"and Mikhail Kalatozov Fund supported by "Rossia" TV Channel present a film or Yelena Nikolayeva" "Pay the salary!" "Pay the salary!" "Hey, Holy Father!" "Why hanging loose?" "Join us!" "Sit down!" "Hey, priest, take a helmet, too." "Maybe you'll be heard?" "It's empty you won't knock on heaven's door with it" "Can you ask Him for our salary to be paid?" "You don't look sick or cripple." "You can make your living on your own." "You'd better get out of here, Father!" "Take it easy, Father, We're like in the battle line here." "Battle line is everywhere now." "Have you happened to smell powder?" "People stating or the God when it's most hard." "Vanechka" "Maxim Galkin" "Yelena Velikanova" "Andrey Panin" "Yevdokia Germanova" "Sergey Batalov" "Nina Ruslanova Valeriy Barinov" "Alisa Grebenschikova" "Sergey Yushkevich" "Vassiliy MischenkoIvan Rudakov" "Olga Drozdova" "Armen Dzhigarkhanian" "Script by Julia Topol" "Based on Edward Topol's novel "Madcap"" "Cinematography by Archil Akhvlediani production design by Vladimir Trapeznikov" "Edit by Yuriy Vlasov" "Music by Yuriy Poteenko" "General producers Mikhail Kalatozishvili Andrey Bondarenko" "Directed by Yelena Nikolayeva" "1998, Moscow, Russia" "The grass'd be white, the forest blue." "an owl would hook on sky-high pines." "and clouds'd be red and purple moon." "I'd wrap the sunset round myself to sit alone and quiet." "And see my way so far away deep in a foggy plain." "The rains'd be clear, the ground warm." "You haven't mentioned the author." "Whose poem is this?" "It's mine." "How old are you?" "I'm 17." "I swear I am!" "You write good poems." "What else can you do?" "I can dance and sing." "And I know Hamlet's monologue." "Hamlet's monologue?" "I played Hamlet at the school theatre." "The head teacher liked it." "Did she ever mention that Hamlet was a man?" "No." "But the boys didn't want to rehearse." "Shall I quote it?" "What do you think?" "Well, no need." "We've already decided, haven't we?" "Well, I think..." "We admit her to the second audition" "It's enough." "Give her a hostel accommodation permit" "You are admitted to the next exam." "Good luck!" "Zina!" "I've passed it!" "Nadia, there're ten people before I go!" "Let me touch you, so lucky you are!" "Nadia!" "Please, tell me it is say!" "Where are you running?" "Why don't you tell me?" "Nadia, my darling," "Why did take you so long?" "What did they ask you?" "I want to know!" "Zoya, it's me!" "I've passed the first exam, So I'm moving to the hostel." "I need to pick up my suitcase." "Where shall I come?" "To Presnya?" "Furniture store?" "Where is it?" "I can tell you, I know where it is." "OK." "I'll Come right away!" "Call a general strike!" "Strike!" "General strike!" "Get in or they'll squeeze you." "It's cool here." "Put Yestzyn on the track!" "Yestzyn on the track!" "Just like Anna Karenina." "They are right." "Life is so hard everywhere." "In my city they do not pay the wages." "It's so bad." "No power for seven months." "Find a husband here, We have power here..." "For the time being." "I am not going to marry" "Why so?" "Disappointed in men?" "Has someone given you up?" "Me?" "I'm the one to give them up." "Looks like that." "I have many lads dangling after me." "Can I have my file?" "Sorry!" "Where is your city?" "In Siberia." "It's Omsk" "Two days by train." "Come on!" "People like you wouldn't go by train." "I rear heights." "So what do have you been living on for 7 months?" "My stepfather makes money." "He's a businessman." "And your father...?" "No, my rather is not." "So your mother left him for..." "A businessman, my first stepfather." "I have the right one now." "Active sexual life you, guys, have." "Omsk is a city of sin." "It's cold - people just get warm." "So you are not going to marry, aren't you?" "I'll make it all myself." "Why don't you try to make it with me?" "I'm very rich!" "Here we are." "Stop the car." "Have you a phone number?" "No." "I had one, but I'm moving to the hostel." "What hostel?" "VGIK hostel." "I've passed the first audition." "Want to make a star?" "Yes." "If you change your mind..." "Is Moscow a city of sin, too?" "Why?" "I've been here for 3 days only, but I have so many cards..." "Bankers, managers, prosecutors." "Are you a banker or a prosecutor?" "I'm a banker." "Pity." "You look like a decent man" "What's your name, actress?" "Nadezhda." "Good-bye." "You've got a call, mister banker." "Mum, why do you call so often?" "What storm?" "Just has passed by." "That's too much!" "How do I load it all?" "Don't cry, Vanechka." "We need it all there is nothing in our flat." "Here is Nadia she'll help you." "Take your bag, Nadia I'll put a box in!" "You shut him up, give him his gig!" "I've left it at home." "Then give him a tit!" "Let Nadia hold him." "Hurry up," "The game is starting!" "Damn-it!" "Argentina-Jamaica!" "Don't go crazy..." "I just want to see the game!" "Don't cry, sweetheart." "Damn-it!" "I just can't jam it all in!" "My car will fall apart!" "I can hold the luster." "You'll have to!" "Come on, get in" "What a luster!" "Get in." "Like in a subway!" "Exactly, subway." "Take your beauty." "It's so beautiful!" "Let's go!" "Nadia, you Come with us." "What is it?" "Nadia, you don't fit in." "You'd better take a taxi and go home." "That's right." "You go and I'll take your bag." "Bye, honey." "See you." "Let's go." "Nadia, be careful." "I will." "Now you be quiet." "So the Argentina's got the ball" "Damn-it!" "The