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[MUSIC PLAYING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: I fell in love

over the course of a summer in my youth,

before the war in Crimea.

I was living in Moscow with my parents.

They took a house for the summer near the Neskuchny park.

I was preparing for the university,

but worked little and slowly.

I used to go for walks in our garden or in the park.

I would take a book with me, and spent

most of my time repeating lines of poetry aloud to myself.

There rose, like the grasses of early spring,

shoots of happy feeling, of young and surging life.

I remember that at that time the image of a woman.

The shadowy vision of feminine love

scarcely ever took definite shape in my mind.

But in every thought, in every sensation,

there lay hidden a half conscious awareness of

something new, sweet, feminine.

This presentiment, this sense of expectancy

was in every drop of blood that flowed through my veins.

Soon it was to be fulfilled.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

How was your horse behaving, sir?

I stopped her oats to gentle her.

She's all right.

I'm used to a more spirited horse, though.

Are you then, sir?

I'll oat her.

Mashenka there makes traps, does she not?

I'd like to catch a pheasant for my father.

Very well, sir.

I shall get a trap from Mashenka for you.

Dimitry, do you know who our new neighbor at the other house

might be?

A Princess Zasyekin, mum.

A princess?

A poor one, I expect.

They came in three cabs, mum, and the furniture

isn't worth mentioning.

All it takes to spoil a summer is a neighbor.

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: I was in the habit

of wandering around every evening

with a gun looking for crows.

[FLIES BUZZING]

Suddenly, I heard the sound of voices.

WOMEN: [LAUGHING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: And there stood,

on a lawn flanked by green raspberry canes,

a tall, slender girl in a striped pink dress

with her hat dropped onto her back.

I forgot everything.

My eyes devoured the graceful figure, the lovely hair,

the charming smile.

I dropped my rifle.

Young man!

Hey!

Is it proper to stare at unknown young ladies like that?

GROUP: [LAUGHING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: As I was going to bed,

without quite knowing why, I spun around two or three times

on one foot.

Then I put pomade on my hair and combed

up a dashing lock for my brow.

It may seem clumsy to say it, but all of a sudden,

I liked me.

Dimitry?

Oh, Vladimir's mahjong.

ZASYEKIN [VOICEOVER]: I turn upon you

as one gentlewoman to another.

Moreover, I am delighted to make use

of this opportunity to call you over to me, or I over to you.

Vladimir?

Go to that princess so-called next door

and explain to her that I am ready to do

anything within my power to offer help to her ladyship.

And ask her to do me the honor of calling here--

Dimitry, are we free tomorrow?

Yes, you are, madame.

At 6 o'clock tomorrow.

Yes, mother.

MARIA: You see what to do then?

Yes, I'll go straight away.

What do you want?

Is the Princess Zasyekin at home?

ZASYEKIN: Stepan!

Have you been to the police station?

Cranky old bag.

ZASYEKIN: What?

Eh?

Is there somebody there?

The young gentleman from next door.

ZASYEKIN: Well, show him in!

Silly old girl.

Come into the drawing room, sir.

Have I the honor to address Princess Zasyekin?

I am the Princess Zasyekin.

I've come to you with a message from my mother.

Won't you sit down?

Stepan?

Where are my keys?

You haven't seen them have you?

My mother says she is ready to offer whatever

help she can to your ladyship.

And she bids for you to please call

upon her tomorrow at 6 o'clock.

Very good.

I shall be pleased to call.

But how handsome you are.

And young.

How nubile.

Would you consider yourself nubile?

Are your milks hot, would you say?

I don't know.

I haven't considered.

Do you know what this is?

No.

It is a picture of George Washington

saying goodbye to his mother.

Very good likeness, don't you think?

It's very nice.

Please make yourself at home.

We're very simple here.

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: Too simple, I could not help

thinking. - Zinaida.

Oh, Zinaida.

This is my daughter, Zinaida.

This is the son of our neighbor.

What is your name, if I may ask?

Vladimir.

And your patronymic?

Petrovich.

I once knew a chief constable by the name

of Vladimir Petrovich.

Stepan, don't look for the keys.

They're in my pocket.

I have already seen Monsieur Valdemar.

You will let me call you so?

Yes, please.

Call me Monsieur Valdemar.

Please, do as you wish.

Are you busy at this moment?

No.

Would you like to help me wind my wool?

Come with me.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: I moved as in a dream,

and felt through my entire being an intense and almost imbecile

sense of well-being.

What did you think of me yesterday, Monsieur Valdemar?

You disapproved of me, I suppose.

No, no, princess.

How could I?

I didn't think anything.

Listen, you don't know me yet.

But since you are the neighbor's son, let me tell you,

I'm very strange.

I'm mature, you see, for one of my years.

You must tell me the truth at all times

and do what I tell you.

Always.

I take it you're at a stage of fascination

with fossils and steam engines?

Models of ships?

I don't.

Never.

If you are through with toys, you have much to discover.

Look at me.

Why don't you look at me?

Do.

I like your face.

I have a feeling that we shall be friends.

And do you like me?

Princess--

First of all, you must call me Zinaida Alexandrovna.

And secondly, how queer that--

that young gentleman do not say straight out what they feel.

You do like me, don't you?

Yes, of course.

I like you very much, Zinaida Alexandrovna.

I have no wish to conceal it.

Have you a tutor?

No, I haven't had one for a long time.

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: That was a lie

Yes, I see.

You're quite grown up.

Hold your hand straight.

You haven't brought me anything except for you

lustrous eyes, have you?

