1 00:00:24,274 --> 00:00:26,776 [Car Horns Honking] 2 00:00:28,404 --> 00:00:30,488 [Chattering] 3 00:00:47,131 --> 00:00:49,048 [Man] Oh! Look at this guy. 4 00:01:17,494 --> 00:01:20,455 - [Siren Wailing] - [Truck Horn Blaring] 5 00:01:22,291 --> 00:01:25,209 [Horn Blaring] 6 00:01:27,588 --> 00:01:29,839 [Chattering, Indistinct] 7 00:01:34,887 --> 00:01:36,888 [Horn Honks] 8 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:45,688 [Siren Wailing In Distance] 9 00:02:14,134 --> 00:02:17,345 - Andrushki. - Oh! [Laughing] 10 00:02:20,432 --> 00:02:22,558 - How are you? - Oh, there's Wal. 11 00:02:30,484 --> 00:02:33,319 - Hi, Wal. - Weren't we going to rehearse at 5:00? 12 00:02:33,403 --> 00:02:35,780 I think it was 5:15. 13 00:02:35,864 --> 00:02:37,532 Is, uh - 14 00:02:39,034 --> 00:02:41,661 Mmm. What is this? 15 00:02:41,745 --> 00:02:43,579 - It's a knish. - Mmm. 16 00:02:43,664 --> 00:02:45,623 There he is. Wally! 17 00:02:47,918 --> 00:02:49,836 - Hi. Hi. Great to see you. - Hello. 18 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:52,004 André, this is Mrs. Chao. 19 00:02:52,089 --> 00:02:54,006 - Uh, we met last summer in Berlin. - How do you do? 20 00:02:54,091 --> 00:02:56,259 Do you mind if she comes to our rehearsal today? 21 00:02:56,343 --> 00:02:58,594 Oh, I'd be delighted. I love to have people visit. 22 00:02:58,679 --> 00:03:02,431 In fact, you've come on a great day because we're gonna be running through the entire play. 23 00:03:02,516 --> 00:03:06,310 That's wonderful. This is my friend Flip Innunu. 24 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:09,313 You know, Mrs. Chao was explaining to me... 25 00:03:09,398 --> 00:03:13,734 her grandfather actually translated Chekhov into Bengali. 26 00:03:13,819 --> 00:03:15,528 That was a long time ago. 27 00:03:15,612 --> 00:03:16,946 My God! 28 00:03:18,782 --> 00:03:20,908 [Mrs. Chao] You know, I've never seen Uncle Vanya. 29 00:03:20,993 --> 00:03:23,619 Really? Well, it's certainly, uh - 30 00:03:23,704 --> 00:03:27,623 - What part does André play? - Oh, uh, he's the director. 31 00:03:28,876 --> 00:03:31,210 - Positive. - [Chuckles] 32 00:03:33,547 --> 00:03:35,673 Hi, Phoebe. Nice to see you. 33 00:03:35,757 --> 00:03:39,010 I want you to meet my cousin's niece, Tucker, from Toledo. 34 00:03:39,094 --> 00:03:42,805 - Oh, how nice to have you. - What an amazing place! When was it built? 35 00:03:42,890 --> 00:03:47,435 [Wally] Well, I think around the turn of the century. It's been abandoned for years. 36 00:03:47,519 --> 00:03:49,145 We're just squatting here really. 37 00:03:49,229 --> 00:03:52,315 And we can't use the stage 'cause the ropes, obviously... 38 00:03:52,399 --> 00:03:54,984 have been eaten by, uh, rats. 39 00:03:55,068 --> 00:03:57,236 - I've lost it. - [Laughs] 40 00:03:58,238 --> 00:04:01,324 Larry, you've been losing it for 25 years, for as long as I've known you. 41 00:04:01,408 --> 00:04:03,701 - [Larry Chattering, Indistinct] - Hi, Jer. 42 00:04:03,785 --> 00:04:05,328 Hi, there. 43 00:04:05,412 --> 00:04:07,413 Hey, André. How you doin'? 44 00:04:08,916 --> 00:04:11,667 [Wally] I like these, uh, squirrels. 45 00:04:11,752 --> 00:04:17,131 And the faces are actually from Shakespeare's plays, or that's what they say. 46 00:04:17,215 --> 00:04:22,470 God, I am just exhausted today. I, uh, didn't get any sleep at all last night. 47 00:04:22,554 --> 00:04:24,931 You know, the Ziegfeld Follies were done here. 48 00:04:25,641 --> 00:04:28,184 There used to be, uh, dressing rooms here... 49 00:04:28,268 --> 00:04:31,729 that could accommodate 500 actors. 50 00:04:31,813 --> 00:04:35,358 Now, it's a little dangerous because it's been raining through the ceiling... 51 00:04:35,442 --> 00:04:40,196 and those nets are there to catch the plaster that's coming down. 52 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:43,741 - Watch your step, Phoebe. - I'm all right. But you look tired. 53 00:04:43,825 --> 00:04:47,620 Yeah, well, I haven't had time to catch my breath. You see, I'm doing these two other plays. 54 00:04:47,704 --> 00:04:49,872 They keep calling me for extra rehearsals. 55 00:04:49,957 --> 00:04:52,416 I was up at 6:00 this morning learning lines for the rewrites... 56 00:04:52,501 --> 00:04:55,836 on the play I'm doing over at the Hearts and Minds Café. 57 00:04:55,921 --> 00:04:58,965 - I've never heard of that theater. - No reason you should've. 58 00:04:59,049 --> 00:05:00,716 Thanks, Liz. 59 00:05:01,301 --> 00:05:05,096 - So, what I'm doing in the first act is okay? - Well, how does it feel? 60 00:05:05,180 --> 00:05:07,348 Just very uncomfortable. 61 00:05:07,432 --> 00:05:09,225 [Chuckling] Well, that's the whole point. 62 00:05:09,309 --> 00:05:11,227 [Laughs] Okay. 63 00:05:11,311 --> 00:05:14,188 - Did you go swimming today? - I'm gonna go tonight. 64 00:05:14,272 --> 00:05:16,691 - If I don't swim, I don't move. - Here, come on with me. 65 00:05:16,775 --> 00:05:19,068 - Like the body just - - I'm gonna get a cup of coffee. 66 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:21,737 - Under water, my hair turns green. - [André]... my own mother? 67 00:05:21,822 --> 00:05:24,740 - [Woman] Your mother. - [André] My mother, she was so difficult... 68 00:05:24,825 --> 00:05:27,243 and she was literally driving me so nuts. 69 00:05:27,327 --> 00:05:29,578 It's all crumbling, but it's all so beautiful. 