"Lenfilm" "Cinema Studio "PETROPOL" Creative Production Association "SOYUZTELEFILM" Association "SAINT PETERSBURG"" "Mikhail Boyarskiy" "Vladislav Strzhelchik" "Larisa Udovichenko" "Irina Muravyova" "Igor Dmitriev" "Victoria Gorshenina" "Anna Samokhina" "Igor Sklyar" "Alexander Samokhin" "German Orlov" "In a musical directed by YAN FRID" "TARTUFFE" "Based on a play "Tartuffe" by Jean Baptiste Moliere Text interpretation by Mikhail Donskoy" "Scriptwriter:" "Yan Frid" "Scriptwriter assistants:" "B. Ratser, V. Konstantinova" "Composer:" "Gennadiy Gladkov" "Photography director:" "Nikolai Stroganov" "Art director:" "Aleksey Rudyakov" "Costume designer:" "Tatiana Ostrogorskaya" "Sound technician:" "Eduard Vanunts" "Director:" "V. Perov" "Cameraman:" "Y. Pleshkin" "Film editor:" "G. Kornilova" "Make-up:" "V. Khalaimova" "Director assistants:" "A. Gorelik, N. Vasilieva" "Cameraman assistant:" "A. Kaminskiy" "Film editor assistant:" "Y. Khutoryanskaya" "Assistant director:" "E. Smokhvalova" "Sound technician assistant:" "V. Mikhnevich" "Set designer:" "S. Teikh" "Make-up artists:" "N. Tulupova, O. Ryzhikova" "Costume artists:" "T. Morozova, E. Likina" "Property-masters:" "N. Lapochkina, O. Zhelnina" "Light technician:" "A. Kaluga" "Color adjustor:" "L. Kosareva" "Credits artist:" "A. Medvedeva" "Credits operator:" "V. Mikhailov" "Editor:" "I. Filatova" "Consultant:" "K. Chernozyomov" "Stunt production:" "I. Krinskiy" "Stuntmen:" "A. Barinov, V. Trusov" "Administrative group:" "S. Kostrov, M. Lychkovskiy A. Pisanyuk, O. Razrezova" "Director trainee:" "L. Maevskaya" "Production manager:" "Marina Dovladbegyan" "Come, come, Flipotte, and let me get away." "You hurry so, I hardly can attend you." "I leave your house, I tell you, quite disgusted." "I can't endure your carryings-on, and no one takes the slightest pains to please me!" "You've no respect for anything, each one must have his say." "It's perfect pandemonium!" "But..." "You're a servant wench, my girl, and much too full of gab," "And too impertinent, and free with your advice on all occasions." "But..." "You're a fool, my boy!" "Let grandma tell you that I've said a hundred times to my poor son, your father, that you'd never come to good or give him anything but plague and torment." "Oh!" "Grandma..." "O dearie me, his little sister!" "You're all demureness, butter wouldn't melt in your mouth." "Still waters, though, they say..." "you know the proverb..." "And I don't like your doings on the sly." "But, mother..." "Daughter, by your leave, your conduct in everything is altogether wrong!" "You ought to set a good example for 'em." "Their dear departed mother did much better." "You are extravagant, and it offends me, to see you always decked out like a princess." "But, madam..." "Sir, as for you, the lady's brother " " You preach a way of living that decent people cannot tolerate." " Ah!" " Mr. Tartuffe, your friend, is mighty lucky, true..." " ...in his pretense to be a righteous and holy man!" "He is a holy man!" "I can't endure, with any show of patience, to hear a scatterbrains like you attack him." "What!" "Shall I be silent?" "Shall I let a bigot criticaster come and usurp a tyrant's power here?" "And shall we never dare amuse ourselves till this fine gentleman deigns to consent?" "If we must hark to him, and heed his maxims, there's not a thing we do but what's a crime." "He censures everything, this zealous carper." "And all he censures is well censured, too!" " Urg!" " Your house is full of sin!" "He wants to guide you on the way to heaven." "My son should train you all to love him well." "No, madam, look you, nothing, not my father nor anything, can make me tolerate him." "I should belie my feelings not to say so." "Besides, 'tis downright scandalous to see this unknown upstart master of the house." "This vagabond, who hadn't, when he came, shoes to his feet, or clothing worth six farthings," "And who so far forgets his place, as now to censure everything, and rule the roost!" "Eh!" "Mercy sakes alive!" "Things would go better" " If all were governed by his pious orders." " Pious!" "?" "He passes for a saint in your opinion." "In fact, he's nothing but a hypocrite!" "Just listen to her tongue!" "My son did nothing wiser in all his life, than take this godly man into his household." "Heaven sent him here, in your great need, to make you all repent." "I shall not set my foot in the house where sinners are scoffing at a holy man!" "Stop the carriage this instant!" "Your son'll come home and his mother's left the house!" "How are we going to explain your departure?" "Oh now!" "Listen to yourselves!" "And what were you thinking when you were blaspheming Tartuffe?" "or when you were dragging Tartuffe through the mire?" "I shall not forgive you this!" "NEVER!" "I shall not forgive you this" "NEVER!" "We ask you, madam, for condescension." "We ask for mercy, madam." "We were under a delusion, we didn't realize the grandeur of conflict, we didn't realize who was sent to us by fortune." "Oh now!" "Listen to yourselves!" "And what were you thinking when you were blaspheming Tartuffe?" "or when you were dragging Tartuffe through the mire?" "I shall not forgive you this" "NEVER!" "I shall not forgive you this" "NEVER!" "Please, please, don't go, please, please!" "Stop the carriage, please, please, please!" " I shall not set my foot in this house!" " Don't go, please, please, please!" "No, no" " NEVER!" "NEVER!" "NEVER!" " We beg of you..." " I shall not set my foot..." " ...to stay in our house, madam." " ...in this house ever!" "How she got angry with us all for nothing!" "And how she seems possessed with her Tartuffe!" "Her case is nothing, though, beside her son's!" "To see him, you would say he's ten times worse!" "He's like a man besotted, since he's been so taken with this Tartuffe." "He calls him brother, and loves him a hundred times as much as