- 14 hours ago
First broadcast 8th November 1970.
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena.
Freddie Jones - Vanya
Anthony Hopkins - Astrov
Ann Bell - Yelena
Roland Culver - Serebriakov
Jenifer Armitage - Sonia
Anne Dyson - Maryia
Susan Richards - Marina
John Baskcomb - Telyeghin
Richard Beale - Workman
Edmond Bennett - Nightwatchman
Stacey Tendeter - Maid
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena.
Freddie Jones - Vanya
Anthony Hopkins - Astrov
Ann Bell - Yelena
Roland Culver - Serebriakov
Jenifer Armitage - Sonia
Anne Dyson - Maryia
Susan Richards - Marina
John Baskcomb - Telyeghin
Richard Beale - Workman
Edmond Bennett - Nightwatchman
Stacey Tendeter - Maid
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00:00:06I don't know.
00:00:46I don't know.
00:01:17Here, drink it, my dear.
00:01:19I don't much feel like it.
00:01:22Perhaps you'd like a drop of vodka.
00:01:24No.
00:01:26I don't drink vodka every day.
00:01:34It's too close, anyway.
00:01:40By the way, Nanny, how many years have we known each other?
00:01:44How many?
00:01:45Oh, Lord help my memory.
00:01:48You came to live around here.
00:01:50Now, when was it?
00:01:52Sonechka's mother was still living then.
00:01:55It was two winters before she died.
00:01:57That means that at least 11 years must have gone by.
00:02:01Maybe more.
00:02:03Have I changed a lot?
00:02:04Yes, a lot.
00:02:06You were young and handsome then.
00:02:08Now you look so much older.
00:02:10And there's another thing, too.
00:02:12You take a drop of vodka now and again.
00:02:14Yes.
00:02:17In 10 years, I've become a different man and why.
00:02:20I've been working too hard, Nanny.
00:02:22I'm on my feet from morning till night.
00:02:24I don't have any peace.
00:02:26Nights as I lined up my blankets,
00:02:27I'm constantly afraid of being dragged out to a patient.
00:02:29And all the time we've known each other,
00:02:31I've never had a single free day.
00:02:32How could I help looking older?
00:02:34Huh?
00:02:35Besides, the life itself is tedious, stupid,
00:02:39and squalid.
00:02:40It drags you down.
00:02:44What a huge mustache I've grown.
00:02:50Silly mustache.
00:02:55I've become an eccentric, Nanny.
00:02:58I haven't grown stupid yet, thank God.
00:03:01My brains are still functioning.
00:03:03My feelings are dull.
00:03:04I don't wish for anything.
00:03:05I don't feel I need anything.
00:03:06I don't love anybody.
00:03:09Except you, perhaps.
00:03:11Yes, I am fond of you.
00:03:13I used to have a nanny like you when I was a child.
00:03:17Would you like something to reach?
00:03:19No.
00:03:23In the first week of Lent,
00:03:24I went to Maletskoye because of the epidemic.
00:03:27Spotted typhus.
00:03:29In the houses, you couldn't move for sick people.
00:03:31Dirt, stench, smoke everywhere.
00:03:33And calves mixed up with the sick on the floor.
00:03:35Young pigs there as well.
00:03:38I struggled with it all day.
00:03:40Not a moment to sit down and eat.
00:03:43Would they let me rest when I came home?
00:03:45No.
00:03:46They brought me a signal man from the railway.
00:03:49I laid him out on the table to operate and he went and died on me under the chloroform.
00:03:55Just when I least wanted it, my feelings seemed to wake up again.
00:03:58My conscience began to trouble me as though I'd killed him deliberately.
00:04:05I sat down and I closed my eyes.
00:04:08I like this.
00:04:10I began to think whether the people who come after us in a hundred years' time,
00:04:14the people for whom we are now blazing a trail,
00:04:19will they remember us?
00:04:20Will they speak kindly of us?
00:04:25No, Nellie, they won't.
00:04:27If people won't remember, God will.
00:04:32Yes, thank you.
00:04:34You've put it well.
00:04:35Well.
00:04:44Yes.
00:04:48Yes.
00:04:49Yes.
00:05:03I sleep at the wrong time.
00:05:23I eat the wrong kinds of food for lunch and dinner.
00:05:26I drink wine.
00:05:27It's all bad for my health.
00:05:29Before I never had a moment,
00:05:31Sonia and I used to work like Trojans.
00:05:32Now only Sonia works and I do nothing but eat, sleep and drink.
00:05:37It's a bad business.
00:05:39Such goings on.
00:05:41The professor gets up at midday,
00:05:43but the samovars kept boiling all morning, waiting for him.
00:05:46You'd have dinner soon after twelve, like everybody else.
00:05:49Now that they are here,
00:05:51we have it after six in the evening.
00:05:53The professor spends the night reading and writing,
00:05:56and then suddenly, after one o'clock, the bell rings.
00:05:58My goodness, what is it?
00:05:59He wants some tea.
00:06:01Such goings on.
00:06:04Are they going to stay here much longer?
00:06:10A hundred years.
00:06:13The professor's decided to settle here.
00:06:16You see, it's just the same now.
00:06:17The samovars have been boiling for two hours,
00:06:19and they've gone for a walk.
00:06:20They're coming.
00:06:21They're coming.
00:06:22Don't fuss.
00:06:24Beautiful.
00:06:25Beautiful, wonderful, sweetheart.
00:06:27Yes, Your Excellency.
00:06:28It feels so remarkable.
00:06:30Tomorrow we'll go to the plantation, Papa.
00:06:32Would you like to?
00:06:34Tea's ready.
00:06:36Now, my friends,
00:06:38would you be good enough to send my tea to my study?
00:06:40I have something more I must do today.
00:06:43I'm sure you'll like it at the plantation.
00:06:45It is hot.
00:06:47Stifling.
00:06:48But our great man of learning
00:06:49is wearing his overcoat and galoshes
00:06:51and carrying his umbrella and gloves.
00:06:53He's obviously taking care of himself.
00:06:57But how lovely she is.
00:07:01Lovely.
00:07:02I've never seen a more beautiful woman.
00:07:10You know, Marina Timmerfey,
00:07:13whether I'm driving through the fields
00:07:15or taking a walk in the shady garden
00:07:18or even just looking at this table,
00:07:21I feel inexpressibly happy.
00:07:24Weather's marvelous,
00:07:26birds are singing,
00:07:27and we all live here in peace and harmony.
00:07:30What more could we need?
00:07:32Thank you kindly.
00:07:34Her eyes.