70 00:05:29,663 --> 00:05:32,415 [Laughing] Are you telling me Wally's going to strip? 71 00:05:32,499 --> 00:05:35,292 - No. No, I just mean - - He could, you know. 72 00:05:35,377 --> 00:05:37,878 - He could do anything. - [Jingling] 73 00:05:40,132 --> 00:05:42,675 [André] Do what you've been doing. You know, just get it - 74 00:05:42,759 --> 00:05:45,261 [André Continues, Indistinct] 75 00:05:45,345 --> 00:05:49,015 - [Woman] Drink? - No. No, thank you. I don't want it. 76 00:05:49,099 --> 00:05:51,350 - A little vodka? - [Laughs] 77 00:05:51,435 --> 00:05:55,438 Not today, no. I can't drink it every day. It's not good for me. 78 00:05:55,522 --> 00:05:57,815 - [Laughs] - How long have we known each other? 79 00:05:57,899 --> 00:05:59,775 - How long? - Mm-hmm. 80 00:05:59,860 --> 00:06:02,278 Let me think. 81 00:06:02,362 --> 00:06:03,863 Eleven years. 82 00:06:03,947 --> 00:06:05,614 How much have I changed? 83 00:06:05,699 --> 00:06:07,575 - [Laughing] How much? - Yeah. 84 00:06:07,659 --> 00:06:09,827 Very much, I think. 85 00:06:09,911 --> 00:06:12,788 Well, then you were young, now you're old. 86 00:06:12,873 --> 00:06:15,791 - Mmm. - I think your looks have faded. 87 00:06:16,877 --> 00:06:20,337 - And you're drinking now. - Ten years' time, I've become a different man. 88 00:06:20,422 --> 00:06:22,173 Oh, that's true. 89 00:06:22,257 --> 00:06:24,133 Why? 90 00:06:24,217 --> 00:06:26,427 Why? Overwork, simply. 91 00:06:26,511 --> 00:06:29,180 On my feet all day, every day. 92 00:06:29,264 --> 00:06:32,475 Every night I go to sleep in fear I'll be called out on a call. 93 00:06:32,559 --> 00:06:36,520 In the years you've known me, I have not had one single free day. Do you know that? 94 00:06:36,605 --> 00:06:40,066 And how can I help but to become old, you tell me, living such a life? 95 00:06:40,150 --> 00:06:42,735 - Not dead yet. - Ha! 96 00:06:42,819 --> 00:06:45,821 Some enthusiasms, some thoughts... 97 00:06:45,906 --> 00:06:47,740 but quite subdued. 98 00:06:48,992 --> 00:06:50,659 Dull, somehow. 99 00:06:51,828 --> 00:06:54,246 There's nothing I want... 100 00:06:54,331 --> 00:06:56,207 no one that I love... 101 00:06:56,291 --> 00:06:58,292 nothing I need. 102 00:06:58,376 --> 00:07:00,836 Well, I love you, of course. 103 00:07:00,921 --> 00:07:02,421 - [Kisses] - Mmm. 104 00:07:03,548 --> 00:07:08,010 Third week of Lent, I was called to Málitskoye - spotted fever. 105 00:07:08,095 --> 00:07:12,014 There were rows of huts, people in the huts, side by side on the floor, lying in filth. 106 00:07:12,099 --> 00:07:15,476 Cattle living in the buildings with the sick, young pigs in there in the same room. 107 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,771 - Ugh. - All day, working, not a bite to eat. 108 00:07:18,855 --> 00:07:21,190 I come home, thank God, to lie down, to rest... 109 00:07:21,274 --> 00:07:24,860 and they send in a switchman hit by the train, and - 110 00:07:27,864 --> 00:07:30,366 And I get him on the table, I'm going to start operating... 111 00:07:30,450 --> 00:07:32,368 and he dies... 112 00:07:32,452 --> 00:07:34,411 under the chloroform. 113 00:07:36,790 --> 00:07:38,415 The moment I least required it... 114 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:41,335 my conscience chose to inform me that I'd murdered him. 115 00:07:42,671 --> 00:07:44,964 I sat down and closed my eyes and thought... 116 00:07:46,049 --> 00:07:48,217 100 years from now... 117 00:07:48,885 --> 00:07:51,345 those who come after us... 118 00:07:51,429 --> 00:07:53,722 for whom our lives are showing the way - 119 00:07:55,350 --> 00:07:57,017 will they think kindly of us? 120 00:07:57,102 --> 00:07:59,228 Will they remember us with a kind word? 121 00:07:59,312 --> 00:08:02,273 And, Nanny, I wish to God I could think so. 122 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:05,901 The people won't remember... 123 00:08:05,986 --> 00:08:07,653 but God will. 124 00:08:07,737 --> 00:08:10,072 Thank you. That was nicely said. 125 00:08:10,157 --> 00:08:11,907 Yes, oh, yes. 126 00:08:14,744 --> 00:08:17,329 - Sleep well? - Yes, very. 127 00:08:18,790 --> 00:08:20,291 I'll tell you... 128 00:08:20,375 --> 00:08:22,835 since the Herr and Frau Professor have come to visit... 129 00:08:22,919 --> 00:08:26,255 my life's gone completely off the track. 130 00:08:26,339 --> 00:08:28,424 I'm sleeping days, I'm up nights... 131 00:08:28,508 --> 00:08:32,094 I'm served all sorts of "je ne sais quoi" to eat... 132 00:08:32,179 --> 00:08:33,762 drinking wines. 133 00:08:34,848 --> 00:08:37,933 Used to be, all day, each moment ordered - 134 00:08:38,018 --> 00:08:40,060 work, this. 135 00:08:41,354 --> 00:08:44,023 Well, Sonya's still working, of course, but what am I doing? 136 00:08:44,816 --> 00:08:46,609 - Modern ways. - Ah! 137 00:08:46,693 --> 00:08:49,987 - Absolutely right! - [Nanny Chuckling] 138 00:08:50,071 --> 00:08:53,032 Yes, the professor sleeps till noon. 139 00:08:53,116 --> 00:08:56,785 I keep the samovar boiling, waiting for him to get up. 140 00:08:56,870 --> 00:09:00,206 We used to have dinner at noon, like people everywhere, hmm? 141 00:09:00,290 --> 00:09:01,957 Now it's after 6:00. 142 00:09:02,042 --> 00:09:05,085 He writes and reads all night. 143 00:09:06,296 --> 00:09:08,756 2:00 in the morning, there's a ring. 144 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:10,758 What is it? 145 00:09:10,842 --> 00:09:13,719 Excuse me. He wants his tea. 146 00:09:13,803 --> 00:09:15,137 [Laughs] 147 00:09:15,222 --> 00:09:18,515 Wake up the house, put on the samovar. 