"Metronome Films" "Telekino Studio with the support of the Federal Agency for Cinematography of Russia" "An Arsen Gottlieb production" "A film by Nikolay Khomeriki" "NINE SEVEN SEVEN" "How long do I have to wait?" "You've just come." "Don't get rough with me." "They're waiting for me!" "Nobody's waiting for you here." "Go down the alley, there's a grey building, number 2." "Go up to the third floor." "Room 108." "Ask for Sergey Sergeyevich." " Thanks." " Not at all." "I'm looking for Sergey Sergeyevich" "Hello." "Sergey Sergeyevich... is dead." "What do you mean?" "His wife put poison in his soup." " Stop it, Sergey Sergeyevich!" " What?" "So it's you who asked to come here all the way from Novosibirsk?" "Yes." "Any relatives in the town?" "Nope." "So where shall we settle you?" "At the barrier..." "There's a washbasin." "We'll put a bed in for you." "Do you like cucumbers?" "Yes..." "I've always liked them." "Thanks." "Tamara..." "Give me a hand." "Hold that." " Careful!" " That's what music does." "And love." "What's the barrier?" "Go on." "I'm going." "I feel dizzy." "Careful!" " Hello there." " Hello." "I know why you came here." "Come here." "Be careful!" "I have to pass!" "Yes..." "Yes, go on, Arkady Ilyich, I'm listening." "For today we've got Kononov and Timofeyeva." "As for Grinyov, there are some changes." "Mikhail Ivanovich will compute it." "I'll make my report on Friday." "So there are some changes, some changes..." "Changes are fine, of course... but have we no shame?" "We work with human beings." "I couldn't sleep all night." "I was thinking... maybe we should wait a little... but I'm afraid that... this coming check-up" "leaves me no time for reflection." "I am sorry, but it doesn't leave me any time for reflection." "So, to those of you who haven't met him yet, let me introduce..." "Tishkov Ivan Dmitrich." "Hello." "He's from Novosibirsk and is writing his thesis." "I've read his work." "Sit down, please." "Hope he didn't come here by chance." "So, from this day on," "Ivan Dmitrich is going to be in charge of the work of Department 7." "So, please, Arkady Ilyich, help him to start as soon as possible" "Good bye." "Good bye." "You know..." "I've always dreamed of playing the piano." "So, why didn't you learn it?" "The procedure has started." "We'll have the results in 20 or 30 seconds." "Our object is in a sealed box." "We irradiate him a bit and we discover that around him is a particle flux of unknown nature." "We can see the outline and, with the help of this unique device, measure the force of this flux." "What is amazing about it is that every person has a strictly individual force of flux." "As you know, we are trying to influence it to understand its nature." "Let's look at Valery Ivanovich." "270." "Always the same:" "morning, evening, before or after a meal, even instead of it, before gym or after, it's always 270." "Hello." " Why are you here?" " Well..." "Well, we don't need you today." "You did your job yesterday." " OK, so we'll go then." " Bye." "Look at the twins." "They were born at the same time but the force of their flux is different." "Stop talking." "I just wanted to brief him." "Valery Ivanovich, how are you feeling?" "Thank you." "Please, open the box." "All our guinea-pigs live here and swore in writing not to leave." "They're all volunteers." "We try to consider all the factors to understand what causes a change in the flux force." "What?" "Am I OK to go to space?" "Yes, you are." "Thank you, you can go." " I could do it again." " No, thank you." "That's enough." "As you wish." "#Along the dusty roads, distant planets...#" "Ivan, I read your latest article in "Biophysics"" "about the hypothesis that the ultimate force of this flux amounts to 977." "Interesting logic." "I liked it." "Thank you, Mikhail Ivanovich." "Now what, Arkady Ilyich?" "Now there's meat and spaghetti and dried fruit tea." "Dried fruits..." "Got any matches?" "OK." "#Tidied away in their case, the maps of the sky...#" "Get acquainted." "Hello, I'm Ivan Dmitrich." " Valera." " Hello." "Timofeich." "Gosha." "The old man is a hooligan." "Gosha is always reading or sleeping." "As for Valera..." "He is enthuasiast." "It's been a long time they are here, so we get used to each other." " Hello." " He's so calm." "Ginger, put your socks off." "The women's part is other side." "I've got it all ready for you." "Come, Klavdia Ivanovna." "Dammit!" "Rita!" "So, what is it?" "Dunno, it's not clear." "OK, come down." " You heard it?" " What?" "Some woman's voice." "It's the radio on the 3rd floor." "The kitten put its paw into the ink of blue" "and neatly wrote:" ""Tonya, happy birthday to you!"" "Be a happy woman!" "Girls, drink less." "Champaign is not vodka." "It is nice to drink." " Why aren't you drinking?" " I don't drink." "Where are you going?" "I've got my secret." "Here." "To Antonina." "Take this." "I've got something else." "Thank you." "I'll hide it." "Kolya, wait." "What I want to say is," "I feel like having a real party!" "It's Antonina's birthday." "I feel like... having some real fun." "My name's Ivan." "OK, Ivan." "Look, Ivan." "If