"Gorky Film Studio" "I AM TWENTY" "Screenplay by M. KHUTSIEV, G. SHPALIKOV" "Directed by Marlen KHUTSIEV" "Director of Photography Margarita PILIKHINA" "Production Designer I. ZAKHAROVA" "Music by N. SIDELNIKOV" "English Subtitles by T. Kameneva" "Cast:" "Sergey Zhuravlyov" " V. POPOV" "Nikolai Fokin" " N. GUBENKO" "Slava Kostikov" " S. LYUBSHIN" "Anya" " M.VERTINSKAYA" "Olga Mikhailovna Zhuravlyova" " Z. ZINOYEVA" "Vera Zhuravlyova" " S. STARIKOVA" "Second Lieutenant Alexander Zhuravlyov" " L. PRYGUNOV" "Lucia Kostikova" " T. BOGDANOVA" "Conductor" " L. SELYANSKAYA" "Kuzmich" " Sasha BLINOV" "Anya's Father" " L. ZOLOTUKHIN" "Chernousov" " P. SHCHERBAKOV" "Vladimir Vasilyevich" " G. NEKRASOV" "Friend" " N. ZAKHARCHENKO" "This is Radio Moscow." "Moscow time is 7:30." "Mom." "You got a leave?" "No, I came for good." "Seryozhka!" "Now, now, there she goes." "Kolka!" "Fokin!" "Seryoga!" "Seryoga!" "Hi!" "When did you come?" " What?" " I say when did you come?" "I can't hear you!" "Hi!" " Why didn't you write?" " What?" "When did you come?" " I can't hear you!" " I can't either!" "Turn it off!" "Turn off the music!" "I'm asking: why didn't you write?" "I can't hear you." "Come on down!" "Seryoga!" "Slavka!" "The elevator doesn't work as usual." "Slavka!" "Slava, you forgot!" " What?" " The bottles!" "Bring them up here!" "Come on, don't be shy." "Where have you been so long?" "Lucia, there was a queue there." "No buttermilk, I took "B"- rice." "He's just being modest." "He let all the young mothers go ahead of him, led an old lady across the street, and helped to detain a hooligan." "Is that all?" "And what's this?" "We're having a party." "We have to celebrate." "Celebrate what?" "Come in." "Seryozhka?" "Where have you come from?" "From afar." "Why are you standing there?" "Come on in." " Well, to the disarmament." " To the disarmament." "Let's join in the peaceful, constructive work." "Goodbye, guys." "Lucia, why are you fluttering there?" "How you doing here?" "What's new?" "Slavka got all the news." "He's a father, a family man, a home owner." "Yes, we got a room." " Getting into the swing of consumerism?" " I am." "Like crazy." "Bought a bra and a floor lamp." "You can't stop him now." " A money-grubber." " A skinflint." " Gobseck." " You're just envious." "And why can't single young men be envious of someone else's happy family life?" "Get your own." " How do you like my creation?" " He's all right." "What's his name?" " Volodya." " Vladimir Stanislavovich." "And the mother has changed." " For better or worse?" " Got more mature." "Got older." "How can it be otherwise, with no help from him at home?" " How old is he?" " Five months." " And twenty days." " Men grow so fast." "And we are getting old." "Well, to the peaceful..." " You'll scare the baby to death." " Depriving me of a father's rights." "To the peaceful coexistence, which might make us family men." "He'll skip it." "I didn't know you were against peaceful coexistence." " I'm not against it." " He'll skip it." "Let the enemies of peace skip this toast, but we'll drink to it." "Seryozha, eat something." "It's really great coming back from the army, everyone's happy to see you." "It seems, my dear old friend, We shouldn't have guarded our freedom." "For we have saved thus nothing less Than our own loneliness." "You know Lenka Karabanova?" "From House 12." "Pashka Kashlakov was seeing her." "She got married to a master of sports." "Zhenka Zhuravlyov is a big man." "I met Sergachyov there, he got ears like this, even bigger." " He's a great guy." " It depends on how you look at him." "He's playing for "Spartak", they gave him a room." " In Cheryomushki?" " Right." "They wake you up at night by an alert, and make you double- time 20 kilometers in full marching order." "They wake us up each night here by an alert." "It's a nice city, a green one." "Though, too hot." "We walk up to the movie theatre." ""Lonely woman" is on." " What woman?" " It's a movie, "Lonely Woman"." " Deserted woman." " Dumped woman." " Unhappy woman." " Forgotten woman." "The woman in white." "Tired woman." "Woman with a guitar." " It was the girl with a guitar." " No, the woman with a guitar." "You think so?" "I wanted to apply to the Energy Institute, but was too late." "I wouldn't have passed anyway." "One has to get prepared." "Then come to our laboratory." "They hire people with secondary education." "You're a radar specialist." "They'll take you just like that." "I think I'd rather go to the 11th heating plant here." "It won't be in the way of my studying." "And my mother will be pleased." "That's where father worked." "It's too bad, after all it's electronics, progressive technology, progressive salary, and it would be more fun to work together." "You should've said so in the first place." "All right, we'll see." " To you, Lucia." " Thanks." "I'll join this toast." "You're a very good person." "I know." "Too bad I can't." "Or I would drink with you." "I would have never thought you'd marry Slavka." "No one had thought, neither I, nor him." "Well, I guess he did think." " We've made your husband drunk." " He'll sleep it over." "This is the only way to sleep after that stuff." "Reveille." "This is a great recording!" "Good morning." " Mom, shall I help you?" " Go, or you'll be late." "All right, I'm off." "Our care is common," "That our country would live on." "And no other cares so far." "And the wind and the snow" "And the night time flight of a star" "Are calling my heart to exciting vistas from afar." "Hi." " Hi." " Nice evening." "Shall we go and rescue Slavka?" "You might die yourself but help out a friend." "Where are you going?" "To the shop, I'm out of cigarettes." "Then buy bread, too." "And we're out of butter." "Take a mayonnaise jar from the window sill and buy some sour cream." "And hamburgers, too." "We got nothing to eat for breakfast." "And squash caviar, okay?" "Salute." "Hi." "How you doing?" "Everything's okay." "Hi, Sashka." "Ghena, are you in charge today?" "Shall we dance?" "Hi." "Hi." "You don't recognize us?" "We came to Vera to study together." "We're Tosya and Shura." " Remember now?" " Right, I remember." "Nice evening." "No precipitation." "Did they teach you to keep silent in the army?" "He's keeping a military secret." "Let's go." "C'mon, I'll lead." "I just arrived and mother says you're home." "So I went to look for you." " How are you?" " Fine." "Where have you come from?" "From a Pioneer camp." "Don't look like that." "I'm already a Pioneer leader." " I'm sorry, Miss." " Not at all." " Who's he?" " An acquaintance." "I see." "Shall I keep it from Mother?" "She knows." " Does he have serious intentions?" " We'll see." "As you wish, I'm not holding you." "Slava, where're you going?" "You may stay here even for the rest of your life." " What's up?" " What's the matter?" " Are you forbidding me?" " I'm not holding you." "Big deal, we just dropped at the dances for a minute." " Seryoga, I got an idea." " What idea?" "Let's go somewhere and take a stroll." "Two girls are waiting for us." "If you don't know them, I'll introduce you." "There they are." "Which of the two do you like best?" "A third one." "I'm going home." "Why?" "What about me?" "You'll be all right." "I'm serious." "Go and dance." "I'll finish my cigarette and go home." "I'm tired." "Well, take care, then." "Or perhaps..." "Hi." " My heart's ready to jump out." " What happened?" "Nothing." "I was afraid." "Of what?" " What time is it?" " Ten." "I was afraid you'd leave." "I'm used to it." "Well, where are we going?" "Straight ahead." "Let's just walk." " Slavka, hurry up!" " Watch out!" "I do believe, my friends, in the caravans of rockets!" "Slavka, what's the matter?" "Kolka!" "One ticket." " Thanks." " Don't mention it." "I'm coming!" " Is this ticket valid there?" " No, you have to buy a new one." "Some rules you've got here!" "It is valid!" "Vorobyov Alley." "Next stop" " School." "Hello." "Did you get home alright?" " When?" " Made it to the subway in time?" " You must be mistaken." " You were running late..." " Who's she?" " A nice girl." "Never seen her before." "She's not bad at all." "What's her name?" "I never asked." "I'll find out tonight, at 8:30 at the Burevestnik Theatre." "Fast guy." "Good luck!" " Hi." " Hi." " Is Mother home?" " Will be here any minute." "Sergey." "You'll get yourself an ulcer." "Just a bite, I'm not hungry." "Where's Mother?" "She'll be here, she went to a shop." "Kuzmich!" "Nikolai Kuzmich!" "What are you doing?" "What about your homework?" "I've done it." "Listen, let's go to a bathhouse, get some steam." " All right." " Only move it, like by an alert." "Don't take the bag!" "I need to go to my training." "Want to be an Olympic champion?" "It's better than sitting and watching your belly grow." "Careful." "Crazy kids." "What is this?" "Where did you get so much?" "I got my salary." " So soon?" " No sooner than the others." "Where're you going?" "Want to go get some steam with Kuzmich." " Seryozha brought this?" " Take the plates to the kitchen." "Kept his salary to himself, instead of inviting