Perhaps you haven't any property of your own?

Not yet, I suppose.

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: I gazed at her, and how dear she already

was to me, and how near.

She was wearing a dark, rather worn dress with an apron.

How gladly would I have caressed every fold of that apron.

The tips of her shoes looked out from under her skirt.

And here I am sitting opposite her, I was thinking.

I have met her.

I know her.

God, what happiness.

How you do stare at me.

ZASYEKIN: Zinaida!

Boris has brought you a kitten!

A kitten?

What a funny little thing.

And what large ears.

I do thank you, Boris Igorich.

It's very sweet of you.

You were kind enough to say yesterday that you wanted

a tabby kitten with large ears, and here

you see I have procured one.

Your word is law.

In return for the kitten, your hand?

Both of them.

What a pink little tongue.

Take it away.

Zinaida, come.

What?

What is the matter?

Your mama has sent for you.

Your mama is annoyed because you haven't

come back with an answer.

Why, have I been here long?

Over an hour.

Over an hour?

Where are you off to?

I'm afraid that I must go home.

So I'm to say that you will honor us at 6 o'clock?

Yes, that's right, my dear.

You say just that.

Now Monsieur Valdemar, mind you come and see us again.

That Princess Zasyekin seems to me

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] with her requests to do

something for her daughter.

She seems to have endless lawsuits and affairs.

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH].

Tiresome woman.

I did, however, invite her and her

daughter to dinner tomorrow.

I remember now who this lady is.

In my youth, I need the Prince Zasyekin.

Very well-bred man, but a ridiculous man too.

They called him the Parisian because he spent

so much of his time in Paris.

A relative of the late French duke, in fact.

He married some minor official's daughter

and began to speculate in rather a large way.

Completely ruined the family.

I hope she won't try to borrow money.

That is quite possible.

You've invited the daughter too.

Somebody was telling me she was very charming

and cultivated young lady.

She can't take after her mother then.

No.

Nor her father.

MARIA: Well, I wonder what on earth she's doing here.

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: I felt very uncomfortable

during that conversation.

PYOTR: I think it seems like a likely place

they would've chosen.

WOMEN: You're saying you knew this Prince Zasyekin?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Is that their young princess?

VLADIMIR: It is.

How would you know?

I met her this morning at her mother's house.

It's well caught.

At least we won't have to take out the buckshot.

Julius Caesar was distinguished

for military valor.

ZINAIDA [VOICEOVER]: I have a feeling

that we shall be friends.

How you do stare at me.

If you're through with toys, you who have much to discover.

What's all this?

You're not at the University yet.

Heaven knows if you'll get through the examination.

Your short coat wasn't made so very long ago.

You can't throw it away yet.

VLADIMIR: Visitors are coming.

Nonsense.

Visitors, Indeed.

VLADIMIR: Stop.

Come on.

Take it off.

Put on the other one.

Sort yourself out.

Giant sea slugs.

WOMEN: Our Dimitri is responsible for the table,

as always.

Rose carpet bag.

We have the cabbages from Mashenka's garden, I believe.

And a pheasant trapped by Vladimir.

Yes, using one of Mashenka's traps.

Not a-- not a milk sop then.

Well, I shall rely on your kind aid

and protection, Maria Nikolayevna

and Pyotr Vasilyevich.

What can one do?

Time was, you know, but that is over.

And here I am, a princess.

Well, a title's no good without any food.

And I must say, this is really, very good food.

It's extraordinary.

And you know, I do relish good food.

And this is devilish good food.

Devilish good.

[BELCHING]

Thank you.

My compliments, Maria Nikolayevna,

on your arrangements here.

Modern furnishings are not to my taste, of course,

but it really is a very nice house nonetheless.

It's very familiar.

He is a criminal.

Come and see us at 10 o'clock do you hear?

Don't fail me.

Yes, that's probably true.

[BELCHING]

What a tiresome woman.

Dreadful.

And no, I don't like her daughter at all.

She seems terribly conceited.

What is she to be so proud about?

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

You've evidently never seen grisettes.

No, thank god.

Yes, indeed, thank god.

Only in that case, how can you have any views about them?

Please, princess.

For me this time.

Just this once.

Just this once.

[MEN CLAMORING]

Oh, stop.

Stop, stop.

Another guest.

We must give him a ticket too.

Come along.

Monsieur, may I introduce you?

This is Monsieur Valdemar, our neighbor's son.

And these are poet Maidanov, Dr. Looshin, retired Captain

Nirmansky, Count Malevsky, and Boris the Hussar,

whom you've already seen.

You will all be friends, I hope.

Count, write out a ticket for Monsieur Valdemar.

That's not fair.

This gentleman did not take part in our game of forfeit.

It's not fair.

Write out a ticket, I tell you.

What is this, mutiny?

Monsieur Valdemar is here for the first time,

and today the rules do not apply to him.

[MEN GRUMBLING]

No grumbling.

Write out the ticket.

That is my wish.

At least may I be allowed to explain to Monsieur Valdemar

what this is all about?

You see, young man, we're playing a game of forfeits.

The princess has to pay a forfeit.

And the winner, whoever draws the lucky ticket,

will have the right to kiss her hand.

Do you understand what I've said?

Maidanov, you as a poet should be magnanimous and yield

your ticket for Monsieur Valdemar

so that he may have two chances instead of one.

I won't.

No, I won't, princess.

[LAUGHTER]

All right.

All at once.

Oh, kiss.

Oh, bravo!

He wins.