you like..." "If you like, tonight..." "I'll get you a chick." "Any chick you want." "Svetka, Tomka." "Whoever you like." "I can get you everything!" "Valery Ivanich..." "I respect you a lot." "But please don't." "I mean it." "I am asking you not to do that." "OK." "I said it just for fun..." "Be right back." "Stay here." "I'll be back." "I'll be right back." "Join us." "Come on, come on!" "Give me a glass." "Quick!" "It's Antonina's birthday and we must celebrate." "Bottoms up!" "Where are you going?" "Stay." "Any equation, any formula has a corresponding curve or a body." "For irrational formulas, such as the square root of minus 1, we don't know such bodies or we have never seen them." "It doesn't mean they don't exist." "But if we haven't seen them, then they have a dimension of their own." "Mathematics never lies." "I want to go home." "And who's home?" "Ivan Dmitrievich, what are you doing here?" "Nothing, Sonya, everything's fine." "The device is still on." "We are obsessed about this threshold value of 9.7.7... while everybody's having fun." "Hey!" "I told you they were here." "Everybody's waiting for you." "Valera, you have something there." "I have!" "That's not what I mean." "Something important." "Inside of you..." "What do you mean?" "A soul?" "Sonya, we are scientists." "Something which can..." "What?" "Hey, you can hardly stand." "Gosha, can I ask you to go into the box?" "Sonya, help him." "Arkady Ilyich couldn't make it." "I will." "I've got a suggestion..." "What are they doing?" "Sonya, come on, I'm waiting!" "Excuse me." "Gosha, I'm going to ask you a question." "Answer it as sincere as possible." "Just between us, OK?" "Gosha, have you ever loved anybody?" "Your parents, for instance?" "No." "Gosha, give it some thought." "Take your time." "Think." "I am thinking." "Sharik!" "Gosha, what Sharik?" "I used to have a dog called Sharik." "Ah, Sharik..." "Go on, go on!" "It's going up!" "Carry on!" "Still the same." "Hello." "How are you?" "Fine." "Is the food OK?" "It's OK." " How are you?" " Well." " How's the dacha?" " Excellent." "Let's go home." "No." "OK, bye." "Bye." "Nice perfume." "Has she gone?" "Yes." "So?" "Nothing." "Can I sit here?" "If you like." "It works." "I have to give it back to Timofeich." "He asked me to fix it." "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "I left you some meat in your bedside table." "Meat?" "I cooked it yesterday." "What for?" "You've got beautiful hands." "You know..." "I looked through the books." "There's nothing but formulas." "Not a single normal book." "There's piles of magazines." "Same thing:" "nothing but formulas." "Neutrons, protons, quanta..." "You're still looking for an answer, aren't you?" "I'm scared." "Bull shit!" "That's stupid!" "Tell me, Tamara..." "Do you think I'll make it?" "Pass me the basin." "And you..." "Do you believe in what you are doing?" "Bring the basin back." "Are you spying on me?" "My head's splitting." "Shut the door." "When I was at school, I used to go to the choir." "Go in, please." "I'll tell you in there." "So, I used to go to this school choir." "There was this teacher called Tatyana Valentinovna." "I liked her a lot." "I used to be a soloist and I sang a song..." "Don't worry, she was old." "No inquiry will find anything out." "Heart failure, that's all." "Why have we been stuck in here all day?" "Let's go play soccer." "Everybody used to listen to music." "Now they all play soccer." "Or ask me for advice if you break something." "I'm a pro." "We could drool over the new intern." "Leave me alone." "I said, go away!" "Ivan Dmitrich..." "Come here a minute." "Please forgive me." "But there's one thing I don't get." "I can't understand it." "I've run this institute for 20 years." "For 20 years, nothing like this ever happened." "It's your department, you're in charge of your team." "She had a heart problem." "A very serious one." "But you had some party there!" "A real orgy!" "I don't understand!" "I don't understand how it happened!" "I'm sorry, it's my fault." "What's the use of being sorry?" "Who broke the piano?" " I did..." " Enough!" "Stop lying to me." "He broke the piano, of course!" "Was Tamara there too?" "God..." "You have to sign it, Evgeny Grigoryevich." "Alright." "OK, that's it." "He must have had about 800 roentgens." "But he's quite optimistic." "That's a special case." "We transplanted the spleen and bone marrow from a healthy dog." "That's the control animal." "He's bound to die." "If we take Jack, there's a chance." "For dogs." "Only dogs have been operated on so far." "With varying success." "Look, Gusev, be honest, just between us, how many roentgens have you had?" "200." " Had it happened before?" " No." "You're lying, but I can't catch you out." "What's the point?" "It didn't count in those days, but I feel..." "Don't trust your feelings." "Look here, patient Gusev, do you think that's your model?" "No, that one!" "Evgeny Grigoryevich, it's rude of you to compare me to a dog." "I'd rather be rude now." "You can live and work for many years - on one condition:" "no more risks and no more