148 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:20,184 Modern ways. 149 00:09:20,268 --> 00:09:22,645 - How much longer are they here? - Ah. A hundred years. 150 00:09:22,729 --> 00:09:25,189 - He wants to move here. - No! 151 00:09:27,734 --> 00:09:30,945 Magnificent. Beautiful views. 152 00:09:31,029 --> 00:09:33,989 - What a prospect. - Beautiful indeed, Your Excellency. 153 00:09:34,074 --> 00:09:37,493 And tomorrow I'll show you the plantation, Papa. Would you like that? 154 00:09:37,577 --> 00:09:40,746 Uh, ladies and gentlemen, the tea is served. 155 00:09:41,748 --> 00:09:44,750 Oh, would you please ask them to send it to my study? 156 00:09:44,834 --> 00:09:47,002 There's some things I have to do. 157 00:09:49,089 --> 00:09:51,465 I know you'll like the plantation, Papa. 158 00:09:52,259 --> 00:09:54,885 It's hot, sweltering. 159 00:09:55,971 --> 00:09:58,514 Our great scholar dresses for December. 160 00:09:58,598 --> 00:10:00,432 He's quite a careful man. 161 00:10:10,151 --> 00:10:13,279 Mmm. I am happy today. 162 00:10:13,363 --> 00:10:15,364 Birds singing, sun shining. 163 00:10:15,448 --> 00:10:18,492 You know, whatever I find myself doing today - 164 00:10:18,576 --> 00:10:23,205 just now, walking in the garden, or just standing here, looking at this table - 165 00:10:23,290 --> 00:10:25,916 I feel happy. [Laughing] 166 00:10:26,001 --> 00:10:27,501 [Nanny] God bless you. 167 00:10:27,585 --> 00:10:29,712 - And her eyes, uh - - Vanya. 168 00:10:29,796 --> 00:10:32,006 - Yes. - Tell us something. 169 00:10:32,090 --> 00:10:34,049 - What should I tell you? - Something new. 170 00:10:34,134 --> 00:10:37,136 [Snorts] Something new. 171 00:10:37,220 --> 00:10:40,222 What's new? Nothing's new. Everything's old. 172 00:10:40,307 --> 00:10:42,349 Nothing's changed. 173 00:10:42,434 --> 00:10:43,892 I'm the same. 174 00:10:43,977 --> 00:10:46,437 Probably a little bit worse because I've grown lazy... 175 00:10:46,521 --> 00:10:48,314 complain all day. 176 00:10:49,524 --> 00:10:51,025 What's new? 177 00:10:52,110 --> 00:10:57,072 Hmm? My old crow, my old mother's still prating on about her dear rights of women... 178 00:10:57,157 --> 00:10:59,116 one eye on the grave... 179 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,911 the other one looking in her book for the secret of life. 180 00:11:02,996 --> 00:11:04,913 What about the professor? 181 00:11:07,250 --> 00:11:10,711 The professor, uh, goes on as before. 182 00:11:10,795 --> 00:11:15,257 All day and half of the night, he sits at his desk and he writes. 183 00:11:15,342 --> 00:11:17,718 What is he working on? 184 00:11:17,802 --> 00:11:21,263 Why doesn't he turn to some magnificent subject... 185 00:11:21,348 --> 00:11:23,766 like his autobiography? 186 00:11:23,850 --> 00:11:25,684 Now, there's a book - 187 00:11:25,769 --> 00:11:27,478 a worked-out academic... 188 00:11:27,562 --> 00:11:29,897 gout, rheumatism, migraine... 189 00:11:29,981 --> 00:11:32,649 the liver inflamed with jealousy and envy... 190 00:11:32,734 --> 00:11:35,235 lives on the estate of his first wife. 191 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:36,862 From choice? 192 00:11:36,946 --> 00:11:40,449 No, because he's too cheap to live in the town. 193 00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:44,620 And the man prates constantly about his misfortunes. 194 00:11:45,747 --> 00:11:48,040 What are they? He has none. 195 00:11:49,793 --> 00:11:52,252 The son of a poor deacon. 196 00:11:53,046 --> 00:11:55,422 He's a scholarship student at the seminary. 197 00:11:55,507 --> 00:11:58,133 Gets a degree, gets a teaching chair. 198 00:11:58,218 --> 00:12:02,304 Now he's "Your Excellency," and he marries the daughter of a senator, and so on. 199 00:12:02,389 --> 00:12:04,223 But I say, forget that... 200 00:12:04,307 --> 00:12:07,559 because this man is so exceedingly fortunate... 201 00:12:07,644 --> 00:12:10,229 as to write and lecture for 25 years... 202 00:12:10,313 --> 00:12:12,606 upon a subject of which he knows less than nothing. 203 00:12:12,690 --> 00:12:13,982 [Chuckles] 204 00:12:14,067 --> 00:12:17,945 Twenty-five years, this wise man tells us about art. 205 00:12:18,738 --> 00:12:21,407 Twenty-five years, he reads the works of others... 206 00:12:21,491 --> 00:12:24,284 he prattles about realism and naturalism... 207 00:12:25,328 --> 00:12:27,913 specious nonsense which the clever have long known... 208 00:12:27,997 --> 00:12:30,833 and the stupid really don't care about. 209 00:12:30,917 --> 00:12:32,960 Not a living soul knows who he is or cares... 210 00:12:33,044 --> 00:12:35,587 nor is he missed from a position which he held for 25 years. 211 00:12:35,672 --> 00:12:36,839 Isn't that something? 212 00:12:36,923 --> 00:12:41,510 For 25 years, this man kept some more worthy man out of a job. 213 00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:43,387 Yet look at him. 214 00:12:43,471 --> 00:12:46,598 He goes around as if he were saying... 215 00:12:46,683 --> 00:12:51,186 [Low, Gravelly Voice] "Yes, I'm here among you." 216 00:12:52,313 --> 00:12:54,189 Well, you know, I believe you're jealous. 217 00:12:54,274 --> 00:12:56,191 [Laughs] 218 00:12:56,276 --> 00:12:57,818 [Vanya] Yes, I'm jealous. 219 00:12:57,902 --> 00:13:00,696 What a Don Juan with women. 