mother, son, daughter, and wife." "He fondles and embraces him." "A sweetheart could not, I think, be loved more tenderly!" "At table he must have the seat of honour," " Ugh!" "while with delight our master sees him eat as much as six men could." "We must give up the choicest tidbits to him." " Ugh!" "I see my father is home again." "We're very lucky that he has missed his mother at the door, and hasn't heard her speech of glorified Tartuffe and sinners." " Hush!" "Ah!" "Good morning, brother-in-law." "I'm glad to greet you, my sweet brother." "How is the family?" "What's happening?" "Has everything gone well these last two days?" "How is everybody?" "Madam had fever, and a splitting headache day before yesterday, all day and evening." "And how about Tartuffe?" "Tartuffe?" "He's well." "He's mighty well, stout, fat, fair, rosy-lipped." "Poor man, poor man!" "He unctuously ate up two partridges, as well as half a leg o' mutton, deviled." "He drank too much of wine and fell under the table!" "Poor man, poor man!" "All night madam couldn't get a wink of sleep, the fever racked her so, and we had to sit up with her till daylight." "And how about Tartuffe?" "Tartuffe?" "Tartuffe got himself into a good warm bed, and snored disturbing everyone's sleep all night." "Poor man, poor man!" "At last madam got up courage to be bled and then she was relieved at once." "And how about Tartuffe?" "Tartuffe?" "To replace the blood that she had lost, he drank at breakfast four huge draughts of wine." "Poor man, poor man!" "How much Tartuffe has suffered last night!" "He doesn't spare none of his health, he's ready to forgive and help everyone   orphaned, poor, sick!" "Poor man, poor man!" "He's hermit and ascetic." "As good-for-nothing vagabond as ever was!" "Poor man!" "Vagabond!" "She tells you of your wife, and you care for nought nor nobody but him!" "He is a malapert!" "And getting worse with each new day!" "Was such infatuation ever heard of?" "And can a man today have charms to make you forget all else?" " I understood when you gave a poor man a home..." " But, brother-in-law you are mistaken." "He came to church each day, with contrite mien, kneeled, on both knees, right opposite my place, devoting his life to Christ he lived in poverty, and had no home." "I learned his poverty, and heaven bade me take him to my home." "And since that day, all seems to prosper here!" "Tartuffe censures everything, and for my sake he even takes great interest in my wife." "He's six times as jealous as I am myself!" "If anybody ogles her... he lets me know at once!" "How virtuous he is, how humble!" "He calls himself a sinner - just for trifles, for merest nothing, nonsense." "Here... the other day, while at prayer, he caught a flea" "And he accused himself for killing it in too much anger, without compassion." "How could you find no difference between a face and mask?" "Confuse the semblance with reality?" "Set artifice beside sincerity?" "Esteem counterfeit as good as honest coin?" "I'm tearful from the grief - how he fooled you!" "How he fooled you, Orgon!" "He is a wolf in sheep's clothing by his nature, man of pleasure, and chameleon!" "He covered up his greed with modesty, and passion with a humble posture." "Come to your senses, come to your senses whilst it's not too late!" "Oh!" "I really don't want the prophecy to be fulfilled, but I can tell you beforehand..." "He will bring a scandal upon your family line, he will make you a cuckold." "And moreover will fleece you of all your money!" "You will become a homeless beggar and will tearfully beg alms." "Come to your senses whilst it's not too late!" "I shall not believe a single word of those who fouls his name!" "He seems to insinuated himself into your confidence too easy!" "His piety pretence deceived you!" "All that glitters is not gold!" " Have you quite done?" " Yes." "I'm your humble servant." "Just a word." "We'll drop that disputable subject." "I have another one." "My dear good brother-in-law," "I heard Valere has had the promise of your daughter." " Yes." " And you had named the happy day." "Or?" "'Tis true." "Then why put off the celebration of it?" "I can't say." "It seems as though there are no bars to marriage." "Well... it all depends..." "Why must you beat about?" "What answer shall I take him?" "You mean to break your word?" "I shall do the will of heaven." "Good-bye." "Oh... he has some other plan in mind..." "But why?" "It would be good to find it out." " I've been waiting for you since the first streak of dawn." " What a misfortune to see my own bride in secret!" "This hypocrite drubbed an idea into my father's head - it is a sin for us to see each other before the wedding." "You cannot tell a bird not to fly, it flies windward" "You cannot tell the sun not to shine, sunrays shine through clouds" "We are seeking love all over the world but it comes to us all of a sudden." "It is the most marvelous wonder, it is the most mysterious mystery." "I whisper more tenderly with every new day your divine name" "I wish kind god Hymenaeus would get us married sooner." "We are seeking love all over the world but it comes to us all of a sudden." "It is the most marvelous wonder, it is the most mysterious mystery." " Oh!" " Oh..." " My hat..." " Here...quick!" "...my Lord!" "..." "Father!" "Father!" "Oh, father..." "We need to talk heart-to-heart." " What are you looking for?" " To see there's no one there to spy upon us." "Come, I'll tell you a secret." "There!" "We're all right now." "Mariane, dear," "I've always loved and cared for you dearly." "I'm grateful for your fatherly affection." "I think the time has come for you to wed!" "I have a wonderful fiance for you." "Tartuffe!" "Tartuffe?" "!" "What do you say?" "Are you happy?" "I don't love him!" "You'll love him, daughter, that's my wish." " But, father..." " Don't argue!" "We are just wasting time." "I'm