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Czekhov 4 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:04,800 set design 5 00:01:10,500 --> 00:01:13,200 interiors 6 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:22,300 costumes 7 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:29,300 make-up artist 8 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,300 music 9 00:01:39,100 --> 00:01:41,200 performed by 10 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,800 sound 11 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,000 edited by 12 00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:15,000 camera 13 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:31,300 produced by 14 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,700 production manager 15 00:02:38,900 --> 00:02:40,800 photography 16 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,700 directed by 17 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:03,100 If I were asked 18 00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:08,900 to name the essential element of my existence, 19 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,400 I would answer without hesitation: 20 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,100 sleeplessness. 21 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:24,200 I remain motionless for hours 22 00:03:24,900 --> 00:03:28,900 attempting not to think not to feel 23 00:03:29,100 --> 00:03:32,000 any desires. 24 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,800 I observe all too familiar objects and 25 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:41,900 despite myself, begin reminiscing. 26 00:03:42,300 --> 00:03:46,600 I can see things and hear words that 27 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:50,700 I would have never suspected to find still tucked away 28 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,300 in my memory. 29 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,300 We speak two different languages. 30 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:00,700 I wrote to you 31 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:06,500 about conmen who pass for artists only by dint of their impertinence; 32 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:12,800 not a talent among them, but mediocrities and busybodies. 33 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:17,400 I cannot tell you how much it pains me 34 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,400 that art 35 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,700 fell into their hands. 36 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,200 My heart is heavy 37 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:28,000 that the best people 38 00:04:28,300 --> 00:04:30,600 observe the evil from afar, 39 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 and rather than defend art 40 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:42,300 write banalities and useless morals in a tortuous style. 41 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:48,900 There is a certain distinguished gentleman - a professor, 42 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,500 privy counselor, and chevalier. 43 00:04:54,700 --> 00:04:58,300 He is a household name, often mentioned 44 00:04:58,900 --> 00:05:01,700 as "renowned" and "esteemed." 45 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 At present he has no friends. 46 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:26,600 As for the past, 47 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:33,100 he used to know many who considered him a friend. 48 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,900 My name is as illustrious 49 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,300 as I myself am unremarkable. 50 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:57,700 At times a peculiar look comes over my face, 51 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:02,500 and provokes the grim thought: 52 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,200 "This man will soon be dead." 53 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:12,000 I write more and more poorly. 54 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:18,400 That bit of the brain which presides over the faculty of authorship 55 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:21,600 has refused to function. 56 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,000 My memory has grown weak; 57 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,300 there is a lack of order in my ideas. 58 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,700 Often I write what I do not mean; 59 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:38,700 when I am writing the end, I've already forgotten the beginning. 60 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:45,500 All this is an unmistakable proof of a decline in mental activity. 61 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,600 The day begins 62 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:00,000 with the entrance of my wife. 63 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:06,000 Excuse me, I'll just be a minute. 64 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,300 You had another bad night? 65 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:20,700 I'm no prophet, but I know what she will say next: 66 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:24,100 Every morning it is the same thing. 67 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,100 There is no one I feel as sorry for as our Lisa. 68 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:36,400 The girl studies, mixes with good society, 69 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:39,100 but goodness knows how she's dressed. 70 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,100 Her fur coat is a disgrace in the street. 71 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,400 If she were someone else's daughter, it wouldn't matter, 72 00:10:45,500 --> 00:10:48,500 but everyone knows who her father is. 73 00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:00,800 I listen, 74 00:11:01,900 --> 00:11:05,200 and probably because I've had a bad night, 75 00:11:05,500 --> 00:11:07,900 strange thoughts intrude upon my mind. 76 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,300 Could this ageing woman, who can talk of nothing 77 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,100 but her worries and expenses, 78 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:19,700 be no other than the Veronica with whom I fell in love 79 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,800 for her kindness and her fine intelligence? 80 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,600 Did you know we owe him five months wages? 81 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:32,500 Of her past self nothing is left but her concern for my health, 82 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:37,100 and her manner of calling my salary "our salary," 83 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,300 my university - "our university. " 84 00:11:42,100 --> 00:11:43,300 You mustn't 85 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,800 let the servants' wages run on. 86 00:11:45,900 --> 00:11:48,100 How many times have I told you! 87 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,700 It's much easier to pay each month than twice a year. 88 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:56,400 It is painful for me to look at her. 89 00:11:57,900 --> 00:12:00,100 And so I let her say what she likes, 90 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:03,000 even when she passes unjust criticisms on people 91 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,200 or nags me 92 00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:09,700 for not having a private practice. 93 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,800 Did she come to see you yesterday? 94 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:30,200 She didn't say hello to us. That's rather strange. 95 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,500 Say what you may, 96 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:36,600 but that's disrespectful: 97 00:12:37,300 --> 00:12:41,500 to spend three hours in your study, and not even a word to us. 98 00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:44,400 Well, she has a mind of her own. 99 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:50,500 I have a favor to ask of you. 100 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,600 I know you will be angry 101 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:57,700 but it's my duty 102 00:12:58,100 --> 00:12:59,500 to warn you: 103 00:12:59,700 --> 00:13:04,300 all our friends have begun talking about you visiting her so often. 