00:07:36Exquisite woman.
00:07:39Tell us something,
00:07:41Ivan Petrovich.
00:07:42What do you want me to tell you?
00:07:45Uh.
00:07:49Isn't there anything new?
00:07:52Nothing at all.
00:07:55Everything's old.
00:07:57I'm just the same as I was.
00:07:59A little worse, perhaps,
00:08:00because I've grown lazy.
00:08:01I don't do anything.
00:08:02I just grumble.
00:08:05As for my ma,
00:08:06she still babbles on
00:08:07about the emancipation of women.
00:08:10With one eye,
00:08:10she looks into her grave,
00:08:11and with the other,
00:08:12she searches her learned books
00:08:13for the dawn of a new life.
00:08:15The professor?
00:08:17And the professor sits in his study writing
00:08:21from morning till dead of night.
00:08:24With furrowed brows and thoughts intense,
00:08:28we write and write our works immense.
00:08:32But no praise ever comes our way
00:08:34for what we are
00:08:36or what we say.
00:08:39Poor paper.
00:08:41It would be better
00:08:42if he wrote his autobiography.
00:08:45What a superb subject.
00:08:47A retired professor, don't you know?
00:08:49A sort of scholarly dried fish
00:08:52afflicted with gout,
00:08:54rheumatism,
00:08:54migraine.
00:08:55His liver swollen
00:08:56with jealousy and envy.
00:08:59This dried fish
00:09:00lives on his first wife's country estate.
00:09:02Lives there against his will
00:09:03because he can't afford
00:09:05to live in town.
00:09:06He is constantly complaining
00:09:08about his misfortunes,
00:09:09though, as a matter of fact,
00:09:10he's been extraordinarily lucky.
00:09:12Just think how lucky.
00:09:14The son of a common sexton.
00:09:17He somehow manages
00:09:18to get university qualifications
00:09:20and a professorship.
00:09:21Later he becomes
00:09:23Your Excellency.
00:09:25And the son-in-law of a senator
00:09:27and so on and so forth.
00:09:29However, that is not the main point.
00:09:31Just consider this.
00:09:33The man has been writing
00:09:35and lecturing about art
00:09:37for exactly 25 years.
00:09:39And yet,
00:09:40he understands nothing
00:09:41whatever about it.
00:09:43For 25 years
00:09:45he has been chewing over
00:09:46other men's ideas
00:09:48on realism,
00:09:50naturalism,
00:09:50and all that sort of nonsense.
00:09:52For 25 years
00:09:53he's been writing
00:09:54and lecturing on things
00:09:55which intelligent people
00:09:56knew all the time
00:09:57and stupid people
00:09:58weren't interested in anyway.
00:09:59So that, in fact,
00:10:00for 25 years
00:10:01he's just been
00:10:01wasting time.
00:10:03And yet,
00:10:04what an opinion
00:10:05he has of himself
00:10:06and what pretensions.
00:10:10now he's retired
00:10:12and not a living soul
00:10:13knows anything about him.
00:10:14He is absolutely unknown.
00:10:17So that,
00:10:18for 25 years,
00:10:19all that he has done
00:10:20is to
00:10:21keep a better man
00:10:22out of a job.
00:10:23But just look at him.
00:10:25He struts about
00:10:26like a little tin god.
00:10:27Come now,
00:10:27I believe you envy him.
00:10:29Yes.
00:10:31I do envy him.
00:10:36And what a success
00:10:37with women.
00:10:39No,
00:10:39Don Juan
00:10:39never had success
00:10:40so complete as his.
00:10:42My sister,
00:10:43his first wife,
00:10:46a beautiful,
00:10:47gentle creature,
00:10:49as pure
00:10:50as that blue sky,
00:10:52generous
00:10:53and noble-hearted,
00:10:54with more admirers
00:10:56than he's ever had
00:10:56pupils.
00:10:58Loved him
00:10:59as only pure-hearted
00:11:00angels can love
00:11:01those who are
00:11:02pure and beautiful
00:11:03as themselves.
00:11:06My mother still
00:11:07adores him.
00:11:08He still inspires in her
00:11:09a feeling of reverent awe.
00:11:11His second wife,
00:11:12you've just seen her,
00:11:13intelligent, beautiful.
00:11:14She married him
00:11:15when he was already
00:11:16an old man.
00:11:17She gave him
00:11:18her youth,
00:11:19beauty,
00:11:20freedom.
00:11:20Whatever for,
00:11:21why?
00:11:22Was she faithful
00:11:23to the professor?
00:11:24She is.
00:11:24I'm sorry to say.
00:11:26Why should you be sorry?
00:11:28Because loyalty
00:11:28of that sort
00:11:29is false
00:11:30from beginning to end.
00:11:31There's plenty
00:11:32of rhetoric in it
00:11:32but no logic.
00:11:34To be unfaithful
00:11:35to an old husband
00:11:36whom she couldn't bear
00:11:37would be immoral.
00:11:38But to bottle up
00:11:39all that
00:11:41youth,
00:11:42the vitality,
00:11:44the capacity
00:11:44to feel,
00:11:50that, I suppose,
00:11:51would not be immoral.
00:11:53Vanya,
00:11:54I don't like it
00:11:55when you say
00:11:55things like that.
00:11:56Come, really.
00:11:58Anyone who would betray
00:11:59a wife
00:11:59or a husband
00:12:00is an unreliable person
00:12:02who might betray
00:12:03their own country.
00:12:04Go dry up, Waffles.
00:12:06Forgive me, Vanya,
00:12:07but my wife
00:12:09ran away from me
00:12:10with a man
00:12:10that she loved
00:12:11the day after our wedding
00:12:12on account
00:12:13of my
00:12:14unprepossessing appearance.
00:12:22But I've never failed
00:12:24in my duty
00:12:25towards her.
00:12:26I still love her.
00:12:27I'm faithful to her.
00:12:29I help her
00:12:30as much as I can
00:12:31and I've given
00:12:32all I possess
00:12:33to educating
00:12:34the children
00:12:35she had
00:12:36by the man
00:12:36that she loved.
00:12:38I've lost my happiness
00:12:39but I've still
00:12:40kept my pride
00:12:41and she,
00:12:42her youth has gone,
00:12:44her beauty has faded
00:12:45as nature ordains
00:12:46and it must
00:12:47and the man
00:12:48that she loved
00:12:48has died.
00:12:49What has she got left?
00:12:53Nanny,
00:12:54some peasants have come.
00:12:56Please go and talk to them.
00:12:57I'll look after the tea.
