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I'm a shy businessman. I want to spend the night with you. If you agree then keep this card. If not - give it back to me. I'm running out of them.

I love you, Tanya. I love you, too. I want to marry you.

Thanks God!You finally cracked.

No, is it really true that we'll gett married?

No,you really want to marry me?

I already told it to my mother.

Really?

Very really.

And we will move to your place?

If you want.

I love you.

Ok, I have to go now.

I'm going? Yes? No, no, I'm late.

Take the presents.

You know what? I will not take them, but you will bring them to me. Ok?

Ok. And it is necessary to tell you mother about us.

My sweetheart.

Tanya, wait.

Yes? What?

Here are 500 crowns. Take them, as you always do. In our country the rate of the dollar dropped right now.

Maybe it is not profitable for you?

Put them away. Stop it.

What?

In our country wives don't charge money from their husbands for sex.

That's right. But a wife is always worth much more.

Bye bye.

Bye bye.

Oh God, help me please.

Oh, Anna Matveyevna Tanechka Good morning, good morning.Here you are.

Oh, it's not needed, I don't really know..

As always, as always.

You are as a mother to me.

Madame Larson.

Did Anna Matveyevna inform you?

Come on, I don't recognize you, Tanya. You are an experienced person. Professional.

Zhenya, maybe you will let me go?

What are you talking about?

Let's go. We miss you down there.

Zhenya, I'm getting married.

Congratulations.

Zhenya, Zhenya, let me out of here. It's me, Zinka.

My darling, let me out. It is stuffy in here.

Hallo.

Hi.

Oh, here are the best people of our community.

Now everybody is here.

Take you seats, please.

Hi.

Leave me alone.

Bitch.

Now, let's continue.

Where did I stop last time?

I promise to go to school, to finish the 10th grade and get a diploma.

Of being sexually mature.

Zinaida Vasilyevna, you are disturbing.

I'm keeping silence.

Besides, I give you my word, scout's honour not to attend an Inturist hotel and never ever be a prostitute.

Natalya, who wrote this application 1 week ago?

Well, me

How many times already?

Listen, your father, well, who is he, I think..

My father is a professor, studying the culutre of Africa.Though he has never been in Africa.

In the Institute, he tells his students one thing, but when he comes home, he is laughing about what he was telling them.

And that is why?

And that's why I know, nothing will happen to me.

Hallo captain, we have arrived.

Hi, wait there.

And who is he?

This is my friend from Syria.

He is fighting for peace, you can even read it on the other side of that photo.

And in his room, you were fighting for peace, too?

Yes, something like that. Fuck, what an idiot, who is hiding stuff like that? Fuck..

Natalya.. Earlier I didn't find more than 50 marks in your bag. But here is 100!

Everything gets more expensive in the world.

And since when did syrians start to pay with finnish marks?

I found those marks.

What a fortune! And where?

In the elevator.

So when we arrested you, you were on your way to give your find to the state?

Of course.

The headline in The Pioneer Pravda: Honest girl's actions.

Text itself: a pupil of the 10th (b) grade gave to the state 100 finnish marks, which she has found..

In the underwear of a famous syrian peace fighter.

Stop making fun.

Why not? We have only just begun.

And stop immediately.

Now we start a custom examination.

Where is your search warrant?

Yevgeniy Alekseyevich, fill out this form please that Zinaida Vasylyevna has been drunk in the Inturist hotel after 23.00

Where do you work?

Same place as always.

Lenmost project.

As who?

An odd-job woman.

Poor labouror.

And what is your s..

90 rubles.

Oh, not bad, how nice it increased. The enemy propagandists only need to glance at Zinaida Vasilyevna Mileyko and they will start crying of embarassment.

The car is waiting, Anatoliy Andreyevich.

I'm finishing. Now you will take those two.

And the chain of illegal operations began.

If only I would have a law against prostitution, Zinaida Vasylyevna, I would have isolated you long time ago.

If you would really want, you could put us away within 2 weeks without any law.

All over the country.

But we are still here.

So, that means that you need us.

We need you?

Not necessary you, but your superiors or somebody else.