104 00:13:15,700 --> 00:13:19,300 At your age, and with your social position, 105 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,500 it seems rather strange... 106 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:26,200 that you should find pleasure 107 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:28,700 in her society. 108 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,100 Besides, she has a bad reputation... 109 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:43,200 After all, she grew up in this house. 110 00:13:44,700 --> 00:13:47,900 We loved her like our own daughter. 111 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:52,200 That was long ago. 112 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:57,400 She got lost, 113 00:13:57,500 --> 00:13:59,100 she was gravely ill, 114 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,100 she tried to poison herself, 115 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:02,600 she buried her child. 116 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,800 Of course. 117 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,000 Illegitimate pregnancy, a child out of wedlock. 118 00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:11,500 Veronica! 119 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,500 You dislike her for being an actress, 120 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:28,200 for her pride... 121 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:30,500 For her ingratitude. 122 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,200 For her eccentricity. 123 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,200 And for all the countless flaws 124 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:44,700 every woman knows 125 00:14:44,900 --> 00:14:46,900 how to find in another. 126 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,200 When she wrote me 127 00:14:56,100 --> 00:14:57,600 about her love, 128 00:14:59,300 --> 00:15:01,200 when she fell prey 129 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:02,800 to extravagance, 130 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,700 in answer to her pleas, I would send her 131 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:08,200 from time to time a thousand, two thousand roubles... 132 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:12,200 When she wrote of her attempted suicide, 133 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:14,400 and then of her child's death, 134 00:15:16,100 --> 00:15:17,600 every time, 135 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:19,900 I was shattered. 136 00:15:21,300 --> 00:15:23,100 However, all that time, 137 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,800 my interest in her life found no other expression 138 00:15:26,900 --> 00:15:29,500 than the long and boring letters 139 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,700 I wrote after prolonged reflection. 140 00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:37,700 And yet I had been a father to her and loved her 141 00:15:45,100 --> 00:15:47,000 like my own daughter. 142 00:15:54,900 --> 00:15:56,600 I lost track of time. 143 00:15:58,300 --> 00:16:00,700 The samovar is on the table, and here I am talking... 144 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:04,300 ...and talking. 145 00:16:35,100 --> 00:16:37,300 Good morning, papa. Are you well? 146 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:40,900 And how are you, Lisa? 147 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,600 Pistachio... lemon... raspberry... 148 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:01,600 She was fond of ice-cream, 149 00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:05,200 and I used to often take her to the confectioner's. 150 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:09,900 Ice-cream was the yardstick she used to measure all delight. 151 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:41,200 A question has been nagging at me for some time: 152 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,000 How is it that, seeing 153 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,200 how hard I try to conceal my poverty, 154 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,600 my daughter does not give up 155 00:17:49,700 --> 00:17:52,100 the expensive pleasure of music lessons? 156 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,800 Of course I would not accept such sacrifice. 157 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:01,600 That's not what I want, but... 158 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,400 such reflections make me bitter. 159 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,000 The street I've known 160 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,300 for thirty years. 161 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,600 Since I was a student, its appearance 162 00:19:34,900 --> 00:19:37,300 has changed neither for the better nor for the worse. 163 00:19:38,100 --> 00:19:39,200 I don't like it. 164 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:48,500 The same bar with rooms for rent. 165 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,800 This is where I worked on my dissertation, 166 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,200 and wrote my first love letter. 167 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:58,200 Just as I was back then, I am now interested only in science. 168 00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:02,700 And I will continue to believe that science is 169 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:06,600 the most essential thing in the life of man; 170 00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:09,100 that it always has been and will be 171 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,400 the highest manifestation of love; 172 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,900 and that only by means of it 173 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:17,600 will man overcome himself. 174 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,500 This faith is perhaps naive and unfounded, 175 00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:26,600 but it is not my fault 176 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,700 that I believe this and nothing else, 177 00:21:30,300 --> 00:21:33,300 and that I cannot eradicate in myself this belief. 178 00:21:48,300 --> 00:21:51,300 The keeper of the university�s legends. 179 00:21:52,900 --> 00:21:55,000 If you wish, he will tell you many 180 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,500 stories and anecdotes. 181 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:02,100 The weather has finally turned for the better. 182 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:04,300 But for how long?! 183 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,700 Dear Nicholas, for how long? 184 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,600 In his stories, good vanquishes evil, 185 00:22:15,700 --> 00:22:18,400 the weak triumph over the strong, 186 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:21,300 the stupid � over the wise, the young � over the old. 187 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:51,100 This is Peter, my assistant, 188 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,200 modest and industrious, 189 00:22:56,300 --> 00:22:58,400 but devoid of talent. 190 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,600 He possesses a narrow outlook, 191 00:23:04,900 --> 00:23:07,200 strictly limited to his specialty; 192 00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:10,200 slavish reverence for authority; 193 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,900 and lack of desire for independent thought. 194 00:23:29,900 --> 00:23:33,600 In the course of his life he will prepare hundreds of chemicals, 195 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:35,700 dozens of conscientious translations, 196 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:38,300 but he won't invent the gunpowder. 197 00:23:58,100 --> 00:24:00,700 I would give much to know 198 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:04,000 how this fossil makes love to his wife. 199 00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:29,000 Well, time to go. 200 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,200 The patient's waiting. 201 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:43,100 I know what I am going to lecture about 202 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,700 but I don't know where to begin 203 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,300 or where to end. 204 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,200 I will endeavor to 205 00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:54,300 give my lecture a literary form; 206 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,800 keep my definitions brief and precise; 207 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,000 and make my sentences simple and eloquent. 