00:13:21You know I've come
00:13:23to see your husband.
00:13:25You wrote and told me
00:13:26that he was very ill.
00:13:27Rheumatism or something.
00:13:29I find he's perfectly well.
00:13:31Last night he was depressed
00:13:32and complained of pains
00:13:33in his legs
00:13:34but today he's all right.
00:13:37And I've galloped
00:13:3820 miles at Brickneck speed.
00:13:41Never mind.
00:13:42It's not the first time.
00:13:44At least I can stay
00:13:45the night and sleep.
00:13:46Quantum Sartis.
00:13:47That's splendid.
00:13:49So rare for you
00:13:50to stay the night.
00:13:51I don't suppose
00:13:52you've had dinner?
00:13:53No, I haven't.
00:13:53Then you'll dine with us.
00:13:55We have dinner
00:13:55soon after six
00:13:56drinks nowadays.
00:14:07The tea's cold.
00:14:11The temperature
00:14:13in the samofar
00:14:14has indeed
00:14:14perceptibly fallen.
00:14:16Never mind,
00:14:17Ivan Ivanovich.
00:14:18We'll drink it cold.
00:14:19Excuse me,
00:14:20but my name
00:14:21is not Ivan Ivanovich.
00:14:23It's Ilyar Ilyich.
00:14:25Ilyar Ilyich Tellyegin,
00:14:27or as some people
00:14:27call me on account
00:14:28of my pockmarked face,
00:14:30Waffles.
00:14:32I'm Sonichka's godfather.
00:14:35I'm Sonichka's godfather,
00:14:35and his excellency,
00:14:37your husband,
00:14:38knows me very well.
00:14:39I'm now living here
00:14:40on your estate.
00:14:44You may have been so kind
00:14:45as to remember
00:14:46that I have dinner
00:14:47with you every day.
00:14:49Ilyar Ilyich is our helper,
00:14:51our right-hand man.
00:14:52Let me give you
00:14:53some more tea,
00:14:54godfather dear.
00:15:05Oh, what's the matter,
00:15:07grandma?
00:15:07I forgot to tell Alexandra.
00:15:09I'm losing my memory.
00:15:11I had a letter today
00:15:13from Pavia Alekseevich
00:15:14from Kharkov.
00:15:15He sent us his new pamphlet.
00:15:16Interesting?
00:15:18It's interesting,
00:15:19but somehow strange.
00:15:21He's attacking the very thing
00:15:23he was maintaining
00:15:23seven years ago,
00:15:24it's dreadful.
00:15:25There's nothing dreadful
00:15:26in that.
00:15:27Drink your tea, mama.
00:15:28But I want to talk.
00:15:29We've been talking
00:15:31and talking
00:15:32and reading pamphlets
00:15:34for 50 years.
00:15:36It's time to stop.
00:15:37For some reason,
00:15:39you don't like listening
00:15:40when I talk.
00:15:42Forgive my saying so, Jean,
00:15:43but you have changed
00:15:44so much this last year or so,
00:15:46I positively don't recognize you.
00:15:49You used to be
00:15:50a man of principles,
00:15:51a man of elevating ideas.
00:15:53Oh, yes.
00:15:54I used to be a man
00:15:55of elevating ideas
00:15:56who never elevated anyone.
00:15:59Could hardly have made
00:16:00a more wounding joke.
00:16:01I'm 47 now.
00:16:02Up to a year ago,
00:16:02I deliberately tried
00:16:03to pull the wool over my eyes,
00:16:05just as you do
00:16:05with all that pedantic rubbish,
00:16:07so that I shouldn't see
00:16:08the realities of life.
00:16:09And I thought I was doing
00:16:10the right thing.
00:16:13Now I lie awake at night
00:16:14in sheer vexation and anger,
00:16:16so stupidly wasting the time,
00:16:17not doing the things
00:16:18for which I'm now too old.
00:16:19Uncle Barnier,
00:16:20this is boring.
00:16:26You seem to be blaming
00:16:27your former principles.
00:16:29It is not they,
00:16:30but you who are to blame.
00:16:32Principles are nothing
00:16:33in themselves,
00:16:34just empty phrases.
00:16:35You ought to have been working.
00:16:37Working?
00:16:39It isn't everyone
00:16:41who's capable
00:16:41of being a writing machine
00:16:43like your hair,
00:16:45professor.
00:16:45What do you mean by that?
00:16:47Grandmama,
00:16:48Uncle Barnier,
00:16:49please.
00:16:49I'll be quiet.
00:16:50I'll hold my tongue
00:16:52and apologise.
00:16:59What a lovely day.
00:17:02Not too hot, either.
00:17:05Lovely day.
00:17:07To hang oneself.
00:17:15To hang oneself.
00:17:33Nanny,
00:17:34what do the peasants want?
00:17:35Same as before.
00:17:36They're still going on
00:17:37about the wasteland.
00:17:40Which is it you're calling?
00:17:42Speckled one.
00:17:43She's gone after
00:17:43some of her chicks.
00:17:44The crows may get them.
00:18:20Is the doctor here?
00:18:22Yes.
00:18:22Mihail Lubovitch.
00:18:23They've come for you, please.
00:18:24Where from?
00:18:25From the sawmill.
00:18:27How many thanks?
00:18:29Well, I'd better be going.
00:18:31Oh, hang it.
00:18:32What a nuisance.
00:18:33It really is annoying.
00:18:34Come back to dinner afterwards.
00:18:36I can't.
00:18:36It'll be too late.
00:18:37Would that I could?
00:18:38Would that I could.
00:18:39My good fellow!
00:18:41Ah, you might get me a glass of vodka or something.
00:18:44Yes, doctor.
00:18:46Would that I could.
00:18:48Would that I could.
00:18:49You might get me a glass of vodka.
00:18:49Oh, my goodness.
00:18:56In a play by Ostrovsky,
00:18:57there's a man with a big mustache,
00:18:58but very little brain.
00:19:01That's me.
00:19:05If you ever cared to look me up,
00:19:06I'm with Sonia here.
00:19:08I'd be so pleased.
00:19:09I have a small estate,
00:19:10about 90 acres altogether.
00:19:12But if you're interested,
00:19:13there's a model orchard
00:19:16and nursery garden,
00:19:17such as you won't find
00:19:18for hundreds of miles around.
00:19:21Next to my place,
00:19:21there's a government plantation.
00:19:24And the forester there is old
00:19:26and is often ill,
00:19:27so in fact,
00:19:27I'm in charge of everything.
00:19:29Yes, I've been told
00:19:30you're very fond of forestry.
