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- GoIyabkin! - Here!

- BIokhin! - Here!

- Ivanov! - Here!

- Fomichyov! - Here!

- Goryshkin! - Here!

- Borovsky! - Here!

- Kukunin! - Here!

- AIimov! - Here!

- Ryabinin! - Here!

The roII caII of Section 2 done. No one absent without Ieave.

The roII caII of Section 3 done. No one absent without Ieave.

The roII caII of Section 4 done. No one absent without Ieave.

- Take them to the barracks. - Yes, sir!

Section!

Left turn! Quick march!

Ryabinin, stay behind. Come here.

You're Iucky, your wife's here.

- Why? - She wants a visit with you.

I didn't ask her to. I don't want this visit.

She took a train, then a pIane, then a 24-hour bumpy truck ride.

I don't care, I'm not going.

You wiII go without convoy. I trust you.

Where to?

She's taken a room in the viIIage. Here, the address.

You drop by Ivan Gerasimovich

and pick up the accordion he fixed.

You're a musician, this is your department. Check if he fixed it right.

- Yes, sir. - That's better.

You can't refuse to go to pick up the accordion.

But mind you, Ryabinin, at 8 sharp you are to stand in Iine.

Your Ieave is untiI the morning roII caII. Tardiness wiII mean an escape.

How far is the viIIage?

Not far, about nine or ten kiIometers.

And don't think of bringing in booze, a knife or money. I'II find it anyway.

I know.

Your pass is good untiI 8 a.m. Be here on the dot.

If you're Iate, it'II mean an escape. You'II do an additionaI time. Go!

LUDMILA GURCHENKO

OLEG BASSILASHVILI

in an ELDAR RYAZANOV fiIm

A RAILWAY STATION FOR TWO

Written by EmiI BRAGINSKY EIdar RYAZANOV

Director of Photography Vadim ALISSOV

Production Designer AIexander BORISOV

Music by Andrei PETROV

Song Lyrics by EIdar RYAZANOV

EngIish SubtitIes by T. Kameneva and K. Ryabko

Cast:

Andrei - Nikita MIKHALKOV

UncIe Misha - Nonna MORDYUKOVA

NikoIasha - MikhaiI KONONOV

YuIia - Anastasia VOZNESENSKAYA Marina - Tatiana DOGILEVA

VioIetta - OIga VOLKOVA Shurik - AIexander SHIRVINDT

Lyuda - Raissa ETUSH MeIon vendor - Temur YUNGUSOV

Attention, passengers! Our train arrives in the city of Zastupinsk.

The stop duration is twenty minutes.

Yura, reserve a seat for me.

What wiII they give us to eat?

Pass me the saIt, pIease.

Good afternoon, comrades! Bon appetite!

- Miss! - Just a minute.

Can you come to me?

- We have no mineraI water. - What about green saIad?

It's not incIuded in the Iunch of the day.

PIease, bring me some diet food.

May I have a fork?

PIease, some diet food.

Your train wiII Ieave before they prepare your diet food.

If you got an uIcer, you'd better eat at home, not at a restaurant.

Just the sight of this food may provoke uIcer.

Prepare 1 rubIe 20 kopecks for the Iunch. Exact change if possibIe.

- Can I have a beer? - We don't have beer.

I can't eat this.

Miss, here's 1 rubIe 20 kopecks.

Take the money, pIease.

What about the money?

For this Iunch you shouId pay to us. The money's on the tabIe.

Who took the money?

In your Iine of work you shouId first take the money.

AII right. Who took the money? Comrades! GirIs! Thanks.

One has aIready Ieft. One Ieft without paying, girIs.

PIease, pay for your Iunch.

Just imagine, that jerk with a fat mug... Where're you going?

I didn't eat anything. My Iunch is over there, I didn't touch it.

How can I know whether you ate it or not. One rubIe 20 kopecks, pIease.

I never touched it. I wouIdn't eat it! Someone aIready ate it.

Come on, stop your tricks. Pay me 1 rubIe 20 kopecks.

I didn't eat and I'm not going to pay. I'II Iate for the train. Let me go.

We don't earn enough to pay for aII of you!

Come on, you restaurant waitresses can pay for everybody.

I'm Iate for my train!

- CaII the poIice! Jerk! - Fine, go caII the poIice.

You may the whoIe poIice department. I didn't eat and I'm not going to pay!

- You wiII! - You'II see.

- Some dude! - CaII the poIice!

City sIicker!

NikoIasha! This one won't pay.

I'm not going to pay, I didn't eat. This is a matter of principIe.

This man asked for diet food.

I said we don't have time. Then he ate the Iunch of the day...

We'II investigate, comrades.

What do you mean, investigate? Are you going to examine my stomach?

- He ate it and won't pay! - I didn't eat. Aren't you ashamed?

We'II draw up a report of what you ate for 1 rubIe 20 kopecks...

I didn't eat, and she says I did. It's a matter of principIe, you know.

I didn't eat. WhiIe you make up your report, my train wiII Ieave.

Don't worry, I do it very quickIy.

- Which train is yours? - To Dushanbe.

His train has aIready Ieft. It serves him right for being miserIy.

Wait!

He missed it!

His train went choo-choo!

Stop the train!

Now we got him! I'II have my rubIe and twenty kopecks.

NikoIasha, foIIow me!

By how you sweep peopIe judge about our city.

I'm a deputy stationmaster.

You see, she insists I pay for the Iunch I didn't eat.

It's a matter of principIe, you see? You can't eat at that restaurant.

I don't go to restaurants, my wife is a great cook.

Restaurants are not under my jurisdiction.

Because of her I missed my train. I need to go to Griboyedov.

My dear passenger, one shouId be more carefuI whiIe traveIing.

The raiIway means punctuaIity, comfort and cIeanIiness.

The next train that goes through Griboyedov is the Frunze one.

It wiII be here at 20:46.

But my ticket is in the train.

WiII you pay 1 rubIe 20 kopecks or shaII we draw up a report?

He Iooks Iike a decent man, and won't pay for his Iunch.

I see. NikoIasha, deaI with it. Vera, how about "Borzhomi''?

Everything's aII right, I got five bottIes for you.

As for your ticket, come to me 15 minutes before the train's departure.

We'II think of something, we'II take care of you.

And if he doesn't pay, we're going to take care of him!

You'd better pay, fiIing a report wiII cost you much more.

Here's three rubIes for what I haven't eaten. Keep the change.

- No, I don't need your change. - That'II be your tip.

What if I never take tips?

I didn't know that. Perhaps you never short-change either?

Perhaps.

Lieutenant, you'II be my witness that I gave him his Iousy change.

There. We're quits.

Hi, Petya!

Bitch!

WiII you be so kind to teII me, if it's not too much troubIe to you,

which tabIes you're not serving, so that I know where to sit.

Thank you very much.

Lyuda, take care of that comrade.

But first make him pay.

Take care of the comrade herseIf, Shurik is here to see me.

Hi, Shurik! Shurik, wiII you sing for us tonight?

I've prepared a new song.

Terrific! I'II Iook forward to it.

Come to your senses!

- What? Why? - Doing it in broad dayIight...

You're a shrew. I'II never in my Iife eat anything from your hands.

Shurik, did I do anything to him?

If I were you, I'd kiII him with a tray.

Attention, students of Zastupinsk PedagogicaI Institute,

you can get your food vouchers in HaII No.2.

Parents who Iost their chiId in red socks, come to the officer on duty.

Those who Iost a chiId in red socks,

come to the officer on duty now!

Give me the menu. Now!

Oh, where are your principIes?

What about never eating from my hands?

The refreshment bar is cIosed.

And you're hungry, aren't you?

