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WOLF HOWLS

DISTANT SHOUT

SHOUTING

PANTING

Nye glyadi. Nye nado. Poydyem.

MOURNFUL SINGING

DIGGING

Andrey Andreyvich Zhivago was perhaps not the best of men.

And some would say he lost his way in life.

But God is merciful.

He welcomes sinners, too.

And which of us could stand up and say

we are without sin?

I wonder you have the brass neck to show yourself here, sir.

My dear Gromeko,

I am here to mourn my friend. Friend?

My cousin was a good man until he met you.

A good man?

What sort of man leaves his only child

alone and destitute?

MUTTERING

My papa was a good man.

If my presence offends anyone, then of course I will take my leave.

I sought only to do what I could for the sake of the family.

I don't like that man.

You don't have to see him again.

You're going to come and live with us now, in Moscow.

There he is. Ooh....got him!

Got him. Ohh!

There's a sweet little rat. Be a nice little rat.

Oh!

Got him again! Got him again! Now, stay there, you nice little rat.

That's a good little rat. Ooh!

Oh, he bit me right on the thumb!

What am I going to do?

Oh, I'll just have to pull it off, I think.

Tonya? Stick it back on, Papa.

What do you think, Yury?

Oh, all right.

What a lot of old nonsense, eh?

GIGGLING

There we are.

You're going to have to be very patient with us, Yury.

Tonya, why don't you take Yury and show him your things?

Good morning. Morning.

Good morning.

Sorry, it's early lectures.

Don't I get a kiss before you go?

Goodbye. Goodbye.

I can remember days when we would breakfast together as a family.

All we can really do is observe the progress of the disease.

The outlook for most of these children's pretty bleak.

Sir.

Help me, sir, please.

My son is dying. He can't catch his breath.

Please.

Here's a chance to see what you've learnt.

Excuse me, Sister.

Put the boy down.

Is he correct? Is he dying?

Diagnosis?

Acute diphtheria. The air passage is blocked.

Very good.

Recommendation?

Open the trachea, sir. I agree.

Well, then, go ahead.

Sir, I've never performed -

You've seen it done enough times. Let's see how you get on. Go on.

I'll do my best for him.

What about an anaesthetic?

There isn't time.

(BOY GROANS)

(GASPS)

(GASPS)

(BREATHES NORMALLY)

(COUGHS)

That's not bad.

Not bad at all.

Still a 50-50 chance he'll die, of course.

That's the unfortunate truth.

It's not an unfortunate truth, sir.

It's a direct result of appalling sanitation.

Zhivago.

What's this? Poetry?

Your own?

Yes, sir. Not only do you want

to be a doctor, you want to be a voice of the people as well.

No, sir. I just want my own voice.

I'll be a doctor for others and a poet for myself.

You've made a good start.

Workers' rights.

Trying to impress everyone, Zhivago?

I was terrified, Misha.

No, you have a true vocation.

Me, I only had one ambition as a boy.

And what was that?

To lose my virginity.

What made you want to be a doctor?

I just thought it would be a good way

to see women without their clothes on.

Hello, Tonya. How are you?

Hello. What's so funny? What have you been talking about?

Nothing much.

Hopes, dreams, what the future may hold,

the meaning of life. My favourite sort of conversation.

You know what I think?

When the revolution comes,

there won't be any characters like me,

and everyone will be good, like Tonya.

I shall make it compulsory.

It won't happen, Misha.

Each one of us is utterly unique.

Look.

All those millions of cells growing and changing,

the blood coursing through the arteries.

So what is it that makes us this and not that?

How does love grow?

What is it that makes us choose...

..this one...

..and not that one?

Er, well...

You think I'm talking rubbish, don't you?

No. No, no.

What you are talking about - forgive me, Tonya -

is the reproductive instinct.

Sex. That's all. No, no.

There's so much more than that.

It's all a mystery.

Love, the idea

that there's someone in the world

who might hold the key to your whole existence.

Yury.

Love is no mystery.

Love equals lust

plus tenderness.

A simple formula.

Example.

I look at Tonya here...

You talk about me

as if I'm something on a laboratory table.

Forgive me, Tonya. I'm sorry.

I have a voice, too.

Please, let us hear it.

I agree with Yury.

Love is a mystery.

Sex without love is just a base instinct.

But how can you be sure...

Good evening, Mistress Lara. Good evening, mistress.

Olya, come and give me a cigarette.

Don't tell Mother.

Is he still here?

