1 00:02:06,951 --> 00:02:10,532 The Russian proverb is true, it never rains but it pours. 2 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,491 Poor Fyodor Mikhailovich, only recently he suffered his wife's death 3 00:02:14,699 --> 00:02:17,698 - and now his brother. - And he is deep in debt on top of it. 4 00:02:18,116 --> 00:02:21,615 No money to pay the rent, he takes his belongings to the usurers. 5 00:02:21,749 --> 00:02:24,331 And what about his contract with the editor Stillovsky? 6 00:02:24,428 --> 00:02:27,100 Oh, that one! He is such a scoundrel, such a profiteer. 7 00:02:27,205 --> 00:02:30,204 He has dreamt up real bondage terms for Fyodor Mikhailovich... 8 00:02:30,490 --> 00:02:33,479 If he does not complete his novel by the first of November 9 00:02:33,698 --> 00:02:36,114 Stillovsky can publish all Dostoyevsky's works 10 00:02:36,490 --> 00:02:39,906 for nine years without paying him anything. 11 00:02:40,323 --> 00:02:41,905 It absolutely can't be allowed. 12 00:02:42,323 --> 00:02:45,905 - And what about him and Suslova? - Appolinaria you mean? 13 00:02:46,322 --> 00:02:48,905 She is rumoured to be somewhere abroad. 14 00:02:50,114 --> 00:02:52,488 Gentlemen, they say a certain Olkhin 15 00:02:52,700 --> 00:02:54,435 has launched stenography classes. 16 00:02:54,517 --> 00:02:57,724 Fyodor Mikhailovich could use a stenographer for the sake of speed. 17 00:02:58,052 --> 00:03:00,464 - And what is it about? - The latest innovation, 18 00:03:00,673 --> 00:03:03,126 - he dictates, the stenographer writes. - Yes, yes. 19 00:03:03,237 --> 00:03:05,695 - That's a good idea, gentlemen. -Go! 20 00:03:06,321 --> 00:03:07,778 Goodbye! 21 00:03:28,777 --> 00:03:31,860 - Fyodor Mikhailovich, may I? - Yes, yes. 22 00:03:38,235 --> 00:03:41,108 You are having tea, aren't you. 23 00:03:41,485 --> 00:03:43,983 I like tea. 24 00:03:45,109 --> 00:03:49,400 - Just went out to clear my head. - It's just that... 25 00:03:53,526 --> 00:03:57,315 I am just being inquisitive, what are you writing right now? A novel? 26 00:03:57,692 --> 00:03:59,400 Yes, a novel. 27 00:04:00,608 --> 00:04:03,607 The deadline is the 1st of November. - Yes... 28 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:09,774 To avoid bondage conditions. 29 00:04:11,107 --> 00:04:13,899 - Only the success is questionable. - Why so? 30 00:04:14,316 --> 00:04:16,231 Questionable. 31 00:04:16,607 --> 00:04:19,231 Stillovsky will fool you. 32 00:04:19,606 --> 00:04:23,689 - By all means he will fool you. - How do you know? 33 00:04:24,107 --> 00:04:25,897 - I do. - Who are you? 34 00:04:26,481 --> 00:04:31,105 I work or rather vegetate at this dishonest editor's, at Stillovsky's. 35 00:04:31,481 --> 00:04:32,897 At his shop. 36 00:04:33,731 --> 00:04:36,104 - Oh, Stillovsky? - He will deceive you. 37 00:04:36,606 --> 00:04:38,687 - How can he? - That I don't know. 38 00:04:39,105 --> 00:04:41,604 But I can sense it, you should be on your guard. 39 00:04:42,313 --> 00:04:46,104 For he is dishonest, profiteering. 40 00:04:49,105 --> 00:04:52,895 - He has no God. - How can I protect myself? 41 00:04:53,896 --> 00:04:56,520 Is it possible to protect oneself from human meanness? 42 00:04:56,904 --> 00:04:59,111 Very true, Fyodor Mihailovich, very true. 43 00:04:59,372 --> 00:05:02,573 Fyodor Mihailovich, just a small hint, what is the novel about? 44 00:05:02,730 --> 00:05:04,645 Give a hint, I'll tell my grandchildren. 45 00:05:05,311 --> 00:05:07,227 Not really... 46 00:05:08,686 --> 00:05:13,060 Nothing much. The work does not go well. Not at all. 47 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,769 Help! 48 00:05:19,770 --> 00:05:22,601 Let me go! 49 00:05:24,977 --> 00:05:28,101 Police! Help! 50 00:05:28,601 --> 00:05:30,684 Help! 51 00:05:39,100 --> 00:05:41,682 Polia! 52 00:05:42,850 --> 00:05:44,391 Appolinaria! 53 00:06:11,556 --> 00:06:13,097 Excuse me. 54 00:06:14,223 --> 00:06:17,222 I mistook you for someone else. I am sorry. 55 00:07:28,968 --> 00:07:31,591 Everything was changed in a few days. 56 00:07:31,929 --> 00:07:34,014 I... 57 00:07:34,967 --> 00:07:39,299 I gave my heart to him at his whistle, with no resistance, 58 00:07:40,674 --> 00:07:43,090 without any hope that I was loved. 59 00:07:44,091 --> 00:07:48,382 I knew you would fall in love with someone else. 60 00:07:50,465 --> 00:07:54,422 Never, do you hear it, Polia, never, 61 00:07:55,465 --> 00:07:57,422 however long you might live, 62 00:07:58,090 --> 00:08:01,464 will you find another heart like mine. 63 00:08:10,089 --> 00:08:12,755 Neither will you be happy, Fedia. 64 00:08:13,297 --> 00:08:15,588 But why? 65 00:08:16,089 --> 00:08:18,295 Don't you know? 66 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:23,670 Because you feast on your own and other people's sufferings 67 00:08:24,088 --> 00:08:27,087 one does on sweets. 68 00:08:29,088 --> 00:08:33,294 I am lonely like a stone thrown away. 69 00:08:35,379 --> 00:08:37,878 I seem destined to torture everyone 70 00:08:38,379 --> 00:08:40,960 I love 71 00:08:42,378 --> 00:08:44,294 and to suffer. 72 00:08:59,585 --> 00:09:01,876 - Good afternoon! - Good afternoon! 73 00:09:03,877 --> 00:09:05,584 I've come to see Dostoyevsky. 74 00:09:07,501 --> 00:09:09,292 Come in. 75 00:09:17,376 --> 00:09:19,375 This way, please. 76 00:09:35,665 --> 00:09:37,206 My name is Snitkina. 77 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:39,831 Anna Grigorievna. 78 00:09:42,374 --> 00:09:44,289 I was sent here by Olkhin. 79 00:09:47,831 --> 00:09:50,288 I've come to see Mr. Dostoyevsky. 80 00:09:51,748 --> 00:09:53,747 I am Dostoyevsky. 81 00:09:54,373 --> 00:09:55,747 Come in. 82 00:10:43,369 --> 00:10:44,744 Come in. 83 00:10:56,660 --> 00:10:58,200 Yes. 84 00:10:59,743 --> 00:11:04,283 How long have you been doing stenography? 85 00:11:04,658 --> 00:11:06,199 Half a year. 86 00:11:14,866 --> 00:11:18,406 Does you teacher have a lot of pupils? 87 00:11:20,075 --> 00:11:23,656 At first he had many, but now no more than 20 are left. 88 00:11:24,949 --> 00:11:27,823 Here it is the same with any new undertaking. 89 00:11:29,198 --> 00:11:32,072 No one is eager to work hard. 90 00:11:33,198 --> 00:11:36,655 By the way, I expect your teacher Olkhin 91 00:11:37,281 --> 00:11:39,655 warned you about the conditions? 92 00:11:42,198 --> 00:11:45,197 50 roubles for your work. 93 00:11:46,448 --> 00:11:49,946 My current circumstances Ekaterina Grigorievna, dictate that... 94 00:11:50,364 --> 00:11:51,863 - Anna. -What? 95 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:53,821 Anna Grigorievna. 96 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:56,863 Sorry. 97 00:11:57,446 --> 00:12:00,570 I am not well. As a result my memory is horrible. 98 00:12:01,071 --> 00:12:03,028 Fedosia, bring the tea 99 00:12:04,571 --> 00:12:07,278 I'll dictate something for you as a test. 100 00:12:09,196 --> 00:12:12,195 This, for example. 101 00:12:13,446 --> 00:12:17,027 Just a few days ago it was reported in the newspapers 102 00:12:17,403 --> 00:12:20,277 that a runaway prisoner in Vladimir... 103 00:12:20,653 --> 00:12:22,443 Not so fast, please. 104 00:12:23,195 --> 00:12:27,568 A runaway prisoner was flogged as a punishment. 105 00:12:29,569 --> 00:12:33,026 Now write it in the usual way. 106 00:12:39,943 --> 00:12:43,192 You are so very slow. 107 00:12:43,568 --> 00:12:45,192 Insufferable. 108 00:12:48,068 --> 00:12:50,192 It makes no sense. 109 00:12:52,567 --> 00:12:54,359 What am I talking about? 110 00:12:54,734 --> 00:12:58,191 Can I write ten printer's sheets in four weeks? 111 00:12:59,859 --> 00:13:03,733 I have no experience of working with a stenographer. 112 00:13:04,191 --> 00:13:06,190 I don't know, I don't know... 113 00:13:08,024 --> 00:13:11,482 Mr.Dostoyevsky, I will have no complaints 114 00:13:11,858 --> 00:13:13,940 if our work does not take place. 115 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,065 Now you are offended. 116 00:13:19,648 --> 00:13:23,856 And I was glad when Olkhin sent me a girl as a stenographer 117 00:13:24,273 --> 00:13:27,188 and not a man. Do you know why? -Why? 118 00:13:27,648 --> 00:13:31,188 Because a man would definitely go on the booze. 119 00:13:31,647 --> 00:13:35,855 And you, I presume, don't drink? 120 00:13:40,856 --> 00:13:43,188 Rest assured, Mr. Dostoyevsky, 121 00:13:43,646 --> 00:13:45,854 I won't go on the booze. 122 00:14:04,854 --> 00:14:07,436 Ania, wait, where are you going 123 00:14:07,854 --> 00:14:10,436 - Anna Grigorievna. - I am not his servant. 