This way, please.

Let's go. Young bitch.

Bye girls.

See you tomorrow. Don't chew so loudly!

Oh, the difference between us is only in age and in price!

Go, go.

How much money?

I don't remember really. Something about 1200.

High class!

So you were able to get 3 clients, for 100 dollars each, and even managed to sell the currency 1:4.

What currency?

Nowadays, when apartments are constantly being robbed, I have to carry with me all my belongings.

But haven't you heard that street robberies also became more frequent?

I beg you, Zhenya.

I don't use a public transport. And I visit only decent places.

This is all my savings!

And what about your bank account?

Which bank account?

Everybody knows that I'm spending lots of money. I love to dress nicely.

I keep cats at home.

So which bank account could I possibly have?

Why do you have so many condoms, Serafima Arkadyevna?

What would you expect? Haven't you heard that there is an AIDS epidemy abroad?

It is transferred only... in this way.. by having sex, excuse me.

We are just obeying orders of our soviet medicine.

And, in future interrogations, Anatoliy Andreyevich, I ask you to keep that in mind.

Serafima Arkadiyevna. Do you remember how we warned you seriously not to come closer to the diplomatic delegations?

I don't see them at all.

Anatoliy Andreyevich, I don't meet government representatives at all.

And I don't care about them.

Though they are also people like all normal people.

And who did today serve to Argentines?

This is not true!

This is absolutely not true, Anatoliy Andreyevich.

I didn't even think of coming close to Argentines.

I have met no single Argentine.

I even didn't come close to them.

Anatoliy Andreyevich, darling, is it possible to prevent them from approaching me?

Take your belongings.

Thanks.

So, what is with Zaitseva?

"A woman likes to look nice and hold her head upright with pride."

Zaitseva is getting married, so everything is ok with her.

Yes, I'm getting married. And I'm so sick and tired of you!

And how we are sick and tired of you! We are fed up with you!

This way.

You are on your knees, even though you outrank me?

You are trying to show your abilities?

But you already yesterday got 10 rubles from me. You want more?

Where shall we go?

District Veseliy, Dibenko str. 28

And a flat number?

You will do without.

10 rubles.

Deal.

Let's go.

Listen, I recently was driving one guy from USA, to Pushkin, or to Petrodvoretsk, to Pavlovsk and some other places. He didn't have sufficient of our rubles.

He payed me with dollars. By the way, do you need dollars? I can sell you 1:3

Excuse me, I don't understand what are you talking about.

Oh, like an actor from the theatre.

Combrade, maybe you are mixing me with someone else?

Not a chance to mix you.

Take your 10 rubles.

Yes, and about the dollars...

Article 88, paragraph 1.

From 3-5 years, with confiscation.

I'm begging you.

You will later beg the prossecutor and not me.

And which article applies to you?

There is no article for me yet.

In our country this social phenomenon is missing. Clear?

Oh my sweet girl.

Maybe you will give me your phone number?

Oh, you will not have enough of either rubles or even dollars.

You will remain without trousers.

Damned idiot. He always parks his truck so that one can not drive or walk close to the house!

Save your legs.

Hey you, idiot, I will come down now and pull your legs out!

So, that is your truck in the middle of the way? Impossible to walk or to drive! Who do you think you are?

Mama. I'm getting married.

Thanks God. Whom with?

For Edik. With the engineer Edward Larson.

How can we all fit in our little apartament?

I will live at his place.

Does he have his own room?

Apartment.

Where?

In Sweden.

Oh my God. And what about me?

What have you seen in your life?

My father, who is a horny bastard,

A salary 140 rubles.

This 1-room flat from the state.

This life?

Why? Why did you give up university?

To study 5 years in order to earn 100 rubles?

Go fuck your university!

Did your university give you a lot?

Yes it did.

I'm bringing up and teaching children.

Mother, dear, the children are bringing you up and teaching.

But I want to have my own house, my own car,

I want to go to the shop and buy the things that I really need. Understand?

I don't want to go to people who illegally sell foreign clothes at higher prices.

I want to see the world with my own eyes.

