1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:45,360 DARK EYES 4 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,520 - Good morning. - Good morning. 5 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:57,800 Excuse me! 6 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,200 - Excuse me, may I have...? - It's still closed. Sorry! 7 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,160 It will open for lunch in an hour. Come back later. 8 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:12,680 There's no one here. 9 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,520 Excuse me... Excuse me... 10 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:18,920 You've just come on board, haven't you? 11 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,600 Yes. We travelled overland to Athens, 12 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:27,400 where we decided to reach Italy by sea. 13 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:29,760 I'm travelling with my wife. 14 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:35,640 My wife is up on deck. She's snoozing in a deckchair. 15 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,800 And I... I feel very thirsty. 16 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,400 It's so hot, you know? 17 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,200 It seems everyone's disappeared until lunchtime. 18 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,680 Forgive my curiosity, but where are you from? 19 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,400 Because I recognize your accent. 20 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:58,600 I... I'm Russian. 21 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,520 So-bach-ka. 22 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,800 Have you been to Russia? 23 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:23,920 Please, don't stand on ceremony. Do have a seat. 24 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,800 You wanted a drink. Come! It's nice and cool, you know? 25 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,040 Thank you. I feel embarrassed. 26 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,200 There's no need! It's my pleasure. 27 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,360 Anyhow, I hate drinking alone. 28 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,320 I'm very grateful. 29 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:49,320 You speak Italian well. 30 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:51,680 Just a few words. 31 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,400 I'm a merchant. I often travel to Italy. 32 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:57,000 On business. 33 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,680 Are you on a business trip this time, too? 34 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:04,160 No. No business this time. No, no. 35 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,680 This time, in a way... I'm on honeymoon. 36 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,160 Just imagine, a newly wed... 37 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,320 of my age. It sounds silly, doesn't it? 38 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:24,920 No, no. I envy you because this is the nicest stage. 39 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,160 I often think about the period when I'd just got married. 40 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:30,600 A happy, peaceful time... 41 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,280 So, you've only been married a short time. 42 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,080 67 days. 43 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,360 And you're happy, aren't you? 44 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:40,680 Yes, I am. 45 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:42,840 Happy, very. 46 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,160 Very happy. 47 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,400 - Had you ever been married before? - No, no. Never. 48 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,400 One can tell by looking at you that you're happy! 49 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,520 I envy and congratulate you. 50 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:00,400 I was just looking at an old photo, when I too was happy. 51 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,520 Is your wife in this photo too? 52 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,360 Yes, she's the one in the middle, you see? 53 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,360 This is me and she's next to me. Elisa, my wife. 54 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,400 Sorry, I didn't even introduce myself. May I? 55 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,280 I'm Romano Patroni. 56 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:20,680 - It's me who should apologize! - For what? 57 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:25,800 My name is Pavel Alexjeiev. 58 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,320 - In Italian, I'd be Paolo. - Paolo. 59 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,080 In Russian "Roman" also means "novel". 60 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:38,400 And forgive me, but also "fling", and love affairs... adultery. 61 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:40,800 Here! 62 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:42,400 Thank you. 63 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:47,280 Where did I put them? 64 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,360 No, I have a light. Just a moment. 65 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,200 You see, so as not to feel too lonely 66 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,680 I was looking at the latest photo of my wife. 67 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,760 We took it on her birthday. Right. 68 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,080 Poor thing. She was young. 69 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,520 No, no, maybe you have misunderstood. No. 70 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,400 My wife is alive, in good health, I believe. 71 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:14,520 Sorry. 72 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,080 It's just that I haven't seen her for so long, you see? 73 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,800 I've been away from home for ages. 74 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:25,400 Is this your house? It looks like a castle. 75 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:27,680 And it has a park, too. 76 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:32,040 No, no, it's not my house. It was my wife's. 77 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,680 I'm from rather humble stock. My father 78 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,800 had a small restaurant in the suburbs, but you see, 79 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,000 I was the youngest, so my parents 80 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,200 spent all their savings on my education. 81 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,640 - I'm an architect, you know? - I see. 82 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,600 - What's this? - A little gift. 83 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,080 It's beautiful. 84 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,600 It was at university that I met my wife. 85 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,840 You know how it is, my dear Paolo. 86 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,400 Moonlit nights, secret trysts, the anger of her family... 87 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,280 The same old story! It couldn't have been otherwise. 88 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,800 She was the only daughter of a very rich Roman banker, 89 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,800 Salghetti, maybe you know him, 90 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,600 who wanted to marry a penniless student. 91 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,920 Elisa and I thought we could do without everything. 92 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:30,840 We were young... 93 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:33,400 and lived on our dreams. 94 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,080 We wanted to move away from the city, to the countryside. 95 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,200 Elisa was going to be a housewife, and look after the farmers' children... 96 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,520 And I, as an architect, 97 00:08:42,680 --> 00:08:46,520 planned to carry on with my brilliant town planning project. 98 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:51,200 Yes, a new term in the history of architecture. 99 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,320 But then her father fell ill 100 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,600 and we had to go to live with them in their villa. And... 101 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,080 And then the banker died and my wife Eli... 102 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:02,360 No. 103 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:06,800 I see. 104 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,160 And so Elisa, who was an only daughter, 105 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,080 took over the running of the family's affairs. 106 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,080 In the meantime, my project... 107 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,600 Our daughter, Claudia, was born 108 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,360 and little by little, I must confess, 109 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,320 I got used to, ah yes, that comfortable life, 110 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,840 the pleasure of getting up late, dressing well, 111 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,920 enjoying a good quality cigar, of being waited on... 112 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,400 In other words, I lived like an animal at the zoo, 113 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:40,760 being fed simply because it exists. 114 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,520 And one at a time, my other feelings became just a habit. 115 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:47,000 Love included. 116 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:49,800 Here, look! 117 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:56,080 It's the photograph of the last happy, carefree hours spent by our family. 118 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:58,000 This is Elisa, 119 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,680 and behind her is our daughter Claudia with her husband, DodÁo. 120 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:05,280 This lady in black is Tina, my wife's best friend. 121 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,800 And this is her husband Manlio. The lady sitting down... 122 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,840 is Elisa's mother, my mother-in-law. 123 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,000 - Madam, the lawyer's here. - Very well. 124 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:18,320 Careful! 125 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:23,680 I'll be right back! 126 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:25,680 - Madam, just a moment... - Later. 127 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:26,680 Oh, Elisa! 128 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:27,760 - Ouch! - Sorry. 129 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:28,920 I saw the lawyer... 130 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:30,840 - What's his name? De Dominicis. - Yes. 131 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,920 - He looked... Did something happen? - No. 132 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,840 - You look after the guests. - Very well. 133 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,520 - Madam... - Later. 134 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,000 I'd like to see her go up and downstairs a hundred times a day. 135 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:45,400 Up and down, up and down... 136 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:52,760 Oh, my goodness! 137 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,040 - Madam, excuse me... - Not now! Later! 138 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:10,800 - Madam... - Later! 139 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:14,800 Closer to the table. 140 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,320 Alberto, who's playing? 141 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,520 I don't know. A young boy. 142 00:11:57,640 --> 00:11:59,520 Ready? Click! 143 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,520 Excuse me, madam, for the concert 144 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:19,360 do you want the drawing room chairs or the ones in the study? 145 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,080 - Either. Ask Mr. Patroni. - I see. 146 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,600 And tell them to stop playing the piano, please! 147 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:25,680 Certainly. 148 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,680 Yes, yes. Yes, I do wait! 149 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,400 I understand. I understand very well. 150 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,040 Well? 151 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,520 It's as I suspected: a disaster. 152 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:48,840 The worst of it is the manager didn't turn up for the board of directors. 153 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,400 He didn't turn up? No? 154 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,200 Well, he must be sick. Or he got the time wrong. 155 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:10,680 I've always been intrigued by your exquisite femininity, Madam Elisa. 156 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,600 Now I admire the virility of your character. 157 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:21,080 It's best I do as you say and join my guests. 158 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:24,000 Call me as soon as you have news. 159 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,800 Now, let's see. Show me. 160 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,800 Yes, yes, yes! No, no, no. I don't like that. 161 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,280 Your expression. Stand like this. Head up, now down. Well done. 162 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,000 Wonderful! Tina, Manlio! Don't disappear! 163 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,200 We're going to take another one straight away. 164 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,680 - Elisa! Elisa! - Mummy! 165 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:00,920 Hello, Mummy. How are you? 166 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,800 - Where did you get to? - I was here. You may go. 167 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,040 They're having fun, aren't they? 168 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,360 How could you marry a man like that? 169 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:17,840 - He should have been a clown! - Mummy... 170 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,840 Look at him! 171 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,920 Who's he trying to convince he needs treatment, mud baths? 172 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,800 - Mummy! - What a jester! 173 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,080 He'll always be just a worker's son, 174 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:35,680 a tavern keeper's son, I mean a poor fellow, 175 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,640 who was just lucky enough to marry a rich woman! 