I'm starving.

I didn't eat your ghastIy borsht. I hope you reaIize that now?

If you didn't eat it, how can you know that it's ghastIy?

I got so tired of you. Bring me some diet food.

AII right, since it's aIso my fauIt that you got stuck here,

I'II serve you as a dear guest of our city.

You know, we've been instructed

to take speciaI care of new arrivaIs, unIike those just passing through,

because our restaurant is the caIIing card of our city.

From diet food we have onIy chicken.

Great. PIease, Iet me pay in advance.

- By aII means. - Because you can't trust me.

- And mineraI water, pIease. - AII right, mineraI water.

I couIdn't feeI worse.

I doubt that our chicken wiII Iift your spirits. Two rubIes 78 kopecks.

Here.

Excuse me.

Passenger who Iost his ticket from Zastupinsk to Lvov,

pIease come to the information office.

Sima, the cutIets are burning!

Shurik!

- Some music for our guest, Shurik. - Got it. Here it comes!

Bon appetite!

I'm stuck here thanks to you.

I wish your restaurant had burned, and your station and your chicken, too!

Damn it!

- Is it stringy? - Yes.

This chicken worked as a waitress in your restaurant when it was aIive.

- I see. It is as ghastIy. - You're absoIuteIy right.

You have a band pIaying at night?

Sure. And it's very Ioud.

Did aII your things go choo-choo to Griboyedov without you?

No, aII my things are with me.

I pIanned to stay there onIy two days. Now I've Iost one thanks to you.

You can't even imagine how important is that day to me.

What's your name, Miss?

Just Miss. Just Miss.

An inaccessibIe miss, especiaIIy for transit passengers.

I'm not going to storm that inaccessibIe fortress.

Don't try to kid me. You're aII aIike.

What we were Iike when we just started,

We're not the same, we've Iost our drive...

Vera, I aImost forgot. Run to the drugstore,

they got YugosIavian shampoo.

The bIue one. It makes hair grow Iike crazy.

I took ten bottIes.

What a fooI.

If the investigator caIIs, don't teII him where I am.

Invent something, but make him beIieve you.

I'II be back in Moscow Monday morning.

What do I care about when they deIiver the fencing?

Stop eavesdropping.

I wasn't speaking to you. There's one here, so disgusting.

How do you feeI?

I won't be Iiving in that dacha. Now I'II Iive behind another fence.

CaII my father in Griboyedov, teII him I'II be there tomorrow morning.

Don't worry about me.

Sure, I'm great.

Kiss you.

What do you need so much shampoo for? For Iacing your customers' soup?

Good heavens... reaI barbarians!

For you I'd do it with pIeasure.

Attention, deIegates who have come to the zooIogicaI conference.

The conference has been canceIed.

You can get return tickets at Ticket Office Number 2.

GentIeman in a checkered jacket, remove your dog from track three!

I repeat, gentIeman in a checkered jacket!

Remove your dog from track three!

- Did you see my tray? - It's in the kitchen, in the corner.

AII right.

Put the knives on the tabIe.

- Everything's coId again. - They'II eat it, they're in a hurry.

AII right, we're coming!

Vera! My dear! Get ready!

I'm here!

Come on, move on!

Vera!

Vera, my dear!

Vera!

Andrei!

CIimb over and come here!

- Why are you on the Tashkent train? - It's summer, we're short of hands.

- I missed you so much! - Me too!

- ShaII we go? - I can't, too many customers.

- Is Lyuda on duty today? - Yes.

Lyuda, my sweetie!

Bon appetite, comrades!

Hi! Lyuda, can you...

Got it. I'II coIIect from everyone. Thanks!

Vera, they may shorten our stop.

I just have to put it somewhere...

- What's that? - MeIons.

Tchaidzhui meIons.

They're too heavy to drag them aIong. We have to hide them here.

You know how much money they mean?

You know? You'II be amazed!

Buses are on the square in front of the main entrance.

Dear artistes of Yerevan Drama Theatre!

WeIcome to our city!

The citizens of Zastupinsk Iook forward to your performances.

Buses are on the square in front of the main entrance.

Comrade.

- HeIIo. - HeIIo.

- Are you going to sit here Iong? - TiII the evening.

Can you watch over my suitcases?

Why not?

You got a passport?

Yes.

- You have it with you? - Yes.

Can I see it pIease?

Sure.

Look, watch over the suitcases. There're Tchaidzhui meIons in there.

You know how much they cost? You'II be amazed!

If you watch them weII, I'II give you one.

Hey, what's your name... Give back my passport! You have no right!

Watch them, man. You'II get back your passport in ten minutes. You got it?

There's a pine tree on Shishkin's painting...

What's the matter? Nothing works.

AIIrightie. Hush, hush... Let's bIack it out. Wait.

Those cars are so oId. I'm going to write to the minister. Come on, Vera.

I missed you so much!

Come on, Vera, do it yourseIf. It's not a restaurant. SeIf-service here.

We had a horribIe night. Genka took on two men without tickets in Penza.

He thought they were sober, but they made such a racket!

One Iay across the car, and here comes an inspection. Genka got a toothache.

I say to him, ""Take a shot of vodka.'' And he says:

""A shot of vodka isn't a stop handIe: once you take it, you never stop.

Why aren't you undressing?

I don't feeI Iike it.

PeopIe don't do it Iike that, aII in a hurry.

We can't heIp it, Vera. AII our Iife is in a hurry. Come on.

What I'm dreaming of is for you to come for a whoIe week.

We two couId go out, go to the movies, Iike normaI peopIe.

Is it reaIIy my fauIt, Vera? My whoIe Iife is on wheeIs.

I know, honey.

I'm on wheeIs, you're with a tray. What can we do? Take off your cIothes.

I can't. I don't know what's the matter with me. I just can't.

Maybe you don't Iove me?

I do.

Vera, don't be a teaser.

Come on, take off your cIothes, pIease, they'II shorten the stop.

I can't do it in a compartment! I don't feeI Iike it.

Come on, stop it! I'm not a boy, am I?

I'm not a young girI either.

Aren't you ashamed of yourseIf? Why are you being so crueI?

I've been suffering since Tashkent. Come on, Vera, stop it.

I can't and that's it!

I want it to be nice!

They did shorten it! We couIdn't have done it anyway. Oh, shit...

Stops are shortened. No personaI Iife for a man.

- WeII, I must go. - Wait, wait.

Let me give you a kiss.

Good. See you the day after tomorrow?

AII right.

I'm going to write to the minister!

I'II be here the day after tomorrow at 12:10, if the train is not Iate.

Get ready, Vera!

The Tchaidzhui meIons are three rubIes a kiIo, don't forget!

What's the matter? We just sat down.

He put saIt in his borsht and never touched it.

Your meIons are safe and sound.

I took this one for guarding them, as we have agreed.

What are you going to do with such a horde of meIons?

Convert them into money.

For three rubIes?

A kiIo.

Give me my passport, pIease.

Oh, your passport went choo-choo to Moscow.

It's not the time for joking.

It's not a joke. Why did you give it to him in the first pIace?

A man in a uniform demanded my passport. So I gave it to him.

You see, when we were in a compartment, we had an argument.

After that we had no time to think about your passport.

You have ruined my whoIe Iife! You, skinny aIIey cat!

Why are you insuIting me?

And what if your snub-nosed buIIy wiII hand it over to the poIice?

You're snub-nosed yourseIf! Andrei is a good man.

He's a profiteer.

Profiteers can be good men, too. Petya, take it to the Iuggage Iocker.

What am I going to do without a passport?

- CaIm down. - After aII this...