I am so pleased.

Are you pleased?

I--

Sell me your ticket.

I'll give you 100 rubles.

[LAUGHING]

Oh, Boris.

Well done.

I, as master of ceremonies, am obliged to see to it

that all the rules are kept.

So Monsieur Valdemar, go down on one knee.

It is the rule.

Down on your knees.

Down, down, down.

Splendid!

Ah, bravo.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Princess Zasyekin, I'm sent by the legal department

of the township.

Oh, please, won't you sit down.

I'd rather not.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Secret.

Bis.

Well, come, tell me your secret, Monsieur Valdemar.

Mine?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[BLOWING WHISTLE]

Now sing our presidential song.

[SINGING] Across the steps, we ride--

Higher.

Higher, Doctor.

Come here, little girl.

Come here, little girl.

Where are you going so late in the forest?

I'm going to see my grand mother.

You're joining to see your grand mother.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: The house was quiet.

Dimitri lay asleep on the stairs.

I sat down as if under a spell and remained so

for a long time.

[THUNDER CRASHING]

Soon I noticed gleams of light constantly lighting the room.

I stood at the window.

The thought struck me then that I was in love.

It was here.

This was love.

The law department official from the township

has been paying calls by the property.

Would you like to hear about it before riding, sir?

Yes.

What of it?

This official wrote a report, and in it he

says that Mashenka is accused of going around milking

other people's cows at night.

Does Mashenka move around at night?

No, sir.

Not except to take tea over to the monastery

or take some food over to Father Pascom.

She never came home with milk or carrots.

And this official says he had his head in the house

where that Princess Zas--

Zasyekin.

That Princess Zasyekin come to stay

wants Mashenka to inform them when the candles

are burning at night, sir.

I'll see what I can do.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Oh, god!

Your soot's caught fire!

I know!

We can't put it out!

Denis, be careful.

Mother of god save us, you look ill.

Absolutely ill.

I'm perfectly well.

What kept you so long at that woman's house?

You're not to form attachments over there, do you hear?

It's just that there were visitors.

We played the piano.

Young princess sang.

It was cheerful.

Rubbish.

They're a gruesome set of people.

On the contrary, they were very kind to me.

Very nice.

All the same, they're not at all comme il faut,

and I don't want you wasting time in such company.

You should be working for your examination.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

All of Gaul is divided into three parts.

Who recruited you?

It's was my great uncle, the French duke who renounced

his title for peace and justice and repentance,

and the glory of the Gospel.

[MENACING LAUGHTER]

And who did you recruit?

I cannot tell you, because I love him.

Yes, he is my love.

And he will save me.

No one can possibly save you now, my dear, except war.

Yes, dragon man, as you were saying?

Except for Valdemar I told you he would come.

Wait! We can win.

MAN: Destroy him.

Men of Gaul, prepare to die.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

A man amongst boys.

Well done.

Denis.

Thank you.

I am so grateful.

Call me whenever I can help you.

I'm at your service.

We've always been neighbors, after all.

Yes.

We've always been neighbors.

God bless you.

Have you heard any news from Vasya?

When will the army let him come home?

He's somewhere in Poland.

That's all I know.

You poor woman.

I did get some money from Vasya last month.

As I said, if there is anything I can do.

Thank you.

There is a sleigh outside.

It's loaded with wood, but, um, I haven't

been able to get into the barn.

I haven't been able to do it.

Yes.

I'll come round then to help you.

I'll expect you then.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

At your service, your ladyship.

Yes, would you be so kind as to copy out a petition for me?

You are educated, after all.

Pleasure.

Only might make your letters nice and big.

Could you please do it today, my dear sir?

I shall do it right now, ma'am.

Zinaida.

I said Zinaida.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: Zinaida guessed at once that I

had fallen in love with her.

From that day, my passion began.

Not that I alone had fallen in love with her.

Here is a very beautiful day.

Don't you agree, Denis?

Yes.

It is.

And you're as beautiful.

Am I?

I have to tell you my real feelings or I will die.

I must.

I must tell you.

I suffer so.

Or perchance it was some secret rival

that sudden cast his spell on thee,

wheretofore I thus suspect a hen would near thee lay.

ZASYEKIN: [LAUGHING]

Big dogs what?

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: Only at that

instant did the thought flash through my mind, my god,

she's fallen in love.

I kept watch on Zinaida.

A change had come over her.

She began to go for long, solitary walks.

Will you receive this young gentleman, sir?

Why do you keep trailing in and out of here, young man?

You should be studying and working while you're young.

Instead of which, you're doing what?

You can't tell whether I work at home or not.

What work you do.

There's something else on your mind.

Well, I won't argue.

At your age, it's natural enough.

But your choice isn't very fortunate.

Can't you see what sort of a house this is?

I'm not quite sure what you mean.

So much the worse for you.

It's all well for people like me, for old bachelors

to go on coming here.

Can't do too much to us old bachelors.

But you have a tender skin.

What do you mean?

You well know.

You're in a normal condition.

Do you consider that what you feel now is healthy?

What am I feeling now?

Bless you.

Whatever's in your heart's still written all over your face.

How can you, with your intelligence,

not see what's going on around you?

Why?

What's going on around me?

What do you mean by bringing that hoe into this house.

Take it out this instant!

You said you'd pay me last week, and now it's this week.

And you're not getting rid of me again.

If you refuse to pay me, I'm contacting the law.

That is an insolent remark.

You are a peasant.

And you shall not talk to me in that tone of voice.

I'm a peasant but I'm not a serf.