someone to a restaurant." "I've never been to one." "He could have invited me." "One should spend his first salary on merrymaking and remember it." "And now it will all be wasted on housekeeping." "You need new shoes, Seryozha has no suit." "Well, the shoes, that's not bad." "You fool, why haven't you bought something for Mother?" "I'll do it next time." "Ther ewill be no next time." "It's like Women's Day." " Give me a ruble." " Take it from the table." "I'm off, Mom!" "C'mon Kuzmich." "You got a sponge and soap?" "Is it really a shock that Seryozhka brought his salary?" "I think it's a joy." "Drink tomato juice." "Beer and soft drinks." "Fashion house." "Collect scrap-iron." "We are collecting it." "A group of trained wild animals." "Are you getting off?" "Then let me through, please." "You're not getting off at the next stop?" "Why are you standing here then?" "By the way, she will go away now and that'll be it." "Why are you stepping on my foot?" "Young man!" "Shame on you!" "And he goes to college!" "If anyone forgot to buy a ticket, do it now!" "It'sthe last day." "The drawing is tomorrow." "Buy a ticket, If you haven't yet." "The luckiest ones are left." "Next stop" " Komsomolskaya." "October has arrived - the woods have tossed." "Their final leaves from naked branches;" "A breath of autumn chill - the road begins to freeze." "The stream still murmurs as it passes by the mill..." "How much time has it been?" "Three months?" "Yes, three months since I returned, but I have a feeling that I've never gone away." "I'm waiting for something all the time." "But for what?" "When autumn comes, I bloom anew;" "The Russian frost does winders for my health;" "Anew I fall in love with life's routine;" "Betimes I'm soothed by dreams, betimes by hunger caught... in the army, everything's clear, it's service." "Reveille!" "Yes, I envy the guys." "They have everything well ordered." "Slavka has his own life, his family." "Kolka is always doing fine." "The blood flows free and easy in my heart," "Abrim with passion;" "once again, I'm happy, young," "I'm full of life - such is my organism..." "Sergey, are you in love or what?" "You lucky devil." "I don't even remember when it happened to me." "C'mon this is not the time and place for it." "Introspection in the dusk." "The weather just couldn't be better." "It must be nice at the beach now." "Yes, some situation." "The stream still murmurs as it passes by the mill." "The pond, already frozen; my neighbor..." "My neighbor looks somewhat gloomy." "Family problems." "They get married at 20, idiots, and then walk with such faces." "If "Spartak" wins in Moscow, then ties it in Minsk, and the Kiev team loses in Rostov, then "Spartak" gets on the top and "Torpedo" has no chances, and it was a great team." " Too bad." " What's too bad?" "You talk to yourself, but it happens." "What do we do?" " Shall we go to my place?" " And watch TV?" " I haven't got a telly." " You'll buy one." "And hang about the street in the evening?" "Sure, the street isn't for the married." "Your place is in front of a telly." "As for me, only the court can sentence me to that." "I'm going home before you start crying." "Go on and prosper in the same manner." " Look at him, he got hurt." " You're just a blabbermouth." " Or maybe it's the weather?" " Maybe." "Best of luck!" "Lots of kisses, Nikolai." "What shall we do?" "Let's sign up for the dressmaking courses." "Let's go right now and sign in." "And what if it was that very thing, the only chance in life?" "Of course, I was being stupid." "I just had to come up to her." "Kolka would have never got lost." "I know where she lives: the house and the entrance." "Or maybe I just imagined it all?" "Kolia!" "Good evening." "Come here." "There's no crossing here." "Come on, quick!" "What's the matter with you?" "I was shouting and shouting..." "Hi, Seryozha." "Here, meet my friend." " Natasha." " Sergey." "Let's go." "You've gone absolutely wild, even bought yourself a hockey stick." "We're stocking up." "Any suggestions?" "I can deliver a lecture on the structure of the Universe." " Not funny." " And seriously?" "We'll look for music." "You got a two-kopeck coin?" "Two kopecks?" "Wait." "Guys, you got two kopecks?" "One, two, three, four." "Take them all." "I don't need them." " Are you leaving?" " Yes." "Wait." "Have some tea, I'll warm it up." "I'm running late." "Oh, it's winter!" "Will you call me?" "I guess you don't respect me?" "Why do you say that?" "I'm not working today." "Will be home all day." "Call me, will you?" "We can go somewhere tonight." "Maybe to the movies." "I don't know." "I got to go." "Wait, there seems to be somebody..." "You can go now." "Only be quiet." "I was so surprised yesterday when I learned it..." "Hello?" "Kuzmich, It's me, Sergey." "Is Mother home?" "Yes, home." " Get her." " All right." " Yes?" " Is Mother not home?" "She's coming." "Good morning." "Hi." "Yes?" " Mom, It's me." " Yes." " You see, I..." " Where are you?" "I was delayed at a guy's place, it was too late to go home." "It doesn't matter where you were delayed." "You're a grownup man." "But next time, please call home." "We didn't sleep all night." " Have you eaten?" " Yes." "I gotta go, there's a queue here, I'm calling from a pay phone." "What's the problem?" "I'm working." " Everybody's working." " I'm working for the family." "Am I supposed to thank you everyday for that?" "You don't have to thank me everyday, and you know it perfectly well..." "Why are you shouting?" "Maybe you're not happy with us?" "Please don't start it again." "You know I love you." "After all, I'm the head of the family." "I deserve some attention, some respect." "I get tired, too." "You think having a baby is so easy?" "I have no time to look into my precis." "No time to look into her precis!" "I get no help from you at home." " Are you starting again?" " Why again?" " Who goes shopping?" " Oh, you went shopping just once..." "Who's taking Vovka for a walk on Sundays?" "Exactly, only on Sundays!" "But we've got such a swell boy!" "What fun it is, with feet in sharp steel shod." "To skim the mirror of the smooth and solid streams!" "And how about the shining stir of winter feasts?" "Now we celebrated another New Year." "One more year of your life, comrade Fokin." "Let's sum it up." "Among the best workers of our laboratory we congratulate the operator-technician comrade Fokin and award him with a valuable present!" "Hello." "Hello." "Do you usually greet all your passengers?" "Have you forgotten?" "You gave me an apple." "Ah, yes." "Hello." "I'm out of stock." "You'll have to wait till the next season." "It's all right, I'll wait." "Happy New Year!" "Happy New Year!" "What shall I wish you for the new year?" "I don't know." "And what would you like?" "Good health, success in work and personal life." "I wish you all the best." "Next stop" " Stadium!" "Did you get a lot of sleep while on a sick leave?" "I couldn't get enough sleep all week." "You shouldn't have hung out so much at night." "I got so much work, no time for that." "When are you going on leave?" " Where to, Vera Aleksandrovna?" " It's none of your business." "When is your leave?" "I haven't been working that long." "I guess, in summer." "They offer me to go on leave now." "We could all get together and go skiing." "I saw skis at "Dinamo", Polish ones, of red plastic." " You can do anything on them." " I envy you." "A month of skiing and you'll be in form, too." " I don't mean that." " What, then?" "Well." "Everything is easy and fun for you." "Every morning I work out with weights, dive in an ice-hole and read papers." "So what's new?" "Nothing's changed in the world since you got sick." "You know, I was thinking, and I realized that I'm an absolutely right man." "I work, I plan to enter a college," "I participate in social life, I'm an agitator." "You're just an ordinary Soviet man." "Where're those ordinary men?" "Are you ordinary?" "I'm a many-sided man." " Hi, you malingerers." " Hi." "I do everything right - no reprimands, no criminal record." "Your picture can make the cover of the Ogonyok magazine." "The insert." " What's the score?" " 3 to 0." "A multicolor reproduction." "N. Fokin at the sick Nekrasov's bedside." "Are we winning?" " Did you come here to watch TV?" " We are." "Lucia sent this." "Slava, didn't she send something more substantial to supplement this?" "No, she didn't even think of it." "It's sad." "I don't know, but sometimes I think that my life is right and decent, but that's not enough." "A disturbed conscience of a criminal." "You didn't rob or kill anyone." "Live and enjoy." "I understand you, there's such a philosophy - live and rejoice that you're not a scoundrel, that there're people who are much worse than you are." "Your mother will come and, as a doctor, she'll explain to you that these are just complications because of a flu." "By the way, someone is sending her." "Love." "She's hurt you don't call her." "We bought an armchair." " Whom am I supposed to call?" " Natasha." "She says you forgot her." "There're wardrobes, but they're not what she