game has started!" "Shut the door!" "Zoya!" "Let's go!" "Today over 20 miners from Vorkuta have stonewalled State Duma deputies" "They are demanding to impeach the President." "The miners have made a human fence in front or the entrance" "Bloody hell!" "They've screwed the county up!" "Stop cying, you'd better pray" "It's a miracle you didn't get into that car." "You'll live a long life." "Have you noticed the car number?" "Yes, I have." "HB..." "No, its H 698 PO." "Do they have any relatives?" "I don't know." "You don't?" "Who are you to them?" "No one." "I met Zoya in the train." "Well, someone has to find their relatives to take care or the baby." "Will you find the relatives?" "I don't even know where they are from." "They worked at some gold-mine." "First Kolia went to Moscow to buy the flat, then Zoya came with Vanechka by train." "You stop cying." "You can't change anything..." "What a misfortune..." "They'll take the baby to an orphanage." "Why there?" "He's got his flat!" "Do you think he'll live alone in his flat?" "He's got no trustees, so the state will bring him up." "Damn!" "What ceilings!" "What a flat!" "You said, you remember the Jeep's number?" "You have asked me twice already." "You're wet, aren't you?" "It's not often that people Can remember the number." "Gosh!" "One more room!" "Great flat!" "Hell or a flat!" "My bag!" "I left my bag with them, in the car!" "All my things were there!" "Too late." "You'd better forget it now." "Do you have any money for now?" "About hundred rubles or so..." "Why don't you look about in the flat?" "You said they had worked in a gold-mine." "They may have salted some money away." "have just bought the flat." "Right." "This flat costs a fortune." "It's only a gold-mine an honest man can earn such money... to buy a flat - and then die." "Take it." "No, thank you." "I was going to have a beer after work" "Take it." "Well, Ivan," "If an orphanage makes you a bandit we'll meet again." "I have to go." "Shut the windows!" "They expect a storm to break at night." "O goodness!" "So frightening!" "Please, eat." "I've cooked it by the instruction." "Why don't you eat?" "Listen" " God is angry." "He has saved us today, so you must eat." "Don't cry, honey, come." "Don't be afraid." "We are not afraid." "Where is the gig?" "Let's find it..." "No, not here" "Where is it?" "Let's have a look here." "Look: what a nice toy!" "Don't cry!" "We aren't scared, are we?" "Don't be afraid, honey." "Please, don't!" "Look" " I am not cying, so, you shouldn't either." "Look: it's a house We are hiding in." "We need a gig." "Where is it?" "Wait." "Don't cry," "Don't cry, sweetheart." "You my darling." "It's all right." "We are all right, don't cry!" "Calm down..." "Don't cry!" "What do I do?" "Oh, God!" "I didn't think it hurts so much!" "Please, mercy us, will you?" "!" "I'll never give him up, I promise I'll never will." "It hurts, Jesus!" "9 people were killed, 124 were taken to hospital." "Over 60 thousand trees fell down during one night." "6 Crosses were thrown down from the domes in Novodevichiy Convent, and a dome was thrown from the Chapel or St. Prince Daniel in the Moscow Residence or Patriarch" "Uncle Vasia!" "Don't call me like that!" "It was an accident!" "The brakes railed." "Your life brakes are your problem and not the car ones." "Take the money away." "I never take bribes." "And you know that." "What do we do then?" "Turn it off I'm fed up with that." "We'll be smart." "I've seen their flat." "It'd cost over 100 thousand." "The killed Nikolay Ignatiev is registered as the owner," "And he was born in a far away village." "And his wire, too." "I've sent a query there, but no one will see the answer." "I'll put their kid into an orphanage." "Understand?" "Not quite." "You ass-head!" "Ignatiev is a very common last name." "Find any old man with the same one." "We'll fabricate a will - and get the flat." "We'll go halves." "Got it?" "Only we have to hurry, before the Housing Office does it." "What about the girl?" "She is not even registered in the flat." "But she remembers the car number." "That's your problem." "Show me what you can be up to." "Remember: no crime things." "I need money, and not a plank-bed in a Mordovia camp." "I have to go now..." "To see the Motherland." "State scientific workers are protesting against the pay-back." "What are you going to do?" "No idea." "It turns out he has saved my lire." "Stop it!" "A baby is here!" "It's not the baby you must think of now." "Think about yourself." "They have screened 600 applicants already." "There are only 130 of us left." "130 applicants per 15 vacancies." "9 applicants?" "How are you going to take the exams?" "Poor Nad'ka!" "Do we know?" "No, we don't..." "I have no idea or how I am going to take the exams." "What are you doing?" "It's so hot in here!" "Well, now you are the audience." "Take your seats." "You are in the cinema." "It's a musical." "And I am starring!" "full screen!" "Me as the star!" "Loom what it is going to be like." "Vania, look - we are in the cinema!" "Look how well Zina is dancing." "This man is a good one." "He gave us the money." "It seems you have pooped." "Let's go and wash." "Come in." "Hello." "Was that you showing from in the window?" "I was dancing." "Show me your passport!" "I don't live here." "I live in the hostel as I am a VGIK applicant!" "VGIK?" "Yes!" "So go to your VGIK!" "And make your strip-dance there." "Another Svetlichnaya!" "Where is the baby?" "Nadia!" "Holy-molly!" "Hello!" "Hi!" "Put the baby here!" "Don't be afraid." "Put the baby." "That's right." "I'm here." "70 cm long." "30 cm around the chest" "44 around the head." "How much?" "... 