have the nature of Lermontov.
01:05:26People say I'm even a little like Lermontov.
01:05:30Poet.
01:05:31Duelist.
01:05:34I've handed in my resignation.
01:05:37Buster!
01:05:38I've been hesitating about it for five years...
01:05:41...and now I've made up my mind.
01:05:44I'm going to work.
01:05:45I am going to work.
01:05:48Forget your dreams.
01:05:49The meal was in true Caucasian style.
01:05:52Onion soup followed by Chekotmar as a meat dish.
01:05:56Chekotmar isn't meat. It's a vegetable like our onion.
01:05:59No, my angel. Chekotmar is not an onion.
01:06:01It's a meat like our mutton.
01:06:02And I tell you that Chekotmar is onion.
01:06:04And I tell you that Chekotmar is mutton.
01:06:06And I tell you that Chekotmar is onion.
01:06:08And what's the point of arguing with you?
01:06:10You've never been to the Caucasian?
01:06:12You've never eaten Chekotmar?
01:06:13I haven't eaten it because I dislike it.
01:06:15It stinks, that cherub shard, just like onion.
01:06:18Oh, gentlemen, please, I beg on you.
01:06:21What time are the carnival people coming?
01:06:23I promise about nine.
01:06:24They should be here in a minute.
01:06:26Oh, my porch.
01:06:27My porch.
01:06:28My porch.
01:06:28My lovely porch.
01:06:29Made of maple with my porch.
01:06:30Lattice.
01:06:31Lattice.
01:06:32Oh, my porch.
01:06:34Oh, my porch.
01:06:34Oh, my porch.
01:06:35I knew my porch.
01:06:36I knew my lovely porch.
01:06:37Made of maple with my porch.
01:06:39Yes, and lattice for my porch.
01:06:41Hang it all, Andre.
01:06:43Let's get drunk.
01:06:44Let's drink to brotherhood and off we go together to the Moscow University.
01:06:48Which one?
01:06:49There are two.
01:06:52No, there is only one University in Moscow.
01:06:55And I tell you there are two.
01:06:57Well, I don't get it.
01:06:58There are three.
01:06:59All the better.
01:07:00There are two Moscow universities.
01:07:03The old and the new.
01:07:05And if my words irritate you, if you don't wish to listen to me, I can remain silent.
01:07:17I can even go to another room.
01:07:19Bravo.
01:07:21Bravo.
01:07:21Oh, come on, my friend.
01:07:23I'm going to play.
01:07:23You can start.
01:07:25Come on.
01:07:25What a funny old devil.
01:07:27Accelerating.
01:07:29The golden youth.
01:07:31Give way to the remedy.
01:07:33All many weird candles.
01:07:43Buy a darn, come on, come on.
01:07:44Finally I see you.
01:07:45Hi, time on, put them on this door and put them in.
01:07:49You stay for coming here.
01:07:49Enjoy our health?
01:07:50What kind of a poverty thing you have?
01:07:52Let her know please.
01:07:54noche on.
01:07:56Get back!
01:07:57Get back, Jeremiah.
01:07:59Uh, wait.
01:07:59Always.
01:08:03All right. All right. All right.
01:08:15Time to go. Goodbye.
01:08:20Well, time to go.
01:08:24Good night.
01:08:25Wait a minute. What about the carnival people?
01:08:31There won't be any.
01:08:36You see, my dear Natasha says that Bobic is not well, sir.
01:08:40Stop.
01:08:42You guys don't really know and I don't care.
01:08:45Andres. Andres.
01:08:46Bobic is not well.
01:08:48Oh, what does it matter?
01:08:49If we're being thrown out, we may as well go.
01:08:53It isn't Bobic who's not well. It's she. Yeah.
01:08:56Little bourgeois.
01:09:05What a shame. I was looking forward to this evening.
01:09:08But still, the little baby's not well.
01:09:11Tomorrow I'll bring him some toys.
01:09:12Hey, I purposely had a good nap after dinner thinking I'd be dancing all night.
01:09:16Oh, let's get out of this pie.
01:09:19Oh, let's get out of this pie.
01:09:19Oh, it's just even nine o'clock.
01:09:20Well, let's get outside. We can make up our minds what to do out of that.
01:09:24Very good.
01:09:25Well, I don't really know, dear boy, of course.
01:09:28I never got married because life flashed by my life.
01:09:35Also because I was most desperately in love with your mother.
01:09:40Who, after all, was married.
01:09:52One should never marry.
01:09:55Who one shouldn't?
01:09:57Because it is so boring.
01:10:07That is so, of course.
01:10:09On the other hand, there's a loner in them.
01:10:12You can say what you like, my dear boy, but lonerness is a terrible thing.
01:10:16Well, after it really makes much difference.
01:10:18Come on, let's go quickly.
01:10:19Well, sir.
01:10:20You've got plenty of time now.
01:10:21My wife might stop me.
01:10:29I won't play for now.
01:10:31I'll just sit and watch.
01:10:33I don't feel very well.
01:10:36What should I do for breathlessness?
01:10:41Good boy, why ask me?
01:10:42I don't know.
01:10:43I don't remember.
01:10:46Let's go to the kitchen.
01:11:02The carnival people are here.