124 00:14:10,691 --> 00:14:13,200 Neither am I a printing machine to be treated like that. 125 00:14:13,253 --> 00:14:15,787 But this is Fyodor Mikhailovich. This is Dostoyevsky himself! 126 00:14:15,811 --> 00:14:17,851 I don't care about his being a celebrity. 127 00:14:18,852 --> 00:14:20,643 - I am a woman. - Very well. 128 00:14:21,186 --> 00:14:23,267 Please kindly take this into account. 129 00:14:23,644 --> 00:14:26,014 What have I got to do with it, Anna Grigorievna? 130 00:14:26,185 --> 00:14:28,267 How quick-tempered you are, Ania. 131 00:14:29,727 --> 00:14:32,434 You yourself talked about plans and projects. 132 00:14:32,852 --> 00:14:35,350 Yes, yes, don't laugh. 133 00:14:37,044 --> 00:14:39,129 I went to him like I would to God. 134 00:14:41,434 --> 00:14:45,433 I went there to express my admiration for his talent. 135 00:14:46,351 --> 00:14:49,058 I dreamt of becoming his assistant, but he... 136 00:14:50,850 --> 00:14:54,640 Oh, Misha, you should have seen it. Angry, gloomy, rude. 137 00:14:56,850 --> 00:15:00,056 - No, it's over! - Wait, Anna Grigorievna. 138 00:16:20,426 --> 00:16:22,425 I know you. 139 00:16:22,843 --> 00:16:26,175 I do! They are eagerly awaiting you. 140 00:16:33,633 --> 00:16:35,841 It's good. 141 00:16:38,258 --> 00:16:40,632 It's good that you've come. 142 00:16:41,425 --> 00:16:45,026 Yes, yes, the other day I was hard on you. 143 00:16:45,841 --> 00:16:49,048 But those were moments of ill-temper. 144 00:16:49,632 --> 00:16:52,172 Merely moments of ill-temper. 145 00:16:52,841 --> 00:16:55,631 And my permanently frayed nerves. 146 00:16:56,173 --> 00:16:57,714 May I? 147 00:17:13,047 --> 00:17:15,421 - Do you smoke? - Me? 148 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:22,089 I not only refrain from smoking, but I hate it when ladies smoke. 149 00:17:22,255 --> 00:17:23,796 That's it. 150 00:17:25,630 --> 00:17:28,337 It's not nice when ladies smoke. 151 00:17:29,421 --> 00:17:32,253 I've been talking about it for ages. 152 00:17:33,087 --> 00:17:36,377 A lady with a cigarette! No. What can be more disgusting? 153 00:17:38,170 --> 00:17:41,044 Who will kiss her after that? 154 00:17:43,095 --> 00:17:47,218 So, are you ready, Ekaterina Grigorievna? 155 00:17:49,048 --> 00:17:51,630 Anna, Fyodor Mikhailovich, my name is Anna Grigorievna. 156 00:17:51,836 --> 00:17:55,710 What? Oh, I am sorry, Anna Grigorievna. 157 00:17:56,252 --> 00:17:58,168 Anna Grigorievna. 158 00:17:58,626 --> 00:18:01,418 Despicable forgetfulness. 159 00:18:04,836 --> 00:18:08,625 So, you are ready... 160 00:18:09,168 --> 00:18:11,042 Anna Grigorievna. 161 00:18:12,710 --> 00:18:14,625 Oh, Fedosia. 162 00:18:16,043 --> 00:18:17,625 Thank you. 163 00:18:20,594 --> 00:18:24,301 This is the most important point, the tea. 164 00:18:25,774 --> 00:18:27,190 Please, have some. 165 00:18:29,229 --> 00:18:32,853 How old are you now, Anna Grigorievna? 166 00:18:34,479 --> 00:18:36,728 Twenty. 167 00:18:39,021 --> 00:18:41,020 Tiny years. 168 00:18:43,312 --> 00:18:46,019 You wouldn't have read any of my writings? 169 00:18:46,478 --> 00:18:49,726 When I first came to your flat, I thought you door-bell was straight 170 00:18:49,873 --> 00:18:53,360 out of "Crime and Punishment", when Raskolnikov comes to the old woman. 171 00:18:53,477 --> 00:18:55,726 - Do you remember? - Yes. I do remember. 172 00:18:58,144 --> 00:19:00,851 - Fyodor Mikhailovich. - Yes? 173 00:19:02,144 --> 00:19:05,933 - May I ask you a question? - Yes, dearest. 174 00:19:06,476 --> 00:19:09,933 When are you going to publish the next chapters of "Crime..."? 175 00:19:10,476 --> 00:19:13,350 "Crime..."? I am afraid to predict. 176 00:19:15,017 --> 00:19:18,307 When Svidrigailov comes to Raskolnikov. 177 00:19:18,487 --> 00:19:19,457 Yes, yes. 178 00:19:19,786 --> 00:19:22,134 Svidrigailov is a bad person, isn't he? 179 00:19:22,308 --> 00:19:25,020 - I have apprehensions about Raskolnikov. - Do you? 180 00:19:25,350 --> 00:19:27,348 You pity the murderer? 181 00:19:29,142 --> 00:19:30,640 I do. 182 00:19:31,558 --> 00:19:33,473 A murderer he may be 183 00:19:34,142 --> 00:19:36,849 - but he is suffering. - That's the whole point. 184 00:19:37,349 --> 00:19:39,555 You are totally right. 185 00:19:40,391 --> 00:19:43,348 Truth can be arrived at only through suffering. 186 00:19:43,723 --> 00:19:47,222 His tragedy is in his suffering. 187 00:19:49,349 --> 00:19:53,847 In the knowledge of what is best and the inability to achieve it. 188 00:19:55,681 --> 00:19:58,013 This is a Russian 189 00:19:58,556 --> 00:20:01,013 a purely Russian tragedy. 190 00:20:02,930 --> 00:20:06,929 So young people do talk about me sometimes. 191 00:20:07,043 --> 00:20:08,917 Of course, Fyodor Mikhailovich. 192 00:20:09,639 --> 00:20:12,020 My friends and I have arguments about you every day. 193 00:20:12,138 --> 00:20:14,461 - Is that so? - Your Raskolnikov has totally 194 00:20:14,554 --> 00:20:17,280 thrown us off balance. It's for him that we are waiting. 195 00:20:17,377 --> 00:20:20,310 It might take a long time. There are various circumstances. 196 00:20:22,138 --> 00:20:23,928 Stillovsky for example. 197 00:20:24,554 --> 00:20:26,344 By the 1st of November. 198 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,636 A cheap brigand. 199 00:20:32,470 --> 00:20:35,676 Have you been abroad? At a resort? 200 00:20:36,137 --> 00:20:39,135 - No. - Then it'll be interesting for you. 201 00:20:39,636 --> 00:20:42,426 The story that we are going to invent, 202 00:20:42,802 --> 00:20:44,635 dear Anna Grigorievna, 203 00:20:45,010 --> 00:20:48,218 takes place at a resort. A mineral water resort abroad. 204 00:20:48,718 --> 00:20:52,926 This will be the story about a man. 205 00:20:53,843 --> 00:20:55,759 Alexei Ivanovich, our protagonist, 206 00:20:56,217 --> 00:20:58,924 is a spontaneous, complex personality. 207 00:20:59,925 --> 00:21:03,842 But invariably incomplete, unbelieving. 208 00:21:04,342 --> 00:21:08,466 The main point is that all his life energy, 209 00:21:08,710 --> 00:21:12,001 all his powers have been consumed by the roulette. 210 00:21:15,342 --> 00:21:16,924 Father, I've come to see you. 211 00:21:18,133 --> 00:21:20,007 The bastard usurer 212 00:21:20,549 --> 00:21:23,007 paid a miserly amount for the vase. 213 00:21:26,841 --> 00:21:29,339 I'll keep some money, I am hard pressed. 214 00:21:29,716 --> 00:21:31,673 Enough, no more of your candour. 215 00:21:33,549 --> 00:21:35,714 Oh, pardon, pardon. 216 00:21:36,215 --> 00:21:38,297 Pavel Isaev, my stepson. 217 00:21:38,528 --> 00:21:40,650 Anna Grigorievna Snitkina. 218 00:21:41,340 --> 00:21:43,546 How young she is. 219 00:21:45,788 --> 00:21:47,745 See for yourself. 220 00:21:49,631 --> 00:21:51,130 What a disgrace. 221 00:21:52,131 --> 00:21:56,212 I live like a pauper, struggle with debts like Laocoon with serpents. 222 00:21:56,713 --> 00:22:00,545 The readers are convinced that all Russian literary men are men of fortune. 223 00:22:02,463 --> 00:22:05,919 I'd go to a forced labour camp again only to pay my debts 224 00:22:06,296 --> 00:22:08,128 and become a free man. 225 00:22:09,337 --> 00:22:12,711 And mind you, my name is worth a million. 226 00:22:13,837 --> 00:22:15,711 Forgive my bragging. 227 00:22:16,629 --> 00:22:18,544 My God, how you have suffered. 228 00:22:19,003 --> 00:22:22,460 Yes, man is a very lively creature. 229 00:22:23,836 --> 00:22:28,127 A Russian man always complains about two things. 230 00:22:28,836 --> 00:22:32,917 Lack of money and unrequited love. 231 00:22:34,461 --> 00:22:36,542 The damned novel. 232 00:22:37,711 --> 00:22:40,667 I've barely started writing it and I am already tired of it. 233 00:22:42,460 --> 00:22:46,000 We are doomed, Russian compatriots. 234 00:22:52,126 --> 00:22:55,666 But confess that you absolutely 235 00:22:56,916 --> 00:23:00,125 did not want to go to my place today. 236 00:23:00,625 --> 00:23:02,290 Do you confess? 237 00:23:04,126 --> 00:23:07,332 I am angry with myself and my deficiencies 238 00:23:07,708 --> 00:23:11,539 to the point of writing my own criticism. 239 00:23:15,916 --> 00:23:18,998 Don't leave me now, Anna Grigorievna. 240 00:23:19,832 --> 00:23:23,539 Without you I am doomed. 241 00:23:43,705 --> 00:23:45,121 Yes. 242 00:24:02,996 --> 00:24:04,995 Anna Grigorievna! 243 00:24:06,203 --> 00:24:07,660 Ania! 244 00:24:09,536 --> 00:24:13,077 We won't make it in time. 245 00:24:13,620 --> 00:24:16,327 Just listen! What an idea. Listen to it. 246 00:24:17,452 --> 00:24:20,910 "Not only is the Russian incapable of acquiring capital, 247 00:24:21,327 --> 00:24:24,618 but he exhausts it wantonly and shamefully. 