Original subtitles

Commissioned by the USSR State Committee

on Television and Radio Broadcasting

Gorky Film Studio

GUEST FROM THE FUTURE

Part One

- Hi. - Hi. Did you see?

- lt's her. - Who?

Come on. We must not lose her.

Can you explain it in plain words?

Well...

Did you see it? l did tell you, didn't l?

Who knows what she needs there.

But everybody was evicted 6 months ago.

l know, maybe some hooligan or a bum.

Does she look like a bum?

- What are you suggesting? - Let's follow her.

lt's the third time l see her appearing from here.

But before, all alone, l was afraid she might be not alone.

She's in disguise.

Or maybe she's a killer?

Look, the explanation is very simple.

She came from Konotop, there're no vacancies in hotels.

She saw an empty house and decided to spend the night there.

You believe this bullshit?

Why not? We should go and ask her.

Let's go, then.

Don't you see that l have to buy buttermilk?

My folks are coming, l promised them.

lf she asks, we can say we're from the gas company.

What business does a gas company have in an empty house?

Very simple, checking if there's any gas escape.

You said yourself that six months ago everybody was evicted and all taken out.

What do you suggest we say?

That we're television specialists? Or maybe electricians?

l'm off.

Wait, Kolya, there's a real mystery here.

You'll be very sorry later.

All right, if only for a minute.

We'll drop in and apologize.

You will say you lived in this house and forgot a textbook here.

You're a genius, Kolya. You go first.

- Or maybe we shouldn't? - We should.

Have you chickened out?

There's no one there. Let's get out of here.

Hush, maybe she's lying in wait for us up there.

All right, let's check upstairs, and that's it.

Why don't they pull down this ramshackle?

What do you know!

Prince Volkonsky used to live in this ramshackle, or maybe Trubetskoy.

The prince could have built himself something better, a stone house.

He was not an ordinary prince, he was a Decembrist.

Even Pushkin himself may have visited him.

- You're a bit exaggerating here. - No, l swear.

There's a restorer living in our yard, he was telling my father that.

Soon this house will be restored, just the way it looked before.

l even have a hypothesis that they kept weapons here

for the overthrow of the autocracy.

She slipped away.

How? Through the window?

Alright, l have to go buy buttermilk.

Wait. But she was here.

Go on, look for her.

Stand on the circle.

Already standing.

- Hold on to the handrails. - Where?

Close your eyes.

Breathe deeply.

Do not peep.

Transfer is completed.

Have a good day.

When you finish cleaning, don't forget to cut off the power at central control.

Will do.

What are you displeased with, Verter?

Nothing. Where will you be?

Will you go to the spaceport?

Why are you interested?

lt's nothing.

ln case someone calls.

Today is Sunday.

There we go.

Everything's going to end at last,

and l can play chess in peace.

lt's time to retire, anyway.

Today l'll write a resignation letter to Litvak,

and he may send me off to rest.

l can't go on working like this.

Verter!

Verter!

Hello, lvan Sergeyevich.

Hi, Verter.

Where on earth have you been?

Was saving a library in Alexandria from fire.

This is an unknown tragedy by Aeschylus.

And this is an autograph of Aristophanes himself.

Congratulations.

Thank you, Verter. Thank you.

l'll go and take a shower now,

and then sleep.

- Just a minute, lvan Sergeyevich. - What is it?

Until we make an inventory of all documents,

the shower is out of the question.

What a bureaucrat you are, Verter.

l've spent a whole month in battles and marches.

l was drowning in the Mediterranean.

l was dying of thirst in the sands of Egypt.

l was working like a mule during a fire in Alexandria.

And not once, Verter, not once had l a chance to have a good wash-up.

But if we allow a disorder in documentation,

our descendants won't forgive us.

Your inventory number?

777

Three sevens.

Aeschylus's tragedy.

Are you sure it's a tragedy by Aeschylus?

Yes, l'm sure. That's what's written there.

Not in Russian.

Of course not, Verter.

Aeschylus could not write tragedies in Russian.

Too bad

that l have to take your word for it.

Recently, A.V. lvanov

brought a reptile from the Mesozoic era

and we wrote down that it was a pterodactyl.

But it turned out that it was a pterosaur.

We had to rewrite a whole page.

lt's awful, Verter.

My dear friends!

Gogi, let me hug you.

