"The First Creative Association" "Curtain call!" "The last scene has started!" "Everyone get ready for curtain call." "The Producer!" "The Producer!" "Screenplay:" "Y. Ilyenko I. Mikolaychuk" "Larisa Kadochnikova as Maria" "Rodion Nahapetov as Konstantin Petrovitch" "Yuriy Ilyenko as Gerasim" "Mother" " N. Urgant Mother's Friend" " V. Vladimirova" "Seryozha" " O. Polstvin Ivan Gregoryevitch" " L. Kuravlyov" "Sukach" " Y. Mazuga" "Other cast members" "To Dream and Live" "Director of Photography Wilen Kalyuta" "Production Designer Sergey Brzhetovskiy" "Other crew members" "God..." "God, I am so frightened!" "You're afraid." "Why are you afraid?" "What are you scared of?" "It's just the darkness, the twilight." "The chime of the clock..." "The chime that sums it all up." "That's just it." "The role, you've ruined the role, you hear?" "The time flies, flies and what have you done?" "What?" "You've done nothing!" "You never do." "Mashenka, who are you depicting here?" "Who?" "Look around, these are all your people." "All of them." "Can you explain what this vagary means?" "Don't yell, there's no point to it." "None at all." "Don't." "Time..." "Will tell." "Yes, time will tell how you should behave." "Enough." "It's no longer funny." "Come in." "Who's outside the door?" "Come in." "Were you behind the stage?" "You love him." "This is you." "This is how I see you." "Seryozha, Seryozha..." "How did you do this?" "People can't fly, you know." "But they do." "No they don't." "They do." "I certainly don't fly." "That's not true." "You fly." "Seryozh, where are you celebrating the new year?" "Nowhere." "Happy new year." "Go, I need to change." "I was waiting for you." "I'm so sorry, I can't right now, I'm in a hurry." "Happy coming new year." "So good to see you here." "Invite me along for new year's." "But... but I'm nowhere." "It's alright, I'm okay with that." "Then come to ours, to the film faculty." "There's a party." "I'll show you my coursework." "Let's go." "A few words." "I came to see you in the fall." "You were playing the moonlight sonata." "I was at the door, didn't want to interrupt." "There was such passion in the music." "After, you showed me your drawings, and I recorded our conversation." "I made a film from that recording." "An educational one." "Don't judge it too harshly." "Start it." "Seryozhenka, this is naive." "Bad." "You should cut it out." "Chile, La Moneda." "The presidential palace." "Salvador Allende was killed there during a Fascist putsch." "Germany, 1933." "They wanted to seize the whole world." "You were in Chile?" "Yes, before the putsch." "With a film delegation." "The face of the exectuioner." "It's always terrifying." "Whether in Chile or in Spain or Vietnam." "In Germany too." "This is Victor Jara, a Chilean patriot, a singer a composer and a producer." "They hated him, the Fascists." "At the "Nacional" stadium they crushed his hands and killed him." "His guitar... was also destroyed." "Pablo Neruda." "Murdered, but forever young." "He called them vicious jackals." "Jara and Neruda died, but they defeated Fascism." "Neruda wrote..." "I died with all of those that did too and that is why I survived." "Chile, Chile, Chile." "Dear people of Chile my heart is with you." "Fascism will not come to be." "Why does this topic trouble you?" "Who does it not?" "Tell me, Seryozha, what is the first thing you remember?" "My mom." "My mom is walking on the shore and smiling." "I too remember my mom." "The only thing I remember about her..." "Our train was halted." "There was terrifying screaming, like a wounded horse." "They carried a dead pilot." "He had tried to save us." "There were bombers." "A grandmother sat with her granddaughter on the ground calm amidst the chaos." "My mom ran, pressing me against her chest and then she fell." "I have never seen her since in my life." "How did you start drawing?" "I'm no artist, nor am I claiming to be one." "Just so happens that lately my theatre work isn't going too well." "Maybe the roles... no, the roles are fine." "Something's changing in me." "I haven't lost anything but there's some clarity or bearing that's missing." "It brews in my soul." "It just pulled me