"Good morning." " Good morning." " Time to get up." "Good, good." "Oh, what happened?" "Mom has dropped dad." " Time to get up." " Uh-huh." " Do you hear?" " Uh-huh." "Kalinka-Malinka Malinka is mine!" "In the garden raspberry is mine!" " Get up, get up!" " Oh, I do not want to!" "Oh ..." "Oh ..." "Hello!" "I come to you with best regards, to tell that the sun had risen." "That it with a hot light on sheets fluttered." "That the forest is awaken all woke up with every branch." " Dickhead!" " I see." "Oy-wey-wey!" "Yes, this is me." "Why?" "And who should do this?" "I?" "And what are you going to do?" "You did good for yourself!" "Or maybe the opposite?" "You will do something for which you are paid and I'll be calling you and asking how's it going?" "Yes ..." "Yes no yes ..." "But do not press this issue." "I'm not a union rep, but from the administration." "If you do not feel well - Take a sick day off." "If the work is too hard - find another job." "We'll trasfer you!" "Oh, you do not want that?" "Then keep coming to your current job and please do it well." "That'd be all." "Galina Arkadyevna, can I go?" "Tell Nikolaychikov to bring the draft of that memo to me first thing in the morning." "He already left." " How could he?" " All are gone, it's past 6 o'clock." "And the phone girl has left too." " And my dear deputy, is he also gone?" " No, he's still here." "He wouldn't leave while you're here." "How is your baby?" "He said his first word." "'Mommy'?" "'Daddy'?" "'Give'!" "Well, Galina Arkadyevna?" " See you tomorrow!" " Yes, yes, yes." " Have a seat" " What ..." "Sit down, sit down." " Nikolaichikov is already gone?" " Naturally." "Naturally for whom?" "For him or for you?" " For labor regulations." " I see..." "Has he prepared the memo draft?" " I do not know, he did not say anything." " And you, of course, did not ask." " But you never mentioned that I should." " But you could have guessed." "Well, we will be doing this with you now." "Bring the data for the last month." " What now?" " Yes, now." "So late at night?" "You and I have no fixed working hours, my dear!" "Look, I do not understand." " What did not you understand?" " I just do not understand" "Don't you have anything to do at home?" " Are you in the workers committee now?" " What does it have to do with it?" "Why did you become interested in my private life then all of a sudden?" "Not at all." "But, look at all women." "Exactly at 6pm they are all gone." " As if a typhoon blew them all away." "And you?" " And you?" "Me?" "A different story." "I stay here out of respect for you." "Out of solidarity, so to speak, between business people." "But it is as if I sit on pins and needles." "My wife gave me a big errand list." " Well, you go then." "If you need - go." " Yes?" "Can I?" "Of course, my dear." "I do not want to upset your wife." "But no ..." "I'll stay." "Of the two evils ..." " I'm curious." "Are you like this at home too?" " Yes, yes." "How so?" "Please tell me." "Where are you, baby?" "Here I am." "Right here." "Here." "Where are you?" "Where are you?" "In the bathroom or something?" "Here I am!" " Did anyone call me?" " No." "It's better not to tell her today." "It's OK." "I know my mom quite well." " Well, give her some time to calm down." " Okay." " Mom!" "Mom!" " Yes?" " We are going to have a baby." " For dinner?" "Mom, look at me." " Well, look at me!" " What?" "Do you understand what I'm saying?" "No?" " Why did I not understand?" "I understand perfectly." " Really?" "You again invited guests and my sleep will suffer because of your dancing." "Mommy!" "You simply drive us crazy!" " By the way, Igor was right when he says that you ..." " Well, I did not quite say so." " And by the way..." " Yes?" "Why did you let him talk like that about your mother?" "Mommy, I do not allow." "But sometimes he's right." "If your dad were alive he would never have allowed to humiliate me in my own house." "Nobody degrades you." "And by the way, mother, in your own house you could be more attentive to your own daughter and to your own son in law." " First of all, he is not my own." " Really?" "I did not choose him." "Secondly, you did not even ask me whether I approve of your choice." "And then you act all surprised." " Mom, stop it!" " I have stopped a long time ago." " Really?" " Yes, and you did not even notice." "I ceased to be the woman of the house." "I stopped doing what I want, to wear what I want, to eat what I want." "To sleep as much as I want." "Now I have to pay attention to your needs and question, whether it will suit my dearest son-in-law." " No one asked you for sacrifices." " Really?" " Really." " When about this stranger in the house?" "Mommy, he is no stranger." "Thank you." "Wait till you have kids." "I'll wait, it'll be soon enough." "But you should not hurry with such serious matter." "Live a little, enjoy each other, and maybe then ..." "Mummy, we have enjoyed enough." "Wait a minute ..." " Do you mean to say that you ..." " Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Oh boy." "How did you find the time?" "It happened a couple of months ago." "That's what the doctor said." "Well." "And I find this out just like this." "Mommy, why "just like this", when I came here with the news you said, "for dinner"?" " So you didn't invite guests for dinner?" " No, calm down." "Calm down?" " Calm down after all that I heard?" " Mother, dear, take it easy." " I will go through this quite well." " And I?" "Mom, you don't have to do everything." "You will just give us a little help." "I will have to do all the chores." "Did you ask me at all?" " Before you were done enjoying each other?" " Mom, well ..." " Did you ask me if I want to give up my own life?" " Mom ..." "Why always 'Mom'?" "Forgive me, Galina Arkadyevna." "Lida, mother is probably right." "Raising dauther by yourself, without husband." "And thinking that in the old age you will get some help and care." "But just the opposite happens." "The opposite!" " Mom, but we do everything we can!" " Yes, especially him." " He has no time, he writes his thesis." " He would be better off helping here!" "Why would it actually be better?" " Oh well." "And she'll say that I broke it." " Igor, do not worry!" "But in fact, I do not worry too much." " What if your dad bought it?" " He could not stand it." " Why did he buy it then that?" " And he did not buy it." "Igor, my dad detested shopping." " Really?" " Yes." "But according to your mother, everything here was bought by your dad." "Oh, Igor." "You are so naive." "People like legends." " Really?" " Yes." "We will have a little boy." "No, a little girl." "I see.." " Be careful not to drop it!" " Well, Igor, well done!" "What is its weight, Igor?" "Igor, how do you hold it?" "Such a klutz." "What a clumsy buffoon!" "Let me do it!" "You don't know how." " Careful with the head!" " Careful with the briefcase." "No, no, no." "This is the most dangerous place." "You sit here." "Lida!" "Lida, shut the window, the girl might catch cold!" "No, no, no!" "You go in the next car!" "Girl needs air." "Thank you." "Lenochka, your mom now goes to work, where she'll play different kinds of songs, and you stay with your granny." "Okay, little one?" " Lenulenka!" "Daddy also must leave." "Listen well to your granny, so she will take care of you the next time as well." " How is Lenochka?" " Good." "Tonight I'll be back late." " Mommy, must you go?" " Yes, I have a conference today." "Mommy, dear, but I have the final rehearsal!" "I need to go, if only for an hour!" " Mommy dear!" " But Igor is here." "I can not." "Today Kuzma is defending his thesis." "I already am very late!" "Well, I do not know, I have the city conference with a seat on the podium." "Lenusik, aou!" "Tonight I'll be late." "Well, that's that." "I say, we have to move out." " But this is my mother." "Parents need to be loved from afar." "The farther, the better." " You do not think at all about her." " Why do I not think?" "I think." "Another thing is - what exactly I think about her." "Igor!" "Igorechek!" "Well, dear, nicey!" "It tickles!" "It tickles!" "Well, you're already late." "Oh, you always exploit my weaknesses." "Well, this can not go on like this." "Either we move out or let her take a sabbatical for a year." " Igor, she lives to work." "Wazzup?" "Wazzup, my sweetheart?" "Well, talk to her, you have nothing to lose, after all." " I risk becoming an orphan." "Better you talk." " You prefer to become a widow?" "I cannot." "I'm the public enemy number one." "Enemy number one is her deputy." "You are number two." "You have to be more modest." "Little one, I go now." "My daughters, daughters, dear daughters!" "Where are you, my nights out?" "Where are you, my nightingales?" "Excuse me, please." "It'll take a second." "Well, your professor?" "Did he sign?" "No, he chased me out like a little boy." " Yes ..." "Igor, you did it." " But I did almost nothing!" " What can be done in this domestic environment?" " But this is your child." " So what, a baby?" "What am I supposed to do, take a paternity