208 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,300 I have to play all at once the part 209 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,600 of savant and teacher and orator, 210 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,500 and beware lest the orator has the upper hand 211 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:32,500 of the savant and of the teacher. 212 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:35,100 And vice versa. 213 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,500 Please take the lecture over for me. 214 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,600 The topic of today's lecture is the nervous system. 215 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:47,900 The nervous system is divided into central, 216 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,500 peripheral, and enteric nervous system. 217 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,000 The nerve cell is called a neuron. 218 00:25:54,700 --> 00:25:56,900 We distinguish sensory neurons, which respond 219 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,400 to touch, temperature, and pain, 220 00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:01,900 and motor neurons. 221 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,100 My conscience and reason tell me 222 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,000 that I should deliver 223 00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:10,700 a farewell lecture, 224 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,700 my last word, 225 00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:16,200 and let someone else take my place. 226 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,700 Something strange is happening to me. 227 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:28,200 My eyes smart with tears 228 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,900 and I am overcome 229 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,500 by a passionate, hysterical desire 230 00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:37,100 to stretch out my arms and cry out loud 231 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,000 in lamentation 232 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:41,100 that fate 233 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:44,100 has sentenced me 234 00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:45,400 to death. 235 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,900 Thoughts previously unknown to me 236 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,500 have poisoned my last days. 237 00:27:01,100 --> 00:27:04,600 ...the surface of the brain, the thickness of the cerebral cortex, 238 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:06,800 and so on... 239 00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:10,500 When we cut open the brain, we will see that 240 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,600 it is composed of two different substances: 241 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:16,200 the grey matter 242 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:18,200 and the white matter. 243 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,700 Grey matter makes up the surface of the brain, 244 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,400 known as the cerebral cortex. 245 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,300 The cerebral cortex is the locus of our consciousness. 246 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,700 We now move on to the dissection. 247 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:33,200 Watch closely. 248 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:06,000 Please excuse me, professor... 249 00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:15,900 I would have never presumed 250 00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:18,800 to trouble you if not... 251 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:29,100 What is it then? 252 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,500 What is it you�d like to tell me? 253 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,500 I've attempted your examination 254 00:28:34,700 --> 00:28:37,100 five times, and have failed... 255 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,400 And now what? 256 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,300 Would you be so kind, professor, 257 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:51,900 as to let me pass? 258 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,700 I did well on all my other exams, 259 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,800 whereas I had studied this subject 260 00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:58,300 with particular interest and I know it very well. 261 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,300 You will pardon me, my friend, 262 00:29:01,500 --> 00:29:03,400 but I cannot give you a passing grade. 263 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,500 Go ahead, review your notes, and come back. 264 00:29:10,300 --> 00:29:12,300 We will see then. 265 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:14,900 In my opinion, 266 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,300 the best thing you can do now 267 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,200 is to give up medicine altogether. 268 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:23,000 If, with your abilities, 269 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:25,800 you're unable to pass an exam, 270 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,800 it's clear you don't have a vocation to be a doctor. 271 00:29:29,700 --> 00:29:32,000 Pardon me, professor, but 272 00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:36,000 wouldn't it be rather strange for me to quit suddenly 273 00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:40,100 - after five years? - Precisely: 274 00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:43,500 better to waste five years than 275 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,800 to devote a life to a profession you don't care for. 276 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,300 In any case, do as you wish. 277 00:29:56,900 --> 00:30:00,000 Study some more, and come again. 278 00:30:01,100 --> 00:30:02,100 When? 279 00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:03,900 Whenever you want. 280 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,500 Let's say tomorrow. 281 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,800 Of course, even fifteen attempted exams 282 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:16,200 won't turn you into a scholar. 283 00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:19,000 However, they might strengthen your character. 284 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:20,500 And that counts for something. 285 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,300 Professor... I solemnly swear, 286 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,200 if you let me pass, I will... 287 00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:43,900 You will... what? 288 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,200 In that case... 289 00:30:51,300 --> 00:30:53,400 farewell, professor. 290 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,500 Please excuse me. 291 00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:10,700 Farewell, my friend. 292 00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:13,100 Best of luck! 293 00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:22,900 He probably could have told me many interesting things 294 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,000 about the opera, or his petty love affairs... 295 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,600 Unfortunately, one doesn't talk about that sort of thing. 296 00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:34,600 That's too bad - I would have been glad to listen. 297 00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:08,500 You can be a privy counselor 298 00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:10,900 a hundred times over 299 00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:13,200 but if you have a daughter, 300 00:32:13,300 --> 00:32:14,900 nothing will save you 301 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:18,600 from the air of petty bourgeoisie that matchmaking, courtship, 302 00:32:18,700 --> 00:32:22,200 and a wedding often bring into the domestic atmosphere. 