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00:00:01Let's pray.
00:00:46The Herr Profesor has graciously expressed the wish that we should all assemble here at one o'clock.
00:00:55It is now a quarter to two.
00:01:00He desires to make some communication with the world.
00:01:08It's probably some business matter.
00:01:10He does no business. He just writes nonsense, grumbles, and his jokes.
00:01:15Uncle.
00:01:16Oh, well, ah, I apologize.
00:01:22Just look at her.
00:01:24She can't even walk without staggering. She's so lazy. Wonderful, wonderful.
00:01:29And you drone on all day long. Aren't you tired of it?
00:01:35I'm dying of boredom.
00:01:38I don't know what to do.
00:01:42Isn't there plenty to do if you wanted to?
00:01:46Who? What?
00:01:48You could help run the estate, teach the children, help to look after the sick.
00:01:53There's plenty to do.
00:01:55Before you and Papa came here, Uncle Vanya and I used to go to the market ourselves and sell the
00:02:00flower.
00:02:01Well, I don't know how to.
00:02:03Anyway, I'm not interested.
00:02:05It's only in idealistic novels that people teach and doctor the peasants.
00:02:10Oh, how am I suddenly to start teaching and doctoring?
00:02:13Well, I don't understand how you can help wanting to.
00:02:17Wait a little.
00:02:18You'll get used to the idea.
00:02:22Now, don't be depressed, dear.
00:02:25You're bored and don't know what to do with yourself, but boredom and idleness are infectious.
00:02:30Look, Uncle Vanya isn't doing anything either.
00:02:34Just following you about like a shadow.
00:02:37And I've left my work to come and talk to you.
00:02:41I've grown quite lazy. I can't help it.
00:02:45I can't help it.
00:02:46The doctor, Nehalovovich, only used to come and see us very rarely.
00:02:51Once a month it was hard to persuade him.
00:02:54Now he comes here every day.
00:02:57He's neglecting his forestry and his practice.
00:03:02You must be a witch.
00:03:06Why be miserable!
00:03:10Come, my dear wonderful woman.
00:03:14A mermaid's blood flows in your veins.
00:03:16So be a mermaid!
00:03:18Let yourself go for once in your life and fall.
00:03:20Passionately in love with some water, sprite and plunge.
00:03:23Head first into deep water.
00:03:26So that the Herr Professor and all of us throw up our hands in amazement.
00:03:30Leave me alone.
00:03:33This is cruel.
00:03:40Come.
00:03:44Come.
00:03:46Forgive me.
00:03:48My treasure.
00:03:51I apologize.
00:03:56Peace.
00:03:59You'll try the patience of an angel, you know.
00:04:04Yes.
00:04:05A token of peace.
00:04:07Peace.
00:04:08And harmony.
00:04:10I'll bring you a bunch of roses.
00:04:19I've had them ready for you since this morning.
00:04:23Autumn roses.
00:04:26Exquisite.
00:04:29Mournful roses.
00:04:55Mournful roses.
00:05:03It's September already.
00:05:07How are we going to live through the winter here?
00:05:13I suppose we're going to the doctor.
00:05:18In Uncle Vanya's room.
00:05:21Right.
00:05:23I'm glad Uncle Vanya's gone.
00:05:27I must have talked with you.
00:05:29What's that about?
00:05:31What about?
00:05:32Oh no.
00:05:34Now don't.
00:05:35I'm not good looking.
00:05:36You have beautiful hair.
00:05:38No.
00:05:38No.
00:05:40When a woman is plain, they always say, you have beautiful eyes, you have beautiful hair.
00:05:49I've loved him now for six years.
00:05:53I love him more than I did my mother.
00:05:58Every moment I seem to hear him.
00:06:01To feel his hand in mine.
00:06:04And I look at the door waiting, expecting him to come in.
00:06:08Oh, you can see how I keep coming to you just to talk about him.
00:06:14Now he comes here every day.
00:06:18But he doesn't look at me.
00:06:21He doesn't see me.
00:06:24I have no hope at all.
00:06:26None.
00:06:27None.
00:06:30Oh, Lord, give me strength.
00:06:33Oh, dear.
00:06:34I've been praying all night.
00:06:39I often go up to him, start talking to him, look into his eyes.
00:06:43I have no more pride.
00:06:45No strength left to control myself.
00:06:48I couldn't help it.
00:06:52Yesterday I told Uncle Vanya I am in love.
00:06:56And all the servants know.
00:06:58Everyone knows.
00:07:00And he?
00:07:02He doesn't notice me.
00:07:05Hmm.
00:07:07He's a strange man.
00:07:11I've an idea.
00:07:13Let me talk to him.
00:07:16But I'll be careful.
00:07:18I'll do it in a roundabout way.
00:07:20Yes, really.
00:07:22After all, how much longer are you to remain in uncertainty?
00:07:25Now let me.
00:07:28Oh, that's fine.
00:07:30It won't be difficult to find out whether he loves you or not.
00:07:33Oh, darling.
00:07:34Oh, no.
00:07:34Now, you mustn't feel ashamed.
00:07:36Don't worry.
00:07:37I'll question him so carefully he won't notice.
00:07:41All we want to find out is if it's yes or no.
00:07:47If it's no, he mustn't come here anymore, must he?
00:07:54Well, it would be easier to bear, then, if you didn't see him.
