Original subtitles

Gorky Film Studio

I AM TWENTY

Screenplay by M. KHUTSIEV, G. SHPALIKOV

Directed by Marlen KHUTSIEV

Director of Photography Margarita PILIKHINA

Production Designer I. ZAKHAROVA

Music by N. SIDELNIKOV

English Subtitles by T. Kameneva

Cast:

Sergey Zhuravlyov - V. POPOV

Nikolai Fokin - N. GUBENKO

Slava Kostikov - S. LYUBSHIN

Anya - M.VERTINSKAYA

Olga Mikhailovna Zhuravlyova - Z. ZINOYEVA

Vera Zhuravlyova - S. STARIKOVA

Second Lieutenant Alexander Zhuravlyov - L. PRYGUNOV

Lucia Kostikova - T. BOGDANOVA

Conductor - L. SELYANSKAYA

Kuzmich - Sasha BLINOV

Anya's Father - L. ZOLOTUKHIN

Chernousov - P. SHCHERBAKOV

Vladimir Vasilyevich - G. NEKRASOV

Friend - N. ZAKHARCHENKO

This is Radio Moscow.

Moscow time is 7:30.

Mom.

You got a leave?

No, I came for good.

Seryozhka!

Now, now, there she goes.

Kolka!

Fokin!

Seryoga!

Seryoga!

Hi! When did you come?

- What? - I say when did you come?

I can't hear you!

Hi!

- Why didn't you write? - What?

When did you come?

- I can't hear you! - I can't either!

Turn it off! Turn off the music!

I'm asking: why didn't you write?

I can't hear you. Come on down!

Seryoga!

Slavka!

The elevator doesn't work as usual.

Slavka!

Slava, you forgot!

- What? - The bottles!

Bring them up here!

Come on, don't be shy.

Where have you been so long?

Lucia, there was a queue there. No buttermilk, I took "B"- rice.

He's just being modest.

He let all the young mothers go ahead of him,

led an old lady across the street, and helped to detain a hooligan.

Is that all? And what's this?

We're having a party. We have to celebrate.

Celebrate what?

Come in.

Seryozhka? Where have you come from?

From afar.

Why are you standing there? Come on in.

- Well, to the disarmament. - To the disarmament.

Let's join in the peaceful, constructive work.

Goodbye, guys.

Lucia, why are you fluttering there?

How you doing here? What's new?

Slavka got all the news. He's a father, a family man, a home owner.

Yes, we got a room.

- Getting into the swing of consumerism? - I am.

Like crazy.

Bought a bra and a floor lamp. You can't stop him now.

- A money-grubber. - A skinflint.

- Gobseck. - You're just envious.

And why can't single young men

be envious of someone else's happy family life?

Get your own.

- How do you like my creation? - He's all right. What's his name?

- Volodya. - Vladimir Stanislavovich.

And the mother has changed.

- For better or worse? - Got more mature.

Got older. How can it be otherwise, with no help from him at home?

- How old is he? - Five months.

- And twenty days. - Men grow so fast.

And we are getting old. Well, to the peaceful...

- You'll scare the baby to death. - Depriving me of a father's rights.

To the peaceful coexistence,

which might make us family men.

He'll skip it.

I didn't know you were against peaceful coexistence.

- I'm not against it. - He'll skip it.

Let the enemies of peace skip this toast, but we'll drink to it.

Seryozha, eat something.

It's really great coming back from the army, everyone's happy to see you.

It seems, my dear old friend, We shouldn't have guarded our freedom.

For we have saved thus nothing less Than our own loneliness.

You know Lenka Karabanova? From House 12.

Pashka Kashlakov was seeing her. She got married to a master of sports.

Zhenka Zhuravlyov is a big man.

I met Sergachyov there, he got ears like this, even bigger.

- He's a great guy. - It depends on how you look at him.

He's playing for "Spartak", they gave him a room.

- In Cheryomushki? - Right.

They wake you up at night by an alert,

and make you double- time 20 kilometers in full marching order.

They wake us up each night here by an alert.

It's a nice city, a green one. Though, too hot.

We walk up to the movie theatre. "Lonely woman" is on.

- What woman? - It's a movie, "Lonely Woman".

- Deserted woman. - Dumped woman.

- Unhappy woman. - Forgotten woman.

The woman in white.

Tired woman.

Woman with a guitar.

- It was the girl with a guitar. - No, the woman with a guitar.

You think so?

I wanted to apply to the Energy Institute, but was too late.