resolved to graft Tartuffe into my family." "So he must be your husband." "It is my will, I've settled it." "And since your duty..." "What are you doing there?" "Alas, it is wicked to choose Tartuffe for son-in-law..." "Why would such pietist need a wife?" "He has more important things to think of." " Besides, what can you gain by such a match?" " You hold your tongue, Dorine!" "And know, the less he has.." "the better cause have we to honour him." "Riches are vain, temporal things." "His poverty  is honest poverty." "Besides he is a true-born gentleman from an ancient family line." "There is a black sheep in every family." "Virtue is at the mercy of the fates, when a girl's married to a man she hates." "The best intent to live an honest woman depends upon the husband's being human." "And he who weds his child against her will owes heaven account for it, if she does ill." "Daughter, we can't waste time upon this nonsense," "I know what's good for you, I'm your father." "True, I had promised you to young Valere," "But, first, they tell me he's inclined to gamble, and then, I fear his faith is not quite sound." "Whereas the other has attachments to the things eternal, he is in heaven's best graces!" " Lenience is what he cherishes in his spouse." " She'll give him horns, I'll warrant." "So nothing that I say has any weight?" "Such monstrous impudence must be chastised with one good slap in the face." "Have done with interrupting." "Hold your tongue!" "It is my final decision." "And that's enough of it!" "Say, have you lost the tongue from out your head?" "And must I speak your role from A to Zed?" "You let them broach a project that's absurd, and don't oppose it with a single word!" "What can I do?" "My father is the master." "Do?" "Everything, to ward off such disaster." "Tell him one doesn't love by proxy." "Tell him you'll marry for yourself, not him." "Since you're the one for whom the thing is done, you are the one, not he, the man must please." "If his Tartuffe has charmed him so, why let him just marry him himself!" "Or maybe you don't love Valere anymore?" "How can you wrong my love so much?" "He is my life and trust." "There, there!" "I can't be angry long." "Now don't you fret." "We'll surely find some way, I swear." "Madam, a piece of news quite new to me has just come out!" " What piece of news?" "Your marriage with Tartuffe." "My father has this plan." "Oh, seriously?" "Your father?" "Yes, he's changed his plans, and did but now propose it to me." "What!" "Seriously?" "Yes, he was serious, and openly insisted on the match." "And what's your resolution in the matter, Madam?" "I don't know." "Oh, great!" "That's a pretty answer." "So you don't know?" "I thought that you'd advise me." "Advise you?" "Surely!" "Marry him, by all means!" "A splendid choice, and worthy of your acceptance." "That's your advice?" "Oh, very well, sir!" "I shall take your counsel." " You'll find no trouble taking it, I warrant." " No more than you did giving it, be sure." " I gave it, truly, to oblige you, madam." " And I shall take it to oblige you, sir." "So, that is your love?" "And it was all deceit when you..." " Perfidious!" "Your heart has never known true love for me." " Alas!" "You're free to think so, if you please." "Yes, yes, I'm free to think so, and my outraged love may yet forestall you in your perfidy, and offer elsewhere both my heart and hand." "I know of someone, who will make up my loss." "The loss is not so great." "You'll easily console yourself completely for this change." "But remember this." "'Twas you that drove me to this desperate pass." "Oh, very well then." "Farewell!" "This is once for all." " Farewell, sir." " Madam, farewell." "I must say you've lost your senses and both gone clean daft!" " Come here." " No, don't hinder me from doing as she wishes." "Stop there, Mister!" "No." "You see, I'm fixed, resolved, determined." "So!" "Calm down!" "Please, stay." "Since my presence pains him, I'd better go myself, and leave him free." "Now t'other!" " Where are you going?" " Let me be, Dorine!" " Oho!" "Deuce take you both, I say." "You both are daft, I tell you." "Fools, both of you." "Here, your hands." " Come, yours." " But what's the use?" " Now, yours." " What for?" "There, both of you " "You love each other better than you think." "Come back now, both of you!" "Don't be sulky with each other." "You give her an ogle, And you drop your eyes." "And then it goes as always - love confessions and hugs." "Oh, those masters!" "Should I explain every detail to them?" "And this is how it goes - from sunrise to sunrise " "I lay myself out." "And for this... and for this..." "Not a "Thank you" nor "Merci"!" "Not a "Thank you" nor "Merci"!" "Make peace with each other, Calm down your prides." "A servant has a lot of things to do without this fooling around." "Just like a mule sometimes you work hard all day long," "Now, stop your fooling" "And kiss each other, For heaven's sake!" "And this is how it goes - from sunrise to sunrise " "I lay myself out." "And for this... and for this..." "Not a "Thank you" nor "Merci"!" "Not a "Thank you" nor "Merci"!" "Not a "Thank you" nor "Merci"..." "Oho!" "These lovers!" "It is a shame to stop you now," "But leave this till another time." "Now, think how you'll stave off this plaguy marriage." "We'll try all sorts of ways." "Humour your Father's notions by a semblance of consent." "Find means to block the marriage by delay:" "a sudden illness, ill omens." "You've met a funeral, or broke a mirror, or dreamed of muddy water." "If you gain time, the rest is easy, trust me." "They cannot marry you to anyone without your saying yes." "My Lord!" "What news I got, Dorine!" "My sister is to be married to this..." "Cretin!" "May I be everywhere proclaimed a scoundrel, If any reverence or power shall stop me." "And if I don't do straightway something desperate!" " Go