Money is owed to me, and you will pay it

or you will talk to the law.

How dare you.

How dare you suggest such a thing in my house.

You're already famous, you know, for being a regular soldier's

wife yourself.

Oh, yes.

That's no business of yours.

How would you like me to clap you round that fat face?

That is enough. You've gone quite far enough.

Stepan. Looshin.

Oh, I can go much further.

You know I can.

Now the money, please.

You'll get it soon enough.

You'll get it.

- Now is better for your sake. - Stepan.

Looshin.

Looshin.

I have a toothache.

I have a dreadful, surly peasant here and a toothache.

Here we have Zinaida, who spends the whole day wandering

around out of doors like a biblical Hebrew

without orientation.

I'm at my wit's end with this house.

Looshin, do something.

Such as what, Princess?

Tell her off.

She wanders.

She thinks iced water the whole day long.

Can that be good for her with her weak chest?

Why do you do this?

Why?

What can it do to me?

LOOSHIN: Do to you?

You could catch cold and die.

Really?

Then that would be that.

I see.

So that's how it is.

Yes, that is how it is.

Is life so gay then?

Why, if you look around you, well, is it so very attractive?

Do you think I don't understand?

Can you seriously maintain to me that this life

is not worth risking for the pleasure of iced water?

Enough, dear Zinaida.

Your entire nature is very aptly conveyed.

No, you've missed, my dear doctor.

You're not a good observer.

Put on your spectacles.

Monsieur Valdemar, I cannot bear to be pitied.

Zinaida.

Zinaida!

It is bad, bad, young man, the atmosphere in this house.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Did you tell him about the inspector

from the legal department?

Several days ago, ma'am, yes.

What was his reply?

Not much, ma'am.

But he went directly across the Zasyekin lodge.

What did he propose over there?

I'm sorry, I don't know that, ma'am.

Thank you.

And drown and I, unused to flow.

Loathsome.

Maidanov, I'm sorry.

Your poem stinks.

It isn't mine.

It's Shakespeare.

I thought he was supposed to be good.

Very famous, you know.

He is good.

Good at the very least.

Drown and I, unused to flow.

It's insipid.

Does he not simply mean cry or weep?

He should simply say that, I wept or I cried.

I order Shakespeare stricken from the house.

Hugo is a first rate writer.

I have Hugo.

Anton Chekhov too, and his Spanish novel El Trovador.

The book with the question marks upside down?

No.

Let's play a game instead.

Forfeit?

No.

Forfeits are boring.

I propose a game called analogies.

An object would be compared to something else.

Whoever thinks of the best analogy will win a prize.

Very well.

Let's play.

Yes, let's.

What are those clouds like?

I think they're like those purple sails

on the golden ship on which Cleopatra

sailed to meet Antony.

Do you remember? - Yes.

Yes.

- Yes, precisely. - Exactly.

Perfectly.

How old was Antony then?

Oh, he must surely have been young.

Yes, young.

I beg your pardon, he was over 40.

Over 40?

Will the gentleman please let me pass?

Yes. Yes.

Yes.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Good analogy.

Mashenka.

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: Everything about her fascinated me.

I was constantly curious, and used to sneak up to her house,

hoping to find her idle and wanting company.

Are you gathering the onions?

Yes, princess.

You know, my mother is very cross with you.

She could make trouble.

That's not what I want.

Let's have a secret.

Secret, Princess?

I enjoy natural bathing when it's hot,

but it must be hidden.

A place no one will catch me.

I know a cool pond yonder, princess,

I have bathed there myself.

It is very hidden?

So hidden that you could even meet a lover there and never

be found?

I have never done that, Princess.

But you could?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

You see, Princess, no one can look here.

Even from the nearest hill, you cannot see the pond.

Yes, I see.

And so you bathe here, naked and unafraid?

Yes, Princess.

Then do so.

Prove it.

But I-- well, I'll just get dirty

again when I gather the onions.

You said this pond was a hidden place and secret enough

to meet a lover.

I want you to assure me.

Undress yourself.

Gregory, I want you to sit over there.

Look into the woods to look out for me.

Sing your captain song.

The whole thing.

And don't look round, you here?

All right.

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: I admit I was engaged

in a supreme ungentlemanly act.

I spied on, however.

[SINGING] Feather ladies spin around.

Now undress me.

Have you ever met a lover here?

No, Princess.

Never.

But you have sometimes wished to do so.

Isn't that true?

Well, my husband is in the army,

so I have thought like that, yes.

That is also the way I feel sometimes.

MASHENKA: We'll keep that a secret, Princess.

Yes, you must.

I keep secrets very well.

Do you?

[SINGING] --the captain.

[BRANCH SNAPPING]

Who's there?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Ah, you.

Come here, spy.

Ah! It hurts.

Hurts, does it?

And do you think it doesn't hurt me?

It doesn't hurt me.

Oh, what have I done.

Poor Monsieur Valdemar.

I shall put your hair in my locker and I shall wear it.

This will perhaps comfort you little.

And now, goodbye.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: I gave myself up

to fruitless speculation, always looking for secluded places,

a youth afflicted by such misery, solitude, and grief.

How I reveled in these melancholy feelings.

How I adored them.

Silly.

What are you doing so high up there?

I'm thinking.

You always declare that you love me.

Well then, jump down onto the road

to me if you truly love me.

Oh, my darling boy.

How could you do it?

How could you listen to me when you know I love you?

Please stand up.

Get up, you naughty boy.

You idiot.

