"Lenfilm" "First Creative Union" "Viktor Avilov" "Anna Demyanenko" "Mikhail Kozakov" "in the film" "Mister Designer" ""The Dying Love"" "Directed by Oleg Teptsov" "Fog beyond the dim, benighted window Heavy hangings at the door" "St-Petersburg, 1908" "Success, success no doubt!" "Platon Andreyevich, author asks for you" "If he needs me, he can come downstairs" "Platon Andreyevich, one moment please!" ".." "You wish all this to be displayed in the shop window?" "Not very interesting" "We have nothing to hide, Platon Andreyevich but with full confidence in your taste, if you are of a different opinion..." "This item..." "That!" "Adding to this a few strings of pearls" "The times of Solomon's opulence are gone" "What matters is not the number of jewels but their concordance with the display and with the mannequin's dress" "but I won't impose myself" "I agree, Platon Andreyevich but understand my position... my business starts with the store window and if the client does not stop..." "He'll stop" "Trust me, you won't find a better shop window in entire Saint Petersburg" "But I can't let you take it with you" "No need, I memorized it" "You don't need any old women?" "Oh, such joy, your Excellency!" "I thought you wouldn't come, would dupe us..." "Over here, please!" "What is your name?" "Beletskaya, Anna Grigoryevna" "You are of course a famous and educated man, unlike us..." "The bracelet!" "...but allow me to inquire:" "why display a child?" "This child will bring you a fortune" "St-Petersburg, 1914" "Put the automobile closer and wait" "No receptions until the end of the week" "And we had an agreement on deferment of payment" " 3 weeks remain until payment" " All right, I shall stop by in a week" "Wait a moment, do you wish to commission something?" "This changes everything!" "Come in please!" "I need my house decorated" "He can do a house." "Do you know that a house is a continuation of its owner?" "Macrocosm, microcosm... comprenez?" "Where is your house located?" " On the islands" " Particularly on the islands!" "Tell me, my good man, what of your master?" "Is he not well?" "Occupied." "You know how artists are: one creative concept gives way to another" "I do know..." "I once came across their Circle's manifesto in Germany... something like "Union of heavenly and earthly in the holy act of creativity"" "Unification and also transformation" "Transformation of vulgar living matter in a Creation of Art" "Why don't you sit down" "Platon Andreyevich!" "A customer is here... a fat cat that needs to be fleeced" "Platon Andreyevich, if you don't agree, your property will be auctioned off" "Be quiet!" "Platon Andreyevich, dear fellow, if not for yourself, have some pity for me" "What am I to do without you?" "Go to my grave?" "There..." "There you go" "So?" "What do you think?" "It will be impossible to paint here..." "bad lighting" "Hasn't... your secretary explained..." "the purpose of my visit?" "A portrait?" "Or a sculpture, I don't recall?" "I didn't summon you for a portrait I want you to decorate this house" "Then you got the wrong person" "I do not decorate houses I have other goals" "I heard you are trying to create something better than what God has made" "Don't speak of what you don't understand" "I know all this from my wife She understands these things much better" "It was she who insisted that I invite you" " So, Mister...?" " Grilliot, if you please" " Nothing the Creator has made is suitable for human life..." " Really?" "Extracting a parlor out of this space requires much time and effort... and what of the man himself?" "I spent my life trying to prolong his days on canvas or in marble." "And then?" "Who values my work?" "It seems you are famous all over Europe" "Sorry Grilliot, but you're an amateur" "What of my fame if everything is falling apart?" " Why is that?" " Because!" "Because I can't be everywhere at once" "You know that one, with an aureole around his head?" " Well, he's my rival" " Oh, I see!" "But tell no one, shhh!" "He creates, and I have to fix it" "For instance, He'll create this house and fill it with snails and frogs and I will put in a fireplace, all the snails will vanish from the heat" " You understand?" " Trying to..." " You don't understand a thing ...or He'll create a human being:" "an antique beauty with smooth skin" "And then?" "This Antinous will drop dead from some silly fever" "Are you saying you can cure fevers?" "My job is not to cure, but to make that Antinous invincible to all fevers" "But that one with the aureole, he keeps prevailing over me" " He's stronger for now..." " For now?" "So, what about the house?" "A house is a continuation of its owner, and I can't tackle it not knowing you" "Well, if you must know, I was born here, in Petersburg, I am half-foreigner..." "Traveled a lot, got tired, and wish to find piece in my new retreat" " That's not enough." "What do you do?" " I have my... business" "Credit, debit, Stock Market Herald..." "No..." "Nice meeting you, but take me home" "In that