I haven't become Sofye Kovalevskaya, or Valentina Tereshkova.

Mama, but I deserve much more, believe me.

Am I a woman or where?

Or what!

Or who.

Do you love him?

Mama, don't make me laugh. If It will be necesarry - then I will love him.

Tanya, daughter, but that means that you will have to sell yourself.

Right. Right, mama.

But who nowadays does not sell himself?

Who is not trying to sell his profession more expensive?

Architects, scientists, lawyers.

And what has all of this got to do with you?

Am I worse?

Mama, don't be sad.

Mama, everything will be all right, I will come and visit you.

Sit, I will go and open the door. This is Lyalka.

Hi.

Hi.

I'm waiting for you downstairs but you are not coming out.

Your parents are still fighting?

Yes.

Did you get anything to eat?

Don't ask.

Have you given breakfast to your child?

None of your business!

She should better go to the course for trolleybus drivers, then she will earn at least twice as much as her dad.

Stupid fool!

Mama, we'd better go.

No, no, mama.

Take it.

Mama.

You are going to work for 24 hours, you should buy enough food to eat.

Take it.

Bye.

Wait a moment.

Look at this.

Oh, Tatyana.

How are you?

Do you have a cigarette?

Here in my pocket.

Take off your shoes.

Tanechka, could you give me a cigarette?

Why are you throwing only one cigarette at a time?

More, more.

Nefyodova, I'm warning you for the last time! You will get punished for 15 days more.

Turn away.

Why are you staring?

Why did you take 2 rubles from your mother? You have so many!

You think it would be better that she would know how many I have and where from?

Hallo.

Hi.

We should take care of ourselves.

How are you doing?

This guy who visited you today, is he your son?

Yes, my oldest son.

Oh, he looks so much like you.

He has also a youngest son. He is only 7 years old.

Tanya, do you love me?

Now you will feel.

Tanya, while you were not here, Ivan Afanasyevich was moaning for 3 days.

Did not let anyone sleep.

But today he looks nice.

He probably loves you.

I love you, too, Ivan Afanasyevich.

Tanyusha, we will dance a Boston waltz together, once. It's true.

Yes, sure. Hold here.

Take some clean linen and bring it to ward N6.

There is a patient who had a heart attack there. Change the linen on his bed and change his clothes.

Hallo.

Hallo.

What is it? What is it, I'm asking you? Why are the urinals dirty?

Be quiet, it's almost over. Think how we are giving birth!

Mama, do we have relatives abroad?

No, of course not.

Has somebody been captured during war or interned?

Are you crazy?

OK, then everything is good. Thank you.

Tanya, there is a telephone call for you.

Me?

Yes.

With a very pleasant foreign accent.

Hallo?

Tanya, it's me, Edward.

Hi.

Have you told your mother about us?

Sure I have. She is very happy.

We will pay him a visit.

Her.

Yes, sure.

Good man.

Someone, who in a strange atmosphere is getting married with a russian whore..

Woman. Is obliged to meet her mother. Even if she will turn out to be a KGB spy.

One moment.

Shut up, you damn fool!

Good heavens, Edward, calm down! It was a joke. A joke.

I love you, Tanya.

Albert Ivanovich, I can not stand it anymore!

Kozlov is misbehaving each lesson. He is very rude, Albert Ivanovich, it's a nightmare.

Kozlov, go out and wait there.

Take a seat, please.

Thanks.

We have to do something, Albert Ivanovich, I'm begging you.

Alla Sergeyevna. We have got information... It appears that your daughter is getting married with a foreigner and is gonna leave her motherland.

This all is leading to very grim thoughts.

But she is in love with him. And she is not going to change her citizenship.

She has always been, and will always be, a soviet citizen.

I don't know, Alla Sergeyevna, I don't know.

But Albert Ivanovich, times have changed nowadays.

For us, for the people, who are responsible for bringing up the children, Alla Sergeyevna, the times should always remain the same.

What a nightmare.

Come here, you bastard.

Maybe "bastard" for some people, but for others Yurij Petrovich.

Ok, Yurij Petrovich, I have to talk to you.

25 quid.

