"DAD" "Trains used to pass the town where my father and I were born." "And only one post train from Kiev used to stop once a day at our station in August, 1929." "Sometime at night." "For two minutes." "And in the morning we found out that some family left Tulchin forever." "Me, in contrast to others, was never jealous of it." "Because from that day when my father bought me the first violin" "I knew that one night the post train would take me too." "Would take me from this dusty childhood to a real adult life." "Hanna, do you hear me?" "What?" "Put the dishes back." "Why do Jews have so much stuff?" "They just steel things." "Senya, either you leave your newspapers here or I'll burn them away!" "Roza Borisovna surprises me." "She does such a serious thing with young children and a sick husband." "What is she gonna do in Moscow?" "Dad, it's 4.45." "So what?" "I'm tired." "Did you hear it, Mitya?" "He's tired." "As for me, I stand on the cement floor all day long." "And people drive me crazy all day long." "And besides I work home all night long." "Why don't I ever tell people I'm tired?" "I don't know." "What?" "I don't know." "He's bored with his father." "He needs Lyonya and the company." "Play some Tchaikovsky and go to play to the yard." "So?" "So, Mitya?" "He's talented." "And now once again Auer's exercise." "Dad?" "I wonder, do you play violin or you watch time?" "Let him go, Abram Ilyich." "Let him go out." "Excuse me, Mitya, you're a nice storekeeper of course, but I think professor Stolyarsky is not your name." "My name is Zhuchkov." "Everybody knows this." "Do something useful, Mitya Zhuchkov." "What about velveteen?" "They buy velveteen." "David, you can go out." "Wow, nice picture." "Where'd you get it?" "What is it there?" "Still nothing." "What picture is this?" "It's a foreign postcard." "From Marseilles." "People write letters there." "Who is going with the violinist?" "Me, me, me." "You better run and watch!" "Who is going with the violinist?" "Ok, me." "What do you bet?" "A silver one." "The postcard is not enough forth 50." "And now?" "What is it?" " Some castle." "Is it from Marseilles too?" "It's from Paris." "The bets are accepted." "I gave you a box with soap last Saturday." "One hundred bars." "I paid three rubles each." "What did you do with it?" "There's a man who can give three hundred." "Plus thirty." "He says we won't have even that in a week." "330 rubles?" "Not enough." "It is you who have to decide." "Forth pleasure to do business we'll have to pay ourselves." "What about powder?" "The powder got wet." "We can dry it." "Does Abram Ilyich Shvartz live here?" "My God!" "Meier, Meier Wolf." "Hello, Abram." "How are you?" "When did you come?" "20 minutes ago." "Why?" "I'll tell you later." "How are you doing?" "It's not that important." "You came from Palestine." "You don't know Tulchin?" "I knew it before." "Where's David?" "He's... he's somewhere here." "Look, I still can't believe that it's really you." "It's unbelievable." "Abram Ilyich, I'll come back later." "Of course, Mitya." "I took the papers out of the stove." "They are on your table again." "Mitya!" "It's coming!" "Did you understand?" "You lose if you jump off first." "Go!" "Now!" "Violinist!" "It's yours, violinist." "One postcard goes to the banker." "Look, violinist, I won't accept pictures anymore." "Bring your father's soap." "Let me see." "What do you need?" " The picture." " This one?" "Yes." "Take it." "Run, run!" "Ok, take it." "It's unbelievable." "It's nice." "Why did you come back?" "For no reason." "No reason?" "Ok, you don't have to tell me." "Look, did you really see Jerusalem with your own eyes?" "The Wall of Weeping, the Mediterranean Sea?" "Yes, of course." ""Yes, of course."" "I hear that from the man who lived all his life in this town." "It drives me crazy." "To the Mediterranean Sea!" "Enough for me." "I'll drink, if you let me." "Whom do you pass?" "Throw ahead!" "Come on, come on!" "Goal!" "It's yours." "It's not fair." "It is." "You better hold the ball firm." "OK, let's run!" "Do you have these?" "And these?" "No, we don't." "I