176 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:47,000 Mummy! You've been saying that for 25 years! 177 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,080 - Please... - Yes, yes, I know. 178 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:53,760 But you've never listened to me. What use is he to you? 179 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:57,840 You're full of worries, I can tell, you know? 180 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,680 But instead of helping you... he has treatments! 181 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,920 He needs them, he's sick. 182 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,920 And didn't you say I should not involve him in business affairs, 183 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,160 but deal with everything myself? - Yes, yes... 184 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,600 And to only seek advice from you? Isn't that right? 185 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:15,040 - Yes, that's right, that's what I said! - Well then? 186 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,680 But I also told you not to marry him! 187 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,520 And you didn't listen to me. 188 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,920 It's my fault, I know! 189 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,760 It's obvious now, you worry more about him than about your mother! 190 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,520 - You speak on his behalf! - Yes! 191 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,680 Mummy, yes, I speak on his behalf. Happy now? Are you? 192 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,400 But please, not today. Please, Mummy, don't cry. 193 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,760 - You don't care about me anymore! - Let's move, there's a draft here. 194 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:49,040 He's all you care about! You no longer care about your mother! 195 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:50,760 Mummy, no... 196 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:24,920 Have you seen that idiot Margherita? She came with her three nephews 197 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,920 who climbed a tree to get a nest 198 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,400 and broke off the branch! - Mummy, they're just children. 199 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:35,600 Well, he always sings but never says hello. Who is that little angel? 200 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:40,600 He's a child prodigy, Mummy. 201 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,400 You're making the usual scene, aren't you? 202 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:44,520 - Hello, Claudia. - Whenever I visit my mummy... 203 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:46,680 Nice! ...I always hear bad things about my daddy. 204 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,160 Grandma, don't you see my daddy is like a little bird? 205 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:50,840 He likes to fly around, and sing... 206 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,920 Just don't bother him with family problems... 207 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:56,040 - Have some respect for your father. - DodÁo! 208 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:01,520 Your DodÁo's another fine example: a bit aged, a bit bedraggled... 209 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,600 What's the matter, Grandma, don't you like my DodÁo either? 210 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,680 In my days we married men, not sparrows! 211 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:11,800 Elisa! Elisa! 212 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:21,000 - Go to the garden, I'll join you there. - Yes, Mummy. 213 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,360 I see... 214 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,840 Okay. Thank you, goodbye. 215 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,680 Well! Nice present for your feast day! 216 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:55,600 Listen, try to stay calm. 217 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,000 He's nowhere to be found. 218 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,520 How can that be? 219 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:05,200 - Has he vanished into thin air? - He's run away, madam! 220 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,920 Which means that the bank could not fulfil the payments. 221 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:11,920 Splendid! 222 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,520 We're ruined. How marvellous! 223 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:19,520 You really must stay calm. Nobody knows what's happened. 224 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:23,000 Tomorrow morning, we can try to sell at least some of the shares. 225 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:24,400 Right, right! 226 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,400 Elisa, go back to your guests now. 227 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,400 But don't say a word to anyone. 228 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:33,320 Understood, Elisa? 229 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,080 - No one! - Please, I beg you! 230 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:44,560 Come on! To the concert! Now! 231 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,800 Hey, what have you done? Taken the kite without me! 232 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:49,720 Where are you off to? 233 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,200 Where are you going? No running like that! 234 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:55,760 Knees higher! One, two! One, two! One, two! 235 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,840 Where's the concert on? 236 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,440 Where are you going with those flowers? 237 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,680 Mr. Patroni told us to water them in the fountain. 238 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:07,520 - Where is Mr. Patroni? - I don't know. 239 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,520 - Take them back. - Yes, madam. 240 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,000 - Do nothing without orders from me. - Very well. 241 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:13,680 Come on! Hurry! 242 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,800 - Who are you? - Don't you recognize me anymore? 243 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,760 Where's Manlio? 244 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,640 - Manlio who? - What do you mean? Your husband. 245 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,640 - Oh, yes. Manlio! Manlio, hurry! - No, no. 246 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,520 Oh, hello! 247 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,320 - How are you, Manlio? - Well, fairly well. 248 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,200 You probably know I bought the patent for the manufacturing 249 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,160 of a new kind of unbreakable glass. 250 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,080 Help me to clear the plates. 251 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,680 Giovanni will take them away. 252 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,200 - And put all the cutlery together. - Very well. 253 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,200 We need another tablecloth. 254 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:19,400 We'll open the first factory in Germany and then... 255 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:21,520 I've a brain like a sieve! I forgot... 256 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,000 - Sorry, I'll be right back. - Go ahead. 257 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:29,280 - He doesn't seem very interested. - That's natural. You can go too, now. 258 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:30,840 - Very well. - Go! 259 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,360 - I'll get back to my place. - Here I am! 260 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,400 Here I am, at last! 261 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,160 - Here I am. - Cheer up, Elisa. 262 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,360 - Elisa. - Oh, Tina. Where's Manlio? 263 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:51,160 - Manlio! - Yes? 264 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,000 There's no need. 265 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:54,800 But where's Romano? 266 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:56,920 Romano? Who's Romano? Oh... 267 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:02,760 - Mummy, shall we start? - Yes, do. 268 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:04,520 Fine, let's begin. Go on! 269 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,640 Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, 270 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:16,320 to round off an extraordinary day, it's my pleasure to introduce you 271 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:17,720 to a young genius... 272 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:19,840 Mummy! 273 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:21,800 Quiet! 274 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:25,160 Pierre de Croisset. 275 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,160 - Play it lively and fast. - Leave me. 276 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:40,400 Won't you introduce me? 277 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:46,720 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a sonata. 278 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:32,760 I'll be right back. 279 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:40,840 Romano? 280 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:44,280 Romano? 281 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,200 Romano! 282 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:14,840 Oh, Elisa. 283 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:16,320 What was that noise? 284 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,040 I'm so sorry! Did I wake you up? 285 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,720 Well... Maybe I dropped off. 286 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:28,520 It's that... I feel so tired. I fear I'm unwell, Elisa. 287 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,400 What's making you tired? What are you tired of? 288 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,200 Whereas I'm perfectly fine. 289 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,360 I'm not sleeping. 290 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,520 - What is she doing? - She drinks! 291 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,800 - Take away the glass! - It's not my fault. 292 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,320 It's bad for you. 293 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,040 That's all you've ever been able to do all your life! 294 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:03,600 You started... 23 years ago. 295 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,320 On my name day! 296 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,800 What's going on? Put me in the picture, please! 297 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:09,840 What's the matter, Elisa? For heaven's sake! 298 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,320 It so happens we're facing ruin, is that clear? 299 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,080 Our bank was the greatest supporter of Unica. 300 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,400 - Now it's going to rack and ruin! - If you want me to stay, say so. 301 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,000 No, go! You must have your treatment! 302 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,360 - Go! - Anyway they're things you don't know, 303 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,200 you don't understand! You're better off sleeping, dreaming! 304 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:28,400 People are looking at us. 305 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,600 I admit I've never taken an interest in our affairs. 306 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,920 But the fact is you and your mother never wanted me to. 307 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,200 Ah! It's now come to this! So it's our fault! 308 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:42,000 That's enough, otherwise who knows what we'll end up telling each other. 309 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,560 Ah, no! No! 310 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,160 You think I know nothing and see nothing, but you're wrong! 311 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,040 I know you well! You're a liar! A liar! 312 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,920 Elisa, you're out of your mind. 313 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,560 You think I don't know why you hate me. 314 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,560 You hate me because I'm a rich woman! 315 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,800 You only married me to get this house and all the rest, 316 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,520 and can't forgive me my wealth. 317 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,360 And you'll always carry on lying! And cheating me! And lying again! 318 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:24,640 Elisa... 319 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,520 How can you talk like that? 320 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:30,600 Elisa! 321 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:33,520 Elisa! 322 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:35,920 Elisa, wait! 323 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,200 Elisa, open up, please. 324 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:42,360 Open up! 325 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:48,800 Open up, Elisa! 326 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:52,520 Romano? 327 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,400 What are you doing? 328 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,760 See? I'm measuring the carpet. 329 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,920 - Oh, you measure carpets? - Six... 330 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:00,520 - Why? - Because... 331 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,560 - You're all sweaty! - I just measured the ones in there! 332 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,080 Ah! I see... 333 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,080 Every month one must change carpets! 334 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,560 - Ah! The carpets! - You've made me lose count! 335 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,600 - Sorry! I didn't mean to. - Where's Manlio? 336 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,400 - Manlio? Manlio, come here! - No, no... 337 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:15,920 Yes, better calling him. 338 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,640 - We have to measure the carpets! - What are you doing? 339 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,200 We have to help Romano measure the carpets! They change them monthly. 340 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,840 We have to measure the carpets! We got to 6. 341 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:26,520 Let's not waste time! 342 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,200 6, 7, 8, 9, 10... 343 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:31,640 - Shouldn't we go to the concert? - No, no. 344 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,400 ...13, 14, 15, 345 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,680 16, 17, 18, 19, 346 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,400 20, 21, 22, 23, 347 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,000 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30... 