Do you know, how many times I have heard exactly that expression?

25 "quid", 10 "quid", 100 "quid", from the bartenders, from the hotel staff.

From other people, working with us.

But I payed them because I had to pay them. But what about you?

What are you mumbling?

25 quid, you say? Ok, deal!

Come here.

Come, come.

See?

Sit still!

You smelly bastard, cheap idiot, if you one more time rise your scrappy tail to Anna Sergeyevna Sajtseva, your teacher, or say any single word during class,

I will smash you all over the wall. Understood?

I'm asking, understood?

Yes, understood.

So, that's better.

It concerns all of you.

Good bye children.

Best regards to your parents.

Tanka, there are girls there waiting for you.

Tanja, may I go with you, please?

Look at yourself! Straighten your clothes. You look a mess.

Yes. Thank you.

Hallo.

Hi.

Hi.

Why did you come?

We wanted to see something shocking, how an intergirl is working for her country in her spare time.

Very simple. One day and night and then 3 days of rest.

The job is not difficult, it's rather quiet.

Quiet for whom?

What do you mean for whom? For me? for my mother, for the policemen?

It's high time to go out.

No way. Why did you come?

We have a present for you.

Get in.

Tanyuha. Do you need an arctic fox?

A fur coat?

Yes.

What size?

Yours.

How much?

1000 bucks. Or, as our Moscow colleagues say, a thousand greenbacks.

I don't have any currency right now, but how much is it in rubles?

Seven thousand.

Seven?

Maybe I should buy it for my mother? Otherwise she doesn't have any winter coat.

Show me.

Lyalka, try it on.

Wow, what a beautiful girl!

A competitor to be.

Forget it!

Take it off. You are too young to get used to such clothes.

Ok girls, a deal. I will buy it.

I don't know when I will get money again, but my mother has nothing to wear for winter.

You will bring me the dough and get a fox.

Thanks.

Listen. I kicked a frenchman out of the bar today. Because he was packed, and could therefore not perform. I only lost my time.

So you went unpaid? Lyalechka, go, you shouldn't listen to this. Go!

No, she has got her 100 bucks. It was me who didn't get money today. I'm giving 15 rubles to the doorman in a hotel restaurant, he brings me to a table with a huge frenchman.

Huge shoulders, horrible face. I put him in my car and drove to my place.

But on our way he tells me that he is not interested in women but fancies only guys.

So if I will find a man for him right away, then he will pay me 300 franks.

Did he make it up to you?

What have I told you? Get out of here!

Not a chance. Don't you know, french will never pay me any compensation. He would kill for 1 frank, fucking queer.

Now you can count: 5 rubles for entrance, 1 ruble for hanging a coat, 15 rubles to Genka, 25 to the driver. All wasted.

I have to go.

What's the matter?

Tanya, could you take me with you once?

Let's go and work. "take me with you.."

Madame Larson.

But I envy her.

What are you doing to me? What are you doing to me?

How can I sign a reference for a person who is moving to a capitalist country!? Permanently!

Boris Semyonovich, dear, why are you suffering so much?

Just write anything. You understand very well, that this is only stupid formal bullshit.

Don't talk nonsense.

I'm being asked to bear a very serious political responsibility.

Wait, Boris Semyonovich. The only thing that is needed from you is the truth.

So, just write down the truth about Tatyana Nikolaevna.

And I, as the main doctor of the department, will also sign it, if it will be the truth.

And I can dictate what to write.

Tatyana Nikolaevna Zaitseva is a healthy person, because she does not smoke drugs, nor sniff powder, doesn't inject herself, and she drinks alcohol with such a revulsion that it is a nightmare.

She only drinks tiny amounts on parties with her colleagues. Everything is according to the rules and laws. She is for peace, for friendship among the nations, she is smart in politics, she is a stable person.

And, at last, her life's principle is that proletarians of all the countries should unite.

Will it work, like that?

It's wonderful.

Stop it.

Don't make fun of it.

Two young idiots are having fun, but I'm the old one..

I'm not in the party, and you know to what it will lead me.

Boris Semyonovich, it is becoming boring.