leave?" " Lida!" "Wait a second!" "Do not scream, you're not at home." "Sorry." "And at home, am I really home?" " Mom!" " What?" "Listen." " Go ahead." " But keep calm, okay?" " Well, what did he invent now?" " Why always he?" " Can I have my own opinion?" " Why not, have it." " But yours resembles someone else's." " You are unbearable." " It's okay, it'll end soon and you will breathe freely." " Have you no shame?" "Today you are such a ..." "Okay." "Spit it out." "What have you got there?" "Mom." "Lately you always feel kind of sick, tired." "You are working too much." "So tell me that now you give a damn!" "Who will work if not me?" "You can't do nothing on your own." "Why me again?" "What did I do now?" "It will pass." " Mummy, you need to think about yourself." " Really?" "Or maybe about you?" " It became so hard to talk to you!" " This is because you try so rarely." " All right, go ahead." "What have you got?" " If you are like this, then nothing." "No sweat, you think I understand nothing?" "You want me to quit my job." "Mom, don't you see?" "Now I have my maternity leave, right?" "But they cannot keep replacing me all the time." "The artists hate when their accompanists change all the time." "If I leave for a long time, they will all run away." "And I will accompany old geezers in the retirement houses." "And when you decided to have a baby, did you think about it?" "Or you just counted on me?" "You thought just to give birth and someone else will raise the child?" "No, my dear." "Nothing like this." "Because, thank God, in my life are interests other than diapers." " Mom, but she's your granddaughter!" " First of all, she's your daughter!" "By the way, I raised you without a grandmother." "And did it well!" "But now, look at you." " Igor!" " Quiet, she is still sleeping." " Mom said no." " Well, that was expected." " Igorechek, are you tired?" " Of course, baby." " I'm tired too." "What do we do now?" " We need to hire a nanny." "Oh, that's it?" "Such a piece of cake." "Why?" "I have read that the nanny can be found through the Bureau of Good Services." "You should read less fiction." "Igor, I do not know what else to do." "I already canceled two rehearsals." "A scandal is brewing!" "Lida, you have to understand that we cannot at all rely on the mother." "Indeed, why not invite a nurse through the Bureau of Good Services?" "It is equally impossible as to persuade my mother." "Lida, you should have more faith in the service sector." "Why?" "It is like believing in God!" "Nobody knows if he exists, but some still believe!" "I'll come back late." "All the best." "Why are you standing there, unload the bags." "And why are you angry, why?" "Greetings from the Bureau of Good Services." " My name is Efrosinya Fedorovna." " Hello." " Hello." "Good baby." " Yes." "Nice, small." " But heavy." " Heavy." "Too heavy." "No, it doesn't work." " Goodbye." " Goodbye." "Goodbye." "Greetings from the Bureau of Good Services." "So who needs a nanny?" "You?" "No miss, we do not need a babysitter." "Sorry." "That hurts." " So you say that you are a babysitter." " Is my gender a problem?" " Not at all." "We do not discriminate." " Maybe my education isn't good enough?" "I have a higher technical education." " And what do you need for your boy?" " It's a girl." "That's Lenochka." "Say hello to the gentleman." "Hello!" " How old is he?" " Nine months." "Her daddy." "He looks like him." ""She"." "It is a girl. "She"." " You see, the thing is that I prefer working with boys." " Why so?" "They are more sociable." "You know, she has a masculine character, very quiet, right?" "Little one, what is it now?" "What?" "The thing is that I do not like when children are silent." "It is not natural, it is suspicious, you know." " I have a sedatephobia." " What now?" "It's a fear of silence." "Sedatephobia." "I'm afraid of the silence, very afraid." " Unfortunately, she sometimes cries." " Yeah, you know, when you swing her." "Really?" "The thing is, that I like to swing children." "It calms me somehow." "I have a neurosis." "I see." "But we can think of something." "you can put the girl to bed, and keep rocking an empty stroller." "The thing is that I love when the child is in the stroller." "I need to move more, you know?" "It's good for my back." "Won't you get tired to move all the time?" "And will the child get tired if she keeps moving with you?" "Did they mention in the Bureau that I work only three days a week?" "I attend a group in the community center." "Artistic whistling." " What again?" " Whistling." "Artistic." "Oh, darling, listen how he whistles!" "Oh how he whistles!" "And how many people will be here?" "That is all of us, and we all work, so all day long no one is here, and sometimes in the evening neither." "The thing is that I love when there is someone around to talk to." " I have Sedatephobia." " You already said that." "Really." "When did I manage?" "Did I really?" "Sclerosis!" "Yes." "Yes, it's me." "Well, say she cannot do this." "But a simple porridge she knows how?" "Then what kind of nanny is she, just an amateur!" "Fire her!" "No, no, not one of our Bureau, they all are the same." "How is Serezhenka?" "Did you take his temperature?" "Well, I told you it's nothing." "Yes, yes." "I finish in 37 minutes." "Plus the commute." "Yes." "Kisses." "Pancakes, pancakes." "Pancakes, pancakes!" " What does the future hold for me?" " Good day." " Good day, good day." " How is our little girl?" "Alright, thank you." "He's better." " Who is better?" " Who?" "Our boy." " But we have a girl." " You have a girl, but we have a boy." " Who, "we"?" " We, i.e. my daughter." " Funny, what about your daughter?" " What about her, what about her?" "What?" "She's my daughter, I'm her father." "I'm asking you about our daughter, and not yours." " You have a girl, and we have a boy, I'm telling you." " Really?" " Yes." " But in this case it's all the same." "You know, I prefer to work with boys." "They are more reliable." "What does the future hold for me?" "Sorry, but why would you then take care of little girls?" "Why?" "I help my daughter to earn for her nanny." "Why not babysit your own grandson?" "You know, it's not good for me." " Really?" " Yes." " I do not understand." " The thing is, I cannot be stressed." " I have a high blood pressure." " You don't worry about other people?" "Of course not." "Why would I?" "You worry about him." " What does the future ..." " How can you be so cold to the child?" "Why do you care about my emotions?" "What do you want from me?" "A good service, I reckon." "And you have it, for the set price." "Are not you ashamed?" "You should be." "If you keep insulting me on my duties" "I will leave." "I, by the way, quit my job when my daughter gave birth." " And where were you working?" " Me?" "Vice head of Engineering dept." " However, it does not matter." " What are you doing?" "Enough!" "We will manage somehow with our family affairs without your assistance." "And you can go now." "All the best!" "Please, please, nurse him yourself if you are so compassionate." " Now mommy Galya will take you for a walk." " Poor girl." "Little one." "This is not a good man." "He is a heartless man." "This is probably Kuzma." "Quiet!" "Very funny." "I have your nanny fired." "Mommy, oh, how good of you to come." "We have guests." " Make acquaintance, Mom." " Hello." "Galina Arkadyevna, shall we dance?" "Okay." "I beg you, do not tell this to Lida now." "I almost had a heart attack." "God knows who it was in our home." "You could've invited a rocket scientist." "You see, good nanny is hard to find." "This needs to be taken into account." "And I should be ignored?" "!" "You may think that your wife has many mothers and a loss of one does not matter." " Nonsense." " It matters." " You behave." "Troshkin!" "Troshkin!" "Troshkin!" "Troshkin!" "Wait a minute, my dear." "Wait a second." "Well, my little one, are you not sleeping?" "Your parents cannot make you sleep." " My baby, what is with you?" " You see or, rather hear, that Lida is busy." "Really ..." "You can not make life easier for one at the expense of another person!" "Of course she's wet." "And no one would change the diaper of my precious!" "Nobody will bring a dry one!" "But really, no one would change her diaper." "Well, shall we?" "And, by the way, this is your baby." "And to count on someone" " I know ..." "What is with you, little one, mommy Galia will change you." "Tell Lida to bring dry diapers!" "Well, my little?" "Now, darling, daddy will tell mommy to give him a dry diaper he will carry it to the granny, and granny will change you and give the dirty one to daddy, he will carry it to mommy, and she has a" "recital tomorrow." "I wonder what she will play tomorrow?" "And when they want to have recitals, people do not make children." "One or the other." "True, my little?" "So in fact, Lenochka, all other girls and boys with kind grandmothers have both." " And we will not answer to rude people." "They can be rude." "But you will grow better." " What do you mean, what are you trying to say?" " She wants to say ..." "She wants to say, that to play a little with the baby is easy." "Even a stranger can do it." " So, I'm a stranger to you?" " I never said that." "At least you are honest!" "Lida!" " Goodbye." " Goodbye." " Goodbye." " Goodbye." "Oh, what a beautiful child!" "This is our Lenochka." "Lenochka, come here, come here." " She, by the way, looks like you." " Thank you." "Goodbye." "Take care." "All is well." "Goodbye, uncle!" "Goodbye!" "Best of luck!" "Have you heard what your husband is saying now?" "He said that I am your enemy." "This is not true!" "I never said that." "Why are you lying?" "Then why do you live with me?" "If you do not want - let's separate!" " Nonsense, why separate?" " Live like you want!" " Raise the child yourself, I've had enough!" " Mommy!" "*Along the Piterskaya* *and the Tverskaya.