Original subtitles

Channel One Russia DAGO-film

Dentsu Tech. Inc. Present

with the assistance of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinema

Young lady!

Catch it!

I'll get it!

Pasha, are you asleep? Serve the veal.

And you, Anton, stop gaping!

Master is exhausted, always learning his examinations.

First of all, examinations can't be learnt, they can be taken.

You should have learnt to speak properly, like an educated person.

Educated person! Now you look at him!

MY LOVE based on a novel by Shmelyov "A story of love"

Stepan, stop fussing me!

Ah! Damn you! Golly!

It was the sixteenth spring in my life.

But to me it was the first true spring, the past ones were all jumbled together.

I had just read "First love" by Turgenev,

and I was wandering, as if looking for something...

An image of bright-eyes Zinaida never left me.

A sweet dream, she emerged from the past.

"Sweet love!", I called on someone in my dreams.

Pasha, who brought these snowdrops for me?

No one! They came here on their own feet!

Lately she has brought me pancakes. And now the snowdrops.

What if we fall in love with each other?

Is it for me?

A... B...

What if I marry her? It doesn't matter that she's an orphan, that she's poor.

There are examples of poor girls getting married... to princes!

I could do the same: I could marry Pasha!

Bread and salt to the bride and groom! Let me kiss you!

Kostyushka doesn't deserve her.

Look what a bride this percy boy has caught!

She's so sweet!

Now go!

Zhenya, don't tell anyone, I'm starting to realize

what it means to love a woman.

I have someone whom I love and who loves me passionately!

Is it Pasha you are talking about?

A goddess wearing an apron! Buy her sunflowers!

You can only say dirt! I know she is not educated...

Here is a true belle femme! And maids don't count.

[Singing]

Mika! Mikochka! Where is it?

Young man! Young man! Could you please bring Mika down from there?

Young man...

I'm here!

There is a little cat above your head. Can you see it?

Where?

Right there!

- Come here... - Careful!

I'm so grateful to you! But for the fence, I would have kissed you...

A goddess...

[singing]

You fidget!

Look at her, so skittish she's grown.

She is in the age when a girl flourishes.

Pasha, want some sunflower seeds? Got you like a bird in a clap-net!

Let me go, you devil!

In your place I would marry her,

otherwise she will be married to someone else.

Go!

Want some nuts, sweet?

Let me go! I can't breathe!

I knew that they were living in sin at the herdsman's:

The herdsman was beating up his son, whose wife was his mistress.

The herdsman stole her from his son. They were now living in sin.

Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!

Kiss it.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Everybody who looks at a woman with lustful intent

has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

But what beautiful women are for then?

I will soon be 16. Why is it a sin to love a woman at my age?

Pasha is not seducing me, she brought me snowdrops.

I feel nice when she is beside me.

Help me, Lord. Don't condemn me.

I want pure love. I need just a little caress.

Amen...

Pasha, I told you not to wear your best apron when we are not receiving guests.

But I wash it myself.

Stop thwarting me! You only have boys on your mind!

It's not true.

Yes, it is.

Street-organ! Street-organ playing outside!

Let me see it! I want to see it, too!

[A girl is singing to the sounds of a street-organ]

May be there's something about me there?

Get yourself a woman to squeeze her!

I had one, but it's all over.

Gentlemen! I love street-organ!

It's so nice to listen to it playing outside!

Goddess!

Your spear pierced me to the heart Oh crystal petal in the midst of mud

A crystal petal... petal...

I stood there spellbound with your beauty Anticipating, always there on duty

May I come in?

Oh dear! You write and learn day and night.

I have to study hard to prepare for my examinations.

I wish you taught me reading and writing.

Tonechka, read it to me. I have to lay the table.

The planet Venus is favoring you...

You will soon get what you wish from the person you love.

Pasha, and who is this person?

How should I know?

[Singing] No one did I love, no one did I court,

I'm just seeing my dear, who - I will tell you not...

Pasha, wait! Where are you going?

To a fortune-teller, I want to know if he loves me or not.

Who is he?

My dear.

Oh forget-me-not eyes! There's so much tenderness in you!

Heavenly beauty, the light of my austere life!

If I were Homer, I would have written the Seraphiad

where I would have chanted the praises of You... The empress of my soul!

I write poems to praise you!

Say no and I will start distraught to bleed

Say yes and I will die blessed at your feet

I'm begging you to answer me. My life is in your hands.

The empress of my soul, I'm begging you to answer me.

My life is in your hands.

How do you like that!

Gosh!

Beautiful!

Hey, master! Would you like to take a look?