Volodya, I would like to see you in my position.

I would also like to see me in your position.

Oh, that's what you mean?

Of course, Volodya, as soon as I will sign this reference, my position immediately will be vacant.

And you will really nicely fit in this chair.

I don't know..

Boris Semyonovich. Maybe you really don't have to sign this paper. Maybe Konovalov will do?

Your deputy.

Who on earth needs those references? Who will read them?

Volvos are good cars. We are exporting them. It is just wonderful that there is cooperation between our countries.

And I would like to make a deal with you.

Sure, I don't want any misunderstandings.

Golden words.

Two days ago, I have bought a winter coat for my mother.

I want you to give this present to my mother.

Just as a present from you.

But it will be not honestly, not good.

It will be good. It will be much worse if I will give her this present. She will get a lot of questions.

But in our culture people don't give winter clothes as presents during summer.

But we do. You should be prepared for winter even in summer.

This is our small national peculiarity.

Maybe your mother will not like me.

You are such a silly boy! She loves you already!

This is my mother.

This is Edward.

Yes. I wish your house always to be preposterous, er, prosperous.

Come in, please.

I don't remember it anymore.

Lyalka.

Tanechka used to play rather well earlier.

So, what are you saying about the robots?

We started to produce robots for fishing. I'm participating in it's construction.

Really?

The robot casts the hook into the water and when the fish bites, the hook catches automatically.

The robot will pull the line in and out until the fish gets tired. Then all it has to do is to pull out the fish.

It's time. Did you understand everything?

Yes.

Go and call Edik and keep my mother in there.

take it please.

Go, go, don't hasitate.

Edward, Tanya is calling you for one minute.

How do you like him?

Very good!

So you like? He is good-looking.

Dear Alla..

Sergeyevna.

I know..

Dear Alla Sergeyevna. You as the mother of my future wife, I want to give you a present. Here you are.

Thank you Edward, I'm very thankful to you. But you shouldn't do this.

And what's inside?

Why are you asking? Just open it. Shall we open and have a look?

What a beauty.

Mama, it suits you so wonderful!

Very nice.

Edik, how have you guessed, it's exactly what is needed.

You both lost your minds.

You really lost your minds.

Hostess!.. medical assistant! dear..

Hi Tanyusha.

Hi.

Where have you disappeared?

Oh, isn't it too early for you to hit the bottle?

Now I am allowed to do everything.

Have you hooked someone?

No, I was hooked by someone... for 10 days.

For 1500 for 10 days. Not bad, eh?

And the cops have not found out?

Greenbacks. The most interesting thing is, that for the cops I'm non-existant.

They take everyone but me. It's not even fair.

Maybe somebody from above pulled some strings on our guys?

I think so, too.

My client is.. he has some interesting deal with our fleat for about 70 millions.

I think, their chiefs have realized it and ordered our guys...

For this amount of money, they'll let him fuck all the Leningrad prostitutes, rather than having him stop the contract.

That's economic policy for you..

Maybe you will also be rewarded.

Yes, as if.

Oh, my purse is coming here.

This is my friend, Tatyana.

Very nice to meet you.

He is asking if he could give you a lift?

No, thanks, I live nearby.

Thanks.

Don't you want to involve him in this business?

No. Have you forgotten that I've been in prison all this time under article 88?

And I have my mother in Pskov, she is ill, my father as well.

I have a daughter, who will finish school next year.

Your daughter is already such a big girl? Oh my God.

And what did you think?

I'm almost 40. I'm just doing my best to look younger.

Who will need me after 40?

Don't say so.

Oh my God. I'm so sick and tired of all of you.

"I dreamt of autumn with the dim light coming through the windows,"

"My friends, and you among them"

"And like a falcon from the sky, who has caught some prey,"

"The heart was sliding down into your hand."

Tanya, why are you peeking in the book?

10 years ago you knew all that book by heart.

Oh, an old lady remembered her childhood.

Edik.. so wonderful.

How did you come to this?

I have asked a russian immigrant what is best to bring as a present from Stockholm to Russia.

He told me: Pasternak, Visotsky, Tsvetayeva. So I went and bought.