00:07:59Now, we won't put it off.
00:08:00I'll talk to him straight away.
00:08:01He was going to show me some charts.
00:08:04Go tell him.
00:08:05I want to see them now.
00:08:07You will tell me the whole truth.
00:08:08Oh, darling, of course I will.
00:08:10I think it's better to know the truth.
00:08:12Whatever it may be, nothing is so dreadful as uncertainty.
00:08:14Now, trust me.
00:08:16Yes.
00:08:17Yes.
00:08:19I'll tell him you want to see his charts.
00:08:24No.
00:08:26Uncertainty is better.
00:08:28At least there's some hope.
00:08:31What do you say?
00:08:33Nothing.
00:08:38There's nothing worse than knowing someone's secret and not being able to help.
00:08:43Well, he doesn't love her.
00:08:45Hmm.
00:08:46That's obvious.
00:08:48Why shouldn't he marry her?
00:08:50She's not pretty.
00:08:53But she'd make an excellent wife for a country doctor.
00:08:56But at his time of life, she's intelligent, she's kind, and she's pure.
00:09:06No.
00:09:10Oh, I understand the poor girl so well.
00:09:14Amidst all this desperate boredom, he appears so different from the rest.
00:09:25Handsome, interesting, and attractive, like, oh, like a bright moon rising in the dark.
00:09:37Oh, to fall under the spell of a man like that.
00:09:44To forget oneself.
00:09:50I believe I'm even a little attracted to him.
00:09:53Yes.
00:09:54I'm bored when he's not about.
00:09:57And here I am, smiling when I think of him.
00:09:59Uncle Vanya says I have mermaid's blood in my veins.
00:10:05Let yourself go for once in your life.
00:10:10Perhaps that's what I ought to do.
00:10:14Oh.
00:10:16To fly away, free as a bird, away from all of you.
00:10:26I'm timid and shy.
00:10:30Oh, my conscience would drive me to distraction.
00:10:33He comes here every day.
00:10:37And I can guess why.
00:10:39Already I feel guilty.
00:10:42I want to throw myself on my knees before Sonia and ask for forgiveness.
00:10:46And cry.
00:10:47I...
00:10:49Good day to you.
00:10:52You wish to see my artistic handiwork?
00:10:56Yesterday you promised to show me.
00:10:59Are you free now?
00:11:01But of course.
00:11:24Where were you born?
00:11:25In Petersburg.
00:11:28Where did you study?
00:11:29At the School of Music.
00:11:30Ah.
00:11:37Um...
00:11:39I don't suppose this will interest you.
00:11:41Why not? It's true I don't know the country.
00:11:44I've read a great deal.
00:11:48I have a table of my own here.
00:11:50In Vanya's room.
00:11:54When I'm completely exhausted I escape there and...
00:11:57I...
00:11:58Amuse myself for an hour or two with this.
00:12:02Vanya and Sonia click away at their counting beads and I...
00:12:04Sit beside them at my table and...
00:12:06I mess about with my pinks.
00:12:09It's warm and snug and the...
00:12:12Cricket sings.
00:12:18I don't allow myself this pleasure too often just once a month.
00:12:23Please.
00:12:28Please.
00:12:28Now...
00:12:30Look here.
00:12:32It's a map of our district as it was 50 years ago.
00:12:36The dark and light green stands for forest.
00:12:38Half of the whole area was covered with forest.
00:12:41Where there's a sort of network of red over the green.
00:12:43Elks and wild goats were common.
00:12:46I show both the flora and fauna here.
00:12:49This lake was the home of swans, geese and ducks.
00:12:52There was a power of birds as the old people say.
00:12:55Of all kinds.
00:12:56No end of them.
00:12:57They flew in clouds.
00:13:00As well as the villages in Hamlet you can see all sorts of small settlements scattered.
00:13:04Here and there.
00:13:06Small farms, monasteries and water mills.
00:13:10The cattle and horses were numerous.
00:13:12That's shown by the...
00:13:14Blue colour.
00:13:16For instance there's a lot of blue in this part of the region.
00:13:19There were any number of horses there.
00:13:21Every homestead had three on the average.
00:13:27Well let's look low down.
00:13:38Ah.
00:13:40This is the area as it was 25 years ago.
00:13:44Already only a third of the area is under forest.
00:13:48The goats have disappeared.
00:13:49There's still some elks.
00:13:52The green and blue colours are paler and so on.
00:13:56Now let's look at the third section.
00:14:04Now.
00:14:10This is a map of the area as it is now.
00:14:12There are still some greens scattered here and there.
00:14:15But they're only patchy.
00:14:19Swans, geese, elks and wood grass have all disappeared.
00:14:22There isn't a trace of the small farms, water mills, monasteries that were there before.
00:14:27In general it's an unmistakable picture of gradual decay which will obviously be complete in another...
00:14:33...ten, fifteen years.
00:14:36You may say it is the influence of civilization that the old way of life naturally had to give way
00:14:40to the new.
00:14:40Yes, and I would agree with you.
00:14:42But if on the site of these ruined forests there were now...
00:14:45...roads and railways, if there were workshops and factories and schools then the people would be healthier, better off, better
00:14:49educated, but there's nothing of the sort here.
00:14:51There's still the same swamps and mosquitoes, the same absence of roads, the entire poverty, typhus, diphtheria, fires.