to the paper all on it's own." "I needed an release for my emotions and thoughts, so I started drawing." "And one last question: tell me, do people fly?" "Seryozhenka, Seryozhenka..." "Let's go!" "When people are surprised, their eyes get real big." "Like this." "Curious to see what yours will be like." "They're big as is." "Come on, do it." "Please?" "You lost the role." "Someone told me today that I still loved you." "Is that true?" "No, just rumors." "Did I really do so poorly?" "You did." "Why all the applause, then?" "You don't understand." "You weren't alone on stage." "There were other actors thoughts, the play itself." "Why are you so cruel." "That's the third role downhill." "I've stopped doing films." "Listen, Misty" "Don't call me Misty." "But you are Misty!" "A mirage!" "You passed right through the role without understanding." "But two years ago you said" "Yes I did." "You had sincerity, and beautiful eyes." "But that's only good at first, one or two roles." "You had enough for 10, and now the well is empty." "You drained it dry." "You helped in draining it, and so very quickly too." "Drained in buckets, barrels." "Great, big barrels." "Next shot is a wide angle." "I run across a green meadow, and sing my little song." "Oh how that lovestruck boy fights for you." "Against yourself." "Are you jealous?" "No, I like you today." "These aren't rumors, that's for sure." "Are we going to celebrate today or not?" "Let's try." ""Once, on Epiphany day, the women were divining throwing shoes o'er the fence, that their feet were lining!"" "("Svetlana", a poem by Vasily Zhukovsky)" "He who finds it is to be my betrothed!" "No, I don't want to get married just yet." "With such a swing, I'm lucky you didn't kill me." "Why are you outside?" "It's almost the new year!" "Coming from work." "Aren't all not closed today?" "Some factories aren't." "That's awful!" "Happy coming new year!" "I hope that in the new year you will find your betrothed." "We're late!" "Too late to be seated." "We can still make it!" "What's your name?" "Gerasim." "Gerasim." "Your eyes are... so mournful." "Someone has upset you today." "That was yesterday." "That's too much." "You should leave, before it's too late." "He's right." "I better go." "(Unintelligible speaking)" "Oh, how the music plays!" "They are leaving us, one by one!" "Never to be seen again!" "We remain here alone to begin our lives anew!" "We have to live!" "Have to live!" "Remember?" "That applause was for you." "Two years ago you had a play staged in our factory." "That's when I got this recording." "I really liked the play." "And especially you." "And so I brought it." "Thought you might like it." "I have decided that it is a flower." "It is a flower." "A metal one." "When the crucible pours into moulds, these flowers harden on the sides." "We make ship screws out of that metal." "These flowers bloom all across the oceans." "Who are you, Gerasim?" "How shall I put it?" "I can build a home." "Plant a tree." "Work with steel, ski, dance." "Show friendship to a friend, and enmity to an enemy." "I could never answer the question I am though." "It's better that I build a home." "Plant a tree, melt steel, be enemious to an enemy." "Be friendly with a friend." "Give me your hand." "You have brought me applause." "Thank you." "Tell me, why did you come?" "It seemed to me you were very... lonely." "I wasn't alone, I was with..." "Yes." "And he loves you, apparently." "You came here to tell me this?" "No, not just that." "Just that I..." "Uh..." "You know, I think I'll be leaving now." "Please, open the door." "Someone is ringing." "Sorry." "I'll be waiting for you at 9." "Alright." "May I take off my coat?" "Of course, but I don't have a lot of free time." "I'm in a rush." "Is that you?" "Yes." "To whom shall I sign it for?" "I am your mother." "S-sorry, what did you say?" "I am your mother." "This magazine said that you came from an orphanage." "I had seen you in movies before, and noticed we looked very similar." "I lost my daughter... in '43 in the village of Stavy." "My name is Vera Alexandrovna Salema." "No!" "No!" "It can't be..." "I-I'll be right back." "I have to run to the theatre." "There