Just went and bought?

Yes.

Edik. How is it possible?

I want to make a toast for our mother.

Me too. May I now start calling you mama?

Sure, sure!

Edik, last time I was in a restaurant was around 20 years ago.

How is that possible?

I don't know.

Stockholm is a beautiful place. Mama can come to visit us.

I have never been abroad before. Not even to Rumania.

Why?

God knows.

Thank you.

Why is it, that in front of the camera you are always shy?

No, you look so natural, but I'm not.

But Lyalka is a real beauty.

Look.So beautiful.

You dress looks luxurious.

Yes, I did my best. Mama, let's go downstairs and wait for Edik there.

Let's go.

Tanechka, where is the toilet?

There, upstairs. Go, I will wait for you.

Good.

Hallo Tanya-san. Do you remember me?

No, excuse me. I see you for the first time in my life.

During the whole year I couldn't forget those days, we spent together.

Maybe you mix me with someone else?

During the days I'm on the fur auction, but the rest of my time is only for you.

I live here. In the hotel Europe. Here is my card.

I will wait for your call.

Hi Tanya.

Hi girl. Who are you?

I'm Liza - rabbit. Have you heard about me?

Oh, of course. Hi.

Tanya, we all know you and respect you a lot.

But our girls asked to tell you not to come here anymore.

Let everybody have his own garden.

Why do you need troubles?

I have checked this out. They have cheated us with the bill again.

Meet my friend, please. This is my mother, Alla Sergeyevna and this is my husband, Edward Larson.

Rabbit. Nice to meet you.

What a strange name does she have. Rabbit?

Mama, it is not a name, it is a nickname.

What?

I will explain it later. Come this way.

When and where was your husband born?

Your father?

Like hell he is my father.

In Sestrovedsk.

Yes? And when did he die?

God beware. Maybe he is still alive.

Ok. take some calming medicine and go to bed. Ok? I will call you in the morning.

Good night.

Who is out there on duty?

No one. Everybody is sleeping. There are no seriously ill patients.

Wow.. and what is the occasion?

Do you like it?

Yes, it's nice.

Take it.

No, are you kidding me?

Take it. A handsome man should have good-looking things.

Tanya, from where did you get all of it? What are we celebrating?

Lyalka, go and open that jar, take the plastic bag out of it and try the stuff on. I think it is your size.

Oh, Tanyka.

Such nice slippers. But your feet will not sweat in them?

A royal present.

Lyalya, happy birthday to you! I wish you happinness. And I wish you to enter University this year.

Congratulations.

Oh, but my birthday is in January, but now it is only September.

Right. But I will not be here in January.

And where will you be? You will be on vacation?

I'm going to Sweden.

Exactly, or maybe to Brasil?

No, to Stockholm.

I don't understand. Are you going permanently?

Yes.

What is not clear here?

Our Tatyana Zaitseva is getting married.

Got married.

Yes. And is moving permanently to live at her husband's place.

So, Sergeyevna, pour liquor in the glasses and we will toast for the beginning of my new life.

Married a foreigner.

And you kept it secret from us. When did you manage to hook him?

Why to hook? Aren't the foreigners people? What is the difference?

A big difference!

Didn't she have enough of our guys?

Oh, and what is your business?

The foreigners are not like our guys. They are with good manners and they are rich.

And how do you know?

I know. Go to the Palace Square and have a look. There are plenty of them there. Neatly dressed, with cameras.

And our guys don't have cameras?

During Stalin's times this did not happen. Yes, We were poor, but like one family and with honesty.

But nowadays we are rich but no longer honest.

And why are you talking about Stalin? As soon as he died his daughter married a foreigner and moved abroad.

It's not true. It couldn't have happened. Nowadays everybody is telling bad things about Stalin.

Let's at least be glad that our Tanyka is not getting married to a German.

That's true.

Germans reached Stalingrad during war, but Swedes reached only Poltava.

Did you meet your Swede in Poltava?

OK, the history lesson is over. Pour some more into our glasses.

It is also good to eat something while drinking.

Excuse me please.