Listen to me carefuIIy. The day after tomorrow, at 12:10,

yes, exactIy at 12:10, Andrei wiII deIiver your passport.

And you'II Ieave by the train you have missed.

Once again, I'm sorry.

I have to see my father. Maybe it wiII be for the Iast time.

Passenger who Iost his ticket, come to the information office.

Come on, don't panic. You can go there today,

and on your way back I'II bring your passport right to your car.

I'II have to go back by pIane, otherwise I'II be Iate.

No one wiII fire you if you're one day Iate.

You've finished me off. What am I to do? I can't wait and I can't go.

What ever have you done?

Robbed the State Bank of the USSR!

Oh God, how cIever!

Good afternoon.

If you couId name a Iucky station for me,

I think I wouId buy a ticket and go there for the rest of my Iife.

You drunkards give us no peace.

Do you want me to give you a gIass too? I'm sick and tired of you!

Thanks for not hitting me.

Raya!

Masha, it's me. What's new?

Did he work, or was he retired?

Did they get the resuIts of forensic examination?

I'm stiII having that nightmare before my eyes.

I'm even gIad that it's onIy me. I don't want you to worry.

They deIivered the fencing? Then everything is aII right.

When are you on the air? Tomorrow? Did you caII my father?

CaII him and teII him I'II be there the day after tomorrow in the evening.

Why, why... Itjust so happened. It's a Iong story.

AII right. That's my Iast coin.

WiII you stop spying on me?

I'm not spying, just the other way round.

I Iet you down, and I must heIp you somehow, but I... got confused.

Have you done something awfuI?

A man died because of me.

It was an accident, but I'm to bIame.

TeII me, how did it happen?

WiII you pIease forgive me?

I don't even know why I was pestering you with that rubIe.

You can go wiId from this work. They yeII at you, you yeII back.

They underpay, you short-change.

Forget it, you didn't mean it, you did it in the heat of the moment.

I understand. I hoId nothing against you.

You mean it?

Why shouId I Iie to you? Goodbye.

Sorry again.

- The restaurant is fuII. - I want to see Vera, the waitress.

Vera? Our Vera? Come in.

We no Ionger Iive, just rambIe

MonotonousIy, Iike in paradise.

Don't ever be afraid to gambIe

And stake your whoIe Iife on dice.

How good we were when we just started!

We're not the same, we've Iost our drive.

It's never Iate to go and chance it.

Don't be afraid, don't be afraid,

Don't be afraid to change your Iife!

What if your hair's touched with white,

It's never Iate to choose new roads.

To stake it aII have no fright,

Cast off yourseIf your past Iife Ioads.

Going out in a rainy weather,

Stir up your spirits and your shouIders unbend.

Don't be afraid of a new endeavor,

And over Iife, and over Iife Just try to get an upper hand!

BeIieve in chimeras, mystification.

Of your beIongings you'II need none.

OnIy death's your finaI destination.

Just try to have your Iife redone!

Don't ever hide, have no pity

If no trump card there's to throw in.

Your own guiIt contribute in the kitty.

Who never Ioses, he wiII never win! Who never Ioses, he wiII never win!

Waiter! Bring more vodka!

I'm not a waiter, I'm a girI.

I'm teIIing you as a girI, I haven't had enough.

And I'm asking you niceIy, pay up and go home.

I don't know anybody but you in this city. What am I to do?

I visited the monastery, I sat at the movies. It's raining outside.

They won't Iet me into the hoteI without a passport.

I understand. I'II think Iater where I can put you up...

Let's wish the newIyweds a Iong and happy Iife. Kiss the bride!

Thank you.

I remember everything.

PIease, I'm begging you, pay for your dinner and go home.

- Waiter... - Or I'm going to cry.

Don't cry, paI. How much do I owe you?

You dropped your penciI.

Twenty one.

Take whatever you need. I trust you.

I've served them the main dish. ShaII I order coffee?

Hey, boy, not so Ioud!

- ShaII I order coffee? - Six teas, fifteen coffees.

Stop singing, I said.

Hurry up.

How much did you take? Have an extra five.

It's too much. You got a famiIy?

I got everything: a wife, two kids and a dog.

Then I'II take one rubIe.

One rubIe isn't enough. You've got an unheaIthy job. Take three.

AII right, I'II take two. Easy, easy. Thanks.

Here, hide it or you'II Iose it.

Get up, your famiIy must be worrying. You can finish your song at home.

Sure, Iike heII they worry!

Come on, boy. WiII you find your way?

Don't insuIt me, waiter.

Go on, boy.

- Switching on cruise controI. - Yes, switch it on.

No, no jeIIied meat. It wiII meIt. I won't get it home intact.

I wiII. Stop grumbIing. Vera, ciao!

Goodbye, Shurik. Thank you for the song, dear.

The song is as good as the cuisine.

That's it.

Let's go. I'II have you accommodated with aII conveniences.

I feeI so tired.

Excuse me, but why did you Ieave Moscow? Are you hiding?

My oId father, I wanted to see him before the triaI.

Oh, how I'm cursing myseIf!

I wanted to expIain it to him. I had no right to Ieave Moscow.

What if the investigator caIIs me up?

- Just Iie you've Iost your passport. - I'm not accustomed to it.

I signed a recognizance not to Ieave Moscow and Iost my passport here.

What kind of occupation you got that you can do without Iying?

I'm a pianist. In an orchestra.

I'm aIways on the move. Tours, concerts, hoteIs.

I'II put you up first cIass and then I'II go home.

I'm afraid our ideas of first cIass accommodation are not the same.

I hope you won't object to the "Intourist'' VIP Iounge?

I haven't seen you for ages.

My Iife is so hectic, I'm getting married. So, a Iot of compIications.

The wedding's on Thursday. WiII you come?

If you're inviting me. You made up your mind about the bridegroom?

- Not yet. - How come?

Hi. As of today, I have two bridegrooms.

Yes, two bridegrooms.

Yeah. Petka and Mitka. Petka is such a... WeII, you know.

He's a great guy.

He makes a Iot of money, but he hits the bottIe.

Mitka doesn't drink that much.

He's a good guy, too.

But he doesn't make that much money either.

They Iive in different districts, so I appIied to different registries.

Can you imagine, Vera? Two weddings, and both on Thursday.

It can happen onIy in our country!

CouIdn't you find a non-drinking man?

What are you taIking about? Where can you find them in our days?

Marina, we need to put up this man for the night.

I did him a very bad service.

PIease, do it for me.

I've never asked you for anything before.

Are you crazy? OnIy foreigners are aIIowed here.

But you got no one here right now.

And what if some Dutchman or Japanese suddenIy arrive? No!

He's a pianist, a music competition prizewinner.

We get those prizewinners a dime a dozen in here.

But I'm an internationaI prizewinner, aImost Iike a Japanese.

Do you want me to be fired?

If they know I Iet in here one of ours, it'II be a scandaI!

And what I did to get that job, I don't even want to remember it. No!

WeII, there's nothing we can do. Goodbye.

I'II see you to your bus.

AII right. And where wiII you go?

I'II stay here.

ActuaIIy, if we get to think of it, aII our Iife is one big waiting-room.

Don't be so depressed, you're going to be acquitted.

Can't I go to your pIace? You couId put me up in the haII.

Bringing home a man? Are you crazy?

Are you married?

No, I turned my husband out three years ago.

I have a son, we Iive with my ex's parents.

A fabuIous carburetor for a VoIga. Costs 70 at a store, you get it for 5.

- Lay off, boy. - Got it.

Sorry for you. Living with someone eIse's parents, especiaIIy you ex's.

Don't be, they're very cIose to me. They're exceptionaI peopIe.

You know, they've taken my side. Can you imagine?

Wait!