00:19:31Of course,
00:19:32one can do a lot of good that way,
00:19:33but doesn't it interfere
00:19:34with your real vocation?
00:19:36You're a doctor.
00:19:37Well, only God knows
00:19:38what our real vocation is.
00:19:40Is it interesting?
00:19:41Yes, it is interesting, Mer.
00:19:42It must be.
00:19:43If you're still a young man,
00:19:44you don't look more than 36,
00:19:46or 37.
00:19:49Well, you cannot find it
00:19:50as interesting as you say.
00:19:52Nothing but trees and trees.
00:19:54I should think
00:19:55it must be monotony.
00:19:56No, it's extremely interesting.
00:20:00The doctor plants new trees every year,
00:20:03and he's already been awarded
00:20:04a bronze medal and a diploma.
00:20:07He does his best
00:20:08to stop the old forests
00:20:09being laid waste.
00:20:10If you listen to him,
00:20:12you'll agree with him entirely.
00:20:14He says that forests
00:20:16add beauty to the countryside
00:20:18and make a harsh climate milder.
00:20:21In countries with a mild climate,
00:20:23people are less exhausted
00:20:25by the struggle with nature,
00:20:26and so man is gentler
00:20:28and more capable
00:20:29of tender feeling.
00:20:30In such countries,
00:20:32people are beautiful, sensitive,
00:20:35their speech is elegant,
00:20:36their movements graceful,
00:20:38science and the arts
00:20:40flourish among them,
00:20:41their philosophy is cheerful,
00:20:43and there is refinement
00:20:44and courtesy
00:20:45in their attitude towards women.
00:20:50Bravo, bravo.
00:20:52All this is very charming.
00:20:54However, it doesn't convince me,
00:20:56so my friend,
00:20:56you must permit me
00:20:57to go on burning logs
00:20:58in my stove
00:20:58and building my barns of wood.
00:21:00You can burn turf in your stove
00:21:02and build your barns of stone.
00:21:04Well,
00:21:05I would let you cut wood
00:21:06when you really needed it.
00:21:07Why destroy the forests?
00:21:09The Russian forests
00:21:10are groaning under the axe,
00:21:12and millions of trees
00:21:13are being destroyed.
00:21:15The homes of birds and animals
00:21:16are being laid waste.
00:21:18Rivers are drying up,
00:21:19wonderful scenery
00:21:19is disappearing forever,
00:21:20and all this just because
00:21:21people are too lazy and stupid
00:21:23to stoop down
00:21:24and pick the fuel
00:21:25from the ground.
00:21:29And isn't that so, madam?
00:21:32Anyone who can burn up
00:21:33all that beauty
00:21:34in a stove
00:21:35and destroy something
00:21:35that we cannot create
00:21:36must be a thoughtless barbarian.
00:21:39Man is endowed with reason
00:21:40and creative power
00:21:41to increase what has been given him,
00:21:43but so far he's been
00:21:44a destroyer
00:21:44not a creator.
00:21:46I can see your ironic expression
00:21:47and I expect
00:21:48what I say doesn't seem
00:21:49at all serious,
00:21:50but to you,
00:21:51just kind of know.
00:21:53All the same,
00:21:54when I walk by the
00:21:55peasants' wood
00:21:56which I saved
00:21:56from being cut down,
00:21:58or when I hear
00:21:58the rustling of young trees
00:22:00which I planted
00:22:01with my own hands,
00:22:02I know that the climate
00:22:03is to some extent
00:22:04in my power too,
00:22:05and that if mankind
00:22:06is happy in a thousand years' time,
00:22:07I'll have been responsible
00:22:08for a little of it.
00:22:10And when I plant
00:22:12young birch tree
00:22:13and I watch it
00:22:13growing green
00:22:14and swaying in the wind,
00:22:15my heart fills with pride
00:22:17and I...
00:22:24it's time for me to go.
00:22:28After all,
00:22:29I probably am just a crank.
00:22:33Allow me to take my leave.
00:22:37When are you coming
00:22:38to see us then?
00:22:39Oh, I don't know.
00:22:41Not for a month yet?
00:22:43No.
00:23:18You have been behaving
00:23:19impossibly again, Vanya.
00:23:21Did you have to irritate
00:23:23your mother with your talk
00:23:24about writing machines?
00:23:25Today at lunch,
00:23:27you argued with Alexandra again.
00:23:29Oh, how petty it is.
00:23:31But if I detest him...
00:23:33there's nothing you can detest
00:23:34Alexandra for.
00:23:35He's just like anyone else.
00:23:37He's no worse than you are.
00:23:44Oh, if only you could
00:23:45see yourself.
00:23:47As though living
00:23:48were such an effort for you.
00:23:50Oh, such an effort.
00:23:51Oh, such an effort.
00:23:54And such a bore.
00:23:57Everybody blames my husband.
00:23:59They all look at me
00:24:00with compassion.
00:24:02An unfortunate woman.
00:24:04She's got an old husband.
00:24:06There's sympathy for me.
00:24:07Don't think I don't understand it.
00:24:09As Astroff said just now.
00:24:13You senselessly destroy the forests
00:24:16and soon there'll be nothing
00:24:16left on Earth.
00:24:18In the same way,
00:24:18you senselessly ruin human beings
00:24:20and soon,
00:24:22thanks to you,
00:24:24there'll be no
00:24:26loyalty,
00:24:27no integrity,
00:24:29no capacity
00:24:30for self-sacrifice left.
00:24:32Why can't you look at a woman
00:24:33with indifference
00:24:34unless she's yours?
00:24:35Because
00:24:36that doctor is right.
00:24:38There's a devil of destruction
00:24:40in every one of you.
00:24:42You spare neither
00:24:43woods,
00:24:44nor birds,
00:24:45nor women,
00:24:47nor one another.
00:24:49I don't like
00:24:51this moralizing.
00:25:02That doctor
00:25:03has a tired,
00:25:04sensitive face.
00:25:06An interesting face.
00:25:09Sonia is obviously
00:25:11attracted by him.
00:25:12But she's in love
00:25:14with him.
00:25:15I can understand
00:25:17her feelings.
00:25:19He's visited this house
00:25:21three times
00:25:22since I've been here.
00:25:24But I'm shy.
00:25:26I've never once
00:25:27had a proper talk
00:25:27with him
00:25:28or been nice to him.
00:25:31He must have thought
00:25:32me bad-tempered.
00:25:35Perhaps, Vanya,
00:25:36you and I
00:25:36are such good friends
00:25:37because we're both
00:25:38such tiresome
00:25:39and boring people.