303 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,400 He comes daily, 304 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,000 but no one knows anything about his origin, his education, 305 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:37,600 or how he earns his living. 306 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:53,100 And the worst of it is that my daughter 307 00:32:53,300 --> 00:32:55,600 whom I was accustomed to think of as a child, 308 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,400 loves those bulging eyes, 309 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,400 this necktie 310 00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:03,300 like a crab's neck... 311 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:39,800 Describing our dinner is just as unpalatable 312 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:42,000 as digesting it. 313 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,900 Some time ago, my family found it fit 314 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,400 to completely change our dinner menu. 315 00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:28,800 Fame 316 00:35:28,900 --> 00:35:31,400 has for ever deprived me of cabbage soup, 317 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:34,100 goose with apple stuffing, 318 00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:35,900 and dumplings... 319 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,400 Now they feed me creamy soups 320 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,300 with lumps floating about, 321 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,200 and kidneys stewed in Madeira sauce, 322 00:36:05,300 --> 00:36:07,800 served by a white-gloved, 323 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,300 dull and pompous fellow. 324 00:36:35,100 --> 00:36:37,000 You can't imagine 325 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,200 what you have missed, professor; 326 00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:42,700 you shouldn�t have left Androtti's soir�e so soon! 327 00:36:53,300 --> 00:36:55,000 Let me tell you, professor, 328 00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:57,200 the butterfly aria... 329 00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:03,000 His performance was simply divine... 330 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,500 He gave the aria a divine rank and status. 331 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,200 Mainly thanks to the remarkable mellifluence 332 00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:13,800 with which he imbues his final appoggiaturas. 333 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,100 He is simply a master of melismas. 334 00:37:17,900 --> 00:37:19,900 He is simply an unparalleled 335 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,600 master of melismas. 336 00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:23,600 And, please excuse me for saying this, 337 00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:26,900 none of our tenors comes even close! 338 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,200 Especially with regards to the exceptional ease 339 00:37:30,300 --> 00:37:32,900 with which he moves in the upper register. 340 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,500 Starting with C sharp! 341 00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:46,200 And, to finish off, my dear friends, 342 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,000 perfect fifth! 343 00:37:56,300 --> 00:37:58,300 He neither plays nor sings, 344 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,300 but has connections 345 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,600 with both music and singing. 346 00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:14,900 He sells somewhere someone's pianos. 347 00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:17,400 He is acquainted with all musical celebrities, 348 00:38:17,500 --> 00:38:19,700 and lends a hand at organizing concerts. 349 00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:23,100 This creature 350 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,400 inspires in me aversion and astonishment. 351 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,500 We awaken on the Parnassus. 352 00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:31,100 That's right, professor. 353 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,500 We awaken on the Parnassus. 354 00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:39,200 I'm not a musician, and perhaps 355 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,800 I am wrong about Mr Gnekker 356 00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:43,700 whom I hardly know, 357 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,600 but I find the pathos 358 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,100 with which he speaks of music and singing 359 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,000 highly suspicious. 360 00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:54,300 Your student is here. 361 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,900 Take him to my study. 362 00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:07,200 Your musical genius, dear Lisa, 363 00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:10,000 does wonders to help us understand his art. 364 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,900 You don't like the roast? 365 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:26,800 You don't like it? 366 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:28,500 Do you? 367 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,500 You needn't worry, darling, 368 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,200 the roast is delicious. 369 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,300 You're always very understanding. 370 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:47,400 And never tell me the truth. 371 00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:52,000 Why won't you eat more, Alexander? 372 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,000 But, Madam, the roast is excellent. 373 00:39:59,700 --> 00:40:01,900 An eagle may at times 374 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,000 descend to the coop, 375 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,100 but never will a chicken 376 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,600 rise up to the clouds. 377 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,600 I don't like it. 378 00:40:52,500 --> 00:40:54,400 What can I do for you? 379 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,000 This year, I have passed my qualifying exams. 380 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,800 All I need to do now is to write my dissertation. 381 00:41:08,100 --> 00:41:09,100 I would be... 382 00:41:10,900 --> 00:41:13,000 ...very much obliged... 383 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,400 I mean, I would like to 384 00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:18,900 work under your supervision. 385 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,100 If you could 386 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,000 give me 387 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,300 a dissertation topic... 388 00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:29,600 I understand. 389 00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:33,200 I would like to help you, my friend. 390 00:41:33,900 --> 00:41:35,100 But 391 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,200 let's first establish what a dissertation is. 392 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,800 The word is used to describe the product 393 00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:48,800 of independent creative work, 394 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,500 isn't it? 395 00:41:53,300 --> 00:41:55,400 On the other hand, a paper written 396 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:57,300 on an assigned topic 397 00:41:57,700 --> 00:41:59,700 and under someone's supervision 398 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,100 goes by a different name. 399 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:07,700 Why do you all come to me? 400 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,700 I don't deal in dissertation topics. 401 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,200 Please pardon my bluntness, but I'm sick of all this. 402 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:19,900 For the thousandth time, please leave me alone. 403 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,600 Please forgive me, 404 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,200 but I'm not a shop keeper. 405 00:42:37,500 --> 00:42:39,000 Tell me, 406 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,400 why don't you want to be independent? 407 00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:45,700 It's astounding. 