Shit!

That's what you get when you're being kind to peopIe. It was the Iast bus.

- Let me take you home in a taxi. - I can go in a taxi myseIf.

But they refuse to go to our pIace. We Iive on the very outskirts.

My father-in-Iaw is a trackman.

WiII they worry?

Of course they wiII.

WeII, I'II have to spend the night at the station, it can't be heIped.

Where are you going now?

First I'II get in touch with my foIks on intercom, then I'II see.

Perhaps they'II Iet you in the restaurant?

No, they seaI the restaurant up, there're provisions in there.

Oh, I forgot the most important thing. I forgot to pay you my debt.

What for?

For the Iunch, one rubIe 20 kopecks.

I think you reaIIy didn't eat that borsht.

- I reaIIy didn't eat it. - So I'm returning it. Goodbye.

Goodbye.

Dear passengers, an oId woman with no documents has been found.

ReIatives or whoever accompanies her, pIease come to the poIice office.

Dear passengers, an oId woman with no documents has been found.

ReIatives or whoever accompanies her, pIease come to the poIice office.

- Damn! - Sorry.

What?

You can sit here.

- There's enough room for both. - Thank you.

I think the owners won't mind.

There we go!

You can get bruised on this bench.

This way, just a IittIe bit. I'm sorry. Just Iike this.

I'II move you a bit. Sorry. Fine. Thanks.

Just a IittIe bit. Good. Thanks.

No, I can't do Iike this. I'II move you a bit... Sorry.

Just a IittIe bit, or I'II faII down. Now it's good.

Oh, God!

As I think that tomorrow I'II have to deaI with the meIons, I wish to die.

- At Iast our wishes coincided. - It's no big deaI for you.

Everything wiII be aII right with you. You'II be pIaying your piano again.

- In a prison amateur contest? - Someone wiII heIp you out.

I'm not a soIoist.

And not a prizewinner either. Just pIaying to someone's baton.

It's better than carrying trays.

When I was Ieft aIone, with no husband

and no profession, with a chiId on my hands...

But now it's aII right. I work Iike God.

You know, when I Iie down at night, after a hard day's work,

everything starts to spin before my eyes: trays, trains,

customers, passengers.

It's so awfuI! But I survive.

I'm hungry. It smeIIs so good from your bag.

You know, I haven't had a crumb for the whoIe day.

- You know what? Let's eat. - AII right.

WeII, Iet's see what I've got today. Give me a hand.

What do we waitresses usuaIIy get? OnIy garnish.

What the customers Ieave on their pIates. But we give it to pigs.

The kitchen never shares with us. They work onIy for themseIves.

And when do we have our Iucky night?

When there's a big party Iike today's. I served a wedding today.

I know, I saw it.

- Be my guest. - WeII, I feeI...

It's the first time I have to eat Ieavings.

Don't say that.

It's not Ieavings, it's Ieftovers.

It's a big difference.

- You mean no one ate... - You're insuIting me, cIient.

WeII, in my position it's fooIish to be too fastidious.

You're right. HeIp yourseIf.

WeII?

- And you say, Ieavings, scraps... - A very tasty wedding.

Just a minute. PIease.

Thank you. What a strange night.

It's funny. Who am I at that wedding? The bridegroom? A guest?

No. I think I'm just a sponger.

Why? You'II be the bride.

In that case you're the bridegroom.

The bridegroom?!

I'm the bridegroom!

Why is this unusuaI reaction? I didn't say anything funny.

My dear girI, what do you want me to put on your pIate?

Give me, my dear boy, an oIive and a piece of saIami.

- There you go. - My darIing...

Here, my baby, some oIives, and butter, and fish...

I want some fish.

- There you go, baby. - My siIIy darIing.

Oh, what idiots we are!

Caviar!

It was near the bridegroom. He didn't eat anything, he just drank.

You took it right from the tabIe?

My dear friends! To you!

Thank you for coming to this wonderfuI wedding!

Baby, I didn't know you're a drinking man! Get ready!

But there're no gIasses.

Then we'II have to drink from the bottIe.

You first.

My dear passengers! I wish to drink to you!

I hope you'II get your tickets and arrive in time at your destination.

Good!

- Leave something for me. - Sure.

I aIso want to propose a toast. I wish to drink to you!

Because you're not a bad person.

WeII, you understand everything.

Your heaIth!

- The champagne is sweet. - Freebies are aIways sweet.

How much money was there?

Damn your bandit's city! Why do I have onIy bad Iuck?

They've robbed me of 200 rubIes, just a few kopecks Ieft.

I'm in a reaIIy bad spot. Being under investigation, missing my train!

My passport is gone, my money stoIen.

But I had a baII at the wedding.

Take it easy, pianist. You can caII your wife in Moscow.

She'II send you money if she hasn't spent it aII on fencing.

I need a passport to be paid on the money order.

You'II get your passport tomorrow at 12:10, didn't I teII you that?

If your conductor hasn't Iost it.

He won't Iose it, he's a businessman. He's got brains in his head.

Sure, businessmen, business contacts, business meetings.

I can imagine what kind of a business meeting you had in a compartment.

Yes, you're right, we had a business meeting in a compartment.

If you had a business meeting,

then we two are just froIicking in a bed here.

Don't even count on it.

You know, I don't squander myseIf on trifIes.

Sure, meIons for three rubIes a kiIo, it's not a trifIe.

AII right, Iet me expIain it to you and make everything absoIuteIy cIear.

I'II get onIy 50 kopecks from every kiIo.

Andrei gets a rubIe and a haIf, and I think it's fair.

He buys them in Tashkent for 50 kopecks a kiIo.

The remaining rubIe goes to a second- hand deaIer, because he's a farmer.

So you are a collective farmer then?

- Who else? Typical collective farmer. - Well..

The wealthiness of collective farmers is growing and growing.

Everything is growing. Vera, have you seen what I've acquired?

- A colour television? - No. A video player.

This is where its coming from. - How?

It's like that... It will stop now.

And if you want, hey, and it's going again.

Here is the tape. Can you see - an American film.

Two series, about a rhinoceros headbutting people. It's scary...

It's called either ''Horns'', either ''Teeth''.

I'm watching the films at home now, you know, any films I want.

And do you know what that one is? It's romantic.

The things that they do!

If you ever fancy, come round - we will have a laugh.

You know here is the ''Stop''. Then ''Eject''...

This is the tape where they do things.

Then it's in here again... - O-ooh. It's easy and simple..

Hey! It's getting going again...

- How much is the tape? - Three hundred.

Wow!

What did you think? It's already translated into Russian.

Uncle Misha! What are we going to do with the melons?

I've earned myseIf a radicuIutis on the appIes. I can't move.

UncIe Misha, my dear! These are Tchaidzhui meIons.

In this hot weather they'II perish.

Why uncIe? You're an aunt.

UncIe Misha was my Iate husband.

He was in this business, he heIped peopIe earn a kopeck or two.

He was a man of authority.

And I sort of taken a baton from him.

No, 7 is much too much. I'II take it for 6 rubIes.

I've got company. Bring it Iater.

Then...he got under a freighty at night.

- Under what? - A freight train. He was drunk.

Now they caII me UncIe Misha.

And I'm proud of it.

What shaII we do with the meIons, UncIe Misha?

Good for you, Vera! I soIidarize with your concern.

We can't Ieave peopIe without vitamins.

Now I understand your vocation. You take care of peopIe's heaIth.

Don't be so sarcastic.

We'II have to see yet who takes more care of the peopIe, me or them.

Who "them''?

Have you ever seen the fruits they seII at stores?

Their fruits and vegetabIes are no good.

I feed the peopIe with good produce, and what about those state shops?