00:15:02We have a picture of decay due to an insupportable struggle for existence, to inertia, to ignorance, to utter irresponsibility.
00:15:11When a sick, hungry, shivering man simply to save what is left of his life and to protect his children...
00:15:17...instinctively and unconsciously clutches at anything that will satisfy his hunger and keep him warm...
00:15:24...and in so doing destroys everything without a thought for tomorrow.
00:15:30And practically everything has been destroyed already.
00:15:35Nothing has been created in its place.
00:16:01I see from your expression it doesn't interest you.
00:16:05Oh, forgive me. I understand.
00:16:07So do you.
00:16:07a little of all this.
00:16:08There's nothing to understand.
00:16:09You're just not interested.
00:16:11To be perfectly honest, my mind was on something else.
00:16:17Forgive me.
00:16:18I want to put you through a little interrogation.
00:16:21But I feel rather embarrassed.
00:16:23I don't know how to begin.
00:16:25Interrogation?
00:16:26Yes, an interrogation.
00:16:27Oh, it's a fairly innocent one.
00:16:30Shall we sit down?
00:16:39It concerns a certain young person.
00:16:43Let us talk frankly like friends without beating about the bush.
00:16:47Let us talk it over and forget about it afterwards.
00:16:50Agreed?
00:16:50Agreed.
00:16:52The matter concerns my stepdaughter Sonia.
00:16:56Tell me, do you like her?
00:16:59Yes, I respect her.
00:17:01Do you like her as a woman?
00:17:04No.
00:17:06One thing more and then it'll be over.
00:17:09Have you noticed nothing?
00:17:14Nothing.
00:17:15You don't love her. I can see it from your eyes.
00:17:19She...
00:17:20She is suffering.
00:17:22Understand that and stop coming here.
00:17:29My time is over.
00:17:31I have too much to do.
00:17:32I'm too busy for such things.
00:17:37What an unpleasant conversation.
00:17:39I feel as though I've been carrying a great weight.
00:17:43Anyway, we've finished now, thank heaven.
00:17:45Let's forget it as if we hadn't talked and...
00:17:49Go away.
00:17:51You're an intelligent man, you'll understand.
00:17:55Oh...
00:17:56I feel quite flushed.
00:18:00There's a...
00:18:02If you told me a month or two ago, I might perhaps have considered.
00:18:07But...
00:18:07Now?
00:18:11Of course, if she is suffering, then...
00:18:12Of course I will go away.
00:18:16There's only one thing I don't understand.
00:18:19Why did you have to interrogate me?
00:18:25Oh, you're a sly one.
00:18:26What does that mean?
00:18:27You're sly!
00:18:28Suppose Sonia is suffering.
00:18:29I'm prepared to think it's probable.
00:18:30What was the purpose of this cross-examination?
00:18:32Please don't try to look astonished.
00:18:33You know perfectly well why I come here every day.
00:18:35Why?
00:18:36And on whose account you know very well indeed.
00:18:39You know very well indeed, you wonderful bird of prey.
00:18:41Please, don't look at me like that.
00:18:42I'm a wise old sparrow.
00:18:43Bird of prey?
00:18:44I don't understand at all.
00:18:44Beautiful fluffy weasel, then.
00:18:46You must have a victim here.
00:18:47I've been doing nothing for a whole month.
00:18:48I've dropped everything.
00:18:49I seek you out hungrily.
00:18:50And you're awfully pleased about it.
00:18:51Awfully.
00:18:53Well, I'm conquered.
00:18:54But you knew that without an interrogation.
00:18:57I submit.
00:18:58Devour me.
00:18:59You've taken leave of your senses.
00:19:00Oh, you're coy.
00:19:01Oh, I'm not so mean.
00:19:02I'll go away today.
00:19:03I won't come again.
00:19:04I won't come.
00:19:04Just tell me.
00:19:05Where shall I see you?
00:19:06Someone may come here.
00:19:07Tell me quickly where.
00:19:08And how wonderful.
00:19:10How beautiful you are.
00:19:11One kiss.
00:19:12If only I could kiss your fragrant hair.
00:19:13I swear to you.
00:19:14I swear anything.
00:19:15There's no need.
00:19:16No need for unnecessary words.
00:19:18How beautiful you are.
00:19:20Just your hands.
00:19:21Oh, no, no.
00:19:22Now that's enough.
00:19:22Speak, speak.
00:19:23Where shall we meet?
00:19:24You see it's inevitable that we must see each other.
00:19:32Oh, no.
00:19:32Don't leave me.
00:19:33Don't spare me.
00:19:35Please.
00:19:35Come to the plantation tomorrow.
00:19:37Two o'clock or you'll come.
00:19:38Oh!
00:19:39Oh, let me go.
00:19:40Oh, this is dreadful.
00:19:44Nothing.
00:19:45Nothing.
00:19:59The weather's not too bad today, my dear Ivan Petrovich.
00:20:02It was overcast this morning as though it was going to rain.
00:20:06But now it is fine.
00:20:08It must be admitted that the autumns have turned out very fine.
00:20:12And the winter corn is quite promising.
00:20:19Though, uh, the days are getting short.
00:20:26You will try.
00:20:28You will do your utmost to see that my husband and I leave here today for certain.
00:20:33Do you here today for certain?
00:20:36What?
00:20:37Oh, yes, to be sure.