don't have any of these." "What is it?" "Berlin." "Brandenburg Gate." "Do you see the news stall?" "Yes." "I bought these postcards there." "You were in Berlin?" "Transiently." "Honestly, I believe you of course, but I always think that you lie." "It's like a dream." "A Jew from Tulchin walks in Berlin in the Avenue of Victory." "Maybe this one is you." "Is it?" " Is it all for me?" "Yes." "How many postcards do you have in your collection?" "Twenty-five hundred." "You wanna look at them?" "Yes." "Try to explain me, why does that happen." "When I see a picture of some forest or a sea" "I look at that picture once and that's enough for me." "And here is the simple picture." "And there is a sign below:" ""Plas de la concorde."" "There are some people and stuff like that." "I can look at this picture all day long." "And I won't get bored." "Let's put everything back." "Be careful." "You will help me." "Where is the Bois de Boulogne?" "Sorry?" "The Bois de Boulogne disappeared." "It was here and now it's gone." "And Marseilles is gone too." "And Paris!" "Maybe you dropped them somewhere." "No, I didn't." " David!" " Don't get angry." "David!" "The first shot was accepted." "David!" "Closer to each other, violinist." "What are you doing?" "Closer!" "Get off me!" " Is it Ok?" " It's great." "Fire!" "David, your father is calling for you!" "Look here." "It's not my imagination." "Nothing's here and here." " Did you take my album?" " No." "Who let you take my album?" "I didn't take it!" "And you're lying to me!" "You steal and lie!" "Abram!" "I didn't take it!" "How dare you steal and lie?" "I'll teach you how to speak the truth!" "And I won't let you steal again!" "What's going on there, Rose?" "Abram is teaching his son." "Where is the Bois de Boulogne and Marseilles?" "I didn't take them." " Then it was me who took it?" " I didn't take them." "Then it is me who is a thief?" "David!" "Abram Ilyich!" "What's the matter?" "Why are you yelling?" "Inspector came from the city." "Your presence is required." "It's an inspection." "Why do you have to yell?" "And remember, when someone is an honest person, he or she doesn't have to worry about anything." " Did you get it?" "Yes." "Wait for me, I'll be right back." "I hid the papers, I mixed the boxes." "You don't have to tell me that." "The boxes are drying on the street." "He came out of his cars and greeted me." "What's his name?" " How can I know?" "He's with moustache." "You have blood on your face." "Wipe it." "Damn thing!" "You mean your father?" "Yes, my father." "He must be killed and that's it." "You're right, to kill is the answer." "It's a very good idea, to kill." "Do you have a gun or a knife?" "No." "Then how are you gonna kill him?" "You're right, though." "You just need an empty bottle." "To put cherry pits there." "And when your father comes back home from his work you have to come quietly from behind and hit his head with this bottle." "What are you saying?" "And what are you saying?" "You're a smart boy, and talk nonsense." "Do you remember me?" "You're Meier Wolf." "Yes, I am." "Here it is." "Like I never moved." "Get up." "Get up!" "Welcome back, Meier." " Thank you." "Tomorrow everyone is gonna tell that Meier Wolf is going to dig oil wells, to wash gold dust, to sell palm trees and something like that." "Aren't you?" " No." "Why did you come back then?" "I came home." "I just came back home." "The Sichoves live in you flat now." "It doesn't matter who lives there." "It doesn't make me happy." "When I was the same age as you, my father was trading in gloves." "We visited thousand places." "And everywhere there was a righteous man, who said "Go to the Wailing Wall."" ""Four steps on the sacred ground and you won't have any earth sins."" "From that time I dreamt to collect money and to go there, to Jerusalem." "And that happened." "No, it didn't." "The Wailing Wall is just an old dusty wall, and that I didn't come to my homeland, but to a foreign country, where one can only weep and die." "And those people are strangers to me." "Do you understand me?" "Not quite." "That's OK." "It means