wants." "Want me to give you mine?" " I do." " Take it." "All ways and byways got overgrown where were walking feet of my own." "You feel sad, Seryozha?" "Go on, nurse your sadness." "This is just a routine." "Way to go!" "11 to 3." "Your machine is jamming." " Why don't you fix it?" " I'll take a look on Saturday." "I've got an iron burned down, an alarm clock not ticking and a weaving bike." "Bring them in." " Kulibin." " Russian whiz kid." "Printing pioneer Ivan Fyodorov." "Tom and Jerry." " Good evening." " Good evening." " Well, what?" " What what?" "Tell me honestly, don't you regret all those wasted years?" "All right, enough is enough." "I got fed up at school with this talk about the meaning of life." "We should live, and not engage in idle talk." "My Vovka was silent all day yesterday, and today he's screaming like hell." "You should get married." "Then you will live a full, sensible life, like your friend here." " Perhaps he's teething." " Or maybe It's his tummy?" "It must be his teeth, it's time." "Turn over." "Slava, get ready." "Let's go." "I've never seen the cupping-glass being administered." " Stay for supper." " I haven't been home yet." " Come and visit us." " Come everyday." "Come on." "I'm sick and tired." "What are you sick and tired of?" "I'm sick and tired of this winter." "Don't bother, I'm not sleeping." "Vera, turn off the tap in the kitchen, It's trickling." "Vitka." "It's easier to do it yourself than ask you." "Can you hear me?" "Yes." "I can't hear you very well." "No, no, nothing's happened." "You fool." "Just listen to everything dripping." "Open the window." "Yes, It's dripping." "The ebullient, the powerful," "Unconquerable by anyone," "My motherland," "My city of Moscow," "I love you with my whole heart!" "Pass him to his father." "Come, come to your daddy." "Miss?" "Hello." "Happy holiday." "Thanks." "How are you?" "Fine, but you must've mistaken..." "No." "So, how are you doing?" "Thank you, I'm fine." "And what's your name?" "Anya!" "Anya!" "Anya!" "Excuse me." "Where have you been?" " Kolka, help me out." " What's up?" "I'll explain." "C'mon Slava." "Hurry, hurry." "Lucia, I'll be right back." "Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me." "Anya." " Friend, hold it, please." " C'mon c'mon." "Salute!" "Now I've got lost." "They'll think I fled." "And this is my favorite holiday." "Mine, too." " I have to find them." " No, they'll be all right." "I'd better go, anyway." "No." "No." "I'll have to scream." "You can only scream "hurrah"." "To the head of the column, quick." "Well, shall we fulfill the seven-year plan in five years?" "We must." " You so scared me then." " Why?" " Itw as like a chase." " Was it really scary?" "One shouldn't run after girls like this." " One should." "One must." " After all girls?" "From the "North Pole 8" station." "Moscow." "Red Square." "The May greetings and congratulations on the holiday." "This is what a group of new settlers report..." " They're waiting for you there." " They've been for quite a while." "I think they can do without you there." " You're not the most important person." " Why do you think so?" "The most important one comes with a guitar." "He's already there, you hear?" "Do you really have no heart and leave me alone here?" "Really, it would be inhuman." "Wait for me here." "It's just for a minute, honest." "Anya!" "If you don't come back." "I'll call at every apartment." "All right." "There's half a bottle left, and sandwiches." "Are you hungry?" " Is the party in full swing?" " Yes." "What, fireworks again?" "Let's run, quick!" " I'm home." " What do you mean?" "This is my entrance." "Well, goodbye." "Go." "Into the rain?" "It stopped." "Go." "I'm already going." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "Are you angry?" "No." "Go." "Are you going to spend the night here?" "Why not?" "Well, if you like it." " Will you call me?" " Yes." "Write down the number." "I'm writing." "G-6." "G-6." "Thirty-four." "Thirty-four." "Twenty-one." "Twenty-one." " You got it?" " Right." "Go, then." "I'm gone." " Hi." " Hi." "Whyare you up so early?" "Getting myself warm." " Insomnia?" " Doesn't matter." "I'm starved." "Should call Kolka." "Kolka!" "Kolia!" "What do you want?" " Come here." " Why?" "And bring something to grub." "You're hungry already." "Am I dreaming you or you're real?" "Macaroni with meat." " What are you doing here at night?" " Getting some fresh air." "That's it." "Slavka." "Just in time." "Am I condemned or what, really?" "Nothing ever pleases her." "You're forever gone, she says." "Forever hanging about with your pals." "I'm forever doing everything alone." " What's going on, actually?" " Contradictions." "No contradictions." "That's it." "Enough." "Let her try and live on her own." "Women." "Men and women - that's the main philosophical question." "The most important thing is not to give in, guys." "Yes." "I'll provide for her financially, of course, but otherwise, that's it." "You don't know your good fortune, guys." "There's everything in your life:" "love, quarrels." "Shakespeare!" "And I've got a folding bed on the balcony." " I'll go away." " Where?" "To Magadan." "She'll be sorry yet." "Great timing." "On holidays." "That's it, the holidays are over." "Stern weekdays are here." "Part Two" "You're acting foolishly, Kolia." "You don't value your free time." " What has less calories?" " Take a salad." "Munching some popular pulp, books for reading in the subway." "You should get more serious." "Are you on a diet?" "Trying to eat healthy." "Had a good holiday?" "Yes, thank you." "Kolia, give me a sandwich." " There you go." " Thanks." " Hi,Valya." " Hi." "Please." " How was your holiday?" " Good." "I saw you on television, at the demonstration." "People must know their heroes." "The time we live in!" "Watching demonstrations on TV like soccer." "I guess you drank to that, too?" " We did, but only to our plant." " Exactly." "Valya, don't be angry." "I'm not angry." "Why should I be?" "Vladimir Vasilyevich, will you have a talk with them today?" " Yes, I will." " I'd like to give you some advice." "Avoid too much talking and commenting." "The point is to teach them the ropes." "Be wary of explaining commonplaces." "Why are you eating just sandwiches?" "You don't take good care of yourself." " We live for our work." " Right, only for work." "I couldn't, you know." "Something came up." "But you promised, we were waiting for you." "Everything changed on the go." "You got a record player, didn't you?" "That's not the point." "My guys are just listening, with no questions asked." "With you, It's different." "What if they have questions?" "It's all right as long as they're not stupid questions." "Sometimes if someone gets bored, he raises his hand." "People are interested in talking as equals and asking questions when they believe what you're saying." "Mankind spends half the time on clarifying their relationships." "Enough, I'm fed up with it." "Can't you understand that people began asking questions?" "Do you always know what he thinks about when he's asking?" " About what he's asking." " You're no strategist." "I'm just a second lieutenant, and that was long ago, too." "Well, how about it, Valya?" "Well, that can't be helped." " I got a confidential question." " How much?" " Five rubles." " Will it do?" "Do you have a handbook for college applicants?" "I'll return it on pay day." "Thank you very much." "Isn't it too late to study?" "So at 8:30?" "At 9 then, okay?" "Okay." "Goodbye!" "Goodbye!" "Goodbye!" "Goodbye, comrade Pyoryshkin, comrade Kiselyov, comrade history, chemistry." "Goodbye, my notebooks." "Mommy, I'll be late." " Stand still." " Everything's all right." "You should apply for the Energy Institute together with me." "You'll be prompting me at examinations." "Count only on yourself." "I've got my own road in life." "Mommy, that's it." "There we go." "You see?" "I'm coming!" "Coming!" "Coming!" "Mom, I think this clock should have gone to a museum long ago." " What?" " My greetings and congratulations!" "It's so difficult to love a princess." "It's such an agonizing process!" "A hand in a hand, a life in a life." "That's love's eternal decree." "And I will always come to you." "You have to just call me." "Go to bed now." "Why are you still reading?" "Come on, it's late already." "Sciences nurture youths." "But not enough." "Equals the mass per unit of volume." "Damn, I forgot it all." "Go to bed." "Mom." "Listen, they offer vouchers at our work." "On a boat down the Volga to Astrakhan, for 20 days." "Why don't you go?" "I can't go anyway, I have to prepare for the exams, there will be consultations." "Money will be no problem, I'm going to get a bonus." "Are you sleeping, Mom?" "Yes, I am." "Go to bed, too." "All right." "Past one o'clock." "You must have gone to bed" "Or maybe you're having this as I am, too" "I'm in no hurry with lightning telegrams" "I have no cause to wake or trouble you" "She loves me?" "Not?" "I twist my arms like crazy and having broken my fingers fling them away" "It's thus the petals of first-found daisies are