348 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:43,600 The next day, I left. 349 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,040 But why? Without even trying to explain? 350 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,040 Explain what? I didn't feel guilty of anything. 351 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,440 Of course! You went off for your cure. 352 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,080 I mean, you were ill, weren't you? 353 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:14,680 - Good morning. - Good morning. 354 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:37,080 And so he... 355 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:40,080 Go! 356 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:45,840 Talk about losing your patience! 357 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,640 I've never seen anything like it, believe me! 358 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:53,840 It's rejuvenating! 359 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,320 I don't want it! I don't want it! 360 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,560 We need to work out! 361 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:42,920 Wake up! 362 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,200 Bye, Romano! 363 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,720 Come on, wake up! 364 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,080 Good morning! 365 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,400 Good morning, wake up! 366 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,200 Good morning everybody! 367 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,920 Good morning, it's 8 o'clock! 368 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,840 Good morning everybody! Wake up! 369 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,560 Good morning! 370 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:12,920 Go on! 371 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:16,320 It's 8 o'clock. 372 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,200 It's 8 o'clock. Wake up! 373 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,720 Good morning! Wake up! 374 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,520 It's 8 o'clock. Wake up! 375 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,160 Good morning everybody! 376 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,840 Wake up! It's 8 o'clock. Good morning everybody! 377 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:35,400 Wake up! 378 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:39,800 Oh, once again! 379 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:43,560 Wake up! Good morning! It's 8 o'clock. 380 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,080 Come in! 381 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,640 Good morning, Mr. Patroni. How was your night? 382 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:53,760 Oh, so-so. 383 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:58,000 You know, Mr. Patroni, it was a frightful night for all of us! 384 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:02,160 Our clients complained of hearing too much noise! 385 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,360 - The General gets drunk every night. - Why's that? 386 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,600 What happens? Confusion everywhere! Such coming and going! 387 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,520 It's all very embarrassing. 388 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,800 No one could get to sleep. 389 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:18,400 It's a disgrace! 390 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,560 - What is this? A hotel or a brothel? - What's going on? 391 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:23,840 Call someone! 392 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,720 I fought in three wars! 393 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,920 In Bessarabia! In Herzegovina! I've never seen anything like this! 394 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:33,200 - Come, Mr. Patroni! Come and see! - What's happening? 395 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,360 It's a disgrace I can no longer tolerate! 396 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,280 I haven't touched a drop for 30 years! 397 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,200 Who's that scoundrel who for the sixth time... 398 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,400 - Good morning. - Good morning! 399 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,040 ...has left this rubbish outside my door?! 400 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:48,560 Why take it out on me? 401 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,760 Because it's the ninth time you failed to salute a superior! 402 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,160 But I have a bad arm! 403 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,000 Oh, God! 404 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,000 In my day, you'd have been shot. 405 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,280 It's a disgrace! What does this dog want from me? 406 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,400 Hey, it licked my boots! 407 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:30,360 - You nasty beast! Look at the ugly brute! - I'm sorry, it's my dog. 408 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:31,400 Dirty too! 409 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,640 I'm sorry. It untied itself. But it doesn't bite. 410 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,000 Shame on you! 411 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,280 Keep it on its leash! 412 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,560 Oh, heavens! What a terrible journey! 413 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:49,600 Tina! 414 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,000 Today, the heat's unbearable. 415 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,720 - Terrible. - It is! 416 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,640 - Now, is the food good here? - Well, not bad... 417 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,840 - Is there a good chef? - Eh, look... 418 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,280 - And are the rooms comfortable? - Yes. 419 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,400 I think we'll be fine here. 420 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,440 What do you mean "we'll be fine"? 421 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,600 - Are you staying? - Of course. 422 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,400 - What about... Manlio? - Manlio who? 423 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,760 - What do you mean "Manlio who"? - Oh... Manlio! 424 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,200 - Why are you interested in him? - Well... 425 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,920 - He's down in the West Indies. - What are you saying? 426 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,680 - Aren't you pleased to see me? - Of course I am, Tina! Stop that! 427 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,840 Why wouldn't I be pleased? 428 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:32,200 I'm just sorry I'm not well. I... 429 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,160 They're still keeping me under observation 430 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,640 because it seems I have something wrong with my legs. 431 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,280 It's as if they can't support me. 432 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,080 - What are you saying? Really? - Yes, from time to time 433 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,560 I feel as if my legs have a mind of their own. 434 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,360 I'm fine... and then I'm on the floor! 435 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,440 No, Romano! I scared you, didn't I? 436 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,080 Why should I be scared? 437 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,400 Tina! 438 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:56,360 Stop that! 439 00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,080 Manlio's taking care of the horses. He'll be here soon. You'll be glad. 440 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,160 What's it to do with Manlio? 441 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:03,720 So... 442 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,560 Tell me who you're sleeping with now. 443 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,920 I came by especially to find out. 444 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,600 Oh, it's true, your legs hurt! I'd forgotten. 445 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,920 Let me see, I want to guess. 446 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,840 No, it can't be... It can't be her! 447 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:28,760 No, no, that's just not possible! 448 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,920 Believe me, I live like a hermit in here. 449 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:37,720 Behave, please! Joking apart, are you heading somewhere? 450 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,080 We're going to visit Manlio's parents. 451 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:50,000 Who's that woman bouncing light and disturbing you while you're eating? 452 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,440 A Russian with a little dog. That's all I know. 453 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,920 She's not a hotel guest, she only comes for meals and treatments. 454 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,080 Have you seen Elisa? How is she? 455 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:03,840 What's her name? 456 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,400 I don't know! I swear I know nothing about her! 457 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:11,520 So tell me, 458 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:13,800 have you seen Elisa? 459 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,200 I'm right! This time you look really smitten. 460 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:19,360 What? 461 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:21,600 What did you say? 462 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,680 This time it's serious, 463 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:26,840 I can feel it. 464 00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:32,400 Ah! Manlio's here at last! Manlio! Come and help Romano, the poor man! 465 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,560 His legs hurt him so much, he can't walk! 466 00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:37,040 Hold him by the arm on this side, 467 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,080 and I'll take the other. Come on! 468 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,400 - Come, let me help you. - Let me lean on you. 469 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,920 Yes, don't worry. That's it, good! 470 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,680 No, we'll carry you! Don't worry! 471 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,680 - Lean on me, like that! - Ouch! 472 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:51,840 Slowly does it. 473 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,720 A dove! A dove! 474 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,600 I'll go call for a carriage! 475 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,800 It's full of pigeons here. 476 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,200 What? 477 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:29,640 Yes, it is. 478 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,360 - Why do you invent so many lies? - But... 479 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,920 Tina, you know me! 480 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:49,840 - You'd be lost without me. - What? 481 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:54,360 It's the truth. You'd be lost without me. I have to protect you. 482 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:56,360 Manlio! 483 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,840 We can't wait for Giovanna! 484 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,800 You'd be lost without me! 485 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,920 He doesn't bite. Don't be afraid, lean on me. 486 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,360 Don't be afraid, I tell you. I can manage, I assure you. 487 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:31,840 No, but... 488 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,000 No, don't be afraid. I can manage. 489 00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:36,840 - It was a joke! - I assure you. 490 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,360 I know this illness. My grandmother had the same thing. 491 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,080 Take my umbrella. 492 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:50,080 I heard what you were saying to your acquaintance. 493 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,080 You feel as if your legs won't hold you, don't you? 494 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,200 - Yes, that's precisely it. - You must have "synevitus". 495 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,520 - "Synovitus," isn't that correct? - I wish I could have synovitis. 496 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:04,200 I have calcifications in my knees. Not actually calcifications. 497 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,600 - They're fragments. - How did you get them? 498 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:11,840 It must have been after the earthquake. Have you heard of Mount Vesuvius? 499 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,320 Mount Vesuvius, yes. 500 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,680 That happened before the birth of Christ. 501 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,200 Of course, but since it's a hereditary condition... 502 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,080 My forebears were from Pompeii. 503 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,200 And... Fancy! Now I come to think of it! 504 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,400 Did you know a forebear of mine was cured by a Russian lady? 505 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,640 - Really? - Yes, but I think it's just a tale. 506 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,080 Well, tell it to me. 507 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:36,200 - No, anyhow I don't believe in miracles. - But seeing you started to tell me! 508 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,320 It's just nonsense! Imagine someone being cured because a... 509 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:40,640 Oh, please! 510 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,320 - Well, we can try. - Right. 511 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,080 - Whisper a Russian word in my ear. - What? 512 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,760 - Any word. - Any word? 513 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,520 - Yes, yes. - Very well. 514 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,600 It means doggy. 515 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,000 What...? 516 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:36,200 I'm cured! 517 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,400 It's a miracle! 518 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:40,920 A miracle! 519 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,200 Everything's fine! Nothing happened! 520 00:38:53,720 --> 00:38:56,200 Miss! Wait! 521 00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,840 It was just a joke! 522 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,720 Last night, I knocked on your door, but you didn't answer! 