00:20:40Do you hear?
00:20:41I must leave here this very day.
00:20:47I am not too well myself, Your Excellency.
00:20:50I've been poor here for the last two days.
00:20:53Something's the matter with my head.
00:20:57Now where are the others?
00:20:59Oh, I don't like this house.
00:21:01It's like a sort of a labyrinth.
00:21:02Twenty-six enormous rooms.
00:21:04People wander off in all directions.
00:21:06No finding anyone.
00:21:08Ask Maria Vasilyevna and Yelena Andriyevna to come here.
00:21:12I am here.
00:21:14Oh.
00:21:15Oh, sit down, my friends.
00:21:20What did he say? Tell me.
00:21:22I'll tell you presently.
00:21:24You're trembling. You're upset.
00:21:27I understand.
00:21:29He said he wouldn't be coming here anymore.
00:21:32Yes?
00:21:34Tell me yes.
00:21:44One can put up with ill health after all, but what I can't endure is the whole pattern of life
00:21:49in the country.
00:21:50I feel as though I've been cast off on some strange planet.
00:21:55Please.
00:21:57Sit down, my friends.
00:21:59Please.
00:22:00Sonia.
00:22:02Sonia.
00:22:04Oh, she wasn't here.
00:22:06You sit down too, Nanny.
00:22:11My friends.
00:22:14Lend me your ears.
00:22:16As the saying goes.
00:22:19Maybe I'm not wanted here. Can I go?
00:22:22You're needed more than anyone.
00:22:24What do you require from me?
00:22:27Require from you? Why?
00:22:29Are you annoyed about something?
00:22:30If I've offended you in any way, please excuse me.
00:22:34Don't adopt that tone with me.
00:22:37Let us come to business. Tell me what you want from me.
00:22:39Here's my one.
00:22:46Let me begin, my friends.
00:22:50I've invited you here, ladies and gentlemen, to inform you that the Inspector General is coming to visit us.
00:22:59And never joking apart.
00:23:01This is a serious matter, and I've called you together to ask your help and advice,
00:23:06and knowing how obliging you always are, I hope to receive it.
00:23:11I am an academic bookish man, and I've never had anything to do with practical life.
00:23:17I must have guidance from people better informed than I am.
00:23:22So, I want to ask you, Ivan Petrovich, and you, Ilya Ilyich, and you, my man.
00:23:32Uh, the point is, Mene Tomnys Una Nox.
00:23:38We are all mortal. I am old and ill.
00:23:41And I think it's high time I settled my property insofar as it concerns my family.
00:23:49My own life is over now.
00:23:52I'm not thinking of myself.
00:23:54But I have a young wife and an unmarried daughter.
00:23:58It is impossible for me to go on living in the country.
00:24:03We are not made for country life.
00:24:05But to live in town on the income we receive from this estate is also impossible.
00:24:11Suppose we sold the forest.
00:24:14That would be an exceptional measure which could not be repeated every year.
00:24:19We must find means which will guarantee us a permanent, more or less definite income.
00:24:25One such measure has occurred to me.
00:24:28I would like to submit it for your consideration, omitting the details.
00:24:31I will describe it in rough outline.
00:24:35Our estate yields, on an average, not more than 2% on its capital value.
00:24:41I propose we sell it.
00:24:44If we invest the money in suitable securities, we should get from 4% to 5%.
00:24:50And I think we might even have a few thousand rupees to spare to buy a small villa in Finland.
00:24:57Moment.
00:24:59Surely I haven't been hearing correctly. Say that again.
00:25:03I propose investing the money in suitable securities and, with whatever is left, buying a villa in Finland.
00:25:11No, not Finland. You said something else.
00:25:14I propose we sell the estate.
00:25:16That's it.
00:25:17We sell the estate.
00:25:19A fine idea. Magnificent.
00:25:22And where do you propose that I should go with my old mother and Sonia here?
00:25:29We'll discuss all that in due course. We can't do everything at once.
00:25:33Wait a moment.
00:25:36I must have been incredibly stupid all this time.
00:25:40Up till now I've been foolish enough to believe that this estate belonged to Sonia.
00:25:43My father bought it as a diary for my sister.
00:25:47I've been too simple.
00:25:49Not interpreting the law like a Turk.
00:25:52I thought that my sister's estate passed to Sonia.
00:25:54Certainly the estate belongs to Sonia, who's disputing it.
00:25:59Without Sonia's consent, I wouldn't consider selling it.
00:26:02Besides, I'm proposing that it should be sold for Sonia's benefit.
00:26:07That's inconceivable.
00:26:08Inconceivable.
00:26:10Either I've gone out of my mind or...
00:26:12Jean, don't contradict Alexandra.
00:26:16Believe me, he knows better than we do what's good for us and what isn't.
00:26:19No!
00:26:21Give me some water.
00:26:24Say whatever you like. Say anything.
00:26:27I don't understand why you're so upset, I don't say.
00:26:31My plan is ideal.
00:26:32If everyone thinks it's unsuitable, I won't insist on it.
00:26:38Um, towards learning, Your Excellency, I have not merely a feeling of reverence, but a sort of family relationship as
00:26:52well.
00:26:52The brother of my brother's wife, Konstantin Efimović Lekidomonov.
00:26:58Possibly you know him. He was near me.
00:27:00Stop!