plucked and guessed on and sent off in May" "Behold, my love, what hush has fallen on the ground" "The night has given starry due to the sky high and spacious" "At times as these you rise and speak aloud" "to ages, histories and all creation" "What hush in the world..." "What hush in the world..." "Past one o'clock, you must have gone to bed" "The Milky Way streams silver the night through" "I'm in no hurry, with lightning telegrams" "I have no cause to wake or trouble you" "With lightning telegrams..." "With lightning telegrams..." "With lightning telegrams..." "With lightning telegrams..." "Today is June22!" "The day of our coming of age!" "The bottle will go round the Earth and return to Moscow!" "It'll get into the Volga, and the Volga flows into the Caspian Sea, which is drying up." "It'll get into the Black Sea, and then on into the ocean!" "What time is it?" "How are you doing?" " Everything's all right?" " Yes, all right." " Good for you." " Congratulations." "Yes, yes, everything is fine." "Where?" "At Pushkin Museum?" "All right, I'm on my way." "What works at the Young Artists Exhibition did you like best?" "I liked Oleg Komov's sculpture "A Coed's Departure"" "and Tatyana Ivanitskaya's drawings." "Thank you." "We continue reporting from the Exhibition of Young Artists." "The old halls of the Pushkin Museum grew young again..." " Hi." " How's the exhibition?" "The joy of Peredvizhniki." "Who is he?" "Have seen him a hundred times, still don't know who he is." "But I know that he always criticizes the Peredvizhniki." " Why?" " It's his habit." "Thank you." "These are the youngest visitors at the exhibition." " What's your name?" " Vova." "I see you're a Pioneer." "What did you like here?" "I liked the ancient Greek sculptors." "And what contemporary works did you like?" " Come on, let's go." " Where?" "I'll show you my favorite work." "All right, let's go." "Wow, it's great!" "It's just great!" "And where's your favorite work?" "Here." "Where?" "There it is." "There!" "I know." "What do you know?" "My span grows short, I need no warning..." " But." " But for my life to go on..." "And mine?" "I must be certain in the morning..." " Of what?" " That I will see you..." " Me?" " That very day and before long." "And that evening, too?" " That evening for sure." " And tomorrow." " And after tomorrow, and in a year." " And in a thousand years..." "And in two thousand years, and in 15 thousand." "At least like this." "Yes, at least like this." "Hello." "May I come along with you?" "I fell behind my group." "Come on." "This is Sergey." " I'm Oleg." " Sergey." " How is the exhibition?" " The joy of Peredvizhniki." "Ivan the Terrible Kills His Son." "By the way, your parents are here." "It'll be nice meeting your close ones." " How are you doing?" " Just fine." "And you?" "Just like before." " Did you travel anywhere?" " To Stockholm." "With soccer players?" "No." "This time, with ichthyologists." "Pay special attention to this man." "He's extremely educated." "He knows three languages." " Two." " You can learn one more in a jiffy." " He was in Guinea." " In Ghana." " He played badminton with..." " Yes, I did." "I did." "His bride is a television announcer." " I think it's quite enough..." " Enough for dying of jealousy." "Attention!" "My parents are coming." "Will you say hello?" "No." "Give me a call sometime, the number's the same." " Bye." " Goodbye." "Who's that guy?" "He's an interpreter, and he happens to be my husband." "What?" "My husband." "How come?" "We haven't yet started divorce proceedings." " I had no idea that you..." " I guessed that much." "And why are you divorcing?" "He's just a complete idiot." "Well, I wasn't lucky, that's all." " Good evening, grannies." " Good evening, sonny." "Seryoga." " Hi." " Hi." " I'm going with you." " Why?" "Let's take a stroll, drop at the movies?" "I can't, Kolia." "I got to run." "Can you lend me a fiver?" "Let me see." " That's all I've got." " Is that all?" "Maybe we'll ask your tenant?" "Does he pay you anything at all?" "No chance, he's sent his whole salary to his wife." "What shall I do?" "Maybe Lucia will lend it?" "Since Slavka moved in with me, she's been pretending she doesn't know me." "Lucia!" "Lucia!" "Lucia!" "Hi." "Hi." "Happy marriage." "Thanks." "Lend us a fiver." "Let's see." "Slava, how is it?" "Look closely at this door." "It's just closed behind our comrade." "Let's bare our heads." "All right, I'm off." "I'm already 10 minutes late." "Take care!" "Come in." "Oh God, just look at that!" "When will be the end of this?" "How are you doing?" "Don't worry, lady." "Everything will be tip-top." "Wait a second, I'll change." "Hello." "Hello." "Oh, you're home." "This is Sergey." "And this is my dad, naturally." "Good to meet you." " Sergey." " Her dad." "We got to go." "We've just met and you're already going." "This is not very..." "How about a drink to our meeting?" " I've heard so much about you." " Really?" "At least I know that your name is Sergey." "And knowing my daughter, this is a lot of information." "You're in the mood today." "C'mon turn around." "I haven't seen you for so long." "This thing becomes you." "C'mon take a bite." "We've learned how to drink, but not know how to eat after it." " I have bad newsfor you." " What?" "We'll see each other even less from now on." "Why?" "I'll leave home soon." "Yes, yes, I happened to hear something about that." "Your mother shared this news with someone over the phone." "So it's true?" "It's true." " The two of you decided so?" " Yes, the two of us." "And where're you going to live?" "We're looking for a room." "You got the money?" "Yes, I'm working." " Have you ever rented a room?" " No." "And she has, but it was I who paid for it." "Of course, the money is not the matter." "But all this doesn't look solid enough." "Don't you think, guys, that it's time to grow up?" "it seems to me that with you that process got somewhat delayed." "I shall work, too." "We'll manage." "And what about your institute?" "Your education?" "You're a gifted girl." "It would be a pity..." "We'll do both." "It would be wiser to stay here." "There's enough room." " What is it you don't like here?" " I don't know." "But lately I don't feel like coming home." "Perhaps It's because I'm growing up." "Even if that process has been somewhat delayed." "He must be getting a pretty strange impression of our home." "I'm not trying to make him get a good impression." "Don't you think the problem is not that you find it hard to live here." "You'll find it as difficult to live elsewhere." "I've already heard it, and even read about it." "You should know better that our young people aren't afraid of difficulties." "Go on." "I already know everything you can tell me." "I don't find your tone quite proper." "Do you speak to your parents like this, too?" "No, not like this." "What do you think about this conversation?" "What do you care?" "You don't want to know and it doesn't interest you." "All you want is that people think less." "You're wrong, one always ought to think, especially at your age." " How old are you?" " 23." "What do you want to become at 30?" "A movie lover." "Anya, answer the phone!" "I don't believe in people who are too witty at an early age." " I'm fed up." " Fed up with what?" "Soon we'll separate and just visit each other." "I like it that you're keeping silent, Sergey." "I too used to be silent and listening." "Sometimes people say very useful things." "Hold on for a minute." "I'm sorry, Dad." "It's a difficult conversation and, naturally, I'm nervous." "That's why I'm too blunt perhaps..." "Try to understand." "I understand." "Lately I've got out of touch with my daughter." "It happens sometimes." "You must understand her, she really feels nervous, and so..." "This conversation..." "What's your relationship with my daughter?" "I hope it's serious?" "Yes, it's serious." "I'd like to believe you." "You can believe me." "Of course, it'd be better if you stayed here, there's enough room." "All right, no more about it." "You must understand her, she was nervous, and this conversation..." "Yes." "It's not for me to judge, and there are things" "I have no right to interfere in." "Yes, yes..." "She put on quite a show and left." "Please, sit down." "She can't understand one thing." "I wish her well, I want her to be happy," "I want a normal, peaceful, pleasant life for her." "She hasn't been very successful at that lately." "Obviously, you know about it." "Listen to what I'm going to tell you." "I guess I would have never told that anyone." "You, both of you, are at the threshold, so to speak." "For everyone of us, there comes a day when you have to think and make an important decision." "Like in the fairy tale." "A stone with an inscription:" "you go left, you go right, you go straightahead." "I think thoughts like these did come into your head." "How can you know?" "Why shouldn't I know that, my dear?" "I know." "Because you're only at the start of your road and I've already covered a fair part of it." "Sometimes I was lucky, other times not very lucky, and at times