523 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,080 But it doesn't matter, since we'll never meet again! 524 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,320 The little bird has flown away for good. 525 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,160 No! What desperation! I'll kill myself! 526 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:14,160 Good morning. 527 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:15,400 Good morning. 528 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:22,080 Good morning. 529 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:23,840 Good morning. 530 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,000 Is everything ready for table six? 531 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,760 - Your water, madam. - Yes. Do have a seat. 532 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:38,040 ...chew very slowly before swallowing! 533 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,200 Well, it can happen. 534 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:41,200 Well, you can imagine: in those days I lied with real virtuosity. 535 00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:47,840 But not for any particular reason or because I had to. 536 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,080 It was just the way I was, do you understand? 537 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,400 One day, I fell over in the street and broke my arm. 538 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,800 I went to the doctor who asked me where I'd fallen. 539 00:41:58,080 --> 00:41:59,640 "In the cellar", I told him. 540 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:01,400 - But why? - Why? 541 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,760 I don't even know when it started or how long it lasted. 542 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,200 I just remember the moment I came to my senses. 543 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,760 - Have you never been a drinker? - I don't understand. 544 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:21,800 I mean, have you ever suddenly started drinking, but seriously, 545 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:23,800 for several days in a row? 546 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:25,840 - Seriously? - Yes. 547 00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:29,440 Yes, I've done that. 548 00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:32,280 My wife... 549 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:36,320 I mean, back then, she wasn't my wife yet... 550 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:40,640 Well, she tried to commit suicide 551 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,160 and she almost succeeded. 552 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,400 But that's a different story. 553 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,840 That time, I drank for 5 days in a row. 554 00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:55,840 I almost... 555 00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:01,400 - I almost... - You almost popped your clogs. 556 00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:05,400 So you know what the sixth day after those five is like. 557 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:14,720 Oh yes, you wake up not knowing where you've been or what you've done. 558 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,680 - Don't you get seasick? - No. 559 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:20,800 You wake up... 560 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,920 and all you know is that you're in a black hole. It's horrible. 561 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,200 You're in a horrid black hole looking out into an abyss. 562 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,440 Well, that's what happened to me but a long time after. 563 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,920 I don't know whether all Russian women are like that. 564 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:44,360 I don't know them. 565 00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:49,920 Physically, she had nothing particularly interesting, 566 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,760 but I mean, how can I say it... 567 00:43:52,920 --> 00:44:00,200 She gave off a sense of purity, honesty and naÈivetÂe too. 568 00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,200 You do follow me, don't you? 569 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,000 I was excited by the fact 570 00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,760 that she believed all the stories I told her. 571 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:11,680 At five, I was orphaned 572 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,400 and went to live with my grandfather who was alone, too. 573 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,160 He was a very strict old man. 574 00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:20,520 Grandpa lived with a little sparrow: he'd talk to it, he'd call it... 575 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,280 For example, when it was lunchtime: "Come!" 576 00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,200 And I'd call it too saying: 577 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,280 "Come down, little sparrow, I've prepared you some crumbs." 578 00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,080 And it flew down 579 00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,800 and ate out of the palm of my hand. 580 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,760 And I was so happy because I'd found... 581 00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,440 Her hat! Her hat! Someone catch it! 582 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:41,840 It doesn't matter. 583 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,760 I have another one. 584 00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:50,320 Allow me, madam. 585 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,640 - Here's your hat, madam. - Thank you. 586 00:45:35,720 --> 00:45:37,000 You're welcome. 587 00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:39,080 Thank you, sir. 588 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:42,920 Thank you. 589 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,680 Push me! Come on! 590 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:11,320 Go! 591 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,920 See what fun they're having? It reminds me of my childhood. 592 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,400 What are you doing, children? 593 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,360 It's absolutely pouring! Come on inside! Come! 594 00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:27,840 He made me a scooter, you know? 595 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,280 Hurry up! You'll catch a cold! 596 00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:07,360 To show you there are no tricks I'll ask one of the ladies present 597 00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:09,720 to take the place of my assistant. 598 00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:11,400 Who would be so kind? 599 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,200 Maybe the pretty lady in the black hat? Yes? 600 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,000 This way, please. 601 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:18,400 There! 602 00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,000 Don't be afraid, meine Dame. 603 00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:27,400 We've never met, so I'm doubly grateful to you for your help. 604 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:29,440 What's in the handkerchief? 605 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,040 You think there's nothing? Show me, my sight is very good. 606 00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:37,560 Well done! 607 00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:44,440 What are you hiding in your bag? 608 00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,840 Let's have a look. You think there's nothing there? 609 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,400 Look more closely! 610 00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:46,920 Yes, for a fling, a married lady is always better than a single one. 611 00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:50,600 And also the fact that she was from a distant town in Russia, 612 00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:53,200 something that, you know, would've simplified things... 613 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,200 At most, I'd be reproached with a letter. 614 00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,200 The typical scenario of her turning up with a suitcase saying: 615 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,040 "Here I am, I'm yours!" was unlikely. 616 00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,200 Or that maybe her husband would show up with a gun, bang! 617 00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,920 All things considered, I wanted to have an affair. Yes. 618 00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:16,280 But one evening... 619 00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:27,560 Sobachka! What are you doing here, all alone? 620 00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:29,280 Where's your mistress? 621 00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,080 Yes, good dog. 622 00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:38,160 Oh, God, what is happening to me? 623 00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:39,920 My God, what is it? 624 00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:44,720 Who's that? 625 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:46,080 Anna! 626 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:47,840 Anna, what's the matter? 627 00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:51,560 Why are you crying? What happened? Anna... 628 00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:57,000 You won't believe me, but I'm actually happy. 629 00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,920 - So happy. - Who cries when they're happy? 630 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:01,680 - Romano? - Yes? 631 00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:03,520 I'm sorry, Romano. 632 00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,440 All this must seem strange to you. 633 00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:10,080 - I'm not used to being happy. - Stay calm... 634 00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:14,920 It's just that today, I've had a lump in my throat. 635 00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,760 That happens when you're young. 636 00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:23,440 - Romano... - I care for you, you know? 637 00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:25,280 - I feel ashamed. - You're so pretty. 638 00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:28,080 Do you believe me? I'm ashamed to be seen by you. 639 00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,160 You've been so kind. So very kind. 640 00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:35,400 And I'm so grateful to you for all you've done for me, dear Romano. 641 00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:39,680 - Enough... - I'll never forget your consideration. 642 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,920 That's enough crying. I'm here now. 643 00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:46,200 I want to see a nice smile. 644 00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,320 You're so pretty when you smile. 645 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,200 What's happening to me? 646 00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,000 Romano... 647 00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,440 - Don't be afraid. - You mustn't. 648 00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:17,400 Just stay calm. 649 00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:21,440 Romano, I don't... Romano... 650 00:51:21,720 --> 00:51:23,400 Don't be afraid. 651 00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:01,560 It's not right. 652 00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:05,840 You'll despise me now. 653 00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:08,160 Anna, come on... 654 00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,080 Horrible. 655 00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,840 I haven't deceived my husband, but myself. 656 00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,680 Not only now, but for a long time. 657 00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:47,920 Maybe my husband is an honest and well-to-do person, but... 658 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:50,760 he has the soul of an old man. 659 00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,400 He's just been an old man all his life. 660 00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,680 I married him out of despair. 661 00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,440 My mother had died and my father had started drinking. 662 00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:11,560 He'd been sacked from the school and it was impossible for him 663 00:53:11,720 --> 00:53:14,400 to find another job in our small town. 664 00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:19,200 I had two younger brothers and we'd run out of money. 665 00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:21,440 The only option I had was to marry him. 666 00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:24,760 Or throw myself out of the window! 667 00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:27,680 Anna... 668 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:42,840 I'd just turned 20, he was nearly 50. 669 00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:49,400 During the day he'd see to his affairs and I'd go to my family's house, 670 00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:53,360 where I'd wash, cook dinner, help the children do their homework... 671 00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:03,720 I'd go home at lunch time 672 00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:08,360 and he would eat for hours. 673 00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:15,600 He'd always complain about something. 674 00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,280 Then he'd start snoring on the sofa. 675 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:40,640 I was afraid of him, like I was of the headmaster at our school. 676 00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:45,600 Yet I prayed to the Lord for him every day and I said to myself: 677 00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:51,000 "God sent him to you. Anna, be patient." 678 00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:58,200 "Think of your brothers who'll be able to complete their studies." 679 00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:02,400 "Think of your father who'll stop drinking." 680 00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,640 I've had my revenge now. 681 00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:25,280 Please, turn around. 682 00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:27,160 What? 683 00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:29,520 Please, turn around, don't look at me. 684 00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:49,440 Well? 685 00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:53,080 Have you been crying? 686 00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:02,840 Why? 687 00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,080 Is it possible that I will never see you again? 688 00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:09,360 What? 689 00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:23,080 Oh, Anna, I forgot to tell you what happened last night. 690 00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:24,760 It was an incredible scene! 691 00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,080 You know that officer who says he was wounded? 