He's too young for this!

Don't turn around. They recognize us.

Was it you who left a letter for me?

I will write you back. Where shall I leave the letter?

Leave it at the fence near the rowan-tree.

Your aunt will never bear ill will to you.

You can't remain an old maid forever!

May I?

Come in.

Aunt has come. She wants me to marry Stepan, the coachman.

But you will not marry him, Pasha, will you?

No, I will not.

Pasha...

I feel so good with you.

I'm crazy to love you. You are so young!

I'm a fool, but a happy one!

No, please don't!

Pasha!

Please don't, dear!

Pasha...

It's sheer folly! This strange boy...

Seems like it's here.

Seraphima...

You scared me to death!

My foolhardy boy! It'll be a scandal if they see us together.

I... I don't know... I... I adore you!

Shhh! For God's sake, be quiet!

This is the last time. I wrote you back - and that's it.

I'm kissing you.

Oh my dear! My goddess!

I'll kiss you passionately...

My God, what am I doing? This is so stupid!

Oh God!

The woman I will love will be an ideal to me,

for such a woman I could do anything.

I could expire my last breath at her feet.

And what if she comes to you at night with her hair loose?

But is it possible that a woman can come to a man?

It often happens. It is physiology.

You don't understand! I want to see a spiritual creature in a woman.

Come on! It's nonsense!

Deep inside you're dreaming of... I know what you're dreaming of.

You... you are a dirty dog!

There's no getting away from you!

Are you made of sugar or salt?

Let me go, you devil!

You debauchees!

Don't meddle in it, silly boy!

We don't stand between you two. You'll have your turn...

How dare you?!

I don't do lechery!

Ah! You're too young to meddle in these matters.

Why are you putting me to shame?

Who? Me?!

I saw you kissing her over the fence. And who! The worst whore!

Don't you dare to insult her!

Take it! I don't want anything from you!

Pasha, my dear! What...

Don't touch me! I will cry now!

Tonechka! There was a murder at the herdsman's place.

Both were slashed to death with an axe.

They are coming!

Step aside!

Who was murdered?

It seems like the herdsman was.

Step aside.

I killed them!

Percy boy! Look how he fixed them! That's what happens when a woman's involved.

I pity the wench, she was affectionate.

Tonechka, dear, what a nightmare...

Pasha, Pashenka!

My dear insane poet...

...I have a lot of things to tell you.

I know that our date will have no continuation -

you are so young, and I have seen a lot in my life.

I am 25, and I am destined to live in a vulgar world

where people can't see that a woman's soul is so fragile.

All I want is to purify my heart, to relieve my feelings.

Come to the church. I'll be there.

Kissing your eyes. Your S.

I wish there were a herdsman among us.

I know this beast, it's damn strong. He'll show us!

Keep to the left. Knock it down, shout, dangle before him!

Damn strong a beast!

God forbid!

I'll manage it alone.

I can do that.

It will toss you!

Say prayers for me.

Put stakes on the bull!

The bull will toss him.

Stakes on the bull. I know this beast.

And I know Stepan!

The bull will kill him...

What for?! Oh God! Such an absurd death!

It's all my fault! My words brought the disaster!

Oh Lord... [saying a prayer]

I'm here.

Seraphima... Seraphima Konstantinovna!

Seraphima! I want you to call me this way!

Seraphima!

Don't stop talking!

I dreamt of meeting a mysterious, exceptional woman...

What's wrong with you? Why are so you shy?

In your letters and poems you are so daring...

I found my ideal of a woman in you: Your voice, your gestures,

your hair, your eyes...

Give me your eyes!

Let's go! Hurry up!

Let's hurry up there where nightingales sing! Further! Further!

My innocent... my love... And I'm such a sinner!

You are so... Give me your lips!

The eye... Your eye...

Now you know my tragedy!

Tonechka, now that you've seen it, you will stop loving me!

Your spear pierced me to the heart Oh crystal petal in the midst of mud

I stood there spellbound with your beauty Anticipating, always there on duty

Brain fever. He is very bad.

Oh Lord, let him live!

I'll leave if you save his life, oh Lord!

My dear!

My dear!

Tonechka...

You've grown cold...

Pasha...

Don't, dear. Keep silent. You're still weak. My sweetheart...

God be praised, you will live a long life. You won't forget me, will you?

Pasha?

Our Pasha left. She went into a convent.

She promised God to do so if you'd recover. And so she did. God bless her.

I never saw Pasha again.

I cried my heart out. I was shedding tears over my love,

over the first sweet of my life... over my first and purest love.