absolutely out of luck." "So, remember, you can rely only on yourself, no one will help you, not a single person." "As a matter of fact, people don't care a damn about each other, however regrettable it may be." "I've known and I know people." "Take some from my company." "I'm associating with them at work and I've been having an opportunity of observing them closely for a while." "With some of them we were even starting up together." "And they haven't achieved anything, absolutely nothing." "Because they haven't grasped something, they got confused." "Oh, kids, kids, you're still so naive, you don't know anything about life." "But there're simple and crude things in life, such as, say, a wage, an apartment." "I understand, you probably feel embarassed to talk about that, it seems too prosaic, so to speak." "But you can't get away from it, and you have to reckon with it, you can believe me." "As for the young lady, she'll never leave home." "These are just words." "I know her pretty well." "And what kind of a road are you offering me?" "I'm not offering you anything." "This is for you to decide, so to speak." "You have to decide yourself." "That's how it is, my dear." "Everything's all right." "They're waiting for us." "Let's go." "What kind of man is he?" "What did he mean - people don't care a damn about each other?" "It can't be so." "It can't be that he's right." "Where are we going to live?" "We can live at my place." "No." "How about going visiting every other one?" "What do you mean?" "First visit my friends, then yours, then mine again, and so all through the night." "I don't know." "Never tried it." "Does it embarass you?" "Then we'll go only to mine." "It's nice visiting." "Let's have a night of fun to spite everybody." "You know, I got so much to tell you." "You don't have to tell me anything." "It's strange that we didn't know each other and even might have never met." "One doesn't place an ad in a paper - "Looking for a good man"." "Though, why not?" "I'll open up a paper in the morning and call you." "I'll say, "Hello." "You've been waiting for me?"" "And I'll reply:" "Where have you been for so long?"" "And where have you been?" "Doesn't matter." "What matters is that we've found each other." "Do you love me?" "And you?" "You don't feel sleepy at all?" "No." "And you?" "A little bit." "I think those guys were bored." "Why have a party then?" "Perhaps you're right, but not having parties is even worse." "Maybe." " Shall we walk?" " Yes, let's walk." "It feels so good like this." "You and me." "What else do we need?" "Right." "I could walk on and on, as long as we're together." "Well, I'm home." " Oh, I don't want to go in there." " Don't go then." "Sounds so simple and wise." "Don't go if you don't want to." "But what can I do?" "Alas, alas, alas!" "Look, let's live at my place." "In a cupboard." "Dad, mom, my wife and I." "There's no dad." "Sorry." " Well?" " Well what?" "We have to decide." "Decide what?" " I don't understand." " What is it you don't understand?" "Go, you need at least some sleep." "Not a chance, I must be at work by 8." "And I'm not going to the Institute today." "Will you call me?" "I will." "Come on, what's the matter?" "What is it?" "I don't understand, why make irresponsible statements, leave home in the evening with big declarations, only to return there at dawn and say "good morning"." "Sometimes the circumstances are above us." "Or below, what difference does it make?" "They're important." "What did you need that show for?" "Can't you take responsibility for your actions?" " You don't like it?" " No, I don't." "I believe it should be either this or that." "Otherwise one shouldn't blab." "What do you want from me?" "Single-mindedness, consistency of thoughts and actions, inner harmony?" "But I'm not a harmonious person." "I know, only ancient Greeks were harmonious." "But since it's difficult to verify, let's leave the Greeks alone." "With great pleasure." "I can't talk about serious things at such an early hour." "Good night." "Good morning." "As for the circumstances, what's important to me is you, and that's all." "And now come here." " This is Zhuravlyov." " Hello." "The boiler engineer." "These comrades are from Ghana." "Show them the instruments." "We work here." " Here?" " Yes." " This is the dashboard." " Dashboard?" "The dashboard that controls the boiler's work." "The boiler, yes." "What's the matter with you?" "You should be more cordial." "Am I not?" " You didn't get enough sleep or what?" " Everything's all right." " What's going on with you?" " Nothing." " I can see something's going on." " Something's going on with everybody." "Don't say if you don't want to." "Something's wrong at home?" "No." " At the institute?" " Everything's fine." " Maybe it's her?" " Who?" "I don't know." "Vera, Valya, Svetlana?" "Pelagea." "Or maybe I'm wrong, Anya?" "Maybe you're absolutely right and I don't understand something?" "Nothing's important except you and me." "There's nothing else around us, and that's the point." "I guess it's foolish of us to fight." "It's nonsense, but we can lose each other because of it." " I don't want it." " Me, neither." "I haven't seen you for a whole week, I can't go on like this." "Me, neither." "Let's see each other and discuss everything quietly, okay?" " We have to make serious decisions." " Absolutely." "I got to go." "Yes, the ring." "I got to run." "I love you so much, do you hear?" "I hear." "I love you too, very much." "Good afternoon." "Do you have any books by Fokin?" "Fokin..." "Faulkner, maybe?" "No, Fokin." "Ah, Fokina!" "Yes, we have." " How much is it?" " 20 kopecks." "Thank you very much." "Olga Fokina." "Poems." " Are you finished?" " Yes, now it makes sense." "Have to check the record of a series and zero." "Check it yourself tomorrow." "Sure." "Going home?" "I'll stay for a while." "Get the commutation scheme for tomorrow." "So you'll call me tonight?" "As we agreed." " How you doing?" " All right." " Have you distributed the tickets?" " Did it yesterday." "Why are you staying late?" "I want to think and get down to the core of the problem." "Let's go take a look at it together." " I got the whole collected works." " Good for you." " All finished?" " Right." "Goodbye." " Take care." " Bye." " What's the play?" " "Five Evenings"." " It's Raikin?" " No." "Right, "Sovremennik" Theatre." "Check it once again." "I have already." "I mixed it up with "Good Evening" by Shurov and Rykunin." "If you get a chance, go and see it." "You're just like Vladimir Vasilyevich." "He advised me to see the Vienna Ballet, which toured a year ago." "Funny man." "You've known him long?" "Since I came to work here." "He's got a swell tape-recorder." " An imported one?" " He made it himself." "And what do you think?" "A very good machine." "I mean Vladimir Vasilyevich." " In what sense?" " What does one usually think of a man?" "I want to check my impressions." "He seems to be a good worker." "You know my attitude towards him." "He's working all right, working well." "Yes, he works well." "Sometimes he talks too much." "He's a man with a sense of humor." "Yes, with a sense of humor, but mind you, he never says it to the end." "He always speaks his mind." "There're no such people who speak their mind." " Why?" " I don't know, such is human nature." "No, you're exaggerating." "Sure, he appears to be bold, and even blunt." "But he's always choosing his words." "Remember what he said about Filippov?" "He's not choosing, he just says it." "Don't you think he was right?" "The machine is idle now." "And your Filippov had his finger in the pie." " Why my Filippov?" " What difference does it make whose?" "Now we're sweating over it, then we'll be in a rush." "The old man is right." "In this sense, he may be partly right." "Though I don't agree with you completely." "We know those men of principle." "Just a cheap effect." "Gaining popularity." "I don't quite understand you." "What is there to understand?" "Nonsense, you don't know him at all." "Right, I know him very little." "Let's have a smoke." "Only two of us here, no fireman." "Listen, I want to talk to you frankly, without witnesses." "Only try to put yourself in my place and understand me correctly." "Some of our comrades... apparently not without good reason, got an impression that some of Vladimir Vasilyevich's pronouncements disorient..." "Which comrades?" " I can't tell you..." " Filippov?" "Why Filippov?" "There're some more..." " Who?" " I can't tell you this." "Suppose it is I who think so, though I'm not sure of that." "Maybe I would like to check up on my impressions." "If I'm mistaken, that's for the better." "in such cases one would even be glad to be proved wrong." "Vladimir Vasilyevich trusts you more than anybody else." "You know him." "I understand that you feel uneasy." "I don't force you to slander him." "But it can't be avoided old chap, trust but verify." "Who are those comrades?" "Well, it's Filippov." "But don't give me away." "You silly, just think how valuable to us his support can be." "His laboratory begins working on a new