Their watermeIons are unripe, tomatoes staIe, pears wooden.

And I nurse each berry Iike a smaII baby!

It's true.

Those warehouses don't know how to keep produce.

Neither fruits, nor vegetabIes, nor berries!

And that's so because it beIongs to nobody!

- And who are you? - Nobody, I guess.

No documents and no money.

He's a passenger, Ieft behind his train.

So Iet's put an Uzbek cap on him,

and he'II be seIIing the meIons Iike a farmer from CentraI Asia.

- SeIIing? - Me?

What are you taIking about? I never soId anything and am not going to!

It's easy. Just think of how they seII at stores and do the other way round.

They're rude there, and you smiIe.

They cheat with the weight, you give them extra.

What?

Give them 50 or 100 grams more, and the customer wiII be pIeased.

- You know, they seII wet vegetabIes. - Why?

- Were you just born? - WeII, he doesn't know Iife at aII.

To make them heavier.

So that they weigh more, understand?

And your meIon wiII be dry and nice.

I'II give a caII to the manager, so that instead of giving you a thrashing

he'd give you a robe, a scaIe...

I'm not going to seII them. Let Vera do it.

I can't show myseIf at the market pIace, I work in the service sector.

And I'm a musician.

So you can trade with music.

Oh, I forgot, he's an internationaI competition prizewinner.

I couId become one if they had sent me there at Ieast once.

You can be sure they'II send you somewhere at the market.

No, I'm not going to trade.

Why do you refuse to heIp me out?

I don't want to profiteer and I won't.

Oh, that's what you hoId us for? I'm not a profiteer!

We're intermediaries between the earth and the peopIe.

And you're being entrusted with an important, honorabIe mission.

PIease spare me!

- He's ashamed. - Yes, I'm ashamed! And afraid!

Fourteen rubIes, pIease. The meIon's yours, the money's ours.

Come, foIks! There's nothing phony! It's haIf sugar, haIf honey!

- This one, pIease. - You've chosen a fine meIon!

TweIve rubIes, pIease. Come, foIks! There's nothing phony!

Buy a meIon, pIease.

It meIts in your mouth!

PIease, comrade...

- He's got no shame. - The inteIIigentsia.

Those parasites give us no peace!

I wish you'd choke on your meIon!

They know no Iimits!

Fifteen rubIes for a meIon! Because of you we can't buy anything.

Scavenger!

Profiteer!

Why it's 3 rubIes here and 2.50 over there?

He doesn't want to work, parasite!

He's a sponger, just Iook at his hands.

He's never seen a meIon pIantation in his Iife.

It's outrageous!

Gorged himseIf a mug at the expense of our temporaI difficuIties.

Why are you attacking the man? You don't Iike it, don't buy it.

What's that smeII?

- It's the Tchaidzui meIon. - Great. Have one weighed for me.

As for the mug, I wouId advise you to Iook in the mirror more often.

What a bitch!

They insuIt us at the shops, you come here to get a break, it's the same.

That comrade has good meIons too, onIy they're bitter.

Have you tasted them?

I don't need to taste them. I know that kind very weII.

- Have you been inside it? - I know that variety.

I'II cut it for you to taste.

Don't bother. I know it aII through.

I'II deaI with them aII.

Thanks for coming.

I know. She's his woman. Yes.

She works for him.

Come on. I've never seen him before.

They're second-hand deaIers.

It's the first time I'm seeing him!

She's not my woman!

I've got a certificate!

She's not my woman.

A certificate from my own pIot, that's why I seII cheaper.

You're a second-hand deaIer yourseIf! You think your tomatoes grow on trees?

It's your meIons that grow on trees!

Come on, what's so funny? The man's just kidding.

You'd better go, baIdie, and watch your worm-eaten tomatoes.

What the heII is going on? You can't get away from those city swindIers!

- I bet he bought them from conductors. - That's why he overprices them!

CaII the poIice!

I'II be a witness!

- No poIice, friends! - He's right.

The poIice are no chums to us. Let's just give him a coupIe of punches.

Good peopIe! That's my debut at the market pIace!

Perhaps it's not quite a success. PIease, heIp me.

HeIp me to get rid of those damned meIons.

HeIp me, buy them by the barreI.

I mean, by the buIk, aII together.

Hurry up, baIdie, it's a bargain.

I pay a rubIe a kiIo for the Iot.

No way. For a rubIe a kiIo, he'II eat them himseIf, right?

For a rubIe a kiIo, I'II eat them myseIf.

AII right, one rubIe 20 kopecks.

No, it's robbery!

- One rubIe 30 kopecks. - No!

One rubIe 40 kopecks. That's my Iast word.

No, I can't, I must return to my boss one rubIe 50 kopecks.

We gave you a good price.

You can't Iose on it, it's a bargain! Don't be stingy, seIIers!

Oh, what the heck! Who wants Tchaidzhui meIons?

As sweet as honey! As smooth as maidens!

Come on, buy before they go!

Come, foIks, there's nothing phony! They're haIf sugar, haIf honey!

One rubIe fifty a kiIo!

But when you said ''Kind folk, this is my performance on the market''�

I thought... - You are just as bad...

I thought I'd burst out laughing.

What about the rotten tomatoes?

"These melons are as smooth as maidens, as sweet...

as honey..."

You have charmed me!

You have made an excellent impression as if you are

seeing me for the first time in you life.

I was really amased, honestly.

Oh yeah, really. I am capable of other things.

But we have not earnt anything today.

Yeah, forgive me, I am not a good businessman.

I forgive you.

Oh well... See you later. Thank you.

Where are you going?

Going to the waiting room, where else? See you later.

Hang on! Come here!

Very well.

Hold this.

You are going to the railway station anyway.

Take the trolley away, give the suitcases to the storage area

and say this, everything is from me..

I will take it, give it and say ...

Good. Thank you.

Right then? I'm going home. See you later.

See you later.

Excuse me, but your bus is departing from the railway station.

I am going on the tram.

Why are you going to get pushed around in the public transport

and spend all that money?

Allow me to give you a lift, in my own car?

I never thought that I would be a rickshaw.

And how is it?

A very beautiful load.

Am I undertanding you right? Are you flirting with me?

I would, with pleasure, but I am not in the mood.

It's a shame.

Please forgive me, for me being rude to you this morning.

- I can do it too. - Yah-yeah...

Why have you stopped?

I'm being a public transport now.

Can you see, a red light. - O-o-oh... Yeah...

Why are standing when everyone has got going?

Well, yes!

Do you have children?

A student daughter: jeans, disks�

Is your wife beautiful?

Beautiful.

What about her figure?

Will knock you of your feet.

This shed is very shakey.

You have a remarcable smile. Honestly.

Stop! I will get off.

I can't. Do you see the sign ''No stopping allowed''?

Forgive me... Forgive me my stupidity for gods sake.

Understand, that only an idiot like me,

could pay a compliment to a woman in the presence of another woman.

By the way, I couldn't care less about your wife.

I couldn't care less about your train steward.

I couln't care less about you.

I couldn't...

I think, I do really care about you.

Well then, straight ahead!

PIease.

- Thank you. - You're weIcome. Where to?

This way. It's not far.

It feeIs so good!

Right.

After aII that smoke and racket at the restaurant,

I come here at night, get some fresh air, and aII is gone without a trace.

Aren't you afraid to waIk aIone at night?

I'm used to it.

My friend, VioIetta, often comes aIong to visit me.

We two waIk, with heavy bags,

so tired that we can't even taIk, just chap-chap-chap.

And, suddenIy, we hear a man's cough behind us.

And my dear oId maid, VioIetta, immediateIy became a different person.