408 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,400 Why do you show such aversion for freedom? 409 00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:19,200 I will calm down and give in. 410 00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:30,100 I will assign the student a worthless topic. 411 00:43:31,100 --> 00:43:34,900 Under my supervision, he'll write a useless dissertation. 412 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,200 He'll defend it with tedious dignity, 413 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,400 and receive a degree he doesn't really need. 414 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,100 Ladies, you know this piece. 415 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:09,000 In a nutshell, Haydn, 416 00:46:09,100 --> 00:46:11,900 Quartet no. 2, op. 76. 417 00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,800 Go on, let's tune our instruments. 418 00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,000 Please pick up from the beginning, second violin. 419 00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:17,600 Once more. 420 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:25,700 Comprenez-vous? 421 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:27,900 Take your places. 422 00:47:32,700 --> 00:47:34,700 Attention, dear ladies... 423 00:47:56,300 --> 00:47:58,700 Oh, no, no, dear ladies, 424 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:00,700 this is Haydn, a little effort! 425 00:48:07,700 --> 00:48:09,300 From the beginning, please. 426 00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:22,500 Again. 427 00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:58,900 Her eyes used to say 428 00:51:59,500 --> 00:52:02,500 "everything in this world 429 00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,900 is beautiful and wise." 430 00:52:06,700 --> 00:52:09,000 I now notice that 431 00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:14,500 she has lost her former curiosity, 432 00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:17,600 and no longer asks me questions, 433 00:52:18,300 --> 00:52:21,800 as if she'd already experienced everything in life 434 00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,500 and didn't expect to hear anything new. 435 00:55:22,500 --> 00:55:25,100 You should find some occupation. 436 00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:33,800 Like what? 437 00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:40,300 Get married, for instance. 438 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:47,500 There's no one to marry. 439 00:55:49,100 --> 00:55:50,900 And no reason to, either. 440 00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,400 You can't live like this. 441 00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:01,700 Without a husband? 442 00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:05,600 Men are a dime a dozen, as long as I�m willing. 443 00:56:09,300 --> 00:56:11,200 That's unbecoming, Katya. 444 00:56:13,900 --> 00:56:15,600 What's unbecoming? 445 00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:23,300 Precisely what you've just said. 446 00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:32,700 How are you going to support yourself 447 00:56:32,900 --> 00:56:34,700 when you've spent your father's fortune? 448 00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:37,500 We'll see. 449 00:56:39,900 --> 00:56:41,300 My dear, 450 00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:45,000 this money deserves a more sober treatment: 451 00:56:45,100 --> 00:56:47,400 it was earned through hard work 452 00:56:47,500 --> 00:56:49,500 by an honest man. 453 00:56:51,700 --> 00:56:53,800 Your father told me before he died... 454 00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:56,200 You already told me about this. I know. 455 00:57:08,300 --> 00:57:10,000 That must be Michael. 456 00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:16,900 Good afternoon! 457 00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:23,700 I see we're having tea. 458 00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,300 Splendid idea, because it's cold like hell. 459 00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:36,000 I attended our colleague's 460 00:57:36,100 --> 00:57:38,400 public lecture yesterday. 461 00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,400 I'm amazed our alma mater shows off such fools. 462 00:57:43,300 --> 00:57:45,200 He spoke, picture this, as if he were sucking on 463 00:57:45,300 --> 00:57:47,400 a piece of candy. 464 00:57:49,900 --> 00:57:52,600 He lost his head and his place in the notes. 465 00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:56,400 Tiny little thoughts were crawling across his brain 466 00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:58,700 with the speed of a friar riding a bicycle. 467 00:58:01,500 --> 00:58:04,400 And you couldn't even tell what he was talking about. 468 00:58:04,700 --> 00:58:06,600 Deadly boredom. 469 00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:09,500 Even flies were dropping dead. 470 00:58:19,300 --> 00:58:21,500 Science is a thing of the past. 471 00:58:23,100 --> 00:58:24,500 Thank God. 472 00:58:25,300 --> 00:58:27,500 It's song has been sung. 473 00:58:29,700 --> 00:58:31,600 It grew out of the soil of superstition, 474 00:58:31,700 --> 00:58:33,500 it fed on superstition, 475 00:58:33,900 --> 00:58:36,700 and now it's the essence of superstition 476 00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:38,900 just like its senile predecessors: 477 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,000 metaphysics, alchemy, 478 00:58:41,100 --> 00:58:42,700 philosophy... 479 00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:45,100 And what did science give people? 480 00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:47,600 The Chinese have no science. 481 00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:52,100 - And are they any worse for it? - Flies have no science, either. 482 00:58:53,100 --> 00:58:54,600 And so what? 483 00:58:57,300 --> 00:58:59,300 You shouldn't be offended. 484 00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:02,800 After all, I'm just talking among friends. 485 00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:05,600 I won't declare this in public. 486 00:59:05,700 --> 00:59:07,100 God forbid. 487 00:59:07,900 --> 00:59:09,800 The masses believe superstitiously 488 00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,900 that science and art are above 489 00:59:13,300 --> 00:59:16,400 agriculture or trade. 490 00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:19,400 Our class thrives on this superstition, 491 00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,600 and we won't try to abolish it. 492 00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:38,000 I like reminiscing about my student days, 493 00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:41,600 when I dreamt of getting into the university; 494 00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:47,000 when, as I strolled through our garden, 495 00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,700 sounds of music and singing 496 00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:53,000 would float up... 497 00:59:54,300 --> 00:59:56,200 sending a rush of happiness 498 00:59:56,500 --> 00:59:59,000 not just to my heart 499 00:59:59,300 --> 01:00:01,900 but to my stomach, arms, and legs. 500 01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:06,200 In my mind's eye I saw myself as a doctor, 501 01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,900 and pictured scenes, 502 01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,400 one more beautiful than the other. 503 01:00:12,900 --> 01:00:14,600 Details 504 01:00:16,300 --> 01:00:18,800 I had not suspected could still be 505 01:00:19,100 --> 01:00:21,700 tucked away in my memory. 506 01:00:24,700 --> 01:00:26,200 Let's go. 507 01:00:27,700 --> 01:00:29,300 I have something to show you. 508 01:00:34,300 --> 01:00:37,000 He's becoming more boring every day. 509 01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:35,500 Please leave all of this. 510 01:01:44,700 --> 01:01:46,200 You're not making any sense. 511 01:01:49,900 --> 01:01:51,700 You don't love them any more. 512 01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:55,600 Why force your feelings? 513 01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,000 - What about the university? - That, too. 514 01:02:02,900 --> 01:02:06,000 To educate doctors who prey on ignorance, 515 01:02:07,300 --> 01:02:10,700 you don't need to be a good, talented man. 516 01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,900 You are a rare exemplar. 