248 00:24:24,994 --> 00:24:27,284 None the less we Russians too need money. 249 00:24:27,627 --> 00:24:30,106 Yet it is difficult to say which is the worst of the two 250 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:31,492 Russian ineptitude 251 00:24:31,643 --> 00:24:34,665 or the German method of growing rich through honest toil." 252 00:24:34,826 --> 00:24:37,533 What is this? What is this crazy Slavic idea? 253 00:24:38,992 --> 00:24:41,699 "What an unseemly idea," cried the General." 254 00:24:42,117 --> 00:24:45,074 And what a Russian idea!' added the Frenchman." 255 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:48,907 - What is this? Who said it? - Dostoyevsky. 256 00:24:50,450 --> 00:24:53,824 I don't understand it. What have you found appealing in him? 257 00:24:54,324 --> 00:24:56,657 Why have you suddenly changed your mind? 258 00:24:57,533 --> 00:25:01,198 I don't know. I went there to say no. 259 00:25:01,699 --> 00:25:03,323 But once I saw him, I could not. 260 00:25:07,115 --> 00:25:09,697 Yes... I don't know. 261 00:25:10,531 --> 00:25:12,072 It's strange. 262 00:25:16,448 --> 00:25:18,697 Let him be, your Dostoyevsky. 263 00:25:19,322 --> 00:25:21,988 - What are we going to do? - Wait a bit, Misha. 264 00:25:22,447 --> 00:25:25,446 First we must complete the novel by the first of November. 265 00:25:26,364 --> 00:25:30,988 I don't know, Soon I'll start hating this novel. 266 00:25:31,905 --> 00:25:34,903 Look, your fingers have grown coarse with the work. 267 00:25:35,322 --> 00:25:37,195 You've lost weight, you are pale. 268 00:25:38,821 --> 00:25:41,820 He must be cruel, that Dostoyevsky. 269 00:25:42,696 --> 00:25:44,653 You said it yourself, he was spiteful. 270 00:25:46,613 --> 00:25:49,694 - No, he is not spiteful. - Then what is he like? 271 00:25:53,820 --> 00:25:55,277 I don't know. 272 00:25:57,528 --> 00:25:58,986 Lonely. 273 00:26:02,695 --> 00:26:04,111 Miserable. 274 00:26:08,194 --> 00:26:10,818 Yes, over 40, 45. 275 00:26:11,319 --> 00:26:13,443 Go to him and demand 276 00:26:17,818 --> 00:26:20,275 that he should write quicker. 277 00:26:21,443 --> 00:26:24,275 I am all warn out by this waiting. 278 00:26:28,609 --> 00:26:31,274 What is he writing about? 279 00:26:31,900 --> 00:26:34,524 I don't know how to tell you. 280 00:26:34,984 --> 00:26:38,107 It's a novel about a man. 281 00:26:38,524 --> 00:26:41,273 Very miserable and lost man. 282 00:26:41,691 --> 00:26:43,824 The story takes place at a mineral water resort. 283 00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:46,228 A foreign resort where there is a roulette. 284 00:26:46,317 --> 00:26:48,190 You know, where they gamble for gold. 285 00:26:48,607 --> 00:26:53,065 There's a Russian family and their tutor, Alexei Ivanovich. 286 00:26:54,190 --> 00:26:57,815 He is in love, in love with the general's stepdaughter. 287 00:26:58,273 --> 00:27:01,522 But she keeps torturing him. An arrogant heartless woman. 288 00:27:33,104 --> 00:27:34,811 At last. 289 00:27:36,604 --> 00:27:38,894 Good afternoon. Have you written it down? 290 00:27:42,104 --> 00:27:44,102 Let me see. 291 00:27:44,811 --> 00:27:46,685 Well, well. 292 00:27:47,311 --> 00:27:49,435 What nonsense. 293 00:27:50,186 --> 00:27:52,602 Hasty and mean nonsense. 294 00:27:53,311 --> 00:27:57,685 Last night I realized my main mistake. 295 00:27:58,686 --> 00:28:02,517 The principal adjustment will be writing in the first person. 296 00:28:02,893 --> 00:28:06,100 Start from the beginning. I. I. I. 297 00:28:06,976 --> 00:28:08,683 Only I. 298 00:28:09,101 --> 00:28:10,516 Change it. 299 00:28:13,185 --> 00:28:16,058 Let's go on. 300 00:28:16,809 --> 00:28:20,433 Yes, I hated her. 301 00:28:20,666 --> 00:28:22,022 I... 302 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,057 Yes, I detested her. 303 00:28:27,517 --> 00:28:29,640 There were moments 304 00:28:30,516 --> 00:28:34,307 when I would gladly have given half my life 305 00:28:34,682 --> 00:28:36,890 to strangle her! 306 00:28:38,099 --> 00:28:40,973 I swear that, had there 307 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,806 been a sharp knife to plunge into her breast, 308 00:28:45,306 --> 00:28:49,305 I would have seized that knife with pleasure. 309 00:28:51,973 --> 00:28:53,430 And.. 310 00:28:54,598 --> 00:28:56,430 At the same time 311 00:28:57,764 --> 00:29:01,054 I swear upon everything that there is sacred in the world... 312 00:29:01,513 --> 00:29:03,680 That there is sacred in the world... 313 00:29:04,306 --> 00:29:06,304 - Fyodor Mikhailovich. - What? 314 00:29:09,347 --> 00:29:11,887 Why have you interrupted me? 315 00:29:18,596 --> 00:29:20,428 Sorry, Fyodor Mikhailovich. 316 00:29:21,304 --> 00:29:24,511 What is her name? You keep calling her "she". 317 00:29:28,178 --> 00:29:30,803 Why? Didn't I tell you? 318 00:29:31,511 --> 00:29:33,510 That's strange. 319 00:29:34,303 --> 00:29:37,802 Her name is Polina. 320 00:29:38,303 --> 00:29:39,801 What else could it be? 321 00:29:42,427 --> 00:29:43,676 Polina.. 322 00:29:44,510 --> 00:29:47,695 There is one thing I know for certain, Polina, I must win! 323 00:29:47,887 --> 00:29:50,966 Do you think that the roulette is your only salvation and way out? 324 00:29:51,019 --> 00:29:52,976 - Yes. - Why do you want money? 325 00:29:53,051 --> 00:29:54,648 Why? Money is everything. 326 00:29:54,802 --> 00:29:58,142 Even in your eyes money will make me a different man, not a slave. 327 00:29:58,216 --> 00:30:02,547 - Slavery is a pleasure to you. - Yes, when it comes from you. 328 00:30:03,092 --> 00:30:06,883 You overwhelm me. Should I recall or imagine the rustle of your dress 329 00:30:07,301 --> 00:30:09,883 and I am ready to bite my own hands. 330 00:30:10,593 --> 00:30:12,799 Use this slavery, use it. 331 00:30:13,301 --> 00:30:15,966 - Are you joking? - Not at all. 332 00:30:16,425 --> 00:30:18,423 I order you to keep silent. 333 00:30:19,675 --> 00:30:22,590 I order you to keep silent. 334 00:30:23,591 --> 00:30:27,673 Well, what do you think about Polina? 335 00:30:29,299 --> 00:30:30,797 She seems wicked. 336 00:30:31,299 --> 00:30:33,089 She is miserable. 337 00:30:33,798 --> 00:30:38,505 Because a person who demands everything from someone else 338 00:30:39,424 --> 00:30:42,505 but relieves oneself of all responsibilities 339 00:30:43,506 --> 00:30:46,588 will never be happy. 340 00:30:48,672 --> 00:30:50,713 My God... 341 00:30:51,422 --> 00:30:54,254 How she tortured me. 342 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,879 - Shall I write this too? - What? 343 00:30:58,297 --> 00:31:00,628 No, no. I'm sorry, Anna Grigorievna. 344 00:31:01,297 --> 00:31:05,420 It should be written in the first person, that of Alexei Ivanovich. 345 00:31:07,671 --> 00:31:12,086 She stopped, out of breath with anger. 346 00:31:13,171 --> 00:31:17,794 I swear I don't know if she was good-looking... 347 00:31:19,295 --> 00:31:20,794 But.. 348 00:31:21,295 --> 00:31:23,086 I always liked to watch her 349 00:31:24,087 --> 00:31:27,252 when she stopped like that. 350 00:31:28,877 --> 00:31:31,182 When she stopped like that. 351 00:31:31,264 --> 00:31:32,820 Surely you are not a coward? 352 00:31:32,932 --> 00:31:35,125 I don't know, I never thought about it. 353 00:31:36,877 --> 00:31:39,876 If I said to you, 'Kill that man, ' would you kill him? 354 00:31:40,294 --> 00:31:42,876 - The Frenchman? - Do not ask me questions; answer me. 355 00:31:43,293 --> 00:31:45,500 Of course I will kill whomsoever you wish. 356 00:31:45,875 --> 00:31:49,417 Could you ever do it? You are merely a tattler. 357 00:31:50,292 --> 00:31:54,209 Go win as much at the roulette as possible. 358 00:31:54,750 --> 00:31:57,500 I need the money badly. 359 00:31:58,085 --> 00:31:59,666 That's true. 360 00:32:00,167 --> 00:32:02,583 Why does Polina need the money so urgently? 361 00:32:02,958 --> 00:32:05,416 - Don't you understand? - No. 362 00:32:06,083 --> 00:32:08,665 Let's have tea for now... 363 00:32:09,416 --> 00:32:12,790 There's this Frenchman. De Griers. 364 00:32:13,874 --> 00:32:16,581 Insignificant, vulgar De Griers. 365 00:32:16,958 --> 00:32:21,289 She dreams of throwing the money in the face of her former lover. 366 00:32:22,415 --> 00:32:25,372 Do you see the connection? 367 00:32:26,665 --> 00:32:31,163 That is why she is urging Alexei Ivanovich to gamble at the roulette. 368 00:32:31,664 --> 00:32:33,663 You make him look somewhat pitiable. 