you don't have to understand me then." "Someday you will understand." "Although, the sky there is too blue and the sand is too yellow." "Ok, I'd better go." "Tell your father I went to Burevitch." "Ok." "Be a nice guy, David." "Ok." "You know a strange thing." "I came back home two hours ago, but it seems to me that I made a mistake again." "Maybe it was a wrong Jerusalem and a saw a wrong Wailing Wall." "You won't understand it, though." "Are you going to the station?" " No." "Why?" " Because." "You don't want to look at the train, do you?" " No, I don't" "Why?" "I told you." "Because." "By the way, Vova Pavlov invited me to the cinema today." " So what?" " Nothing." " Go then." " I will." " Go then." "What a fool." "Tanya!" "She ran away." "I can see that." "I came to say good bye." "We're leaving tonight." "On the post train?" "Yes." "I'll come to Moscow too." "To study at the Conservatory." "Just after I finish the school." "Will you visit us?" " I will." "Write down the address then." "Tell me, I'll remember." "Moscow, Matrosskaya Tishina, house 10, apartment 5." "What is "Matrosskaya Tishina?"" "I don't know." "It's a street I think." ""Matrosskaya Tishina." It's great." "But it's not a street." "Do you know what it is?" "Matrosskaya Tishina is a harbor." "It's where ships are buried." "There are schooners and ships." "There's not a sea in Moscow." "It doesn't matter." "River then." "Schooners and ships, that's important." "On the bank there are small houses where sailors live." "They don't sail." "They only remember." "When are you gonna come?" "I don't know." "Give me something so I could remember you." "I don't have anything." "Take this if you want." " No, leave it." "What?" "Tanya is not leaving, but she got a postcard with a French forest." "I'm leaving and you want to give me some spoilt picture." "But there's Matrosskaya Tishina." " Hanna." " I'm coming!" "Dodik!" "Dodik!" "Dodik." "Why is it so dark here?" "Dodik." "Dodik!" "I'll light the lamp." "Don't." "I'm gonna go to bed." "I really am." "Help me to get undressed." "Do it yourself." "How dare you talk to me like that?" " Take off my shoes." " No way." "What is it?" "Are you gonna burn me?" "Why do I need to do that?" "Take off my shoes." "Who are you?" "I'm sorry, who are you?" "Shut up!" "How dare you?" "Mister inspector." "It's not my fault." "I swear, it isn't." "Don't ruin my life." "Help me to get undressed." "What happened with your face?" "Why is your lip swelled?" "Don't you remember?" "No." "Was that me?" "You." "It can't be." "You can hit me if you want." "Dodik." "If you want." "Dad." "Dodik, I'm sorry." "Hit me, Dodik." " Dad!" " Dodik." "That's Ok." "Don't be mad at me." "There are only two of us." "We have nobody." "I know people call me a cheater, a tippler." "I don't care." "Right?" "All day long I run round in small circles." "All day long I'm at my warehouse." "And I think..." "Do you know what about?" "A very big hall." "There are some nice women and men." "And they look at the stage." "And they hear:" ""David Shvartz."" "And you walk out and start playing." "They all applaud you and they cry "Bravo, David Shvartz."" "They send you flowers, ask you to play again." "Again and again." "At that time you will remember me." "You will remember me for sure." "And you'll tell those people:" ""That was my dad, who did this." "My dad." "He was a cheater and a tippler." "My dad." "He wanted his son, his blood to know what happiness is."" "And they performed an inspection." "Odd people." "Come on, search here." "And I'll make you be a man!" "Whatever it takes, but I'll do it!" "I don't wanna hear that anymore." "These trains, trains." "They leave, they come." "Don't wanna hear that." "Are you mad?" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "Right now!" "Shut up!" "Dad!" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "Dad!" "In May, 1939 Moscow finally adopted me." "Just at the same day, when I performed in the Large Hall of the Conservatory in a festive concert." "But backstage there were the same country geniuses." "And everyone was sure that he was here to start the concert." "But that person was me." "Thank you." "And I was happy." "I was happy for myself and for those who perform after me." "We didn't have the past, but there is a long happy life ahead." "Thank you." " David." "Why didn't you tie it on the stage." "The stage and a cold are different things." "Maybe I should celebrate the first of May like this too?" "Maybe." "Because it will not hide your greatness." "Tanya, what greatness are you talking about?" "Sergey Kharitonov, a second-year student is going to continue our concert." "Accordion." "Variation on the Rimskiy-Korsakov theme "The Fly of a Bumblebee."" "Where are you going?" " Excuse me." "Quiet." " Did you hear that?" "Yes, I did." "D sharp, second octave." "No, I mean it sounds like a train horn." "It was very closely, like in Tulchin." "Do you remember?" "No, I don't and I don't want to remember anything about Tulchin." "I told you that already." "Three years ago I came here by train." "And I remember everything only since that day." "And it was nothing before that day." "And neither Matrosskaya Tishina?" "Matrosskaya Tishina is an ordinary street." "I made up that story that ships are buried on that street, and old sailors live there." "But do you know who really leave there?" "Hanna's relatives." "You've never visited them?" "Why?" "What a pleasure to see them!" "Hanna, Hanna's mother, Hanna's father." "Children will have a glass of cherry wine, and then tea with cakes." "We don't need to go to Matrosskaya Tishina." "Kiev-Moscow" "Wait." "Careful." "Take it away." "Don't slow it down." "Good bye." "Thank you." "Drink it while it's hot." "Tanya, how did you manage to make it?" "Boiled and with butter." "How did you manage to catch a cold in May?" "I'm just an unusual man." "You're just an unusual show-off." "Why do you say that?" "I have a scholarship, right?" "There was an article in a newspaper, right?" "Bagrov, did you give money?" "You will marry me, right?" "So why do you call me a show-off?" "Shvartz?" " Hi." " Hello." "Did you see Slava Lebedev?" "No, I didn't." "He's rehearsing somewhere." "I see." " D'you have a cigarette?" " No." "I can read you some poetry." "New." "Brilliant." "Yours?" " Mine." "No, don't." "See you." "We drink milk and we drink wine, And we don't think trouble can come by." "And we don't know what's gonna happen soon, To ask for happiness for drink in the noon." "Who is she?" "Luda Shutova." "She's from the musicology faculty." "She's either genius or crazy." " I gotta run." "Where?" "Already?" "I told you, I'm going to the hairdresser's, then to the dressmaking shop, then to your dormitory." "How beautiful I'm gonna be in my new dress!" "You are beautiful." "I'd even say too beautiful." "Just like Lubov Orlova." "Don't get mad." "Don't even think about taking off your scarf." "I'll found that out if you do." "Did you understand me?" " Slava, where have you been?" " In the audience." " Thank you. guys." " Congratulations." "Thank you." "Why were you in the audience?" " I was deleted from the performers' list." " How?" "Just like that." "It can't be!" "That was right." "What was right?" "If a father is a public enemy and his son doesn't believe in it, that means he's a public enemy too." "It makes everything right." "Maybe they will sort it out, Slava." "Who?" "I don't know." "Why do I have to believe in it?" "I didn't just love my father." "I was always proud of him." "I looked at him as it was me when I grow up." "But I'm not an enemy." "No." "And my father?" " I don't know." "Lebedev, did you give money forth evening performance?" "Yes, I did." "And you, Shvartz?" "Yesterday." "If we run out of wine it will be your fault." "And what are you gonna do?" "I don't know." "I'll go to Kinishma." "My mother and my sister live there." "I'll go to work to a cinema theatre." "What cinema theatre?" "To the orchestra, which plays before movie starts." "I can play simple things." "But they didn't expel you from the Conservatory, did they?" "No, they didn't." "Then why do you want to go to work to the cinema theatre?" "Slava, why do you have to go