I can't bear it.

He has other women, too, you know.

It's so humiliating for her.

He's like his dog.

They're all like that. They can't help themselves.

He's not so bad.

I'd have him if he asked me.

Olya...

..have you really done it?

What's it like?

DOOR OPENS

Here they come.

Lara, you should be studying.

What can one do with them?

Good evening, Larissa.

Good evening, Mr Komarovsky.

Excuse me.

Will we see you again soon?

I don't know. I've got rather a lot on my plate at the moment,

but perhaps in a day or two.

Well, ladies, I must love you and leave you.

Oh, so many beautiful women and so little time.

What is it? Nothing. Don't take any notice of me.

It's him, isn't it?

He's tired of me, Lara.

He's tired of it all.

Has he said so?

No, but I can tell, the way he looks at me.

I'm afraid he's going to leave us.

He won't leave, Mother.

He loves it here. His own private little playground.

He's not tired in the least.

You really think that, Lara?

I'm sure of it.

I shouldn't talk to you of such things,

and you shouldn't think about them.

What is it? It's nothing.

Come on, let me see. It's nothing!

I knew you were writing a poem.

It's a poem about love.

What do you think?

I think it's beautiful.

Is it... is it about anyone in particular?

Who knows where inspiration comes from?

SHOUTING OUTSIDE

Comrades, the Presnia Soviet

is calling a textile workers' strike.

The men are already all out, and we need you to come, too.

You all have the right to negotiate

for better wages and better conditions.

Fat chance.

Yes, together we do have a chance. We are all one now, all together.

Make 'em sit up and take notice. He's right.

How can you do this to me? Haven't I always looked after you?

It's nothing personal, madame. It's only one day.

Employers and workers don't need to be enemies.

Come and join us. We all want a better world.

Where are we going?

Alexander Square. Let's make a move, comrades.

No, no, no, no. Please don't.

Pasha!

Lara. What are you up to?

Have you joined the revolutionaries? No, no, not yet.

You're not angry with me, are you, Lara?

I don't care what you do.

Why not join us?

I can't, can I? I've got to go to school.

Walk with me if you like. Comrade Antipov!

I can't. I've got to go.

Suit yourself.

Comrade Antipov!

See me after school, then.

What am I going to do?

I can't believe what those women did.

They're just letting off steam.

Just let them have their day, Amalia.

You'll be known as a liberal employer.

It could count for something in the days to come.

What days to come?

You're so restless, Amalia.

Now, stop that. Come back to bed.

ALL: Couronne de thym et de marjolaine...

TEACHER: De thym. De thym.

Et de marjolaine.

Les elfes joyeux dansent

sur la plaine.

Les elfes joyeux...

Les elfes joyeux.

He wants to take us out somewhere special on your 17th birthday.

He's so generous.

And you know he thinks the world of you.

Ever since you were a little girl.

There would be nothing wrong in accepting it, Lara.

And really I think it's time you had a proper grown-up dress.

I couldn't say no, Lara.

There.

There.

Good?

My dear. You are so beautiful.

Good.

Turn around.

Ravishing.

You know,

he says to me sometimes we're the only family he has.

We mustn't upset him.

So this is all for him, is it?

No.

Any other girl would be thrilled.

And you'll see, you'll have a lovely time.

Mother...

Darling.

You have to go.

And, Lara, please be nice to him,

for my sake.

Everyone's looking at you.

Do you know why?

You know why.

I don't know anything about this sort of food.

Perhaps you'd let me order for you.

Yes, please. Anything. I don't mind.

Excuse me. Monsieur Komarovsky.

Tell him yes, one minute only. Of course.

People, problems.

To you.

Mr Komarovsky. I'm so grateful.

Excuse me, mademoiselle. I'm so sorry to interrupt your evening.

That's all right. It'll be taken care of.

No, no, no. Please.

It's nothing.

They really need you, don't they?

They hang on your every word.

It's ironic, isn't it?

They all hang on my every word and you don't care tuppence for me.

And what makes you think that?

# WALTZ

It's hot. Let's get some air.

Oh, Larissa.

Do you have any idea how extraordinary you are?

Oh, Larissa.

All right, I'll do it.

Well, that's what it's all been about, isn't it?

So, all right.

What do you do? Ask for a room?

I'm sure you've done this before.

Larissa, believe me, this was never in my mind.

Yes, it was.

Don't lie about it.

I don't want any lies between you and me.

I'm tired of being a child.