369 00:32:34,081 --> 00:32:36,163 He is in love with her. 370 00:32:37,497 --> 00:32:40,038 So what? And what about pride? 371 00:32:41,164 --> 00:32:44,287 He who loves, no longer reasons. 372 00:32:46,871 --> 00:32:52,079 And the roulette is poison. It is hell. 373 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:57,286 It is a whirlpool... It allures, it sucks one in. 374 00:32:58,287 --> 00:33:01,619 - I am a passionate man. - Did you gamble? 375 00:33:02,079 --> 00:33:05,952 Oh yes. Last year in Wiesbaden. 376 00:33:08,079 --> 00:33:11,161 I invented my own system for playing. 377 00:33:18,786 --> 00:33:22,034 And won 10 thousand francs immediately. 378 00:33:23,411 --> 00:33:27,660 Then I started losing and could not contain myself, I lost everything. 379 00:33:28,577 --> 00:33:31,867 And I went there with the intention of 380 00:33:32,659 --> 00:33:36,159 saving my family and clearing myself. 381 00:33:37,285 --> 00:33:39,867 Hard, cursed times. 382 00:34:18,406 --> 00:34:20,572 - Will he lose? - That's a secret. 383 00:34:21,281 --> 00:34:23,072 After all it doesn't matter. 384 00:34:23,406 --> 00:34:27,267 Even if he contains himself today, he will definitely yield in the next day. 385 00:34:27,336 --> 00:34:29,418 He is a gambler. He is beyond hope... 386 00:34:29,655 --> 00:34:33,071 - And what about you? - I would have gone to waste 387 00:34:33,488 --> 00:34:36,487 if I did not have to write. Who would write in my place? 388 00:34:38,946 --> 00:34:41,778 You said it in such a funny way. 389 00:34:42,654 --> 00:34:47,861 Of late I've been feeling terrible. 390 00:34:48,654 --> 00:34:50,778 Incredibly. 391 00:34:51,487 --> 00:34:54,070 In the evenings I am especially lonely. 392 00:34:54,486 --> 00:34:56,402 I feel the urge to go outside. 393 00:34:56,861 --> 00:34:59,277 The most horrible thing in life is when a man has 394 00:34:59,653 --> 00:35:02,027 nowhere to go. 395 00:35:03,611 --> 00:35:07,277 And what do you do in the evenings, Anna Grigorievna? 396 00:35:09,402 --> 00:35:11,401 I don't know, Fyodor Mikhailovich. 397 00:35:12,485 --> 00:35:13,984 I live. 398 00:35:15,485 --> 00:35:18,609 And what does "living" mean to you? 399 00:35:20,777 --> 00:35:23,858 You... Do you have ideals, aims? 400 00:35:24,276 --> 00:35:27,066 Or do you live carefree without deep thought? 401 00:35:27,484 --> 00:35:32,649 No. I do have thoughts and ideals and I do care. 402 00:35:35,151 --> 00:35:37,275 It's good if that's the case. 403 00:35:38,276 --> 00:35:41,524 Don't be late tomorrow, Anna Grigorievna. 404 00:35:42,067 --> 00:35:44,856 These days the work does not go well without you. 405 00:35:45,274 --> 00:35:48,148 And the novel must be raced. 406 00:37:09,476 --> 00:37:12,849 I had a good writing spell last night. 407 00:37:13,643 --> 00:37:17,475 That way we could finish in time, couldn't we, Anna Grigorievna? 408 00:37:17,850 --> 00:37:19,224 I wish we did. 409 00:37:19,339 --> 00:37:21,849 And when we finish the work by the 1st of November 410 00:37:22,267 --> 00:37:25,933 we'll jump into the cab and rush to Stillovsky's. 411 00:37:26,474 --> 00:37:28,640 Get this, if you please, 412 00:37:29,058 --> 00:37:31,473 dear sir, murderer. 413 00:37:32,933 --> 00:37:34,932 And then... freedom. 414 00:37:36,058 --> 00:37:39,557 Sometimes man needs so little to be happy. 415 00:37:42,058 --> 00:37:46,307 Were you ever happy, Anna Grigorievna? 416 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,556 I was, Fyodor Mikhailovich, very much. 417 00:37:53,265 --> 00:37:56,013 When Olkhin chose me of all the students to assist you. 418 00:37:56,243 --> 00:37:58,442 I was so happy I could not sleep all night. 419 00:37:58,507 --> 00:38:01,382 And in the morning gave you a cold shower. 420 00:38:02,056 --> 00:38:05,471 And I was never happy. 421 00:38:07,264 --> 00:38:09,471 Though, no, I am wrong. 422 00:38:10,930 --> 00:38:13,054 I was, once. 423 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,387 - Do you know, when? - No. 424 00:38:17,263 --> 00:38:19,220 I don't. When? 425 00:38:20,055 --> 00:38:23,261 I had five minutes left to live. 426 00:38:24,262 --> 00:38:26,844 Death robes were already put on us. 427 00:38:27,387 --> 00:38:29,553 The first three were tied to the poles. 428 00:38:29,928 --> 00:38:31,927 I was the eighth in the third row. 429 00:38:32,387 --> 00:38:36,468 In two or three minutes both rows would have been shot. 430 00:38:36,845 --> 00:38:39,844 And then it was our turn. 431 00:38:42,261 --> 00:38:45,052 Oh, how much I wanted to live then. 432 00:38:46,053 --> 00:38:48,760 How much I wanted to live. 433 00:38:52,135 --> 00:38:55,050 Life seemed so precious. 434 00:38:55,552 --> 00:38:59,217 How many good useful deeds I could have done. 435 00:39:02,385 --> 00:39:06,633 I remembered all my past. 436 00:39:08,134 --> 00:39:10,633 Not the best way to have spent my days. 437 00:39:11,383 --> 00:39:14,633 Suddenly I wanted to relive them all. 438 00:39:15,926 --> 00:39:18,215 And to live a long, long life. 439 00:39:18,687 --> 00:39:20,747 And suddenly it was called off. 440 00:39:21,327 --> 00:39:24,200 My comrades were untied, taken back 441 00:39:24,383 --> 00:39:26,382 and a new sentence was read to us. 442 00:39:27,303 --> 00:39:31,759 I was sentenced to four years of forced labour. 443 00:39:33,382 --> 00:39:35,380 How happy I was then. 444 00:39:38,132 --> 00:39:40,255 What is wrong, Anna Grigorievna? 445 00:39:44,464 --> 00:39:46,463 Retired lieutenant Dostoyevsky? 446 00:39:47,381 --> 00:39:49,380 I am Dostoyevsky. 447 00:39:51,256 --> 00:39:52,837 What can I do for you? 448 00:39:53,297 --> 00:39:55,922 Bumbailiff of the third unit Urlov the Second. 449 00:39:57,047 --> 00:39:59,837 Proceed, my friend, I don't have time to waste. 450 00:40:05,463 --> 00:40:10,296 You keep writing, Mr. Dostoyevsky. 451 00:40:11,629 --> 00:40:14,378 Keep penning. 452 00:40:14,921 --> 00:40:17,586 - But Mr. Orlov... - Urlov! 453 00:40:18,046 --> 00:40:21,460 - Urlov the Second. - Sorry, Mr. Urlov the Second. 454 00:40:21,836 --> 00:40:25,377 It's true, I am under police surveillance. 455 00:40:25,753 --> 00:40:28,918 But at the moment I don't see any reasons for... 456 00:40:29,378 --> 00:40:32,252 Let's say there are always reasons. 457 00:40:32,836 --> 00:40:34,459 Especially if you continue 458 00:40:34,836 --> 00:40:37,751 to ignore your financial obligations. 459 00:40:38,252 --> 00:40:40,918 - To whom? How? - Yes, ignore! 460 00:40:41,460 --> 00:40:43,293 And don't argue. 461 00:40:44,460 --> 00:40:45,918 Well? 462 00:40:46,808 --> 00:40:49,454 Did you buy this statuette at Dotsiar's? 463 00:40:49,825 --> 00:40:51,375 Yes, at Dotsiar's. 464 00:40:51,918 --> 00:40:56,125 - I wonder for how much? - 150 probably, I don't remember. 465 00:40:56,543 --> 00:40:57,833 He swindled you. 466 00:40:58,251 --> 00:41:02,041 It coasts no more than 50 roubles. 467 00:41:03,375 --> 00:41:07,624 Tell me at last, what is it all about? 468 00:41:08,625 --> 00:41:11,373 It's about this, dear sir. 469 00:41:12,124 --> 00:41:16,540 Mr.Stillovsky, with whom you have an official contract 470 00:41:17,624 --> 00:41:19,748 contacted 471 00:41:20,249 --> 00:41:23,915 and said that if you don't repay him the debt 472 00:41:24,748 --> 00:41:27,122 you will be sent to the debtors' prison. 473 00:41:27,623 --> 00:41:30,039 And your belongings will be sold by auction. 474 00:41:31,456 --> 00:41:35,247 - Why the prison? - The prison! 475 00:41:36,914 --> 00:41:38,455 Do you have no shame? 476 00:41:38,621 --> 00:41:40,917 Aren't you ashamed? You are a Russian, after all. 477 00:41:40,973 --> 00:41:43,721 Can't you see whom you are talking to? It's Dostoyevsky. 478 00:41:44,539 --> 00:41:47,371 And there is no debt to Stillovsky. It's all lies. 479 00:41:47,715 --> 00:41:50,338 He'll complete the novel by the 1st of November. 480 00:41:50,391 --> 00:41:51,797 He will throw it in his face. 481 00:41:51,850 --> 00:41:54,633 He is working, he is going blind because of his work. 482 00:41:54,686 --> 00:41:57,731 Do you suppose that if he is all alone nobody will defend him? 483 00:41:57,784 --> 00:42:00,509 - Madam, I did not know that. - It's private property. 484 00:42:00,567 --> 00:42:03,426 You have no right, I know, it's against the law! 485 00:42:03,912 --> 00:42:07,619 All Stillovsky wants is to enslave Dostoyevsky forever. 486 00:42:08,245 --> 00:42:09,827 What a scoundrel. 