there?" "Did you like the concert, girls?" " Schwartz, can I talk to you for a moment?" " Of course." "I'll be right back." "Thank you very much." "I liked you a lot." "Thank you." "I'm very pleased to hear that." " Perfect yourself." " Thank you." "These sixteenth, I can't understand how to play them." "Ask your teacher, little girl." "David!" "Hanna?" " Hello, David." " Hello, Hanna." "These are for you." "Thank you." "What is it?" "This is my cold." "Look, how did you find me?" "You don't visit us, so I had to find you." "It's not hard, though." "There's only one Conservatory in Moscow." "Yes." "Why are you standing on the way?" "Why are you standing here?" "Thank you." " Hi." " Hi." "I'm leaving today." "Where?" " To the Far East." "To build a new city." "The train leaves at night." "It's great, isn't it?" "Yes, it is." "How did your mother let you go?" "She was crying all morning." "Then she yelled at me and now she's crying again." "I'm glad actually." "I'm so glad that I even sing all day long." "It's funny." "You go from me, I go after you." "And I go from you again." "Now I'll have to make a concert at the Far East." "You will really come?" " I will." "Great, but you're lying." "You will never come." "Why do you think so, I will." "Like you came to Matrosskaya Tishina?" "Not once within three years." "I've been waiting, but you never showed up." "I need to recover and after that I'll definitely come." "In a week." " Ok, come." " Deal." " My parent will be happy to see you." "And what about you?" "I'm leaving, you know." "But will you be happy?" "Very much." "You see?" "You know, now I can tell you, we'll never see each other." "I always thought I'd meet you." "Not like today." "In another way." "Because I knew, you'd never visit us." "But anyway I was waiting for you." "Every day." "And you were brilliant today." "Excellent." "You will be a famous violinist for sure." "The happiest man in the world." "I planned that." "Good bye." "Hanna." "I love you very much, you hear me?" "Very much!" "The Dormitory of the Moscow State Conservatory" "What are you pottering about?" "What took you so long?" " I'm coming, guys." "And what is this one from?" " Birch." "Ivan Kuzmich." "Let me introduce you your future friend David Shvartz." "Where's Slava?" "I brought you a new neighbor." "He is going to study how to play folk instruments." " Kulyushov." " Nice to meet you." "His father makes these spoons." "And he's good at that, I can tell." "What about Slava?" "You mean Lebedev?" "Yes." "He was expelled this morning." "So he must be at the station or near his town." "I saw him in the Conservatory several minutes ago." "He's at the station now." "Ivan Kuzmich, I'll go to grab some clean underclothes." "Go, Petya, go." "Shvartz!" " Hello, Ivan Kuzmich." " Hello." "I wanted to ask you something." "What was the main issue at the second convention?" " Party program." " Thank you." "I'm sorry." "I forgot to tell you, we're gonna start in five minutes." "And we're waiting for you too, Ivan Kuzmich." "Thank you." "Have a sit." "Ivan Kuzmich, I'm sure Slava has nothing to blame for." "This issue is closed." "Ivan Kuzmich, try to understand!" "We need to sort it out." " People will." "Who?" "I've known him for three years." "I've been in the party for seventeen years." "I'm used to believe that everything that party did and does and what will do is rational and just!" "If Slava wanted to stay here just had to break with his father." "The father, who was considered as a betrayer by People's Court." "Who is your father?" "A musician?" "Yes, he is." "Not quite." "He's a conductor." "He conducts an orchestra in a cinema theatre." "You know, in an orchestra, which plays some simple stuff before movies start." "You know what I mean?" " Of course, I do." "Listen, I'm telling you, he's a very suspicious fellow." "He's been here for forty minutes." "Assistant station-master Belyaev." "Show me your documents." "Just a minute." "Here they are." "Where are you heading to?" "To the Dormitory of the Moscow State Conservatory." " To see someone?" " My son." "As a