case, perhaps you could at least advise me on what to do about it all" "If you wish, but only advise." "I'll send you a consulting bill by mail" "...Finally, let me show you my wife's unique collection" "It must be located next to her bedroom in a separate room - such is her wish" "Anya?" "My name is Maria" "This is my wife." "Make her acquaintance." "I'm Platon Andreyevich" "No, really, maybe I'm confused, but... do you remember: 1908, the Sands, you were sick in bed, and I was sculpting..." "The Sands?" "Where is this, dear?" "Far away, on the other side of the city" "No, I weren't in Petersburg in 1908" "Of course." "Forgive me, sir, madam" "That is all... that is all" "Now then, who do you suggest I contact about all this?" "There aren't any good designers nowadays" "I'll do it... but I have to warn you:" "don't be stingy with me" "Say, Platon Andreyevich, my wife really reminds you of someone?" "As to the house..." "I think we'll start with the fireplace" "Just not in Marie's bedroom..." "My wife can't stand them for some reason" "Oh, Maria Alekseevna, it's a shame to kill living things" "I like them because they can fly" "Anna Grigoryevna, why keep pretending that you don't recognize me?" "But I really don't!" "Are you are angry that I didn't pay you for the posing?" "But you left so abruptly..." "I'm not asking how you escaped poverty, how you ended up with that... monger" "Very well, think what you want, but do not ever call me Anna" " So you are... you?" " Of course, I am me!" "Thank God, because I started thinking I was losing my mind" "Think nothing of it from now on" "And I don't like artists..." "They always imagine things, like you imagining some Anna" "Yes?" "I am returning my debt to you" "You like this, dear?" "Charming... quite charming..." " How much do we owe you?" " Nothing" "This rightly belongs to you... alive" "You are the strangest person who has ever frequented us, isn't he, dear?" "Put it in the wardrobe" "So, you say we have never met before?" "Take a look" " Is this some artist?" " That artist is me" "You drew this recently" "It's a 1910 edition, and it's 1914 now, so you'd be ill-advised to argue with me" "There, the draught will be excellent!" "Tell me..." "what do you know... of my wife's past?" "You know, Mr. Grilliot, such discussions are not stipulated by my contract" "You must, you are obligated to tell me" "I have no obligations toward anyone" "What if I ask... humbly?" "Kneeling before you?" "Why kneel?" "You should put a gun to my head, and pull the trigger if I don't answer" "Or lose your mind" "You are discharged" "But the house is not even half-finished!" "I'll hire another artist." "Have a nice day, Mr. Designer" " It's over, I've been sacked" " Ah, it's all your vanity!" "Remember, it's no longer 1908, and your public lost interest" " I live not in the past but the future" " Then you live for the debt prison" "Boor!" " Have you found another artist already?" " I think, not yet" "I spoke badly to M. Grilliot, extend my apologies to him" "And tell him that I'm ready to resume my contract, even for a smaller amount" "even half... it is robbery of course... but in my situation..." "I agree" "I doubt he'll agree" "Stop by sometime" "Enough!" "I've had enough of your mystifications!" "Remember, how 6 years ago I tried to pull you out of misery but I didn't want you to be a courtesan for such revolting worms like Grilliot!" " What is it you want?" " Persuade him to renew the contract" "I am heartbroken to see him turn you into a thing" "Grilliot is a very kind man" " And rich?" " And rich" "Tell me then..." "If I became rich again, would there be hope for me?" "Hope for what?" "Well, that you leave him and marry me" "But you will never be rich" "Why is that?" "Because you can't get rich with your little pictures" "And I could never understand how one can seriously engage in such rubbish" "I'm afraid I can't help you" "It's my luck" "May I try my luck, gentlemen?" "You?" "What for?" "I wouldn't advise you to play" "Your mind-boggling success inspires hope" "So, you decided to switch rivals?" "That one, with an aureole, no longer suits you?" "But you know, I only play for live cash" "What makes you think I don't have any?" "Very well..." "What, all five?" "1000" "6000" "Ten thousand" "One hundred" "Three hundred" "Make a receipt" "500 thousand 700" "Well, I'll match, and let's expose" "I have a flush royale if you don't mind" "And now, show us your puny carré" "So, Grilliot, how do you like this gentleman, ah?" "So, do they pay a lot for all this?" "It varies, but what matters is the truth that we try to attain by means of art" "Remember our last conversation?" "I asked you then if you would marry me should I become rich again" "Are you proposing?" "Anya!" "Forget Anna." "She is no more." "Look!" "A simple mechanism - spring, clockwork, and the doll can move and even smile" "This is just wax, but even the devil himself would be proud of it" "I stupidly preferred her to the original Between man and doll, I