00:25:48Don't look at me like that.
00:25:50I don't like it.
00:25:51How else can I look at you
00:25:53if I love you?
00:25:55You're my happiness,
00:25:57my life,
00:25:57my youth.
00:25:59Oh, I know the chances
00:26:00of you returning.
00:26:01My feelings are negligible.
00:26:02Nell!
00:26:02But
00:26:04I don't want anything.
00:26:08Only let me look at you
00:26:09and hear your voice.
00:26:11Hush, they might hear you.
00:26:13Don't drive me away.
00:26:15Let me talk of my love for you.
00:26:17That in itself
00:26:18would give me
00:26:19such great happiness.
00:26:20This is torture.
00:26:22such, Hush.
00:27:36Who's that?
00:27:38Sonia, is that you?
00:27:39It's me.
00:27:41Who are you, Linojka?
00:27:43This pain is unbearable.
00:27:45Your rug's falling on the floor.
00:27:50Oh, I'll shut the window, Alexandre.
00:27:53No, no, no, I'm suffocated.
00:27:54I dropped off just now and I dreamt my left leg didn't belong to me
00:27:59and I was woken up by the most agonizing pain.
00:28:03No, it's not gouted.
00:28:06It's more like rheumatism.
00:28:08Listen, what time is it now?
00:28:12It's twenty minutes past twelve.
00:28:15You might look up Pichuskov in the library in the morning.
00:28:20I believe we have his works.
00:28:22What?
00:28:23Look up Pichuskov in the morning.
00:28:25I seem to remember we had him.
00:28:26Why is it so difficult for me to breathe?
00:28:29You're tired.
00:28:30This is the second night.
00:28:31You haven't slept.
00:28:33They say to Gainiff got endina pictorius from gout.
00:28:37I'm afraid I might get it.
00:28:39Oh, this damnable, disgusting old age.
00:28:43Devil take it.
00:28:45Since I've got old, I've become repulsive even to myself.
00:28:51You must find it repulsive to look at me, every one of you.
00:28:54You talk of your old age.
00:28:56Is there all to blame for it?
00:28:59You are the first to find me repulsive.
00:29:03You're right, of course.
00:29:04I'm not a fool, I understand.
00:29:07You're young, healthy, good-looking.
00:29:09You want to live.
00:29:11Whereas I'm an old man, almost a corpse.
00:29:15Do you think I don't understand?
00:29:18Well, of course, it's stupid of me to go on living.
00:29:23Well, wait a little, I'll soon set you free.
00:29:26I won't linger on much longer.
00:29:28I'm worn out, for God's sake, be quiet.
00:29:30Of course, everyone's worn out, bored.
00:29:32Wasting their youth, thanks to me.
00:29:34I'm the only one that's content and enjoying life.
00:29:38Yes, yes, of course.
00:29:38Oh, do be quiet, you're exhausting me.
00:29:40Everyone's exhausted, of course.
00:29:42This is intolerable.
00:29:44What is it that you want from me?
00:29:49Nothing at all.
00:29:53Well, be quiet then, please.
00:29:58It's a strange business.
00:30:01Whenever Ivan Petrovich starts talking, all that old idiot, Maria Vasilyevna,
00:30:05everyone listens, I only have to say a single word, and everyone begins to feel miserable.
00:30:13Even my voice disgusts them.
00:30:16Well, I suppose I am disgusting, an egoist, a despot.
00:30:24But haven't I a right to be selfish in my old age?
00:30:26Haven't I deserved it?
00:30:29I ask you, haven't I a right to a quiet old age, to a little personal attention?
00:30:35No one is disputing your rights.
00:30:39Oh, the wind's got it.
00:30:41Well, shut the window, Alexander.
00:30:46It's going to rain presently.
00:30:49No one is disputing your rights.
00:31:05No one is disputing your rights.
00:31:11No one is disputing your rights.
00:31:14No one is disputing your rights.
00:31:15I almost have to be selfish.
00:31:17No one is disputing your rights.
00:31:26I dare I stop, please. Forgive me, but you are quite wrong.
00:31:30The point is academic and fruitless.
00:31:34After devoting all my life to learning, having grown used to my study, my lecture room to
00:31:39esteemed colleagues, to find myself suddenly for no reason at all in this crypt, having
00:31:46to meet stupid people every day, having to listen to their trivial conversation. I want
00:31:52life, success, fame, controversy. Here I feel like an exile. Spending every minute, regretting
00:32:00the past, watching others succeed, fearing death. It's more than I can bear.
00:32:08Have patience. In five or six years I shall be old too.
00:32:21Papa, you told us to send for Dr. Astroff, and now he's come you refuse to see him.
00:32:27It's discourteous. We've troubled him for nothing.
00:32:30What do I need your Astroff for? He knows as much about medicine as astronomy.
00:32:35We can't send for the whole medical faculty to attend to your gut.
00:32:38I won't even speak to that crank.
00:32:40Just as you please.
00:32:42It's all the same to me.
00:32:48What time is it now?
00:32:50Nearly one o'clock.
00:32:52As I'm suffocating, Sonia, hand me my drops from the table.
00:32:56Just a moment.
00:33:06No, no, no, no, not those. Oh, it's no use asking for anything.
00:33:10Please don't be peevish. Some people may like it, but do spare me for goodness sake I don't like it.
00:33:14And I haven't the time.
00:33:17I must get up early tomorrow to see to the hay making.
00:33:21There's a storm coming.
00:33:24Did you see?
00:33:27Sonia and Helena go to bed.
00:33:37I have come to take your place.
00:33:40Oh, no. No, no, no. Don't leave me with him. He'll kill me with his talking.
00:33:44But they need the rest. They haven't slept for two nights.
00:33:46Well, let them go to bed, but you go too. I'd be so grateful.
00:33:49I beseech you, for the sake of our past friendship, don't argue.
00:33:52We will. We'll talk later on.
00:33:54Past friendship. Past.
00:33:55Decaire, uncle publisher
00:33:57My dear!
00:33:58Don't leave me with him.
00:34:01He'll kill me with his talking.
00:34:03It's becoming ridiculous.
00:34:11You ought to go to bed, nanny. It's late.
00:34:14You know some of ourлиcieast way.
00:34:16Can't very well go to bed.
00:34:18Of course. Everyone's awake. Everyone's worn out.
00:34:21I'm the only one enjoying myself.