* Hello" " Hello." " Hello." " Hello." " Hello, Lida." "Hello" " Hello." "Come in please." " Such a talent!" " *With little bells ...*" "Oh, my dear, are you still waiting?" "Well, excuse me." "Yes." "Fun." "We are having fun, yes." "We better talk tomorrow." "Goodbye." " Hello." " Do you want to see me?" " Perhaps." " Come in please, hello." "Only I've got a wooden floor, please take off your shoes and put on slippers?" " Of course." " Please." " Come in please." " Thank you." "Come in." "Do you want some tea?" " No, thank you." " Coffee?" " Thank you." " Well, then a cigarette, please." " I do not smoke." " You know, I also do not smoke." "You know, nicotine is harmful for the ligaments." "I'm a singer." "Ligaments are everything." "Please, feel at home." "Look." "Do you recognize me in this role?" "It's a copy in oil." "Do you recognize the hand?" "Not mine, of course." "The hand of the artist?" "You do not know?" "A shame." "Sit down please." "This is a great artist." "But we will not name names." "As they say, as long as the artist is alive his personal life must remain private, in contrast to his art." " Are you an artist?" " No." "Really?" "I figured it out." "I have a trained eye of a professional." "I immediately see who is who, as they say in England." " Were you in England?" " No, did not have a chance, you know." "But I was there." "It's a wonderful, wonderful country." "I was there on tour." "Oh, the men there!" "All entirely gentlemen." "And such pronunciation!" ""To be or not to be?"" "A?" "What a rhythm!" "And in translation:" "To be or not to be." "Like a drum beat." "I would only play Shakespeare in the original." "In his native language." "Art, in general, should be real, authentic." "That's why I do not like the cinema." "You know, it is somehow fake." "I now have temporarily retired hence do not play in movies." "In the past I was a ballerina." "We have a very early retirement, due to adverse health effects." "Oh, what a dangerous profession!" " Must be careful, every minute can break a bone." " Yes." "I would give to all of us, artists, a comprehensive insurance." "Dancers for their feet, singers for the throat, writers for their hands." "Well, let's not talk about sad things." "Come on, get up." "Did you bring me some wool?" "I have no wool of my own." "Turn around." "I'll take your measurements, and you bring me the wool later." "Well, what are we going to knit?" "Choose, please, vest or sweater." "I'm sorry, what sweater?" "I, you know, came about an exchange." "Here it is written, that you want to move in together with someone." "Oh, I got confused." " So ..." " Excuse me, please." "Not at all, for God's sake." "So you want to move in together?" "Yes." "I do want." "But I do not have anyone to move in with." "Why would you then publish the ad?" "Oh, young man!" "Honey, how can a single intelligent woman meet another single intelligent person?" " Well?" " You want to find a man?" "Sure." "Who is most often moving out?" "Of course, those that are most often divorced." "Is this true?" "Do you agree?" "Well, you have some nerve!" " You ..." "You are an ambitious woman, I swear." " Really?" " Honestly." " Yes, and with a pension." " You see, all is well!" " Well, so what, do you think, I have a chance?" "A chance?" " I think, definitely." "Especially you know, in the winter." " Why in the winter?" "Well, because you like knitting." " I'm leaving." " Go ahead." "Well, good-bye, good luck." " I wish you success." " Thank you very much." "Hello." "Zinulya, you said last time that you have a real estate broker?" "Yes, but he drinks a lot." "I do not care, he's sober sometimes." "Sometimes, they say." "I personally have not seen it." "He messed up my whole kitchen." "How?" "Only the kitchen?" "Not rooms?" "Well, the rooms are okay." "He did wallpapers quite well, but the paint job is just awful." " Whom you talking about?" " The painter Kopeikin." "You asked about a painter?" "No." "I'm talking about a broker." "I also have a broker, but he fears everything, even afraid of himself." "Do you know his address?" "13 Green street, Apartment 5." "Call three times and knock once." "Three times to call, one to knock." "Two adjacent flats moving out." "Two adjacent moving out. 22 meters, 11 plus 11, hotel type apartment kitchen two meters." " Who sent you?" " Zina." " Did she warn you?" " About what?" " About the conspiracy." " Oh ..." "Yes, of course." " Did anyone see you in the building?" " I think not." " You think." " Definitely no one." " And if someone asks why you're here?" " Who would ask?" " You know who." " Ah, but then I'll say that I ..." "You say, you got a wrong address." "That houses are similar, in fact they indeed look alike." "So, what do you have?" " A flat of 40 sq meters." " Say 'aunt' instead of apartment." "The apartment is 'aunt'." "The footage is 'age'." "How old is your 'aunt'?" " Aunt Annie, probably 60 years old already." " Who's Annie?" " Oh, excuse me." "She's 40." " That's better." "How many 'children' do you have?" "It means rooms." " Two." " Two, right?" "Footage?" "Sorry, 'age'?" " Twenty-five and fifteen." " I see." "The younger, perhaps, is not old enough." "Too young." " Well, this is what I have." " I understand, but now a fifteen-year-old is hard to sell." "Everyone wants older." " It is strange, before it was the opposite." " Come again?" "Well, you know, we do not want to have, so to speak, big 'aunts'." "We will be happy with two rather small, so to speak, 'aunties'." "By the way, how are the 'niece' and her 'husband'?" "Are they together?" "Apart?" "Answer, are they together or separate?" " What is that?" " The bathroom, is it separate from the toilet?" " Oh no." " What?" "You have no bathroom?" "Do you have a 'niece'?" "A 'husband'?" "No, I have a 'niece' and a 'husband'." "The 'niece' is all white, tiled up to the ceiling, and her 'husband' is blond, he's white." "He's Czech." " How come?" " Czech?" "I don't deal with foreigners ..." " Not at all." " It is an imported flush toilet." " Oh, that." " Yes." " You are confusing me." "Oh, I forgot." "The 'aunt' also has a 'granddaughter'." "She's very big." " She could pass for a 'daughter'." " Are you talking about the kitchen?" "We're talking about 'aunt'!" "I hope your 'granddaughters' are also not tiny?" "You are entertaining." "Sorry for the flattery." "My son-in-law thinks so too." " 'Son-in-law'?" " Yes." " That's a balcony, then." " Well, only for some." "For me he is the husband of my daughter." " Wait, wait. 'Daughter' is a room." " A room." "'Husband' is ..." "In that room." "What would he be?" "Nothing good." "Okay, stop confusing me with your real family!" " I want to help you, but you're confusing me." " God, you are easily confused." "Zina said that you're an experienced broker." " I do not understand you!" " I do not understand you." " I would be pissed, were you not a lady." " Well, do not give me special treatment." "How old are you, why are you so flirty about your real age?" " This is my footage!" "Funny ha-ha." "Do you live alone?" "No, with a 'room'." "An adult 'room'." " Can you speak normally?" " No." "I am under the spell of conspiracy." "Listen." "After all, this is what you need." "Here!" "This is what she's looking for." "I did not understand at first." "Here's the address." "Go there." " Damn, I forgot the password." " And the name?" " Say you are from Uncle." " From Uncle Zina?" "No names." "Just from Uncle." "They will understand." " Wait a second." " But I'm in a hurry!" "So am I." " Who are you from?" " From Manya." " Did she warned you?" " About what?" " About what?" "About the conspiracy." " Of course she did." " Voila, my 'room', I mean my daughter." "The elder." " Very pleased." " Where are you going?" " To Uncle." "Say hello from Aunt, would you, please?" "Take a good look there." "I am certain, it will please you." " Hello." " Hello." "What can I do for you?" "I am from Uncle." "A. .." "I'm sorry?" "Uncle sent me." "Ah, I see." "Please, come." "You see, the thing is that my mom is not home." "She will be here soon." "You should talk to her." "But, frankly, I wanted to see what you have." "I think it can be done without your mother." "Oh, I