692 00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:31,080 He had a visit from a friend, an officer, with a face like this, 693 00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:32,680 dead drunk! 694 00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:36,200 Well, our friend was telling a lady the story 695 00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:40,560 of all the bullets whistling around him on all sides, 696 00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:44,200 when he sat down and in a loud voice, in front of everyone he said: 697 00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:48,680 "If you hadn't mixed beer with cognac, you wouldn't be drunk" 698 00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:52,600 "and those two whores wouldn't have thrown you down the stairs" 699 00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:55,520 "and you wouldn't be here now with your arm in a sling!" 700 00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:57,200 Can you imagine his embarrassment? 701 00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:03,960 That morning, she didn't come to breakfast. 702 00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:05,760 I waited a good while. 703 00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:11,080 Then I went out, bought a watermelon and started looking for her. 704 00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:36,680 Narrow is the leaf, wide is the vine, you've said your piece, I'll say mine. 705 00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:41,200 Hello. 706 00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:43,080 Oh, good morning. 707 00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:45,360 She's left. 708 00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:47,360 - Who? - The Russian lady. 709 00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:48,520 I came... 710 00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:51,720 She'd booked until the 20th, but she left this morning. 711 00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:53,640 - But the doctor... - Who are you? 712 00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:56,520 Since I was coming this way, the doctor asked me... 713 00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:57,920 Is it yours? 714 00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:00,720 - I found it near the bed, this morning. - No. 715 01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:05,200 Well, if it's not yours... it's mine! 716 01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:06,200 Naturally. 717 01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:09,920 Mr. Romano Patroni. Is that you? 718 01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:12,840 Just a moment! I see. 719 01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:15,680 She left a letter for the doctor. Here! 720 01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:39,720 "This letter is in Russian not only because I don't trust my Italian," 721 01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,280 "but also because..." 722 01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:50,840 Yes, but... sobachka! 723 01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:52,200 But... 724 01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:58,080 No Russian. 725 01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:05,400 At the spa, I couldn't find anyone who could translate the letter for me. 726 01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:08,280 I opened it 10 times a day, or even more. 727 01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:11,640 I breathed in its scent. 728 01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:15,760 On the other hand, what could a lady write, knowing... 729 01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:18,760 that we'd never meet again? 730 01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:24,400 A few sweet words, a subtle reproach. 731 01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:27,920 I thought I'd learned Russian. 732 01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:32,000 Anyhow, I'd already returned to Rome where... 733 01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:37,320 life had picked up its apparently calm, peaceful rhythm. 734 01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:39,560 I lived on the second floor. 735 01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,000 I would meet Elisa only at lunchtime, 736 01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:45,640 some occasional quarrels, the hatred of my mother-in-law... 737 01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:49,800 My desk was getting dustier by the day. 738 01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:54,760 And I thought: "In a month, the memory of this summer affair" 739 01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:57,720 "will have vanished like so many others." 740 01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:00,920 However, when the month was up, 741 01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:05,200 my memory of her was so clear, so precise, 742 01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:08,280 just as if I'd left her a minute before. 743 01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:13,440 Then, I had a brilliant idea, 744 01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:16,200 I snipped from the letter 745 01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:19,800 the first line in Italian with my name in it 746 01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:22,680 and the last one containing her signature. 747 01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:27,040 And with that sheet of paper I went to my old university 748 01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:31,320 where I was sure I'd find someone who could help me. 749 01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:35,920 "I'm writing in Russian because I don't trust my Italian," 750 01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,760 "but also because I think when you have this translated," 751 01:02:38,840 --> 01:02:40,360 "I'll be far away." 752 01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:45,040 "So far that just the thought of it makes me shiver." 753 01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:49,000 "And at that point, it will be too late to do anything." 754 01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:51,760 "I haven't left, I've run away." 755 01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:56,080 "I've fled when faced with love, when faced with..." 756 01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:59,160 "what I'd passionately been waiting for all my life." 757 01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:03,600 "I've fled because I've realised that I'm not ready for this." 758 01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:05,680 "My poor, poor, darling." 759 01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:10,320 "This is what I've wanted to say to you from the moment I met you." 760 01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:15,440 "My God, my God, how could I not fall in love with you?" 761 01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:20,600 "You're so intelligent, so kind, so very talented..." 762 01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:23,360 "and so understanding towards me," 763 01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:27,600 "a mediocre and empty human being," 764 01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:32,080 "who drags myself through the mud of lies and humiliation" 765 01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:36,360 "and cannot keep hold of this love nor hold it," 766 01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:38,320 "and all I can do is run away," 767 01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:42,760 "run away in fear, without knowing where to go." 768 01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:46,280 Who is this letter addressed to? 769 01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:49,840 Who is it addressed to? 770 01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:53,080 I found it among the papers of a friend who's in Russia. 771 01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:56,080 Oh, really? What does he do in Russia? 772 01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:00,000 He's dead. He froze to death. In St. Petersburg. 773 01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:11,840 "Now it is... almost 7 o'clock. My cases are packed and..." 774 01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:16,360 "I'm sitting on the chair you were sitting on a while ago." 775 01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:21,040 "Soon I'll walk past your windows on my way to the station." 776 01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:25,160 "And when you wake up, I'll already have left. End of story." 777 01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:27,800 "What happened, happened." 778 01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:32,560 "Now I'd be ashamed to have regrets and try to justify myself," 779 01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:35,160 "because I've been happy." 780 01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:39,600 "Mine was the joy, therefore the fault is mine too." 781 01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,360 "What a shame it all ended so quickly." 782 01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:04,920 "I'm running away." 783 01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:08,760 "It was too hard a test for me, I couldn't bear it." 784 01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:10,320 "I ask you to forgive me." 785 01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:11,760 Hello, Romano! 786 01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:15,400 Romano! 787 01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:17,720 Hello... 788 01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:19,440 - Please! - Yes, yes. 789 01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:22,800 - Excuse us for a moment... - He's a friend. 790 01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:25,000 - Would you mind, please? - Yes, yes. 791 01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:29,520 Yes. 792 01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:33,720 "I'm running away, I couldn't bear it. Please forgive me. Farewell." 793 01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:36,840 "I know we won't meet again," 794 01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:40,920 "but for as long as I live, I will never forget you." 795 01:05:43,160 --> 01:05:45,920 "For as long as I live, I will never forget you." 796 01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:48,080 - That's it. - You've not changed at all. 797 01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:50,920 You're still a ladies' man, you still are! 798 01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:53,680 But anyway, how are you? I'm doing just fine. 799 01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:56,520 Business is booming. How are things for you? All good? 800 01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:59,840 What've you been up to? Yes, I'm really happy to see you. 801 01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:03,280 Listen, things are great with me. After university, I got married. 802 01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:05,600 Then I had four children, but I'm happy. 803 01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:09,080 My eldest is leaving for military service, my daughter's getting married. 804 01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:10,800 What about you? How's your wife? 805 01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:13,400 - You're asking me how I'm doing? - Yes. 806 01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:15,160 - Do you really want to know? - Of course. 807 01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:18,200 - If they're not going well, you'll help? - Of course, we're friends. 808 01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:21,200 Things aren't going well at all! Do you understand? 809 01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:23,640 - But what do you care?! - What do you mean? 810 01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:26,680 Your family, your wife, your children, your mother, your grandpa... 811 01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,160 - If I'm in trouble, will you help me?! - Of course! 812 01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:31,840 You'd never help anyone, so mind your own business! 813 01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:33,040 "What've you been up to..." 814 01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:35,040 - Come, let's talk. - You're out of your mind! 815 01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:37,400 - "How's your family, how's business?" - Let me go. 816 01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:40,680 What do you care? What does it matter to you?! 817 01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:44,200 Do any of you here care about the lives of others? 818 01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:47,200 - Calm down, Romano. - I'll do no such thing! Here! 819 01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:50,520 Why do you think I wouldn't care? 820 01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:52,840 He's a friend I've not seen for a very long time. 821 01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:55,680 I asked him how he was and he gave me a telling off, 822 01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:57,640 like I'm a child, and he lost his temper! 823 01:06:57,760 --> 01:06:59,920 Don't worry, I haven't gone mad. I just wanted... 824 01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:02,560 What are you saying? Here's your hat! 825 01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:03,680 Gotcha! 826 01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:07,160 Chuck your hat in the river! Did you hear me?! 827 01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:11,160 I'm fine. I'm really fine, gentlemen. 828 01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:13,200 I'm pleased that you care about me. 829 01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:17,800 I'm really fine! Goodbye! Off, off, off I go! 830 01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:20,440 Goodbye. 831 01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:31,920 I remember that one night I woke up all of a sudden. 832 01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:33,600 I went over to the mirror 833 01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:36,600 and it finally dawned on me. 834 01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:39,280 Tina was right: I was lost. 835 01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:43,520 If I couldn't see Anna again, my life would be over. 836 01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:46,200 I was unable to get back to sleep 837 01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:49,440 and as soon as it was morning, I ran to my friend Manlio and said: 838 01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:53,280 "Manlio, do what you want, but I have to go to Russia." 839 01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:56,840 At first he thought I'd gone mad. 840 01:07:57,600 --> 01:08:00,920 He looked at me strangely and asked me no more questions. 841 01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:02,920 - Did you go to see her? - Yes. 842 01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:05,040 But... what did you tell the family? 843 01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:07,640 Oh, finding an excuse was easy. I'm an architect. 844 01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:10,320 Manlio was about to set up a glass factory abroad. 845 01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:13,000 He'd asked me to study the prospects in Russia. 846 01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:14,200 Three weeks later, 847 01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:17,800 with armfuls of catalogues for an almost unbreakable kind of glass, 848 01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:21,720 I was in St. Petersburg, where I immediately sought information 849 01:08:21,840 --> 01:08:25,320 on how to reach the little town where she lived. 