00:34:27what is it my dear you're paying again I've got a grumbling pain in my leg to
00:34:33such a pain said old trouble of yours very Petrovna Sonnetka's mother used to
00:34:43get so worried about it she couldn't sleep of nights so fond of you she was
00:34:51the old are just the same as the little ones they like someone to pity them but
00:34:56nobody pities the old come to bed my dear come my darling I'll give you some
00:35:06lime flower tea and warm your feet and say a prayer for you
00:35:13let's go Marlina I've got a grumbling pain in my legs myself such a grumbler
00:35:19Mary Petrovna used to get so worried she used to cry over me you were little then
00:35:27you didn't understand come along sir I'm quite worn out with him I can hardly keep on my feet you
00:35:47with him and I myself I haven't slept for three nights
00:35:51there's something the matter with this house your mother hates everything except
00:35:56her pamphlets and the professor professor is bad-tempered he doesn't trust me and he's
00:36:00afraid of you Sonia is illitable with her father and she's angry with me she hasn't
00:36:04spoken to me for a fortnight you detest my husband and you openly despise your
00:36:08mother I'm on edge well I've been on the point of crying twenty times today
00:36:17oh what is the matter with this house let's stop this moralizing
00:36:24oh Varnia you are intelligent and cultured surely you ought to realize the world is being destroyed not by by
00:36:33fire and by pillage but by hatred
00:36:37and envy oh and all this petty quarreling now your task should be to reconcile people not to complain
00:36:49reconcile me to myself first
00:36:52dearest don't
00:36:56go away
00:37:02in a minute or two the rain will be over
00:37:07and everything in nature refreshed and content
00:37:11only I shall not be refreshed by the storm
00:37:15day and night
00:37:17I am suffocated by the thought that my life has been irretrievably wasted
00:37:22I have no
00:37:25past
00:37:27it has been stupidly flitted away on trifles
00:37:33but the present is awful in its pointlessness
00:37:40what am I to do with my life my love for you where do they belong
00:37:49my life has been wasted
00:37:52like a ray of sunlight
00:37:56falling down a well
00:37:59I am wasted too
00:38:02when you speak to me of your love
00:38:04I feel quite stupid
00:38:06and I don't know what to say
00:38:10forgive me
00:38:12there is nothing I can say to you
00:38:17if only you knew
00:38:19how I suffer when I think that
00:38:21near to me in the same house another life is being wasted
00:38:24yours
00:38:25what you're waiting for
00:38:26what damned philosophy is holding you back
00:38:30understand
00:38:32do understand
00:38:33Ivan Petrovich you're drunk
00:38:37maybe maybe
00:38:38where's the doctor
00:38:39he is
00:38:41in there he is staying the night with me
00:38:42I may be I may be
00:38:44so you've been drinking again today or what for
00:38:50it gives the illusion of life don't stop me helena
00:38:53you never used to drink
00:38:55you never used to talk so much
00:38:59oh go to bed you bore me
00:39:01dearest
00:39:03you wonderful creature
00:39:05leave me alone
00:39:06oh this is really hateful
00:39:27oh
00:39:28ten years ago
00:39:33I used to meet her at my sister's house
00:39:35she was
00:39:3817
00:39:40and I was 37
00:39:44why didn't I fall in love with her then and ask her to marry me
00:39:48I could have so easily
00:39:51she'd have been my wife now
00:39:57yes
00:40:01perhaps
00:40:02we would have been awakened by the storm
00:40:07she would have been frightened
00:40:10I'd have held her in my arms
00:40:13whispered
00:40:15don't be afraid
00:40:17I am here
00:40:21what a wonderful thought
00:40:24how enchanting
00:40:26it actually makes me laugh with happiness
00:40:32oh but my thoughts are in a tangle
00:40:35why am I so old
00:40:38why won't she understand me
00:40:40fine phrases are silly
00:40:42fast-out theories about the ruin of the world
00:40:44how hateful they are to me
00:40:49and how I've been cheated
00:40:55I used to love the professor
00:40:59howdy old invalid
00:41:01I worked like an ox for him
00:41:04he was the breath of my life
00:41:06everything he wrote or uttered seemed to me
00:41:09inspired
00:41:13and now what
00:41:16good god
00:41:18he's settled down here and at last you can see what his life really amounts to
00:41:22not a page of his writing will survive him
00:41:24it's completely unknown
00:41:25and I'd like to tell
00:41:27so bubble
00:41:30and I've been cheated
00:41:33I see it now
00:41:38stupidly cheated
00:41:43play
00:41:44everyone in the house has gone to bed
00:41:47play
00:41:47are you alone here
00:41:57no ladies
00:42:00dance my heart
00:42:02and dance my fire
00:42:04masters
00:42:06nowhere to retire
00:42:11it's the storm woke me
00:42:14it's a nice drop of brain
00:42:18what time is it
00:42:20the devil knows
00:42:22I thought I heard Yelena's voice
00:42:24she was in here a moment ago
00:42:25an exceptionally attractive woman
00:42:31she was in here
00:42:34oh what a connection
00:42:37from Harcourt
00:42:39Moscow
00:42:43from Tula
00:42:47he must have plagued every
00:42:49town in Russia with his gout
00:42:56is he really ill
00:42:57or just chamming
00:42:59he is ill
00:43:00why are you so melancholy today
00:43:02are you feeling sorry for the professor or what
00:43:04leave me alone
00:43:07maybe you're in love with the professor's wife
00:43:10she is a friend
00:43:11already
00:43:12what do you mean by already
00:43:15a woman only becomes a man's
00:43:17friend in three stages
00:43:18first she's
00:43:19an agreeable acquaintance
00:43:21then she's a
00:43:22a mistress
00:43:23and then only after that her friend
00:43:24that is a vulgar theory
00:43:25what
00:43:26well yes
00:43:26I must confess
00:43:28I am becoming pretty bulky
00:43:29you see
00:43:31I'm drunk too
00:43:34as a rule
00:43:35I only get drunk like this once a month
00:43:37when I'm in this state
00:43:38I become extremely provocative
00:43:39and audacious
00:43:41and then there is nothing I don't feel equal to
00:43:43I undertake the most difficult operations
00:43:45and I perform them
00:43:47beautifully
00:43:49I draw up the most far-reaching plans for the future
00:43:53and at such times I no longer think of myself as a crank
00:43:56but I believe that I'm doing a tremendous job for mankind
00:44:00tremendous
00:44:02and on these occasions too I have my own system of philosophy according to
00:44:06which all of you my friends appear as insignificant as insects or microbes
00:44:16go on
00:44:16my dear friend
00:44:18I'd do anything for you
00:44:19but do remember everyone in the house has gone to bed
00:44:23play
00:44:27I tell you
00:44:34a drink would be nice
00:44:36come along
00:44:38so I believe there's some brandy left
00:44:41so we go to my place when it's light
00:44:47oh excuse me
00:44:49I haven't got my tie on
00:45:00Uncle Banya
00:45:03you've been drinking again with the doctor
00:45:08you're a fine pair
00:45:10it's not becoming at your age
00:45:13it has nothing to do with age
00:45:17when people have no real life they live on illusion
00:45:20anyway it's better than nothing
00:45:24the hay has been cut
00:45:27it rains every day everything is rotting and you are living on illusions
00:45:32you've been utterly neglecting the estate
00:45:35I've had to work alone I'm quite worn out
00:45:40uncle
00:45:41there are tears in your eyes
00:45:43tears
00:45:45nonsense it's nothing
00:45:50you looked at me then just as your dear mother you two
00:45:56my dear child
00:46:00my sister
00:46:03my dear sister
00:46:08where is she now I wonder
00:46:13if she knew
00:46:15if only she knew
00:46:17what uncle
00:46:18what uncle
00:46:19knew what
00:46:23useless
00:46:25painful
00:46:32nothing later I
00:46:35I'll go
00:47:05I'll go
00:47:09what can I do for you?