model." "They would need new people, that means good prospects, promotion." "I can be quite candid with you, I got nothing to hide." "After all, who is Vladimir Vasilyevich to you?" "Neither kith nor kin." "Yes, of course." "The other day I... saw him with a young gal." "Maybe she's his daughter, or maybe..." "Good, go on." "If we weren't alone," "If it wasn't like this," "I would have punched you up." "What stops you?" "I don't like doing it without witness." "A joke." "Two jump down with parachutes." "They pull the ring, all goes right." "Suddenly they see a 3rd one fall like a stone." "He put on his kitbag again." "An old joke, but funny." "Did you hear the last question..." "We did." "Did you call me?" " I did." " What happened?" "Nothing." "I needed you." "You know, there's such a word "needed"." "He's got a swell girl, I saw her yesterday." "And now?" "Now not needed, now everything's all right." "Yes, a very animated conversation." "Shall we talk about something else?" "About soccer." " Hockey." " Ice hockey." "Let's go and have a..." " I don't want to." " Why not?" "I don't know, but I have an impression." "Mind, it may be my personal impression." "That people are divided into those with whom you drink and those with whom you can talk." "We used to combine that before." "Yes, before, but now I'm afraid we won't be able to." "I've never seen him having such an idiotic mood." "It's just that we haven't seen one another for long, Slava." "You know, pals, life is taking its usual course." "Each morning, I get up, go to work, buy cigarettes, eat, breathe, go to movies." "And everyday I see both of you, not counting the army, business trips and other understandable reasons." "And this is my life." "I can't live otherwise." "Perhaps it's a habit?" "I don't want to change my habits." "This is called Erich Maria Remark." "If you wish, I'll rush to you in a racing car through the fog." "We may joke, but we'd better not." "All right, get down to business." "Be more specific." "You're so businesslike." "You both are." "I'm not businesslike, I'm preoccupied." "Now it's all getting clear to me." "Why didn't you say so right away?" "Sorry, but at some point I thought I had better not." "These are just emotions." "Go on." "They're hounding a good man, a principled, fine, real man." "Yes, he may be difficult and thus makes others' life not easy." "A regular on-the-job squabble." "You shouldn't pay attention." "How can I not?" "To live and know there's a scoundrel beside you, greet him every morning, shake hands with him." "He's always there, sitting in front of you, young and prosperous, with honest eyes." "Do you understand?" "With honest eyes." "Just a horrendous character." "You know, lately I've got tired of joking." "You're getting old, Kolia." "When people have nothing to talk about, they crack jokes." "When they have nothing to think about, they joke." "It makes life easier." "By the logic of our conversation, you're implying that I joke too much and therefore..." "There's no therefore." "I don't always understand what you're thinking of when you talk like this." "I guess it's not necessary." "Of course, there's nothing necessary about this." "You've got a rotten disposition lately." "Maybe sometimes we should get it rotten." " Should we?" " We should." "Why am I saying all this to you?" "You don't care about it, you don't need it, I can see it." "You've changed." "I don't know why, but it is so, it's obvious." "There have always been enough bastards, in all time and among all peoples." "It's clear, he's a bastard." "I believe you." "You told him so, and what's the use?" "Has anything changed?" "Nothing." "If you respect yourself, I think you shouldn't even sink as low as even speak to such men." "But what can you do?" "What can I do, or Slavka?" "You may accept or not accept those people, however, they exist and you have to reckon with it." "Does he really thin kso or just playing the fool?" "The most important thing is everyone's personal integrity." "Everyone is answerable only for his own actions." " There is such a theory." " You live among people." "You and other people." "And you can't do anything about it." "You have to understand this and stop torturing yourself." "To understand what?" "To define a degree of relationships and set yourself a limit." "Have you done it already?" " I'm in the process." " Well, go on." " I can't smoke here, can I?" " No." "All right, enough of that." "I'm glad we had it out at last." "No need to beat around the bush here, everything in life is much simpler." "And let's call things by their right names." "it had to happen some day." "We've grown up and we look differently at many things." " I'm not accusing you." " Why not?" "Go ahead." "Well, obviously, from your own position, you're right." "It's not the best position, but there're even worse ones." "Well, thanks for that." "See you." "I got to run." "Of course, there's so much to do - birthdays, holidays." "You're going to get it..." "You're such a brave guy." "I was already thinking I'd never see you again." "What happened?" "They nearly killed me at the entrance." "I had to force my way in by parts." "The enthusiasm of the masses." "Picturesque in an old man's way," "Knots of wrinkles I will sustain," "I will don dozens of spots bald and gray," "Only you forever young shall remain!" "My decision's unchangeable, though," "To the time I'll announce my will " "No destruction will undergo" "What I loved and am loving still!" "And Pushkin drank his wine," "And laughed and cursed," "Was naughty, wrote verses," "And knew no distress." "He was doing fine..." "Seryozha." "What?" "What were you thinking about?" "I was listening." "For their ultimate salvation This order is forever to stand," "And the triumphant ignoramus" "Has been convicted and condemned." " You know what my greatest wish is?" " What?" "Always to share your mood." "When you feel good, I'll feel good." "When you feel bad, I'll feel bad, too." "I don't feel bad." "Be quiet, guys." "You can talk in a bar." "Later, we're disturbing people." "I had a strange conversation with my friends." "And it's not just that conversation." "I've been noticing that we no longer understand one another, we're growing distant." "It troubles me." "You shouldn't get upset, sometimes one has to change friends." "It's a natural process, it happens to everyone." "One day you turn around and see that you're surrounded by absolutely different people." "Yes, one day I'll turn around and see someone else beside me, not you." "Or you'll turn around, and instead of me, there is... another friend, like that character over there." "Why do you say this?" "We'll talk but later about the dead and death," "Which in the war is commonplace and crude." "And yet, we desperately gasp for breath" "When our comrades die." "Not a word..." "Set tight the weather-bitten jaw." "The 350th day of war." "To make leaves quiver the dawn was not yet trying," "Machine guns fired a rare warning shot..." "This is the place." "It's here he was dying," "My comrade from the gunners' squad." "A doctor, o ra nurse there was no use to call," "He wouldn't have made it till the morning." "He didn't need anyone's help at all." "Just dying." "And, realizing he was going," "He looked at us and waited for the end," "And forced a smile, an awkward smile and lone." "His suntanned face had lost its tint" "And, growing dark, it turned to stone." "Well, stand and wait." "Freeze up and don't fail." "Shut up under a lock your feeling." "And here comes a nightingale," "And starts its wary, tormenting trilling." "The sand, liketime, streamed down the trench in a flow..." "I've got no one but you." "I don't need anyone else." "Do you understand?" "A lily of the valley on tiptoe Peeked in the crater made by a shell." "Yes, death is absurd, foolish, even more so" "When he, his arms spread wide away," "Said, "Guys, write to Pauline to know" "That nightingales were singing here today."" "And sank into the chasm of silence;" "for him was no more" "The 350th day of war." "He never got his share of life, of love, of drink," "He hadn't got enough of studying or reading." "I was beside, in a trench closed in a ring." "Like he about Pauline, about you I was dreaming." "And, maybe, in the sand, in slushy mud, like dough," "And choking on my own blood," "I'll say, "Guys, let Irina know" "That nightingales were singing in our part."" "The letter'll fly all the way from here" "To Zubov Street in Moscow, to my dear." "And even if it's so, the tears will dry with time," "And if it's not with me, with someone else you'd want to" "Stand by the same birch tree, a favorite of mine," "And gaze into a greenish pool of water." "And even if it's so, children will be born" "For life, for love, and for heroic deeds." "May they be, too, awakened at early dawn" "By nightingales, our poignant singing birds." "May they be met by the sun's hot showers" "With flocks of clouds making their statement." "I sing death's praises in the name of life of ours." "We'll talk about the dead but later." "Farewell to you, Polytechnic!" "Our