see now why you came." "I initially thought you are looking for my mother." "Of course I can show you myself." "Only my room is a helluva mess." "I would like to ask you to wait here, and I will clean it up so the light falls well." "But do not worry, I am not too interested in your furniture." "Well understood." "Indeed, the furniture can be an obstacle but" "I wouldn't move it out." " Of course, I would not suggest this." "Yeah." "Well, that's good." " Now what?" " Tell me, how do you prefer?" " How do you like it: in a frame or on the stretcher?" " What do you mean?" " What?" "The paintings, of course." " What paintings?" " Those that you came here to see." " Me?" "Of course you, I've seen them already." "Why the paintings?" "I do not know why." "Probably because I'm an artist." "I do not understand anything." "How does this concern you?" "And what does it have to do with your uncle?" "I do not know." "He said that you would understand." "Really?" "Well, and why did you come here from your uncle?" "To say hello." "To whom did your uncle send this 'hello' ?" "Probably to you." "That's interesting." "Very interesting." "Tell me, would you be upset if I tell you that I do not know any Uncle?" "Nor any Aunt, for good measure." " But your mother does, maybe?" " Maybe." "My mom is capable of anything." "Then you have to wait for my mother." "I just don't understand why you cannot show it to me without your mother?" "I can." "But I'm curious, what exactly?" "The flat, of course!" "What do you mean?" "I mean an exchange." " What a strange day, nothing makes sense." " I do not understand." " Are you not looking to exchange flats?" " Not at all, if the memory doesn't fail me." "I see." " Goodbye." " Goodbye." " So he got it all wrong." " Who did?" " Well, that Uncle." " Your uncle?" "He is not mine I saw him for the first time, and, thank God, the last." "He was highly recommended." "He helps to exchange apartments." " Not officially of course." " Wait, wait." "I think I begin to understand what goes on." " And that Uncle of yours, is he weird?" " Yes, quite strange." " He uses code words, right?" " That's right." "Well, I know exactly who he is." "He was a frequent visitor here." "He is my mother's friend." "Well, it's clear that you are not aware of your mother's affairs." "I am afraid that I am now." "So here, dear niece, you failed." "What?" "Who failed?" "Well, you know, I better go." "And hello to you from Uncle." "Do not get upset, I need to explain." "My mother has, so to speak, an idée fixe." "She wants by all means possible she wants to, and not me, to help me get married." "So what?" "Apparently, your uncle helps her there." "I do not understand, are you kidding me?" "How is it possible that adult people do such asinine things?" "Are you not ashamed?" "As an artist, are you not?" "Well, no." "I don't play such games, sorry." "You came here yourself." "This is ridiculous!" " You know who you are?" " I know." "I know, I'm not a very young and not very successful artist." "Worse." "You are not very young and not very successful Don Juan!" " Old man, let me help you." " Oh, no, no, no." "I'll manage myself." " You shoudn't." " I am a man." "I see, but on one condition:" "I will help you." " Please do." " That's for me, and this is for you." " Wow, it's heavy." " Yep." "Well, let's go." " Oh, and you are too?" " What?" " Looking for an exchange." " Yep." "Everyone's looking." "People are strange, in general." "Is it so bad being together?" "What's so good in it?" "Is it that bad when all the family gathers at the dinner table in the evening?" "Do you have a large table?" " Assume that I do." " You do not have a large table." "So, when in the evening at such a table the whole family gathers:" "children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, 3 or 4 generations." "What is wrong with that, I'm asking you?" "Whom does it bother?" "And now I ask you, where are such families?" "I do not dare to ask where are such tables." "They do not make big tables now." "They make tiny tables now, too small even for a couple." "Yep." "Compact-size apartments, compact-size furniture and, please forgive me, compact-size family." "What is wrong with that?" "What is so good about it?" "Even our souls are becoming compact-size." "You know, I think that independence is also very important." "Independence from whom?" "From parents, from children?" "Then why do we need our loved ones?" "I think that we cherish our family not because they live close by, they can live far away and still remain close." " Yes?" "You think so?" " I think so." " For how long do you think so?" " What's the difference?" "Big difference." "Because you started to think like this only recently." "and will not keep thinking like this for long, I promise." "Well, thank God." "You see, even without us, so many hopefuls." "Probably, not enough space for all the ads." "Not everyone is separating." "Some are moving in together." "That's why it is called an exchange." " You think so?" " Yes, I think so." "You know, to exchange a flat - it's a lousy thing." "I would not say that it's the worst thing, but a lousy one." "Of course, now it's probably easier to exchange an apartment than change things here." "And here is a helluva mess!" "So why not change the bad stuff here for a good stuff?" "Wow, old man, you are such an interesting person." "You say it so well about children and grandchildren, so beautifully." "But you are carrying this mineral water for yourself and by yourself." " No, it is not for myself." " And for whom?" "For my son." "Oh, sorry, he's probably sick?" "Not at all, he is very well, excuse me, knock on wood." "Yes, yes, please." "Well, now I do not understand anything." "Is it too hard for him?" "Can he do it himself?" "Not at all." "He surely can." "But, first of all, he is very busy at work and secondly, I do this secretly from him." "When he finds out - he would scold me." "But every time he also says: thank you, Dad." "It is very important when someone says thank you." "Right?" " Yes, indeed." " Well, you see." "Oh, we got carried away." "Here is my apartment." " Well, thank you very much." " You are welcome." "Well, goodbye." " All the best." " And all the best to you." "Thank you." " Oh, Grandpa!" " Grandpa came!" "Who's here without pants?" "Come on, go home now!" "Goodbye!" "Igor!" " Yes?" " Igorechek, come here!" " Uh-huh." " What "uh huh"?" "Come here!" "I'm busy." "You understand, I'm busy." "Why every time when I need you, you surely are busy?" "God, why as soon as I start doing something, I suddenly become urgently needed?" "Igor!" "I'm coming!" "Can't even bathe in peace." " What is it?" "What is it?" " I want to kiss you." "I see." " Wait, wait!" " No, no, no!" " Wait!" " No, no, no, no, no!" "It's broken!" " We can try to glue it together." " It's by Kuznetsov!" " Mom, this is an omen for happiness." " Really?" "What kind of happiness?" " Igor did not do it on purpose." " And you want him to do such things on purpose?" "Mom, sname on you, all this because of a cup!" "You broke them plenty yourself." "Do you know who bought it?" "Do you know how old it is?" "Your dad bought it!" "Have you bought anything for the house?" "You only break what others cherish for years!" " That's it!" " Igor." " Monday, we'll buy a new dinner set." " Igor!" " We'll have lunch in a cafe." " Igor!" " I'm not eating here anymore!" " Oh, how scary!" "Mom!" "You love dishes more than people!" "I risk losing my husband because of you!" "No big loss!" " You yourself are quite a number." " What?" " I say, you are to blame too." " Oh, now you're talking?" " Well." " Great." "That's enough for me!" " I've had enough!" "That's it!" " Oh, come on!" "Do you need help?" " My dad was right, right, right!" " How, I wonder, was he right?" "You do not take his name in vain!" "I've had enough of your mother!" "And you let him insult me ?" "In my own home, in my own home?" "Do not you talk about my mommy in such a voice!" " Do not scream!" "You might wake up the baby." " Igor!" " That's it!" "I've had enough of this little family!" "That's it!" " Igor, my love, dear!" " Honey, what are you doing?" " Let me go!" "Oh, you!" "Igor!" "* Sitting by our fire *" "* Everyone has a different destiny *" "* You recall me less and less *" "* And I think of you more often *" "* We wandered together through the night *" "* And now our sunrises are lonely *" "* When your sun sets in the horizon *" "* My dawn glimmers in the east *" "* Those who were friends to you and me *" "* I'm not going to blame for indifference *" "* You now get round them *" "* And I'm trying to find them everywhere *" "* The proverb has reached our days *" "* It says the love cannot be forced *" "* But I love, love you a hundred times stronger *" "* A hundred times stronger than you don't love me *" "Bravo!" "It's nothing." "I think that this winter we should spend in the mountains." " Remember, Dusenka, father always dreamed about it." " Yes, yes." " What do you think, Igor?" " That would be ideal." "Mom, I got