517 01:02:25,500 --> 01:02:28,200 There is no actor you could play your part. 518 01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:42,100 Me, 519 01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:45,700 or him, for instance, 520 01:02:45,700 --> 01:02:47,600 could be played even by a second-rate actor. 521 01:02:52,900 --> 01:02:55,000 You � by no one. 522 01:03:18,500 --> 01:03:20,000 Here, 523 01:03:21,500 --> 01:03:24,600 I've prepared it for you... 524 01:03:27,300 --> 01:03:29,800 Please come here every day. 525 01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:33,300 You are going to work here. 526 01:03:37,100 --> 01:03:38,200 Aren't you? 527 01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:07,800 You see, my dear, the highest 528 01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:09,500 and the holiest 529 01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:11,400 prerogative of the kings 530 01:04:12,300 --> 01:04:14,300 is the right of mercy. 531 01:04:15,300 --> 01:04:18,400 I have always exercised this right without constraint. 532 01:04:18,500 --> 01:04:20,600 I have never judged anyone, 533 01:04:20,700 --> 01:04:22,800 and forgave willingly. 534 01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:28,300 I'm no longer a king. 535 01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:35,100 Something is happening to me that befits only a slave. 536 01:04:43,300 --> 01:04:46,100 Feelings, such as I had never known before 537 01:04:46,500 --> 01:04:49,100 are brooding in my soul. 538 01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:51,500 I feel hatred, contempt, 539 01:04:52,300 --> 01:04:54,300 fear, and dread. 540 01:04:56,300 --> 01:04:57,700 What does this mean? 541 01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:01,700 I'm irritable, 542 01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:04,500 impolite, suspicious. 543 01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:09,100 Perhaps the world has grown worse, 544 01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:11,000 and I better? 545 01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:14,000 Perhaps I used to be blind. 546 01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:18,900 You have just opened your eyes. 547 01:05:20,900 --> 01:05:23,500 You can see that which, who knows why, 548 01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:26,000 you used to refuse to see. 549 01:05:26,500 --> 01:05:28,900 I've been a professor for thirty years. 550 01:05:29,500 --> 01:05:31,600 I had colleagues, 551 01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:34,000 enjoyed renown; 552 01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:38,000 I loved, got married. 553 01:05:38,300 --> 01:05:40,400 In a word, if you look back, 554 01:05:40,500 --> 01:05:44,000 my whole life seems one beautiful composition. 555 01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,200 All I have to do now 556 01:05:48,300 --> 01:05:50,500 is not to spoil the denouement. 557 01:05:51,900 --> 01:05:52,900 But 558 01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:56,200 I am spoiling it. 559 01:05:57,700 --> 01:05:59,100 I'm drowning. 560 01:06:01,100 --> 01:06:02,900 I run to you 561 01:06:04,100 --> 01:06:06,800 and you tell me, "go ahead and drown. " 562 01:06:07,900 --> 01:06:09,900 "That's how it should be." 563 01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,700 You, my dear, have too much time. 564 01:06:21,500 --> 01:06:23,700 You must occupy yourself somehow. 565 01:06:26,500 --> 01:06:28,200 I can't. 566 01:06:30,300 --> 01:06:32,900 You behave as if you were a victim. 567 01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:35,400 You yourself are to blame. 568 01:06:42,100 --> 01:06:44,200 You're angry with people, but haven't 569 01:06:44,300 --> 01:06:46,000 done anything to change them. 570 01:06:47,500 --> 01:06:49,300 You haven't fought against evil. 571 01:06:50,100 --> 01:06:52,100 And now you're a victim: not of your struggle, 572 01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:54,100 but of your helplessness. 573 01:06:54,700 --> 01:06:56,100 You should work. 574 01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:58,500 In the service of art. 575 01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:05,500 I beg you, 576 01:07:06,300 --> 01:07:08,400 let's agree, once and for all, 577 01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:12,700 that we can chat about actors, actresses, writers, 578 01:07:13,100 --> 01:07:15,500 but that we leave art alone. 579 01:07:16,500 --> 01:07:18,700 You are a wonderful man, but 580 01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:21,400 you've no ear 581 01:07:22,100 --> 01:07:24,000 or sensibility. You've worked so hard 582 01:07:24,100 --> 01:07:26,500 that you had no time... 583 01:07:29,100 --> 01:07:32,500 In general, I don't like talking about art. 584 01:07:43,100 --> 01:07:44,700 I don't like it. 585 01:07:46,500 --> 01:07:49,700 It's been trivialized and defiled enough. 586 01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:52,600 Who defiled it? 587 01:07:54,300 --> 01:07:55,800 People. 588 01:07:57,600 --> 01:08:00,100 They defiled it by drunkenness. 589 01:08:00,300 --> 01:08:03,000 Fools, philosophers... 590 01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:05,700 Philosophy has nothing to do with it. 591 01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:07,400 But it does. 592 01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:13,200 If someone philosophizes, 593 01:08:13,700 --> 01:08:15,700 it's because he doesn't understand. 594 01:08:19,500 --> 01:08:21,800 But you still haven't told me 595 01:08:21,900 --> 01:08:24,700 why you don't want to return to the stage? 596 01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:30,700 Oh, no, this is pure cruelty. 597 01:08:31,900 --> 01:08:35,000 You want to force me to say the truth out loud? 598 01:08:35,700 --> 01:08:38,600 Here you go, then, if it pleases you: 599 01:08:38,900 --> 01:08:40,700 I have no talent! 600 01:08:47,500 --> 01:08:49,500 I have no talent. 601 01:08:51,100 --> 01:08:53,200 Only a lot of ambition. 602 01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:02,000 I must be going. 603 01:09:04,300 --> 01:09:05,800 It's after ten. 604 01:09:57,300 --> 01:09:59,700 I will stay a little while longer, 605 01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:01,600 if you allow me. 606 01:10:01,700 --> 01:10:04,200 - I will. - Bene. In that case... 607 01:10:04,300 --> 01:10:07,100 why don't you ask for another bottle. 608 01:10:10,900 --> 01:10:14,100 "O you who are within your little bark, 609 01:10:14,300 --> 01:10:17,700 eager to listen, following behind 610 01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:20,800 my ship that, singing, crosses the deep seas, 611 01:10:20,900 --> 01:10:23,700 turn back to see your shores again: do not 612 01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:27,800 attempt to sail the seas I sail; you may 613 01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:32,000 be losing sight of me, be left astray. " 614 01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:38,100 Please tell me, over the past years, 615 01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:41,700 have you had at least one talented pupil? 616 01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:46,600 Our youth is stunted intellectually. 617 01:10:46,900 --> 01:10:49,200 I'm not talking about ideals, but if they 618 01:10:49,300 --> 01:10:51,600 could at least think properly. 619 01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:10,800 Stunted, that's quite right. 620 01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:13,900 That's it precisely. 621 01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:19,100 I look upon our generation 622 01:11:19,300 --> 01:11:21,700 with great sadness... 623 01:11:46,700 --> 01:11:49,600 I won't be able to come by tomorrow. 624 01:11:52,500 --> 01:11:54,500 I'm going to be busy. 625 01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:01,600 You have grown old lately. 626 01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:06,900 Yes, I haven't been too well. 627 01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:11,700 And you are not being treated. 628 01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:14,500 Why won't you let yourself 629 01:12:14,700 --> 01:12:16,000 be examined? 630 01:12:16,100 --> 01:12:18,100 No, there's no need. 631 01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:25,700 "For the moment, there is no danger, 632 01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:29,600 dear colleague, but it wouldn't hurt... " 633 01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:35,800 And that would kill my last hope. 634 01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:01,600 - What's new? - Professor! 635 01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:05,400 I'll be damned! 636 01:14:07,700 --> 01:14:09,600 Never in the world! 