Why are you lying in the grass?

Give me my parasol.

See where I've thrown it on your account.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Don't look at me like that.

It's too ridiculous.

You aren't hurt, are you?

Don't look at me, I tell you.

Why, he doesn't understand a word.

He doesn't answer.

Now don't argue with me.

We have a lot to think about.

You are to sit.

Don't dare to move from your place.

I've not managed to find you a quiet horse.

Denis says he absolutely guarantees one,

but I feel afraid.

Afraid of what, may I ask?

Of what?

You don't know how to ride.

I dare not to think what might happen.

What is this whim that's come into your head suddenly?

That's my affair, you beast.

I can always ask our neighbor, Vladimir's father for a horse.

I see.

It's him you mean to go riding with.

With him or with someone else.

As you wish.

Oh well, I shall find you a horse.

But don't go and get me an old cow.

I want to gallop.

Gallop as much as you want.

Who is it then?

Is it Malevsky you want to go riding with?

Now calm yourself.

And don't glare so.

I'll take you too.

You only say that to console me.

Does that console you?

Ever the warrior.

And you, Monsieur Valdemar, would you come with us?

No.

I'm not fond of large company.

He wants to go alone with me.

Oh well, freedom to the free, heaven for the holy.

Off you go, Boris, and do something.

I must have a horse for tomorrow.

And where is the money to come from?

I'm not asking you for it.

Boris will trust me.

Boris will trust you?

Boris, a word, please?

Really, this is splendid.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

This is a letter for your mother.

Here's a letter for you.

Open it.

Gregory, go to the hayloft.

See if the swallows have hatched.

The army's discharging Vasya.

He's being sent home.

When?

Does it say?

He's already been released.

He'll be here soon.

Well then, you can be an honest woman again.

I'm not going to live with him.

He's your husband, isn't he?

Do you think it's as easy as that?

I never loved him.

I married him against my will.

My mother made me do it.

Don't try to get out of it.

Tell me this, were you married to him in church or not?

Of course I married him.

I love you.

I want to live with you till I die.

Let people laugh, I don't care.

We have sinned, you and I. We must listen to our consciences

and fear God.

We must ask forgiveness of Vasya.

He's a quiet man. He won't kill you.

It's better to repent and restore your home.

I love you, not him.

You.

There's Gregory to think of too.

Did you think of him when you were pulling me to the ground?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

What do you want?

I came to call upon the young princess, naturally.

She's unwell.

Look, lilac.

All medications have their source in herbs.

Even morphine is derivative.

I thought she was a flirt.

Yes.

Evidently, to sacrifice oneself is the height

of bliss for some people.

What are you trying to say?

I beg your pardon.

I'm not trying to say anything.

No, it's all over now.

I'm a little tired, but that will pass.

You will be the same as you were before?

Why?

Am I changed then?

Yes, you are.

I've been cold to you, I know.

But you should not have taken any notice of it.

You just don't want me to love you.

That's all it is.

No.

Love me, yes.

But not as before.

What am I to do then?

Let us be friends, that's what.

We're neighbors after all, aren't we?

Am I only a child to you?

Well, yes, a child.

But a good, sweet, clever child whom I love very much.

I'll tell you what, as from today,

you are appointed to be my page.

And always remember that pages must never

leave their mistress's aside.

And here is the token of your new dignity.

Follow me, my page.

The same dog, the same pine cone, and the samovar

was still cold.

Your turn, Boris.

What was your latest dream?

I dreamt I fed carp to my horse.

My horse had a wooden leg too.

Ate the carp, didn't like the carp--

My poor dream began as a lady sudden deceived her adored man.

Rot.

Music floated from afar.

There were talking flowers.

And standing forlorn upon the sepulchers,

I saw great angels with lyres.

Absolute rot.

Yes, do shut up, Maidanov.

Yes, I agree.

Boris, if your dreams are so dull, invent a story then.

I can't think of anything to say.

Can't you imagine?

Let's say that you're married.

Tell us how you would arrange your life with your bride.

Would you lock her up?

I would.

And would you remain with her yourself?

Certainly.

I would certainly stay with her all the time.

Admirable.

And if this happened to bore her and she deceived you?

I would kill her.

[LAUGHTER]

And if she ran away?

I would pursue her and capture and kill her.

I see.

And supposing that I were your wife, what would you do then?

I would kill myself.

[LAUGHTER]

If I should need to have somebody killed,

I would send directly for you, my great Hussar beast.

Now imagine a magnificent palace,

a ball being held by a young queen, set

with every conceivable luxury.

You like luxury?

Of course.

Don't interrupt.

Well then, the ball is magnificent.

There are many guests.

Young, brave, beautiful, and all are

madly in love with the queen.

Are there no women among the guests?

No.

Oh, wait.

There are.

All ugly.

No.

Ravishing.

But the men are all in love with the queen.

She's tall, graceful.

Upon her dark locks, is set a diadem of gold.

They all throng about her and flatter er.

And she likes flattery.

He will interrupt all the time.

And who doesn't like flattery?

As the ball precedes, the queen ignores the guests.

She gazes into the garden.

She thinks, you all throng around me.

You are all ready to die at my feet.

You are my slaves.

But there, by the fountain, by the splashing water,

he whose slave I am awaits me.

No one knows him.

Be he awaits me, sure that I shall come.

No power on Earth can stop me when I want to be with him

in the darkness of the garden.

And then as the queen rushes into the garden,

do we not see the queen's imbecile page trailing

along carrying her train?

I never gave your excellency the right to be insolent.