I think Ivan Afanasyevich died over there.

You don't have all the necessary documents in order to start the procedure, Tatyana Nikolayevna.

Why not?

Let us check together.

Ok.

The forms in triplicate,

Yes.

A document from your job.

Yes.

The references, the invitation to Sweden,

The agreement of your mother, Zaitseva Alla Sergeyevna is officially registered by the notary,

Yes.

And where is the agreement of your father?

Which father?

All my life I lived with my mother and I don't have any father.

Tatyana Nikolayevna.. Children are usually being conceived with the help of a man.

You gonna explain me now, how children are born?

So, you have to give us the agreement of your father, oficially registered by notary, in his presence there,

That he doesn't have any economical objections to you leaving abroad, and gives his parental agreement.

Oh my God.. Are you crazy?

He has not lived with us for more than 20 years now.

It has always been only my mother who was supporting our family.

You understand that during all those 20 years we haven't seen any single penny from him?

Don't you believe me?

I do believe you, but the document is needed.

Ok. But what if he died?

Hallo.

Hallo. Hallo.

Doctor, come in, please. I've been told that you will come only in the afternoon.

I'm not the doctor. I need Zaitsev Nikolay Platonovich.

So, then you are from social welfare! I am Zaitsev Nikolay Platonovich.

Stasik, why are you scared? The lady is nice.

Calm down. Nastenka, take Stasik and go and play in another room so that you will not scare your mother.

Go, go. Meanwhile I will talk to this lady in the kitchen.

Lyusenka, this is not a doctor, this is a comrade from a social welfare.

Are you really Zaitsev Nikolay Platonovich?

You want to see my pass? Wait a moment...

No... thanks...it's not needed.

Come in, please.

What is the matter with your legs?

Why? You know well! I have arthritis.

You pay me a handicapped pension! You are from social welfare, aren't you?

No. I'm not from social welfare.

Interesting..

So, where are you from then?

Why don't you get some dental work done?

Daughter?!

I don't have time for the dentist.

Though since I'm a handicapped of the second category, they should do it free of charge.

That is why you don't shave?

No. I don't shave only at home. But at my work or among the people, I'm always shaven.

Do you work?

Sure! Care-taker in a tram depot.

One day and one night working and then 3 days off.

It's very convenient.

It's pure luck that I'm handicapped with the right for work.

So, we are actually living rather well.

Yes, I see.

The most important thing it to cure Lyusenka.

Otherwise she is only lying in bed, after she gave birth to Stasik.

The doctors say, it is something in her brain.

How is mama?

What is your business with her?

Well, just asking.

Listen, I'm getting married.

Congratulations, daughter!

First of all I'm not a daughter of you.

Secondly, your congratulations to me are like a pair of glasses for an ass.

Thirdly, I'm getting married to a foreigner and moving abroad.

The only thing needed from you is to sign the document at notary's, that you don't have any economical objections to me and don't mind against me going abroad.

Are you crazy? Which objections could I have?

Wow.. abroad!?

But that means that you are leaving your motherland forever?

Your motherland... but what about your mother?

Have you thought about her?

Have you thought a lot about her?

We can't speak without some toast.

Would you like to drink with me?

I don't drink.

That's good, daughter.

But this is my own moonshine. I made it.

Pure sugar. Can you imagine? A stick of yeast and no chemical rubbish.

When will we meet again?

Ok, pour some.

Ok, daddy, let's drink.

Yes.

Let's drink, Nikolay Platonovich Zaitsev.

Because you, son of a bitch, old horny bastard, left us 23 years ago and not a single time you have wondered..

How your wife, Alla Sergeyevna, is doing or your daughter, Tatyana Nikolaevna.

Let's drink that smelly drink of yours for that you have created 2 more kids but haven't be able to support them.

And that at least towards the end of your pointless life, they may become normal people and your wife may recover.

Why don't you drink?

Drink, you wanted to.

What does it matter, what you drink for?

Why are you all so cruel, comrades?!

Comrades?! The wolf from Tambov is your comrade.

Get dressed and we will go to the notary.

Why?