00:27:04We're talking business. Wait a little later.
00:27:09Here.
00:27:10Ask him.
00:27:12This estate was bought from his uncle.
00:27:14Indeed.
00:27:16Why should I ask him? What for?
00:27:19The estate was bought at the time for 95,000 roubles.
00:27:21My father only paid 70,000 and 25,000 remained on mortgage.
00:27:25Now listen.
00:27:28This estate would never have been bought if I hadn't given up my share of the inheritance in favour of
00:27:32my sister, whom I love dearly.
00:27:34What's more, I worked like an ox for 10 years and paid off the whole mortgage.
00:27:38I wish I'd never started this discussion.
00:27:40This estate is in good condition and free from debt simply because of my own efforts.
00:27:43And now that I'm growing old, I'm to be kicked out.
00:27:45I don't know what you're driving at.
00:27:46For 25 years, I've been managing this estate.
00:27:49I've been working and sending you money like the most conscientious bailiff.
00:27:53And not once have you ever thanked me for it.
00:27:56All this time, both when I was young and now, you paid me a salary of 500 roubles a year,
00:28:02a pittance.
00:28:04And never once have you thought to add a single rouble.
00:28:07Ivan Petrovich, how was I to know I'm not a practical man? I don't understand these matters.
00:28:14You could have taken as much as you liked.
00:28:17Oh, yes.
00:28:19Why didn't I steal?
00:28:22Why don't you all laugh at me because I didn't steal?
00:28:25It would have been fair and I wouldn't have been a pauper now.
00:28:29Sure.
00:28:29Oh, dear, I don't.
00:28:30Don't have all of a treadmill.
00:28:32We're all on such good terms here.
00:28:33Don't spoil it.
00:28:34You mustn't.
00:28:44Don't spoil it.
00:28:48Don't spoil it.
00:29:03I'm sorry.
00:29:05articles by heart but now my eyes are open i see it all all your works which i used to
00:29:11love aren't
00:29:11worth two kopecks you have deceived us oh don't make him stop i'll go i will not be silent wait
00:29:22i haven't finished yet you have ruined my life i haven't lived i have not lived thanks to you
00:29:29i've destroyed i've annihilated the best years of my life you are my worst enemy to speak to me like
00:29:38this you non-entity if the estate is yours keep it i don't need it i'm going away from this
00:29:45hell
00:29:45this very minute i can't stand it any longer ruined my life i had talent courage intelligence
00:29:52i've had a normal life i might have been a Schopenhauer or Dostoevsky oh i'm talking rubbish
00:29:58father i'm in despair mother do us that he can't tell you
00:30:02granny granny mother tell me what to do what can i do now i know what i must do
00:30:11you'll remember me
00:30:18what does he mean by this behavior send the madman away i won't stay under the same roof with him
00:30:26he lives there almost next door to me make him move to the village or into the lodge or i'll
00:30:31move
00:30:31i'll not stay in the same house with him we'll leave here today we'll make plans immediately that not
00:30:37you must have pity papa uncle vania and i are so unhappy
00:30:44you must have pity remember when you were younger uncle vania and grandmama used to spend whole
00:30:50nights translating books for you copying your manuscripts whole nights on end whole nights
00:30:56uncle vania and i worked without rest we were afraid to spend a penny on ourselves and send it all
00:31:02to
00:31:02you we really did earn our daily bread i'm saying it all wrong all wrong
00:31:12but you must understand us papa you must have pity oh alexandra for heaven's sake go and talk it over
00:31:23with him i beseech you very well i'll talk to him i'm not accusing of him anything i i i
00:31:33i'm not angry
00:31:34but you must agree with me that his behavior is very strange to say the least of it very well
00:31:42i'll go and see oh be as gentle as you can try to reassure him
00:31:49nanny nanny oh never mind child the ganders will cackle a bit and then leave off
00:31:58they'll cackle and leave nanny oh you're shivering as though you were out in a frost
00:32:07oh there there my little orphan god is merciful a drink of lime flower tea or hot raspberry little
00:32:16past now don't get so upset my little orphan
00:32:28oh
00:32:29Stop him! Stop him! He's gone there!
00:32:32Help! Stop him!
00:32:37Give him to me! Give him to me! I'll let you!
00:32:44No!
00:32:45Let me go!
00:32:48Where is it?
00:32:50Jean! Jean!
00:32:57Ben!
00:33:02Missed.
00:33:06Missed again!
00:33:08Damnation! Devil! Devil, take it!
00:33:11Take me away from you! Take me away from you!
00:33:14What have I done? What am I doing?
00:33:17Nanny, dear! Nanny!
00:33:41Hurry up, Marina Timmer Faevna. They'll soon be calling us to say goodbye. They've ordered the horses to be brought
00:33:48round.
00:33:48There isn't much left.
00:33:50They're going to Harkov. They'd have lived there.
00:33:53That'll be much better.
00:33:54Yes, sir.
00:33:55They've had a fright.
00:33:57Liliana Andreyevna keeps saying, I won't stay here another hour. Let's get away. Let's get away.
00:34:05When we've lived in Harkov for a bit and had a look round, we'll send for our thing, she says.
00:34:12We'll live again as we used to, in the old way.
00:34:16Morning tea, soon after seven, dinner at twelve, and we'll sit down to supper in the evenings.