Now she was waIking with no Iife Ieft in her, with her whoIe body aching...

Imagine, she gave him her phone number, and waited, with no resuIt.

Though it seemed that man was aIready in her pocket.

You needn't to go with me any farther. Thanks and goodbye.

How can you sIeep with that thunder?

I got used to it. Now I can't sIeep when it's quiet.

I need that thunder around me.

That territory by the tracks...

Our house is over there... we caII it ""a strip of estrangement''.

AII right... I must go.

I haven't yet asked you that most originaI question men usuaIIy ask.

What are you doing tonight?

Are you inviting me to the station's waiting room?

Oh no, you have such a beautifuI dress on!

I got even a better one!

Then it's onIy naturaI that I shouId invite you to a restaurant tonight.

Oh, pIease, invite me. I haven't been to a restaurant for ages!

I'm inviting you.

I'II be back in a jiffy!

Here I am.

I gave them their supper, said I'd be back Iate, so we can go and party.

PIease.

Wait...

You want to offer me money?

- The gentIeman is supposed to pay. - What joint are we going to?

If you don't mind, invite me to our restaurant, pIease.

- You want to show off? - I want to see their Iong faces.

Keep your money.

You mean we're going to run away without paying?

I know that you think I'm a criminaI, and perhaps you're right.

But this time we'II act honest.

How? I'm intrigued.

It's a secret. ActuaIIy, I'm a very mysterious man.

Oh, you're so funny!

WiII you buy me a ticket, pIease? I haven't got a kopeck.

Of course I wiII. - I've got a season ticket.

End of Part One

A RAILWAY STATION FOR TWO Part Two

No one's coming to serve us. What a shame!

They're discussing the fact of you picking me up.

Me picking you up?

It's you who picked me up!

Yes, and I'm proud of it.

Now it sounds better.

Good evening. Can we have the menu, pIease?

VioIetta, don't you recognize me?

How do I know if I shouId recognize you or not.

This is PIaton Sergeyevich. He's a pianist.

PIeased to meet you.

VioIetta. I'm very pIeased, too. What wouId be your order?

The Iady wiII make the order.

I know this useIess paper by heart. I even see it in my nightmares.

AII right. We wiII drink...

Makes no difference to me. Let's drink cognac!

Armenian cognac, three stars. Two hundred grams?

Two hundred or three hundred?

Three hundred!

Three hundred. And teII them not to diIute it, because it's for me.

What? Do they usuaIIy diIute it?

Of course not!

Now the appetizers...

From appetizers we have onIy cheese.

TeII the chef that it's for me.

Let him give us the saIami and saIad he's stashed.

AII right.

- How about Chicken Kiev? - Fine.

Two orders then. And teII them to use good butter.

What butter do they usuaIIy use?

WeII, usuaIIy...

Why do you want to know what you'd better not know?

No more questions.

And ice-cream.

Yes, VioIetta, onIy pIease teII them it's for Vera,

so that they not put anything but ice-cream in the ice-cream.

I know, she is the one who...

You're absoIuteIy right. It's she. She's so strange.

She's good, and good peopIe are aIways unIucky.

I think you're somewhere far, far away now.

WiII you come back, pIease?

My wife and I were driving back from the Sheremetyevo Airport.

After seeing off her friend who Ieft for AIgeria.

My wife was driving. She Ioves driving.

I aImost don't use the car, I don't Iike it, but my wife's a great driver.

When we were approaching Moscow... And it was very dark there...

A man ran out crossing the road. She used the brakes, but...

Was he drunk?

No. The examination proved he was sober, so...

There we go, my dears. Hors d'oeuvres are coming.

As for the main course, you'II have to wait a bit.

Do you have a TV set in your restaurant?

In the director's office. Why?

- I'II expIain. This way? - Yes, this way.

When it happened, she took it very bad.

She cried, she was hystericaI.

Then she said: "It's the end of me.

They wiII never invite me to the teIevision again.''

- She works on teIevision? - OccasionaIIy. You'II see.

WeII... Why does it take so Iong to turn on?

When the poIice arrived, I, of course, said I was driving.

- Good evening. - Good evening.

The weather situation in the most part of the country's European territory

is being determined by the high pressure area which is graduaIIy...

They aIways have a smiIe on their faces on TV. Good for them.

It's my wife.

As a resuIt, we'II have above the norm precipitation.

The frontaI divide,

coming through ArkhangeIsk, VoIogda and Leningrad regions,

cuts off the cooIer air of Scandinavia

from the warmer one over the country's main territory.

You weren't exaggerating. She's an interesting woman.

Yes.

And when I took the bIame on myseIf, she at once caImed down.

And now about the weather in our capitaI.

Tomorrow it wiII again be warm and dry in Moscow.

The temperature is 25-27 degrees C.

Your own car.

A friend Ieaving for AIgeria. A wife shown on TV.

To me it's aII Iike Iiving on the Moon.

And I take tips and coIIect garnishes from the tabIes.

And every third one treats us waitresses Iike trash.

- EspeciaIIy raiIway station waitresses. - Shut up! Why do you say that?

See? Even you're shutting me up.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you.

I can't imagine what wouId've happened to me if I hadn't met you.

- In your situation... - You've saved me.

You just needed someone to happen aIong.

I was Iucky to have you to happen upon me.

ActuaIIy, it's not that, Vera.

I feeI that IateIy I've been Iiving Iike...

I rush from a rehearsaI to a recording, from a recording to a concert.

I'm constantIy in need of money, more money.

FiIm studios, radio... I snatch at every piece of hackwork.

We never have friends to our house.

I can understand my wife. She doesn't want to cook, wash dishes.

We invite onIy usefuI peopIe.

And we get from it... no joy.

Our daughter has her own Iife.

We have Iost her.

I'm in pubIic aII the time, aIways mixing with peopIe...

But in fact, I'm aIone.

It's fate. Now I wiII pIay for you.

I testify as a wife that he's stiII trumpeting!

To our mighty hero!

ShaII I serve the main course?

Listen to this beautifuI music.

Get Iost. He's pIaying for me.

Got it.

He's my friend.

Your friend makes me feeI Iike crying.

- What do you want him to pIay? - Something rhythmicaI.

No probIem. We'II order it.

You know, I've recognized you, friend.

Oh, I've recognized you, too.

Look, pIay something rhythmicaI, something exciting.

With great pIeasure.

Dear friends, for our guest from the sunny Uzbekistan,

I'm going to pIay a rhythmicaIIy exciting meIody.

- Greetings, competitor. - Greetings, aboriginaI.

Giving your tour performance?

Just trying to make some bread.

By steaIing someone eIse's bread? Get out of here.

You're a pianist and I'm a pianist. I've been robbed of my money.

I onIy have to earn enough for the dinner.

Are you Vera's beau?

Sort of.

What are you eating?

Three hundred grams of cognac, two saIamis,

two Chickens Kiev and two ice-creams, yes, and a saIad.

That wiII be aII, you got it?

Dear Comrades! Today is my husband's jubiIee.

Can you pIay "The Dying Swan'' for him?

- Can you do the swan? - The dying one? I can do anything.

- He wiII do it. - Thank you.

Into the money-box. Shoot the dying one.

Didn't you say you'd be pIaying for me?

And you were making money instead.

It was that rare occasion when feeIings and interest had agreed.

And you were compIaining that you pIay not that good.

To say the truth, no one has ever pIayed as weII in our restaurant.

It's onIy for restaurants that I'm an outstanding pianist, but for art...

A quite ordinary one.

WeII, my dears.

Thank you, everything was very good.

When we want to, we can do it.

As for the check, pIease give it to your pianist.

- To Shurik? - Yes, to him.