it." "Don't worry." "I got it." "Mom, more tea?" "Perhaps." " Igor, pour mom some tea." " Sure." " Is that enough?" " Thank you." "You're welcome." "He spilled the salt." "Oh, not the salt!" " I do not believe in superstitions." " Neither do I." "And anyway, why must we argue?" "Of course." "This salt is already covered." "Look, Igor." " I didn't sleep all night, I was thinking." " What are you talking about?" " It's time to think about the little girl." " In what way?" "She's almost one year old now." "She needs to start walking already." "Well, she is trying little by little." " Where?" " Well, in the playard, where else?" "Not good." "The girl needs bigger space." "You know our living conditions." "We need to sell some furniture." " But it has bought by Lida's dad..." " Why sell?" "In fact, Igor, I decided to give you my room." "It is bigger by eight meters." " Really?" " And while I'm at home today, we should move all the furniture." " Right now?" " Yes, right now." "And where are you going to live?" "In your room." " You do not know, darling ..." " That's it!" " That's it!" "Enough is enough!" " What happened?" "That's it." "We are no longer living here, come on baby." "We are living elsewhere." " What happened?" " Well, the mother-in-law, she rules!" " That's right!" " Igor, what happened?" "What happened?" "Your mother gives us her room!" " Mommy is great!" " Do not scream, enjoy it!" "Of course she is great." "In any case, she is not boring." "* The years go by, but again and again *" "* We recall every meeting with people. *" "* From the first step to the very first word *" "* From the first word to the first love. *" "* From the first word to the first love. *" "* I am being seen off by meadows *" "* I am welcomed by big city lights. *" "* Airplanes fly, cuckoos count our years *" "* And all this together is the planet of people. *" "* And all this together is the planet of people. *" "* Again, covering its tracks on pathways *" "* The leaves fall and the snow melts, the spring is in full swing. *" "* I'll be out of the house and someone will be near *" "* Thank you, people, for being friends. *" "Why are you so sad?" "This room is so dark, that I can strain my eyes." "Really?" "And we thought that everything is visible." "I don't know what you see, and then there is a difference in our age." "Mom, why don't you wear glasses then?" "If you do not see well?" "After all, you have the prescription." " Do not worry." "what I need, I see." "Mom, come on, we'll give you our desk lamp!" "No, thank you." "I don't need your stuff." "I, thank God, am still able to care for myself and to depend on no one." "But is it good to depend on no one?" "Not on children, at least, is good." "Why raise them then?" "You know," "I would have liked if you depended on me." "As I was on you before." "And that I could do for you at least a little bit of what you've done for me." "Mom, I'm not talking only about money." "I mean everything." " Alright my dear, I'll take your lamp." "Taxi!" "Taxi!" " To the downtown!" " As you wish." " Is that you?" " You?" " You know, you better go, I'd rather wait for an empty car." " Please!" "Go now." "What an unexpected meeting." "But sooner or later ..." " To be honest, I thought you'd come back." " Have I promised you?" "I hoped." "It seems that fate brought us back together." " What did you break so suddenly?" " Why didn't you keep the distance?" " What distance?" "He is himself to blame!" " Your license." "Well, I just could not control the car." "Well, they can confirm." " Can you confirm this in writing?" " Now I need to write something?" " Well, maybe your husband then?" " What husband?" "This is getting out of hand." "Dear friends!" "Please, meet my wife." "Very pleased." "You're charming." "Powerful." "Impressive." "Fascinating!" "Amazing!" "Mom, they say that you are charming, delightful and expressive." " Really?" " Yes." " I'll go spy some more." " Good." "I feel urban motives were better, somehow closer to his heart than all this." "He is still an urbanist, not a portraitist." "Alexey, tell him this, he would listen to you, that this is just ridiculous." "In such an old age to change his domain." "Especially for this one." "Nikolasha!" "I wanted to ask you, have you already finished to draw your Domnakov's?" " Oh no, Mom, I'm just getting started." " Really?" "Before you worked faster." "I do not understand what's hindering you?" " Indeed." "One could think that you're married." " By the way, I never got in your father's way when he was working." "Mommy, dear ..." "Galya does not disturb me at all." " Well, not disturb does not mean to help." " I wonder how?" "Hold brushes?" "Well, he can still hold his brushes." "I'm sorry." "Can I have a minute?" "Congratulations!" "It is a complete success." "Uncompromising victory." "Congratulations!" "Thank you." "How did you like it?" "Well, you know ..." "It's lively, vital, the colors are good." " Only one thing, do not be offended." " But of course." "The frames should be more high-end." " Yes." "But tell me, in general terms ..." " Very much alike!" "You could help your husband by finding the plan of the reconstruction of Moscow." " The plan?" "Why?" " Then he would work more efficiently." " He is a big boy now." " Mom, I don't understand what you're saying?" "But before you understood me?" "At least, do you know what exactly your husband was drawing his whole life?" " I know." "Paintings." " Paintings?" "For 40 years he was drawing the old Moscow." "Houses, mansions, lodges." "Streets and courtyards." "All this in the Arbat area." "I did not let him go further." "For thirty years he created, but no one wanted his art." "Who would buy a painting, when everyone has cameras?" "Push the button, and it's ready." "You have your mansion, the lodge etc." "But one day, one day ... .. one wise man proposed to build the New Arbat" "and another clever person decided to demolish the Old Arbat." "And after everything was demolished it turned out" "that the paintings of my son have not only artistic, but also historical value." " Mom, what are you talking about?" " I know what I'm saying." "What is shown here no longer exists." "And everyone wants to have a memento of what's not here anymore." "We had a lot of offers, also from foreigners in hard currency, but I said to my son: we are patriots!" "None of your canvas should be going abroad." "All of this should stay here as historical artifact." " Mom, what are you talking about?" " I know what I'm saying." "Then, one day, I read in the newspapers that another clever person decided to build New Kirov Prospect and for this to demolish Domnakov's." "Then I said to my son:" "go to Domnakov's and draw!" "Draw quickly, before they adapt an accelerated plan and then demolish it all way ahead of the schedule." " Mom, what are you saying." " I know what." "It's easier to break than to build." "Every kid knows this." "So you have to work, work hard, day and night." "But if you had the plan of the reconstruction of Moscow, you could've done this long ago." "In our time, the artists can not work spontaneously." "One must know what to save for eternity." "Eternity does not tolerate hastiness." "But why do you think that this area will have a similar demand to the Old Arbat?" " Architecturally speaking ..." " Do you know what kind of houses were on Domnakov's before the Revolution?" " Before the Revolution - no." " I hope so." "There were brothels there." "Why such houses need to be pretty?" "Why uncle Kolya must draw such monstrosity?" "First of all, not draw, but replicate." "Secondly, it is not a monstrosity." "It's from the shameful past." "All have a past:" "the people, the city, however bad it may be." " Mom, what are you talking about?" " I know what I'm saying." "You, for example, were you married once already?" " So what?" " And I say: so what?" "Everyone has a past." "Mommy, you are so beautiful." "And I'm so happy that you are so happy." " Look how is my hair in the back." " Good." "Galina Arkadyevna, where are you?" "I am here, my dear." "Galina Arkadyevna, there is a problem ..." " A problem?" " Yes." "I'm listening." "Galina Arkadyevna, here my data do not match." "It seems that we have overspent." "Galina Arkadyevna, can I go now?" " How is your baby?" " I do not know what to do with him." "Imagine, he said to me yesterday" "Mom, I have my own opinion." "Here you go, his own!" " See you tomorrow." " See you tomorrow." "Maybe an error in the calculation?" "Take a look." " Tomorrow." " This must be done today." "The working day is over, all tomorrow." "Well, you act like a labor activist." "Six o'clock and you are gone with the wind." "My dear, it is only necessary to work during business hours." "That's why they call it business hours." "But what if you need to finish something, can this happen?" "It happens." "It means you worked poorly during the day." "Got it?" "But you ..." "Before you used to think differently." "Stayed late yourself and kept others as well." " Troshkin, whom did I use to be?" " Whom?" "A