slow now." "Moderate this towering passion." "No better leave the fellow in your step-mother's hands." "She has some influence with this Tartuffe." "And I suspect that he is fond of her." "Let her sound him on this marriage, find out what his ideas are, and to show him what troubles he may cause, if he persists in giving countenance to this design." "And here he comes!" "Tell your step-mother, the hypocrite is here, and is waiting her." "Dorine..." "Give me a glass of water." "Ah!" "Take this handkerchief." "What for?" "Cover up that bosom." "Things like that offend our souls," "and fill our minds with sinful thoughts." "Since you're so prone to lust," "I'll leave you to yourself, won't introduce temptation." "Oh, by the way..." "Madam wants to see you," "She begs of a word with you, a favor of short meeting in this hall." "Ah!" "Willingly." "No," "I will not refuse this favor." "(How gentle all at once!" "My faith, I still believe I've hit upon it.)" "Will she come soon?" "(Just look at this!" ")" "Yes, here she is herself." "I'll leave you with her." "May Heaven's overflowing kindness ever" "Bless your days according to the wishes" "And prayers of its most humble votary," "And give you good health ...of body and of soul." "I'm very grateful for your pious wishes." "It is high honour." "But let's sit down I came to talk about temporal matters." " No." "We can talk over those matters later." "But this is an urgent matter." "They say my husband means to break his word." "He changed his mind and wants to marry Mariane to you." "Is't true?" "Or just some empty gossip?" "How often they make a mountain out of a molehill!" "I see elsewhere the sweet compelling charms" "Of such a joy as fills my every wish." "My heart inflamed with love for you, my eyes admire your more than human beauty!" "At first I trembled lest this secret love might be the evil spirit's artful snare." "And though you are so pure, a perfect goodness," "I schooled my heart to flee your beauty, thinking it was a bar to my salvation." "But soon, enlightened, I saw how this my passion may be blameless," "How I may make it fit with modesty" "And thus..." "'Tis I must own, a great presumption in me..." "To dare make you the offer of my heart." "Your declaration's turned most gallantly." "But truly, even though your confession flatters me," "I'm afraid it is a bit surprising." "I well believed your sighs all tend to Heaven." "And nothing here below can stay your thoughts." "You should have better armed your heart," "And taken thought somewhat on such a matter." "Though pious," "I am none the less a man!" "I did my best trying not to surrender, but I was caught in a trap" "set out by a highly skilled and cunning Serpent!" "Please save me," "Don't drive me away," "If only you could give me an hour, a moment of your love!" "Oh, what your old man can give you?" "He falls apart like some old shoe, Yes, just like some old shoe!" "And I will spark your heart at once" "Yes, I will spark your heart this instant" "With passionate love!" "Yes, with passionate love!" "Please save me," "Don't drive me away," "If only you could give me an hour, a moment of your love!" "Oh, Lord, it is so hard" "To subdue my own flesh" "And keep clear of seductive temptation" "I'd prefer to be boiled in oil," "To be hanged on Golgotha" "Rather than to endure this, Oh my Lord!" "Oh, what your old man can give you?" "A ring for your birthday?" "Yes, just a ring for your birthday." "And I will give you a moment of bliss Yes, I will give you a moment of bliss" "And an ocean of pleasure!" "And an ocean of pleasure!" "Please save me," "Don't drive me away," "Just an hour, a moment, an hour..." "Just an hour, a moment, an hour..." "Just an hour, a moment, an hour of your love!" "I've... heard you through" "But don't you fear that I may take a fancy to tell my husband of your gallant passion?" "And that a prompt report of this affair may somewhat change the friendship which he bears you?" "No." "I know that you're too good and generous," "That you will pardon my temerity" "Excuse, upon the score of human frailty," "The violence of passion that offends you," "And not forget when you consult your mirror that I'm not blind." "Man is made of flesh," "And falls into temptation." "Some women, as you understand I'm sure, might do otherwise, perhaps." "But..." "I will not repeat the matter to my husband." "I'll let it rest." "But in return," "You urge forward, frankly and sincerely," "The marriage of Valere to Mariane." "No further delays!" "And you give up the unjust influence by which you hope to win another's rights." "No, I say!" "I was just there, and overheard it all!" "And heaven's goodness must have brought me there on purpose to confound this scoundrel's pride!" "And grant me means to take a signal vengeance on his hypocrisy and arrogance," "And undeceive my father showing up the rascal caught at making love to you." "Calm down, Damis..." "It is enough if he reforms, endeavouring to deserve the favour shown him." "And since I've promised, do not you belie me." "'Tis not my way to make a public scandal." "An honest wife will scorn to heed such follies," "And never fret her husband's ears with them." "You've reasons of your own for acting thus," "And I have mine for doing otherwise." "His bigot's pride has caused far too much trouble in our family." "The rascal crossed my sister's love, and mine as well." "Damis..." "Damis!" " The traitor now must be unmasked before my father and providence has given me means to do it." " Damis!" "Aha!" "Here's my father now." "Father, we've news to welcome your arrival." "Let's go, let's go..." "I'm in a haste to tell you, father, you are a buffoon, a blind man." "You can't just miss the fact, indeed," "That you nurse a viper in your bosom!" "You do not cherish your honor." "This fine gentleman will give you horns with your wife!" "Indeed, you