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ANNA KARENINA

BASED ON THE NOVEL BY LEO TOLSTOY

AND "IN THE JAPANESE WAR" BY VIKENTY VERESAEV

EPISODE 4

MANCHURIA, CHINA, 1904

Good day, men!

Attention!

- At ease. - At ease!

- I wish to inform you. - What?

What do you mean "inform"?

You are to "report" to me,

- And who are you? - I head the hospital.

Where's your sabre?

I beg your pardon? My sabre?

Yes of course. In the line of duty,

you're obliged to wear your sabre.

I've just been operating, it would get in the way.

You must always wear your sabre.

Is Count Vronsky here?

Yes, sir, he is.

Take me to him.

Come in, Your Excellency.

- Is this Count Vronsky? - Count Vronsky is there.

- Greetings, Count. - Greetings, Your Excellency.

Terrible, terrible business.

Are you suffering greatly, Count?

Suffering, but not greatly.

Ah, yes.

Tell me, Count, are you married?

No Your Excellency, I'm not.

Do you have all you need here? All is well with you?

Anything you require?

I've no complaints.

The care is excellent. Only...

Your Excellency, if possible, I'd like to ask...

to be moved to Imachen, past Harbin.

My cousin is there, in charge of supplies.

Yes, yes. Very well.

- Turenchen... - "Imachen", Your Excellency.

Ah, take that down, Baron: "Simuchen".

- "Imachen", Your Excellency. - Yes, yes, take that down.

Your brother is wounded in hospital there...

and you'd like to be treated there with him.

Very well, I'll exert all my influence

It's terrible, terrible.

You know yesterday I visited your bivouac,

made a thorough examination,

I thought and thought, and couldn't fathom...

why the shell fell in your dug-out.

That's just the way it is.

So Count, did you send a wire to inform your wife?

I am a bachelor.

Count, you mean...

you're not married?

No. Never have been.

How can that be?

Why did you never marry?

If my private life so interests you,

30 years ago there was a woman I loved very dearly, and she died.

Ah, Count, I can sympathize.

my first wife... also passed away.

Yes, Baron, such things happen.

She died...

Listen here, Your Excellency!

Want a smoke?

Eh? What?

Captain Maximov. He was with the count,

a severe head wound. He's raving.

Let's have a smoke, eh?

Thank you kindly, I don't smoke.

Well, to hell with you. Doctor, have a smoke?

We should be going, Your Excellency.

Does your head hurt a lot?

The hell it does! I don't hurt at all!

It's time for us to go.

For the medal with ribbons what did you do?

I was aide-de-caimp at the general HQ.

Farewell.

Get well soon.

Maximov, how are you?

Raving?

No, I'm now of sound mind.

SAINT PETERSBURG, 1873

Alexei! Thank God!

No. If it's going to go on like this,

it will end much, much too soon.

- What? - An hour, two hours, waiting in torment.

I won't I can't quarrel with you.

You couldn't come.

Seeing Karenin is your punishment for being late.

Perhaps, but you wrote he'd be at the council.

He was. Then he came back. Now he's gone somewhere else.

It's nothing. Let s not speak of it.

Where have you been?

I only just received your letter.

I had to report on the prince, having taken care of him all week.

But it's over now? He's gone?

Yes, thank God.

- It's been unbearable... - Why so?

Isn't that the kind of life all you young men lead?

I gave up that life long ago.

I admit that, seeing it now, I don't like it.

This morning Liza came to see me. They're still brave enough to visit me.

She told me about your Athenian evening last night.

How repulsive!

I was just about to say...

It was arranged especially for the prince...

that charade.

He wanted to see some French actresses.

Was it that Therese?

The one that you...

used to know?

- I was going to tell you. - You men are repulsive!

Don't you know that a woman can't forget such things?

Especially if she can't know how you spend your life.

Anna, stop.

What have I ever known?

Only what you tell me.

How do I know if it's the truth?

Anna, you offend me.

Don't you trust me?

Didn't I say that I'd share my every thought?

If only you knew how hard it is for me.

It was awful waiting for you.

I believe you when you're here with me.

But when you're away alone leading a different life...

What am I saying?

Where did you see him?

It was at the doorway.

And did he... give you a nod?

He's not a man, not a human...

He's a puppet!

In his place, I'd have killed a wife like me, torn her to pieces!