220 00:13:00,780 --> 00:13:03,949 What a success with women is this man. 221 00:13:05,201 --> 00:13:07,494 His first wife? 222 00:13:07,579 --> 00:13:11,081 My sister, a transcendent beauty pure as the blue sky. 223 00:13:11,166 --> 00:13:13,125 Generous, noble. 224 00:13:13,209 --> 00:13:15,878 She had more admirers than this man had students. 225 00:13:15,962 --> 00:13:20,257 And yet she loved him, God knows why, the way only the pure angels love. 226 00:13:20,842 --> 00:13:23,343 My mother, his mother-in-law... 227 00:13:23,428 --> 00:13:25,888 she dotes on him to this day. 228 00:13:25,972 --> 00:13:30,100 He inspires in her reverent awe. 229 00:13:31,269 --> 00:13:34,062 And his second wife, this beauty whom we just saw... 230 00:13:34,147 --> 00:13:35,898 perceptive woman... 231 00:13:35,982 --> 00:13:37,691 she married him, he was already old. 232 00:13:37,775 --> 00:13:41,778 She gave up to him her life, her beauty, her luster. 233 00:13:41,863 --> 00:13:44,990 For what? Why? I'm asking you. 234 00:13:45,074 --> 00:13:47,075 And she stays faithful to him? 235 00:13:49,078 --> 00:13:50,662 Regrettably, yes. 236 00:13:50,747 --> 00:13:53,415 - Regrettably? - Yes, and I'll tell you why. 237 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:56,793 Because a fidelity like that is false. 238 00:13:56,878 --> 00:14:00,214 From start to close, it's composed of rhetoric. 239 00:14:00,298 --> 00:14:04,593 To cheat on an old man who revolts you, oh, that would be immoral. 240 00:14:04,677 --> 00:14:08,680 But to willfully squander your youth and stifle yourself in unhappiness... 241 00:14:08,765 --> 00:14:10,849 well, now, that's something we can really commend. 242 00:14:10,934 --> 00:14:13,602 Well, now, Vanya, you shouldn't say things like that. 243 00:14:13,686 --> 00:14:17,648 I mean, someone who would betray their husband or wife... 244 00:14:17,732 --> 00:14:21,610 well, they just might next betray the country or something, you know. 245 00:14:21,694 --> 00:14:23,445 Oh, please, you're killing me. 246 00:14:23,530 --> 00:14:25,280 Now, Vanya, please allow me. 247 00:14:25,365 --> 00:14:30,285 You know, my wife, she ran away from me the day after we were married. 248 00:14:30,370 --> 00:14:34,414 I think she just didn't like me. 249 00:14:34,499 --> 00:14:38,252 But do I then forget my duty? No. 250 00:14:38,336 --> 00:14:41,797 To this day, I honor and revere her... 251 00:14:41,881 --> 00:14:45,133 and to this day, I am absolutely faithful to her. 252 00:14:45,218 --> 00:14:47,553 I - I do everything I can for her. 253 00:14:47,637 --> 00:14:49,513 That is, I give her what I have... 254 00:14:49,597 --> 00:14:52,057 so that she could raise the children... 255 00:14:52,141 --> 00:14:55,060 which she had with the man that she loved. 256 00:14:55,144 --> 00:14:59,523 Oh, have I given up happiness? Yes, but I've kept my pride. 257 00:14:59,607 --> 00:15:01,400 And what of her? 258 00:15:01,484 --> 00:15:04,069 There she is, now no longer young. 259 00:15:04,153 --> 00:15:06,989 Her beauty, as it must, has faded. 260 00:15:07,073 --> 00:15:09,199 Her lover died. 261 00:15:09,284 --> 00:15:11,910 What does she have now, hmm? 262 00:15:11,995 --> 00:15:13,495 [Footsteps] 263 00:15:13,580 --> 00:15:15,872 Nanny? 264 00:15:15,957 --> 00:15:19,167 You go see to the chickens, and I'll tend to the tea. 265 00:15:19,252 --> 00:15:20,752 Yes. 266 00:15:26,759 --> 00:15:28,677 You know, I came to see your husband. 267 00:15:28,761 --> 00:15:31,179 You wrote he was deathly ill with rheumatism complications... 268 00:15:31,264 --> 00:15:33,265 and it seems he's in the perfect pink of health. 269 00:15:33,349 --> 00:15:35,684 - Ah, last night he was ill. - Mm-hmm. 270 00:15:35,768 --> 00:15:38,020 He complained of his legs. 271 00:15:38,104 --> 00:15:41,273 Um, today, though, you're right. He does seem fine. 272 00:15:41,357 --> 00:15:43,108 Yes, he seems fine... 273 00:15:43,192 --> 00:15:45,527 and I flat-out galloped 45 miles. 274 00:15:45,612 --> 00:15:48,655 [Laughs] Never mind. It isn't the first time. 275 00:15:48,740 --> 00:15:52,701 All right, um, I'll stay here tonight then, if you don't mind. 276 00:15:52,785 --> 00:15:54,453 At least I'll get some sleep. 277 00:15:54,537 --> 00:15:57,205 Lovely. It's so rare you spend the night here with us. 278 00:15:57,290 --> 00:15:59,541 I - I don't suspect you've eaten, have you? 279 00:15:59,626 --> 00:16:02,461 No. Many thanks, and thank you kindly. No, I haven't. No. 280 00:16:02,545 --> 00:16:05,047 Well, then you'll get your rest and your supper. 281 00:16:06,132 --> 00:16:08,634 These days we're not dining until 6:00. 282 00:16:09,886 --> 00:16:11,219 Cold tea. 283 00:16:11,304 --> 00:16:15,140 Yes, the temperature in the samovar markedly decreased. 284 00:16:15,224 --> 00:16:17,809 No matter, lvan lvanich. We'll drink it cold. 285 00:16:17,894 --> 00:16:22,564 Oh, no, no. It's not lvan lvanich, it's llya llych, ma'am. 286 00:16:22,649 --> 00:16:23,899 Uh, llya llych. 287 00:16:23,983 --> 00:16:27,152 Or you might want to call me Waffles, as some do... 288 00:16:27,236 --> 00:16:30,447 on account of the pockmarks on my face. 289 00:16:30,531 --> 00:16:33,200 - Waffles. - I know Your Excellency - your husband. 290 00:16:33,284 --> 00:16:37,079 He knows me very well. We're old friends. I lived right here on the estate. 291 00:16:37,163 --> 00:16:40,624 You've probably seen me there at the table, having dinner with you every night. 