is a show." "I'll take care of it." "You stay here." "I'll give you the keys." "Mom." ""Went to get bread."" "Mom" "December 31st." "So she was in the theatre, she saw me." "She sat on the second floor." "Poor mom!" "She saw from the second floor how badly I ruined the show." "Mommy..." "Why are you here so late?" "Zip up." "T-this." "On this ticket she left me a note." "Went to get bread." "Went to get bread." "When I got to the store, the clerk told me what had happened." "It smells so much like bread." "Bread..." "I buried her." "I can't be without you." "Gerasim!" "Gerasim!" "Gerasim!" "Gera" "Gerasim!" "Gerasim!" "I know Gerasim." "From the smelters." "Yes." "He works the shift after mine, but he's left." "Left where?" "Took a vacation, and left." "He always takes a vacation in the winter." "Likes to ski." "Where did he go?" "To the mountains." "Said he found a beautiful place." "Snow up to your hips." "Do you need him urgently?" "Very." "He left." "Goodbye." "Take care." "Take care." "Stavy." "Village of Stavy, passengers." "The village is just over the hill, past the house with the light on." "Just ask for directions." "Goodbye." "Thank you." "Goodbye." "Come in." "You came." "You haven't forgotten Iakov Sukach?" "You were a long time coming." "Good Lord, you must have me confused!" "The Lord has left me." "He hasn't left you, though." "I could recognize you even in the thickest mist." "Don't be petty." "You came here to humble me with you supplication?" "Do not deny yourself, Suleyma Verka." "I buried her." "Wait!" "I've forgotten what people sound like, Verka." "25 years, I was imprisoned." "Everyone passes me by, without saying a word to me." "Without even knowing..." "I don't want to listen to anyone anyway." "I'm not Verka I just... wanted to..." "I told you, don't be petty." "You think I'm gonna lie?" "To shield myself and drown the others?" "It won't happen." "Do you see how many candles I have now?" "Been waiting a long time." "Every evening is a new candle." "I'd do the same even now." "It was me... who brought the Germans." "You know, too." "Who else but me?" "There." "When the Germans allowed the women to take... home their wounded husbands that were dying in the barn." "You took him for yourself." "Nursed him." "And I..." "You took another." "Said that he was your husband." "The whole village knew that you were single." "You wouldn't let me near you." "You knew full well." "You..." "Don't shiver so." "Don't shiver." "Don't be afraid." "Understand, these are words of love I'm telling you." "Words I couldn't say then." "You didn't want to listen." "You took him." "A stranger." "A strange Asian." "I told the Germans that he wasn't your husband." "That he's a commander for the Reds." "I'd choke a Red with my bare hands even as a kid!" "Yes!" "My father dispossessed!" "All of us thrown to the winds!" "Ever since then!" "And I didn't love you!" "I didn't!" "I didn't love you and that's it!" "I figured..." "They took it all from me." "I might as well take the prettiest girl in the village, you!" "And ruin her." "Only then the passion came." "I loved you deeply." "Even now." "It..." "Wasn't I that led the germans there." "My love did." "No, don't." "I don't need your goods, or anyones." "Even from you, dont!" "If anyone comes, let them see it as it is." "This, and this as well." "I'm not ashamed." "So that's it?" "Goods?" "You expect goods?" "Dressed all in white, as though you're innocent, a sufferer." "That's why this whole masquerade is happening." "You want to bleach your blackened soul." "This filth!" "This charade!" "Here!" "Take it!" "Filth!" "Here!" "Scoundrel!" "Wretch!" "Filth!" "Murderer!" "Take it!" "Stop torturing me!" "Let me die!" "Renovations are noisy business, and I didn't want to wake you." "Tea or milk?" "Milk." "Who are you?" "Me?" "Yes." "I recognized you." "You're an actress." "They say that every producer must find his own actor." "Seems I've found you." "In the garden." "It's true." "Now you'll perform in our club." "Look at how many viewers there is!" "I'm sorry, where am I?" "This is a workshop." "We're... getting equipment ready for the spring." "I really did find you." "In