00:34:23Everything as it should be. Just like other people. Like Christians.
00:34:31It's a long time since I tasted noodles, sinner that I am.
00:34:36Yes, it is a long time since they gave us noodles at dinner.
00:34:41A long time.
00:34:43Marina Timmer Faevna, as I was walking in the village this morning, the shopkeeper shouted out at me.
00:34:50You, scrounger, living on other people. I was so hurtful.
00:34:55You shouldn't take any notice.
00:34:58We all live on guard.
00:35:00You and Sonia and Ivan Petrovich are just the same.
00:35:04None of us sit with folded hands. We are all working. All of us.
00:35:09Where is Sonia?
00:35:11In the garden with the doctor looking for Ivan Petrovich.
00:35:15They're afraid he may do himself harm.
00:35:18Where's his pistol?
00:35:22I've hidden it in the cellar.
00:35:25What goings on?
00:35:32Leave me alone.
00:35:36Leave me alone.
00:35:38Please go away for only for an hour. I can't stand being watched.
00:35:41Certainly if I'm out.
00:35:48You old gander, ga ga ga.
00:35:54Leave me alone.
00:35:56With the greatest pleasure.
00:35:59I ought to have left hours ago.
00:36:01But I repeat I'm not going until you give me back what you took from me.
00:36:05I didn't take anything.
00:36:06I'm speaking seriously. Don't keep me waiting.
00:36:08I haven't taken anything from you.
00:36:10No?
00:36:12Well I'll wait a little longer.
00:36:14Then I'm sorry I'll have to use force.
00:36:17We'll tie your hands together and we'll search you.
00:36:19I'm speaking absolutely in earnest.
00:36:21As you please.
00:36:24To have made such a fool of myself.
00:36:26To have fired twice and missed both times I shall never forgive myself.
00:36:29If you really felt like shooting someone you'd have done better to take a pot shot at yourself.
00:36:37It's strange.
00:36:38I tried to commit murder yet no one arrests me.
00:36:40No one charges me with anything.
00:36:42It can only mean they must think I'm a madman.
00:36:48I'm mad.
00:36:50But those who conceal their utter lack of talent.
00:36:52Their dullness.
00:36:53Their complete heartlessness.
00:36:55Behind the mask of a professor.
00:36:57A learned quack.
00:36:59They aren't mad.
00:37:01Women aren't mad.
00:37:03Who marry old husbands and then deceive them for everyone to see.
00:37:06I saw you!
00:37:07With your arms around her.
00:37:09I saw it!
00:37:09Yes I did put my arms around her which is more than you ever did.
00:37:11The world must be mad to let you go on living on it.
00:37:13I just think silly.
00:37:14Well I'm mad.
00:37:15I'm irresponsible.
00:37:16I have a right to say silly things.
00:37:18Oh that's no trick.
00:37:19You're not mad.
00:37:19You're simply a crank.
00:37:20Silly fool.
00:37:22I used to think all cranks were ill or abnormal.
00:37:25Now I believe it's perfectly normal for a man to be a crank.
00:37:28You're perfectly normal.
00:37:29I feel so ashamed.
00:37:32If only you knew how ashamed I feel.
00:37:34It's worse than any pain.
00:37:35It's unbearable.
00:37:38What am I to do?
00:37:39What can I do?
00:37:41Nothing.
00:37:45Give me something.
00:37:49Good God I'm 47.
00:37:52If I live to be 60 I have another 13 years.
00:37:54How am I to get through them?
00:37:55How shall I fill my time?
00:37:58What can I do?
00:38:02Oh don't you see?
00:38:07If only we could live the rest of our life in some new way.
00:38:13To wake up on a clear calm morning and feel that we were starting our lives over again.
00:38:19That all our past was blown away like smoke all forgotten.
00:38:25Hmm.
00:38:28To begin a new life.
00:38:31Tell me how. What when?
00:38:32Oh get away with you. A new life indeed.
00:38:35Our situation is hopeless. Yours and mine.
00:38:38You mean that?
00:38:39I'm certain of it.
00:38:42Give me something.
00:38:45I have a burning sensation here.
00:38:47Stop it!
00:38:50It's the people who come after us in 100, 200 years time and despise us for having lived in so
00:38:55stupid and tasteless a fashion.
00:38:58Perhaps they'll find a way to be happy.
00:39:01That's for us.
00:39:04There is only one hope for you and me.
00:39:07That is when we are at rest in our graves we may have visions of that future.
00:39:13Yes my friend in the whole of this province they've only been two decent cultured men.
00:39:17You and me.
00:39:19For 10 years of this
00:39:21contemptible routine this trivial provincial life have swallowed us up bottled and poisoned our blood.
00:39:28Until now we've become as petty as the rest.
00:39:33Don't talk your way out of it.
00:39:34Give me back what you took from me.
00:39:37I didn't take anything.
00:39:38You took a bottle of morphia out of my travelling medicine chest.
00:39:42Now look here if you insist on putting an end to yourself go off into the woods and shoot yourself
00:39:46there.
00:39:47But give me back the morphia.
00:39:49Else there will be suspicion and talk people will think I've given it to you.
00:39:57It'll be quite enough to have to do your post-mortem.
00:40:00You think I'll find that interesting?
00:40:03Leave me alone.
00:40:04Sofia Alexandrovna your uncle has stolen the bottle of morphia.