292 00:16:40,708 --> 00:16:43,543 Ilya llych is our good right hand. 293 00:16:43,628 --> 00:16:46,755 - Would you like some tea, Godfather? - No, no. 294 00:16:47,757 --> 00:16:49,257 Ah! 295 00:16:50,343 --> 00:16:52,928 Ah, God! [Grumbles] 296 00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:56,348 - What's the matter, Grandmother? - [Spitting] 297 00:16:57,475 --> 00:16:59,476 Forgot to tell Alexandr... 298 00:17:01,562 --> 00:17:03,230 I received a letter from Kharkov today. 299 00:17:03,314 --> 00:17:05,607 Pavel Alexeyevich sent me his newest pamphlet. 300 00:17:05,692 --> 00:17:07,150 - [Doctor] Oh, really? - Mm-hmm. 301 00:17:07,235 --> 00:17:09,236 - Is it interesting? - Yes. [Chuckling] 302 00:17:10,405 --> 00:17:11,905 Interesting, yes... 303 00:17:13,449 --> 00:17:15,117 but strange. 304 00:17:17,328 --> 00:17:20,914 He's now refuting the very same things he defended... 305 00:17:20,998 --> 00:17:22,457 seven years ago. 306 00:17:22,542 --> 00:17:25,085 How, how, how, how - 307 00:17:25,169 --> 00:17:27,462 How... what? 308 00:17:28,798 --> 00:17:30,799 How awful. 309 00:17:30,883 --> 00:17:34,052 Nothing awful in it. It happens all the time. 310 00:17:34,137 --> 00:17:36,138 So just drink your tea, Mother. 311 00:17:37,223 --> 00:17:39,391 No. 312 00:17:39,475 --> 00:17:41,476 I want to talk. 313 00:17:42,979 --> 00:17:44,980 We all want to talk. 314 00:17:45,064 --> 00:17:46,857 We've been talking. 315 00:17:46,941 --> 00:17:50,610 We've been talking and reading and writing pamphlets... 316 00:17:50,695 --> 00:17:52,279 for 50 years... 317 00:17:52,363 --> 00:17:54,197 and I say, enough. 318 00:17:55,992 --> 00:17:58,994 Why is it unpleasant for you to hear me speak? 319 00:17:59,078 --> 00:18:00,579 Oh! 320 00:18:01,998 --> 00:18:05,500 Excuse me, Jean, but you have changed so much this last year, I hardly know you. 321 00:18:05,585 --> 00:18:08,086 You used to be a man of character... 322 00:18:09,922 --> 00:18:13,467 a man of fine opinions, an enlightened man, and now - 323 00:18:13,551 --> 00:18:16,762 Oh, yes. I was so enlightened... 324 00:18:16,846 --> 00:18:20,557 it's unfortunate I lit the way for no one. 325 00:18:20,641 --> 00:18:23,393 An enlightened man. What worse could you say about me? 326 00:18:23,478 --> 00:18:25,604 - I'm 47 years old. - [Chuckling] 327 00:18:25,688 --> 00:18:29,691 Up until one year ago, I thought exactly the same way you did. 328 00:18:30,610 --> 00:18:36,198 I joyed to cloud my mind with this rank scholasticism... 329 00:18:36,282 --> 00:18:38,658 that we all hold so dear... 330 00:18:38,743 --> 00:18:41,578 not to see real life. 331 00:18:41,662 --> 00:18:44,122 I knew that I was doing right. 332 00:18:44,207 --> 00:18:46,583 What a fine man. 333 00:18:47,752 --> 00:18:51,296 Now, if you'll excuse me, if you only knew. 334 00:18:51,380 --> 00:18:55,008 How can we know if you don't tell us? 335 00:18:55,092 --> 00:18:59,554 I-I spend my nights in a vicious fury... 336 00:18:59,639 --> 00:19:02,516 at the life I've let slip away from me. 337 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,977 I could have enjoyed everything in life. I could have enjoyed everything! 338 00:19:06,729 --> 00:19:09,064 I enjoyed nothing! 339 00:19:09,148 --> 00:19:10,732 Now I'm too old. 340 00:19:10,817 --> 00:19:12,442 Uncle, it's so depressing. 341 00:19:12,527 --> 00:19:15,111 Are you blaming your former convictions? 342 00:19:16,656 --> 00:19:19,908 What you say is not the fault of your convictions - it's your fault! 343 00:19:22,703 --> 00:19:24,663 It's your own fault! 344 00:19:26,916 --> 00:19:29,417 Convictions by themselves are nothing. 345 00:19:29,502 --> 00:19:32,170 Like - Like paint on a palette. 346 00:19:32,255 --> 00:19:34,881 It's you who should have been working, you who should have been using them... 347 00:19:34,966 --> 00:19:36,258 doing real work. 348 00:19:36,342 --> 00:19:37,425 - Oh, real work? - Yes! 349 00:19:37,510 --> 00:19:40,595 Well, not everyone is called, you know, like our Herr Professor... 350 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,683 to go speaking and writing and spewing work forth... 351 00:19:44,767 --> 00:19:46,434 like some farm machine. 352 00:19:46,519 --> 00:19:48,019 [Shouting] What do you mean by that? 353 00:19:48,104 --> 00:19:50,480 Grandmother, Uncle Vanya, please! 354 00:19:51,732 --> 00:19:54,359 I'm sorry. I'm done. 355 00:19:54,443 --> 00:19:57,362 I am silent. Excuse me. 356 00:20:01,242 --> 00:20:03,243 What a lovely day today. 357 00:20:04,370 --> 00:20:06,830 Not too hot. 358 00:20:06,914 --> 00:20:08,790 Excellent weather for - 359 00:20:08,875 --> 00:20:11,459 [Mumbling, Screaming] Suicide. 360 00:20:11,544 --> 00:20:13,545 [Nanny] Chick, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick! 361 00:20:13,629 --> 00:20:15,630 Chick, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick! 362 00:20:15,715 --> 00:20:19,092 - Chick, chick, chick, chick, chick! - Nanny, which one are you calling? 363 00:20:19,176 --> 00:20:21,636 Polka Dot has gone off with her chicks. 364 00:20:21,721 --> 00:20:23,638 I don't want the crows to get them. 365 00:20:23,723 --> 00:20:25,974 Here, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick! 366 00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:29,728 - Chick, chick, chick, chick, chick, chick! - [Laughing] 367 00:20:31,731 --> 00:20:34,316 - Uh, Doctor, they've come for you. - Who? 368 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,193 Uh, from the factory. There's been - They need you. 369 00:20:37,278 --> 00:20:40,488 Fine. Well, I have to go, damn it. What a shame. 