And therefore, I must ask you to leave.

My Princess, I beg you.

The princess is right.

I did not suppose--

I never imagined-- well, surely, there

was nothing in my words that--

I wouldn't remotely think of insulting you.

Please, forgive me.

I'm showing you the door.

Good night.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: Who is he?

These words seemed to stand before my eyes in the darkness.

At whom, at what could she have been hinting?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

VASYA: [LAUGHING]

GREGORY: Look, Dad, look at all these goats.

This one's my favorite.

How many have you got now?

I've got five.

I'm not your wife any more.

I don't want to live with you.

VASYA: [SHOUTING]

We have sinned against you, Vasya.

We have grievously sinned against you and against God.

[SHOUTING]

Forgive us, for Christ's sake.

Mashenka, it is your solemn duty to wash your husband's feet

and drink the dirty water as penance.

Be an obedient wife to him.

And pray to God's mercy that my and your trespasses

may be forgiven unto us.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Ah, Monsieur the page.

Delighted to see you.

What is your lovely queen doing?

Are you still annoyed?

You really shouldn't be.

After all, it was Zinaida who called you a page.

They're usually to be found with queens.

Let me tell you that you're not caring

out your duties at all well.

Oh, and why is that?

Pages ought never to leave their mistress's side.

Pages should know everything their mistresses do.

They should watch them day and night.

What do you mean by that?

What do you mean by it?

Mean by it?

Day and night.

In the daytime, it is light and there are lots of people about.

But night, that's when anything may happen.

Keep watch.

Watch with all your might.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: I shall show

the whole world and Zinaida too that I

know the meaning of revenge.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

I thought I heard the creak of a door opening

and the faint sound of a snapping twig.

There was a sound, quite distinct,

of footsteps in the garden.

They were carrying towards me.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Here he is.

Whoever he is, he is here at last, I thought.

Oh, god, it was my father.

What is all this?

A dream?

A chance coincidence?

The ideas which suddenly entered my head

were so new and strange I did not dare

let myself dwell on them.

Good afternoon.

Oh.

Here, Valdemar, is a friend for you.

He's called Victor, my little brother.

Please get to like him.

He is still a wild shy little thing.

But he has a kind heart.

Show him the Neskuchny gardens.

Take him for walks.

You will do it, won't you?

You will?

Yes, of course.

Go on, children, give one another a hug.

I'll take you to the gardens if you like.

Very kind of you, I'm sure.

Hadn't you better unbutton your collar?

No thanks.

We're quite used to it.

Pardon me.

Today am I only a little boy to you?

What's the matter?

What is it?

I know everything.

I know.

Why did you play with me?

I'm guilty before you.

I'm terribly guilty.

There is so much in me that is dark, evil, wicked.

But now I am not playing with you.

I love you.

And you haven't an inkling why and how much I love you.

But anyway, what is it that you know?

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: What could I tell her?

She gazed at me, and here I was, utterly hers from head to foot.

She did exactly what she liked with me.

[MARIA AND PYOTR ARGUING]

[SILVERWARE CLATTERING]

Where is my father?

PYOTR: What right do you have--

My instructions are to seat you alone.

MARIA: You lied all the time.

You always have lied.

I just never understood that.

You have lied for years.

PYOTR: Oh, shut up, will you?

MARIA: You sit there.

How can you sit there after what you have done?

I know you.

You're a disgusting cheat.

Yes you are.

You're a liar.

You're a sneaky bastard.

You and your whore next door.

Don't exaggerate, please.

No boring hysterics.

Oh, just die.

Can't you just die?

God should snuff you out for your--

your lies, your hypocrisy.

What lies?

You're full of conjecture and fear.

You smell of it.

God, you've never understood me, have you?

MARIA: Of course I don't, for God's sake.

Because you have lied all of our marriage.

PYOTR: When did I lie?

You're constantly calling me a liar.

You keep me in a cage.

There's been a letter.

Otherwise, these things should never come into the open.

Was there really a letter?

Yes, sir, there was.

Not that your father wasn't careful, just as you were, sir.

Forgive me, sir, in the garden.

But the servants come to do know these things, you see.

It can't be done without servants either.

There's always something you can't do without, hiring

a carriage, things like that.

She's locked you up.

You're twitching like a fool.

You think it's passion?

Well, it isn't.

It's money.

Oh, what a charming fraud.

Is she calling it a loan?

What money?

Who on Earth are you talking about?

That vulgar old m fool.

Oh now we see, you burnt out old hag.

MARIA: Bastard!

You're an old toad.

Devil.

Now we see what you're really made of.

I have it.

In a letter. All of it.

Oh?

What all of it is that?

Zinaida.

The loan to her mother.

All of it.

God, how could you be so stupid?

I told you she was [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]..

You see?

I know everything.

Give it to me.

Oh, what are you?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

For your own sake, give me that letter.

Oh, Zinaida was your mother's name, wasn't it?

I'd forgotten that.

You know, I can hurt you.

Very badly.

Come on then.

Kill me.

Stop!

Stop frightening her!

Don't you hurt my mother.

Stop it, I will!

Little gauche, eh?

Be quiet.

Leave this room.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Are you in love with her?

Yes, perhaps.

I know you want to see her.

I know she's there.

No doubt she likes to see you too.

But listen to me.

I'm going to ask you to do something very brave and manly.

I want you to grow up if you can quite suddenly and in a really

unusual way and not see her.

Can you do that, Vladimir?

Yes, I can.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Won't you sit down?