cannot say it more precisely than it was said by somebody" ""If God wants to punish us..." "He makes us fools!"" "Oh, where could I get such potion that would bring your senses back?" "For you Tartuffe is holier than Pope!" "You can't be such a fool!" "With your gift for discernment of character how could you get into hot water?" "!" "Indeed, you cannot say it more precisely than it was said by somebody" ""If God wants to punish us..." "He makes us fools!"" "Fools!" "This gentleman rewards your love most handsomely, with zeal that seeks no less than your dishonour." "I've just surprised him making to your wife the shameful offer of a guilty love." "Can what I hear be credited?" "Just Heaven!" "Yes, my brother," "I am wicked," "I am guilty." "A shameless man, a miserable sinner, steeped in evil." "The greatest criminal that ever lived." "Each moment of my life is stained with soilures." "And all is but a mass of crime and filth and stench!" "There's naught but foulness and corruption in it." "Heaven, for my punishment would mortify me now." "Whatever wrong they find to charge me with," "I'll not deny it..." "But guard against the pride... of self-defence." "Believe their stories, arm your wrath... against me," "And drive me like a villain from your house!" "I cannot have so great a share of shame," "but what I have deserved a greater still." "You miscreant, can you... dare, with such a falsehood, to try to stain the whiteness of his virtue?" "What!" "?" "The feigned meekness of this hypocrite makes you discredit..." "Silence!" "Cursed plague!" "Ah!" "Let him speak." "You'd do far better to believe his tales, I'll take the blame." "Yes, my dear son, speak out now," "Load me with all the names men most abhore:" "a traitor, hypocrite, forsworn, thief, murderer, fornicator!" "And I shall not gainsay you." "I'll bear this ignominy on my knees, To expiate in shame the crimes I've done." "Ah, brother, 'tis too much!" "You'll not relent, you, blackguard?" " Father, his talk can so deceive you..." " Silence!" "Oh, brother," "Rise, I beg you." " Infamous villain!" " I..." " Silence!" "I swear I'll prove..." "Be still, you, monster!" " I..." " Another word, I'll break your every bone." "Brother, in God's name, don't be angry with him!" "I'd rather bear myself the bitterest torture Than have him get a scratch... on my account." " Ungrateful monster!" " Stop." "Upon my knees I beg you pardon him..." "Alas!" "How can you?" " Now, there is true charity!" " What you...?" " Be still!" " What!" "I..." " Be still, I say." "It's all your plot and all your words are lies!" "Off with you!" "You hear?" "Leave my house this instant, sirrah," "And never dare set foot in it again." "Yes, I will leave your house." "I'll leave!" "Leave it quickly!" "You reprobate, I disinherit you!" "And give you, too, my curse into the bargain." "Could you but know... with what distress I see them try to vilify me to my brother!" "All of your family let loose upon me." "The mere thought of such ingratitude..." "Makes my soul... suffer torture... bitterly..." "My horror at it..." "Ah!" "My heart... is so full I cannot speak..." "Oh, Brother..." "I think..." "I'll die... of it." "You, scoundrel!" "I wish I'd never let you go, but slain you on the spot with my own hand." "Brother, compose yourself," "And don't be angry." "Nay, brother, let us end these painful quarrels." "But now," "I see what troublous times" "I bring upon you," "I've much upset your household." "And think 'tis needful that I leave this house," "wherever my feet would take me." "Forgive them, please!" "I'd... be glad... to forgive all of them." "But no doubt they won't stop there." "These same reports," "You now reject, may some day win a hearing." "No, brother, never." "Ah!" "Brother..." "A woman..." "May easily mislead her husband's mind," "be it sooner or later." " Not mine!" " No..." "No." "Since all the family hates me here," " Let me quickly go away." " Oh, no!" "No, you shall stay." "My life depends upon it." "Then I must mortify myself." "And yet, if you should wish..." "I'm afraid..." "I can't refuse." "Ah..." "Very well, then." "No more of that." "But I shall rule my conduct... to fit the case." "Friendship binds me to forestall suspicion and avoid your wife." "No, you shall haunt her, just to spite them all." "'Tis my delight to set them in a rage!" "You shall be seen together at all hours" "And what is more, the better to defy them, I'll have no other heir but you!" "I'll go and make a deed of gift to you." "A good true friend, my son-in-law to be is more to me than the entire kindred!" "You will accept my offer... will you not?" "Heaven's will be done in everything!" "I'll go draw up the deed" "Then let them burst with disappointed greed!" ""I hereby bequeath and devise my house to Tartuffe..."" "You can hardly ever find such a fool!" ""...along with all my land, and with all my savings."" "Oh, he is simply a complete idiot!" "God, I am ready to observe all of your fastings," "Honor your canons and postulates, because You have, because You have, because You have, because You have" "Created fools and placed them in this world." "Now I have power over everyone in this house," "And in my presence they all are just worms." "Oh, what a happiness!" "Oh, what a happiness" "That there are such fools in our world!" "Oh, what a happiness!" "Oh, what a happiness" "That our world has such..." "Fools!" "Could I, worthless of all people, ever dream that I would have servants and horses?" "That those, who wanted to fling mud at me would want to please me now?" "I am so happy" " I feel numb!" "It's like I'm in the land of promise." "Lord knows I haven't asked for it," "Lord knows I haven't asked for it, but He sent this oaf to me!" "Everything has changed all of a sudden, with a wave of his hand." "Oh, what a happiness!" "What a happiness!" "That there are such fools in our