mother-in-law." "But now I'm a daughter-in-law." "See the difference?" "Galina Arkadyevna, you still should stay." "Troshkin, what is your position here?" " I am your deputy." " Well, then sit down and replace me." "What, did someone make tea?" "Sure." "Galochka did." "It's cold." "But Galochka just brewed it." "One should always rinse the teapot with hot water first." " Galochka rinsed." " Really?" " I wonder, how do you know that?" " How?" "I saw it myself." "Your father, by the way, never spent time in the kitchen." "That's not a man's business." " By the way, this is a man's business." " Yes, if a man has no other business." "A man has to work." "All other chores in the house are woman's." "And if a woman works, what a man should do?" "Try not to become a woman." "A household cannot have two heads." "In my opinion, you are not fair, mom." "In the modern family the one who works is his own head." "I don't know." "It's all quite strange." "We did not have it like this." " Thank you." " You're welcome." "In my opinion you are not right, mom." " Zina, hello." " Hello." " How's your health?" " OK." "Are you ahead of the plan?" "I kiss your hands." "Eddie, we need two 'aunts'." "The code has changed long ago." "Now we use 'shirts'." "The size is the footage." "Oh, Eddie!" "Can you teach an old dog new tricks?" " I'm old too." " Oh, what a nightmare." "Well, I'll try." "We need two 'shirts' in the same area." " So that the kitchen ..." " Quiet." "A 'sweatshirt' with a 'v-neck'." "A 'v-neck' is what - the kitchen cabinet?" "The v-neck is on the chest." "Right here." "This is terrible." "Eddie, I need a big 'sweatshirt'." "With bright 'shirts', isolated and with 'buttons' to the south and west." " Bu ... 'Buttons', this is that?" " The 'buttons' are the windows." " Wow, well done." "Excellent!" " Eddie." "You know, just today they were on sale in Passage." "Just like you want with a v-neck, of bright color." " I see." " Passage?" "What is it, bureau of exchange?" " This is a shop on Petrovka." " Are you interested in a sweatshirt?" " My God, I'm interested in nothing." " Listen to me." " Why should you be ashamed of this?" "A v-neck on the chest would suit you well." "Look, we are not buying anything." " And do not sell anthing." " I heard it myself." "We exchange one big 'shirt' from the store "Hercules" into two smaller ones." " Isolated!" " We pay a premium!" " ... from Toys "R" Us." "Why the premium?" " What kind of premium?" " Eddie, I can pay the premium!" " It's impossible." " But you yourself are to blame for changing the code." "Okay, let's talk without codes." "Why do you want to exchange a large, beautiful mother-in-law, a shirt, a flat?" " The kids have irreconcilable differences?" " Oh, Eddie, I cannot stand it anymore!" " He painted 117 portraits of her." " Wow!" " Well, not a hundred, just 17." " I don't understand you." " He never painted me, not even once." " I see..." "And my daughter - all I have is one postcard Happy New Year." "That's all." "Children are children." "Your son got a new source of inspiration." "I do not know what he's got, but I know that he has lost color." "Calls her Galchonochek, a chick!" "And for me there is only one dry "mom"?" "This is familiar to me." "Previously, every night before bedtime he would come to my room to talk about what happened during the day, to make plans for tomorrow, to wish me good night." "And now he has no time!" "He speakes out in another room, and to me only does like that!" "Just to be polite." "Eddie, understand, I gave him all my life." "I'm not married." "I could have been, but I stayed there for him." " So that he can become what he became, an artist." " Get a dog." "A dog?" "Take my advice." " A dog is what?" " A dog is a dog." "A man's best friend." "It's open!" "It's about an ad." "What was advertized?" " An exchange." " Let's swap, without looking!" "Well, well, well." " Oh no, I'd better go." " Wait!" ""I go, I go." Such a bully." "Remind me, what do we exchange?" " Maybe I myself forgot?" " You're kidding." "You don't remember that you're exchanging a flat?" "Exactly, a flat." "I'm a plumber." "I have nothing to hide." "You can write all sorts of ads and claims, penpusher." " So you remember now?" " Just like that!" " Is this the apartment?" " Yes, this is an apartment." "I see that this an apartment." "You want to exchange it?" " For what?" " For a bigger one, of course." "This for a bigger one?" "It's a deal." "I don't want a cat in a bag." "I need to see first." "Well, look then." "I do not have anything to hide." "All is honestly earned." "And if she said differently, that's her problem." "This is my suit," " If I want, I wear it, if I want, I sell it." " Where is the second apartment?" " Yours?" " Where is mine I know, I'm asking where's yours." "Are you mad?" "I believe I only have one." "I'm not a guy like Roquefort." "Ugh, no." "Now, now.." "It sounds like "propeller"." " Rockefeller?" " He's the one!" "So, I am not him." " And it says here: two for one." " If it's written, it must be true." "Take them." "To hell with it." "Why do I need two?" "Well, the second flat in which area?" "I need to look at it." " It's necessary?" " Yes!" "Well, if it is necessary - let's go." "Where is it?" " Who?" " Damn." " Apartment." " What apartment?" "Yours." "Well ... you're sloshed." "Do you not remember with whom you are moving in together?" "Exactly." "Sit down." "I'm moving in." "Like normal people do." "Housewarming party." " Look, either you give me the address of the other flat ..." " The address?" "The address." " Whos?" "Klavka's, or what?" " I don't know whom you're moving in with." "I think with Klavka." "Or was it with Lubka?" "No, not with Lubka." "Lubka has roomates." "With Klavka, definitely." "You see what memory I have!" "That's 600 concrete hydro-engineered concrete." "Psychic." " Got it?" " Got it." "And what about the address?" "I need to see." "Whom?" "Klavka?" "The apartment." "You better watch out." "It appears I'm gentle." "but for her I could become a Hamlet." "No, not Hamlet." "Hamlet was white and I meant the black guy." "The one that was not snacking after the first drink." " Who was not snacking?" " The shotglass in the movie." " In what movie?" " In the other one." " In what movie?" " In the other one." "There he does not eat after the first shot and the second." "But in the other one he took an elephant by the trunk and a negro." "Do you mean Othello?" "I'm telling you." "You see the memory I got?" "If I see a face once - that's it." "Like if I see you ..." "You're wrong there, you will not see me anymore." "Why?" "Hey!" " Galya!" " What?" "Is this doll Pinocchio?" "Yes." "Wait, no." "It's Petrushka." "I think it's Petrushka." "You see his nose?" "Pinocchio has a longer one." " Did you see my shopping bag?" " Your shopping bag?" "No." "It has disappeared." "To be precise, that bandit ate it." "Come on, Isolde Tikhonovna, he's so small, how can he eat it?" "Not small." "He's 3 months old." "He eats more than Lenochka." "I can't cook enough for him." "You are not respectful to my age!" "But he is such a joy and Lenochka loves playing with him." "So smart." "He might be smart, but I was a fool to agree to this deal." "And you work," "Nikola paints, and I'm left on the mercy of these two." "This is too much for me." "Do not worry, soon we will go to the dacha, it will be easier there." "To the dacha?" "Nikola!" "Nikola, have you heard?" "Nikola." "My God, what is this?" " Did you become an absurdist?" " Not at all, mom." "This is Lenochka." " So did you hear?" " What?" " That I am going to the dacha!" " Not a bad idea." " What are you talking about?" "The dacha?" " No, I mean the color scheme." "I was avoiding it for 30 years." "It's a torture!" "And I'm not going there!" "Excuse me, Isolde Tikhonovna, it seems to us that the dog and the child should spend the summer outdoors." "To run free." "Is it true, Nikola?" " And you should too." " Run free?" "Kolya and I will help you." "I know exactly how you'll help." "So I have to do all the main chores by myself?" "Thank you, dear, and run free yourselves." "Speaking of it, I'm going to the store." "When it's time to play - everyone is the boss and when it's time to feed - no one." " Come on, mom." "I shopped in the morning." " Ah..." "The sausage is nothing to him." "Can you feed him with that?" "This is a crocodile, not a dog." "It'd be better if I go there." "Where would you go?" "You have no time." "You need to robotize the assembly line." "Well, you robotize it then, if there are no men left who can do it." "I need to buy some chicken for Thursday anyway." " In any case, it's my birthday, if you still remember it." " Come on, mom!" " But, not for everyone it's a celebration!" " What are you talking about, Mom?" "I know what I'm saying!" "Oh, it's so stressful, so stressful!" " When you always have to please someone else!" " Quiet!" "What a nightmare." "If I do something in the house, it gets examined under a microscope!" "I told her:" "I really, really respect Nikola's