01:11:07Nanias, say that there's no one at home.
01:11:19Apologize.
01:11:25I am exp Net.
01:11:26Tip to.
01:11:27Tip to.
01:11:34Tip.
01:11:35Tip.
01:11:37Tip.
01:11:44Tip.
01:11:44Tip.
01:11:44Number.
01:11:54No one here?
01:11:58Where have they gone?
01:12:01Gone home.
01:12:03That's great.
01:12:08Are you here alone?
01:12:11Yes.
01:12:24Good night.
01:12:36I behaved in the practice in a stupid way a moment ago, but you aren't like the others.
01:12:43You're pure.
01:12:46You're above them.
01:12:50You're aware of truth.
01:12:53You alone can understand me.
01:12:58I love.
01:13:00I love infinitely and deeply.
01:13:04Couldn't I go to bed?
01:13:07I can't live without you.
01:13:14My goddess.
01:13:17My happiness.
01:13:20Those wonderful, beautiful, incredibly beautiful eyes, as though I've never seen such eyes in a woman before.
01:13:27Stop, Maseelich, Maseelich.
01:13:31If this is the first time I've spoken to you of my love, I feel as though I were on
01:13:35another planet.
01:13:50I don't care about you of my love, and not from this earth.
01:14:06Kill any rival. Oh, my goodness.
01:14:20Andrei's still in there?
01:14:22I'll let him go on reading.
01:14:25Oh, forgive me, Vassili Vassilic. I didn't know you were still there.
01:14:29I'm not suitably dressed.
01:14:31I don't care. Good night.
01:14:42You're tired?
01:14:44Oh, my darling little girl, you should go to bed early.
01:14:49Bobby to sleep?
01:14:50Yes. Oh, but he's rested.
01:14:53Oh, by the way, dear, I've been meaning to speak to you,
01:14:56but either you're not here or else I'm busy.
01:14:59I think that Bobby's present room is cold and damp,
01:15:02and your room is so suitable for a child,
01:15:05dearest.
01:15:07Couldn't you move over to Ola's?
01:15:09Where?
01:15:11You'll share Ola's room for a time,
01:15:13and I'll take your room for Bobby.
01:15:16Oh, he's such a sweet child.
01:15:19I said to him today,
01:15:20Bobby, you're mine, mine.
01:15:23And he sat staring up at me with his little peepers.
01:15:27Oh, Olga, probably.
01:15:30Honly.
01:15:32Hmm?
01:15:38Pratapopo.
01:15:47How odd.
01:15:51Pratapopo has come and asks if I'll go for a ride with him in the Troika.
01:15:56Oh, what strange creatures these men are.
01:16:00There's someone else at the door.
01:16:02Well, maybe I should go for a quarter of an hour's drive.
01:16:10Tell him I'll be down in a moment.
01:16:13There is someone at the door.
01:16:16Oh, Olga, probably.
01:16:23What does this mean?
01:16:24They said they were going to have a party.
01:16:26Very strange.
01:16:27I left not half an hour ago,
01:16:29and they were expecting some people from the carnival.
01:16:31Everybody's gone.
01:16:32Basha, too?
01:16:34Where did she go?
01:16:35Why is Pratapopo waiting downstairs in the Troika?
01:16:39Who is he waiting for?
01:16:40Please stop asking me questions.
01:16:42I'm tired.
01:16:43You're being very difficult.
01:16:48The teachers' meeting's only just ended.
01:16:51I'm exhausted.
01:16:53Our head mistress is ill, and I have to take her place.
01:16:57Oh, my headache.
01:16:59My poor head.
01:17:01Andre lost 200 rubles at cards last night.
01:17:04The whole town's talking about it.
01:17:07Yes.
01:17:09I got tired at the meeting, too.
01:17:16My wife took it into her head to frighten me just now.
01:17:21She almost died of poison.
01:17:27Now it's all over, and I'm happy.
01:17:33Well relieved.
01:17:40Must we really go?
01:17:46Well, let me wish you good night.
01:17:55Fyodor Ilyich.
01:17:57Let's go together somewhere.
01:17:59I can't go back home now.
01:18:01I really can't.
01:18:03Let's go.
01:18:04I'm too tired.
01:18:07No, I can't go out.
01:18:12My wife has gone home.
01:18:15Probably.
01:18:17Good night.
01:18:22Tomorrow and the day after will be days of rest.
01:18:28All the best.
01:18:30I want some tea very badly.
01:18:32I had counted on a pleasant evening and...
01:18:38Ophalachem hominem stem.
01:18:43The accusative case in an exclamation.
01:18:52Well, I'll go by myself then.
01:18:56Good night.
01:18:57Good night.
01:19:14André's lost his money.
01:19:16The whole town's talking about it.
01:19:23I'm going to bed.
01:19:25Tomorrow I've got the day off.
01:19:27God, how wonderful that is.
01:19:30Free tomorrow, free the day after.
01:19:33Oh, my head.
01:19:34My poor head.
01:19:44Everybody's gone.
01:19:47There's nobody left here.
01:19:55I'll be home in half an hour.
01:19:57Just going for a little dry head.
01:20:15Moscow.
01:20:21Moscow.
01:20:26Moscow.
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