the morning, on my way to work." "Brought you here." "Brought you here because we have a telephone." "Called the local doctor, he'll be here soon." "Told us not to disturb you, so we kept it quiet." "Who are you?" "I'm a tractor mechanic." "And the producer for our club." "By vocation." "What am I going to do in your club?" "Whatever you want." "Dance." "When it comes to dancing here..." "Vanya!" "Careful!" "We had a specialist here." "Like to dance at weddings." "Dance right until the floor fell through." "He always preferred to be barefoot, too." "So they stopped inviting him to weddings." "Who wants to keep fixing the floors?" "So he..." "Started doing amateur performances." "Can't really do performances without proper shoes, though." "He danced in boots one time at one of club showings." "Absolutely destroyed the stage." "One time..." "We had a tractor drive onto the theatre stage during a kolkhoz performance once." "S-80." "Was alright though, the stage made it." "He didn't know anything about a tractor though." "They only told him about it afterwards." "After he wrecked that stage too." "Not the whole thing, just the middle bit." "You lie like a gas meter!" "It's all true!" "We went to our very biggest showing." "They didn't know anything about his habits, of course." "He's third." "We're all waiting for him to come on." "He comes out, and steps a couple of times on the stage, tests it out." "He was satisfied." "So he's dancing for about three minutes and he's really getting into it." "The musicians can barely keep up." "So much so, two of them passed out." "They were replaced pretty quick." "And how they played!" "There was smoke coming of the instruments!" "The string instruments caught fire from such friction!" "Well last night Sukach burned down his house and then hung himself!" "Kids." "They don't know better." "Kostya, where are we going?" "Home." "I don't want to go home." "It doesn't matter what you want." "You need to." "I need to?" "You." "It's here that I need." "Look, I'm tired of persuading you." "Stop fooling around!" "You need effort put in, and surgery." "Stop, I'm getting out." "Stop." "You're not going anywhere." "Then I'll jump out." "There was a theatre meeting." "They've decided to give you one more chance." "It's there your fate will be decided, not here." "I was completely against it." "You'll crash and burn." "I was against it then and am against it now." "I know, and can see what kind of wreck you are." "I'm taking you so you can have a vacation." "So you can avoid a catastrophe." "Kostya, what do you mean?" "I mean love." "All about love." "All these words I'm telling you are words of love." "I want everything to be good for you." "Of love..." "Try love without words, maybe then I will hear you." "Alright, I can do it without words." "I can do it all!" "Do it all..." "We remain here alone to begin our lives anew!" "We have to live!" "Have to live!" "It's so good that you got stuck!" "Seems like we can't avoid you." "I called the factory they told me to look for wind in the fields." "It really was a field!" "That's incredible!" "How did you get here?" "You remember?" "Where did you come from?" "You remember that person you passed?" "Yes." "Well he called me where I was staying." "He said that... some woman was looking for me." "It seemed like you really needed me." "He said that her eyes" "are pretty and sad." "It can't be!" "It's true." "True... very pretty." "Oh the roads, dust and fog..." "The cold, the troubles..." "And the weeded bog" "I came as soon as I could." "They told me everything." "Came right here." "Went to the executive committee found out where your mom lived." "Went there, thought you might be as well." "You aren't there." "Called the workshop, said you were just there, and..." "to go find that wind in the fields." "Seeing as how there's only one main road here." "So I got out and waited." "It's so good that you came!" "So good!" "Where is my mom's home?" "Where is it?" "Here, not too far from here." "Close." "She was looking for her daughter." "For you." "I'll find my daughter and she'll play it for me." "She always repeated it." "That her daughter definitely plays the