487 00:42:10,245 --> 00:42:12,244 Why are you standing there? Go. 488 00:42:12,381 --> 00:42:15,879 What a swindler, this Stillovsky is! He meant to fool me! 489 00:42:16,010 --> 00:42:18,338 Be on your guard lest he swindles you completely. 490 00:42:18,675 --> 00:42:20,674 My advice is, Madam, 491 00:42:20,986 --> 00:42:24,368 when the novel is ready, bring it to our department. 492 00:42:28,201 --> 00:42:31,826 But you... You are great. 493 00:42:36,743 --> 00:42:39,909 Don't fear anybody now that you are around. 494 00:42:47,242 --> 00:42:50,033 - Shall we get back to work? - Yes. 495 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,241 No, I can't. 496 00:42:54,242 --> 00:42:57,366 I can't. What a hard life it is. 497 00:42:58,449 --> 00:43:01,365 He sent an assessor, bastard. 498 00:43:02,033 --> 00:43:05,907 Right! Marmeladov from the pub was a thousand times right. 499 00:43:06,616 --> 00:43:08,115 It's a conspiracy. 500 00:43:08,823 --> 00:43:10,573 They are digging a pit. 501 00:43:10,911 --> 00:43:12,996 A pit... 502 00:43:14,532 --> 00:43:17,364 Nine years of forced labour again. 503 00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:19,822 My God. 504 00:43:20,739 --> 00:43:23,238 Nine years of bondage. 505 00:43:24,657 --> 00:43:26,821 Where can I look for defence? 506 00:43:27,364 --> 00:43:30,238 Where can I turn to? Where can I run? 507 00:43:30,614 --> 00:43:34,029 Fyodor Mikhailovich, stop it! What is this faint-heartedness? 508 00:43:34,447 --> 00:43:36,821 Shame on you! Sit down. 509 00:43:42,571 --> 00:43:45,237 How many days are there in this month? 510 00:43:45,820 --> 00:43:47,528 Thirty one. 511 00:43:48,613 --> 00:43:52,612 There are 16 days left and we've got three printer's pages written out. 512 00:43:53,029 --> 00:43:56,028 No, no, we won't manage in time. 513 00:43:56,529 --> 00:43:58,902 - We won't. - We will, Fyodor Mikhailovich. 514 00:43:59,444 --> 00:44:00,986 We will manage. 515 00:44:01,611 --> 00:44:04,027 We will work at night, but we'll meet the deadline. 516 00:44:04,444 --> 00:44:08,109 All Stillovsky is waiting for is for you to get nervous and stop working. 517 00:44:08,528 --> 00:44:09,902 His benefit. 518 00:44:10,832 --> 00:44:14,620 But on the 1st of November you'll get into the cab and drive to his place. 519 00:44:14,903 --> 00:44:18,192 Here, take this, dear Sir murderer. 520 00:44:20,527 --> 00:44:25,234 Fate offered me so little genuine compassion. 521 00:44:28,652 --> 00:44:30,358 So little. 522 00:44:31,609 --> 00:44:35,524 - Anna Grigorievna. - 16 days, Fyodor Mikhailovich. 523 00:44:37,233 --> 00:44:39,357 Only 16 days. 524 00:44:45,025 --> 00:44:48,564 I told you I could never win for other people... least of all for you. 525 00:44:49,608 --> 00:44:52,107 I warned you that no good would ever come of it. 526 00:44:52,525 --> 00:44:55,357 What pleases you so much? The fact of having lost my money? 527 00:44:55,815 --> 00:44:57,731 Why did you give me money to lose? 528 00:44:58,070 --> 00:45:00,579 I am certain that, whenever I play for myself 529 00:45:00,741 --> 00:45:03,231 I win. 530 00:45:04,607 --> 00:45:07,813 - Why do you want so much money? - You want to know? 531 00:45:08,523 --> 00:45:10,105 Must pay off a debt. 532 00:45:11,023 --> 00:45:12,897 - I must. - Is it to the Frenchman? 533 00:45:12,950 --> 00:45:14,730 What sort of question is that? 534 00:45:16,481 --> 00:45:18,729 Do you see that fat Baroness? 535 00:45:18,936 --> 00:45:21,434 - It is the Baroness Burmergelm. - So what? 536 00:45:21,813 --> 00:45:23,354 I wish only for a good laugh. 537 00:45:24,230 --> 00:45:26,104 Come up to the Baroness, 538 00:45:27,355 --> 00:45:30,521 take off your hat and say something in French to her. 539 00:45:30,980 --> 00:45:32,436 What for? 540 00:45:33,021 --> 00:45:36,436 Let me see the Baron give you a sound thrashing with his stick. 541 00:45:36,575 --> 00:45:39,540 Then you challenge me? You think that I will not do it? 542 00:45:39,729 --> 00:45:41,977 Yes, I do challenge you. 543 00:45:43,228 --> 00:45:45,102 Go, for such is my will. 544 00:45:56,989 --> 00:45:59,164 I have the honour of being your slave. 545 00:46:05,226 --> 00:46:07,637 What are you laughing at, Anna Grigorievna? 546 00:46:08,109 --> 00:46:11,608 Forgive me, Fyodor Mikhailovich, but they talk in such a funny way. 547 00:46:17,809 --> 00:46:21,892 Father, you are a Don Juan, a Celadon. 548 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,724 Another message. All perfumed. 549 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,432 I bet it must be from Appolinaria Suslova. 550 00:46:29,808 --> 00:46:31,599 Your infernal woman. 551 00:46:32,224 --> 00:46:34,599 She is so insistent, though, isn't she? 552 00:47:05,597 --> 00:47:07,429 My God... 553 00:47:08,722 --> 00:47:11,013 My God, how long... 554 00:47:28,595 --> 00:47:31,344 Father is upset. 555 00:47:31,804 --> 00:47:34,511 - Lest something happens. - And what can happen? 556 00:47:34,887 --> 00:47:37,510 Don't you know? Convulsions. 557 00:47:38,094 --> 00:47:40,886 Then he will start talking, talking, talking. 558 00:47:41,344 --> 00:47:44,427 - Then he cries out, falls down. - I don't understand. 559 00:47:45,807 --> 00:47:47,163 Go. 560 00:47:52,010 --> 00:47:54,009 The brat is a show-off, but I love him. 561 00:47:54,426 --> 00:47:56,550 Love him for what he is. 562 00:47:57,593 --> 00:47:59,510 Let's continue. 563 00:48:00,010 --> 00:48:01,800 Where did we stop? 564 00:48:02,593 --> 00:48:06,216 Then you can take the consequences. 565 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,966 Further, further. 566 00:48:10,718 --> 00:48:15,341 - It's Polina. It's all her doing. - Yes, yes. 567 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:19,007 I don't understand, I don't understand what is good about her. 568 00:48:19,716 --> 00:48:22,590 She is good-looking, that's for sure. 569 00:48:24,008 --> 00:48:26,215 It seems. Good-looking. 570 00:48:28,216 --> 00:48:30,715 She drives 571 00:48:31,883 --> 00:48:34,506 other people crazy. 572 00:48:39,507 --> 00:48:44,714 She is tall and slender... Very. 573 00:48:46,422 --> 00:48:48,546 Only too thin. 574 00:48:49,589 --> 00:48:54,588 It seems you can tie her in a knot 575 00:48:54,821 --> 00:48:56,177 or 576 00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,962 fold her in two. 577 00:49:05,505 --> 00:49:10,587 Her foot is narrow and long. 578 00:49:13,588 --> 00:49:16,711 - Painfully. - Yes, painfully. 579 00:49:17,420 --> 00:49:20,336 About four months ago 580 00:49:20,878 --> 00:49:22,794 one evening... 581 00:49:23,337 --> 00:49:26,794 About four months ago one evening in the hall 582 00:49:27,336 --> 00:49:30,002 she had a very long talk with De Griers. 583 00:49:30,503 --> 00:49:33,585 It was a long and passionate conversation. 584 00:49:34,793 --> 00:49:39,209 It was that evening that I fell in love with her. 585 00:49:40,586 --> 00:49:43,418 That evening... 586 00:49:44,085 --> 00:49:46,416 I fell in love with her. 587 00:49:48,085 --> 00:49:50,000 Yes, there is... 588 00:49:51,251 --> 00:49:52,792 Yes, there is... 589 00:49:53,417 --> 00:49:58,166 There is delight in humility. 590 00:49:58,792 --> 00:50:03,583 Oh yes, there is delight in utter 591 00:50:04,083 --> 00:50:07,874 humility and insignificance. 592 00:50:11,250 --> 00:50:13,415 Damn it, 593 00:50:13,875 --> 00:50:17,414 might it be in the whip? 594 00:50:19,333 --> 00:50:21,706 It might be in the whip 595 00:50:22,207 --> 00:50:25,873 when the whip lashes the back 596 00:50:27,249 --> 00:50:31,872 and tears the flesh to pieces 597 00:50:32,706 --> 00:50:35,163 And tears the flesh... 598 00:50:37,206 --> 00:50:39,080 Why are you not writing? 599 00:50:40,206 --> 00:50:41,580 I won't write. 600 00:50:42,331 --> 00:50:43,787 I don't understand. 601 00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,704 Because it is disgusting. 602 00:50:48,705 --> 00:50:52,578 - What is wrong, Anna Grigorievna? - Yes, it is disgusting. 603 00:50:52,997 --> 00:50:55,079 It is mean, impure. 604 00:50:56,329 --> 00:50:58,536 Both she and he... And she... 605 00:50:59,162 --> 00:51:03,411 How dare you? Who are you to give me orders? 606 00:51:03,749 --> 00:51:05,105 Me? 607 00:51:05,704 --> 00:51:08,494 - Come to your senses! - All the same, I won't write it. 608 00:51:08,871 --> 00:51:11,494 I won't! I won't! 609 00:51:11,871 --> 00:51:14,077 What is wrong, Anna Grigorievna? 610 00:51:16,869 --> 00:51:20,701 People don't love that way. This is not love. 611 00:51:22,119 --> 00:51:25,576 Oh, you don't know what love is. 612 00:51:26,495 --> 00:51:29,076 No, you don't. 613 00:51:30,577 --> 00:51:33,993 Even if she is lost... 614 00:51:34,702 --> 00:51:38,617 A low ignoble woman 615 00:51:39,784 --> 00:51:44,575 You will love her dissipation. 