Vladimir, love between a man and a woman

is a load of most terrible countenance.

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: It seemed to me all was ended.

In one swoop, all my flowers were torn up by the roots

and lay about me scattered, broken, trampled underfoot.

Dimitri, make preparations for our return to Moscow.

We are moving back to town.

Do everything quietly and without any haste.

Vladimir.

I want you to go to that princess and tell her--

Tell her?

Send her my compliments.

And express my regret that ill health prevents me

from saying goodbye in person.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: I walked over to the Zasyekin Lodge

as if I had lost my life, longing for it all to end.

One thought held on me, how could she?

What did she hope for?

A young girl and a princess, how could she ruin herself?

And I remembered Looshin's words,

to sacrifice oneself is the height

of bliss for some people.

Your people seemed to be going off in a terrible hurry.

Why is that, my dear sir?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

I heard your voice and came at once.

You find it so easy desert me then, you wicked boy.

I came to say goodbye to you, Princess.

Probably forever.

You've heard, perhaps, that we're leaving.

Yes, I've heard.

Thank you for coming.

I had begun to think I would not see you again.

You mustn't think too evil of me.

I have sometimes tortured you.

But I am not what you imagine me to be.

Really, I'm not like that.

I know you have low view of me.

I?

Yes, you.

No.

Believe me, Zinaida Alexandrovna, whatever you did

and however much that you make me suffer, I will love you

and I will adore you until the end of my days.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: I cannot even

begin to convey the feelings with which I left her.

I never wish to experience them again.

But I should count it a misfortune never

to have had them at all.

Count Malevsky--

How dare you send for me.

Some days ago, your excellency was shown

the door of a certain house.

I do not wish to enter into any kind of explanation,

but should we ever meet in Moscow,

I will throw you in the river, sir.

I do not like your handwriting.

Yes, some days ago I was shown the door in a certain house.

I did not realize I was there as your guest.

A letter of mine has arrived at the wrong address.

But if you, sir, could not account

for the confusion, then of course, neither can I. Goodbye.

Drive on.

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: We moved back to Moscow.

Towards my father, I actually bore no ill feeling.

On the contrary, he somehow seemed

even to have grown in my eyes.

Let psychologists explain this contradiction if they can.

[BELL RINGING]

One day, I was walking in the street,

and to my indescribable joy, ran into Looshin.

Hey, young man.

So it's you.

Hello.

Let's have a look at you.

Still pretty green.

However, the old nonsense seems to have left your eyes.

You look like a man, not a lapdog.

Well, off to university?

Yes.

It's university now.

That's right.

Good.

The main thing, you know, is to live a normal life,

not be carried away by this or that way

which always turns out badly.

But to have a rock to stand on.

Now, you see, I've got a cough.

And-- oh, Boris, have you heard?

No.

What?

No trace of him.

Disappeared?

Comes with not knowing how to break off in time.

He got caught in that net like a fish.

I'm glad you escaped all right.

Permit me to say, I hope you never see

her again now that you're well.

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: But I was destined to see Zinaida again.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Wait here and hold the horses.

Why?

Where are you going?

I need to see a man about some business

that lives up the street.

How long will you be gone?

Not long.

Only a minute or two.

You stay here.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Hello, love.

Want some company?

Oh.

Good morning, sir.

What are you doing standing here with the horses, eh?

I'm sorry.

Oh, a nice bit of tobacco for a lovely old girl like me, sir.

It's a cold morning sir.

A little bit of tobacco helps.

God's sake, are you deaf?

Please, leave me alone.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: I was utterly stunned.

This, I admit, I did not expect.

Would you end up like that?

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: My thoughts

were in a dreadful whirl.

But I could not begin to grasp what

it was that I had witnessed.

They are beating her, I thought.

Beating.

Beating.

Vladimir, what are you gawking at?

Give me my horse.

What happened to your whip?

Why?

You get bored waiting for me?

Yes, a little.

Did you drop it?

No, I didn't drop it.

I threw it away.

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: How could one bear to be struck by a whip

by any hand, however dear?

And yet it seems one can if one is in love.

His body was discovered by Dimitri as I slept upstairs.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

There's a letter on the desk which I think you ought to see,

sir.

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: There I discovered a letter which

he had begun, addressed to me.

My son, he wrote, beware of the love of women.

Beware of that ecstasy, that slow poison.

The letter broke off there.

He had not finished when death occurred.

My mother sent a considerable sum of money

to a Moscow address.

[APPLAUSE]

[CROWD SHOUTING ENCORE]

Monsieur Dolsky, how are you enjoying

this representation of Othello?

I think it is very good, Monsieur?

- Maidanov. - Maidanov.

Of course. Thank you.

It is very colorful.

Our box has a fair view of it too.

[BOTH STUTTERING]

How is your view of it?

Ordinary, I suppose, for a box.

I rather meant, for instance, do you sympathize

with Othello's passion?

I'm not a jealous man, I'm sorry to tell you.

That's a woman's passion, as Aristotle reminds us.

I never understood it in a man.

Wouldn't your wife be disappointed to hear that, sir?

I expect she would not.

Perhaps she would.

Yes, that is an interesting point.

I wonder if she would indeed.

I have you see, a serious contemplation--

Is that not Monsieur the page?

Maidanov.

Yes, it's you.

What a long time it's been.

It must be quite--

Five or four years it's been.

You know, incidentally, that Madame Dolsky is here?

Madam Dolsky?

Surely you've not forgotten the former Princess Zasyekin?

You remember, we were all in love with her, yes?