I wouldn't have passed anyway. One has to get prepared.

Then come to our laboratory. They hire people with secondary education.

You're a radar specialist. They'll take you just like that.

I think I'd rather go to the 11th heating plant here.

It won't be in the way of my studying.

And my mother will be pleased. That's where father worked.

It's too bad, after all it's electronics, progressive technology,

progressive salary, and it would be more fun to work together.

You should've said so in the first place. All right, we'll see.

- To you, Lucia. - Thanks.

I'll join this toast. You're a very good person.

I know. Too bad I can't. Or I would drink with you.

I would have never thought you'd marry Slavka.

No one had thought, neither I, nor him.

Well, I guess he did think.

- We've made your husband drunk. - He'll sleep it over.

This is the only way to sleep after that stuff.

Reveille.

This is a great recording!

Good morning.

- Mom, shall I help you? - Go, or you'll be late.

All right, I'm off.

Our care is common,

That our country would live on.

And no other cares so far.

And the wind and the snow

And the night time flight of a star

Are calling my heart

to exciting vistas from afar.

Hi.

- Hi. - Nice evening.

Shall we go and rescue Slavka?

You might die yourself but help out a friend.

Where are you going?

To the shop, I'm out of cigarettes.

Then buy bread, too. And we're out of butter.

Take a mayonnaise jar from the window sill and buy some sour cream.

And hamburgers, too. We got nothing to eat for breakfast.

And squash caviar, okay?

Salute.

Hi. How you doing?

Everything's okay.

Hi, Sashka.

Ghena, are you in charge today?

Shall we dance?

Hi.

Hi.

You don't recognize us?

We came to Vera to study together. We're Tosya and Shura.

- Remember now? - Right, I remember.

Nice evening.

No precipitation.

Did they teach you to keep silent in the army?

He's keeping a military secret. Let's go.

C'mon, I'll lead.

I just arrived and mother says you're home. So I went to look for you.

- How are you? - Fine.

Where have you come from?

From a Pioneer camp.

Don't look like that. I'm already a Pioneer leader.

- I'm sorry, Miss. - Not at all.

- Who's he? - An acquaintance.

I see. Shall I keep it from Mother?

She knows.

- Does he have serious intentions? - We'll see.

As you wish, I'm not holding you.

Slava, where're you going?

You may stay here even for the rest of your life.

- What's up? - What's the matter?

- Are you forbidding me? - I'm not holding you.

Big deal, we just dropped at the dances for a minute.

- Seryoga, I got an idea. - What idea?

Let's go somewhere and take a stroll.

Two girls are waiting for us. If you don't know them, I'll introduce you.

There they are. Which of the two do you like best?

A third one. I'm going home.

Why? What about me?

You'll be all right. I'm serious. Go and dance.

I'll finish my cigarette and go home. I'm tired.

Well, take care, then. Or perhaps...

Hi.

- My heart's ready to jump out. - What happened?

Nothing. I was afraid.

Of what?

- What time is it? - Ten.

I was afraid you'd leave.

I'm used to it. Well, where are we going?

Straight ahead. Let's just walk.

- Slavka, hurry up! - Watch out!

I do believe, my friends, in the caravans of rockets!

Slavka, what's the matter?

Kolka!

One ticket.

- Thanks. - Don't mention it.

I'm coming!

- Is this ticket valid there? - No, you have to buy a new one.

Some rules you've got here!

It is valid!

Vorobyov Alley. Next stop - School.

Hello. Did you get home alright?

- When? - Made it to the subway in time?

- You must be mistaken. - You were running late...

- Who's she? - A nice girl.

Never seen her before.

She's not bad at all. What's her name?

I never asked. I'll find out tonight, at 8:30 at the Burevestnik Theatre.

Fast guy.

Good luck!

- Hi. - Hi.

- Is Mother home? - Will be here any minute.

Sergey. You'll get yourself an ulcer.

Just a bite, I'm not hungry. Where's Mother?

She'll be here, she went to a shop.

Kuzmich! Nikolai Kuzmich!

What are you doing? What about your homework?

I've done it.

Listen, let's go to a bathhouse, get some steam.

- All right. - Only move it, like by an alert.

Don't take the bag! I need to go to my training.

Want to be an Olympic champion?

It's better than sitting and watching your belly grow.

Careful. Crazy kids.

What is this? Where did you get so much?

I got my salary.

- So soon? - No sooner than the others.

Where're you going?

Want to go get some steam with Kuzmich.