850 01:08:45,440 --> 01:08:48,640 I don't know what it's like now, but a few years ago in Russia 851 01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:52,360 it wasn't easy for a foreigner to go from one town to another. 852 01:08:52,480 --> 01:08:55,440 - It's easier nowadays. - Back then, it was a nightmare. 853 01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:57,680 I was closely accompanied by an interpreter 854 01:08:57,800 --> 01:08:59,840 who had to escort me on my hunt for a permit. 855 01:08:59,960 --> 01:09:00,920 Or rather, 856 01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:05,240 for whoever would take on the responsibility of signing a permit, 857 01:09:05,400 --> 01:09:06,400 that document. 858 01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:09,080 - The travel permit? - Yes. 859 01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:10,400 Right! 860 01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:23,640 - There he is. - Did you show him the mammoth? 861 01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:25,400 No. He wasn't interested. 862 01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:26,840 - Does he drink? - Little. 863 01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:29,040 Then what did he come here for? 864 01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:30,920 He keeps on asking to go to Sysoev... 865 01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:32,840 To set up a factory. Of glass, I think. 866 01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:34,600 - You mean made of glass? - I don't know. 867 01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:36,080 What's all this got to do with me? 868 01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:38,560 You need to sign the travel permit to Sysoev. 869 01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:41,320 Why didn't your friend Afanasij Matveevich sign it? 870 01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:43,760 I don't know. He told me to ask you. 871 01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:46,720 - You mean he refused to? - He said to ask you. 872 01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:50,800 So I'll have to take responsibility if anything happens, right? 873 01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:52,640 An old fox! 874 01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:57,080 All right, I'll receive him, but I won't sign anything! 875 01:09:58,800 --> 01:09:59,920 Send them all away. 876 01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:02,800 Sorry, we're not receiving anyone. We're expecting a foreigner! 877 01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:06,360 - Please, leave now, sirs! - But I'm not here for myself. 878 01:10:06,440 --> 01:10:11,920 Madam, please leave. We're expecting a foreigner! 879 01:10:26,440 --> 01:10:28,320 My dear! 880 01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:31,640 Good morning. 881 01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:35,440 Do have a seat, please. 882 01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:40,280 Your Excellency, I'm here to show you this glass... 883 01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:42,920 Is he deaf? 884 01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:45,400 I was talking about this unbreakable glass 885 01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:47,200 that can withstand almost any blow. 886 01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:49,440 You can hit it without it breaking. 887 01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:52,720 Some Germans want to buy the patent, but I won't sell it to them. 888 01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:55,520 I'll give you a demonstration, if I may, Your Excellency. 889 01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:57,920 Watch carefully. You see? 890 01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:01,360 Look, this is an ordinary hammer, right? 891 01:11:01,440 --> 01:11:04,360 Look, I'm going to hit it as hard as I can. 892 01:11:06,680 --> 01:11:09,200 You see? Now you try, Your Excellency. You'll see. 893 01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:10,600 Hit it hard, please. 894 01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:12,160 Don't be afraid. 895 01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:13,600 The signature! 896 01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:15,760 You see, Your Excellency? 897 01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:17,080 It's incredible, isn't it? 898 01:11:17,280 --> 01:11:20,520 Please, do insist. Insist without fear. 899 01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:22,840 Would you like to try it? Hard! Hard! 900 01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:28,720 Here's the permit, Your Excellency. It just needs signing. Right. 901 01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:34,040 Just a little signature. 902 01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:38,360 Your Excellency can't sign it. 903 01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:41,800 He has no ink. 904 01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:43,400 He has no ink? 905 01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:52,000 - There is no ink. - In the whole building... 906 01:11:57,520 --> 01:11:59,640 They don't keep ink here. 907 01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:10,720 May I? 908 01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:41,800 Thank you. 909 01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:56,560 What a wonderful person Piotr Vassilich is. 910 01:15:57,000 --> 01:16:00,160 What a mind! That of a great statesman. 911 01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:03,080 And how clever he is in solving problems quickly! 912 01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:05,720 And with such farsightedness! 913 01:16:05,920 --> 01:16:07,200 Stop! 914 01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:13,600 Forgive me, my friend! 915 01:16:13,840 --> 01:16:14,920 Goodbye! 916 01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:59,160 Good morning. Excuse me, but the... 917 01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:45,360 Bread. It's a tradition. 918 01:17:48,640 --> 01:17:49,800 What? 919 01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:57,760 Well done! 920 01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:00,320 Well done! 921 01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:03,680 Welcome, Mr. Romano, to you who comes from so afar, 922 01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:06,920 with our sweet and pure hands we offer our bread to you 923 01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:10,040 and with all our heart we offer you these flowers too! 924 01:18:12,200 --> 01:18:13,840 For you, sir. 925 01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:33,560 If I were a poet... 926 01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:35,080 Thank you. 927 01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:38,320 ...I'd say to you in poetic form: 928 01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:43,920 Ancient Rome has turned its white head towards us. 929 01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:47,640 The Roman she-wolf has come 930 01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:52,600 to the forests of Sysoev! 931 01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:56,080 Hooray! 932 01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:01,560 I am not a poet, so I will say it in prose... 933 01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:05,840 Hooray for progress! 934 01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:09,680 For progress. 935 01:19:11,600 --> 01:19:19,040 Hooray for the factory! The creation of the civilized world! 936 01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:37,760 On behalf of the nobility of our town, 937 01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:39,840 allow me to bestow upon you, 938 01:19:40,040 --> 01:19:44,680 as the first foreigner to honour us with his presence, 939 01:19:44,800 --> 01:19:48,840 honorary citizenship of Sysoev! 940 01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:50,200 Thank you. 941 01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:14,760 Hey! Wait! Wait! 942 01:22:30,400 --> 01:22:32,080 HOTEL 943 01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:10,720 TOWN OF SYSOEV 944 01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:12,840 Wait, wait. 945 01:24:16,520 --> 01:24:19,200 You're awake! I was waiting for you. 946 01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:21,080 - For me? - I didn't want to disturb you. 947 01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:24,600 My name is Konstantin. Kosta for short! 948 01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:29,040 How nice to be able to speak! 949 01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:33,560 - They'll throw me out of here, now. - Who? 950 01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:34,920 I wanted to speak. 951 01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:41,680 Listen, I'm the local veterinary surgeon. 952 01:24:41,920 --> 01:24:44,000 I studied in Italy for two years, 953 01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:47,600 but that's of no importance. They'll throw me out of here, now, 954 01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:51,200 but I beg you, don't build your factory here. 955 01:24:51,360 --> 01:24:52,280 But I... 956 01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:55,720 I understand progress, prestige, increases in population... 957 01:24:55,840 --> 01:24:57,640 I'm not against all that. 958 01:24:57,760 --> 01:25:00,160 But in Krestovsky, there's clay and peat there! 959 01:25:00,440 --> 01:25:01,840 Try to understand. 960 01:25:02,400 --> 01:25:04,760 Steam engines require wood, don't they? 961 01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:07,040 What are we to do? Burn the whole of our... 962 01:25:08,160 --> 01:25:10,080 I'm coming! 963 01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:11,920 ...our little pinewood? 964 01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:14,720 The river... What will happen to our river? 965 01:25:15,360 --> 01:25:19,520 Catilina, how long will you go on trying our patience? 966 01:25:20,440 --> 01:25:28,000 Do you have to, Konstantin Stepanych? Why don't you leave people alone? 967 01:25:28,400 --> 01:25:30,600 You couldn't even leave our guest in peace. 968 01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:35,800 Use a little tact, for heaven's sake! There's a limit to our patience! 969 01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:41,760 You are not hospitable or even patriotic! 970 01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:47,320 Please, forgive us. It's our national misfortune. 971 01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:50,840 Our ideas, our projects... 972 01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:54,080 And we've come to get you. 973 01:25:54,200 --> 01:26:00,080 In a way, to escort you to our mayor. 974 01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:05,320 Your Excellency, a reception in your honour. 975 01:26:05,680 --> 01:26:06,920 We are ready. 976 01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:10,840 Stop it! My God! 977 01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:12,840 Send someone! 978 01:26:13,040 --> 01:26:15,600 Hey! Fix that fence! 979 01:26:17,040 --> 01:26:21,760 I can't believe it! Where's the servant? Come on! Yes! Nail it, dammit! 980 01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:24,200 He's never to set foot here again! 981 01:26:24,320 --> 01:26:28,760 Damn! He doesn't like the factory. No, he dislikes it for nature, woods, lakes. 982 01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:31,920 And this is a multi-million deal! Just look at that landscapist! 983 01:26:32,040 --> 01:26:33,720 Dammit! 984 01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:00,600 His Excellency says... 985 01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:02,920 No Russian. A little French. 986 01:27:03,040 --> 01:27:05,400 He doesn't speak a word of Russian. 987 01:27:06,080 --> 01:27:08,560 Everybody that comes here speaks it very well. 988 01:27:08,640 --> 01:27:12,080 - But him, not a word. - Leave, you're bothering me. 989 01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:15,080 I don't need you, go into the lounge. 990 01:27:15,280 --> 01:27:18,280 Please, follow me, before the guests arrive. 991 01:27:18,800 --> 01:27:23,160 Allow me to entertain you with the story of my life. 992 01:27:25,920 --> 01:27:26,920 Thank you. 993 01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:31,040 My uncle. 994 01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:36,600 Ah, uncle! 995 01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:39,400 It's me. Child. 996 01:27:42,440 --> 01:27:45,840 My costume. 997 01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:59,920 Life started... life ended... The distances... 998 01:28:00,280 --> 01:28:01,920 Ah, the theatre! 999 01:28:17,440 --> 01:28:18,840 Let's talk about business. 1000 01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:23,200 Forgive me, my dear man. My frankness makes me suffer. 1001 01:28:23,360 --> 01:28:25,440 What can I do? It's how I am. 1002 01:28:26,640 --> 01:28:31,440 For us idealists life is tough. Idealism is dated now. 1003 01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:38,320 - Now the rouble rules! - Oh, sorry. 1004 01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:39,920 - Rouble. - Rouble? 1005 01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:45,200 Yes, the catalyst of our century! 1006 01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:49,360 Now if it's not a crook or a drunkard like our sergeant... 1007 01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:50,520 It's me. 1008 01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:54,920 ...it's a madman like this Konstantin, 1009 01:28:55,400 --> 01:28:57,760 the one who bothered you earlier. 1010 01:28:57,840 --> 01:28:59,080 Konstantin. 1011 01:29:02,920 --> 01:29:04,840 It's me again. 1012 01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:12,680 Don't trust anyone, my friend. 1013 01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:15,000 That's advice from a friend to a newcomer. 1014 01:29:15,080 --> 01:29:16,920 The city isn't exactly small, 1015 01:29:17,080 --> 01:29:20,200 but there's only one honest person here. 1016 01:29:23,080 --> 01:29:24,200 This one. 1017 01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:33,160 What is it? What did I snag myself on? 1018 01:29:33,280 --> 01:29:34,200 What is it? 1019 01:29:35,360 --> 01:29:38,680 Oh, it's nothing. You just need a little... 1020 01:29:41,080 --> 01:29:46,000 Ah! In my wife's room. 1021 01:29:49,400 --> 01:29:50,640 My wife. 1022 01:29:52,320 --> 01:29:54,080 We have no children, but we have a dog. 1023 01:29:54,320 --> 01:29:56,400 Yes, in the room, wife... 1024 01:29:56,600 --> 01:30:00,200 One can warm one's soul with some animal warmth. 1025 01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:03,840 I understand you're looking for a financier. 1026 01:30:04,320 --> 01:30:06,000 You can talk to me. 1027 01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:13,680 Of course, I know I'm not the only one... 1028 01:30:14,920 --> 01:30:18,640 to be interested in this deal. 1029 01:30:53,080 --> 01:30:58,080 Night and day round and round and round... 1030 01:30:59,800 --> 01:31:01,400 Earth. 1031 01:31:02,680 --> 01:31:04,720 We're talking about a loan, right? 1032 01:31:07,080 --> 01:31:11,640 Out. Who gave you permission to enter when I have guests? 1033 01:31:11,840 --> 01:31:13,840 Get out, immediately! 1034 01:31:13,920 --> 01:31:17,200 How many times have I told you? 1035 01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:20,800 I'm sorry, Your Excellence! 1036 01:31:21,040 --> 01:31:24,040 Madam sent me to get her cup. 1037 01:31:24,160 --> 01:31:26,200 What cup? 1038 01:31:26,320 --> 01:31:28,640 You've been accidentally served some tea. 1039 01:31:28,800 --> 01:31:34,000 Take the cup and disappear! I've told you once, I'll say it again. 1040 01:31:34,080 --> 01:31:38,800 Do not enter my study. 