44." "The fontanel is not closed." "No rash, clear skin." "Are you a doctor?" "Don't interfere." "What about his teeth?" "2 uppers and 1 lower tooth." "Developed cords." "No circumcision." "Great." "Stop it." "It's enough." "I'm not going to give him to anybody." "But we are not going to take him." "Not yet." "We just have registered him." "If no relative to take the guardianship is round within a month," "We shall put him to an orphanage." "What relation are you to him?" "I'm a close relative." "She is a stranger." "How can you leave a baby with this girl?" "You know the law." "I do." "She is under 17." "We upturned virgin soils when we were 17." "Don't start it again..." "Stop grumbling," "Never wants to hear the truth." "Have a sit, darling." "Do you know what causes men most problems in summer?" "Their groins sweat." "Smear it with Vaseline," "And then talc." "We are leaving, comrade major." "So you don't like the virgin soils issue." "And you do, so what?" "..." "Today most people are exchanging Rubles into dollars." "We have food left for two days." "Let's see, how much we have." "We have: 100, 200, 10, 20, 30... 240 rubles and some change." "We have diapers for 4 days." "What do we do?" "What do we do, my darling?" "What shall I do with you?" "Tell me, please." "Don't get sick please?" "What if I sell something?" "Let's have a look" "Wow!" "A fur coat!" "Another one!" "Take it." "Where can we go?" "To mum?" "She wouldn't want you." "Father rather needs a baby-sitter for himself." "You have spoiled my blouse." "What do I put on to go to the exam?" "You my sweetheart!" "My darling!" "All right, we'll see." "Let's go to bed." "Get some sleep, darling." "My Lord!" "I'm very sorry to interfere all the time," "But I need You to tell me, what to do?" "You know everything, and I have no one to ask for advice." "Shall I keep him?" "Then how will I grow him?" "And where?" "I have no profession," "No damn place to live, no damn all." "Please, forgive me - it just slipped out" "Who is there?" "Militia." "Have you seen us, bitch?" "!" "Have you?" "Say it!" "Louder!" "I can't hear you!" "No, I haven't!" "I swear I haven't!" "I can't hear you!" "I haven't seen you!" "Remember: you have never seen us," "And you have never seen our car." "And no number either." "Is that clear?" "Is that clear?" "Yes, it is!" "Understood?" "I haven't seen anything." "OK - let's go." "Hey, why don't we..." "No, let's go..." "Be thankful to us, For treating you so nice." "I can't hear you!" "Thank you..." "Let's go!" "Shut the door" "There are a lot or bandits sneaking around." "You can start." "Why do you look so tired?" "Are you all right?" "Yes, I'm fine." "You haven't slept all night, have you?" "When I was taking exams," "I could neither sleep, nor eat." "I was not just..." "Let's start." "Start with the improvisation." "OK, let's start with the improvisation." "Listen into the music and try to reel it" "And do all you want to show." "You can dance, or sing..." "What would you like to do?" "Stop!" "Stop!" "What's the matter?" "What is it?" "Anything happened to you?" "Give her some water, please" "You said, I could do whatever I want to." "So I wanted to cry." "Well done." "Na-a-dia!" "He has the trots!" "Nadia, he has the trots!" "What do I do?" "Why are the windows open all the time?" "He has the trots!" "What do I do?" "What's up?" "Armen Borisovich, there's a baby there." "Hers?" "Come to me!" "I have to run, OK?" "Pity." "The girl has talent." "All right..." "Let's go on." "Take it away." "But I think we have to take her." "Olga Borisovna, do you understand that she's got a baby?" "Thank you!" "How can a nursing mother be a student!" "That's what I was told." "I made my choice once" "Now I have no choice at all." "Put your sign here." "Let's go on." "Please help me, My baby's sick!" "I have finished - get out." "You go or he'll crap your car!" "Stop Crying!" "Calm him down!" "All right, damn you!" "Come to me." "Shit!" "The weather is nuts." "What's happened to the boy?" "I don't know." "He has the trots." "Please, calm down." "We are going to see a doctor, He will help you." "It'll be all right." "Please, don't cry, darling." "Show me the baby." "Are you a doctor?" "Yes, I am." "A podiatrist?" "Podiatrist..." "An autopsist I am." "Take his jumpers or, Show me the diaper." "Show me it!" "Quiet, be quiet, sweetheart." "Be careful." "What do you have?" "You've fed him with plums?" "!" "No, I haven't." "Look at his diaper!" "No, I haven't!" "Give me the bottle - it's there." "Don't you say you haven't!" "Don't you lie to me!" "Pour some water." "Come, darling." "Give me the water." "I have been opening stomachs for 30 years!" "I didn't do it!" "Stop lying!" "Give me the diaper!" "I have no more left." "You must take more when go out." "Fold it." "You're too young to be a mother!" "It's easy to give birth to a baby, more difficult is to grow him!" "That's all." "You owe me 20 rubles." "What?" "20 rubles." "I have 6 grandchildren to feed." "Come on." "Go to the chemist'..." "Ask for bifidumbacterin." "Bifidumbacterin." "Don't go to the doctor - he's not sick" "Thank you!" "My Lord!" "Why are You so hard on us?" "Is there no one else to be punished?" "There are so