616 00:51:45,408 --> 00:51:49,200 You will love her ignobility, ugliness 617 00:51:49,575 --> 00:51:51,157 which disgust you. 618 00:51:51,618 --> 00:51:53,991 You will do everything. 619 00:51:54,992 --> 00:51:58,491 You will go far, to the last limit and beyond... 620 00:51:58,867 --> 00:52:02,323 It's late, I must return home. 621 00:52:04,324 --> 00:52:08,990 Anna Grigorievna, it's too late. 622 00:52:09,866 --> 00:52:12,405 - Shall I walk you home? - No need, I am not afraid. 623 00:52:12,782 --> 00:52:16,989 You are wrong. Nights in St. Petersburg are frightening. 624 00:52:17,490 --> 00:52:19,864 The other night I was walking along the embankment. 625 00:52:20,323 --> 00:52:22,405 Three well-dressed gentlemen 626 00:52:22,865 --> 00:52:25,197 emerged from the Adussau restaurant. 627 00:52:25,698 --> 00:52:28,404 And there was a woman coming towards them. 628 00:52:30,072 --> 00:52:32,779 One of those who walk at night. 629 00:52:33,197 --> 00:52:36,404 Because it is their trade. 630 00:52:36,780 --> 00:52:40,404 Those gentlemen were not drunk, not at all. 631 00:52:40,864 --> 00:52:46,195 They were even holding a sublime conversation 632 00:52:47,904 --> 00:52:51,320 and probably reading poetry. 633 00:52:51,987 --> 00:52:56,402 And those gentlemen, being in an excited state, 634 00:52:56,987 --> 00:53:02,068 felt such extraordinary disgust 635 00:53:02,777 --> 00:53:05,986 for this dissipated woman. 636 00:53:06,570 --> 00:53:10,694 And their own extraordinary purity. 637 00:53:11,319 --> 00:53:14,860 That all three of them, all three. 638 00:53:15,401 --> 00:53:18,776 Pushed her and spat in her face! 639 00:53:19,568 --> 00:53:22,567 Anna Grigorievna! 640 00:53:24,568 --> 00:53:26,984 Mummy! 641 00:53:27,693 --> 00:53:32,191 No, no, I don't want to, let me go! Don't, don't! 642 00:53:32,568 --> 00:53:35,400 - My darling, what is wrong? - Let me go! 643 00:53:36,192 --> 00:53:38,483 - Let me go - My dear! 644 00:53:38,859 --> 00:53:41,566 - Don't! Let me go. - My darling, wake up. 645 00:53:41,983 --> 00:53:46,398 Mummy! You are here! What a horrible dream 646 00:53:46,858 --> 00:53:51,316 My God, you are feverish. What is wrong, my baby! 647 00:53:59,315 --> 00:54:00,856 I've come from Anna Snitkina. 648 00:54:01,233 --> 00:54:03,523 - And where is she herself? - She is ill. 649 00:54:03,744 --> 00:54:05,836 Fyodor Mikhailovich has been waiting for her. 650 00:54:06,065 --> 00:54:08,564 She asked to give you her work. 651 00:54:14,689 --> 00:54:16,188 Good bye. 652 00:55:19,477 --> 00:55:21,475 Gentlemen, Dostoyevsky. 653 00:55:24,183 --> 00:55:26,182 Good afternoon, gentlemen! 654 00:55:27,851 --> 00:55:29,765 Good afternoon, Fyodor Mikhailovich. 655 00:55:30,183 --> 00:55:32,974 I know only too well the cause of your indisposition. 656 00:55:33,683 --> 00:55:36,682 I told you a lot of rubbish last night. 657 00:55:37,141 --> 00:55:39,765 Not out of spite, believe me, not out of spite. 658 00:55:40,475 --> 00:55:44,140 There is gloom in my head and premonitions in my heart. 659 00:55:44,557 --> 00:55:47,973 I should not be the cause of your illness. 660 00:55:48,390 --> 00:55:51,681 Meet my friend Liza. 661 00:55:51,791 --> 00:55:54,774 - This is my mother Anna Nikolayevna. - Pleased to meet you. 662 00:55:54,828 --> 00:55:57,410 Komarovich, a medical student. Korytin, a writer. 663 00:55:57,587 --> 00:56:01,794 We've met. In '62 in Wiesbaden at the resort, playing the roulette. 664 00:56:01,915 --> 00:56:04,437 - Do you remember? - Sorry. 665 00:56:04,973 --> 00:56:08,555 Because of my illness my memory is horrible. Keep playing. 666 00:56:08,973 --> 00:56:12,387 You were a tutor of those charming children who... 667 00:56:12,763 --> 00:56:16,054 No, not at all a tutor, sir. 668 00:56:16,472 --> 00:56:20,179 We met a famous emancipée at Suslova's. 669 00:56:20,554 --> 00:56:24,553 - At Appolinaria Suslova's. - I don't know. 670 00:56:25,387 --> 00:56:28,053 I don't remember, might be. 671 00:56:28,387 --> 00:56:32,845 Tea, gentlemen? 672 00:56:33,387 --> 00:56:35,553 Cakes, perhaps? 673 00:56:36,912 --> 00:56:40,490 Tell me, you were in the forced labour camp, you suffered for the people. 674 00:56:40,678 --> 00:56:43,052 Your hands were in fetters. 675 00:56:43,552 --> 00:56:45,384 How could you 676 00:56:45,761 --> 00:56:47,551 soil our entire student community 677 00:56:47,969 --> 00:56:49,968 with your Raskolnikov? 678 00:56:50,385 --> 00:56:51,759 I know, I know. 679 00:56:52,178 --> 00:56:55,051 He said it well. 680 00:56:55,468 --> 00:56:58,509 Let me find out, Mr. Dostoevsky, while we are at it. 681 00:56:58,969 --> 00:57:02,384 What is the predestination of your Rodion Raskolnikov? 682 00:57:02,531 --> 00:57:04,787 Tell us, Fyodor Mikhailovich, tell us. 683 00:57:04,871 --> 00:57:06,986 We now even have different parties. 684 00:57:07,076 --> 00:57:09,259 My brother is sure he will escape to America. 685 00:57:09,312 --> 00:57:11,852 - And my sister says... - No, no, not to America. 686 00:57:12,468 --> 00:57:15,133 He will come to suffering, great suffering. 687 00:57:15,550 --> 00:57:18,757 If he has enough spiritual power he will repent. 688 00:57:19,175 --> 00:57:20,924 If not, he will perish. 689 00:57:21,383 --> 00:57:23,174 What suffering are you talking about? 690 00:57:23,550 --> 00:57:25,924 He killed a human being. 691 00:57:27,675 --> 00:57:30,756 In what way is he different from us all? From him, from me? 692 00:57:31,174 --> 00:57:33,922 He is a student like us. 693 00:57:34,382 --> 00:57:38,505 What could make me do it? 694 00:57:38,923 --> 00:57:40,755 Riches? 695 00:57:41,381 --> 00:57:43,547 I don't need riches soaked in blood. 696 00:57:44,173 --> 00:57:45,839 Love? 697 00:57:46,298 --> 00:57:49,755 I don't want such love, do you understand, I don't. 698 00:57:50,173 --> 00:57:51,464 No, I don't want it. 699 00:57:51,839 --> 00:57:54,838 On the brink of death I will not kill anybody. 700 00:57:55,215 --> 00:57:58,463 - Who is this? - He is my fiance. 701 00:58:00,297 --> 00:58:01,920 Your fiance? 702 00:58:02,839 --> 00:58:07,546 And... do you love him? 703 00:58:08,296 --> 00:58:09,587 Do you? 704 00:58:09,963 --> 00:58:12,544 You put it well. 705 00:58:13,171 --> 00:58:15,753 Well. But I am not your enemy. 706 00:58:16,296 --> 00:58:17,544 Believe me, 707 00:58:17,962 --> 00:58:20,586 My most precious hopes rest with you, 708 00:58:21,046 --> 00:58:25,294 the young generation, with the Russia of honest people. 709 00:58:25,670 --> 00:58:29,460 For Man is great when he has overcome evil in himself. 710 00:58:29,837 --> 00:58:31,751 I live and I know 711 00:58:32,169 --> 00:58:34,501 that people can be beautiful and happy. 712 00:58:35,294 --> 00:58:38,126 Don't want and can't believe 713 00:58:38,794 --> 00:58:41,293 that evil is the normal state for a human being. 714 00:58:41,668 --> 00:58:43,375 You want truth, don't you? 715 00:58:43,752 --> 00:58:45,751 The naked truth with no theory or comfort. 716 00:58:46,169 --> 00:58:48,168 Do contend that we have in us 717 00:58:48,543 --> 00:58:52,959 a lot of youthful quest for honesty next to horrible dissipation. 718 00:58:53,376 --> 00:58:56,166 The common people, let them be harsh, unseemly, sinful! 719 00:58:56,543 --> 00:59:00,291 But the time will come and you will be amazed at 720 00:59:00,488 --> 00:59:03,493 the spiritual freedom that they will display and suffer through. 721 00:59:03,750 --> 00:59:06,541 They will suffer through everything in the name of truth! 722 00:59:17,458 --> 00:59:20,040 Virgin Mother, you are so kind. 723 00:59:21,165 --> 00:59:24,539 I pray to you, see how hard life is for him, 724 00:59:25,165 --> 00:59:26,956 how he is suffering. 725 00:59:27,161 --> 00:59:30,810 How much suffering he has taken upon himself, his own and other people's. 726 00:59:31,665 --> 00:59:36,163 Give him peace, pray, at least some peace. 727 00:59:37,039 --> 00:59:38,496 And love. 728 00:59:38,956 --> 00:59:42,455 Save and protect him. Save and protect. 729 00:59:46,830 --> 00:59:48,829 They are not in, they went out. 730 00:59:49,288 --> 00:59:52,537 They were very gloomy in the morning and then they left. 731 00:59:52,955 --> 00:59:55,454 Come into the room, Anna Grigorievna. 732 00:59:55,830 --> 00:59:57,744 He will probably be back any minute. 733 01:00:10,287 --> 01:00:14,453 Ascending to my own room, and opening the door, 734 01:00:15,287 --> 01:00:17,827 I perceived in the semi-darkness 735 01:00:18,286 --> 01:00:20,453 a figure. 