I wouldn't be saying, "Anna, ma chere".

He's no man, he's a machine of the ministry.

He doesn't understand that...

I am your wife.

And he's the outsider, he's unwanted.

No, let's not. Let's not talk about that.

Tell me instead what you've been doing.

Tell me how you are. I understand in your condition...

- When will it be? - Soon.

Soon it will all be over and we shall all be at peace,

and suffer no more.

I don't understand.

I know it I know it for certain.

I shall die. And I'm very glad I shall die,

and set both of us free.

Why do you speak such nonsense, such meaningless nonsense?

- No, it's the truth. - What is the truth?

That I shall die.

I had a dream.

- A dream? - Yes, a dream.

I had this dream long ago.

I ran into my bedroom to fetch or find out something.

You know how it is in dreams.

I saw something standing in the corner.

Oh, what nonsense!

It turned around and I saw it was a peasant.

He had a scruffy beard. He was small, and dreadful.

I was so frightened I tried to wake up.

And I did wake up, but only in the dream.

So I asked myself what it meant.

And Kornei, our servant, said to me:

"In childbirth.

You'll die in childbirth, ma'am."

And I woke up...

What do you want?

Your lover's letters.

They're not here.

Sit down!

I have to speak to you.

I said that I would not allow you to receive your lover here.

I had to see him to...

I will not go into the details of why a woman must see her lover.

Can't you sense how easy it is to insult me?

An honest man or woman may be insulted,

but to call a thief a thief is simply stating a fact.

I never before saw cruelty in you.

You call this cruelty?

When a husband gives his wife freedom...

the protection of his name,

asking only that she maintains respectability? Is that cruelty?

It's worse than cruelty.

- It's depraved, if you want to know! - No.

Depraved? You want to use that word

after abandoning son and husband for a lover

and still eat at the husband's table!

You...

cannot describe my position worse than I know it to be myself.

But why are you saying all this?

Why am I saying all this?

You should know...

thrat since you have not done as I wished with regard to observing decency,

I shall take measures to put this situation to an end.

Soon, very soon, it will end anyway.

It will end sooner than you and your lover have planned.

All you want is to satisfy your animal passion.

Alexei...

Kicking someone when they're down, while not ungenerous, is ungentlemanly.

I came to tell you...

I cannot change anything.

I came to tell you that I'm going to Moscow tomorrow

and shall not return to this house again.

You will hear what I decide through the lawyer

whom I shall entrust with the divorce.

My son is going to my sister's.

You need Sergei in order to hurt me.

You don't love him. Leave Sergei with me.

True, I've lost even the love for my son...

for he reminds me of the revulsion I have for you.

But I shall take him with me nonetheless.

Goodbye.

Alexei...

Let Sergei stay with me.

1 have nothing else to say to you.

Let Sergei stay until I...

I'll soon give birth.

Let him stay.

I have done everything for you.

And you have trampled it all in the filth...

which is your nature.

I am not a spiteful man, I have never hated anyone.

But I hate you with all my soul

for all the evil you've...

done to me.

"Love those who hate you."

Love those who hate you, yes.

But to love those you hate is impossible.

She has forsaken her duty and betrayed her husband.

For heaven's sake, you are mistaken.

It is difficult to be mistaken when a wife informs her husband...

that eight years of her life, and a son, have all been in error.

And she wants to start anew.

Anna and vice: I cannot put the two together.

I cannot believe it.

I would give a great deal to still have doubts of my own.

When I had doubts, I had hope. But now there is no hope.

And still

I doubt everything.

I have so many doubts that I even hate my son.

At times I don't believe that he is my son.

I am very unhappy.

How dreadful!

But surely it can't...

be true that you have decided to divorce?

I have decided on the last measure available.

There is nothing else left.

But wait. You are a Christian.

What will become of her if you cast her off?

Dolly, I have thought of that.

I've thought a great deal.

I left everything as it was.

I gave her the chance to reform.

I tried to save her. And what happened?

But she will be nobody's wife.

She will be ruined!

What can I do?

I am very grateful for your sympathy, but...

Please... I...

Let me tell you something of myself.

My husband was unfaithful.

In anger and jealousy, I wanted to throw it all away.

I had also planned...

But I came to my senses.

And it was Anna who saved me.

The children are growing.