surprise." "Everything's fine." "Come to the train, please." "Thank you." "Come here." "Good bye, good bye." "What happened?" "Everything's fine, we'll hold your things." "Don't worry." "Everything's gonna be fine." "We won't steal it." "The next train is coming in a minute." "We'll find some time to get to the pole, And we'll find some iceberg to gain our goal!" "And since we're not fair maidens we hope To have the Cape of Good Hope our next stop." "And we'll have fun at the Cape of our Hope." "This poem is not over yet." "To be continued." "Thank you." "Let's ask Ivan Kuzmich to say something." "I don't really have anything to say." "When I look at you I feel sorry for myself." "That I hurried to be born and I won't have time to live in the country we're building." "And you have time both for building and living." "And someone will make our country famous." "Like Lomonosov, Tchaikovsky or Stakhanov did." "Because you have everything for this:" "talent, skill, Komsomol toughness." "That's enough for you." "The Party will help you with the rest." "It will correct in case you need it." "David, am I right?" "Yes, you are." "Don't be sad." "I wanted to talk to you in private." "But then I thought why I need to conceal?" "Tomorrow is going to be an order anyway." "What order?" "A very serious one." "That you are confirmed as a member in an All-Union Contest of Violinists." "You're gonna be the most famous!" "Wait!" "What wait?" "Let's drink to Schwartz!" "Wait for this." "Too much criticism about your genius." "He's young, this and that." "Ivan Kuzmich, I'm going to study 24-7." "It's summer." "This is much better." "Sew your cantilena." "OK?" "Let's drink to genius Shvartz cantilena!" "Hanna!" "Mom!" "Bye." "Go out." "Three in a row!" "Get up!" "Go!" "Step aside." "Quickly!" "Dad." " David!" "Yes?" "Someone's asking you." "Hello, my children." "You?" "Hello, David." "Hello, my boy." "Where did you come from?" "Do you know where my handkerchief can be?" "Give me yours." "Thank you." "I'm sorry." "This is because I'm glad to see him." "What is on your neck?" "Are you sick?" " No." "What happened?" "Look, why did you come?" "How?" "I took the train and came." "Hello, friends." " Hi." " Hi." "Hello, Abram Ilyich." "Wait, girl." "Are you, by any chance, Tanya Sychova?" "From Rybakova Balka, house number 14." "Yes, it's me, Abram Ilyich." "Unbelievable." "Look how beautiful she is now." "Yes, Dodik, I agree." "I have some presents here." "Here it is." "Some jam." "Prunes!" " Take it." " Thank you." "Take this, mister." "I don't know your name." "Ivan Kuzmich Chernyshov." "Are you David's friend?" "Ivan Kuzmich is a secretary of the Party bureau of the Conservatory." "Nice to meet you." "Abram Ilyich Shvartz." "David's father." "I have already understood this." "I'm really glad to meet you." "What can you say about David?" "How is his studying?" "It's very good." "Do you treat him well?" "Do you appreciate him?" "We treat him very well." "Dad, stop it!" "Why do you tell me to stop?" " Do you understand me?" " Of course I do." "No, mister Chernyshov, you will never understand me." "To understand something like this you must be born at the fisherman town and to live there all life." "And then at one day to leave the warehouse for Mitya Zhuchkov, and at first time to leave Tulchin." "Do you remember Mitya?" "The storekeeper." "We did some stuff with him." "No, I don't." " Ivan Kuzmich, I can explain everything." " Sure, Ok." "Mitya told me, Abram Ilyich, if your son studies at the Conservatory, you are an honest man then." "David, may I kiss you?" "I caught a cold." "One cannot kiss girls when he caught a cold." "You can't kiss Tanya with a cold, but you can do your dad." "Dad!" "I guess I talk too much, right?" "It's because I'm excited." "I haven't seen David for three years, and it's a shame to say, but it's my first time in Moscow." "You like here?" "I do, but I haven't been anywhere." "I came here from the station." "David, tomorrow you're gonna show me the Red Square." "Then Tretyakovskaya Gallery, then the amusement park." "I have all program here." "Dodik, why