chose the latter" "But only my least favorite ones remain" "The one I made in your image 6 years ago is not here" "Anya?" "Anya..." "She got away" "Got away..." "Got away!" "..." "You must be getting old, such misfires never happened to you" "Beletskaya, you say?" "Anya?" "I don't recall her..." "Maybe she's at Volkovo, but not here" "She's not here" "Thank God for that" "Not here." "Sorry I can't help you" "Thank you ever so much" "Wait a second, maybe here?" "Not here!" " Not here" " Nor can she be" "Here she is." "Here she is!" "Follow me" "I think... here" "What is it?" "See for yourself" "Anna Grigoryevna Beletskaya, 1894-1908" "Poor devil, at last you found your piece" "My dear!" "I'm so happy you came to give him your farewell" "I was so afraid you wouldn't come" "The stroke occurred the day before yesterday." "Forgive me that I left your studio so hastily but it was your own fault:" "I was still not used to you" "Yes... yes..." "I understood a lot since that time" "I understood that I could no longer live without you" "I've been wanting to ask you: why, for what purpose have you left the store?" "The store..." "Strange you didn't recognize me thus far Such ingratitude from my own thing!" "I do not know why you killed Grilliot Perhaps he figured out your secret, ah?" "But you no longer needed him You have squeezed him like a lemon" " How many came before him?" " It is you who killed him" "Remember, your place is in the shop window and you will never be a match for the mortal whose rights you have assumed" "Fog beyond the dim, benighted window." "Heavy hangings at the door." "You have learned what fear is, Don Juan, You don't need your freedom any more." "Empty, cold the bedroom." "Not a whisper Can be heard." "The servants doze." "From unknown far-off land and blissful, Comes a rooster's crowing." "Dawn is close" "What is rapture to a faithless being?" ".." "Nothing!" ".." "Life is quick to end." "Arms crossed on her breast, and dreaming Dona Anna steeps, to silence wed." "Whose harsh features, caught by mirrors, In that strange, that glassy deep?" "Is there sweetness." "Dona Anna, is there, In your graveyard dreams and sleep?" "Life is mad, it's empty and abysmal..." "Into battle, fate, let us make war!" "In reply, through storm and blizzard, Comes a horn's triumphant, tender call." "With a light the blackness laving, Like an owl a motor flits, and hark!" "" "The Commander's footsteps heavy Fill the empty house and dark." "Doors flung open." "Those steps unhurried." "Like a clock's hoarse midnight chimes:" ""You invited me to supper." "Are you Ready?" "Speak!" "For I am here." "On time."" "Scathing, scorching question:" "To it only Silence answer makes." "A deep" "Fear gripped the room." "A cold and lonely Dawn steals up." "The servants are asleep." "Pallid twilight." "Night is waning, waning Night at dawn is strangely chill." "Maid of Light!" "Where are you, Dona Anna?" "Anna!" "Anna!" " All is still." "Grim the ghostly, greyish fog of morning Hear the clock's last, bitter chimes." "Doha Anna sleeps, but she is stirring." "When your death hour comes she will rise" "Screenplay by Youri Arabov" "Directed by Oleg Teptsov" "Cinematography by Anatoli Lapshov" "Production design by Natalya Vasilyeva" "Original music by Sergei Kuryokhin" "Sound editing by Aleksandr Gruzdev" "Costumes by L. Konnikova" "Film Editing by M. Baskakova" "Editing technician:" "Irina Gorokhovskaya" "Choreography by:" "O. Timurshin" "Assistant director:" "B. Pavlov-Silvansky" "Camera:" "S. Nekrasov, L. Golubev" "Makeup:" "N. Petrushenko, T. Frid" "Directors group:" "S. Sereda, G. Pushkova G. Tugusheva, K. Oganesyan" "Special effects - camera:" "L. Krasnova, O. Plaksin" "Special effects - artists:" "O. Kalyagina, I. Chirkunov" "Orchestra "Pop-Mekhanika" conducted by Sergei Kuryokhin" "Sound recorded using video technology" "Video engineers:" "A. Vernikov, M. Teplyakov" "Artists-sculptors:" "V. Malakhieva, O. Sikorskyi" "Artworks:" "A. Gordin, V. Skonnikov, A. Pavlyuchenko, N. Varfalameeva" "N. Heikkinen, S. Eremina, S. Kocharovsky" "Artist-decorator:" "T. Lojkomoeva" "Assistants:" "Costumes:" "G. Kupavykh Editing:" "M. Polotskaya, N. Aleksandrova" "Photo artist:" "A. Manukyan" "Costumes fitting:" "L. Baranova" "Props:" "S. Gorodnichenko, M. Pivkina" "Gaffer:" "A. Kaluga" "Color technician:" "V. Maksimova" "Administrative group:" "A. Pak, O. Mukhin, S. Novgorodov, E. Ponikarovskaya" "Executive producer:" "Veniamin Kutikov" "Main cast:" "Platon Andreyevich:" "Viktor Avilov" "Anna" " Maria:" "Anna Demyanenko" "Grilliot:" "Mikhail Kozakov" "Rest of cast:" "Servant:" "I. Krasko" "Jeweller:" "V. Lobanov" "Old woman:" "V. Malakhieva" "Cemetery warden:" "K. Lukashov" "Episodes:" "S. Panfilova, Yu." "Aroyan, I. Bulgakov, V. Minyailo, M. Mazurko" "O. Timurshin, A. Rodionov, V. Lenin, A. Polyakov, A. Bagirov, E. Smirnov" "Yu." "Bashkov, Yu." "Simonov." "V. Romanyuga, A. Gryaznov, I. Shteinberg, V. Vakha" "Model:" "S. Terentyeva" "The End" "Copyright (C) 1988 by Lenfilm Studio"