637 01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:26,800 Go home, Nicholas, it's getting late. 638 01:14:37,500 --> 01:14:38,800 I've told you so many times! 639 01:14:40,700 --> 01:14:42,500 I'll be damned! 640 01:14:54,600 --> 01:14:56,900 Whether the sky is clouded, 641 01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:01,200 or stars and the moon are shining, 642 01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:07,200 I always look up on way back home 643 01:15:08,500 --> 01:15:10,800 and think that 644 01:15:11,700 --> 01:15:14,400 death is going to come for me soon. 645 01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:29,500 One would expect my thoughts to be 646 01:15:29,500 --> 01:15:33,600 deep as the sky, clear, and dazzling. 647 01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:39,700 Alas, my view of life can be expressed in these words: 648 01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:43,400 "Nothing good in the world 649 01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:46,700 can exist without evil, 650 01:15:48,100 --> 01:15:51,400 and there is always more evil than good. " 651 01:15:53,900 --> 01:15:54,900 That is, 652 01:15:56,100 --> 01:15:58,200 there is no reason to live. 653 01:16:00,700 --> 01:16:03,400 And the years I have already lived 654 01:16:04,500 --> 01:16:07,100 are as good as wasted. 655 01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:43,100 You're awake? 656 01:16:58,300 --> 01:16:59,800 What's wrong? 657 01:17:00,700 --> 01:17:02,400 It's Lisa... 658 01:17:03,100 --> 01:17:05,100 She's in the dining room, go to her. 659 01:17:09,100 --> 01:17:11,100 All right, I'm coming. 660 01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,200 For God's sake! 661 01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:43,200 I can't take it! 662 01:17:56,300 --> 01:17:58,900 Lisa, my child, what's the matter? 663 01:18:00,300 --> 01:18:01,800 Help her. 664 01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:04,100 Do something. 665 01:18:04,700 --> 01:18:06,800 What can I do? 666 01:18:06,900 --> 01:18:10,700 Daddy, please help me, I'm so miserable. 667 01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:16,300 Now, now, don't cry. 668 01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:20,200 I'm miserable, too, but it'll be all right. 669 01:18:20,600 --> 01:18:21,800 It will pass. 670 01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:24,200 Darling... 671 01:18:25,200 --> 01:18:26,400 It's all right. 672 01:18:26,500 --> 01:18:28,900 Come along, you'll get some sleep, 673 01:18:29,300 --> 01:18:31,400 and tomorrow everything will be all right. 674 01:18:43,500 --> 01:18:45,600 I can't take it... 675 01:19:58,700 --> 01:20:00,400 What's happened? 676 01:20:01,900 --> 01:20:04,600 Please forgive me. I don't know... 677 01:20:04,700 --> 01:20:07,100 Fear came over me, and I ran here, 678 01:20:08,500 --> 01:20:11,300 I saw the light, and dared to knock. 679 01:20:11,400 --> 01:20:13,100 I'm sorry... 680 01:20:15,200 --> 01:20:17,100 What are you going to do now? 681 01:20:19,300 --> 01:20:20,700 Nothing... 682 01:20:21,100 --> 01:20:23,200 I can't sleep. 683 01:20:24,300 --> 01:20:27,100 I had a premonition... 684 01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:29,800 Let's forget it, 685 01:20:30,500 --> 01:20:32,400 my dear. 686 01:20:35,800 --> 01:20:37,300 I beg you 687 01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:40,700 please hear me out. 688 01:20:42,100 --> 01:20:43,700 What is it? 689 01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:47,700 Please take my money. 690 01:20:48,300 --> 01:20:51,700 What an idea. Why would I need your money? 691 01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:54,800 You'll go away to a sanatorium, 692 01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:57,800 you must get better, my dear, 693 01:20:58,400 --> 01:21:00,800 you will take it, won't you? 694 01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:05,000 My dear, I can't. 695 01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,800 I thank you, but I can't accept it. 696 01:21:09,200 --> 01:21:12,600 Go home now, perhaps we can meet tomorrow. 697 01:21:17,100 --> 01:21:19,600 So you don't consider me 698 01:21:19,700 --> 01:21:21,800 your friend? 699 01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:26,200 That's not what I meant. 700 01:21:26,600 --> 01:21:30,100 But I don't need your money. 701 01:21:32,300 --> 01:21:33,800 I'm sorry. 702 01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:36,300 I understand. 703 01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:41,000 To be indebted to someone like me, 704 01:21:41,300 --> 01:21:43,000 a failed actress... 705 01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:20,300 We need to talk. 706 01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:32,600 I'm concerned about Lisa. 707 01:22:34,700 --> 01:22:37,100 You don't give a damn. 708 01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:43,700 What precisely? 709 01:22:44,900 --> 01:22:47,200 Do you just pretend you don't see anything? 710 01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:51,100 How can you be so carefree? 711 01:22:51,700 --> 01:22:53,700 Alexander� 712 01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:58,400 Mr. Gnekker intends to propose. 713 01:22:58,500 --> 01:23:00,500 What do you think about it? 714 01:23:07,900 --> 01:23:10,300 I can't say he's a bad man because 715 01:23:10,700 --> 01:23:12,700 I hardly know him. 716 01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:16,600 But that I don't like him I've told you a hundred times. 717 01:23:18,100 --> 01:23:20,400 You can't behave this way. 718 01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:24,100 You can't take lightly such a serious decision. 719 01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:28,200 When it comes to your daughter's happiness, 720 01:23:28,300 --> 01:23:30,900 you should rise above your personal prejudice. 721 01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:34,100 I know you don't like him � that's too bad. 722 01:23:34,300 --> 01:23:36,900 But there aren't many other suitors, 723 01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:39,700 and she may not find another match. 724 01:23:40,500 --> 01:23:42,900 He loves Lisa very much. 725 01:23:43,900 --> 01:23:47,000 Clearly, she likes him, too. 726 01:23:48,100 --> 01:23:51,100 Although he lacks social status, 727 01:23:51,300 --> 01:23:54,200 but, with God's help, he may obtain a higher post. 728 01:23:54,500 --> 01:23:56,500 He comes from a good family. 729 01:23:56,700 --> 01:23:58,400 He's well-to-do. 730 01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:01,600 How do you know? 731 01:24:02,900 --> 01:24:04,700 He told me himself. 732 01:24:05,100 --> 01:24:07,000 His father has a house in Kalisz, and 733 01:24:07,100 --> 01:24:09,100 some property outside the city. 734 01:24:09,300 --> 01:24:11,400 In short, you must go there. 735 01:24:14,700 --> 01:24:16,300 What for? 736 01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:19,500 To gather information. 737 01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:21,600 You have friends, they will help you. 738 01:24:21,700 --> 01:24:24,800 I'd go myself, but I'm a woman. 739 01:24:27,300 --> 01:24:29,400 I'm not going to Kalisz. 740 01:24:32,100 --> 01:24:33,500 For God's sake! 741 01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:36,300 Take this burden away from me. 742 01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:40,600 I'm suffering. 743 01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:55,200 Very well, Veronica, I'll go. 744 01:24:56,800 --> 01:24:59,800 And I'll do whatever you wish. 745 01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:05,800 Thank you. 746 01:25:14,500 --> 01:25:15,900 When? 747 01:25:20,900 --> 01:25:22,300 Tomorrow. 748 01:26:51,600 --> 01:26:53,300 We have no bed sheets. 749 01:26:59,800 --> 01:27:01,400 Apparently not. 750 01:27:04,700 --> 01:27:06,700 You don't have many guests? 751 01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:11,300 None whatsoever. 752 01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:13,600 There's a new inn by the train station. 753 01:27:14,400 --> 01:27:16,400 I'll make your bed. 754 01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:19,300 The owner is away, I'll give you a room 755 01:27:19,300 --> 01:27:20,700 on the first floor. 756 01:27:21,900 --> 01:27:24,100 I used to stay here. 757 01:27:24,200 --> 01:27:26,200 Very long ago. 758 01:27:27,800 --> 01:27:31,200 - On the third floor. - The 3rd floor is being renovated. 759 01:27:32,300 --> 01:27:34,800 Should I serve breakfast upstairs? 760 01:27:36,800 --> 01:27:39,000 No. Please tell me 761 01:27:39,900 --> 01:27:42,200 what time is the train to Kalisz? 762 01:27:42,700 --> 01:27:44,600 You're from Kalisz? 