736 01:00:21,161 --> 01:00:22,451 Comma.. 737 01:00:23,953 --> 01:00:27,034 Seated on a chair - comma, in the corner - comma, 738 01:00:27,369 --> 01:00:28,952 by the window. Full stop. 739 01:00:29,285 --> 01:00:32,077 I approached it swiftly, peered at it closely, 740 01:00:32,493 --> 01:00:35,534 and felt my heart almost stop beating. 741 01:00:35,951 --> 01:00:37,909 The figure was Polina. 742 01:00:38,492 --> 01:00:41,451 You are here! At my place! 743 01:00:41,826 --> 01:00:44,576 If I am here, I have come with all that I have to bring 744 01:00:45,034 --> 01:00:47,741 Such has always been my way. Please light a candle. 745 01:00:48,367 --> 01:00:52,533 Oh, he was not the man he had been once. Not in the least. 746 01:00:52,951 --> 01:00:57,282 Oh, how gladly I could throw 747 01:00:57,659 --> 01:01:00,449 those fifty thousand roubles in his despicable face! 748 01:01:00,825 --> 01:01:02,740 Bravo! Bravo! 749 01:01:06,158 --> 01:01:07,449 Bravo! 750 01:01:08,283 --> 01:01:10,531 You should perform at the theatre. 751 01:01:11,032 --> 01:01:13,948 - Where's father? - Fyodor Mikhailovich is out. 752 01:01:14,532 --> 01:01:16,198 Where is he? 753 01:01:16,740 --> 01:01:18,656 I need him badly. 754 01:01:19,657 --> 01:01:21,155 Oh, never mind. 755 01:01:26,199 --> 01:01:29,737 - Tell father I've taken the vase. - I don't understand. 756 01:01:30,448 --> 01:01:33,947 Tell him I've taken the vase. 757 01:01:34,947 --> 01:01:37,487 - Put the vase down. - What? 758 01:01:38,655 --> 01:01:41,029 I said, return the vase to its place. 759 01:01:43,572 --> 01:01:45,361 What a fancy! 760 01:01:46,738 --> 01:01:48,528 What have you got to do with it? 761 01:01:49,154 --> 01:01:50,737 Who are you? 762 01:01:51,821 --> 01:01:55,444 - I said, put the vase down. - Let me pass. 763 01:01:55,946 --> 01:01:57,653 I am pressed for time. 764 01:01:58,529 --> 01:02:00,820 - Put the vase down. - Make way. 765 01:02:01,570 --> 01:02:04,653 I won't consider it that you are a lady. 766 01:02:05,736 --> 01:02:08,277 What insolence! How funny! 767 01:02:10,652 --> 01:02:12,444 Who are you after all? 768 01:02:12,819 --> 01:02:15,818 A stenographer, almost a servant. 769 01:02:16,652 --> 01:02:20,276 And I have the right! Yes, yes, I do! 770 01:02:20,735 --> 01:02:22,901 Let me be a stenographer, let me be a nobody. 771 01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:26,359 - But you.. - Well? 772 01:02:27,193 --> 01:02:29,733 You are shamelessly robbing this man. 773 01:02:30,526 --> 01:02:34,025 You've pawned his fur coat. And he has a cough. 774 01:02:34,953 --> 01:02:38,077 It's cold and wet outside. You are killing him. 775 01:02:38,257 --> 01:02:41,026 While you do not deserve as much as to kiss his hand. 776 01:02:41,457 --> 01:02:44,955 He is the kindest, the best, the most miserable man on Earth. 777 01:02:45,260 --> 01:02:47,593 He should be protected from everything. But you... 778 01:02:48,119 --> 01:02:51,034 - Excuse me. - Give me the vase! 779 01:02:51,303 --> 01:02:53,899 - What right have you? - Let go of the vase. 780 01:02:54,358 --> 01:02:56,356 Not likely. 781 01:02:58,405 --> 01:03:00,030 I'll hit you. 782 01:03:01,499 --> 01:03:02,873 Damn. 783 01:03:05,679 --> 01:03:09,053 - What is going on here? - Why? Nothing. 784 01:03:09,857 --> 01:03:11,940 She has broken the vase. It was her. 785 01:03:12,935 --> 01:03:15,684 You asked yourself to sell it and pay her. 786 01:03:16,022 --> 01:03:17,645 50 roubles. 787 01:03:18,189 --> 01:03:20,021 I'll be going, I have things to do. 788 01:03:30,813 --> 01:03:32,895 Listen, Anna Grigorievna. 789 01:03:35,646 --> 01:03:38,727 Considering my circumstances, which are well known to you, 790 01:03:39,395 --> 01:03:42,019 when I am totally dependent on you 791 01:03:43,687 --> 01:03:48,394 it does not give you the right to shout at my family. 792 01:03:49,311 --> 01:03:52,643 - And finally, this vase... - But I... 793 01:03:53,519 --> 01:03:55,310 I did not know. 794 01:03:55,857 --> 01:03:57,316 I... 795 01:03:59,727 --> 01:04:03,725 Why do people lack acuity? 796 01:04:05,393 --> 01:04:07,725 I am fighting the creditors, 797 01:04:08,101 --> 01:04:10,474 slaving like a dog. 798 01:04:10,935 --> 01:04:13,934 And when I come home I find no peace either. 799 01:04:14,309 --> 01:04:17,100 - Mr. Dostoyevsky! - Don't you dare shout at me! 800 01:04:17,437 --> 01:04:19,002 I will, I will! 801 01:04:28,892 --> 01:04:31,098 Poor vase. 802 01:04:32,516 --> 01:04:36,014 I did not know anything. 803 01:04:37,099 --> 01:04:39,722 Don't, don't. 804 01:04:40,723 --> 01:04:42,181 I beg you. 805 01:04:49,639 --> 01:04:51,306 Anna Grigorievna, 806 01:04:51,806 --> 01:04:56,388 I know my sick and bad traits. 807 01:04:57,723 --> 01:04:59,721 But I also know that I will never 808 01:05:00,181 --> 01:05:03,845 hurt anybody for no reason. 809 01:05:09,513 --> 01:05:12,637 No, Anna Grigorievna, I don't want 810 01:05:13,180 --> 01:05:15,636 to lose your heart. 811 01:05:16,305 --> 01:05:17,928 I don't want to. 812 01:05:22,263 --> 01:05:26,803 Why did you leave your coat here? I'll go and hang it. 813 01:06:40,881 --> 01:06:43,005 Where did we stop? 814 01:06:48,797 --> 01:06:52,296 I approached it swiftly, peered at it closely, 815 01:06:52,797 --> 01:06:54,841 and felt my heart almost stop beating. 816 01:06:55,224 --> 01:06:56,848 The figure was Polina 817 01:06:56,940 --> 01:06:58,377 You are here! At my place? 818 01:06:58,491 --> 01:07:01,375 If I am here, I'm fully here. Such has always been my way. 819 01:07:01,505 --> 01:07:03,003 Please light a candle. 820 01:07:03,546 --> 01:07:06,920 Yet to think that you should have loved De Griers! 821 01:07:07,379 --> 01:07:09,711 Do you want me to kill him in a duel? 822 01:07:10,296 --> 01:07:13,627 Polina, give me but an hour. 823 01:07:14,878 --> 01:07:17,877 Wait here just one hour until I return. 824 01:07:18,378 --> 01:07:20,377 Yes, you must do so. 825 01:07:22,795 --> 01:07:24,294 Stay here. 826 01:08:14,707 --> 01:08:16,081 Polina! 827 01:08:16,790 --> 01:08:19,831 I have won two hundred thousand francs! 828 01:08:27,165 --> 01:08:29,829 Here are fifty thousand. 829 01:08:30,289 --> 01:08:34,080 Tomorrow throw them in De Griers' face. 830 01:08:37,372 --> 01:08:39,454 I am not going to take your money. 831 01:08:39,872 --> 01:08:45,371 - Why not? Why not, Polina? - I don't receive money for nothing. 832 01:08:46,079 --> 01:08:50,495 Incredible! I was so wrong, so wrong. 833 01:08:50,871 --> 01:08:52,787 She is all trembling. 834 01:08:53,246 --> 01:08:55,870 A string is drawn tight in her heart. 835 01:08:57,163 --> 01:09:00,369 Read me the last sentences. 836 01:09:01,995 --> 01:09:04,161 I am not going to take your money. 837 01:09:04,787 --> 01:09:06,827 She said contemptuously. 838 01:09:07,452 --> 01:09:09,077 Why not! Why not! 839 01:09:09,619 --> 01:09:12,993 Polina, why not? I don't take money for nothing. 840 01:09:13,494 --> 01:09:15,868 But I am offering it to you as a friend. 841 01:09:16,286 --> 01:09:20,243 I am offering you my very life, cried Alexei Ivanovich. 842 01:09:20,702 --> 01:09:21,993 Write it, write it. 843 01:09:22,535 --> 01:09:26,075 But I am offering it to you as a friend. 844 01:09:28,493 --> 01:09:31,617 I am offering you my very life! 845 01:09:31,993 --> 01:09:33,492 You are giving too much for me. 846 01:09:33,867 --> 01:09:37,075 The De Griers's lover is not worth fifty thousand francs. 847 01:09:37,618 --> 01:09:40,492 Oh Polina, how can you speak so? 848 01:09:40,992 --> 01:09:42,616 Am I De Griers? 849 01:09:43,368 --> 01:09:45,866 - Do you understand? - No, I don't. 850 01:09:46,284 --> 01:09:49,782 That's just as well. Write. “I hate you!" 851 01:09:50,491 --> 01:09:52,158 Yes, yes. 852 01:09:52,426 --> 01:09:54,866 I love you no more than I do De Griers. 853 01:09:57,074 --> 01:09:59,657 Buy me, would you, would you? 854 01:10:00,698 --> 01:10:03,697 Would you buy me for fifty thousand francs as De Griers did? 855 01:10:05,990 --> 01:10:07,782 Buy me! Buy me! 856 01:10:09,528 --> 01:10:11,207 Go on, Fyodor Mikhailovich, go on. 857 01:10:11,282 --> 01:10:14,281 Yet I neither saw nor heard her. 858 01:10:14,698 --> 01:10:15,989 My head was in a whirl.. 859 01:10:16,990 --> 01:10:18,697 You love me. 860 01:10:23,697 --> 01:10:25,071 Love. 861 01:10:25,614 --> 01:10:28,820 You are my dear one; you are the man I trust. 862 01:10:29,864 --> 01:10:31,446 You will love me. 863 01:10:37,988 --> 01:10:39,695 Polina. 