world!" "What a happiness!" "Oh, what a happiness!" "That our world has such..." "That our world has such..." "Fools!" " Can I come in, Sir?" " Yes." "I am heart-stricken with the news." "How could you, a paragon of humbling, let this happen?" "A son... exiled from the house... by his own father?" "If you'll take my advice, you'll make it up." "Restore Damis to favour w-w-w-with his father." "Ah!" "So far as I'm concerned, how gladly would I do so!" "Believe me," "I bear him no ill will," "I pardon all." "But if Damis returns, then I must leave the house." "Besides, God knows what everyone's first thought would be!" "The sinner is the one who forgives the sin." "Alas..." "You try to put us off with specious phrases," "But all your arguments are too far-fetched." "Do you have no honor?" "Spare me of needless speeches." "Heaven... does not order me to live with him." "And does it order you without any reservation to accept gift of his estates?" "On which, in justice, you can make no claim?" "The father acted rashly," "But that's a whim, caprice!" "To refuse this gift " "Wasn't this your duty?" "My holy... duty is..." "To save this whole estate, given to me by my great friend." "Otherwise those to whom it might descend in time might turn it to purposes of sin and crime," "and not, as I shall do, make use of it for Heaven's glory... and mankind's benefit." "Sir, it is prayer time." "Leave me if you please." "With all your sins incurred" "It'd take a century to finish your prayer!" " So how's Tartuffe?" " Tartuffe..." "Tartuffe..." "He is victorious again!" "You couldn't help Damis..." "Then help his sister, please." "For me to marry Tartuffe?" " I'd rather go to hell!" " Ah!" "Please, save this girl!" "Ah!" "Hah..." "I'm glad... to find you all together." "Well?" "How is your fiance?" "Have you talked to him?" "Father you rejected the one I have dared to love." "Do not drive me to some desperate act by exercising all your rights upon me." "Oh!" "Right in front of God!" "Do you want to cover yourself in shame?" " Oh!" " Uff!" "I can't find words to cope with such a case." "Your blindness makes me quite astounded at you." "You are bewitched with him, to disbelieve the things we tell you happened here to-day." "Oh no..." "You can't throw me off the scent." "I see things and I know you're partial to my rascal son." "This deceitful boy tried to play a foul trick on this poor man." "And you!" "You didn't dare to disavow this trick!" "You were too calm, to be believed, if that had happened, you'd have been far more disturbed." "And must our honour always rush to arms at the mere mention of illicit love?" "For my part, I just laugh away such nonsense." "Nothing you say will change my decision!" "Once more, I am astounded at your weakness!" "I wonder what your unbelief would answer," "If I should let you see we've told the truth?" "Ah!" ".." "But to make this happen - one essential is to hide you well." "Your error has endured too long already, And quite too long you've branded me a liar." "You should be made to see and hear all plainly, What would you say then, to your man of virtue?" "Why, then, I'd say... say nothing." "It can't be." "I'll play an act for you in a moment so you could see all things clearly as day!" "I'm not proposing now that you believe us, but you will see it all for yourself." "And you will know who is your dearest friend." "This act will lead to nothing, Madam." "I will not allow you to deceive Tartuffe." "You can't abase him with your lies." "He is a righteous man," "He is an angel," "He is a holy one!" "It will be several days in a row now that he harps on the same string." "It is true what people say, it is true what people say," "that our Master has gone mad!" "Your Tartuffe is a grand hypocrite," "He is a vagabond, thief and cheat!" "And can you prove it?" "Yes, we will prove it in the next five minutes." "We'll prove in next five minutes." "This act will lead to nothing, Madam." "I will not allow you to deceive Tartuffe." "Since you do not believe our tears you must believe your own eyes!" "Our dearest Papa should see and hear everything himself." "Love is always blind, love is always blind" "and the human stupidity is infinite!" "Human stupidity is infinite!" "You can't belie him." "It's all nonsense." " Send him to me." " Ah!" "The man's a crafty codger, perhaps you'll find it difficult to catch him." "Oh no!" "A lover's never hard to cheat." "And you, withdraw!" "Please get under this table, my dear Orgon." " Why under there?" " Oh dear!" "Do as I say." "I know what I'm about, as you shall see." "Get under, now, I tell you." "It is your own affair, and you must end it." "Be careful no one either sees or hears you." "I'm going a long way to humour you, I must say, but I'll see you through your scheme." " We'll see what tricks you have." " And then you'll have, I think, no more to say." "But mind, I'm going to meddle with strange matters," "I shall feign to share his love, make wheedling speeches." "I'll make this hypocrite put off his mask." "Prepare yourself to be in no wise shocked." " So, when you think things have gone quite far enough..." " Far?" "Things shall go no further than you choose." "It is for you to stop his mad pursuit, to spare your wife, and not expose me further than you shall need, yourself, to undeceive you." "They told me that you wished to see me here." "You wished to talk to me, I heard." "Yes..." "I have secrets... for your ear alone." "It's private." "But first look everywhere for fear of spies." "We surely can't afford another scene like that we had just now." "Damis did frighten me most terribly on your account." "I am... so happy... that I can be here with you alone." "Things turned out all the better, as it happened," "And now we're on an even safer footing." "So that is how, I can reveal to you my heart, perhaps... only too ready..." "to allow