370 00:20:40,573 --> 00:20:45,493 I'm so sorry. Um, why don't you come back for supper, after the factory? 371 00:20:45,578 --> 00:20:49,915 Well, it'd be too late then, won't it? How could I? How could I? 372 00:20:49,999 --> 00:20:52,208 Waffles, get me a glass of vodka, would you, please? 373 00:20:52,293 --> 00:20:54,419 Glass of vodka. 374 00:20:54,503 --> 00:20:57,547 Well, if you should like to stop by sometime, perhaps with Sophie here... 375 00:20:57,632 --> 00:20:59,174 I would be most delighted. 376 00:20:59,258 --> 00:21:01,426 I only have the 80 acres, but if it interested you... 377 00:21:01,510 --> 00:21:05,472 next to me we have a model orchard such as you won't see within a thousand miles. 378 00:21:05,556 --> 00:21:07,182 It's a state reserve. 379 00:21:07,266 --> 00:21:09,851 And the, um, overseer, the old forester... 380 00:21:09,936 --> 00:21:11,603 he's usually ill, you see... 381 00:21:11,687 --> 00:21:14,522 and actually I get to oversee the work myself. 382 00:21:14,607 --> 00:21:17,484 - Yes, they told me you loved the woods. - Oh, yes. 383 00:21:19,445 --> 00:21:21,988 I-I suppose there's much good to be done there. 384 00:21:22,073 --> 00:21:23,865 Oh, much good. 385 00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:27,577 But my question is, doesn't it interfere with your real calling? 386 00:21:27,662 --> 00:21:29,704 My real calling? 387 00:21:29,789 --> 00:21:32,415 God knows what our real calling is. 388 00:21:33,376 --> 00:21:36,544 The woods. You find them interesting. 389 00:21:36,629 --> 00:21:39,381 Interesting? Fascinating, yes. 390 00:21:39,465 --> 00:21:41,383 Yes. Fascinating. 391 00:21:42,635 --> 00:21:47,013 [Laughing] You don't seem that old. 392 00:21:47,098 --> 00:21:50,892 What would we say? Um, 36, 37? 393 00:21:50,977 --> 00:21:52,894 - [Laughs] - So? 394 00:21:52,979 --> 00:21:56,606 Well, how interesting can that be, really, alone in the woods all the time? 395 00:21:56,691 --> 00:21:58,566 I should find it quite monotonous. 396 00:21:58,651 --> 00:22:01,736 No, it's-it's really - it's really quite interesting. 397 00:22:02,905 --> 00:22:07,033 Every year he plots new forests or he makes a plan to conserve the old ones. 398 00:22:07,118 --> 00:22:09,744 He's received both a medal and a diploma for his work. 399 00:22:09,829 --> 00:22:12,956 If you listen to him, you'll see what he means. 400 00:22:14,375 --> 00:22:16,793 He says that forests embellish the land... 401 00:22:16,877 --> 00:22:20,046 and that they instill in man a love of beauty... 402 00:22:20,131 --> 00:22:22,257 that they raise the mind. 403 00:22:22,341 --> 00:22:24,801 Um, they moderate the climate... 404 00:22:24,885 --> 00:22:27,012 and in the lands where the climate is milder... 405 00:22:27,096 --> 00:22:29,014 then people struggle less with nature... 406 00:22:29,098 --> 00:22:32,100 and the people in those lands are milder and gentler... 407 00:22:32,184 --> 00:22:36,438 and their speech is more refined, and their movements are more graceful... 408 00:22:36,522 --> 00:22:40,775 and they cultivate the arts and sciences, and there's joy in their philosophy... 409 00:22:40,860 --> 00:22:43,028 and they treat women with nobleness. 410 00:22:43,112 --> 00:22:47,449 Bravo! Bravo! This is magnificent. 411 00:22:47,533 --> 00:22:51,828 But now it's not convincing, my friend, as I still must fuel my stoves... 412 00:22:51,912 --> 00:22:54,789 and build with those same woods that you prize. 413 00:22:54,874 --> 00:22:56,624 - Burn peat in your stoves. - Hmm? 414 00:22:56,709 --> 00:22:59,461 Build your barn of stones. You understand? 415 00:22:59,545 --> 00:23:02,589 Yes, sometimes we cut wood out of necessity. 416 00:23:02,673 --> 00:23:05,800 But why be wanton? Why? 417 00:23:05,885 --> 00:23:08,887 Our forests fall before the ax. 418 00:23:08,971 --> 00:23:11,014 Billions of trees, all perishing. 419 00:23:11,098 --> 00:23:14,684 The homes of birds and beasts being laid waste. 420 00:23:14,769 --> 00:23:17,312 The level of the rivers falls, and they dry up. 421 00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:19,981 Sublime landscapes disappear, never to return... 422 00:23:20,066 --> 00:23:24,110 because we haven't sense enough to bend down and pick fuel up from the ground. 423 00:23:24,195 --> 00:23:26,154 Isn't this so? 424 00:23:26,238 --> 00:23:29,991 What must human beings be to destroy what they can never create? 425 00:23:30,076 --> 00:23:33,787 God's given us reason and power of thought so that we may improve our lot... 426 00:23:33,871 --> 00:23:36,498 and what have we used these powers for but waste? 427 00:23:37,416 --> 00:23:40,543 We've destroyed our forests, our rivers run dry... 428 00:23:40,628 --> 00:23:43,046 our wildlife is all but extinct... 429 00:23:43,130 --> 00:23:45,548 our climate ruined. 430 00:23:45,633 --> 00:23:49,052 And every day, every day, wherever one looks... 431 00:23:49,136 --> 00:23:51,304 our life is more hideous. 432 00:23:51,388 --> 00:23:53,515 Oh, I see. You think me amusing. 433 00:23:53,599 --> 00:23:56,226 These seem to you the thoughts of some poor eccentric. 434 00:23:56,310 --> 00:23:58,853 Perhaps - Perhaps it's naive, too, on my part. 435 00:23:58,938 --> 00:24:02,982 Perhaps you think that, but I pass by the woods I've saved from the ax... 436 00:24:03,067 --> 00:24:05,902 and I hear the forest sighing. 