piano." "As for herself..." "She had learned before the war." "So she bought this piano for her daughter." "For you." "You weren't even born yet, but were already happy." "You know what she told me about you?" "That it was you who saved us during the winter of '42." "You weren't born yet, she was still carrying you." "I remember it so well." "Right up to the new year." "I can't imagine mom at that age." "Oh, she was exactly like you." "You're an actress imagine it:" "you, me and the wolves." "Love made us old, let us die and be reborn anew." "Let's go." "Let them try and cross my path." "I'll be choke them with my bare hands." "These fascists." "We've to go to another place yet." "One of us is happy." "This is the forest where we had our partizan dugout." "Believe me or don't but every morning, when I take pick up a piece of bread" "I remember you and your hands." "It seems to me that this is bread made from your wheat, from your village." "All of the grains in Ukraine come from you." "(muffled, unintelligible)" "In their sleep, my boys dream of growing up and building a big, big house where we will all live together, like that time we gathered for your birth." "Hello, Mom." "May I call you Mom?" "The Northern Lights are shining for the second night now." "I'm just joking, but I tell everyone it is in honour of my mom's birthday." "Hello mother!" "I miss you so very much." "I have great news for you!" "I aced all of my final exams, and will be leaving for work soon." "Yesterday, I gave birth to my daughter." "On this incredible day," "I just wanted to say thank you." "It is you who taught me how to dream and live." "To turn my heart and soul to the people." "Diploma's in my pocket!" "I was sent to Tyumen but before I leave, I want to visit you." "I have never even seen you!" "I cry and cry, but there is no peace." "Why did I hurt him so?" "Come fast!" "How can your heart hurt?" "I don't understand." "How can a heart with such love towards others hurt?" "It is incredibly unfair." "Good news are better than any..." "It was the first time he received full marks for behaviour." "Now, he's a model student." "It's all sunshine in Cuba." "I've never danced so much in my life." "I speak Spanish almost as good as Carmen." "Mother, my first book of poems has been released." "I dedicate this book to you." "Mother, I became a member of the party yesterday." "My life is no different from a hundred thousand soviet people." "The Pioneers, Comsomol, the Communist Party." "I often think of why I, a girl with no mother or father, so many other people, you and those like you, by sheer chance, people I haven't even spoken two words to have shown me such constant and unobtrusive love?" "I know in my heart, that this kindness, this humanity is the essence and meaning of our Soviet people, our society." "Mother, how can I ever return your kindness?" "I am your mother." "His beloved song." "Oh the roads, dust and fog..." "The cold, the troubles and the weeded bog." "Signed, friends from the Front." "Which one is the one I love?" "Forgive me." "Why did you leave?" "Why, why?" "I need you, need you." "I need you now." "Today." "Always." "No... all that's left is to dream." "To dream..." "Of the support." "The smiles." "Such little things... yes, only to dream." "A river, a bridge, the sand... the wind." "To dream..." "Come in, it's open." "They say you want to quite theatre." "Is it true?" "Seryozhenka, you won't help me." "Give me back the photo!" "Yes, yes!" "I'll burn them all!" "It's all lies!" "I simply invented you!" "Beautiful!" "Brave!" "Happy!" "You're right!" "You really... cannot fly!" "So don't!" "Don't!" "Mashenka..." "I run across a green meadow..." "You're simply stunning today." "Incredible acting." "Good job." "No." "You didn't see it." "How they burned." "Burned." "Burned." "Burned..." "Masha, whats the matter?" "We'll call it all off." "No, I have to go now." "I thought you weren't coming." "I thought you weren't coming." "I thought so long." "I thought so long." "I thought so long." "I thought so long." "I thought so long." "I thought so long." "I thought so long." "I thought so long." "I thought so long!" "I remember all the