life's running short." "It's not ovations that matter," "We're melting into human multitudes" "Within your space, Polytechnic." "It's unbearable to part with you." "The Petrov Club." "Next stop" " Supermarket." "How are you, comrade Yermakova." "Passenger, here's your two kopecks." "I haven't seen you for quite a while." " Hello." " What's new?" "Nothing." "Working all the time." "Can I smoke here?" "So that no one see you." " What's new with you?" " My shoes." "I'm serious." "Bought Czechoslovakian shoes last week." "Nothing else new." "You don't look today as you usually look." " And what do I look like usually?" " You're not smiling today." "I'm tired, too much work." "The Mukhin Club." "Next stop" " Department Store." "Guys, c'mon, let's buy tickets." "For a long time I will dream A conductor on the tram." "For a long time I will dream you..." "Where're your friends?" "They have their personal lives." "Haven't you any personal life?" "No, only my public life." "You got to getoff." "You'll miss your stop." "I'm going to ride on, comrade Yermakova, will finish my cigarette." "Vorobyov Alley." "Next stop" " School." "Why do you address me by my last name?" " You don't like it?" " Well, it's all right..." "Why are you asking then?" "Just wanted to say that I got a first name, too." "What is it?" "Katya." "Katerina." "Nice name." " And what's yours?" " Nikolai." "Kolia." "Yes, I know." "Now we got acquainted." "Next stop" " Stadium." "At first I mixed up all stops, couldn't remember the names." "The passengers were not happy." "And now I can announce the next stop without even looking." "I was even memorizing them." "Closing my eyes and repeating them." "Like poems?" "Why are you laughing?" "When I was in school, I suddenly began writing poems." "I, too, had mine printed once in our wall newspaper." " Really?" " About Paul Robeson." "He couldn't be scared by any fiend, At last he came to visit." "Our overseas black friend, A fighter, a singer, and no midget." "Next stop" " Proyektirovochnaya." " Good evening." " Good evening." " Here's the money." " Here's your ticket." "Thanks." "I also wrote public verses, and also for a wall newspaper." "The leaves of birch trees are so calm," "Here's our own collective farm." "But mostly I wrote about love, in imitation, of course." "Funny, isn't it?" " Yes, funny." " Why don't you laugh, then?" "I'm laughing with inner." "Scary?" "Very scary." "Actually, at that time I'm laughing with inner laughter." "You were lying, It's not that you're tired." "Are you having troubles?" "C'mon give me your ticket." " Everything will end up well." " How do you know?" "You've got a lucky ticket." "Save it." " I'll sure do it." " You'll be in luck." "Thank you for that." "Next stop" " Burevestnik." "Tomorrow I'm going to sleep late." "It's my day off." "And will go to movies in the evening." " Did you see the movie "Girls"?" " No." "It'll be on tomorrow again at "Burevestnik"." "No, I haven't seen it." "The tram goes to the depot!" "Why?" "Well, goodbye, Katya." "By etiquette, a man shouldn't do it first." "To hell with the etiquette." "You're a nice girl." "Now you've noticed." "Very nice." "Goodbye." " Take care." " Thanks." "I'll try to." "You're lucky you've got someone like me, or you would've perished." "Mom, aren't we lucky!" "Three books of "The Red and the Black"." " Seryozha, want me to give you one?" " Sure." "He knows the classics only by movies." "It's shorter and ideologically correct, everything's clear." "You're as up-to-date as the Youth Cafe." "Does my sister visit the Youth Cafe?" " And where do you go?" " To the planetarium." "So you're going to the planetarium?" "What are they showing today?" "The mystery of the Tungus meteorite." "The greatest mystery is your girlfriend." "Why are you pestering the boy?" "He's in a hurry, he got no time." "Of course, he got no time." "Very busy young people." "They're deciding now a difficult problem: where to live." " Really?" " Really." "I think since you've told me it's no secret anymore." "Vera, it's none of your business." "Sure, none of mine and none of yours." "You keep mum and try to be delicate." " You'll have more room for yourselves." " We're not cramped as it is." "Why don't you bring her here?" "For us to meet her and look at her." " I will." " Big deal, a very important person." "All right, stop it." "Books are good when there're not too many of them." " "The Problems of Therapy"." " Vera, wait, not this one..." "All right." "Howa bout "Analytical Geometry", published in 1936?" "Perhaps we can throw it away?" "I'd rather not, these are your dad's books." " You all thumbs." " I didn't mean to." "Night bird." "Look, what's this?" "Some documents." "Documents." "Mom." " I think this is..." " What?" " Where did you find them?" " Right here." "Where?" "Here?" "Oh God, how could it be?" "For the month of October 1941." "It's almost an archeological find." "We can report it to a newspaper." "A worker's food coupon." "A worker's one is mine." "They issued them to us in the hospital." "And a child's one, is it mine?" "Seryozha's." "You hadn't been born yet." "Oh God, what a fool I am." "How could I have put them here?" "Look, kids." "They're for two full decades." "That means a lot of bread." "Let's celebrate their 20th anniversary." "Esteemed food coupons..." "There's nothing funny about it." "Seryozha and I had to live without them for over half a month." "It's hard to explain it now, and hard to understand." " And how did you survive then?" " Just like that..." "Eating only potatoes." "At night I had to be on duty at the hospital, and in the daytime I went to the country to dig up some potatoes." "I remember some soldiers gave me a lift." "It was near Skhodnya." "They were digging up trenches, and I potatoes." "I had no fear at the time, except that Seryozha and I had lost our food coupons." "It was only later that I got scared to death." "The soldiers went somewhere." "It was evening." "I'm digging up potatoes." "It was so cold, so muddy." "And I'm sobbing, sobbing all the time." "Then I went back home." "I'm walking, not knowing where the Germans are." "Perhaps ahead of me?" "And the sack is very heavy and wet." "But I can't drop and leave it." "The hungry Seryozhka's waiting home, and there's nothing else to give him." "I reached Moscow." "Moscoww as dark." "The streets were empty and cold." "The soldiers were patrolling." "Our street was barricaded with sacks of sand." "Only embrasures stuck out." "I fed Seryozha and ran to the hospital." "And while I was away that night, your father came home." "Right from the front line, just for two hours." "He hadn't even woken you up." "Just kissed you and left." "What about me?" " You hadn't been born yet." " Why not?" "Just hadn't, and that's all." "I saw your father one more time in the winter of 1943." "He lived at home for a month after hospital." "Damn." "What is it?" "Can't knot my tie." "You're going to suffocate me." "Got such a thick neck." "You should be put on a ration of 40 grams of oats." " What do you need such a neck for?" " For my tie." "I'm off, Mom." "Olga Mikhailovna." "You won't be back late, will you?" "No, not late." "I'm off." "Kolia dear, come home, It's late already." "I got to go, too." "Goodbye." "Thanks for your help." " Not at all." "Sorry for writing curtly and illegibly." "It's a horrible din, the artillery preparation has begun." "As usual, I found just the right time for writing a letter." "There're many Muscovites here, even guys from our institute." "You know one of them - It's Dimka Solovyov." "Remember him visiting us once on October holidays?" "I could have never imagined that I'd sit in a trench and write to you." "Though, to be absolutely honest, sometimes I had such a thought." "But I never believed that the fascists would come so close to Moscow." "I don't know if I survive, but I'm confident that Moscow will survive, the USSR will survive." "Maybe we didn't say so very often, but we always thought so." "That's all." "Kissing you and Seryozha." "The artillery's done its work." "Now it's our turn to go." "A whirl with events, packed with jobs one too many... packed with jobs one too many, the day slowly sinks as the night shadows fail." "Shadows fail." "As the night shadows fail." "Comrade Lenin, I report to you not by a dictate of office, by the heart's prompting alone." "Comrade Lenin, the hellish work that we're out to do will be done and is already being done." "And is already being done..." "No, Seryozha, you're wrong." "I can't agree with you." "And it's not about Chernousov." "I don't give a damn about him." "What can he do to me?" "But it pains me, just pains me that because of this situation I may lose you," "a man very dear to me..." "Congratulations." "I join in." "How old are you?" " Who asks such questions?" " 22." "Why we're not at the National?" "Is a homemade pie in the making?" "Aren't you tired of going to the National Restaurant with him?" "No, I'm not." " And where do you go?" " From where it's easier to escape." "Where is that?" "One can escape from anywhere but the Petropavlovsk