00:47:12drink yourself if you don't find it disgusting but don't let my uncle drink
00:47:16I implore you it's bad for him. very well we won't drink any more.
00:47:21that's settled I'll go home now.
00:47:33we'll only have a few drops please don't ask me to see your father again I tell
00:47:38him he has got he tells me his rheumatism I tell him to stay in bed he sits up in
00:47:41a
00:47:41chair today wouldn't even speak to me would you like something to eat well
00:47:59perhaps
00:48:00I like eating at night I believe there's something here
00:48:06they say he's had a great success with women he's been spoilt by them
00:48:13oh have some cheese
00:48:19oh
00:48:21I haven't eaten anything all day
00:48:23huh
00:48:26just drink
00:48:27huh
00:48:30oh your father is difficult
00:48:34may I
00:48:42there's no one here so I can speak frankly
00:48:47you know I
00:48:49I don't think I could last in this house a month
00:48:52the atmosphere would suffocate me
00:48:53you
00:48:55your father completely absorbed in his gout and his books and your uncle Vanya with his depression
00:49:00your grandmother
00:49:02and your stepmother too
00:49:04what about my stepmother
00:49:07well everything about a human being ought to be beautiful
00:49:10soul
00:49:11face
00:49:12clothes
00:49:12thought
00:49:14she is beautiful there's no denying that but
00:49:15she does nothing she only eats sleeps
00:49:18goes for walks and bewitches us all with her beauty
00:49:22she has no responsibilities other people work for her
00:49:25isn't that so
00:49:29denied life cannot be virtuous
00:49:30hmm
00:49:34well perhaps I'm being too severe
00:49:38so I'm dissatisfied with life like your uncle Vanya
00:49:41and so we're both turning into old grumblers
00:49:45you're dissatisfied with life then
00:49:47no I love life as such but
00:49:50ah life our everyday provincial life in Russia I just can't endure
00:49:55I despise it with all my heart
00:49:58as for my own life God knows I can find nothing good in it at all
00:50:02you know when you walk through a forest on a dark night
00:50:05you see a small light gleaming in the distance you don't notice your tiredness
00:50:09nor the darkness nor the
00:50:11branches lashing you in the face
00:50:15I work harder than anyone in the district you know that
00:50:18fate betters me continuously at times I suffer unbearably
00:50:23but for me there is no light in the distance
00:50:27I'm not expecting anything from myself anymore
00:50:30I don't love my fellow creatures
00:50:32I...
00:50:34I haven't cared for anyone for years
00:50:37not for anyone?
00:50:39no one
00:50:41I have a sort of fondness for your nurse for the sake of old times
00:50:45but the peasants are all too alike
00:50:46undeveloped living in squalor
00:50:49as for the educated people
00:50:50I can't get on with them
00:50:51they tire me
00:50:53how good friends
00:50:56a shallow in thought shallow in feeling
00:50:58unable to see beyond their noses
00:51:00to put it bluntly
00:51:01stupid
00:51:05the ones who are
00:51:06a bit more intelligent
00:51:08hysterical positively rotten with introspection
00:51:10they whine they're full of hatreds
00:51:12morbidly malicious
00:51:14they sidle up to a man
00:51:15stare him out of the corner of their eyes
00:51:17and they pass their judgment
00:51:20oh he's a gas bag
00:51:21he's not quite right in the head
00:51:25when they don't know how to label me they say
00:51:27oh he's odd
00:51:29he's very odd
00:51:32I love forest
00:51:33that's odd
00:51:34I don't eat meat
00:51:36that's odd
00:51:37there's no direct
00:51:39unprejudiced
00:51:40objective attitude
00:51:41in people or nature left
00:51:42no there is not
00:51:46no I beg you don't drink any more
00:51:49why not
00:51:51so unlike
00:51:52you
00:51:55you have
00:51:56such dignity
00:51:58your voice is so soft
00:52:01more than that
00:52:02more than that
00:52:03you are beautiful as
00:52:05no one else I know is beautiful
00:52:08so why do you want to be like ordinary men who drink and play cards
00:52:13don't do it
00:52:16you always say that people don't create but merely destroy what nature has given them
00:52:22then why
00:52:24why
00:52:24are you destroying yourself
00:52:28you mustn't
00:52:29you mustn't
00:52:32I beseech you
00:52:33I implore you
00:52:40I won't drink any more
00:52:41give me your word
00:52:42my word of honor
00:52:45thank you
00:52:47enough
00:52:48my head's clear
00:52:49I'm perfectly sober now
00:52:50and I shall remain sober to the end of my days
00:52:52ha ha
00:52:55ah
00:52:58well we must go on
00:53:01as I said
00:53:01my time is over
00:53:03it's too late for me now
00:53:06I've worked myself to stand still
00:53:09I've aged
00:53:10I don't love anyone
00:53:11I don't
00:53:11I never shall now
00:53:14the only thing that still affects me is
00:53:17beauty
00:53:18I can't remain indifferent to that
00:53:23I believe that if Yelena Andreevna wanted to she could turn my head in a day
00:53:32that's not love that's not affection
00:53:37what is it?