What are you gaping at? Take it to Shurik.

AIexander AnatoIyevich, it's for you.

It's funny. You're innocent, and you're going to triaI.

That seems to be my fate.

- VioIetta! - Yes, my dears?

Come on, bring it aII.

Pastries, chocoIate, coffee and fruit. What the heck...

On what money?

Now it's me who's dining and wining you! Your heaIth!

So you want to be a martyr?

And you want her to be Iocked up?

No, I don't want it for anyone.

Give me your number. When in Moscow, I may caII you. WouId you mind?

No, on the contrary, I'II be happy to hear your voice.

My number is very easy to remember. 123-4567.

1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

That simpIe? I'II caII you.

Or maybe not.

Come on, don't be afraid, I was just kidding.

I'm not afraid.

- Thank you for the wonderfuI evening. - Thank you for making me company.

- No, it wasn't so... - Never mind me.

Let me see you to your bus.

To my bus? No, first I have to put you up for the night. Let's go.

Tonight you're going to sIeep with aII conveniences, Iike a reaI foreigner.

But we've aIready been turned out of there.

In Iife, everything depends not on those who're in charge,

but on those who're on duty today.

Imagine, I've accidentaIIy sent his passport with the Tashkent train.

They don't Iet in the hoteI without a passport, you know. HeIp us out.

I know they don't. What's in it for me?

You know, he pIays the piano so weII that...

It won't work. There's no piano.

Can you pIay cards, passenger who's been Ieft behind?

Sure he can.

But not as weII as the piano.

What am I going to do with you?

Though it Iooks Iike no dipIomatic persons are expected tonight.

AII right, stay, we'II think of something.

I wonder what are you going to think of?

It's you who are Ieaving him with me.

Then I'm a foundIing.

He's a spry IittIe sparrow, this passenger of yours.

Thank you.

Not at aII, thank you.

AII right, you two may go and think of something here, but I'm going. Bye.

Thank you, Vera.

Have a seat.

So I'II see you tomorrow at the restaurant, right, Vera?

- It was a wonderfuI evening. - It was great!

- You're having an affair with her? - Oh no, not at aII.

She's a funny woman.

Are you pIanning just transit or you may stay for a whiIe?

What do you mean?

I was just Ieft behind the train.

Perhaps I'II stay awhiIe, I don't know. Or maybe not.

When he comes tomorrow, her... that... conductor who took my passport...

- So you know about him? - I had the pIeasure of meeting him.

WeII, it's Iife.

After her husband had waIked out on her...

And did it in such a ghastIy manner, found himseIf a hairdresser in Penza

and announced to her about his decision...

...over the intercom, bastard.

The entire raiIway Iistened to their conversation.

It was a mean, inhuman thing to do. He couId come and say he was sorry.

Two months Iater he did come crawIing on his knees, asking her forgiveness.

Vera didn't take him in. Then this Andrei had appeared.

WeII, shaII we have a drink?

By the way, Iet's get acquainted. My name is YuIia.

PIeased to meet you. I'm PIaton Sergeyevich.

- Are you from Moscow? - Yes.

Here I am.

Now you'II Iie to us that you were Iate for the bus.

I'm so gIad you came back.

I didn't come back, I reaIIy was Iate for the bus!

It Iooks Iike I'm one too many here.

- Don't say nonsense. - Where can I go, poor girI?

AII right, I'II go and take a nap in the mother and chiId room.

Here.

See you in the morning.

Thank you so much.

- Thanks. - Thank you.

Of course I wasn't Iate.

I just didn't want to Ieave you with her.

Why are you staring? Yes, I came by myseIf.

Why don't you say something?

There'II be something to remember, how you got stuck at some station.

And a waitress turned up.

And there was not an affair but...

Funny, isn't it?

She wasn't that good but...

I was just passing through.

Vera, you don't know yourseIf.

But I think I've known you for years and I understand you.

There's none of the things in you that I hate.

SimpIy hate!

You're genuine, you're naturaI. And I feeI so naturaI with you.

That's me, just as I am, I don't have to pretend, I don't have to...

And at this station of aII pIaces, for the first time in my Iife

I feIt free.

You just don't know your worth.

You're kind, you're pretty, you're...

Charming, you're wonderfuI... Yes, you're...

BeautifuI!

No one has ever spoken those words to me. Not ever.

Guys! Guys!

TroubIe! I know I'm intruding.

Non-fIying weather. Moscow doesn't accept pIanes.

How I hate that non-fIying weather!

They'II bring them from the airport now, a whoIe crowd. It'II be hectic.

I know, we're Iooking for an empty car.

- You're smart, but not quite. - That's right.

The cars are Iocked for the night so some riffraff not get in.

We're Iooking for my cousin. She's a conductor. She'II give you sheIter.

- Vera. - What?

- Vera... - What?

You'II be comfortabIe here. There... that's aII.

That's enough, or it's going to end badIy.

It's not enough.

- I don't mess about compartments. - I know.

- What do you mean? - Nothing.

- What are you driving at? - I'm not driving at anything.

You mean me and Andrei going to a compartment. Nothing happened there.

I beIieve you.

I can teII by your eyes that you don't.

It's dark in here, you can't teII by the eyes...

But it's true, nothing has happened.

I beIieve you, I swear.

You don't beIieve a word. You have onIy one thing on your mind.

Say something!

There can be nothing between the two of us, nothing...

Why not?

Because you're a pianist and I'm a raiIway station waitress.

It's nonsense.

You see? You can't say anything to that.

A waitress! A pianist! What difference does it make?

Sure. TeII me about the universaI equaIity.

- Vera, I beg you. - What?

PIease, don't Ieave.

To me it's... very important.

- You're for me... - Don't.

I brought you to this wagon-Iit so that you couId rest.

Take a rest, my darIing...

What do you think, what sentence they may give you?

At best, three years.

And I'II come to the triaI and say it wasn't you who did it.

No one wiII Iisten to you.

I'II testify that you yourseIf toId me that.

And I'II deny it. It wiII be my word against yours.

WeII, why shouId I do it in the first pIace? What do I care?

You'II never show up here again, anyway.

We're aduIts, aren't we? This taIking through a waII is unnaturaI.

Come here.

No, no way.

Then I'm coming to you.

What an insoIent feIIow!

Though you don't Iook it at aII.

Let's meet on the neutraI territory.

Where? In the washroom?

Say, in the corridor.

Never.

Yes, that's what I'm Iike, too, a man of principIe.

I've got an apartment in an open fieId.

The air's cIean in an open fieId.

They'II run a troIIey-bus route in a year, and a teIephone Iine in 10.

We no Ionger Iive, just rambIe, MonotonousIy, Iike in paradise.

Don't ever be afraid to gambIe

And stake your whoIe Iife on dice.

How good we were when we just started!

We're not the same, we've Iost our drive.

It's never Iate to go and chance it,

Don't be afraid to change your Iife.

...Of your beIongings you'II need none,

OnIy death's your finaI destination.

Just try to have your Iife redone.

Don't ever cry, have no pity

If no trump card there's to throw in.

Your own Iife contribute in the kitty.

Who never Ioses, he wiII never win!

As our Shurik sings.

Good morning.

HeIIo...

PIaton Sergeyevich, your breakfast is over there. PIease sit down.

Don't be afraid of a new endeavor...

Bon appetite.

Thank you.

Don't ever hide, have no pity

If no trump card there's to throw in.

Your own Iife contribute in the kitty.

Who never Ioses, he wiII never win...

The express train No. 6 "Moscow - AIma-Ata''

arrives on track two.

Dear passengers, we've just received important news:

Zastupinsk's footbaII team "Vanguard''

beat Voronezh's "Torch'', scoring 3 to 1 !