many rascals hanging around why don't you judge them?" "What did we do?" "I'm no saint." "Maybe, snippy..." "I am not patient enough, if there's something I don't like" "But I didn't curse anyone, I swear." "Can you hear me?" "I didn't do any harm, and I didn't ill-wish either" "Please, mercy us!" "or punish just me alone, and not Vania." "Please, forgive me" "I don't know any prayer, but I'll learn." "I promise I will." "All I know is:" ""Forgive and have mercy," "Forgive and have mercy!" "We have no more milk So I've cooked porridge with water." "No other way out." "We have no sugar either." "But there is some jam left, So we can use it." "It will be so tasty!" "Can you imagine:" "I've Cooked semolina for the first time in my life!" "It's my debut." "See how tasty it is." "We are not going to wait for a month," "Tomorrow we'll leave for Omsk" "We'll sell some things buy tickets and leave." "Moscow is too expensive for us." "No way I give you to anyone." "Not to an orphanage" "No, no way." "I know how it is to be alone, when no one loves you." "You my sweetie!" "My mum's love didn't last long." "Soon she started loving her husband's." "This is so good!" "Dad also used to love me, but now he doesn't" "He thinks of himself only, all he cares is his health!" "So nobody needs me, just like you." "And Zinka, will become an actress." "She can't do anything else anyway." "How could she have given plum juice to such a baby?" "!" "Dull head!" "Come on, it's the last one." "Finished." "There is nothing left for me just a little bit." "It was so good!" "And you've eaten it all!" "That's all right..." "Vanechka, look!" "What is it?" "Loom Vania!" "Boys, make some more!" "Come to me - see how beautiful they are!" "Vania, my sweetheart," "Look it's so beautiful!" "Let's see who is there." "Who is it?" "We are from the Guardianship Body." "But the month is not over yet." "Open the door!" "Do it right away!" "Break the door!" "Boys!" "Hey, somebody help!" "I'm with you!" "Freeze!" "Don't move!" "Calm down, my girl." "Give me the baby, don't get into trouble." "Don't be a fool-Give me the boy" "It'll be all right" "Be careful." "It's over now, just over..." "And now you can jump!" "Come on-jump!" "You wet-heads don't value your lives!" "Come on!" "Jump!" "She makes me sick!" "Calm down!" "Mothers give their own children up, and she hangs on other people's one!" "What does she need him for?" "Damn you!" "You look at him!" "Shut up for God's sake!" "Come down." "Don't be afraid, give me your hand." "Give me your hand, please Good girl." "And now let's step down: one, another step - two!" "Good girl." "I didn't know you're an alpinist!" "Are you all right?" "Now let's do the following:" "You go and pack his things." "Have you got a pill?" "What for?" "Ulcer bothers me." "It's all nerves." "You put too much stress!" "Just gone nuts..." "Look: what a monkey!" "Please, don't take him from me." "I swear" " I'll take good care or him!" "I promise!" "I'll always be by him, if he cries!" "Please, let me keep him" "Fool you are." "You had 8 days!" "8 days!" "You could have married someone," "Do all the custody papers, and save him the flat!" "And you..." "We are done." "Let's go." "Get out or here." "This flat now is my responsibility." "Don't be too hard on me." "I didn't mean it" "You were going to be an actress -go to your institute" "And keep away from what you have nothing to do with." "Hello, it's me." "I'm waiting for you." "I want to take my exams very much." "Then do it." "You were admitted to the second audition." "Really?" "But they don't let me in." "Who does not?" "The guard." "Come with me." "I am so sorry for the last time..." "She is with me." "Where is your baby?" "He isn't mine." "Isn't yours?" "His parents were killed in a car accident," "But now they've taken him" "Who did?" "Where to?" "To an orphanage." "Wait." "So what are you going to do?" "I don't know." "I wish I could have his address" "To be able to buy presents, To visit him." "You want to visit him?" "Yes." "Stop it." "I can try, too." "Let's go." "What's his last name?" "Ignatiev." "When did they take him?" "Yesterday." "Naina Iosirovna?" "Good afternoon." "Good afternoon, it's me." "Thank you." "We are fine." "Naina Iosirovna, I've got a request to you." "Yesterday in Moscow a guardianship body took an orphan and put him into an orphanage." "Vania Ignatiev." "Ignatiev Ivan Nikolayevich." "Ignatiev Vania Nikolayevich." "I need to know which orphanage they have put him to." "Thank you, I'll be waiting." "Thank you, good bye." "So she will call." "When you come to the second audition, I'll tell you everything." "Where do you live?" "Me?" "In..." "Nowhere." "They sealed the flat yesterday." "Call the hostel manager, tell him to provide her accommodation" "You go and get enough sleep, brush up." "You're going to become an actress, aren't you?" "And not one or the street girls..." "Excuse me." "Go." "Thank you very much." "Keep it." "Go." "Olga Borisovna, I think it's pure gamble." "I was your student, Armen Borisovich" "Thank you." "Chechnya's on fire, it's not Argan," "But troops are sent to..." "The one you like, What does he look like?" "I saw him just once, he is not disgusting." "He looks like my dad, only his eyes are more joyful." "So why don't you?" "Is he too old?" "I don't want a young one." "My mother has married 5 times, Looking for a younger one." "What's the problem then?" "Listen, maybe he just doesn't