dad, but thank God I'm not an orphan either!" " Of course." " Why should I imitate other people's parents?" "Can you imagine, Igor?" " In the end, I am also a mother." " Yes." "But I never forced my daughter to live by my rules." "No, it's stunning." "It's simply stunning." "Why the old people never remember what young themselves were like ?" "Or, say, in their middle age?" "Now, if people remembered their own mistakes they'd be easier on others." "Do you agree, Igor?" "I do." "I always have." "But can you compare!" "You should try being in my shoes." "I already did." "In my own." " Galina Arkadyevna, dear." "I have something to say." " What is it?" "You see, Lida is pregnant." "I think with a boy this time." "Do you see?" "I'll have a son, you see?" "Aren't you happy?" "Oh well." "Children are a beautiful thing." "Are you waiting for me, my pretty boy?" "You're my little crocodile, you are my dearest!" "Wait." "Nobody feeds our shaggy doggy!" "Why does no one think of the child's health?" "Again, relying on me?" "What happened now?" "So far nothing happened, but if you don't act now, it may become a problem." "What kind of problem?" " Do you hear her speak?" " So?" "She doesn't pronounce certain sounds." "All the kids in the beginning do not pronounce some sounds." "I, for example, did not speak at all for a long time." "Really, Igor?" "What a pity that I have found this so late." "Yes, indeed, too bad for you." "I'm serious, we need to examine the child comprehensively." " It is necessary to call a doctor." " Well, maybe ..." "It will go away?" "I do not understand, is it so difficult?" "No, not difficult." "But what kind of doctor?" "What kind of doctor?" "Of course, with a private practice!" "Mom!" "Here is the doctor." "Well ..." " Fou fas fefects?" " What?" "Fefects of shpeach." "I'm orfofonisht." " I correct the fefects of the fiction." " What fiction?" " Fiction, fiction." "Not fiction, but fiction!" " He cannot pronounce the sound "d"." " Yesh, I cannot pvononce the shound "f"." " Ah. .." "You should have said so." " I just shald." " So, you're a speech therapist!" "How nice." "Please be seated." "Do you want some tea?" " I do want shome." "With pleashure." " Please." "Well, whom shall we tweet?" " Tweet?" " Not tweet." "I shald, whom shall we tweet:" "a boy or a girl?" "We have a little girl, Lenochka." "Ah, a girl." "Lenochka, Lenochka." "What a nice name." "Lenochka, say "foggie"." "Doggie." " Shay now: "whishtle"." " Whistle." " Sho." "Shay "shunflower"." " Shunflower!" "I shee." "Shay: "fish"." " Herring!" " I shee." "She musht be tweeted." "I will white a wefewwal." "And you will be bwinging the girl to my offishe" "two timesh a week." " Where to?" "The Cocky shtweet." "There is no such street." "Have you got a secret office?" "Why a shecret offishe, what shecret offishe?" " This is a clinic." " This is a clinic!" "Well, I understand the clinic." "The clinic is located on ..." " the Cocky shtweet." " Is there such a street?" " Yesh." "You know Maxim ..." " Gorky." " Ah, Gorky." " That's white, the Maxim Cocky shtweet." " You cannot pronounce half the letters!" " Sho what?" " There are 32 of them!" " There are 32 of them." "I have one colleague: he can pronounce only three." "And everyone understands." "A specialist should only be able to treat others." "Tell me, why such speech impediments occur in children?" "For fifferent weasons." "Mosht often - the family circumshtances." "The environment in the family." "Chilwen are very shenshitive." "I do not understand what you're hinting at, Isolde Tikhonovna." " I myshelf have a nieshe." " Uh-huh." " My shishter and her faughter moved apart." " Did they exchange an apartment?" " Yes, they exchanged." " I see." "My shishter lives now on Kiev shtweet, and her faughter on Kiev shtweet." " So they live on the same street?" " No, on fifferent!" " She's on Kiev shtweet." " Yes." " And she's on Kiev shtweet." " The Kirov street." " Oh, on the Kirov street!" " I shald: on Kiev shtweet." "All is clear." " Weffewal." " Yes." " Wendesfay." " Yeah, thank you." "Sorry, Isolde Tikhonovna, but now I understand!" "Really!" "I also understand!" "You have to understand: the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law - an eternal conflict!" "Poor, poor, girl!" "It's not shurprising that she has fefects of the fiction." " I was four years olf." " Old." "When my pawents flet [died]" " My gwandma with my gwandpa." " With your grandpa." "Got fivorced." "And then for two years felt with each other in court..." "Excuse me." " Dealt with each other." " And it's not funny." "They felt with each other in court, to prove who loves me more." "This is how I got the fefects of the shpeech." "And why not?" "Nerves, pollution of the atmoshphere and water." "But I found my calling: to be an orfofonisht." "I tweet the childwen." "Albeit, I'm not married." "Have no kids of my own." " Goofbye." " Goodbye." "Hello" " I came about an exchange." " Hello." "Ah, yes." "Come in." "Come in and take a look." "A box is always a box." "With holes for the light." "How so?" "What about the floorplan?" "All the same." "The main thing that it is separate, so you don't have to deal with anyone." "I see enough of people during the day." "When the night comes, I want to be alone." " And what do you do?" " I?" "I am rather a sales woman, not everyone can launch satellites." "You say this as if there is, someone to blame for that." "If you don't like your work - you can always change it." "No, I like it." "The others, however, do not." "It is believed that the sales people are all crooks." "Okay, do not pay attention to me." "I was letting the steam out." "Come." "With whom are you separating?" "With your husband, I suppose?" "Well, no." "With his mother." "I see..." "Each wants to rule the house." "That's right." "Mother-in-law will always be there, but a man, he can dump you in the blink of an eye." "It's not the blink, as you put it, it's just difficult, that's all." " Between two fires." " You are right." "You are right." "You're great." "Take care of your man." "Otherwise, one day it might be too late." "I didn't understand mine before." "He was just sitting here." "He sits quietly and reflects, as if he sees something." "I was very angry." "What is he seeing that I cannot see?" "He is like that." "His father is an associate professor, his mother is a translator." "They, of course, were terribly against me, when we started seeing each other." "They kicked him from their house, stopped talking to him." "Of course, who am I?" "A saleswoman is no match for him." "In fact, I also had a boy from my first marriage." "And he said to me, let's get married I will treat your child as my own." "I asked, why can't we just live like this?" "No, he said, we can, but it doesn't feel right." "Before him, I thought that a man should be free, without a leash." "You can't hold your love on a leash." "Then, suddenly, like a thunder." "He developed a pain." "We thought it is an appendicitis or an ulcer." "Then I was summoned to the clinic." "At first I did not understand: why?" "They told me to come to a certain office." "I came." "They ask, are you the wife?" "I said, I am not his wife, not officially." "He named you as his wife." "Well, I said, if he says so, then I am his wife." "And then they told me everything." "They said we must operate immediately." "His heart is weak, but there is a chance." "They said I should help them to force his hospitalization." "They didn't explain to him what was wrong." "They just said, for an examination." "But, in fact, he understood." "He was a very intelligent guy." "I cried a lot." "Then I took a day off, and invited him over ..." "He has his own apartment." "To stay away from my beauty." "And in the morning, among other things, I started a conversation." "About the hospital." "In a joking manner." "I pretended that this operation is nothing serious." "And he said, I will go to the hospital on two conditions: if you marry me, and exchange our apartments for one." "I said: honest to God, if something happens, I do not need anything." "I never asked for anything, only for you." "And he said, we need to start a normal life together." "Well, how could I refuse him?" "We went to the city registrar." "But they have their own rules: you need to apply three months in advance." "But he could not wait for three months." "I went to the director." "She said:" "I understand you, even sympathize, but I cannot help." "I cannot violate the rules." "I asked, what if the groom brings a note from the doctor?" "The groom." "This is how they called him: the groom." "After five years together, he is now the groom." "I asked, maybe with the doctor's note you can arrange something?" "The note about the operation." "The director said, maybe it would help." "I went back to the clinic." "They had a hard time writing the note." "It came out quite strange." "But it worked." "We got married." "We did not celebrate, did not invite guests." "In the evening, his parents came to visit." "At first, it was tense