Very well.

FOOTSTEPS

Mama?

Mama?

Yury.

Yury, we had a terrible scare this afternoon.

We thought she was...

Go to her. She's been asking for you.

Yury?

Oh, Yury!

Is it come, Yury?

Is it now?

Shh.

Let me feel your pulse.

It's passing.

I feel as if the whole of...

..my whole life...

..as if it's being pulled out of me

like a tooth, Yury.

I don't want to leave you all.

You're not dying.

You're not dying, Anna.

I know the signs. I give you my word.

Don't talk any more now. No.

Go to sleep.

You'll be better in the morning.

Lara, this is really too much.

Twice this week after midnight. What are people going to think of us?

An opera lasts as long as it lasts, Mother.

I can't make it any shorter.

Don't speak to me like that,

as if you had contempt for me.

I don't have contempt for you.

I'm sorry I came home late, but it really couldn't be helped.

Go to bed.

Go on, and let me go. I'm tired.

But this can't go on, Lara. Something must be said.

You should be doing your homework at night, not -

Not what?

Don't you think it's a bit late for this?

It isn't proper.

Perhaps you should have thought of that before.

Lara, I know that nothing really wrong has happened, has it?

We can't speak the truth at all, can we?

No.

You were supposed to be my mother.

You were supposed to take care of me.

I'm going to bed.

SCHOOL BELL

Lara. What are you doing here?

What else am I to do?

You don't come to see me, you don't answer my notes.

I was worried about you.

Here.

Let me at least drive you home. No.

Good afternoon, ladies.

Perhaps you'd like to introduce me to your friends.

Shh!

I haven't slept for a week. I can't bear it, not seeing you.

My life's in tatters. I can't think, I can't...work.

I should never have met you.

You say that!

It's wrong, the whole situation. It's terrible.

Look, Lara...

Larissa.

You are the love of my life.

That's the truth.

No!

Larissa.

Your thoughts -

daydreams of a softened brain,

flopping about on some greasy sofa.

I'll tease you with a bloody slice of my heart

until you beg for mercy.

If you want me to, I'll rage and roar...

Good God, I hope your stuff's not like this.

Good evening, sir. Oh, no, no.

I'm very flattered that you came.

May I present Antonya Gromeko?

Your fiancee?

His best friend.

# My voice...

# Thunders through the universe #

Mayakovsky and Blok are doing the first half,

and I'm on after the interval.

Only 22 years old.

Let's take a crack at Holy Russia.

What?

Mother Russia.

With her big fat arse.

Freedom!

Freedom! Freedom!

I have to leave.

An urgent case. I may need your help.

Yes, you, in your nice pressed linen,

I know you'd like to turn the pages of my lips

as if I were your recipe book.

Thank God you're here, old friend. Who is that?

That's my assistant. Can he keep his mouth shut?

What is it?

Suicide. Attempted suicide, I should say.

What's she taken? Iodine.

How long ago?

I don't know.

Come on. That's it.

You must try to wake up. What's her name?

Her first name? Amalia.

Let's get it out of her.

Amalia, you must be very brave and help me.

Now, swallow this for me.

That's it. Some water.

What is your involvement, Victor?

Nothing. I'm just a friend of the family.

I advise Madame Guishar with her business.

There's a daughter.

It was lucky I was here.

That's it.

VOMITING

Will she live?

Yes, she'll live.

Very good.

I'll take over now.

You've done well. Go and scrub up.

I wanted to thank you for... for helping my mother.

I think she'll make a good recovery.

Is there any way that I can help you?

No.

Thank you, you are very kind.

But you're too late.

Tonya.

Yury.

You shouldn't have waited up.

So what happened?

What took you so long?

There's too much to tell you now.

All right, then. We sell them.

We sell all the properties and realise the assets.

Andrey.

Andrey, try to understand.

There are no assets left to realise.

Look, here.

And here. Your signature.

You've signed them all away, Andrey.

How could you let me do it?

A man must trust his own lawyer.

There was no reasoning with you.

Andrey.

Andrey, my friend, don't try to blame me for ruining your life.

Each of us is in charge of our own soul.

You sold yours a long time ago, I think. Eh?

Papa.

Papa.

There, there. Nothing to worry about.

Just business, that's all.

Business.

Everything will be all right.

You'll be all right.

Why did you go away, Papa?

Listen to me, Yury.

Listen.

You won't be like me.

Good boy. Good boy.

You will grow up...

to be a good man, hm?