want to marry?" "I know some men like that:" "they have a wire, a child..." "I think he is single." "He boasted he is." "Why then?" "Isn't he rich enough?" "No, he is rich." "He's a banker." "Why not then?" "I don't understand you." "He would reproach us for a piece of bread, I'm afraid." "I've had enough or that from my last stepfather." "No." "I'll do it all myself." "Your passports, please." "What?" "Your passport!" "Aslumanov Victor Vassilievich." "Registered in Ramen." "How long has Ramen been Chechnya?" "What do you mean?" "The stamp looks like fake." "What fake?" "I've been living in Ramen for 20 years!" "You've been a seller in a stall!" "Now Russia is for the Russians only!" "What's the matter with you?" "Follow me!" "They'll beat him!" "Nadia, sit down." "Has your passport been checked?" "I'm going home!" "Get up, let's go!" "What are you doing?" "Somebody help!" "You go, and we'll make it out." "You check here, and I'm going to others." "Your passport, please." "Who are you?" "What did you say?" "I'm Ivanova, and you, Tatar snout, are not the one to ask me to show my passport!" "Hey, I'm Russian!" "Have you ever looked in a mirror at yourself" "Take him away, or I'll make a Kulikovskaya Battle!" "Are you nuts?" "Think or what you're saying!" "Wait, you are Stashevskaya!" "It was just a sketch." "I left my passport at home." "It was great!" "Well, girls, I have so much work to be done!" "I need both day and night nurses." "Only I have nothing to pay with." "We'll work for free." "We are taking exams to the pedagogical institute." "We need certificates that we have had practical work" "All right, I understand." "But you'll have to work hard, remember!" "A day trouble is a trouble, But a night one is three times worse!" "We have done the repair works." "No one cares!" "Neither Moscow, nor regional authorities!" "We can't go on strike, like the miners, wasting their time by the White house." "Children are not coal." "You can't give them up!" "Here is a new one, Vanechka." "How are you doing?" "Everything OK?" "Listen, girls." "It's very important that you hold each child in hands every day." "Dandle them, caress somehow." "I ask each nursery to do it." "Take him." "Vania, Come to me!" "They will grow up with no diapers, no vitamins." "What do you mess with here, you boob?" "But who they'll be like if they grow without love?" "Well, let's go" "Come in, girls." "Thank you!" "Nice things!" "Thanks to the sponsors!" "Take seats." "Great." "Want to eat something?" "No?" "So beautiful!" "3, 4, 5, 6." "Speaking." "What?" "What immature infant?" "Are you insane?" "I don't need any immature!" "I don't need mortal cases." "Please, wake your conscience." "I've got a suggestion." "Please keep him in the maternity for a month." "And then we'll see." "Don't say "for God's sake"." "God seems to emigrate from this county about 100 years ago!" "You, sisters-in-arms," "What shall I do with you?" "All right, girls." "I'll take you." "If you last for a month here and to not escape..." "No, we won't!" "I'll give you a one-year work confirmation." "And a petition to your institute." "You can leave when you have exams." "Can I go back to bring my things?" "What?" "Quitting already?" "No problem." "Go." "Where do I go?" "You can take a folding bed in my room." "Welcome!" "Thank you." "Good bye." "You owe me!" "Why do they do so many knots?" "So nice to hear you!" "Pavel Antonovich, thank you so much." "You are a very good man!" "Who is awake yet?" "Come to me." "Come!" "Come, my sweetie." "My Lord, why don't you help us?" "Please, help." "I need your help so much!" "Please forgive me for everything, for all I have ever done." "And Vania has nothing to forgive him for:" "he hasn't done anything bad yet." "Forgive and mercy us." "Our sponsor has come!" "Now I see why the Directress was dressing up all the morning." "Good afternoon, Pavel Antonovich." "Girls!" "Help to unload the stam quicker!" "Let's go, Nadia" "Thanks!" "Pavel Antonovich!" "He's left his folder." "Who is he, Dina Alexeyevna?" "He's our sponsor, Nadia." "He is coming back!" "He gave us the money for the repairs." "You know, these bankers are mostly swindlers, but... some of them still have conscience" "Why are you standing here?" "Go." "You've left your folder" "Yes, thank you..." "No problem..." "You are an adult man, don't be so careless." "Bye!" "Be Careful." "Damn!" "At South-Urals Railroad traffic has resumed to "Potanino" station." "Striking miners relieved the track." "The losses caused by the blockade over cost the amount required to be paid to the miners as the debt Coverage." "Excuse me, please, Dina Alexeyevna." "May I leave for Moscow the night after tomorrow?" "My exam starts vey early." "I have arranged it with aunt Liuda." "Go, if you have arranged it." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Are they yours?" "No, my nephews." "They say, God doesn't give children to have someone to take care about orphans" "What are you waiting for?" "Go." "Let me watch the news." "Sorry." "Go to bed." "Good night." "You are clean now." "Let's put it on." "Bring the next one." "Hi!" "Hello, what are you doing here?" "I've brought whooping-cough vaccine." "Dina Alexeyevna left for the ministry." "It's just that we do not have good vaccine here." "We don't?" "Let's have a bath." "Why don't you adopt me?" "Are you nuts?" "If it had not been for the baby..." "Go out." "I just wanted to say that you are very beautiful and..." "Get in" " I can give you a lift." "You have missed the train." "I can wait for another one." "You'll have to wait for two hours." "How do you know?" "I called them to find out." "Get in." "Just to the metro station." "OK, metro station." "I have a feeling that I have already given you a lift once." "No, you are mistaken." "You wanted to become an actress." "You were taking exams to VGIK." "Have you railed?" "No, I haven't." "Here they told me you work for your labor records, in order to be able to enter the Pedagogical Institute." "So you have railed!" "No, I haven't." "Don't get upset." "Actresses are not happier than other women." "I am tying both institutes." "Well done, Nadiuha!" "Run after both the rabbits- if you don't catch one, you'll get warm!" "Don't call me Nadiuha!" "How shall I call you then?" "Nadezhda." "Hope." "Whose hope?" "Nobody's." "Excellent!" "We are both nobody's." "Not at all excellent." "What is it?" "It's music." "No, we're on fire!" "Calm down." "It's the seat-heater," "To make your back and bottom warm." "Jesus!" "Tired?" "I've been working for 24 hours." "Get some sleep then." "No way." "I had no time today anyway." "OK." "Tomorrow." "Tomorrow then." "We'll have enough time." "We'll do that..." "What's up?" "Be quiet." "Pavel Antonych!" "She's woken up." "Bye." "Be quiet." "Don't panic." "He's a good man." "Have you had enough sleep?" "Let's have dinner together." "Where is the metro station?" "Metro closed long ago." "I have my exam tomorrow morning." "I have to go to the hostel." "OK, I'll take you to the hostel later." "1 This is "Antonio"" "they serve the best food in Moscow." "Let's have dinner." "I don't have dinners with people like you." "You're right." "I don't like to have dinner with people like me either." "But I like to do it with people like you." "Let's go!" "So great to see you!" "Good evening, Pavel Antonovich!" "You're in time, as always." "With much éclat, as always." "Are these your friends?" "Clients." "Help yourself." "Pasha, do you remember?" "I do." "They have eaten all the oysters." "Seriozha!" "What will you drink?" "I don't drink alcohol." "As usual?" "Maybe, a juice?" "Yes." "Pavel Antonych, good evening." "Isn't it too much?" "No." "I won't manage that much." "No way you don't." "Hello..." "Let's go upstairs." "Sonechka!" "I keep a table for you." "Sit down." "Here?" "Wish you health, Success in love." "What's your name, my friend?" "Andrei." "Andriusha, please bring me a bottle." "Do you have "Standa"?" "Sure." "Someone is asking for you." "Can I have you for a while?" "I'm with my lady!" "You may go." "I don't mind." "Just do it." "Pavel Antonych, will you be at the bank in the Tuesday meeting with the Americans?" "Good evening." "Let me introduce you to each other." "Nadia." "She'll be a movie star." "Yan." "He is the owner or the largest Publishing house." "Want to know how we started?" "May I take my jacket off" "Go ahead." "We sold books in the streets of Riga." "We took 4 suitcases each, bought books and went there to sell..." "Jesus!" "It was a very good business." "I even respected myself." "We delivered people culture, they gave us the money." "Nobody had much money yet, but we did!" "We did hell around!" "Do you remember," "I gave my first teacher a mink fur coat as a present?" "Now I'm greedy." "It's easier, when you have thousands and not millions." "He lies." "You're talking to the best financier or the present." "Give him two years." "What for?" "Suspended sentence." "He will join the five richest people or the County." "In a global scale." "You'll be proud or having sat next to him at the table." "What are you doing?" "Are you matching us?" "No." "Nadia, he's matching us!" "No, just showing you up!" "That's what you do." "Wasted effort." "She is not like that, is she?" "She'll make it all on her own." "Is that right?" "She won't look for husbands." "They'll find her themselves." "I'm the first one." "I was the first to find." "But she ran away." "And now she despises me, keeping silent." "Jesus, I wish she knew, how many things I can be despised for!" "When he gets drunk he always lies." "The same was when we were at school." "Selling books in the streets of Riga, we were dreaming about aerospace aviation." "We were mad about space." "Yanim let's drink to the race, that the reality proved to be much more exiting then the dream was." "Join us, drink something." "No, I won't." "And you mustn't drink any more." "I can do anything!" "Do you know how much money I've made today?" "Have you put it into your pocket yet?" "I will!" "And what about the crisis?" "Please, don't!" "Let them worry about the crisis." "We'll get through." "Shall we, Nadiuha?" "Yes." "When I came to know the way money is made in this country" "I thought: wow!" "I'll make my living for the rest of my life," "And will be an honest man again." "Yanik!" "I used to be a decent man, Wasn't I?" "Stop drinking." "What you need is a strong coffee." "You're right." "I'm an idiot." "And for many years I kept thinking that I'd give it up soon," "That as soon as I finish a deal I have started" "I'll quit." "But I didn't." "Pilots have a "Crank point" notion." "But you don't know it, you're too young." "So, a crank point is a point from which there is no way back" "You can only proceed." "Even if you understand that you're going to a crash." "Don't beat me." "It's all right..." "Please don't." "Fool!" "Wait." "You said