No, you're going to soil me.

l just came from Voltaire. An amazing old man!

Such a vigorous mind...

Don't make so much noise, l can't concentrate.

Aristophanes or Arestophanes?

Write it as you think right.

Gogi, let's go fishing on the Klyazma.

l still have to write the report.

Besides, fishing is not for us. Hunting - that's the thing!

You're our first sportsman fisherman. l don't recognize you.

l myself don't recognize myself. But in our 18th century, such...

Don't be surprised, lvan Sergeyevich.

Professor Gogi

has got so much in character

that it will take him

no less than fwo weeks

before he forgets he is a marquis.

And from a very old family, mind you.

Maria!

Who's the last in line to this bureaucrat?

Maria, greetings!

What's this object?

With what a poor, wretched woman of the Stone Age

can protect her honor from bastards who call themselves men?

How do you like my truncheon? l hewed it myself with a stone axe.

Where's Polina?

Polina just came back

and left for the spaceport

to meet the expedition.

Too bad l missed her.

Where's the map of South Yemen? l'll mark the sites of Neanderthals.

ln the bookcase.

On the right.

Well?

Sign it.

You, too.

Really, let's go fishing tomorrow.

Sure, Marquis.

- The reports on Monday. - All right.

Listen, Marquis, so we're going to the Klyazma.

Guys, l'm going with you.

- Catch up. - Great, we can also find out...

Not one minute of peace.

Even on Sunday they must come back

all at once.

Observing?

Don't be scared, l'm not frightening.

l'm not scared.

Why? l didn't do anything.

Shut up, unidentified object.

l'm identified. l study at 6 ''C'' grade.

My name is Kolya.

l went to buy buttermilk, you know.

Why?

Let me out.

Don't disturb my work...

Please.

...the inventoried one.

Why? What for?

lntelligent human. Planet of inhabitance - Earth.

Place of residence - Moscow.

Date of transfer - April 1984.

lnventoried at Moscow lnstitute of Time.

Date of inventory - 67298

lnventory number - 364-748-050.

School uniform for boys.

Model 3-2569 Standard 25294-82.

Manufactured at the city of Gagarin, Lenin Street, 1 1 .

Date of manufacture - January 1983.

lnventoried at Moscow lnstitute of Time.

Date of inventory - April 2084.

lnventory number 193-647-480-501 .

Glass container for milk and milk products.

Regular milk bottle.

Standard number 15844-70.

Place of manufacture - city of Aksai, Aksai Glass Factory.

Date of manufacture - January 1984.

Why didn't l guess it right away

by your appearance?

Well, it's surely time for me to go to scraps.

All because of her.

You mean the woman that has been here?

Exactly.

Ruining the reputation

of such a wonderful woman as Polina

on account of a silly boy

who pokes his nose in where he has no business.

You see, l went to buy buttermilk

and met Fimka, and there she was.

She.

You think l'm in love with her?

No.

l'm literally worshipping her.

With my impressionable nature

and fine electronic organization,

l would have been a poet.

And what am l?

l'm a cleaning man

at the lnstitute of Time.

Nobody loves me.

Nobody needs me.

l'm just a modest

cleaning man Verter.

Now l have to deposit you in the museum.

ln the museum?

That's the regulations.

And ruin the reputation...

of Polina.

No.

l'm not going to deposit you in the museum.

l'll do something else.

Come on.

Stand on the circle.

Punch the point of departure 3,

and in five minutes you'll be home,

in your time.

And where am l now?

Didn't you get it?

What was l supposed to get?

You blockhead.

You are in Year 2084.

ln the future?

ln the present.

lt's the future only for you.

You're kidding.

Do l look like a kidder?

Come on, go.

Look here, comrade Verter,

would you agree to go back in the past

without even looking at what's going on in the future?

lf only just one quick look.

lf l were in your place,

l would have given half of my life

for a chance to experience such an adventure.

Then take me out.

l'll have a look and, l swear, l'll go right back.

l understand, it's not allowed.

Boy.

- Are you a romantic? - You bet l am.

Last week the math teacher turned me out of class

only because l began dreaming standing at the blackboard.

Do you write verse?

l did when l was young.

l write it now as well.

Want me to read some to you?

When she...

lt's very interesting, very interesting.

But maybe later?

You understand yourself, every minute is precious now.