437 00:24:06,904 --> 00:24:08,988 I planted that forest. 438 00:24:09,073 --> 00:24:11,699 And I think things may be in our power. 439 00:24:11,784 --> 00:24:15,912 You understand? Perhaps the climate itself is in our control. 440 00:24:15,996 --> 00:24:17,622 Why not? 441 00:24:17,706 --> 00:24:20,208 And if in a thousand years, people are happy... 442 00:24:20,292 --> 00:24:23,169 I will have played a part in that happiness. 443 00:24:23,254 --> 00:24:24,963 A small part. 444 00:24:25,047 --> 00:24:28,383 I plant a birch tree. I watch it take root. 445 00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:31,136 It grows. It sways in the wind. 446 00:24:32,721 --> 00:24:34,889 And I feel such pride. 447 00:24:37,643 --> 00:24:40,645 Well. Well, my time is up. I must be off. 448 00:24:45,234 --> 00:24:47,152 Thank you, Waffles. 449 00:24:48,070 --> 00:24:50,572 And, of course, it's possible I am just an eccentric. 450 00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:55,410 [Kisses] 451 00:24:55,494 --> 00:24:58,037 And thank you for the honor of your hospitality. 452 00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:04,377 - When will we see you again? - I can't say. 453 00:25:04,461 --> 00:25:06,754 Sooner than next month, I hope. 454 00:25:14,346 --> 00:25:16,306 [Laughing] 455 00:25:23,189 --> 00:25:24,647 You - 456 00:25:25,649 --> 00:25:27,275 What? 457 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,485 You've fallen into one of your moods again? 458 00:25:29,570 --> 00:25:31,446 - Excuse me? - You're being impossible. 459 00:25:31,530 --> 00:25:33,948 - Was I? - Yes, you were. 460 00:25:34,033 --> 00:25:36,659 - Why are you baiting your mother? - [Grunts] 461 00:25:36,744 --> 00:25:39,787 And this morning at breakfast, you quarreled with Alexandr. 462 00:25:39,872 --> 00:25:41,206 Yes! 463 00:25:41,290 --> 00:25:43,124 Excuse me. 464 00:25:43,209 --> 00:25:44,500 - How petty. - Petty? 465 00:25:44,585 --> 00:25:46,085 - Yes. - What if I hate him? 466 00:25:46,170 --> 00:25:47,962 - Why should you hate him? - ♪♪ [Acoustic Guitar] 467 00:25:48,047 --> 00:25:50,381 He's like everybody else. 468 00:25:50,466 --> 00:25:53,968 He's no worse than you. [Laughs] 469 00:25:54,053 --> 00:25:56,554 Oh, look at yourself. 470 00:25:56,639 --> 00:25:59,390 Look at your face. Look at the way you move. 471 00:25:59,475 --> 00:26:02,644 You're too lazy to live, with your torpor. 472 00:26:02,728 --> 00:26:05,313 - Too lazy to live? - Yes, you are. 473 00:26:05,397 --> 00:26:06,898 Yes. 474 00:26:06,982 --> 00:26:08,858 I am. 475 00:26:08,943 --> 00:26:11,444 I'm too bored. [Laughs] 476 00:26:12,488 --> 00:26:14,155 Do you know? 477 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,741 Everyone berates my husband. 478 00:26:16,825 --> 00:26:18,868 Everyone berates him. 479 00:26:18,953 --> 00:26:23,373 Everybody pities me. Oh, the poor woman saddled with such an old man. 480 00:26:23,457 --> 00:26:25,208 They're so concerned for me. 481 00:26:25,292 --> 00:26:28,336 I mean, you must excuse me, but it's quite disgusting. Don't you think so? 482 00:26:29,255 --> 00:26:32,590 Why can you not look with indifference on a woman who's not your own? 483 00:26:32,675 --> 00:26:35,218 - [Laughs] - Why? Because the doctor's right. 484 00:26:35,302 --> 00:26:38,846 There is in each one of you a demon of destruction that spares nothing - 485 00:26:38,931 --> 00:26:41,891 neither forests, birds, women... 486 00:26:41,976 --> 00:26:43,810 nor each other. 487 00:26:44,812 --> 00:26:48,273 You know, I don't care for that philosophy. 488 00:26:53,487 --> 00:26:55,446 He has an interesting face. 489 00:26:56,448 --> 00:26:58,491 - "He"? - Our doctor. 490 00:27:00,786 --> 00:27:03,037 - Yes? - Nervous face. 491 00:27:03,122 --> 00:27:05,081 A tired face, I think. 492 00:27:06,417 --> 00:27:08,334 - Sonya finds him attractive. - [Laughs] 493 00:27:08,419 --> 00:27:10,086 I think she's in love with him. 494 00:27:10,170 --> 00:27:12,130 I understand it. 495 00:27:13,132 --> 00:27:16,884 Do you know he's been here three times since I first came... 496 00:27:16,969 --> 00:27:19,470 and I haven't once spoken with him properly? 497 00:27:21,849 --> 00:27:23,808 What must he think? 498 00:27:26,895 --> 00:27:29,272 He must think I'm mean. [Laughing] 499 00:27:29,356 --> 00:27:31,024 Oh, must he? 500 00:27:32,901 --> 00:27:35,528 I've never shown him any kindness. 501 00:27:36,655 --> 00:27:39,907 - Do you know why we're such good friends? - No. 502 00:27:39,992 --> 00:27:42,744 It's because we're both tiresome people. 503 00:27:42,828 --> 00:27:45,330 - We're both dull. - [Chuckles] 504 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,795 No, please don't look at me that way. I don't like it. 505 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,340 Well, how else am I supposed to look at you? I love you! 506 00:27:55,424 --> 00:27:57,425 ♪♪ [Guitar Stops] 507 00:27:57,509 --> 00:28:00,470 I look at you, and I see my life - 508 00:28:00,554 --> 00:28:02,972 I see my youth and I see my happiness. 509 00:28:03,057 --> 00:28:06,851 I know that the chance that you could reciprocate those feelings... 510 00:28:07,936 --> 00:28:09,937 is nothing. 