And you too.

You remember, in the country, near the Neskuchny.

She's married to this Dolsky?

Yes.

She here in the theater?

No.

In Moscow.

She came here a day or two ago.

She's going abroad.

And what is he like, this Dolsky?

Very nice fellow, and quite well off.

A colleague of mine here in Moscow.

You're in government service then?

The poet becomes a civil servant.

Yes.

That fate has taken me there.

Whimsical, isn't it?

So she settled on this Dolsky.

You understand, after that episode.

You must know all about that.

Well, it was not easy for her to find herself a suitable party.

And it did not end there.

But with her brains, nothing is impossible.

I have her card.

Do go and see her.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

She will be very pleased to see you.

She is more lovely than ever.

Yes, certainly, I will.

I'll go tomorrow and see her.

Certainly.

Vladimir, look at this.

The French, the English, the Turkish too.

Do we really mean to fight them all at once?

Where are you off to so early in the day?

I must pay a call on a friend at the Hotel de Motte.

Have you've forgotten your appointment or changed it?

My appointment?

Yes, of course.

With the estate agent.

You have forgotten it.

You're right.

I will see to it.

Today, mind.

I want all our affairs in order in case

there is war in the Crimea. - Yes, I will.

Also, I've made an appointment with the admiralty,

as you asked me to.

There is a chance they'll off you commission

if you go to them directly.

That is, you can present yourself on Thursday morning

at 10 o'clock.

I promised to pay a call on a friend here in Moscow.

I'll have to leave straight away.

I thought you wanted a commission?

Oh, I do, as I've said.

One might keep one's appointments at the admiralty,

in that case, may I suggest?

Captain Nirmansky.

Admiral Nirmansky.

Monsieur Valdemar.

You're aware I take it of the very real possibility

of war in the Crimea?

Yes, sir, indeed I am.

The course of your studies at university

does not lead to a naval appointment

in an obvious fashion.

It says here you are responsible for your mother,

who was widowed.

Are you the only child?

Yes, Lord Admiral.

But she would not object.

If she knew, I take it your meaning?

Correct.

What if, under the circumstances,

we agreed to offer you a commission as an ensign?

What would you say to that? - God Save the Tsar.

You will find a very good military tailor

for your uniform at Saveliev's here in Petersburg.

I can recommend him.

Report for duty at Kronstadt in two weeks.

Sir.

Better?

Yes, these are correct.

When can you have these ready?

Oh, very quick, sir.

Four days.

Oh, not sooner?

I'm sorry, sir.

So many gentlemen ahead of you.

See, this delay will oblige me to stay in Petersburg waiting,

you see.

I live in Moscow.

I regret it so much, sir, but I cannot

do better than four days.

Very well.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

My card.

Ensign what?

Who?

Just give that to Madam Dolsky.

She will know me.

Impossible.

How can he be--

Looshin.

Ah, but he might be good for her.

What's the matter?

Come in quickly.

Be quiet.

Stay here.

I'll fetch you.

I think it's good you've come.

ZASYEKIN: [WAILING]

That sword.

That sword, take it off!

You are not Dolsky.

You are not Dolsky at all.

Because where is our Dolsky?

Lost in the center of town, the idiot.

Again!

Isn't that typical of him?

Wouldn't you say?

I'm afraid we've never met.

The child was breached and stillborn.

She hasn't long.

Don't look like that.

I'm quite serious.

Follow me.

Monsieur Valdemar.

how kind of you.

No.

Vladimir.

Listen to me.

You were our neighbor's son one summer in the country.

We had a friendship there, you and I, long ago.

And once, you won my kiss.

No.

It was twice.

But that is all.

The rest must never be spoken of.

It must not be remembered by anyone.

I must not be connected to what happened, to your poor father.

It is happening to me now.

God is justice.

He is just.

I see it.

But promise me you will never speak of it.

Never.

I will never speak of it.

I assure you.

It will be all forgotten.

Thank you.

But if one day, it's not soon, you

wish to write some words about me, in a poem or a novel,

I would like that.

And people would not entirely hate me then.

They would love me a little too.

Wouldn't they?

Wouldn't they?

They would.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: The past rose and stood before me.

So that was to be the final answer to it all.

So that was the final goal towards which

this young life, all glitter and ardor and excitement,

went hurrying along.

Here, not far from me, who was still

living, and perhaps only a few steps from where my father law.

And so I took my leave from the brief phantom of my first love.

And what has become of it all?

Of all that I had hoped for?

And now when the shades of evening

are beginning to close in upon my life,

what have I left that is fresh or dearer to me

than the memories of that brief storm that

came and went so swiftly one morning in the spring?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

How handsome you are in your uniform.

By the time you get to Cronstat, you'll

be all wrinkled and covered in dust.

I have a clean one.

I'll change before I report.

Don't worry.

I shan't worry.

Do you know what?

I'm sorry Zinaida never saw how fine you are, how brave.

Am I brave?

Yes.

I look at you and I think, now, there is a man.

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

Goodbye.

[GASPING]

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: But I was not brave.

Lord, forgive me my sins.

Forgive me my sins, Lord.

Forgive me my sins.

Forgive me my sins.

Forgive me my sins.

Lord, please, forgive me my--

my sins.

VLADIMIR [VOICEOVER]: And I remember that there,

by the death bed of that poor beautiful girl,

I grew afraid, afraid for Zinaida.

And I wanted to say a prayer for her, and for my father,

and for myself.

[WHISTLING]

[WHIP CRACKING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]