What why? You have to approve that you don't have economical objections to me and don't mind against me leaving.

But what if I have? Economical objections?

What? You have them towards me?

Yes.

What did you say?

So what did you say?

I will kill you..

You will not go anywhere.

In our life we should pay for everything, Tatyana!

How much?

Well, it depends.

How much?

What? 3 rubles? or 30 rubles? or 300 rubles?

3 thousand rubles.

Papa.. papa, mama wants to the toilet to take a dump, but I have Stasik, who is crying.

Go, my little children, go into the other room, wait for one moment.

Otherwise I will have to clean after her later on, wash the linen.

Ecxuse me, please.

Lyuisenka, one moment, I have to follow a comrade from social welfare to the door.

Oh my God. What a luck that you dissappeared from our family 23 years ago.

I don't have money.

All my savings are converted into obligations at 3 %.

There will be a lottery in 2 weeks. I can not take a risk.

Kisulya, help me, please.

Don't you have any dough?

Last year you were working a lot with the clients!

From where could I have the dough?

I'm not saving as you do.

I had only 14 thousands.

I gave you 7 000 for that fur coat,

2 000 I kept for myself for some shoppings before my trip,

5 000 I put on my mother's bank account. She has to live off something when I will be gone.

So, Now I have only 1500 and nothing else.

It is no longer possible to withdraw money from the savings account.

In the hospital nobody has an extra ruble to spare.

Girls, Simka, you know me.

As soon as I will move abroad, I will be able to give your money back.

Tanyusha, that's not a point. All the money I have is in foreign currency.

I haven't been changing it for ages.

One of the guys who changed it for me, was arrested and now I'm very much afraid as well.

A second guy will most probably be arrested soon as well.

I have no rubles now at all.

I have bought a car and had to pay 4000 extra over its price.

But where? Where will I get him so much money?

Why are you shaking like a pig on a noose?

Why are you begging?

Can't you earn them yourself?

There is a exhibition for medical equipment with participants from all over the world.

There is a fur action. There is plenty of work in the town.

And you are showing yourself to be an orphan.

You have been married. Madame Larson.

Are you crazy? If the cops will come for me just once I will lose everything!

But who is suggesting you to go back to the hotel?

Take the key from this apartament, pay to us 50 rubles per day and work right here.

We are ready to sacrifice with everything for our friend!

Girls, I'm going to the kitchen to make some koffee.

That means that I will pay you 50 rubles per day for the appartament but you will pay 200 rubles per month for it?

250

You have an emergency after all.

We say "a spoon towards dinner time is more expensive"

And who will exchange my currency into rubles?

I can buy currency from you.

Fuck..

Oh my God, what will I tell to my mother? and to Edward?

You know, in our country a medical worker is obliged to work in case of an emergency as he is affiliated to the army.

It has always been like that here, I'm sorry that it happened exactly today.

I'm afraid whether it has something to do with the political atmosphere nowadays.

Don't worry mama, in our country it works the same way.

Even the policemen should go back to work in case of an emergency.

I love Tanya very much.

Oh, that is my flight.

Tell Tanya to call me in Stockholm.

Good bye. Good bye. See you.

Good bye. Have a nice trip.

Where is she?

Look into my eyes! Where is she, I'm asking you!

Don't switch on the lights.

I don't drink.

As you wish.

I don't understand, Tanya-san. Your friends pulled me out from the action and told me that there's an emergency!

Yes,an alert.

Which alert? Tanya-san, I'm calm. But what is the matter with you?

The mysterious Russian soul.

By the way, doesn't your wife satisfy you?

Sure, I have a wonderful wife.

Then why, as soon as you come here, you behave as if you finally got freedom and immediately visit us?

I have never had such a woman like you.

You don't have to believe me.

But after our very first meeting I have been only thinking about you all the time.

And I understood...

What have you understood?

I understood that you need money very much. How much do you need?

3 000 rubles.

But I don't have rubles. How much is it in dollars?

Divide by 4.

750.

Maybe you want more?

No.. just 750.

Tanya-san.. take as much as you need and I will go.

Subtitles copyright by Tanja Rumjanceva.