words." "I remember." "It's just that..." "What I mean is..." "I..." "I've said so many words on this stage." "So many." "But I've always known them beforehand." "Today..." "Who will tell me the words today?" "No one." "Only my conscience." "The curtain." "The curtain, now!" "What is it, my conscience?" "They gave me words to tell my story." "I walked onto the stage." "I wan to understand." "Understand." "No..." "No." "No, no." "What I mean is..." "I..." "Today I understood." "Understood what gives me the right to walk on this stage and tell a story that, just yesterday, seems strange and cloudy." "How easy it is to understand a person." "You just have to love them." "I looked for my mother, but found people." "I saw their faces, their hearts." "I..." "I saw one face." "I had seen it before." "In a dream like state." "Only a glimpse." "That was my fault." "My fault." "The face, so simple and clear." "Yes, yes." "Believe me." "Look around yourselves." "A human face." "I..." "I loved him long ago." "I just didn't know why, how." "It..." "It is inspired by the fight for truth." "It is the face of my birthplace." "The face of time." "You laugh at me." "Go ahead." "Laugh louder." "It is a laughter that lacks a kindness of the mind." "I know for sure now, why I'm on this stage." "I'm not a servant of time." "Nor its accomplice." "You and I are the creators and co-authors of time." "I found and lost my mother on the same day." "In my entire life, all I could do for her was sign a photograph." ""From mother, to daughter."" "I looked for her and found her." "I found her in a soldiers grave, where a soldier rests." "My mothers song is always with me." "She carried me close to her heart." "She fought for all of us, even those still unborn." "Against the greatest evil in the world - fascism." "I found her in the bread I had been eating all my life not knowing she was a part of it." "It smells so much like bread." "Mother." "Pass her this photo." "Your costume!" "This photo is for her." "If you won't take it off, have this coat." "I'll drive." "Why?" "500km there and 500km back." "You're not going anywhere without me." "There's just one last thing we need to discuss." "I love you." "More." "Love." "Lord, just talk." "Talk." "Talk long, and lots." "Road." "Poles." "Snow." "Field." "Wires." "Headlights." "Car hood." "Wolves." "High beams." "Low beams." "Road narrowing." "Curb." "440th kilometre." "Turn." "Sky." "Sunrise is near." "I still love you, goddamnit." "Wayfarer." "Gerasim." "Good." "Gerasim." "Good." "Gerasim!" "Good." "Well, you won't fall asleep now." "Gerasim." "You're finally saying sensible things." "470th kilometre." "Sun." "Sunrise." "Route." "Road." "Roads." "Oh the roads dust and fog." "The cold, the troubles and the weeded bog." "You cannot know your lot in life." "Give up all your burdens." "End all of your strife." "A shot fires..." "Stop the car!" "Stop it!" "I can't do it anymore!" "Go to him!" "Go... (indistinct grumbling)" "You..." "You'll drive to him." "Drive." "Drive." "Go on then." "Didn't you hear me?" "What's wrong?" "What's wrong?" "!" "I can't do it!" "I give up!" "Okay." "Fine." "I'll take you myself." "Let go." "I want to see what you'll tell him." "Get in." "Pretend I'm Gerasim." "What would you tell me?" "I love you!" "I get that, but what would you tell HIM?" "I love you!" "I want to hear, what you will tell him." "What you will tell him." "Get in." "Oh the roads!" "Say something." "Say anything!" "Just don't be silent, please!" "I'm falling asleep!" "Talk, talk, talk!" "Poles, headlights, car hood." "Oh the roads!" "Sing, talk!" "You hear me?" "Well?" "Dust... dust and fog." "The cold, the troubles and the weeded bog." "A shot fires." "A dark crow flies." "My good friend collapses..." "In the bog he dies." "Sleep." "You didn't understand." "I wasn't joking." "I love him." "Love." "No I understood." "I understood it a lot sooner than you did." "Go." "Go." "Hello." "Where's Maria?" "I haven't seen her." "She's here." "She came to you." "I came here, to say thank you." "You drove 500 kilometres to say thank you?" "I don't think 500 kilometres is a good enough excuse to not thank a good person." "The End"