00:53:38nothing
00:53:41in the first day of Lent
00:53:43one of my patients died under clariform
00:53:45oh you must forget about that
00:53:46yes
00:53:49tell me
00:53:52Mihalovic
00:53:54if I had a friend
00:53:57or younger sister
00:53:59and if you got to know that she
00:54:04well
00:54:05suppose
00:54:06that she loved you
00:54:09what would you do?
00:54:14I don't know
00:54:18probably nothing
00:54:21I tell her that I couldn't love her
00:54:25besides I've got too many other things on my mind
00:54:30well
00:54:30if I'm going
00:54:32I ought to start
00:54:35and I'll say goodbye
00:54:37my dear girl or
00:54:38we'll be here until morning
00:54:40I'll go through the drawing room if I may
00:54:42otherwise I'm afraid your uncle Vanya may keep me all night
00:55:06well
00:55:081
00:55:082
00:55:092
00:55:103
00:55:124
00:55:144
00:55:156
00:55:266
00:55:38He said nothing to me, his soul and his heart are still shut off from me, so why do I
00:55:47feel
00:55:48so happy? I told him, you have dignity and nobility of mind, and such a soft voice, but did it
00:56:02sound out of place, his voice vibrates and caresses, I can
00:56:12almost feel it in the air now, but when I said that to him about a younger sister, he didn't
00:56:19understand, oh how dreadful it is, I'm not pretty, I know I'm not, I know, I know, last Sunday as
00:56:35people were coming out of church, I heard them talking
00:56:38about me, and a woman said, she's kind and generous, but what a pity she is so plain, so plain.
00:57:03The form's over.
00:57:16Hmm, oh, the air is so fresh. Where's the doctor? He's gone. Sonia. What? How long are you going to
00:57:30go on being sulky with me? We've done each other no harm, so why
00:57:35should we be enemies? Oh, let's make it up.
00:57:44I want it to myself. Oh, don't let me cross any more. Oh, no. Oh, that's better.
00:57:53Has Papa gone to bed? Oh, no. He's in the drawing room.
00:57:59What's this?
00:58:00The doctor's been having supper. Oh, there's wine too. Oh, let's drink to our friendship.
00:58:07Out of the left. Out of the same glass, shall we? Yes. Oh, it's better like that.
00:58:14There.
00:58:16No.
00:58:28Oh, now we're real friends. Friends. I wanted to make it up for ever so long, but I felt so
00:58:36ashamed.
00:58:38Why are you crying? Never mind. There's no reason. Oh, don't cry. Oh, there. No.
00:58:49Oh, I'm a queer creature. I'm crying too. You're angry with me because you think I married your father for
00:59:01the wrong reasons.
00:59:02If it helps you, I'll swear. I married him for love. I was attracted to him as a learned man.
00:59:11A celebrity. It wasn't real love, but it did seem real to me at that moment. I'm not to blame.
00:59:21And ever since our marriage, you've been punishing me with those shrewd, suspicious eyes of yours.
00:59:25Oh, please, please, let's forget about it. You mustn't look at people like that. It doesn't suit you.
00:59:30You should have trust in everyone.
00:59:35Or your life becomes impossible.
00:59:40Tell me, frankly, as a friend, are you happy?
00:59:48No.
00:59:50I knew that.
00:59:52One more question.
00:59:55Tell me, honestly, wouldn't you have liked your husband to be young?
01:00:00Oh, goat. What a child you are still.
01:00:08Of course I should.
01:00:13Oh, ask me some more questions.
01:00:16Go on. Oh, do.
01:00:19Do you like the doctor?
01:00:22Yes.
01:00:23Yes, very much.
01:00:24Oh, he's gone.
01:00:26But I can still hear his voice.
01:00:28And when I look at the dark window, I can see his face.
01:00:31Don't let me tell you.
01:00:34I mustn't speak so loudly. I feel ashamed.
01:00:37Well, go to my room. Talk then.
01:00:46Do I seem absurd to you?
01:00:48No.
01:00:56Tell me something about him.
01:00:59Oh, what shall I tell you?
01:01:02He's so clever.
01:01:03He knows how to do things. He can do anything.
01:01:06He cures the sick and he plants forests too.
01:01:09It is the question of forests or medicine.
01:01:11Oh, my dear, don't you understand?
01:01:13He has a spark of genius.
01:01:15Oh, and you know what that means.
01:01:16Courage, freedom of mind, breadth of outlook.
01:01:19He plants a tree and pictures.
01:01:23What will come of it in a thousand years' time?
01:01:27And he speculates on the future happiness of mankind.
01:01:33Oh, such people are rare, and we must love them.
01:01:37He drinks.
01:01:39Sometimes he seems a little coarse.
01:01:43But what does that matter?
01:01:44A talented man cannot stay unblemished in Russia.
01:01:47Oh, just think of the life that this doctor leads.
01:01:53Impassable mud on the roads, frosts, snowstorms.
01:01:57Past distances.
01:01:59Crude, primitive people.
01:02:02Poverty and disease all around him.
01:02:07Oh.
01:02:09It's hard for a man to keep pure and sober till his 40.
01:02:14I wish you happiness with all my heart.
01:02:18You deserve it.
01:02:20I am just a tiresome person of no importance.
01:02:25In my music studies, in my home life, in all my romantic affairs.
01:02:32In fact, in everything, I've always been just a person of no importance.
01:02:40Really, Sonia, when you come to think of it, I'm a very, very unfortunate woman.
01:02:47There's no happiness for me, here on this earth.
01:02:59Why do you laugh?
01:03:01I'm so happy.
01:03:03I'm so happy.
01:03:03So happy.
01:03:04Oh.
01:03:06Oh.
01:03:08I should like to play something.
01:03:11Oh, I should like to play something now.
01:03:14Do.
01:03:15Do play.
01:03:15I can't sleep.
01:03:16I can't sleep.
01:03:18Oh, no.
01:03:19No, in a minute.
01:03:20Your father isn't asleep when he's unwell.
01:03:23Music irritates him.
01:03:25Go and ask him.
01:03:26If he doesn't mind, I'll play.
01:03:28But go.
01:03:30Go.
01:03:39It's a long time since I've played the piano.
01:03:43I shall play.
01:03:47And cry.
01:03:49Cry like a foolish girl.
01:04:07Is that you tapping, Matthew?
01:04:09Yes, me.
01:04:10Don't tap.
01:04:11The master's not well.
01:04:12I'm just going...
01:04:13Heal up.
01:04:15Good.
01:04:15Come on.
01:04:16Good.
01:04:17Good.
01:04:18Good.
01:04:20Good.
01:04:20Good.
01:04:32Good.
01:04:34Good.
01:04:35We mustn't.
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