The best of men.

# Bayu-bayushki-bayu

Can you remember that?

# Bayu-bayushki-bayu

# Nye lozhis'-ka na krayu

Sing...sing...sing the song with me.

Sing...sing with me.

# Bayu-bayushki-bayu

Look out of the window.

And sing that song.

# Bayu-bayushki-bayu

# Bayu-bayushki-bayu

# Nye lozhis'-ka na krayu

# Pridyet kivarchuk... #

Stop him!

Calm down and don't jump.

Don't be ridiculous. Pull yourself together, man.

You're drunk.

Hold him. Somebody help me.

Sit down, Andrey. Don't be a fool.

Stop him!

TRAIN SCREECHES TO A HALT

CHURCH BELLS

SHOUTING

LARA: 'If you try to see me again, I'll kill myself.

I mean it. I'm not like my mother.

What I say I'll do, I will do.'

DOG SQUEALS

PROCESSION SINGS

Lara. What's happening?

The district's declared a soviet. We're going to run it ourselves.

You know I hate politics. This isn't politics.

Look, you're part of it. You can't help it.

We're liberating the bakery.

They're stealing. No, they're not.

They're liberating the means of production.

Come with me.

Comrades!

The Presnia district is showing the way.

No more hoarding.

Fair shares for all.

Bread, land and freedom! ALL: Freedom!

SCREAMING

GUNSHOTS

Help me!

Let me help.

Leave him. Go home.

I'm a doctor. I'm not doing any harm.

Leave him.

No. You won't shoot.

We're not savages yet.

This is the revolution. This is the day.

The whole of Moscow is on the move.

Mother Russia is behind us.

Welcome, comrades.

Have you come to join us?

Come, please.

Don't be like that.

All men are brothers.

Come on.

Get off your high horses and join us.

Open fire.

Lara. Lara, where have you been?

What are you doing here?

Let me speak to her.

What do you think you were doing? You could have been killed.

Get away from me. I don't want to see you any more.

For God's sake, Lara. I just want to protect you.

I could have told you what would happen.

You knew? Of course I knew.

You're worse than they are.

Spare me your schoolgirl moral judgements.

It had to be done and that's that.

Now, listen to me.

The Revolution may be happening,

but not yet. When it does come,

they'll string you up, and do you think I'll be sorry?

No. No, I'll be happy. I'll take photographs.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but that is not going to happen.

The revolutionary government will need my help.

I don't care.

They need me to show them how to get things done.

You're nothing to do with me. It's over.

Lara, Lara, Lara.

Did you think you could escape as easily as that?

With one little letter? Why don't we show it to your mother?

You're disgusting.

And you, my dear, are, shall we say,

quite exceptional for a girl of your age.

You think you're so pure.

I know what you're like.

You like the pleasures of life -

the fine wine and the pretty dresses and all the rest of it.

I think I've spoilt you for anyone else.

We are two of a kind, Larissa.

I'll call Mother. Oh, let's do that.

Let's confess everything to Mother.

Perhaps she'll go through with it this time, finish the job.

Let's talk to Mama.

No?

Have some of this. Go on. Have some, please.

Ah, there they are!

Oh, how beautiful you both are.

Turn around, let me look.

Exquisite.

Oh, and how well they go together. You see? I was right.

Come and sit.

Now, he's been telling me

you're worried about going to the party without me.

I've never heard anything so silly.

Of course you must go.

And Alexander, too.

They must see you both together.

Such a beautiful couple.

And...(COUGHS) you...

You must tell me everything that happened,

and what everybody said,

and how my Tonya and my Yury were admired.

There. You see? No point in arguing.

You two must stay together.

You were meant for each other.

It's what I always hoped for.

It's the right thing.

Yes.

You must get married.

There, now. I've betrothed you.

Off you go, and have a lovely time. Off you go.

Good night.

# WALTZ

This is paradise for me, Tonya.

You in my arms.

Misha.

# ONE-STEP

Tonya, I...

I... What did you...?

I'm sorry.

It should be the easiest thing in the world to talk to you,

and now...

I know.

Because of what Mother said.

Yes, I suppose so.

What did you think when she said it?

I...I imagined they thought of us as brother and sister.

Do you?

I thought you liked Misha.

Misha?

You didn't think I could ever feel like that about Misha?

Well, I don't know.

You like him, don't you?

Yes, I like him.

But I could never love him.

I love you, Yury.

I've always loved you.