your... passion." "Your words are somewhat hard to understand." "Just now you used a different style, Madam." "Whatever cause we find to justify the love that masters us, we still must feel some little shame in owning it, and strive to make as though we would not, when we would." "'Tis the height of happiness to hear such words from lips we dote upon." "Their honeyed sweetness pours through all my senses." "What!" "Must you go so fast?" "I've made a confession of my love, and you are not yet satisfied, and will not be without the granting of her utmost favours?" "A fate too full of happiness, seems doubtful." "We must enjoy it ere we can believe it." "So I shall trust to nothing, madam, till you have convinced my love by something real." "How your love enacts the tyrant's role!" "With what fierce sway it rules a conquered hear and violently will have its wishes granted!" "So then..." "I see I must resolve to yield." "I must consent to grant you everything, and cannot hope to give full satisfaction at lesser cost." "No doubt 'tis very hard to come to this," "I'm forced to it, since nothing that can be said suffices for belief." "Since more convincing proof is still demanded, I must make up my mind to humour people." "Don't torture me any longer!" "My soul has been tortured..." " ...enough!" " Ah!" "But first I need one more favor from you, I pray!" "Please, see whether my husband's not there, in the hall." "Between ourselves, he is a man to lead round by the nose." "Your husband so insisted on our private time together." "He's capable of glorying in our meetings." "And even if... he'd see all, he'll deny it!" " I've fooled him so, he'll believe me and not his own eyes." " Ah!" "Oh, you caught a cold, I see." "I had some cold water yesterday..." "I'll warm you up..." " ...and cold will go away." " I will not cheat my husband!" "Who will know about our secret?" "There is no harm in it." " The harm is only... in revealing it." " Ah!" "I beg you, look about, and carefully examine every corner." "That is, I own... that man abominable!" "I can't get over it." "The whole thing floors me." "What?" "You come out so soon?" "You cannot mean it!" "Get back under the table, 'tis not time yet." "Wait till the end, to see, and make quite certain, and don't believe a thing on mere conjecture." "No, let yourself be thoroughly convinced!" "Oh!" "Nothing more wicked e'er came out of Hell." "Dear me!" "Don't go and credit things too lightly." "Don't yield too soon, for fear you'll be mistaken." "There's no one here!" "...and now my ravished soul..." "Oh, please, open the gates of pleasure faster!" "You are too eager in your amours." "My holy man!" "You've pleased me." "Much obliged!" "I let you marry my daughter," "Ahhh!" "... and you want my wife, too?" "I couldn't believe my own ears!" "Good God!" "Angelic hypocrite!" "You should be ashamed of yourself!" "Oh!" "The proof's been carried far enough." "I'm satisfied, and ask no more, for my part." "What?" "You believe... ?" "Come, now, no protestations!" "Get out from here!" "And make no fuss about it." " But my intent..." " That talk is out of season!" "You leave my house... this instant!" "If you please!" "You're the one to leave it, you who play the master here!" "Wha..?" "It's no use... to turn to these low tricks, to pick a quarrel with me." "This house is mine." "I'll have you know." "But first, you'll leave this house!" "A prison will be your next house." "Your box... was delivered to the King," "straight to his palace!" "To serve my King is more important to me" "than the closest friend, than all my kin!" "Ha!" "Ah..." "He paid me back with evil when I was good to him." "Tartuffe has almost ran into me!" "What had happened here?" "What happened is..." "I, old oaf, gave him deed of gift!" "But along with it, I entrusted him with..." " ...a certain box!" " What box?" "My friend, a writer, who is in trouble with our government, left this box with me." "The box contained farces, dramas," " ...and spiteful epigrams against the King!" " Oh!" " Ah!" "S-s-su-such box!" "How could you trust it to another hands?" "By reason of a conscientious scruple," "I went straight to my traitor," "I trusted his mind and his experience." "His sophistry made me believe that I must give the box to him to keep." "So that, in case of search, they might not look for box... in his quarters." "He needs to be kicked out!" "Such viper!" "And you gave him all the cards... in hand!" "Oh, father!" "Oh..." " Ah..." "Is it true?" "That the scoundrel makes of your very favours arms against you?" "Yes, this rascal encroached..." "...on my honor!" " Say "Yes"" " I'll chop his ears off for him." " Just ears?" "His death won't be enough!" "What's this?" "Every time I'm here you have a scandal!" "I was told everything." "But I cannot possibly believe it!" "Tartuffe is still the sport of envy." "What do you mean by such a speech?" "I tell you" " I have seen it all with my own eyes!" "I have!" "I heard it myself!" "I heard with my own ears how he suborned my wife" "He said " ""I'll give it all for this moment of pleasure!"" "You might be a little deaf, my son." "Suppose I am deaf but I am not blind!" "I saw it myself!" "I saw with my own eyes how after waxing eloquent on her, he let his hands loose and started undressing Elmire!" "Well, maybe he just wanted to dust off her dress?" "So he could dust it off the dress but why get under it?" "!" "You should've let him do what he wanted!" "You should've let him get where he wanted," "You should've waited a little bit," "And you could've caught him in flagrante in the act!" "If I would've done it like you said" "I would have become a cuckold and my wife would have a belly!" "I heard it myself!" "I saw it myself!" "Tartuffe is a knave and a scoundrel!" "I heard it myself!" "I saw it myself!" "I heard it myself and I saw it myself!" " I heard it, I saw it..." " You