neutrons!" "You know, radiation..." "Sonya..." "Please calm down..." "It was raining last night." "I couldn't help crying." "I don't like it here." "Let's go, shall we?" "You're not listening." "Reached the threshold value?" "I'm glad Sergey put his foot in it!" "It'll teach him a lesson." "Under me, there'd been no problems in 2 years." "A peasant replaces me." "Then, there's one old woman less, parties..." "Tamara is seen leaving his room!" "What a waste of money!" "They'll shut us down." "He shouldn't have touched Tamara." "They can shut us down." "I'll show Sergey Sergeyevich!" "I'll get so much money, he'll crawl to me like a worm." "And Tamara is ready to sleep with everybody." "Except Sergey Sergeyevich." "Except Sergey Sergeyevich." "She didn't refuse me either." "The trees are beautiful." "They're old." "The doctors say..." "What do they say?" "They say that it's her age." "Yeah." "Nothing serious." "In fact, they're just panicking." "Why not go to the rest home?" "We hadn't thought of that." "Why not?" "She thinks her medicine can help her." " Mikhail Ivanovich..." " Sergey Sergeyevich." "Problem?" "A meeting." " A meeting?" "When?" " In half an hour." "Half an hour..." "I see, I see..." "Say hello to Klavochka." "Of course." "Tell her to take care." "Certainly." "Thank you." "They need a net!" "Yes, a net.." " Mikhail Ivanovich!" " Yes, Sergey Sergeyevich?" " Problem?" " No, I'm fine." "I won't keep you any longer, then." " Arkady Ilyich..." " Yes?" "How's Ivan Dmitrich's work going?" " Ivan Dmitrich?" " Yes." "My dear friends, as the director," "I have to make an official announcement that the work of Department 7 in which you all took part is over." "The project is terminated." "You've worked well." "We're grateful to you for spending so much time here." "But, to be honest, we're still unable to define what our device measures." "It is too hard for us to influence this flux." "And besides, it might be dangerous." "I say once again, we are very grateful to you, but unfortunately, we cannot continue the work." "You can go home now." "You can pick up your pay from Accounts." "That is actually all I wanted to say." "If you don't have any questions," "I wish you all the best." "Goodbye." "Take care." "Give me paw." "Good dog." "Easy now..." "Here, eat." "Do we like sausages?" "Good boy..." "Who's a good boy?" "Sergey Sergeyevich." "Is it true?" "What?" "About the project." "The project..." "It's been stopped." "We're sending everyone home." "If they ask why, tell them that the device broke down." "Make something up." "Tell them it's for their own good." "What can I tell them?" "Ivan, stop annoying me, will you?" "We've been assigned money for another project." "An accelerator, understand?" "It'll keep the whole institute going." "But you said this experiment was very important..." "It used to be very important." "Now there's another one." "I don't have to justify myself to you." "Stop annoying me." "Don't get your hackles up." " Hello." " Hello." "This is a scientific research institute." "Not a craft business." "We need a project that'll feed us all." "You have to understand that." "But we've got some new results." "Why didn't you tell me?" "It doesn't matter now." "You won't find anybody." "They're scared." "Let's put it off till better times." "Come on..." "Beautiful dog..." "I see." "What?" "No, I'm fine." "Yes, I've eaten." "Give my regards to Aunt Zina." "I don't know." "I'll try to make it soon." "Yes." "As soon as they let me go." "Goodbye, Sonya." "So long." "OK, can we go?" "Take care." "Rita!" "Wake up, it's time." "Rita!" "Hey, Ivan!" "There's one thing I don't get." "Which Rita?" "What experiment yesterday?" "They all left 2 days ago!" "Not her." "She stayed." "Who?" "There was no Rita!" "I remember!" "There was Luba, Sveta, the twins, the late Antonina..." "That's all." "And the old woman." "Where is she?" "Ivan, what's wrong with you?" "She doesn't exist and she never did!" "What're you doing?" "Leaving?" "Yes." "You're making me." "Well, don't exaggerate!" "But free your room." "Make sure there's nothing left." "Here." "Just like with your Rita." "Tired?" "OK, go on then..." "Go on." "#What's he looking for?" "#" "#A girl.#" "#At least I think so.#" "Excuse me..." "Can you help me?" "Come with me." "I'll get in there, and you shut me in the box." "Then come here and push this thing, OK?" "Come on." "Go on." "Starring" "Fedor Lavrov Klavdia Korshunova" "Katerina Golubeva Pavel Lubimtsev" "Alisa Khazanova Andrey Kazakov" "Olga Demidova Sergey Tsepov" "Igor Ovchinnikov Sergey Petrov, Stanislav Mikhin" "Anna Ardova Tatyana Mitiyenko" "Irina Barskaya Darya Barskaya" "And Leos Carax" "Screenplay by Yuny Davidov and Nikolay Khomeriki" "And the participation of Alexander Rodionov" "Director of Photography Alisher Khamidkhodjaev" "Production Design by Denis Shibanov" "Costume Design by Svetlana Garpinchenko" "Music by Fedor Lavrov" "Executive Producer Vladimir Luzanov" "Sound by Olga Vinogradova Vincent Verdoux, Julien Roig" "Edited by Igor Kireyev Kirill Kozlov" "Produced by Arsen Gottlieb" "Directed by Nikolay Khomeriki"