are you so upset?" "Can you tell me?" "No reason." "Did I say something wrong or you have problems with Chernyshov?" "No." "Why were you so silent?" "What did I have to do?" "To sing, to dance?" "Not to mention that you..." "What, Dodik?" "Nothing." "David." "David." "I know why you are upset." "You're not happy that I came, are you?" "What have you done?" "If you only knew what you have done." "Everything's over!" "What is over?" "Who asked you to chatter about your stinking warehouse?" " Dodik, my dear..." " I want you dead!" "David!" "Do you want me to go back home?" "Yes." "Ok, my dear." "When?" "How soon?" "Here." "Money." "I'll leave everything I brought." " I don't need it." "Yes, you need." "You must've been surprised why I didn't send it." "I just wanted to save some and bring it to you by myself." "I left it here." "It's enough for a long time." "God bless you!" "Schwartz!" "Get out of here!" "I brought you cigarettes, but you throw music in me." "Smoke." "Get lost, everybody." " Georgiy Borisovich." "What is it?" "An urgent radiogram." "They give three minutes." "To pick up seriously wounded." "Forty people." "Are they crazy?" "I'm full." "Not enough space for forty people." "Scalpel." "How's Krigerovskaya hospital?" "Four lethals, plus operated." "If we put them to the other department, we'll have 16 beds." "Do it then." "What about the rest?" "I don't know." "The same room." "Ask to prepare hung beds." "That's it." "Do it." "In autumn, 1941, I came to our military office and turned down the reservation." "In a month I was sent to the Tashkent Officer School." "In 1943 to Kursk." "I received the letter from Mitya Zhuchkov, where he wrote that my father Abram Ilyich Shvartz was executed by shooting." "With all citizens of Tulchin ghetto." "In November, 1944 as a member of the fifth shock troop my company was the first who crossed the western border of the Soviet Union." " Colonel Smorodin." " Captain Andreev." "Here. 40 people." "11 - seriously, 20 - middle and 9 - light." "The radiogram said that all were seriously." "Only 11 are seriously." "I ask you, please, not more than 7 minutes." "I have military next." "Send the echelon after full loading." "Are you crazy?" " Middle to the fifth and to the ninth." "Serious to Kriger." "Arisha, middle to the fifth and to the ninth, light to the fourth." "I'm going to serious." "Comrades, middle to the fifth and to the ninth." "Light to the fourth." "Serious to Kriger!" "Don't hurry." "Everyone will be taken." "Carefully." "Marina, this one goes to the third." "Is Kriger here?" "Yes, take them in." "David." "It's a wonder that you're here." "Such things happen only at war." "There are thousands of medical trains, but I found myself here." "It's funny." "Tell me more." "About what?" "About Tanya." "Speak louder." "I have a bad hearing." "It's a shell-shock." "It will be over." "My hand." "What will be with my hand?" "Your hand will be fine too." "You'll be operated in the morning." "Doctor Smorodin said that everything's gonna be fine." "Tell me about Tanya." "I was walking to our military office," "and I stopped at the street speaker to listen to the latest news." "Then after Levitan's speech they broadcast the Tchaikovsky concert." "Which was performed by David Shvartz." "Then I saw Tanya on the other side of the street." "I came to her and we embraced each other." "And we started listening to your playing." "I asked her about you and she answered:" ""My husband is in the war."" "Timoshin, second lieutenant, stab-wounded in the chest." "Odincov, first sergeant, many missile wounds, four-degree burn of both feet." "Shvartz, first lieutenant, contusion, missile wound in belly, gas gangrene of the left forearm." "Don't smoke here." "Georgiy Borisovich, maybe I should watch forth dynamic more?" "Whose?" " First lieutenant, Shvartz." "You can't amputate him." "And whom can I amputate?" "70 people in Kiev are waiting for us tomorrow." "Arisha and you, prepare the fifth car." " That's it." "Alright." "Georgiy Borisovich, he's a musician." "He's a violinist." "He can't be without an arm." "Can