00:40:07From my medicine chest and he won't give it back.
00:40:09You tell him that it's not a bit clever of him.
00:40:10Besides I haven't the time to waste I ought to be going.
00:40:13Please.
00:40:21Uncle Vanya.
00:40:23Did you take the morphia?
00:40:25He did.
00:40:26I'm seven of it.
00:40:30Give it back.
00:40:33Why frighten us like this?
00:40:37Give it back uncle Vanya.
00:40:42I dare say I'm just as unhappy as you are but I don't despair I bear it and I
00:40:50shall continue to bear it until my life comes to its natural end you must bear
00:40:56it too give it back my dear kind uncle give it up dear
00:41:10you're so good. I know you'll have pity on us and give it back
00:41:19you have to bear it uncle. you must
00:41:34yeah take it but I must occupy myself with something I must work or I can't I can't yes yes
00:41:41work work as soon as we've seen the others off we'll settle down to work we've been neglecting everything
00:41:46well now I can be on my way are you here I we're just going see Alexandra he wants to
00:41:58say something to you
00:42:02come along uncle Vanya you and papa must make it up it's essential
00:42:23I'm going away goodbye
00:42:27already the horse is awaiting
00:42:32good-bye you promised me today you'd go away I haven't forgotten I'm just going
00:42:41did you take fright was it so frightening
00:42:44yes
00:42:46why not stay all the same tomorrow the plantation yes
00:42:50no it's settled
00:42:52I'm looking at you so fearlessly now just because it is sick
00:42:56I ask only one thing of you
00:42:58think better of me
00:43:00I should like you to respect me
00:43:03ha
00:43:06do stay
00:43:06I beg you
00:43:08I must admit that you have nothing whatever to do
00:43:10no object in life nothing to occupy our mind
00:43:13so that sooner or later you're bound to give way to your feelings
00:43:16it's inevitable and better not in Harkov or somewhere down in Kursk
00:43:23but down here in the lap of nature at least it's poetical here
00:43:28even the autumns are beautiful there are forestry plantations and half ruined
00:43:34country houses in the Targenev style
00:43:36how absurd you are
00:43:39I am angry with you
00:43:42yet I shall remember you with pleasure
00:43:46you're an interesting original man
00:43:50we shall never see each other again
00:43:53so why conceal it
00:43:56you did turn my head a little
00:44:00come
00:44:01let us shake hands and part friends
00:44:05think well of me
00:44:08yes
00:44:11you'd better go
00:44:14you're so good and warm-hearted
00:44:17yet there is something strange about you
00:44:20you come along here with your husband and all of us here who'd been working
00:44:24trying to create something running around
00:44:26all of us had to drop everything and
00:44:29occupy ourselves wholly with you and
00:44:32your husband's gout
00:44:35you two infected us with your indolence
00:44:39I was attracted by you
00:44:40I haven't done anything for a whole month
00:44:42and in the meantime people have been ill
00:44:44and the peasants have been using my
00:44:46plantation of young trees as pasture for their cattle
00:44:51you see wherever you and your husband go you bring destruction with you
00:44:55I'm only joking of course
00:44:59all the same it is strange
00:45:02I believe that if you had stayed on here the devastation would have been immense
00:45:06I'd have been ruined you wouldn't have fared too well either
00:45:22I'll take this pencil as a keepsake
00:45:25well there's no one here before
00:45:28Uncle Vania comes in again with a bunch of flowers
00:45:30just allow me to miss kiss you goodbye yes
00:45:39there
00:45:41I wish you every happiness
00:45:47well for once in my life
00:45:54I must be all finita
00:46:02my dear Farnell your excellency I'm so happy
00:46:05Alexandra I'm so happy
00:46:07very well
00:46:08let bygones be bygones
00:46:10I've lived through so much in the last few hours
00:46:13I believe I could write a whole treatise on the art of living for the benefit of posterity
00:46:19I gladly accept your apologies
00:46:21and I ask you to forgive me too
00:46:25goodbye
00:46:29you will be receiving the same amount as before regularly
00:46:33everything shall be as it was
00:46:37I'm on
00:46:43Alexandra
00:46:43do have your photograph taken again and send it to me
00:46:46you know how much you mean to me
00:46:49you know how much you mean to me
00:46:50you know how much you mean to me
00:46:50goodbye your excellency
00:46:51goodbye
00:46:55goodbye everyone
00:46:56I thank you for the pleasure of your society
00:46:59I respect your attitude of mind
00:47:01your enthusiasms
00:47:02your impulses
00:47:03but permit an old man
00:47:05to add one observation to his farewell
00:47:09you must try to do real work my friends
00:47:13yes
00:47:14yes
00:47:15real work
00:47:17I wish you all happiness
00:47:19and good fortune
00:47:26goodbye your excellency
00:47:27goodbye
00:47:30goodbye
00:47:31goodbye
00:47:32goodbye
00:47:32goodbye
00:47:33thank you my dear
00:47:37goodbye
00:47:37forgive me
00:47:38forgive me