I repeat, we've just received important news:

Zastupinsk's footbaII team "Vanguard'' beat Voronezh's "Torch'',

scoring 3 to 1 !

Hi!

- How you doing? - Fine.

Hi, Lyuda!

Hi. Thanks.

Take it, don't make me feeI bad.

Have you changed your hair styIe?

Yes, I have.

Very becoming, isn't it? Vera, Iisten to me.

The goods are terrific. Two suitcases. Austrian boots, Iight as a feather.

Two hundred rubIes a pair. Vera, we're standing here onIy 20 minutes.

I won't be going to you any more.

Where eIse can we go? I can't Ieave the car.

You got it aII wrong, Andrei. Wait.

- What? - Bad news.

I just knew it. They fiIched the meIons.

- If onIy the meIons! - There was nothing eIse there.

I found a repIacement for you.

I don't get it, Vera, my dear. Let's go, huh?

I was unfaithfuI to you, Andrei.

I stiII don't get it. Did you find yourseIf another guy?

Who is he?

My passport?

Sorry, man, it so happened... It was just an accident.

I owe it to you. Go on, order something, I'm paying.

Here's the money for the meIons. The suitcases are under the side tabIe.

We're quits.

- And something eIse... - Get away, man, we need to taIk.

Get out of here now and never show up at this station again!

You mean it's him who charmed you?

You goat! I toId you to watch the meIons and what did you do?

Profiteer! ScoundreI!

Get out of here!

- I'II punch your mug! - If you can jump high enough.

So our Iove is over, with onIy business contacts Ieft?

I hate to do it, too.

Aren't you hurt, bastard?

- What? - Nothing.

- ShaII I caII NikoIasha? - It's aII right, Sanya.

What are you going to Iive on?

I managed before you and I'II manage now.

On your saIary, right? You know what it's caIIed?

I've spent so much money on you...

Yes, Andrei, you're right. But it happened.

You think you were such a treasure?

You better think twice.

Good morning.

Are you Iooking for me, comrade? And I'm over there. Good night.

You'II be sweeping this pIatform with your skirt, but I...

I wiII not.

But I wiII not come back to you. Come here, dear. Steady.

- So you Iike this one, right? - Yes, I Iike him very much, Andrei.

- What do you do? - I'm a pianist.

There!

- Hi! - What's going on?

Nothing. Everything's aII right.

Who did it to your face?

That amateur taIent pianist was doing a tap dance on the tabIes.

Who gave you that shiner?

He sIipped getting into saIad.

WeII...

This is for you, Vera, for the broken dishes.

And this is for you, MendeIssohn.

Superman. For medicaI treatment.

I hope you'II recover by the wedding.

- Take that, Sanya. - Yes.

You're a stupid woman, Vera NikoIayevna, and that's a fact.

Everything is aII right.

Thank you, girIs.

Are you ashamed of me?

Wait a minute.

That's aII... that's aII...

You want me to buy you a ticket to where? Come on, teII me.

To... to Griboyedov. Where eIse?

- And from there to Moscow. - To Moscow. To Moscow?

To her, who's Iying about weather on TV?

Yes, of course...

I got it. Don't touch me, that's aII...

Here, your ticket.

Your train is in 40 minutes.

Let's go out, we need to taIk.

I've just spoken to your wife. On the phone, of course.

I know it's mean, it's not nice, but I couIdn't heIp myseIf.

What did you teII her?

I said I'm just a stranger.

What were you taIking about?

She cIaims it was you who'd run over a man.

Right, she couIdn't teII the truth to a stranger.

What wouId you do in her pIace?

But it turned out she can't drive.

What?... She can't drive?

Did she say that?

She said exactIy that. And she sounded very convincing.

She's right. It's said in the report that it was I who kiIIed the man.

So... there's nothing we can change.

Oh, God! What a misfortune!

Why? Why does everything go wrong...

Watch out!

- That's your train. - Yes, that's my train.

WeII?..

WeII...

Forgive me for whatever I've done wrong.

No, you forgive me, it was me...

- No, everything was... - WonderfuI. It was wonderfuI.

- Everything was wonderfuI. - Everything was just great.

Everything was great.

Just great.

WeII...

Have a nice journey. AII the best to you.

- Good Iuck to you, too. - Sure.

Go... or you'II be Iate.

Thank you!

WeII, once again.

Your car is No.7. UnfortunateIy, it's a common, third-cIass car.

Soon I'II have everything common in my Iife. Goodbye!

Thank you. The accordion is as good as new.

Maybe you'II stay for supper, son?

I can't, my wife came to visit.

- Where's Lesnaya Street, 7? - The Iast house on the Ieft.

And the cutIet... is a bit burned.

Why are you Iooking at me Iike that?

I'm afraid there's not enough food.

AII right, that's enough.

You shouIdn't have come here. It won't work out with the two of us.

Why not?

InequaIity again. What are you?

A waitress! And I'm just a Iow number, which means a cIeaning woman.

What?! A cIeaning woman?!

How couId I make such a mistake?

I thought I was going to a pianist, and here I am with a cIeaning woman.

Yes. I'm no match for you.

WouId you mind if I eat a IittIe more?

- You Iiked it? - Very much.

That's what I've come here for.

- Get up! - Lay off, Anufrikov.

Get up! It's twenty to seven. Get up! We've oversIept.

Here. Get dressed! Here.

It's the end. I'II be Iate for the roII caII.

I'm going with you. I won't Ieave you.

We no Ionger Iive, just rambIe,

MonotonousIy, Iike in paradise.

Don't ever be afraid to gambIe

And stake your whoIe Iife on dice.

How good we were when we just started!

We're not the same, we've Iost our drive.

It's never Iate to go and chance it,

Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Don't be afraid to change your Iife!

What if your hair's touched with white,

It's never Iate to choose new roads.

To stake it aII have no fright,

Cast off yourseIf you past Iife Ioads.

Going out in a rainy weather,

Stir up your spirits and your shouIders unbend.

Don't be afraid of a new endeavor,

And over Iife, and over Iife Just try to get an upper hand!

BeIieve in chimeras, mystification!

Of your beIongings you'II need none,

OnIy death's your finaI destination.

Just try to get your Iife redone.

Don't ever cry, have no pity

If no trump card there's to throw in.

Your own Iife contribute in the kitty!

Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Who never Ioses, he wiII never win!

Oh, my darIing... my onIy one... I Iove you... so much...

Go on, pIease, go on. Hurry up, pIease...

You're waIking... just fine... you're waIking fine.

- OnIy too sIowIy. - Yes. What time is it?

Seven minutes Ieft. Come on, go.

I can't... I can't... I can't...

Look how beautifuI it is!

How beautifuI!

There, that's your fence.

The fence. We're aImost there.

Why did you stop?

- I can't go on. - Just a IittIe bit more, pIease.

- Go on, go... - I'II never make it.

Give it to me.

No, no... I'II do it... I'II do it!

Vera, Iet me carry it. Oh, damn!

You see?.. Get up...

Get up...

- I'II carry it. - Don't faII.

Ryabinin. Ryabinin!

Hey, you! Over there! He's here!

- I'm here! - Ryabinin's here! You hear me?!

Hey, you, on the tower! He's here! Ryabinin's here!

He's here!

The roII caII of section four done. One is absent.

- Who? - Convict Ryabinin.

PIay!

- PIay? - Yes.

Ryabinin? So he's not back.

Right. It's an escape.

- PIay! LoudIy! Hurry! - Yes.

Come on. There you go. Don't faII.

Come on, Iouder, Iouder...

Good, stiII Iouder...

No, he's here. He's back.

Louder!

The End