864 01:10:40,821 --> 01:10:42,987 I heard nothing. Oh how I hate her. 865 01:10:43,487 --> 01:10:46,278 - My head was in a whirl - And in the morning... 866 01:10:55,279 --> 01:10:58,485 Are you going to hand me over my fifty thousand francs? 867 01:11:00,986 --> 01:11:04,151 The francs are mine, then, are they? They are mine? 868 01:11:05,152 --> 01:11:08,360 Yes; they have always been yours. 869 01:11:10,152 --> 01:11:12,151 Here, take your fifty thousand francs! 870 01:11:23,141 --> 01:11:25,707 THE GAMBLER. Novel. From a young man's notes 871 01:11:50,190 --> 01:11:51,690 Anna Grigorievna, 872 01:11:52,149 --> 01:11:56,856 will it all be over once the novel has been completed? 873 01:12:00,607 --> 01:12:03,064 There's a good chance that two people will meet. 874 01:12:03,506 --> 01:12:04,965 Yes. 875 01:12:07,356 --> 01:12:12,771 I am thinking of a new novel, dear Anna Grigorievna. 876 01:12:13,148 --> 01:12:15,272 And what about "Crime and Punishment"? 877 01:12:16,063 --> 01:12:17,979 To hell with "Crime...". 878 01:12:18,605 --> 01:12:19,854 I'll give it up. I will. 879 01:12:20,688 --> 01:12:23,146 I am thinking over a new novel. 880 01:12:24,480 --> 01:12:28,478 The main character is an artist. 881 01:12:29,229 --> 01:12:32,686 An aged man, like myself. 882 01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:37,478 A sick man, gloomy and irritable. 883 01:12:37,853 --> 01:12:39,269 No wonder. 884 01:12:39,687 --> 01:12:42,144 He has known a lot of grief in his life. 885 01:12:42,686 --> 01:12:44,228 He is poor. 886 01:12:44,853 --> 01:12:49,269 He loved but was not loved himself. 887 01:12:50,478 --> 01:12:53,059 He toiled, suffered, felt afflicted. 888 01:12:53,477 --> 01:12:56,601 And at the crucial moment in his life 889 01:12:56,977 --> 01:13:00,976 he met a girl of your age. 890 01:13:01,977 --> 01:13:05,059 A pure, innocent creature. 891 01:13:07,477 --> 01:13:09,808 A contemporary youth. 892 01:13:12,060 --> 01:13:13,766 A woman.. 893 01:13:15,976 --> 01:13:19,142 In whom the world will find its salvation. 894 01:13:21,143 --> 01:13:23,267 Would you say, it is possible 895 01:13:23,683 --> 01:13:26,265 that a young girl 896 01:13:26,683 --> 01:13:30,848 so different from him in years and character 897 01:13:31,475 --> 01:13:35,140 could fall in love with my artist? 898 01:13:35,599 --> 01:13:37,056 Don't give an answer. Wait. 899 01:13:37,682 --> 01:13:42,472 Bare in mind, he is gloomy, not handsome, seriously ill. He is a failure. 900 01:13:43,056 --> 01:13:45,140 But the could accomplish a lot. 901 01:13:46,056 --> 01:13:50,680 But he is so poor that he can't pay his models. 902 01:13:52,890 --> 01:13:54,679 Excuse me a minute. 903 01:13:58,056 --> 01:13:59,430 Just a minute. 904 01:14:22,803 --> 01:14:25,595 - Good afternoon! - Good afternoon! 905 01:14:28,512 --> 01:14:30,052 Don't you recognize me? 906 01:14:35,053 --> 01:14:37,843 - No, I don't. - You don't? 907 01:14:38,494 --> 01:14:39,954 No? 908 01:15:06,134 --> 01:15:08,341 Forgive me, Anna Grigorievna. 909 01:15:09,259 --> 01:15:12,465 Don't give me an answer now. 910 01:15:14,466 --> 01:15:16,799 Think till tomorrow. 911 01:15:18,049 --> 01:15:21,674 Please, think it over till tomorrow. 912 01:15:22,049 --> 01:15:24,048 Tell me tomorrow. 913 01:15:26,133 --> 01:15:27,672 Are you Appolonov? 914 01:15:28,049 --> 01:15:30,964 Fyodor Timofeevich could not wait any longer. 915 01:15:32,840 --> 01:15:35,464 What Appolonov? I am Dostoyevsky, a writer. 916 01:15:35,965 --> 01:15:37,839 I've brought the novel, as agreed. 917 01:15:38,257 --> 01:15:40,755 Contact Fyodor Timofeevich Stillovsky. 918 01:15:41,132 --> 01:15:43,964 - Talk it over with him. - Exactly with him. 919 01:15:44,464 --> 01:15:46,755 - Could you invite him? - Impossible. 920 01:15:47,964 --> 01:15:51,338 What do you mean impossible? Why? 921 01:15:51,839 --> 01:15:55,130 He has been away for two days. He went to St. Petersburg. 922 01:15:57,755 --> 01:15:59,588 Why did he go? 923 01:16:01,046 --> 01:16:02,670 I don't know. 924 01:16:04,130 --> 01:16:06,836 He killed me. Killed. 925 01:16:12,254 --> 01:16:13,961 And what if... 926 01:16:25,253 --> 01:16:28,668 Fyodor Mikhailovich, oh my God, dear God. 927 01:16:34,753 --> 01:16:37,043 Fyodor Mikhailovich, dearest! 928 01:16:37,460 --> 01:16:41,459 I warned you that he would deceive you. 929 01:16:52,251 --> 01:16:53,666 Misha? 930 01:16:54,042 --> 01:16:57,458 - What are you doing here? - I was walking nearby. 931 01:17:00,125 --> 01:17:03,832 Ania, pray, don't go to him. Wait. 932 01:17:04,459 --> 01:17:07,249 Anna Grigorievna. Don't you see? Don't you understand? 933 01:17:07,666 --> 01:17:11,249 - He is trying to win you over. - Of course not, Misha. How could you? 934 01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:15,706 - I don't dare think about it. - Here, you said it. 935 01:17:16,332 --> 01:17:18,331 If you go to him, it will mean the end. 936 01:17:18,496 --> 01:17:21,713 - Do you hear me, Ania? The end! - We'll talk about it later. 937 01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:24,456 There will be no "later". 938 01:17:24,831 --> 01:17:28,330 No "later". Go to him. Go. 939 01:17:40,455 --> 01:17:44,454 - He is right. Go to him. - I am not going anywhere. 940 01:17:45,497 --> 01:17:47,549 Why haven't you handed over the manuscript? 941 01:17:47,663 --> 01:17:49,579 Stillovsky ran away. 942 01:17:50,038 --> 01:17:52,829 It is the 31st. Today is the 31st, do you understand? 943 01:17:53,246 --> 01:17:56,121 I am doomed. Exterminate, eliminate. 944 01:17:56,580 --> 01:17:58,828 - Give it to me. - No one wants it. 945 01:18:00,746 --> 01:18:02,661 What an incongruous man you are. 946 01:18:15,453 --> 01:18:17,410 THE GAMBLER A novel 947 01:18:17,785 --> 01:18:19,827 From a young man's notes. 1866. 948 01:18:21,327 --> 01:18:23,409 - What can I do for you? - Mr. Officer. 949 01:18:23,785 --> 01:18:26,659 This is the writer Dostoyevsky's novel. Please, accept it 950 01:18:26,937 --> 01:18:29,190 And certify with a receipt that you got it 951 01:18:29,243 --> 01:18:31,868 on the 31st of October, 1866. 952 01:18:32,826 --> 01:18:36,575 I don't know, I don't know. It is such a delicate matter. 953 01:18:38,743 --> 01:18:41,200 I don't know. There were no precedents. 954 01:18:42,659 --> 01:18:43,950 You must go to the bosses. 955 01:18:44,575 --> 01:18:48,574 That is strange. Mr. Urlov the Second visited us 956 01:18:48,951 --> 01:18:51,656 and said to tell you... 957 01:18:52,033 --> 01:18:55,656 Urlov the Second, that's strange... 958 01:18:57,824 --> 01:19:01,323 - In that case wait till tomorrow. - Mr. Officer. 959 01:19:01,824 --> 01:19:06,823 It has to be done today. On the 31st of October, 1866. 960 01:19:07,241 --> 01:19:12,240 I am asking you, I am begging you, I'll get down on my knees... 961 01:19:12,823 --> 01:19:15,447 Don't, madam, don't. Over such a trifle... 962 01:19:15,823 --> 01:19:17,405 All right, give it to me. 963 01:19:22,823 --> 01:19:27,446 Dostoyevsky. The Gambler. A novel. 964 01:19:28,030 --> 01:19:33,321 - And who are you to him? - Me? 965 01:19:38,455 --> 01:19:40,019 I... 966 01:19:47,113 --> 01:19:48,777 I am his wife. 967 01:19:53,778 --> 01:19:56,027 Crime and Punishment. 968 01:19:58,028 --> 01:19:59,818 Where did we stop, Ania, dear? 969 01:20:00,737 --> 01:20:02,235 Let me see. 970 01:20:02,944 --> 01:20:04,736 Read it. 971 01:20:05,236 --> 01:20:06,735 Siberia. 972 01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:10,818 SIBERIA. On the banks of a broad solitary river 973 01:20:11,652 --> 01:20:15,192 stands a town, one of the administrative centres of Russia; 974 01:20:18,943 --> 01:20:21,025 in the town there is a fortress, 975 01:20:22,026 --> 01:20:23,816 in the fortress there is a prison. 976 01:20:25,485 --> 01:20:27,649 In the prison the convict 977 01:20:28,650 --> 01:20:31,941 Rodion Raskolnikov. 978 01:20:34,650 --> 01:20:38,233 Second-class convict Rodion Raskolnikov 979 01:20:39,316 --> 01:20:41,315 has been confined for nine months. 980 01:20:43,399 --> 01:20:44,941 He did not know 981 01:20:45,566 --> 01:20:48,773 that the new life would not be given him for nothing, 982 01:20:49,441 --> 01:20:52,023 that he would have to pay dearly for it, 983 01:20:52,441 --> 01:20:55,814 that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. 984 01:20:56,733 --> 01:20:59,231 But that is the beginning of a new story. 985 01:20:59,648 --> 01:21:02,563 That might be the subject of a new story, 986 01:21:02,940 --> 01:21:06,231 but our present story is ended.