you were selling books?" "I used to sell them, but I didn't write them!" "And you never read them." "Please, proceed to this ward." "Here we have nurselings." "Please translate. " "under 8 months or age." "Is it OK?" "Have a look around." "Have you cleaned the floor?" "Yes." "And what about the windows?" "Just a second." "This way, please..." "Let's proceed to the next ward." "Here we have older children." "Have you had the cardiogram made?" "Why haven't you, Dad?" "You promised you would!" "Do it tomorrow, OK?" "Call Mum, please, Tell her I'm fine." "I don't want to call myself." "Her husband always picks up." "Please, do it for me!" "Call her." "OK." "Big kiss." "Bye!" "Keep your seat!" "Thank you very much." "I'll pay as soon as the bill comes." "Are you a rich Buratino?" "Give me the crown!" "I'm sorry." "Bring me the file, quicker!" "Whose?" "Or your favorite one, Ignatiev." "What's the matter with him?" "An American couple will adopt him." "Jesus, he'll have a decent life!" "Maybe..." "How come?" "Just the way it usually is..." "I asked you many times to sort it out in the alphabetical order." "Please forgive me." "I didn't have time enough." "Why them?" "They have called already." "When?" "When do they take him?" "Today?" "You Crazy!" "They'll have to go through a court approval." "It takes a lot of time." "OK." "Here it is." "What are you sitting?" "Come on." "It's bullshit, isn't it?" "We're happy to check our babies out from here to send them abroad." "Hell knows where to!" "All right..." "Let's do business." "What happened?" "The baby died?" "I'm getting married." "Who to?" "To the one I need." "Give me a fancy dress to wear." "Please." "What Nadezhda?" "He asks what Nadezhda." "Tell him "nobody's"." "Nobody's hope." "OK, let her in." "This way, please." "It's not the right time, to start it Pasha." "You'd better count how many times you have said it to me!" "Look around - are you blind or deaf" "I don't understand." "It's a very dangerous moment." "We can lose everything!" "They may all come down, but we'll slip of" "I've always trusted you, buy now..." "Where would we have been should I always have listened to you?" "Yan, please stop it." "Hello." "I'm on my way," "I want to see Pavel Antonovich." "Remember one thing:" "I'm lucky." "Hello." "Hi!" "So, you're still nobody's, aren't you?" "Nobody's." "Sounds good." "I'm going to the central Bank" "The situation has changed." "Is it OK if we start walking?" "Sure." "I'll be short, actually." "Short?" "Really?" "This makes me suspicious, but..." "Mary me." "Short, isn't it..." "Kind of too short." "How old are you, my bride?" "17." "Do you know how old I am?" "It doesn't matter." "Only..." "I have a child." "Wait." "How come?" "It's not my child." "His parents died in a car accident, So I want to adopt him." "If I don't they'll take him to America." "It's the right time to talk of it." "Mary us." "I wish there were one to adopt myself." "We'll love you." "You said it's time to do it." "And your age only helps." "But you don't know me at all!" "I do you are a good person!" "You help children!" "And you like me!" "Yes, I do like you..." "But you're doing it because you're dead-locked." "No, it's not because of that." "Word of honor!" "You don't understand." "Don't do anything." "Wait!" "Hello!" "I'll be right there!" "On my way!" "You didn't understand anything." "Have you read this?" "Americans took our child abroad and killed him there!" "Just like Vanechka, Took him from Russia and killed!" "...and now they are playing with him there... ania, come here." "Stop it!" "No, I won't!" "You have no right to give them our kids!" "Have a sit, quicker!" "I don't have the right!" "It's not me, it's the court's decision!" "Why doesn't you shitty press" "Right that we have... millions of kids just like your naive, touching but dog-poor Vanechka!" "It doesn't write that we live on the money or the visitant bankers, like that one." "They shoot, kill and they come here to wash away their sins." "They thrust me their money for the orphans and I take it!" "If I don't I'll have nothing to feed the kids with." "That's it." "Nothing to reed with..." "Because your press for some reason" "Never writes or the fact... that I have no money to get them rood." "And that the President is never told" "or the death rate in our orphanages." "So I'll keep taking their money..." "And I'll smile and laugh with them." "That's it." "Now bug of" "Damn it all...." "So, there'll be no devaluation?" "For sure not!" "For sure." "It's not that I am inventing something..." "Or my fantasies..." "Or just my wish..." "No!" "It has all been analyzed." "We do it and control everything daily." "Every 24 hours!" "We'll keep control over the situation." "Today Boris Yeltzyn had a meeting" "With the prime minister and financial representatives." "They suggested devaluating rubles" "Expert's opinion is that This measure will make it possible to settle with miners and teachers, to refund internal debts, but can bring up the inflation." "We'll take your mother's things, sell them and buy the tickets to go to Omsk" "We are not thieves." "We'll just take what belongs to us." "Who are you looking for?" "Hey, join us for a glass or Champagne!" "Congratulations!" "Hot news on the "Eho Mos_"" "A girl or about 16, dressed in a pink dress has kidnapped a 9-months' baby." "We request you to report to the police in case you see her." "What do we do, Vanechka?" "My