1041 01:31:55,080 --> 01:31:57,920 Aren't you cute?! You're really a good little dog. 1042 01:31:58,080 --> 01:32:00,040 Come, come. 1043 01:32:06,080 --> 01:32:08,400 Ah, I knew you spoke Russian! 1044 01:32:10,200 --> 01:32:12,600 Bravo. Bravo. 1045 01:32:19,400 --> 01:32:23,160 Don't be afraid, he doesn't bite. 1046 01:32:25,760 --> 01:32:29,680 Tell Madam to come right away. 1047 01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:33,560 I would like to introduce you to my wife. 1048 01:32:35,520 --> 01:32:37,840 She'll be right here. 1049 01:33:11,640 --> 01:33:16,360 Madam apologises, but she can't come. The guests have arrived, they await you. 1050 01:33:16,440 --> 01:33:20,080 They've arrived, let's join them. Come with me. 1051 01:33:22,400 --> 01:33:24,840 This way, please. 1052 01:33:31,800 --> 01:33:34,680 Please, this way. 1053 01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:37,080 Long live Italy! 1054 01:33:37,920 --> 01:33:39,560 Were you sleeping again?! 1055 01:33:53,280 --> 01:33:54,640 Take the dog. 1056 01:33:55,440 --> 01:33:57,400 What are you doing here? Leave! 1057 01:33:59,200 --> 01:34:03,000 Gentlemen, I'd like to propose a toast 1058 01:34:03,080 --> 01:34:08,840 to the first foreigner to ever visit our town of Sysoev! 1059 01:34:17,000 --> 01:34:18,440 Madam... 1060 01:34:19,080 --> 01:34:20,440 What's going on? 1061 01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:23,280 Why are you using a tray? 1062 01:34:23,560 --> 01:34:26,400 Do we want to show everyone I treat you like a maid? 1063 01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:33,080 No, no, absolutely not, Modest Petrovich. I have a headache. Forgive me. 1064 01:34:42,400 --> 01:34:45,920 Do forgive me, Modest Petrovich. 1065 01:34:51,320 --> 01:34:54,000 Please, do forgive me. 1066 01:34:57,680 --> 01:35:01,080 It does justice to your modesty to turn pale like Natasha Rostova 1067 01:35:01,200 --> 01:35:05,760 in the presence of a stranger and scurry off like a shy young girl, 1068 01:35:05,840 --> 01:35:07,400 but try to understand 1069 01:35:07,600 --> 01:35:11,840 that this gentleman's visit is extremely important to me! 1070 01:35:11,920 --> 01:35:13,680 I beg you, Modest Petrovich! 1071 01:35:14,600 --> 01:35:18,320 Let me go now, please. 1072 01:35:18,400 --> 01:35:21,200 I'll do everything I have to, but later, later. 1073 01:35:21,360 --> 01:35:24,320 Now, I'm going to my room. I have a headache... 1074 01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:47,640 Oh my God! 1075 01:35:58,200 --> 01:35:59,520 Anna? 1076 01:36:02,160 --> 01:36:03,400 Anna... 1077 01:36:04,040 --> 01:36:05,000 Anna! 1078 01:36:05,360 --> 01:36:08,800 Listen to my lament and lend an ear, Almighty Mother of my God. 1079 01:36:08,920 --> 01:36:12,200 Do not spurn this sinner who is begging for Your help. 1080 01:36:13,200 --> 01:36:14,400 Anna... 1081 01:36:27,840 --> 01:36:32,000 Illuminate me and show me the way, Queen of Heaven. 1082 01:36:32,080 --> 01:36:35,000 Do not abandon Your humble servant. 1083 01:36:41,920 --> 01:36:43,160 Anna! 1084 01:36:44,040 --> 01:36:45,160 Anna! 1085 01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:49,000 Anna! Wait for me! 1086 01:36:49,400 --> 01:36:52,200 Anna! Stop and listen to me! 1087 01:36:52,320 --> 01:36:53,680 Let me have my say! 1088 01:36:53,840 --> 01:36:57,280 Anna. Anna. You mustn't be afraid. Listen! 1089 01:36:58,800 --> 01:37:00,400 No, no, no! 1090 01:37:02,200 --> 01:37:03,320 Anna! 1091 01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:06,360 Anna! 1092 01:37:06,440 --> 01:37:07,840 You mustn't! You mustn't! 1093 01:37:08,320 --> 01:37:09,920 Wait! Stop! 1094 01:37:11,280 --> 01:37:16,160 Anna, wait! Anna, stop! Anna! 1095 01:37:16,280 --> 01:37:18,040 No, no. 1096 01:37:19,680 --> 01:37:21,280 Do you realize how far I've come? 1097 01:37:21,400 --> 01:37:23,680 - Why did you come? Why? - What do you mean? 1098 01:37:24,200 --> 01:37:27,200 You must hear me out. You wrote me a love letter! 1099 01:37:27,360 --> 01:37:30,680 - Now I want to know. - Why did you come? Why? 1100 01:37:33,080 --> 01:37:34,520 Why did you come? 1101 01:38:04,640 --> 01:38:06,800 I can't live without you. 1102 01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:17,200 Neither can I. 1103 01:38:52,080 --> 01:38:54,200 Everything's simple now. 1104 01:38:54,440 --> 01:38:56,400 You love me as I love you 1105 01:38:56,800 --> 01:38:59,200 and we'll live happily together, Anna. 1106 01:38:59,360 --> 01:39:03,440 I'll leave everything, but without lying or deceiving anyone. 1107 01:39:03,600 --> 01:39:07,080 You'll tell your husband everything and I'll talk to my wife. 1108 01:39:07,280 --> 01:39:08,600 She'll understand. 1109 01:39:08,920 --> 01:39:12,160 I'll go back, sort everything out and then return. Anna! 1110 01:39:12,640 --> 01:39:14,520 That's what you want, isn't it? 1111 01:39:15,280 --> 01:39:20,520 But will you wait for me? Tell me you'll wait for me! Promise! 1112 01:39:25,040 --> 01:39:26,040 Yes. 1113 01:41:06,640 --> 01:41:08,800 Maybe you didn't see me. 1114 01:41:09,800 --> 01:41:11,520 - Konstantin! - Yes, yes. 1115 01:41:11,800 --> 01:41:14,000 I've come back to apologize 1116 01:41:14,080 --> 01:41:16,920 for this morning's visit. - There's no need... 1117 01:41:17,920 --> 01:41:20,920 - I talked a lot of nonsense. - No! 1118 01:41:21,040 --> 01:41:24,200 And I probably succeeded only in putting you in a bad mood. 1119 01:41:24,720 --> 01:41:27,600 - You didn't... - Don't think that I'm mad. 1120 01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:30,320 I'm not against your factory, really. 1121 01:41:30,720 --> 01:41:33,720 In Krestovsky. 1122 01:41:34,200 --> 01:41:36,080 Yes, that's a suitable place. 1123 01:41:36,720 --> 01:41:41,520 But here... not here. It can't be here. 1124 01:41:46,520 --> 01:41:47,840 Costantino, 1125 01:41:49,560 --> 01:41:50,920 that was just an excuse. 1126 01:41:57,080 --> 01:42:01,840 I came here to find a woman. 1127 01:42:06,440 --> 01:42:07,840 Did you find her? 1128 01:42:08,440 --> 01:42:11,000 Yes, yes, I did! 1129 01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:15,680 I found her. And I'm so... 1130 01:42:17,600 --> 01:42:18,640 Yes? 1131 01:42:21,360 --> 01:42:25,400 I must go now. I'm in a hurry! Sorry, I have to leave. 1132 01:42:26,800 --> 01:42:27,800 Sorry... 1133 01:42:28,520 --> 01:42:30,200 My daughter's in there asleep. 1134 01:42:30,360 --> 01:42:33,040 I'm alone and sometimes I don't know who to leave her with, 1135 01:42:33,080 --> 01:42:34,680 so I have to bring her with me. 1136 01:42:34,800 --> 01:42:37,000 We've been waiting long, and she fell asleep. Sorry. 1137 01:42:37,160 --> 01:42:38,800 You did the right thing. 1138 01:42:39,080 --> 01:42:41,400 You were right to do so and I'm pleased. 1139 01:42:41,520 --> 01:42:44,440 You know, I had a daughter once. 1140 01:42:44,800 --> 01:42:48,280 I mean, I still have her, but she's grown up now. 1141 01:42:48,400 --> 01:42:50,760 - What's her name? - Olia. 1142 01:42:50,840 --> 01:42:53,200 That's a nice name. 1143 01:42:53,720 --> 01:42:56,520 Now, I must finish packing. I have to leave. 1144 01:42:56,640 --> 01:42:59,200 How are you planning to depart at night? 1145 01:42:59,400 --> 01:43:01,160 The first train leaves in the morning. 1146 01:43:01,280 --> 01:43:03,400 I'll manage somehow. I must hurry to Rome, 1147 01:43:03,560 --> 01:43:05,400 I have important decisions to take. 1148 01:43:05,520 --> 01:43:07,400 And I'll be back sooner than you think. 1149 01:43:07,840 --> 01:43:11,000 There is a train, but at 40 versts from here. How can you catch it? 1150 01:43:16,440 --> 01:43:18,760 You don't know what Romano's like. 1151 01:43:28,720 --> 01:43:30,840 Wait, Romano. 1152 01:43:31,320 --> 01:43:35,000 Romano! Wait, Romano! 1153 01:43:37,320 --> 01:43:40,840 You were willing to walk there! 1154 01:43:44,320 --> 01:43:46,080 It's 40 versts from here! 1155 01:43:46,200 --> 01:43:50,080 Thank goodness, this kind man is willing to take us. 1156 01:43:53,320 --> 01:43:55,400 How do you do? I'm Romano Patroni. 1157 01:43:58,200 --> 01:44:00,200 How do you do? I'm Romano Patroni. 1158 01:44:04,400 --> 01:44:07,040 They all take me for a madman here. Did you notice? 1159 01:44:07,080 --> 01:44:09,560 - That's not true! - It is, and don't say otherwise! 1160 01:44:09,680 --> 01:44:12,840 Try to understand, I'm not against factories, 1161 01:44:12,920 --> 01:44:14,280 but they can't be built here. 1162 01:44:14,400 --> 01:44:17,040 If the trees are all burned to make the machinery work, 1163 01:44:17,200 --> 01:44:20,200 and the river dries up, it will be the end of us, our death. 1164 01:44:20,320 --> 01:44:23,560 They take me for a madman, but I don't feel offended. 1165 01:44:23,800 --> 01:44:25,280 They're decent people, 1166 01:44:25,360 --> 01:44:29,080 very fine people who only want to do what's best. 1167 01:44:29,440 --> 01:44:33,840 But like children, they grab whatever is at hand, 1168 01:44:33,920 --> 01:44:39,080 put it in their mouths and chew up everything around them. 1169 01:44:47,400 --> 01:44:49,040 What's happening? 1170 01:44:54,160 --> 01:44:55,400 We're sinking. 1171 01:44:57,520 --> 01:45:00,000 Everybody wants a benefit for themselves, 1172 01:45:00,080 --> 01:45:03,320 something solid, now. Come on! 1173 01:45:03,440 --> 01:45:07,720 No, no! May I be of any help to you? 1174 01:45:08,320 --> 01:45:10,000 I'm sorry. 1175 01:45:10,560 --> 01:45:13,840 What will this benefit do for us, no one knows 1176 01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:16,560 and no one wants to know. - Right! 1177 01:45:17,560 --> 01:45:20,560 I can't swim, you know. 1178 01:45:20,680 --> 01:45:22,680 - It's shallow here. - Thank goodness. 1179 01:45:22,800 --> 01:45:24,400 It was deeper, once. 1180 01:45:24,920 --> 01:45:27,040 Before the dam was built. 1181 01:45:27,720 --> 01:45:29,840 There used to be a lot of fish in it. 1182 01:45:30,040 --> 01:45:31,080 Right! 1183 01:45:31,640 --> 01:45:34,040 There was a lot of fish here, in the past! 1184 01:45:34,280 --> 01:45:37,920 Yes, everything's disappearing: fish, birds... 1185 01:45:38,080 --> 01:45:39,800 tomatoes, everything. 1186 01:45:45,840 --> 01:45:49,920 Your home... isn't only a building behind a fence. 1187 01:45:50,200 --> 01:45:51,720 Your home is everywhere. 1188 01:45:51,840 --> 01:45:55,800 Even in this river, this wood, this stream. 1189 01:45:55,920 --> 01:45:57,440 It's everywhere. 1190 01:45:59,360 --> 01:46:02,040 And everything must be nice, like it was in the past. 1191 01:46:07,520 --> 01:46:10,040 Beauty is the power of matter. 1192 01:46:10,160 --> 01:46:12,400 This way, this way! Here! Stop, stop. 1193 01:46:14,400 --> 01:46:18,080 That's it. Fine! Very good, well done! 1194 01:46:18,680 --> 01:46:20,000 So, were yo scared? 1195 01:46:21,720 --> 01:46:23,000 Let's go! 1196 01:46:37,400 --> 01:46:41,200 When I was little, I never wanted to go to bed. 1197 01:46:41,840 --> 01:46:44,640 I thought that as soon as I fell asleep 1198 01:46:44,840 --> 01:46:46,800 the best part would start. 1199 01:46:47,080 --> 01:46:49,600 So my mother sang me a lullaby 1200 01:46:49,800 --> 01:46:52,840 and I blocked my ears with my fingers not to hear it, 1201 01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:54,840 for fear of dropping off. 1202 01:46:56,480 --> 01:47:00,160 I ended up falling asleep with my fingers in my ears. 1203 01:47:05,840 --> 01:47:11,840 Go to sleep, go to sleep, Mama's lovely little boy. 1204 01:47:13,400 --> 01:47:19,200 Go to sleep, my handsome child, while I sing you this lullaby. 1205 01:47:19,720 --> 01:47:25,760 Sleep now... Sleep now... 1206 01:47:26,040 --> 01:47:34,800 Go to sleep, go to sleep, Mama's lovely little boy 1207 01:47:35,240 --> 01:47:42,120 Sleep now... Sleep now... 1208 01:47:43,040 --> 01:47:52,440 Go to sleep, go to sleep, with this son, we're more peaceful 1209 01:47:52,760 --> 01:48:02,360 Go to sleep, go to sleep, Mama's lovely little boy 1210 01:48:02,560 --> 01:48:09,360 Sleep now... Sleep now... 1211 01:48:10,280 --> 01:48:13,880 We rode smoothly across that soggy land, 1212 01:48:14,000 --> 01:48:17,880 accompanied by the clanking of a bucket hanging from the carriage. 1213 01:48:19,200 --> 01:48:24,080 In my dreams, I saw my mother and heard her voice. 1214 01:48:24,920 --> 01:48:28,960 And for the first time in many, many years 1215 01:48:29,520 --> 01:48:32,800 I didn't feel the weight of my conscience. 1216 01:49:04,440 --> 01:49:07,840 Hey, you gypsies! It's me! 1217 01:49:08,360 --> 01:49:11,920 Remember me? Romano! Romano! 1218 01:49:12,160 --> 01:49:13,400 Gypsies! 1219 01:49:15,440 --> 01:49:18,080 I'm off but will soon be back! 1220 01:49:18,520 --> 01:49:23,280 I'll be back soon! Wait for me! Gypsies! 1221 01:49:43,600 --> 01:49:46,840 I'll be back soon! 1222 01:49:47,440 --> 01:49:49,920 Wait for me! 1223 01:49:55,280 --> 01:49:57,920 So? What happened then? 1224 01:49:58,080 --> 01:49:59,640 Well, then... 1225 01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:04,360 I travelled by train, by carriage, on horseback, and then again... 1226 01:50:04,520 --> 01:50:06,200 - Would you like one? - No, thanks. 1227 01:50:06,360 --> 01:50:09,920 ...on horseback. I was in a hurry, I wanted to get there quickly. 1228 01:50:10,080 --> 01:50:13,200 I had a new life ahead of me, an untainted one, 1229 01:50:13,320 --> 01:50:17,000 without... lies, or hypocrisy. 1230 01:50:18,400 --> 01:50:22,400 And it was like the past had never happened, do you understand? 1231 01:50:22,640 --> 01:50:24,520 At least that's what I thought. 1232 01:50:29,400 --> 01:50:31,040 - Good morning. - Good morning. 1233 01:50:31,080 --> 01:50:33,080 Careful not to scratch the wardrobe. 1234 01:50:45,080 --> 01:50:47,760 These chairs go here. Separate them from the others. 1235 01:50:47,840 --> 01:50:50,600 - Fernando! - Welcome, Mr. Patroni. 1236 01:50:50,720 --> 01:50:52,400 - What's going on? - Mr. Patroni... 1237 01:50:52,560 --> 01:50:54,080 - Where's my wife? - She's upstairs. 1238 01:50:54,280 --> 01:50:55,720 Madam Tina is with her. 1239 01:50:58,920 --> 01:51:01,600 But... what's going on? 1240 01:51:13,160 --> 01:51:16,080 - Three chairs are missing. - Yes, they're in the corridor. 1241 01:51:16,200 --> 01:51:19,640 - I'll bring them right away. - You're sure nobody took them? 1242 01:51:19,760 --> 01:51:24,160 Romano! You're back, at last! I'm so happy! 1243 01:51:24,520 --> 01:51:27,840 - What a pity Elisa isn't here. - Elisa? What's happened? 1244 01:51:28,000 --> 01:51:31,560 Nothing. She's with the solicitor, everything's fine. 1245 01:51:31,720 --> 01:51:34,800 But they're taking the furniture away. Are we moving? 1246 01:51:34,920 --> 01:51:38,160 - Oh goodness me! Don't you know? - Know about what? 1247 01:51:38,280 --> 01:51:42,200 Your bank manager ran away. It's been a real catastrophe. 1248 01:51:42,360 --> 01:51:44,160 - All the customers... - Excuse me... 1249 01:51:44,280 --> 01:51:47,000 Do you mind waiting a moment? I'll be right with you. 1250 01:51:47,080 --> 01:51:50,040 All the customers, in a frenzy, chose to close their accounts. 1251 01:51:50,160 --> 01:51:52,760 Basically it was an impossible emergency to deal with. 1252 01:51:52,840 --> 01:51:56,800 - Excuse me, please... - Please, stop interrupting! 1253 01:51:56,920 --> 01:52:00,160 - Who are you? Why are you here? - Romano, calm down. One moment. 1254 01:52:00,360 --> 01:52:02,840 You need to understand. He's just arrived. 1255 01:52:03,000 --> 01:52:05,160 He knows nothing, he's the owner of the house and... 1256 01:52:05,280 --> 01:52:07,200 - He's no longer the owner. - Ah, yes... 1257 01:52:07,360 --> 01:52:08,280 Romano! 1258 01:52:09,400 --> 01:52:12,200 - This man is the bailiff. - The bailiff? 1259 01:52:12,360 --> 01:52:14,440 Yes, but don't worry, leave everything to me. 1260 01:52:14,600 --> 01:52:15,800 I'll get rid of him. 1261 01:52:15,920 --> 01:52:19,080 Listen, Elisa has decided to sell everything right away, 1262 01:52:19,200 --> 01:52:22,600 including the furniture and the apartment. She did a great job. 1263 01:52:23,720 --> 01:52:26,720 - She didn't lose heart at all. - Three chairs are missing. 1264 01:52:26,840 --> 01:52:30,080 Listen, Romano, Manlio and Tina are next door. 1265 01:52:30,360 --> 01:52:33,080 They're here to help Elisa. Go and see them, please. 1266 01:52:33,200 --> 01:52:35,560 - Three chairs are missing. - I'll be right with you. 1267 01:52:35,680 --> 01:52:38,760 - I said three chairs are missing. - All right, please be patient. 1268 01:52:38,920 --> 01:52:41,400 I'm sure we'll find these blessed chairs. 1269 01:52:41,600 --> 01:52:43,560 Just be patient! 1270 01:53:26,160 --> 01:53:27,400 Where is he?! 1271 01:53:27,920 --> 01:53:30,840 Where's that financial genius? 1272 01:53:31,720 --> 01:53:34,920 - Where is he hiding? - Oh Romano, what's come over you? 1273 01:53:35,040 --> 01:53:38,000 - Where is he? - What are you looking for? 1274 01:53:38,760 --> 01:53:42,440 The lawyer, Domenico. The saviour of this house and family. 