00:47:40we shall never meet again
00:47:42goodbye
00:47:44goodbye
00:47:45dear Ivan Petrovich
00:47:53goodbye
00:48:01ah waffles
00:48:02would you mind telling them to bring my horses round too please
00:48:04certainly my dear friend
00:48:05thank you
00:48:06we have secondCrystal
00:48:11goodbye
00:48:12goodbye
00:48:12goodbye
00:48:13goodbye
00:48:24bye
00:48:34you
00:48:36liebe
00:48:37aren't you going to see them off let them go I my heart is too heavy I must occupy myself
00:48:48something work work they've gone professor's glad I dare say white horses wouldn't drag him back
00:49:15they're gone
00:49:17they're gone
00:49:37God grant them a safe journey well uncle Vanya let's start work work first of all uncle let's make out
00:49:47the bills we've neglected it all dreadfully someone said for his account again today you make it out while you
00:49:55do one I'll do another
00:50:18it's a long long time since we sat at this table just the two of us
00:50:24there doesn't seem to be any ink
00:50:33but I feel sad now they've gone
00:50:42gone
00:50:56I feel like going to bed
00:51:00I feel like going to bed
00:51:01delivered to
00:51:11how quiet it is
00:51:14the pens scratch
00:51:18the crickets sing
00:51:21it's warm and snug
00:51:25oh I don't want to go
00:51:26oh my horses
00:51:33well my friends it only remains for me to say goodbye to you all
00:51:36goodbye to my desk and be off
00:51:38why are you in such a hurry
00:51:40you might as well stay
00:51:42I can't
00:51:43I can't
00:51:45remaining to your debit
00:51:47two rubles seventy five kopecks
00:51:55the horses are ready
00:51:57I had them
00:51:58take that
00:52:00and that
00:52:04don't bend the portfolio
00:52:06very good sir
00:52:13thank you
00:52:23well
00:52:26when shall we see you again
00:52:27oh not before next summer
00:52:28hardly in the winter
00:52:30of course if anything happens you'll let me know and I'll come along
00:52:35thank you for your hospitality
00:52:36for your kindness
00:52:37for
00:52:38everything in fact
00:52:41goodbye
00:52:47bye nanny
00:52:48oh
00:52:49so you're going
00:52:50before you've had any tea
00:52:52don't want any
00:52:54perhaps you'd like a drop of vodka
00:52:56well perhaps
00:53:13one of my horses went lame yesterday
00:53:16I noticed it when Petruszko took it to water
00:53:19well it's changed its shoes
00:53:21hmm
00:53:22I'll have to call in at the blacksmiths at Rajda Stvenskoye
00:53:27can't be helped
00:53:43I suppose down there in Africa the heat must be terrific now
00:53:47yes very likely
00:53:50there you are
00:53:53good health my dear
00:53:55oh you should take some bread for this
00:53:57this will be all right
00:53:59good luck to you all my friends
00:54:03don't come out to the door and ask there's no need
00:54:19February the 2nd linseed oil ten jars
00:54:22February the 16th linseed oil again
00:54:26ten jars
00:54:27you must
00:54:29buckwheat
00:54:36he's gone
00:54:48he's gone
00:54:51total
00:54:5425
00:54:57he's gone
00:54:57good
00:54:59god
00:55:01mr
00:55:10so
00:55:12no
00:55:13no
00:55:15no
00:55:17I
00:55:17can't
00:55:23love me
00:55:24if
00:55:27you do
00:55:27Shhh.
00:55:53A child?
00:55:54A child?
00:55:56Now my heart aches.
00:56:00If you only knew.
00:56:03Now my heart aches.
00:56:10But what can we do?
00:56:13We must go on living.
00:56:17We shall go on living Uncle Vanya.
00:56:21We shall live through a long, long chain of days and weary evenings.
00:56:30We shall suffer patiently the trials which fate sends us.
00:56:35We shall work for others.
00:56:38Now and in our old age.
00:56:42And we shall have no rest.
00:56:45When our time comes.
00:56:48We shall die submissively.
00:56:53And there.
00:56:55Beyond the grave.
00:56:56We shall leave.
00:56:58We shall say.
00:56:59That we've suffered.
00:57:02That we've wept.
00:57:04That life has been bitter.
00:57:08And God will take pity on us.
00:57:13And then Uncle dear.
00:57:17We shall begin to know a life which is bright.
00:57:20Lovely and beautiful.
00:57:23We shall rejoice you and I.
00:57:27And look back at these troubles of ours with tenderness.
00:57:32With a smile.
00:57:35And we shall have rest.
00:57:39I believe it Uncle.
00:57:42I believe it fervently, passionately.
00:57:47We shall have rest.
00:58:05We shall rest.
00:58:07We shall rest.
00:58:09We shall hear the angels.
00:58:13We shall see the heavens.
00:58:15covered with stars like diamonds.
00:58:20And we shall see.
00:58:22All earthly evil.
00:58:25All our sufferings.
00:58:28Swept away.
00:58:29With a grace which will fill the whole world.
00:58:34And our lives.
00:58:37Will become gentle.
00:58:40Peaceful.
00:58:42And sweet.
00:58:45As a caress.
00:58:47As a caress.
00:58:51I believe it.
00:58:55I do believe it.
00:59:00My poor Uncle Vanya.
00:59:05You've had no joy in your life.
00:59:10But wait.
00:59:12Uncle Vanya.
00:59:15Wait Uncle dear.
00:59:19We shall rest.
00:59:22We shall rest.
00:59:27We shall rest.
00:59:38We shall rest.
00:59:40We shall rest.
00:59:40We shall rest.
00:59:41I shall rest.
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