sweetie." "My darling, my sweetheart." "It's enough." "We are wasting time." "You'll never get through to them!" "But we shall!" "We've been knocking for 3 months," "And they don't care!" "The priest was right." "We are not paupers to beg alms from them!" "Hey, what are you doing, lads?" "Will you listen to me?" "What are you doing?" "We can't split apart!" "You bastards!" "What are you doing here?" "Come with us." "Come on!" "Are you crazy?" "Decent people stay at home in such a weather." "Come, or your baby will catch a cold." "I am not a decent one." "Come on, you not-a-decent one..." "Guys, bring the emergency ration and dry towels." "Have a sit." "You'll rub yourself with it, but first take a sip." "Do it." "Wait." "What do you feed the baby with?" "Nourish?" "He isn't mine." "I've kidnapped him." "We'll sort it out later." "Give him something dry." "Are you nuts, Makarov?" "She has kidnapped a baby." "It's a crime!" "And we are just for politics here." "Do you want to screw us up?" "And you prefer to be just like them?" "What if it'd happened to your family?" "My word." "She Can stay." "You'll regret it." "Put the poster up!" "Let them see it from the Kremlin, too!" "Just like Anna Karenina." "What do you mean?" "Nothing." "Where have you been so long?" "Nazarenko, why do you hang on" "God doesn't like lazy bones." "I guess you're the one He likes." "You've been getting on a treat." "Enough, Makarov." "We are sick and tired of your struggle." "We're leaving." "Have you ever thought about your friends?" "Have you ever thought about us before getting us into trouble?" "!" "Cherishing a child and a priest here!" "You never ask us if we want it!" "Have you seen the article?" "You make all the decisions on your own - so stay on your own!" "Let's go!" "Where are you going?" "Damn you!" "Piss off" "A 17 year-old girl has kidnapped a baby from an orphanage." "Jesus, everything is against us!" "Have they baptized the baby?" "No, they had no time yet." "We must baptize him." "Taking your godson into your hands" "Will you promise to bring him up in the Orthodox faith" "And be responsible for him on the day of doom?" "I shall." "I shall." "Anointing the servant of God Ivan with joyful consecrated oil, in the name or the Father," "the Son and the Holy Spirit." "Ask and it will be given to you" "Seek and you will find, Knock and it will be opened to you" "For everyone who asks receives And who seeks finds." "And to him who knock it will be opened." "Or what man is there among you who If his son asks for bread, will give him a stone, or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?" "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!" "Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets." "You were going to become an actress, weren't you?" "Yes, I was." "I was a fool." "COMON!" "Shoot me, you bastards!" "Shoot your brothers!" "Come on, do it!" "Don't shoot!" "A baby is here!" "Take away Nadia and the baby!" "Come on, shoot!" "You racists!" "Where is our god father?" "Is he hiding from us?" "Let's go and see." "There he is." "People have lost all their savings again." "The number of infarct, blood-stroke and suicide cases increases." "What do we do?" "I don't know." "Listen, why don't you go with us?" "We have nothing to eat, but the people are great." "We'll help you to grow the kid up." "He'll be a real man!" "Will you?" "Mr. Gavrilov, the bank president has locked of on the floor building." "He may attempt suicide." "It's somewhere nearby." "I think I know where it is." "Where are you going?" "Nadia, where are you going?" "Attention!" "A girl in a red dress was seen with a baby near the bridge!" "You can't go there." "Yan!" "Let her inside!" "Don't hold me!" "What woman with a baby?" "Not now!" "What do you want?" "I must see him." "Come on." "Why did you let him do it?" "I can't replace his stupid head with mine." "He calls you his friend, and you..." "He's screwed up all of us!" "A boy?" "A girl?" "A boy." "Sweet." "He's smiling." "I guess he is the only one who is smiling today." "She is with me." "Two people have passed." "Pasha!" "Go to hell!" "Gavrilov!" "Nadia has come to you with a baby." "Open the door!" "I've kidnapped the baby." "Bloody hell!" "Let me in!" "I have militia chasing me." "You are the one missing here." "Don't move!" "Stay where you are!" "No, you can't!" "This is something that I still can do!" "You've got fear of heights!" "Yes, I have..." "I have to..." "No!" "I'm sick I even can't die properly." "I should have shot myself" "No." "We need you." "I'm pauper." "It doesn't matter." "It really doesn't." "You can help us." "They'll put me to prison." "They'll put me, too." "I've done down so many people!" "I've kidnapped the baby, I have militia after me." "They'll kill me anyway." "No!" "We need you!" "I love you!" "My word of honor!" "We can sell books in the streets together," "If you want." "Vania, go to your father." "Go, son, go, sweetheart..." "Books?" "Go to your father." "Make no resistance and give us the baby!" "Give the baby immediately!" "What?" "The baby?" "It's my baby!" "My son!" "And the wire is mine!" "Stop shouting or I'll jump from the floor." "You'll have to rub my brain from the asphalt!" "Hey, listen, he will do it!" "And me, too!" "We'll do it together!" "Together!" "Yes, mum." "What default?" "Mum, I can't talk to you now..." "I'm with my baby" "Nadia has come" "My wire." "I just forgot to tell you." "What money?"