- Seryozha brought this? - Take the plates to the kitchen.

Kept his salary to himself, instead of inviting someone to a restaurant.

I've never been to one. He could have invited me.

One should spend his first salary on merrymaking and remember it.

And now it will all be wasted on housekeeping.

You need new shoes, Seryozha has no suit.

Well, the shoes, that's not bad.

You fool, why haven't you bought something for Mother?

I'll do it next time.

Ther ewill be no next time. It's like Women's Day.

- Give me a ruble. - Take it from the table.

I'm off, Mom!

C'mon Kuzmich. You got a sponge and soap?

Is it really a shock that Seryozhka brought his salary?

I think it's a joy.

Drink tomato juice.

Beer and soft drinks.

Fashion house.

Collect scrap-iron.

We are collecting it.

A group of trained wild animals.

Are you getting off? Then let me through, please.

You're not getting off at the next stop? Why are you standing here then?

By the way, she will go away now and that'll be it.

Why are you stepping on my foot? Young man!

Shame on you! And he goes to college!

If anyone forgot to buy a ticket, do it now!

It'sthe last day. The drawing is tomorrow.

Buy a ticket, If you haven't yet.

The luckiest ones are left.

Next stop - Komsomolskaya.

October has arrived - the woods have tossed.

Their final leaves from naked branches;

A breath of autumn chill - the road begins to freeze.

The stream still murmurs as it passes by the mill...

How much time has it been? Three months?

Yes, three months since I returned,

but I have a feeling that I've never gone away.

I'm waiting for something all the time. But for what?

When autumn comes, I bloom anew;

The Russian frost does winders for my health;

Anew I fall in love with life's routine;

Betimes I'm soothed by dreams, betimes by hunger caught...

in the army, everything's clear, it's service.

Reveille!

Yes, I envy the guys.

They have everything well ordered.

Slavka has his own life, his family.

Kolka is always doing fine.

The blood flows free and easy in my heart,

Abrim with passion; once again, I'm happy, young,

I'm full of life - such is my organism...

Sergey, are you in love or what?

You lucky devil. I don't even remember when it happened to me.

C'mon this is not the time and place for it. Introspection in the dusk.

The weather just couldn't be better.

It must be nice at the beach now.

Yes, some situation.

The stream still murmurs as it passes by the mill.

The pond, already frozen; my neighbor...

My neighbor looks somewhat gloomy. Family problems.

They get married at 20, idiots, and then walk with such faces.

If "Spartak" wins in Moscow,

then ties it in Minsk,

and the Kiev team loses in Rostov,

then "Spartak" gets on the top

and "Torpedo" has no chances, and it was a great team.

- Too bad. - What's too bad?

You talk to yourself, but it happens. What do we do?

- Shall we go to my place? - And watch TV?

- I haven't got a telly. - You'll buy one.

And hang about the street in the evening?

Sure, the street isn't for the married. Your place is in front of a telly.

As for me, only the court can sentence me to that.

I'm going home before you start crying.

Go on and prosper in the same manner.

- Look at him, he got hurt. - You're just a blabbermouth.

- Or maybe it's the weather? - Maybe.

Best of luck! Lots of kisses, Nikolai.

What shall we do?

Let's sign up for the dressmaking courses.

Let's go right now and sign in.

And what if it was that very thing,

the only chance in life?

Of course, I was being stupid. I just had to come up to her.

Kolka would have never got lost.

I know where she lives: the house and the entrance.

Or maybe I just imagined it all?

Kolia!

Good evening.

Come here.

There's no crossing here.

Come on, quick!

What's the matter with you? I was shouting and shouting...

Hi, Seryozha. Here, meet my friend.

- Natasha. - Sergey.

Let's go.

You've gone absolutely wild, even bought yourself a hockey stick.

We're stocking up.

Any suggestions?

I can deliver a lecture on the structure of the Universe.

- Not funny. - And seriously?

We'll look for music. You got a two-kopeck coin?

Two kopecks? Wait.

Guys, you got two kopecks?

One, two, three, four. Take them all. I don't need them.

- Are you leaving? - Yes.

Wait. Have some tea, I'll warm it up.

I'm running late.

Oh, it's winter!

Will you call me?

I guess you don't respect me?

Why do you say that?

I'm not working today. Will be home all day.

Call me, will you?

We can go somewhere tonight. Maybe to the movies.

I don't know. I got to go.

Wait, there seems to be somebody...

You can go now. Only be quiet.