others be without it?" "Others can't be without it either." "But he's different." "Let me watch the dynamic." "Only a day." "Not a single day." "He can die here!" "An arm, a musician." "Wake up!" "I can't!" "Why?" " I love him." "We'll cross the bridge, then the forest, then Sosnovka..." "What is he talking about?" "He's remembering." "We're passing his homeland." "We'll cross the bridge, then the forest, then Sosnovka..." "Calm down, Odintsov." "It's not Sosnovka yet, my dear." "I smell mint." "I smell it very much." " Stop the train." " Calm down." " Let me go out." " Calm down." "Stop the train!" "Bear it, Odintsov." " Let me go out!" " Have patience, my dear." "Nadia!" "Easy, easy." " Hold him." " Calm down, my dear." "It will be better soon." "Everything's fine." "Water." "Water." "Water." "Water." "Ludmila, is that you?" "No, Dodik, it's me." "Dad." "Hello, my dear." "You're alive, dad." "No, I was killed." "A year ago." "I thought you knew about it." "Yes, I knew." "But I can see you." "You seem to me, don't you?" "Something always seems to someone." "When we were brought to the station it seemed to me that I was there to meet your train." "How was that, dad?" "Let's talk about something else." "I've got to know." "It was simply." "Once, there were many announcements in our ghetto." "That we would be sent to Poland to live there." "That at 11am on Sunday we must come to the station with our belongings." "Did you understand everything?" "Of course." "But there were some of us who believed." "On Sunday we were at the exit from our ghetto." "Germans counted us and guided us." "Meier Wolf was with me at the column." "Do you remember my Meier, David?" "Of course I do, dad." "So we were going." "There were only we and Germans on the street." "Nobody was standing at the roadside and nobody watched us leaving." "And you know, that was a good thing." "Why?" "You know, I knew almost everybody." "And I didn't want my friends turn around when they see me." "And didn't want them hide their eyes." "We came to the station." "We were counted again and ordered to give them our things." "I didn't take anything." "Only your old violin." "And my album with postcards." "Next." "Next." "Next." "What was next?" "That's it, my dear." "I didn't have anything "next"." "Then your life starts." " Did you come?" "Yes, we did, dad." "After a week of frightful fights we forced Tulchin." "But I didn't recognize it." "Didn't recognize the sky, the streets, the houses." "Because there was nothing to recognize." "Then I thought, maybe that wasn't Tulchin." "Maybe that was another town." "But when my company came to the station," "I recognized this stone wall." "And I remembered Meier." "Half of his life he was saving money to see the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem." "But I saw this wall at our place." "A simple stone wall, where we were playing football at." "And in the evenings we were watching the trains." "What was next, David?" "Next?" "I was shell-shocked and wounded, dad." " Forgive me, dad." " For what?" "Forth day when you came to Moscow." "I've forgotten about it already." "But I remember." "I remember it very well, dad." "And the worst is that I will never perform at the Conservatory." "Forgive me, daddy!" "Your dream will not come true!" "You're stupid." "It did come true." "It doesn't matter who will perform at the Conservatory." "You or your little son." "He will be proud of you." "He'll tell people:" ""My father did that I am right now." "My father, a person who has honors."" "Maybe something that I'm going to say is stupid, but I think that is the motherland you are fighting for." "Isn't it?" "Yes, it is, dad." "By the way, I have one question to ask." "One day three postcards disappeared from my album." "You told me you hadn't taken them." "I lied to you." "I took them." "I hope it will never happen again." "Lie is the most terrible thing for me." "Maybe because I lied too much in my life." " I gotta go." "Are you leaving?" "I gotta go." "Dad." " Maybe you'll see me in your dreams." " Dad." "Dad." "Dad!" "Dad!" "Dedicated to our dads"