My husband is returning to his family, has a sense of his wrongs,

is a better, more pure person.

I live on.

I've forgiven.

And you must forgive.

I cannot forgive.

And I don't want to.

And I consider it unjust.

Forgive me, Dolly, for distressing you.

Everyone has enough grief of their own.

With the saints give rest

to the soul of thy servant

Where there is no sickness, no sorrow

No sighing, But life everlasting

With the saints give rest...

Yes, it's a shame about the captain, he was a good lad.

Count Vronsky, you've been a long time at war.

Have you never wondered why people kill each other?

No, never.

One who ponders such things would do better as a priest or a writer.

Well.

After Anna's death,

I went off to Serbia to fight.

My heart ached.

In every scrap, I was first to jump in, looking for death.

And nothing happened.

I wasn't even wounded.

I did kill a lot of Turks,

though none of them, really, had done any harm to me.

So if Anna hadn't died those Turks would still be alive.

Why speak of war,

when we hate those we love more than our enemies?

To hell with your philosophy.

It doesn't suit me.

To hell with it, then.

Let's drink to the memory of the Turks

who fell victim to a Russian passion.

I've no matches.

Very well...

Give her to the wet-nurse, I agree.

It's better that way.

Give her to me.

Give her to me.

Nonsense!

Yes, give her to me, give me my little girl!

I'm dying now, I know I shall die.

Ask him...

Doctor, what is it?

An advanced form of childbed fever.

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it ends in...

I'll be frank.

We expect the end any minute.

I feel them now, here they are...

My fingers are so heavy, so huge...

Soon the end will come.

The doctor said there's no hope.

I am entirely in your hands, but please allow me to stay.

I am afraid of death.

I'm in such a hurry, for there's so little time.

I don't have much longer to live.

Now the fever will come on and I won't understand anything.

Now I understand.

There's one thing I need.

I'm still the same woman.

But there's another woman in me.

She's the one who fell in love.

I tried to hate you,

but I could not forget the woman I was before.

She is not who I am.

All of me.

I need one thing...

Forgive me.

Forgive me completely.

No, you can't forgive me.

I know this can't be forgiven.

You're far too good.

Don't forget all I needed was forgiveness.

I wanted nothing more.

Why doesn't he come near?

Come here.

Come here!

Give him your hand.

Uncover your face.

Look at him.

He's a saint.

Uncover your face.

Alexei, uncover his face.

I want to see him.

Give him your hand.

Forgive him.

Thank God.

Thank God. Now everything is ready.

I'll just stretch out my legs a bit.

There.

That's good.

- I'm going home. - Stay.

She might ask for you.

Oh God...

Give me some morphine. Doctor, morphine!

Just give me morphine.

Alexei, sir...

Please let me speak to you. It is essential.

I must explain my feelings.

Feelings that have directed me, and will continue to do so.

Thus you won't be mistaken about me.

You know I had decided on a divorce.

I had even begun proceedings...

I won't hide the truth. I admit.

Revenge on you both had taken possession of me.

More than that.

I wished for her to die.

Alexei, there's no need for this.

But I saw her there and I forgave her.

I have forgiven her completely.

I want to turn the other cheek.

I want to give my cloak also when they have had my coat.

I pray to God only that he not take from me the joy of forgiveness.

That is my position.

make me the laughing-stock of society. I will not abandon her.

And I will not give you one word of reproach.

My duty is clearly defined,

I must sta with her.

And I shall.

Alexander,

does... Mother know?

No, I haven't told her.

How foolish it's turned out.

How is Anna?

She is well.

Both she and the baby are out of danger.

Listen,

I shot myself by accident.

Please, tell everyone that.

And don't ever mention it to me again, it's far too foolish.

Your dressing needs changing. I'll tell them.

- Alexander. - Yes.

I'm not delirious.

Please,

arrange things so that no one will say I'd shot myself on purpose.

No one is saying that.

Only I hope you'll never again do any shooting by accident.

I should think not.

But it would have been better...

When the swelling was gone and I had begun to recover,

I felt I had been utterly freed from some part of my grief.

As if that shot washed away the humiliation I had felt before.

And now I found it possible to look people in the eye...

and live.

But the one thing I could not tear from my heart...

was the regret, bordering on despair,

that I had lost Anna forever.

All right?

END OF EPISODE 4