I was so surprised yesterday when I learned it...

Hello?

Kuzmich, It's me, Sergey. Is Mother home?

Yes, home.

- Get her. - All right.

- Yes? - Is Mother not home?

She's coming. Good morning.

Hi.

Yes?

- Mom, It's me. - Yes.

- You see, I... - Where are you?

I was delayed at a guy's place, it was too late to go home.

It doesn't matter where you were delayed. You're a grownup man.

But next time, please call home.

We didn't sleep all night.

- Have you eaten? - Yes.

I gotta go, there's a queue here, I'm calling from a pay phone.

What's the problem? I'm working.

- Everybody's working. - I'm working for the family.

Am I supposed to thank you everyday for that?

You don't have to thank me everyday, and you know it perfectly well...

Why are you shouting? Maybe you're not happy with us?

Please don't start it again. You know I love you.

After all, I'm the head of the family.

I deserve some attention, some respect.

I get tired, too. You think having a baby is so easy?

I have no time to look into my precis.

No time to look into her precis!

I get no help from you at home.

- Are you starting again? - Why again?

- Who goes shopping? - Oh, you went shopping just once...

Who's taking Vovka for a walk on Sundays?

Exactly, only on Sundays!

But we've got such a swell boy!

What fun it is, with feet in sharp steel shod.

To skim the mirror of the smooth and solid streams!

And how about the shining stir of winter feasts?

Now we celebrated another New Year.

One more year of your life, comrade Fokin. Let's sum it up.

Among the best workers of our laboratory we congratulate

the operator-technician comrade Fokin

and award him with a valuable present!

Hello.

Hello. Do you usually greet all your passengers?

Have you forgotten? You gave me an apple.

Ah, yes. Hello.

I'm out of stock. You'll have to wait till the next season.

It's all right, I'll wait. Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! What shall I wish you for the new year?

I don't know. And what would you like?

Good health, success in work and personal life.

I wish you all the best.

Next stop - Stadium!

Did you get a lot of sleep while on a sick leave?

I couldn't get enough sleep all week.

You shouldn't have hung out so much at night.

I got so much work, no time for that. When are you going on leave?

- Where to, Vera Aleksandrovna? - It's none of your business.

When is your leave?

I haven't been working that long. I guess, in summer.

They offer me to go on leave now.

We could all get together and go skiing.

I saw skis at "Dinamo", Polish ones, of red plastic.

- You can do anything on them. - I envy you.

A month of skiing and you'll be in form, too.

- I don't mean that. - What, then?

Well. Everything is easy and fun for you.

Every morning I work out with weights, dive in an ice-hole and read papers.

So what's new?

Nothing's changed in the world since you got sick.

You know, I was thinking,

and I realized that I'm an absolutely right man.

I work, I plan to enter a college,

I participate in social life, I'm an agitator.

You're just an ordinary Soviet man.

Where're those ordinary men? Are you ordinary?

I'm a many-sided man.

- Hi, you malingerers. - Hi.

I do everything right - no reprimands, no criminal record.

Your picture can make the cover of the Ogonyok magazine.

The insert.

- What's the score? - 3 to 0.

A multicolor reproduction.

N. Fokin at the sick Nekrasov's bedside.

Are we winning?

- Did you come here to watch TV? - We are.

Lucia sent this.

Slava, didn't she send something more substantial to supplement this?

No, she didn't even think of it.

It's sad.

I don't know, but sometimes I think

that my life is right and decent, but that's not enough.

A disturbed conscience of a criminal.

You didn't rob or kill anyone. Live and enjoy.

I understand you, there's such a philosophy -

live and rejoice that you're not a scoundrel,

that there're people who are much worse than you are.

Your mother will come and, as a doctor, she'll explain to you

that these are just complications because of a flu.

By the way, someone is sending her. Love. She's hurt you don't call her.

We bought an armchair.

- Whom am I supposed to call? - Natasha. She says you forgot her.

There're wardrobes, but they're not what she wants.

Want me to give you mine?

- I do. - Take it.

All ways and byways got overgrown

where were walking feet of my own.

You feel sad, Seryozha? Go on, nurse your sadness.

This is just a routine.

Way to go!

11 to 3. Your machine is jamming.

- Why don't you fix it? - I'll take a look on Saturday.

I've got an iron burned down, an alarm clock not ticking and a weaving bike.

Bring them in.

- Kulibin. - Russian whiz kid.

Printing pioneer Ivan Fyodorov.

Tom and Jerry.