1275 01:53:43,160 --> 01:53:45,160 Instead of fooling around with Elisa 1276 01:53:45,280 --> 01:53:47,680 he should've dealt with our... their business, 1277 01:53:47,840 --> 01:53:51,080 so we wouldn't be in this situation! - Dear daddy! 1278 01:53:51,280 --> 01:53:54,920 - Darling daughter! Don't be silly, stop it! - Hey, what's the matter? 1279 01:53:55,040 --> 01:53:57,720 You've just arrived and already you're shouting like a madman? 1280 01:53:57,840 --> 01:53:59,760 We've been clearing the house for three days now! 1281 01:53:59,920 --> 01:54:03,200 Do you realise what we're going through? 1282 01:54:03,280 --> 01:54:07,920 - Calm down. Go next door. - Have you thought about mother, daddy? 1283 01:54:08,040 --> 01:54:11,280 How dare you use that tone with your father! 1284 01:54:11,400 --> 01:54:16,440 - I do dare! - Did your mother teach you that? 1285 01:54:16,640 --> 01:54:19,320 She should show her father respect! 1286 01:54:19,400 --> 01:54:22,200 - It's always the same old story! - This is unbelievable. 1287 01:54:22,400 --> 01:54:25,400 That's right, you said it. It's totally unbelievable. 1288 01:54:25,680 --> 01:54:27,040 Oh, for heaven's sake! 1289 01:54:27,200 --> 01:54:30,080 Listen to me, Romano, you know how things stand. 1290 01:54:30,280 --> 01:54:32,680 Unlike the others, I know why you went to Russia. 1291 01:54:32,800 --> 01:54:35,080 So calm down and let's stop playing games. 1292 01:54:35,200 --> 01:54:38,720 My God! Even though she's not well, Elisa hasn't lost heart. 1293 01:54:38,840 --> 01:54:41,640 But unfortunately, to pay off all creditors, 1294 01:54:41,800 --> 01:54:44,080 she's selling the house and furniture. 1295 01:54:44,280 --> 01:54:45,920 Manlio and I are writing up the inventory 1296 01:54:46,080 --> 01:54:49,440 and she's showing the house to potential buyers, but it's a disaster. 1297 01:54:49,680 --> 01:54:53,440 How could she trust that lawyer wholeheartedly? 1298 01:54:55,160 --> 01:54:56,360 She should have... 1299 01:54:57,080 --> 01:54:58,920 Why are you looking at me like that? 1300 01:55:00,360 --> 01:55:01,800 You're a true friend. 1301 01:55:04,760 --> 01:55:05,800 What's the matter? 1302 01:55:09,400 --> 01:55:10,520 I'll miss you. 1303 01:55:18,080 --> 01:55:21,720 - Do you know what "sobachka" means? - No, what does it mean? 1304 01:55:24,720 --> 01:55:27,800 - Excuse me, I... - We'll continue later. 1305 01:55:37,000 --> 01:55:39,200 I think I'll give you a big surprise today. 1306 01:55:46,080 --> 01:55:48,400 - Good morning, Romano. - Oh, Manlio! 1307 01:55:49,280 --> 01:55:50,920 - I need to talk to you. - Yes. 1308 01:55:51,080 --> 01:55:53,760 - Wait, I'm talking to him. - No! 1309 01:55:53,840 --> 01:55:57,280 I need to speak to him now. Right away, Tina. 1310 01:56:08,600 --> 01:56:09,720 Tina. 1311 01:56:18,080 --> 01:56:21,080 - Go ahead, Manlio. - Listen, Romano... 1312 01:56:23,200 --> 01:56:27,200 I helped you to go to Russia and I cannot forgive myself. 1313 01:56:28,360 --> 01:56:30,560 You know, I'm unable to lie. 1314 01:56:31,520 --> 01:56:33,920 And anyway, I don't like doing it. 1315 01:56:34,600 --> 01:56:40,040 Don't ever ask me to do such favours for you again, please. 1316 01:56:40,200 --> 01:56:42,400 Wait, Manlio. 1317 01:56:44,280 --> 01:56:47,200 You can't imagine, you saved me. 1318 01:56:48,800 --> 01:56:51,560 Don't worry, I don't need to lie anymore. 1319 01:56:51,680 --> 01:56:54,440 - But... - You'll find out the truth today. 1320 01:56:55,400 --> 01:56:57,200 So will Elisa 1321 01:56:58,320 --> 01:57:02,080 and she too will find her path, just as I have found mine. 1322 01:57:04,200 --> 01:57:05,800 You'll see. 1323 01:57:17,400 --> 01:57:20,520 This is a valuable billiard table. French, genuine. 1324 01:57:20,640 --> 01:57:22,920 I'm willing to leave it, if you're interested in it. 1325 01:57:23,080 --> 01:57:24,040 It's nice. Nino? 1326 01:57:24,200 --> 01:57:25,920 This is the room we use for music 1327 01:57:26,080 --> 01:57:29,360 and here we've a very fine piano I'm thinking of leaving. 1328 01:57:29,920 --> 01:57:32,080 - I saw it first! - That's not true! 1329 01:57:32,200 --> 01:57:34,600 It could be useful for the children. 1330 01:57:37,280 --> 01:57:39,040 Children, be quiet, please! 1331 01:57:40,360 --> 01:57:41,400 Elisa! 1332 01:57:43,400 --> 01:57:44,600 Romano! 1333 01:57:46,440 --> 01:57:48,640 These people are here to look over the house. 1334 01:57:48,800 --> 01:57:50,760 They'd like to buy it. 1335 01:57:53,040 --> 01:57:54,080 Good morning. 1336 01:57:54,200 --> 01:57:57,080 - May I take a look? - Of course. 1337 01:57:58,680 --> 01:58:00,080 - Morning. - Good morning. 1338 01:58:00,200 --> 01:58:02,920 Nino, are you coming? The bedrooms must be here. 1339 01:58:03,040 --> 01:58:04,720 - Good morning. - Good morning. 1340 01:58:04,840 --> 01:58:06,840 Ida! Ida! 1341 01:58:11,400 --> 01:58:13,800 What you wanted 30 years ago: 1342 01:58:13,920 --> 01:58:17,400 no house or money. Just you and me. 1343 01:58:19,160 --> 01:58:20,840 - How are you? - Fine. 1344 01:58:29,720 --> 01:58:32,600 - What was your trip like? - Sorry? 1345 01:58:32,720 --> 01:58:35,840 - Was your trip interesting? - Oh yes, very interesting. 1346 01:58:35,920 --> 01:58:38,760 - And it was cold, wasn't it? - No, not at all. 1347 01:58:39,600 --> 01:58:40,640 Sorry. 1348 01:58:43,920 --> 01:58:47,360 - What did you go to Russia for? - Sorry? 1349 01:58:51,440 --> 01:58:56,400 I found this while tidying up your things. 1350 01:59:00,280 --> 01:59:03,440 - Did you read it? - Of course not. It's in Russian. 1351 01:59:06,320 --> 01:59:07,800 It's scented. 1352 01:59:10,320 --> 01:59:12,320 I don't know, I don't remember... 1353 01:59:12,520 --> 01:59:16,840 Perhaps it's the one about the "technical" features of the glass. 1354 01:59:23,040 --> 01:59:25,200 - Romano? - Yes? 1355 01:59:25,800 --> 01:59:27,840 Why did you keep this letter? 1356 01:59:27,920 --> 01:59:32,080 Elisa, I didn't keep it! It just got left there. 1357 01:59:32,200 --> 01:59:34,400 Other times, you threw letters away... 1358 01:59:34,840 --> 01:59:39,440 What kind of a question is this? If there were an answer... 1359 01:59:41,720 --> 01:59:44,800 Children! What's going on? 1360 01:59:45,040 --> 01:59:46,920 What's all this noise? What's happening? 1361 01:59:47,080 --> 01:59:49,600 Shall we buy the puppies on the first floor, too? 1362 01:59:49,760 --> 01:59:51,680 - Let's ask Daddy. - No, ask Mummy. 1363 01:59:51,800 --> 01:59:53,160 The best thing is asking Daddy. 1364 01:59:53,280 --> 01:59:55,040 - Children? - Here's Mummy. 1365 01:59:55,160 --> 01:59:58,600 - Yes, Mummy! - Tell her I'm coming right away. 1366 01:59:58,760 --> 02:00:00,520 Let's go and visit these puppies. 1367 02:00:00,680 --> 02:00:03,200 But first of all, don't give them anything to eat, 1368 02:00:03,280 --> 02:00:04,920 it might be harmful to them. 1369 02:00:05,040 --> 02:00:07,760 I'm coming. Behave nicely and... 1370 02:00:10,400 --> 02:00:11,840 Romano... 1371 02:00:18,400 --> 02:00:21,400 For once in your life tell me the truth. 1372 02:00:22,200 --> 02:00:26,000 Exactly what do you want to know? 1373 02:00:26,200 --> 02:00:28,400 - The truth. - Which truth? 1374 02:00:30,800 --> 02:00:32,000 All of it. 1375 02:00:35,560 --> 02:00:36,400 Very well. 1376 02:00:37,160 --> 02:00:41,200 You won't regret it, afterwards? Do you want to know everything? 1377 02:00:42,440 --> 02:00:46,400 Fine, but you have to swear you'll never ask me anything again! 1378 02:00:46,520 --> 02:00:47,560 All right? 1379 02:00:49,680 --> 02:00:51,720 - Yes. - Swear to it! 1380 02:00:55,680 --> 02:00:57,360 If I swear to it, 1381 02:00:58,080 --> 02:01:00,360 will you then tell me the truth? 1382 02:01:01,760 --> 02:01:04,200 - Yes. - I swear. 1383 02:01:05,760 --> 02:01:07,720 What do you want to know? 1384 02:01:14,600 --> 02:01:17,680 Are you in love with some woman in Russia? 1385 02:01:46,560 --> 02:01:48,360 No. Never happened to me. 1386 02:02:08,240 --> 02:02:11,760 Forgive me, darling, but I'm so tired! 1387 02:02:11,840 --> 02:02:14,920 Things have been difficult and I missed you so much. 1388 02:02:15,160 --> 02:02:17,640 I missed you terribly, dear. 1389 02:02:19,680 --> 02:02:22,440 - What's that? - A Russian record. 1390 02:02:22,600 --> 02:02:24,880 Oh, interesting! 1391 02:03:10,160 --> 02:03:13,800 And then? What happened? 1392 02:03:14,560 --> 02:03:16,480 Then... 1393 02:03:18,400 --> 02:03:21,760 Naturally, I never went back to Russia. 1394 02:03:22,400 --> 02:03:24,520 I returned to my old self. 1395 02:03:24,840 --> 02:03:27,840 Little by little, my wife's affairs improved. 1396 02:03:28,760 --> 02:03:31,320 She even received an inheritance from an uncle in America 1397 02:03:31,400 --> 02:03:33,440 she didn't even know she had. 1398 02:03:33,600 --> 02:03:37,800 She got back her house, her furniture, her money and I... 1399 02:03:37,920 --> 02:03:39,520 Now, I'm here. 1400 02:03:41,400 --> 02:03:42,400 What about her? 1401 02:03:43,040 --> 02:03:44,280 Who? 1402 02:03:44,920 --> 02:03:48,040 Her, the other woman. The Russian. 1403 02:03:48,280 --> 02:03:52,360 She loved you and was waiting for you. Maybe she's still waiting. 1404 02:03:52,840 --> 02:03:57,640 But it's been eight years! Her little dog must be dead by now. 1405 02:03:57,920 --> 02:04:00,280 In any case, 1406 02:04:01,520 --> 02:04:03,720 what actually happened between us? 1407 02:04:03,800 --> 02:04:06,640 If something happened, what was it? 1408 02:04:08,080 --> 02:04:09,520 No one will ever know. 1409 02:04:10,040 --> 02:04:13,520 I mean, heavens, who remembers people from the past? 1410 02:04:14,040 --> 02:04:19,560 You just have to think like this to have a quiet, peaceful life. 1411 02:04:21,800 --> 02:04:25,640 You're free to think what you like about yourself, it's your right, 1412 02:04:26,600 --> 02:04:29,080 but it's not the same for everyone. 1413 02:04:29,680 --> 02:04:32,040 My dear fellow, open your eyes! 1414 02:04:32,200 --> 02:04:34,280 Open your eyes, look around you! 1415 02:04:34,400 --> 02:04:36,400 This is the 20th century! 1416 02:04:36,600 --> 02:04:39,840 Who bothers about other people? Who waits for someone? 1417 02:04:40,000 --> 02:04:41,640 Nowadays, I mean? 1418 02:04:42,200 --> 02:04:44,520 I do! I do! 1419 02:04:46,000 --> 02:04:48,360 I'm an insignificant person, a nobody, 1420 02:04:48,520 --> 02:04:50,200 one who counts for nothing. 1421 02:04:50,800 --> 02:04:53,840 But I want to say something else. 1422 02:04:54,200 --> 02:04:56,560 I've known my wife since we were children. 1423 02:04:56,680 --> 02:05:00,400 I mean, she was a child. I'm considerably older than her. 1424 02:05:00,520 --> 02:05:03,800 She moved away with her parents and got married. 1425 02:05:03,920 --> 02:05:07,400 The marriage didn't work out. The same old story, you know. 1426 02:05:09,200 --> 02:05:11,920 Seven years ago she came to Moscow. 1427 02:05:12,160 --> 02:05:15,200 She was living with an aunt and the situation was grim: 1428 02:05:15,320 --> 02:05:18,040 problems in the family, financial hardship... 1429 02:05:18,160 --> 02:05:23,040 I never asked her anything and she never told me anything. 1430 02:05:24,360 --> 02:05:27,680 In a word, I fell in love with her. 1431 02:05:27,800 --> 02:05:29,920 I completely lost my head. 1432 02:05:30,680 --> 02:05:34,080 I waited outside her house day and night, like a high school boy! 1433 02:05:34,200 --> 02:05:36,920 I brought her flowers, I was jealous... 1434 02:05:37,080 --> 02:05:40,320 I feel ashamed when I remember what I did! 1435 02:05:44,040 --> 02:05:48,200 But a major factor was 1436 02:05:50,000 --> 02:05:53,160 that she didn't love me. 1437 02:05:54,400 --> 02:05:57,080 She'd never loved me! 1438 02:05:57,840 --> 02:06:00,400 And even when she attempted suicide, 1439 02:06:00,560 --> 02:06:03,040 when I saved her in the nick of time, 1440 02:06:03,200 --> 02:06:05,320 she was unconscious for five days, 1441 02:06:05,400 --> 02:06:08,360 I saved her, but even then she said... 1442 02:06:08,520 --> 02:06:11,680 She cried and cried, she kissed my hands, 1443 02:06:11,920 --> 02:06:14,720 but she had absolutely no interest in marrying me. 1444 02:06:15,000 --> 02:06:18,520 So I started drinking heavily, but that's another matter. 1445 02:06:18,640 --> 02:06:22,080 In seven years, eight proposals of marriage 1446 02:06:22,320 --> 02:06:24,320 and she turned them all down. 1447 02:06:27,080 --> 02:06:32,400 The ninth time, when I was stupefied by my love for her, 1448 02:06:33,640 --> 02:06:35,840 I threw myself at her feet, 1449 02:06:36,000 --> 02:06:40,280 she knelt beside me 1450 02:06:43,800 --> 02:06:48,920 and she kissed me on the forehead saying: 1451 02:06:49,520 --> 02:06:53,160 "I don't love you, but I'll always be true to you". 1452 02:06:53,840 --> 02:06:57,080 And she accepted my proposal. 1453 02:06:57,440 --> 02:07:03,040 And I accepted that humiliating condition enthusiastically. 1454 02:07:03,320 --> 02:07:05,400 Enthusiastically, you understand? 1455 02:07:05,520 --> 02:07:09,280 Because I'm worthless, a coward, as I already told you. 1456 02:07:09,920 --> 02:07:15,160 Nothing to make me be loved, but nothing is ever lost. 1457 02:07:16,000 --> 02:07:18,440 Not one day, not one gesture. 1458 02:07:19,560 --> 02:07:22,320 Everything stays with us until we go to our grave. 1459 02:07:22,440 --> 02:07:24,760 And probably even beyond. 1460 02:07:24,840 --> 02:07:29,200 This ship will rot, this sea will dry up, 1461 02:07:29,920 --> 02:07:33,440 but the good we've done, the harm we've caused 1462 02:07:33,640 --> 02:07:38,600 will always remain somewhere. 1463 02:07:46,040 --> 02:07:49,920 I've lived every day as if it were a trial run. 1464 02:07:50,720 --> 02:07:52,080 A rehearsal, 1465 02:07:52,200 --> 02:07:54,600 telling myself and others: 1466 02:07:55,760 --> 02:07:59,200 "It's just provisional, it's a trial". 1467 02:07:59,680 --> 02:08:03,200 "Life, real life, will come later". 1468 02:08:05,280 --> 02:08:07,560 And later, there was nothing. 1469 02:08:11,840 --> 02:08:16,760 It was like a sort of joke, a game, like something unreal. 1470 02:08:22,080 --> 02:08:23,280 I... 1471 02:08:28,560 --> 02:08:33,160 I've had everything and nothing. 1472 02:08:34,440 --> 02:08:37,600 Not a real home, nor a real family. 1473 02:08:39,400 --> 02:08:41,640 Not even my daughter who is... 1474 02:08:42,080 --> 02:08:44,080 the spitting image of me. 1475 02:08:46,920 --> 02:08:49,080 I don't remember anything. 1476 02:08:50,200 --> 02:08:53,640 If I died this instant and the Good Lord asked me: 1477 02:08:53,800 --> 02:08:58,080 "Romano, what do you remember of your life?"... 1478 02:09:02,840 --> 02:09:06,400 The lullaby my mother sang me when I was little. 1479 02:09:10,200 --> 02:09:13,680 Elisa's face on our wedding night. 1480 02:09:17,280 --> 02:09:20,000 And the fog in Russia. 1481 02:09:43,560 --> 02:09:44,720 Romano! 1482 02:09:45,840 --> 02:09:47,280 Have you lost your mind? 1483 02:09:47,400 --> 02:09:49,320 In a quarter of an hour, lunch will be served 1484 02:09:49,400 --> 02:09:51,320 and you haven't even laid the tables! 1485 02:09:51,400 --> 02:09:53,160 It'll all be ready in two minutes. 1486 02:09:53,200 --> 02:09:57,360 I met a friend, we were in the war together in Africa. 1487 02:09:59,920 --> 02:10:04,520 If they throw you out again, I won't lift a finger to save you. 1488 02:10:04,680 --> 02:10:06,400 It'll all be ready in five minutes. 1489 02:10:06,520 --> 02:10:08,800 You can go now and return in a quarter of an hour. 1490 02:10:08,920 --> 02:10:11,160 I'll be waiting for you. Go and get your wife 1491 02:10:11,280 --> 02:10:14,920 and I'll prepare you a lovely meal worthy of two newlyweds. Go! 1492 02:10:19,920 --> 02:10:22,080 Go on up. Your hat and stick. 1493 02:10:22,200 --> 02:10:24,600 I understand. I understand. 1494 02:10:29,920 --> 02:10:31,920 Romano, we'll be back shortly. 1495 02:10:41,400 --> 02:10:42,920 Sweetheart... 1496 02:10:48,520 --> 02:10:53,280 It's time to wake up, sweetheart. 1497 02:10:53,560 --> 02:10:55,840 Now I'd like you to meet someone. 1498 02:11:00,640 --> 02:11:01,720 What time is it? 1499 02:11:02,000 --> 02:11:03,320 Half past two. 1500 02:11:03,800 --> 02:11:05,200 How long did I sleep? 1501 02:11:05,360 --> 02:11:09,840 You'll see, an incredible destiny. He's been to Russia! Let's go. 1502 02:11:42,920 --> 02:11:44,800 - Right or left? Which way? - Right. 1503 02:11:50,400 --> 02:11:53,400 - Here we are. - Yes, I'll be with you in a moment. 1504 02:11:53,520 --> 02:11:55,320 Here are your drinks. 1505 02:12:08,520 --> 02:12:11,920 I'll come back soon! 1506 02:12:13,600 --> 02:12:19,800 Gypsies! My friends! I'll come back soon! 1507 02:12:26,800 --> 02:12:30,200 I'll come back soon! 1508 02:12:30,760 --> 02:12:34,400 Gypsies! My friends....