between us." "They were asking me, how's is my son." "But I sent the boy to my sister to diffuse the tension." "My now husband joked all evening, danced." "His mother, though elderly, but dances well." "Then I went to the kitchen to make tea." "She came up behind me, and hugged me like this." "I wanted to turn around and say something, but I could not." "I got a lump in the throat." "Then we cried together for an hour and a half." "The guys did not bother us." "They probably realized what was happening." "I do not remember what we talked about." "She was apologizing, I was asking for her forgiveness." "I do not remember." "And now?" "He is in the hospital now." "And I'm looking for an exchange, as promised." "They say talking it all out unburdens you." "But can I make things better with words?" "What can I do?" "If I could" " I would be in the hospital in his place." "You should wait." "Maybe it will be alright." "And I'm waiting." "Waiting." "What else can I do?" "I should see the apartment, I talked your ears off." "It's okay, I saw everything." "As you said, a box with a hole." "Do you want to see his flat?" "Yes, if possible." "Of course, why not." "Take this." "Aren't you afraid?" "To give the key to a stranger?" "I was afraid before, when I did not know what exactly I needed to fear." "Well, thank you." "I'll be back tomorrow." "And best of luck to you!" "Everyone is sad, when they part, it is hard to find the right words." "Quick farewell - little sadness" "A long farewell, a long farewell, a long farewell - extra tears." "I will see you tonight in a dream, you are giving me farewell roses." "Oh, why do not you believe me?" "A long farewell, a long farewell - extra tears." "I am forever indebted to you, the distance is no threat to love." "Believe me, without you I can not live." "A long farewell - extra tears." "I'm not going to die, I will become dust." "I'll become flowers, the roots of a birch." "Do not cry for me too long." "A long farewell, a long farewell, - extra tears." "Extra tears." "Mommy!" "Mom!" "Mom, I am coming." "Hello" "Hello" " Mommy, dear, what happened?" "Why are you crying?" " Lida!" " Did something happen to you?" " No, mommy, and to you?" " Is everything okay with Igor?" " No?" "Mommy, and with you?" " Do not hurt him!" " Mom, I am not hurting him." " Take care of him." " I do take care of him." "You see, my child, there are important things in life, and less important." "We are often waste our time on petty things." " Isolde Tikhonovna, a telegram for you." " Really?" "Thank you." "Nikola, its from Rozhden!" "He is coming to visit!" " Well, mom, this is great!" " I'm so happy for you." "My God, what's so special?" "He's just coming here." "Friends, I have to tell you ..." "You don't have to, stop making things up." "What kind of a person are you?" "I know this woman, afraid to say, for many, many years." " Whom are you afraid of?" "Me?" " Everyone here sees how you treat me." "But I'm ready to endure even more" "for many years to come." " And even more ..." " More is too much!" " Why can't you let me finish?" " For the love of thy neighbor, I guess." "You do not know what I want to say." "You think so?" "What if you're wrong?" "It'd be a shame." "I would not want you not to finish the speech you started." "Ah!" "There, you see?" "Take a break, Rozhden, I beg you, take a break." "Let me speak." "First of all, I congratulate you and wish you a good health, happiness and that all your wishes come true." "And secondly, I do not remember my grandmother, but I think that you and her are very much alike." "In any case, I would have liked to have a grandmother like you." "All the best, dear." "I congratulate you!" "Thank you, dear, thank you." "I would also really liked to have a grandson like you." " Isolde Tikhonovna!" " What?" "You look fantastic today!" "Thank you." "In my opinion, this is too much." "What are we whispering about?" " It's a secret!" " A secret." " To you!" " Thank you." " Mom has a much better relationship with Isolde now." " I think so, too." "Can I make a speech?" "I want to say ..." "Dear Isolde Tikhonovna." "How should I say it?" "Well, you are not very young and it is very difficult for you" "to take care of us, of Lenochka." " And of the dog too." " Yes, and the dog too." "So, I have decided to quit my job." "Wow ..." "I knew it." "I felt, I had a dream lst night about raw meat." "Dear Isolde Tikhonovna." "We are very grateful to you for everything." "And now" "I want to ..." " And now" "I'm no longer needed?" "What am I supposed to do now?" "Become a concierge?" "Mom, what are you talking about?" "Mom, I do not understand, why you're not happy?" " Two housewives for one stove." " You did not understand." "She did not want to hurt you, she wanted to make your life easier." " Easier how?" " To relieve you from duties." " Relieve from life?" " No, from the chores." "What am I going to do then?" "Wait for the next doctor's visit?" "Do not cry." "Do not cry." "Alright." " Strange, where's everybody gone?" " I do not know." " Goodbye." " Goodbye." " Are you leaving?" " Yes, I need to get up early tomorrow." "How interesting, for us you didn't want to quit your job." "Not for me, not for my baby." "You did not want to help us?" "No, why?" " And for a stranger ..." " Lida." "Aren't you ashamed in front of uncle Kolya?" "And you, not ashamed in front of Igor?" "To us you are an irreplaceable employee." "You alone held the Moscow industry together." "And now you are no longer the chief of production." "You're just a woman." "Suddenly you remembered that." "Yes, I remembered." "I remembered." "What could I remember with you?" "Diapers, pots and pans, shops." "And you wanted to leave this lot to me?" "And then I should've been thankful to you?" "No." "No, my dear." "We have yet another mission in life." "And it is open to all of us." "It's not the age, that'd be funny." "And, if you want to know, a little bit sad that everything is happening so late and that very little is left." "The youth is selfish and it cannot understand." "You know." "I want you to never experience this." "And never be left alone." "Do not forget the pronoun "we"." "Everything is ready." "Great service!" "As they say: fast, convenient and mutually beneficial." " Be quiet." " Why do we have to close our eyes and mouth?" "Let's drink." "Did you quit?" "Klavochka!" "Congratulations." " For you?" " Yes." "Just a bit." "Let's drink." "For our close, excellent cooperation, and for its fruitful conclusion." "Happy housewarming!" "You're upset for nothing." "What can you do?" "Everyone can fail once." "The exchange is a serious business." "Yes." "You can find something good." "but where can you find something good, when it was already picked up by others?" "Picked up by others?" "Personally, no one picked me up." " Yes." " You're so stubborn!" "Do you still want to make people laugh?" "Why laugh?" "Two people" "... how to say it in Russian ..." "respect each other." "What's so funny?" "Yes, exactly." "It's very sad." "Why go to the extreme?" "Not sad." "Can't we live like normal people do?" "I don't know." "Such decisions should not be rushed." " I need to think about it." " How long can you think about it?" "You think already for thirty years." "Six five-year plans." "Your mother never liked me." "True." "She never liked you." "But now it does not matter, she does not see well." "I don't know." "Maybe I need a vacation." " Come on." " What are you doing?" "Rozhden, you're crazy!" " Please." "I beg you." " Who sent this?" "I cannot say." "What is going on?" "Tell me!" "Wait." "My friend is sitting somewhere here." " Yes." "He sees me, I see him not." " Is it something expensive?" "Of course, he would never send some cheap crap!" "I'll find him!" "I will go find him and will introduce you." " As my wife." " You're out of your mind." " What's wrong?" " Rozhden, stop this now, or I will leave." " No, I'll find him!" " Rozhden, I'm warning you." "I am leaving!" " I'll find him now, I swear!" " Rozhden, I warned you." " I'll find him!" "Listen, listen!" " Either you stop or I go!" "[Speaking in Georgian]" "Isolde Tikhonovna, are you sad?" " May I?" " Yes, please." "Sit down." " I am very happy, I kiss your hands." " You are so cheerful today!" "Let everyone hear." "I am used to saying what I think, without fear." " Yes?" "For how long?" " For three months." "Two months and ten, already eleven days." "Justice must be transparent." "I would even say - resounding." " Ah..." "So you ... ?" " No." "Yes." "I am not the judge." "But I am a judge." "Dear Isolde Tikhonovna, I am elected the chief justice of our neighbourhood court." "But what about your 'uncles', 'aunts', 'nephews', 'nieces', toilets, kitchens, and other relatives?" "They no longer exist." "The last client was the very last one." "Now it's a wake and I'm an 'orphan'." "Congratulate Eddie Lubutin!" "Farewell, my tribe, I sang for the last time." " I'm sorry, Eddie." "I'm very sorry." " But I am not." "I..." "But I'm also happy for you." "Subtitles by Catson, 2013."