- Good evening. - Good evening.

- Well, what? - What what?

Tell me honestly, don't you regret all those wasted years?

All right, enough is enough.

I got fed up at school with this talk about the meaning of life.

We should live, and not engage in idle talk.

My Vovka was silent all day yesterday, and today he's screaming like hell.

You should get married.

Then you will live a full, sensible life, like your friend here.

- Perhaps he's teething. - Or maybe It's his tummy?

It must be his teeth, it's time.

Turn over.

Slava, get ready. Let's go.

I've never seen the cupping-glass being administered.

- Stay for supper. - I haven't been home yet.

- Come and visit us. - Come everyday.

Come on.

I'm sick and tired.

What are you sick and tired of?

I'm sick and tired of this winter.

Don't bother, I'm not sleeping.

Vera, turn off the tap in the kitchen, It's trickling.

Vitka.

It's easier to do it yourself than ask you.

Can you hear me? Yes.

I can't hear you very well.

No, no, nothing's happened.

You fool.

Just listen to everything dripping. Open the window.

Yes, It's dripping.

The ebullient, the powerful,

Unconquerable by anyone,

My motherland,

My city of Moscow,

I love you with my whole heart!

Pass him to his father.

Come, come to your daddy.

Miss?

Hello. Happy holiday.

Thanks.

How are you?

Fine, but you must've mistaken...

No. So, how are you doing?

Thank you, I'm fine.

And what's your name?

Anya!

Anya! Anya!

Excuse me.

Where have you been?

- Kolka, help me out. - What's up?

I'll explain. C'mon Slava.

Hurry, hurry.

Lucia, I'll be right back.

Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.

Anya.

- Friend, hold it, please. - C'mon c'mon.

Salute!

Now I've got lost.

They'll think I fled. And this is my favorite holiday.

Mine, too.

- I have to find them. - No, they'll be all right.

I'd better go, anyway.

No. No.

I'll have to scream.

You can only scream "hurrah".

To the head of the column, quick.

Well, shall we fulfill the seven-year plan in five years?

We must.

- You so scared me then. - Why?

- Itw as like a chase. - Was it really scary?

One shouldn't run after girls like this.

- One should. One must. - After all girls?

From the "North Pole 8" station.

Moscow. Red Square.

The May greetings and congratulations on the holiday.

This is what a group of new settlers report...

- They're waiting for you there. - They've been for quite a while.

I think they can do without you there.

- You're not the most important person. - Why do you think so?

The most important one comes with a guitar. He's already there, you hear?

Do you really have no heart and leave me alone here?

Really, it would be inhuman. Wait for me here.

It's just for a minute, honest.

Anya!

If you don't come back. I'll call at every apartment.

All right.

There's half a bottle left, and sandwiches. Are you hungry?

- Is the party in full swing? - Yes.

What, fireworks again?

Let's run, quick!

- I'm home. - What do you mean?

This is my entrance.

Well, goodbye.

Go.

Into the rain?

It stopped.

Go.

I'm already going.

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

Are you angry?

No.

Go.

Are you going to spend the night here?

Why not?

Well, if you like it.

- Will you call me? - Yes.

Write down the number.

I'm writing.

G-6.

G-6.

Thirty-four.

Thirty-four.

Twenty-one.

Twenty-one.

- You got it? - Right.

Go, then.

I'm gone.

- Hi. - Hi.

Whyare you up so early?

Getting myself warm.

- Insomnia? - Doesn't matter.

I'm starved. Should call Kolka.

Kolka!

Kolia!

What do you want?

- Come here. - Why?

And bring something to grub.

You're hungry already.

Am I dreaming you or you're real?

Macaroni with meat.

- What are you doing here at night? - Getting some fresh air.

That's it.

Slavka.

Just in time.

Am I condemned or what, really?

Nothing ever pleases her. You're forever gone, she says.

Forever hanging about with your pals.

I'm forever doing everything alone.

- What's going on, actually? - Contradictions.

No contradictions. That's it. Enough.

Let her try and live on her own.

Women.

Men and women - that's the main philosophical question.

The most important thing is not to give in, guys. Yes.

I'll provide for her financially, of course, but otherwise, that's it.

You don't know your good fortune, guys.

There's everything in your life: love, quarrels. Shakespeare!

And I've got a folding bed on the balcony.

- I'll go away. - Where?

To Magadan. She'll be sorry yet.

Great timing. On holidays.

That's it, the holidays are over.

Stern weekdays are here.