GUNSHOT

Sit down. Sit down.

Has anyone called the police?

No, no. Wait, wait, wait.

No. No police.

We don't want any scandal.

It was just an accident.

Doctor.

Your patient is here.

Get up.

Get up!

Everything's under control.

Excuse me.

There.

Thank you, Doctor. Come along, my dear.

It seems we have to thank you again, sir.

You're a wondrous necessary man, Doctor...

Zhivago.

Zhivago?

I knew your father very well. I was his lawyer.

Yes, I know.

I don't care to hear you speak of my father.

As you wish.

As I say, I just came to thank you.

That bullet was meant for you, wasn't it?

What have you done to that girl?

Ah, Larissa.

She'd never hurt me, you know.

It was...a gesture.

She's a very passionate young woman.

She's not for you.

Yury?

Yury, come quickly. We've got to go home.

Quickly.

SOBBING AND WAILING

She slipped away.

Without a fuss.

Just like her.

(TONYA WAILS)

I don't understand.

Were you trying to kill him?

I don't know any more.

Was it because of your mother?

No, Pasha.

It's over now.

I'm a bad woman, Pasha. No.

You think you know me, but you don't.

You're not a bad woman, Lara. You're not.

Tell me. Tell me what it is. Tell me what's upsetting you.

I can't.

I can't.

I think it's time for me to grow up, Lara.

I think it's time for me to stop fooling myself about you.

You'll never really love me...

..however long I wait.

I've decided I'm leaving Moscow.

They say I'm a marked man now, Lara.

A dangerous revolutionary. Me? I wouldn't hurt a fly.

Where will you go?

To the Urals.

They're desperate for teachers.

So I'm going to be a teacher in a village school.

Change the world in that way.

Small steps.

Teach them love and respect,

as well as arithmetic and drawing.

Take me with you. What?

Take me with you.

I'll help you. I'll teach too. I'll teach the littlest ones.

Pasha, we can be married.

Lara, please.

Don't say things like that when you don't mean them.

I do mean it.

I love you.

Pasha, you're the only good person I know.

Cake!

Yury Andreyvich Zhivago,

doctor and poet, doubly distinguished.

How fortunate I have been

to watch him growing up within my own family.

With no son of my own, what better could I have wished for?

Antonya Alexandrovna,

my Tonya,

most loved of daughters -

beautiful, clever, good and loving.

The only worry she gave us was who would be good enough to marry her.

Hear! Hear!

And it was my own dear Anna Ivanovna,

may God rest her soul,

who saw that the solution lay right under our noses.

So, ladies and gentlemen, friends,

you see before you the recipe for perfect happiness.

I would ask you to raise your glasses

and to drink

to Yury and Tonya,

the happy couple.

ALL: Yury and Tonya, the happy couple.

Now, when you hold your candle,

hold it as high as you can,

higher than your husband.

That means you'll always be the boss in your house.

What if I don't want to be the boss?

Big trouble.

You do as I say, or you'll regret it.

# HYMN

Idiots!

LIVELY MUSIC

This wine is bitter! Make it sweet!

ALL: One, two, three, four...

COUNTING CONTINUES

Ladies and gentlemen!

A toast.

Ladies and gentlemen,

a happy occasion.

But so sad for those you leave behind.

My dear young friends,

without you, Moscow will be a desert, a Sahara.

Indeed, I might be so distraught at the parting,

I will have to come all the way to the Urals

to look you up.

That won't be necessary, Mr Komarovsky.

With God's help, you'll manage without us.

We aren't such a rarity, are we, Pasha?

With luck I'm sure you'll find other "young friends".

Now, let's dance.

Lara,

I want us to be utterly honest with each other.

I want us to have no secrets.

I want us to know everything about each other.

Everything.

Are you sure that's what you want?

Lara...

..I'm your husband now.

All right...

..but not yet.

Put your arms up.

It wasn't your fault.

He used his power. He forced you. No.

He forced you. No.

It was never like that.

I chose it.

I wouldn't let him seduce me.

I told him to teach me everything.

And he did.

He showed me what we are really like, men and women.

And bit by bit...

..he made me hate him.

But never as much as I hate myself.

So now you know.

(Yes.)

Do you think you can save me, Pasha?

I don't know.

You can.

You will.

Darling Pasha.

You must.

YURI: 'My dearest Tonya,

Do you remember that wild girl who shot Sventitsky?

Would you believe she is my chief nurse here?

And I don't know how I would manage without her.'

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