saw it yourself!" "So what?" " Appearances are oft deceiving and seeing shouldn't always be believing." " I'll go mad." "False suspicions may delude, and good to evil oft is misconstrued." "What now?" "Must I construe as Christian charity not guilt his wish to ...ahh... my wife?" "You must have just foundation for accusing people, and wait until you see a thing for sure." "How?" "How could I see any surer?" "Should I have waited till, before my eyes," "He..." "Oh, Devil!" "You'll make me say things quite improper." "Oh, Mother!" "I'm afraid you'll bring me up to sin." "'Tis known too pure a zeal inflames him!" "And so, I cannot possibly conceive, that he should try to do what's charged... against him." "You vex me so that, if you were not my mother," "I'd say to you some dreadful thing or other." "I know not what, I'm so enraged!" "Alright, this one stand here and this one - here." "Good day, good sister!" "Pray you, let me see the master of the house." "What's the trouble?" "He's occupied." "I think he can see nobody at present." "I'm not by way of being unwelcome here." "My coming can, I think, nowise displease him." "My errand will be found to his advantage." " Uh.." "Good health to you, good sir." "My... name is Mr. Loyal." "I am sorry to interrupt your conversaion... but my duty requires..." "Why.." "have you come here?" "'Tis... nothing, sir," "but just a little summons." "So I've come, sir, by your leave to render service of a certain writ:" "order to immediately vacate, you and yours, this house." "Ah!" "Move out your furniture, make room for others, and that without delay or putting off." "What?" "Leave this house?" "I?" "I am utterly... upset" "But today, as you well know, of course, this place belongs to Mr. Tartuffe now." "He is an absolute owner by virtue of a deed here attached." "Your long black gown may well, before you know it, get a thorough beating." "Sir, make your son be silent or... withdraw." "I sh-should be loath to have to set things down, and see your names... inscribed in my report." "Don't be afraid of my soldiers, they are not brutes." "My men will help you move your least belongings," "and help you out of the house too." "Well, mother, who was right?" "This writ may help you now to judge the matter" "Your Tartuffe is a scoundrel!" "Or don't you see his treason even yet?" "I'm all amazed, befuddled, and beflustered!" "'Tis with regret, sir, that I bring bad news..." " but urgent danger forces me to do so." " Oh!" "A close friend of mine, who knows the interest I take in what concerns you, has gone so far, for my sake, as to break the secrecy that's due to state affairs." "And sent me word but now..." "Ah - who is this sir?" "He is my fiance." "Yes, there are no incumbrances anymore!" " Only if you don't count the fact we are homeless now." " We do not need the mansion to test our love." "You are under arrest by the order of the King." "Is all of this because I dared to take off your mask?" "This crowns your perfidies and ruins me!" "You saved this worst stroke for the last." "I shall not be embittered by your insults." " For Heaven has taught me to endure all things." " Yes!" "It cannot be denied!" "Your moderation, I must own, is great." "How shamelessly the wretch makes bold with Heaven!" "Your ravings cannot move me, nor your rage, all my thought is but to do my duty" "to the best of my ability." "Are you Orgon, sir?" "Yes, I am." "This is it." "Your time is up." " He shall take you to the prison now." " Ahh..." "I did well by taking certain box to our King." "He robbed us and informed on us to the King!" "King is enraged!" "And all his court is full of talks." "The officer will... confirm it all." "I confirm the King is furious." "but more than pasquils he hates only those who informs on their friends." "You are under arrest." "The rascal is left out in the cold!" "And the deed of gift, by the order of our sovereign, you should tear to pieces." "How kind is our King!" "And very smart indeed." "His sharp discernment sees things clear and true:" "those epigrams are hateful but if written with a talent, they will make him even more popular." "Hold this scoundrel or he'll escape!" "Hold him!" "Hold him!" "Huh!" "Are you going to catch me?" "And then?" "It is a waste of effort!" "I am immortal!" "Tartuffes... will never perish!" "I will live while people, who believe doublespeaks, will exist, and while liars, who wants to build a universal paradise in a single movement, will exist." "I will live while it'll be time when having an enemy is more beneficial than having a friend, and when it is faster to get awards according to your ranks and not your service." "I will live while religious hypocrisy exists while we will think one thing and say a completely different thing." "I will always find fools, they are not disappearing with years." "See you again very soon!" "See you soon, gentlemen!" "I... will live while people, who believe doublespeaks, will exist, and while liars, who wants to build a universal paradise in a single movement, will exist." "I will always find fools, they are not disappearing with years." "See you again very soon!" "See you soon, gentlemen!" "I... will live..." "I will live!" "TARTUFFE - Mikhail Boyarskiy" "ORGON - Vladislav Strzhelchik" "MADAME PERNELLE - Victoria Gorshenina" "CLEANTE - Igor Dmitriev" "ELMIRE - Larisa Udovichenko" "DAMIS - Igor Sklyar" "MARIANE - Anna Samokhina" "DORINE - Irina Muravyova" "VALERE - Alexander Samokhin" "Mr. LOYAL - German Orlov" "Bit Parts:" "A. Alekseev, V. Gorordetskiy G. Ivlieva, B. Zlygostev C. Klepikov, A. Ulanov" "Vocals:" "M. Boyarskiy, V. Strzhelchik I. Muravyova, I. Sklyar I. Dmitriev, V. Kosobutskaya G. Mnatskanova, M. Tskhai N. Podgornov" "Radio and Television Orchestra of St. Petersburg" "Conductor:" "Stanislav Gorkovenko" "Vocal texts:" "B. Ratsera V. Konstantinova" "Director - YAN FRID" "THE END"