Fortress." "I got that idea last year." " At your birthday party." " I don't remember that." "I propose a toast to Anya's parents." "I have no objections." " We're not drinking that toast." " Why not?" "Why?" "Because." "Let's assume I'm a foundling." " She isn't doing badly as a foundling." " She's an egotist." "I'm even better off, I got no parents." "An orphan?" "And where are they?" "Near Smolensk." "Parents are for borrowing money from them." " Do they give you money?" " Not to me." "Perhaps they're right." "I can't believe that my daughter, will treat her parents like that." " How old is your daughter?" " She'll be 12 months soon." "A happy father." "Can't be happier." "Everyone can get that happy." "Why don't you have any children?" "Do you have children?" "We got no nanny, we keep watch over our son." "It's not a son, It's a sentry service." "They say if you have three babies at once, you're given an apartment." "A great opportunity to get rid of neighbors." "How can you know how many you'll get at once?" "Here's the man who could be a father to a huge family." "You're mistaken." "I'm the man." "I've got an apartment." "Will Dolgoruky come?" " Who?" " Yuri Dolgoruky." " How can he?" " Will come all the way here." "What were you just thinking about?" "I have a feeling that today something must..." "What?" "No, nothing." "You're a strange guy." "I never know what you might be thinking when you're silent like this." "Hey, you, think of something!" "Let's drink." "Not me, I feel good as it is." "Hi!" "Hi, our dear potatoes!" "Everyone got sour here." "Meet my friend." " Yura." " Kolia." "All we needed here is you." "Where did you get it?" "At the Metropole." "A dish by special order." "Potatoes "a la Russe"." "Take your coat off." "I can't, I have to make three more visits." "Even got no time for work." "Then don't work." "Congratulations." "The potatoes onto the table!" "Why do you keep silent all the time?" "I know almost nobody here." "It's even better." "It's so boring being among your own." "There're only your own here." " How you doing?" " So-so." "Have you been to anywhere?" "Couldn't you have asked something else?" "About what?" "Seryozha." "Seryozha, you're wanted on the phone." "The Ural sAutomobile Works has finished testing a new powerful car..." "Yes?" "Hello?" "Who?" "Slavka?" "Yes, It's me." "Speak louder, I can't hear anything." "What?" "I think you're exaggerating." "Yes, as if it's the first time that Kolka didn't spend the night home." "Yes, I think so." "You're wrong." "Yes." "All right." "Bye." "All right." "Thank you." "A fall-winter fashion." "Please, pay attention." "This outfit got a special award for modesty at the Cannes festival." "A very practical garment for balls, exhibitions and recreation, countryside recreation, playing skittles, and business trips." "The line starts at the throat and ends in pleats in the area of the spine." "You'll need 3 meters of fabric 1.45 wide to make it." "Dances!" " Shall we dance?" " Yes." "I was at a fashion show once." "It looked just like this." "I'm a model." " May I have your phone number?" " I'm married." "I'm not asking for your hand, just a phone number." " What letter does it start with?" " K. I'm saying no more." "Quiet!" "You're in for a surprise, something like bast shoes and potatoes." "Come on, come on." "Now we've got a complete set." "Bast shoes, potatoes." "An old ritual song." "All we need here are Gypsies and bears." "Enough of that." "Let's drink." "To what?" "To potatoes." "Why not to turnips?" "I want to drink to potatoes." "Maybe you'd better say that toast in verse?" "It's clear that love is no potato." "To potatoes." "A toast to the beat of drums." "Experienced orators knock through the rostrum with a fist." "I don't understand what you meant by that?" "And I understand." "I can guess." "What do you understand?" "Omitting all details, explanations, protestations and incantations," "I'll define all your ideas about potatoes like this:" "hurrah or "kvass" patriotism." " What?" " Derived from the word "kvass"." "One can't take it seriously." "Perhaps." "But what should we take seriously?" "What actually can we talk about seriously?" "Only don't take upon yourself the role of national conscience." "Stop playing the fool." "I can talk like this, too." "We all can." "And what's next?" "Are there things you can talk seriously about?" "Can you answer that?" "If there's nothing you can talk seriously about, why live, then?" "This is a provocative question." "I can put this question to you, too." "And I'll answer you." "I take seriously the Revolution, the "Internationale" anthem," "the year of 1937, the war, the soldiers," "the fact that almost all of us have no fathers, and the potatoes, too, which had saved us during the hunger and which..." " And what do you think of turnips?" " What?" "What do you think of turnips?" "You never said." "It was a nasty thing to say." "I said it automatically." "Stop, stop, stop." "Stop." "Take it easy." "You have to sort it out quietly." "Do you hear?" "With a cool head." "I don't want to go on like this." "I don't want to." "One shouldn't drift with the current." "One shouldn't just drift." "All right, gather up your willpower." "Hold yourself together." "Today is the turning point." "I don't want to just wear out the time, to wear out the days." "Nothing lives its separate life." "Nothing." "Try to understand, nothing exists separately." "Love, separately, life, separately, the time you live in, separately." "Don't stand up." "That's what you're like." " Is this your wife?" " No, my sister." "Your sister?" "What's her name?" "Verka." "Vera." "And where's mother?" "On duty at the hospital." " You work, too?" " Yes." "I had never thought I'd have two kids like you." "Do you remember me at all?" "I thought you were older." "Were you all so young?" "We were like you." "I'm glad you've come." "What's the matter with you?" "Can you tell me?" "Yes." "You have to explain to me a lot of things." " What can I..." " Everything." "I believe no one as I believe you." "I need your advice, I need it now..." "Quiet." "You'll wake up the guys." "Are they alive?" "I don't know, I can only point out those who had been killed before." "Him, and him." "And this one." "They'd all been killed in early morning, about 5 o'clock, during an attack." "And you?" "A day later, also in the morning, and also during an attack." "It was raining the night before, it was autumn." " Were you afraid?" " Yes." "We run through the woods with "hurrah", guys are falling down beside us, but we don't stop, keep on running." "in the woods you never know where they may fire from." "Did you know that you'd be..." "No." "I thought I'd survive." "Then I realized it was over." "The others ran on, forward." "I don't know who managed to make it." " Too bad there's little time." " I knew we'd meet." "We had to meet." "More than anything else I wanted to talk to you like this, talk about many things, most serious things." "Do you understand?" "Yes." "I talked to many different people, but to the one with whom I wanted to talk most of all and had the right to talk, I couldn't have." "It's not my fault, is it?" "And it's not my fault, either." "I had no choice." "I'll drink to you." "And I to you." "I wish I were beside you then." "No, it isn't for you." " And what's for me?" " Living." "Yes." "But how?" "How?" " How old are you?" " 23." "And I'm 21." "I got to go." " Are you leaving already?" " Yes, it's time." "My comrades are waiting for me." "Dad." "Goodbye." "It'll be morning soon, you'll have to go to work." "I envy you." "More than anything else I would like now to walk through Moscow streets." "It's a great city, the best city on earth." "Goodbye, son!" "With each year, the distance between us will be increasing, you'll be getting older." "I'm leaving our Motherland to you." "And I leave it with an absolutely clear conscience." "You must always keep your conscience unsullied, do you hear?" "Good luck to you." "Don't forget me, all right?" "The funniest thing is that I've known them so long that I don't even remember." "when we first met." "I guess when we were about 15." "Somehow I'm sure that no matter what might happen, we'll be together, always together." "And it's great, I wouldn't want anything else." "It's more difficult for me than for you, it's clear," "I shouldn't even mention it." "But I'm happy that, besides my family, I got you two." "Everyday throughout my life." "And whatever comes, guys," "I'll always be with you." "You know that." "You fear nothing when you're not alone and have something to believe in, and, waking up in the morning, you know it's worth starting a new day." "I wanted to see you so much, guys." "I value very much having you in this world, that we live here and just couldn't live anywhere else." "And however difficult it might be sometimes," "I know that nothing can be more precious." "This all belongs to us, an only possible thing for us." "And we'll be faithful to it to the end." "I know it." "It was Monday, the first working day of the week." "The End"