Come on, listen. lt's a short poem.

When...

Comrade Verter, it's very interesting.

Let's do it like this.

You'll show me something here, and then l'll listen to your poems.

All right, then.

Then the first and only one.

Today is the last concert

of medieval music

performed by an Uruguayan ensemble of folk instruments.

l attended it the day before yesterday.

lt's just terrific!

Verter, let's postpone the folk instruments for later.

And you said you were a romantic.

Then the Goya exhibition.

We got our own Goya.

Then ice dancing.

Sure, ice dancing!

Verter, have you got anything that we hadn't 100 years ago?

A competition of guitar-playing robots. Playing the guitar!

lt's interesting, Verter. Think on.

Yes!

Coming back today

is the third interstellar expedition.

Polina will be at the spaceport, too.

l would like to go, too.

There will be many there.

Let's go together. ls it far?

Fifteen minutes.

Let's go, quick.

Third interstellar expedition, it's quite an event!

No, l can't go. l'm at work here.

But don't be too long.

l won't be cutting off the power.

Don't worry, Verter, l'll be back in a flash.

And then l'll invite you to our time.

We have something worth seeing, too.

Thank you.

There, you'll take a bus.

Go to Peace Prospekt,

from there you'll flip to the spaceport.

Thanks.

Only don't be too long.

Please.

Unexpectedly, it turned out

such a nice day.

Good afternoon.

Have a question.

What question?

Thank you.

Need to go to the Pushkin Museum. You know it?

Please.

You want the Fine Arts Museum or the one on Kropotkinskaya?

On Arbat, the house he lived as a little boy, please.

This one's not opened yet.

Other information, please.

Well, l don't know, l haven't been to Moscow for so long.

Go to the Pushkin Square, they'll tell you there.

Goodbye.

Where are you from?

- You know Alpha-Centaur? - Yes.

We're from there.

Goodbye. Thank you.

Goodbye.

Young man.

Your dress is not right.

Why?

- You going to Peace Prospekt? - Yes.

So you go to the carnival.

To my time, and with your costume you represent my time,

when boys really had to wear a school uniform,

which consisted of a jacket...

Do you know what a jacket is?

- l have an idea. - What you're wearing isn't a jacket.

lt's obvious that it was made now

by people who have no idea

of what it was like 100 years ago.

But how do you know?

- l'm 132 years old. - lmpossible!

l would say you're about 60, no more.

You're so young, and already a flatterer.

Do l really look so young?

Sure.

And you know why? Sports.

What school did you go to?

School 59 in Starokonyushenny.

And l study at School 20.

- The one on Metrostroyevskaya? - Right.

And how are you doing at school?

Not very good, really. Too much homework.

Strange. My great-grandchildren tell me they get no homework now.

Yes, those were some fine days in the late 20th century.

You can't understand that.

Those were the days.

But you're dressed incorrectly.

You should wear sandals on your feet, and what do you have?

- Sneakers. - They were invented later.

But the bottles are right, that's what we had then.

- My name is Pavel. - l'm Kolya.

Nice meeting you.

Bon appetite.

Hello.

Hello.

The ''Comrade'' spaceship from Moscow to Lunaport

is now boarding.

The takeoff is from Spaceport 4 at 12 hours 26 minutes.

The ''Comrade'' spaceship from Moscow to Lunaport

is now boarding.

The takeoff is from Spaceport 4 at 12 hours 26 minutes.

lnformation

Do you have tickets to the Moon?

The moon flight registration and boarding are terminated.

But l need to go very much.

The moon flight registration and boarding are terminated.

All right, then anywhere so that l fly right now.

Your question is not understood. Where do you want to go?

Me? Well, say, to the Uranus.

Screenplay by

Kir BULYCHYOV Pavel ARSENOV

Directed by Pavel ARSENOV

Directors of Photography

Sergei ONUFRlYEV Sergei TKACHENKO

Production Designer Olga KRAVCHENYA

Music by Yevgeny KRYLATOV

English Subtitles by Tatiana Kameneva

Starring

Kolya Gerasimov - Alyosha FOMKlN

Fima Korolyov - llyusha NAUMOV

Also starring

Polina - Yelena METYOLKlNA

Robot Verter - Yevgeny GERASlMOV

Granddad Pavel - Vladimir NOSlK

End of Part One