763 01:27:45,300 --> 01:27:48,100 I know that town like the back of my hand. 764 01:27:49,200 --> 01:27:51,000 A very nice town. 765 01:27:54,200 --> 01:27:57,500 Do you know the Gnekkers? 766 01:27:59,100 --> 01:28:00,900 They have a house there. 767 01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:09,100 I know the town, 768 01:28:10,100 --> 01:28:12,200 but I don't recall anyone by that name. 769 01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:15,300 Has he been there long? 770 01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:19,700 He was born there, and has property outside the city. 771 01:28:47,500 --> 01:28:49,900 What does he look like...? 772 01:28:52,800 --> 01:28:54,200 He's old. 773 01:28:54,800 --> 01:28:56,300 Like me. 774 01:28:57,600 --> 01:29:00,200 Taller and fatter? 775 01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:04,700 Yes. 776 01:29:06,400 --> 01:29:08,600 He has a house and a shop in the market? 777 01:29:09,100 --> 01:29:11,000 But that's not his name! 778 01:29:11,100 --> 01:29:13,200 His name is... 779 01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:16,100 I can't remember. 780 01:29:16,700 --> 01:29:18,500 Are you sure you've got the right name? 781 01:29:21,800 --> 01:29:23,600 How about some breakfast? 782 01:29:25,900 --> 01:29:28,000 I already said no, thank you. 783 01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:49,300 What's his name again, your friend's? 784 01:29:52,500 --> 01:29:54,900 Gnek-ker, with double K. 785 01:29:56,700 --> 01:30:00,100 And remember: he is not my friend. 786 01:34:04,500 --> 01:34:06,600 I brought your dinner. 787 01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:13,500 Couldn't you have come later? 788 01:34:13,800 --> 01:34:16,400 I won't be able to fall asleep again. 789 01:34:20,600 --> 01:34:21,800 I'm sorry. 790 01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:24,300 I thought you were up. 791 01:34:29,800 --> 01:34:32,100 You didn't like it 792 01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:34,200 on the first floor? 793 01:34:34,800 --> 01:34:37,700 I did, but I'll stay here. 794 01:34:41,800 --> 01:34:44,200 I wonder if you'll like the cooking. 795 01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:48,500 Today we have only cabbage soup 796 01:34:48,800 --> 01:34:50,300 and dumplings. 797 01:34:56,300 --> 01:34:58,700 And how do you like our city? 798 01:35:01,400 --> 01:35:04,200 - I don't like it. - Neither do I. 799 01:35:04,700 --> 01:35:06,500 It's strangely grey around here. 800 01:35:06,700 --> 01:35:08,700 Grey city. 801 01:35:49,300 --> 01:35:51,300 Good afternoon. 802 01:35:55,000 --> 01:35:57,000 You seem surprised. 803 01:36:00,600 --> 01:36:02,700 I'm very happy to see you. 804 01:36:07,300 --> 01:36:09,700 But I am rather astonished. 805 01:36:10,800 --> 01:36:13,300 You appeared as if out of the blue. 806 01:36:13,400 --> 01:36:15,400 I saw you come in here. 807 01:36:17,500 --> 01:36:19,100 And I followed. 808 01:36:24,200 --> 01:36:25,700 Just like that. 809 01:36:47,500 --> 01:36:50,000 Let's sit down and have some dinner, Katherine. 810 01:36:52,600 --> 01:36:56,400 You were a father to me, my only friend. 811 01:36:57,000 --> 01:36:58,700 You're wise. 812 01:36:59,000 --> 01:37:00,900 You have lived long. 813 01:37:05,900 --> 01:37:08,400 Please tell me what I am to do 814 01:37:09,500 --> 01:37:10,400 next. 815 01:37:14,800 --> 01:37:16,400 What can I tell you? 816 01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:19,900 I have nothing to say. 817 01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:24,000 I swear... 818 01:37:24,800 --> 01:37:26,500 I can't go on like this. 819 01:37:27,600 --> 01:37:30,200 I can't live like this. 820 01:37:30,700 --> 01:37:32,800 I've no more strength. 821 01:37:37,700 --> 01:37:39,400 I can't. 822 01:37:42,200 --> 01:37:44,200 Please help me. 823 01:37:46,600 --> 01:37:48,100 Save me. 824 01:37:50,700 --> 01:37:52,900 I can't help you, Katherine. 825 01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:57,500 Just one word. 826 01:38:03,600 --> 01:38:05,500 When I wanted to understand 827 01:38:05,600 --> 01:38:07,900 someone else 828 01:38:09,900 --> 01:38:12,000 or myself, 829 01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:15,000 I would consider not their actions 830 01:38:15,100 --> 01:38:17,100 but their desires. 831 01:38:18,400 --> 01:38:21,800 Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you are. 832 01:38:25,700 --> 01:38:27,700 What do I want? 833 01:38:29,900 --> 01:38:33,200 I want our wives, children, friends to love us 834 01:38:35,500 --> 01:38:37,700 and not our names. 835 01:38:39,200 --> 01:38:41,800 I would like to have successors. 836 01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:46,300 I would like to live a few more years. 837 01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:51,000 And then what? 838 01:38:53,600 --> 01:38:55,500 Nothing more. 839 01:38:57,500 --> 01:38:59,700 I think, reflect at length, 840 01:38:59,800 --> 01:39:02,100 and nothing more comes to mind. 841 01:39:02,900 --> 01:39:05,400 My desires are devoid 842 01:39:05,500 --> 01:39:07,600 of something essential, 843 01:39:09,200 --> 01:39:11,100 of something very important. 844 01:39:13,000 --> 01:39:15,500 In my passion for science, 845 01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:18,300 my desire to live, 846 01:39:18,600 --> 01:39:21,200 in my sitting here on a strange bed, 847 01:39:22,500 --> 01:39:24,600 in my attempts to know myself, 848 01:39:24,700 --> 01:39:27,400 in all my feelings, all my thoughts, 849 01:39:28,100 --> 01:39:30,900 there is no common bond, 850 01:39:32,400 --> 01:39:36,500 nothing that would connect it all into a whole. 851 01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:42,900 Every feeling and every thought 852 01:39:42,700 --> 01:39:44,900 are each present in me separately. 853 01:39:46,100 --> 01:39:49,300 In all my opinions on science, on people 854 01:39:49,900 --> 01:39:53,400 on life; in all my thoughts; 855 01:39:55,100 --> 01:39:57,700 in all the images drawn up by my imagination, 856 01:39:59,100 --> 01:40:01,300 no one would be able to find 857 01:40:02,600 --> 01:40:05,200 what they call an overarching idea, 858 01:40:06,700 --> 01:40:09,600 that is, the idol of the living man. 859 01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:16,800 And since that's a fact, since it doesn't exist, 860 01:40:20,000 --> 01:40:22,300 it means that there is nothing. 861 01:40:24,400 --> 01:40:27,300 In such a state of destitution 862 01:40:27,400 --> 01:40:30,400 brought about by illness and fear of death, 863 01:40:31,400 --> 01:40:34,300 everything that used to constitute my worldview, 864 01:40:34,500 --> 01:40:36,900 everything that gave life its meaning 865 01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:40,600 and brought joy, has been turned upside down. 866 01:40:43,900 --> 01:40:46,700 When something loftier and stronger than 867 01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:50,300 any external impressions is absent in a man, 868 01:40:51,400 --> 01:40:53,500 a bad cold is enough 869 01:40:54,800 --> 01:40:57,500 to upset his inner equilibrium. 870 01:41:03,300 --> 01:41:05,700 I've been defeated. 871 01:41:07,400 --> 01:41:09,400 And if that's true, 872 01:41:10,500 --> 01:41:12,500 there is no use thinking. 873 01:41:12,900 --> 01:41:15,400 I will just go on sitting 874 01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:18,500 and waiting in silence 875 01:41:21,800 --> 01:41:24,100 for what is to come. 876 01:41:36,900 --> 01:41:39,600 I am looking at you and I am ashamed 877 01:41:40,700 --> 01:41:43,100 that I used to be happy. 878 01:41:44,400 --> 01:41:47,400 I had not realized that I lacked what they call 879 01:41:48,000 --> 01:41:50,800 an overarching idea until now. 880 01:41:52,500 --> 01:41:55,500 But you will never know peace. 881 01:41:58,800 --> 01:42:01,300 Never in your whole life. 882 01:42:22,200 --> 01:42:24,300 I don't like it here. 883 01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:30,300 Yes, it's strangely grey around here. 884 01:42:31,400 --> 01:42:34,100 Such a grey city. 885 01:42:42,100 --> 01:42:43,600 Ugly. 886 01:42:49,900 --> 01:42:51,600 I am leaving today. 887 01:42:56,700 --> 01:42:58,000 Where to? 888 01:43:19,000 --> 01:43:20,500 I don't know. 889 01:43:23,500 --> 01:43:25,100 For long? 890 01:43:27,600 --> 01:43:28,600 Yes. 891 01:44:34,900 --> 01:44:36,700 She hasn't looked back. 892 01:44:38,100 --> 01:44:41,100 She knows I'm watching her. 893 01:44:42,100 --> 01:44:45,200 And she probably won't look back. 894 01:44:54,800 --> 01:44:56,100 That's right. 895 01:44:58,500 --> 01:45:00,400 She didn't look back. 896 01:45:03,600 --> 01:45:04,900 Farewell, 897 01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:09,100 my precious. 898 01:46:09,600 --> 01:46:15,600 Subtitles by aileverte kinematografika. blogspot. com 63441

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