511 00:28:10,022 --> 00:28:11,773 - But I want nothing. - [Laughs] 512 00:28:11,857 --> 00:28:15,276 - I just want you to permit me to look at you - - Shh! 513 00:28:15,361 --> 00:28:17,820 - And to hear your voice. - Shh! Someone will hear you. 514 00:28:17,905 --> 00:28:21,908 I just want you to let me speak with you and just to be near you. 515 00:28:23,285 --> 00:28:25,578 Oh, God. 516 00:28:25,662 --> 00:28:27,413 This is awful. 517 00:28:28,624 --> 00:28:30,124 [Kisses] 518 00:28:33,045 --> 00:28:36,339 [Thunder Rumbling] 519 00:28:39,885 --> 00:28:41,886 Good. Okay. 520 00:28:41,970 --> 00:28:44,847 Uh, the next act is - it's a couple of weeks later. 521 00:28:44,932 --> 00:28:47,600 It's in the dining room, and it's very late at night. 522 00:28:47,684 --> 00:28:49,560 Would you follow me? 523 00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:54,107 [Thunder Rumbling, Faint] 524 00:29:19,633 --> 00:29:22,009 [Gasps] 525 00:29:22,094 --> 00:29:24,971 - Who's there? Sonya, is that you? - It's me. 526 00:29:25,055 --> 00:29:28,057 Lenotchka, I'm in pain. Help me. 527 00:29:28,142 --> 00:29:30,643 Your blankets fell. I'll close the window. 528 00:29:30,727 --> 00:29:33,271 No, no, no. It's stifling in here. 529 00:29:34,940 --> 00:29:36,899 I dozed off... 530 00:29:38,277 --> 00:29:41,654 and dreamed that my leg belonged to someone else. 531 00:29:43,615 --> 00:29:45,616 I was awoken by the pain. 532 00:29:48,287 --> 00:29:51,414 I don't think it's gout. I think it's rheumatism! 533 00:29:53,083 --> 00:29:54,584 [Exhales] 534 00:29:55,836 --> 00:29:57,795 What time is it? 535 00:29:59,631 --> 00:30:01,424 Twenty past 12:00. 536 00:30:03,510 --> 00:30:06,345 In the morning, please go to the library... 537 00:30:06,430 --> 00:30:09,098 and look for the Batiushkov. 538 00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:12,268 - I think we have him. - Hmm? 539 00:30:12,352 --> 00:30:14,103 Look for - 540 00:30:14,188 --> 00:30:17,315 In the morning, please look for the Batiushkov. 541 00:30:17,399 --> 00:30:20,234 I remember we have him. Why can I not breathe? 542 00:30:20,319 --> 00:30:23,029 Two nights with no sleep. You're tired. 543 00:30:27,242 --> 00:30:28,743 [Chuckles] 544 00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:32,830 They say Turgenev developed angina pectoris from gout. 545 00:30:33,832 --> 00:30:35,583 I'll get it too. 546 00:30:37,753 --> 00:30:40,046 Damn old age. 547 00:30:40,130 --> 00:30:44,467 Damn, revolting, impotent old age. 548 00:30:45,344 --> 00:30:47,512 I grow more repulsive to myself. 549 00:30:50,015 --> 00:30:53,184 And I'm sure you, too, find it revolting to look on me. 550 00:30:53,268 --> 00:30:55,728 Do you know, you speak of your age in a tone... 551 00:30:55,812 --> 00:30:58,981 that suggests that it's our fault you've grown old? 552 00:30:59,066 --> 00:31:01,484 I revolt you most of all. 553 00:31:01,568 --> 00:31:03,861 You're right, of course. 554 00:31:03,946 --> 00:31:07,532 You're young, you're healthy, you're beautiful, you want to live. 555 00:31:08,534 --> 00:31:11,536 Here am I, an old man, more than one foot in the grave. 556 00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:14,497 - Isn't that right? - Oh, God. 557 00:31:14,581 --> 00:31:16,582 - Of course that's right. - [Laughs] Oh. 558 00:31:18,460 --> 00:31:21,003 How foolish of me to still keep on living. 559 00:31:21,088 --> 00:31:22,588 Please. 560 00:31:22,673 --> 00:31:24,298 - Be patient. - I'm ready to collapse. 561 00:31:24,383 --> 00:31:28,553 - Soon I'll set you all free. Yes. - What must I do? Please, be silent. 562 00:31:28,637 --> 00:31:31,597 Because of me you're all ready to collapse, all of you. 563 00:31:33,350 --> 00:31:35,977 - Everyone bored. - Oh! [Laughs] 564 00:31:36,061 --> 00:31:37,937 Wasting their youth. 565 00:31:38,021 --> 00:31:39,772 I'm the only one content. I see it. 566 00:31:39,856 --> 00:31:42,191 - Oh, you're destroying me. - Yes! 567 00:31:42,276 --> 00:31:44,777 Of course I'm destroying everyone. 568 00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:55,705 [Chuckling] What do you want from me? 569 00:31:58,917 --> 00:32:00,293 Nothing. 570 00:32:07,634 --> 00:32:09,594 Well, then be quiet. 571 00:32:16,518 --> 00:32:18,936 Fine. Let us stipulate. 572 00:32:19,021 --> 00:32:20,896 I am repulsive. 573 00:32:20,981 --> 00:32:24,191 I am a despot. I am that sick egoist you all think me to be. 574 00:32:24,276 --> 00:32:26,193 But have I not earned it? 575 00:32:26,278 --> 00:32:29,196 I worked all my life for science, respected and honored. 576 00:32:29,281 --> 00:32:31,365 And then I'm thrust, thrust... 577 00:32:31,450 --> 00:32:33,075 for no apparent reason... 578 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,703 into this tomb among the mindless... 579 00:32:35,787 --> 00:32:38,706 every day their prattle stuffing my ears. 580 00:32:39,708 --> 00:32:41,459 I want to live. 581 00:32:42,711 --> 00:32:44,879 Here, I'm in exile. 582 00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:48,466 Every waking moment I can pine for the past... 583 00:32:48,550 --> 00:32:50,593 envy the success of others... 584 00:32:51,678 --> 00:32:53,679 or I can fear death. 585 00:32:55,766 --> 00:32:57,933 Those three choices are my life. 586 00:32:58,018 --> 00:32:59,393 Have patience. 587 00:32:59,478 --> 00:33:03,564 Five or six more years, I'll be old too. 588 00:33:03,649 --> 00:33:05,149 - [Scoffs] - Hmm? 589 00:33:07,361 --> 00:33:08,944 [Footsteps] 590 00:33:11,031 --> 00:33:12,698 - Papa. - [Gasps] 591 00:33:14,117 --> 00:33:16,410 Papa, you sent for Dr. Astrov. 592 00:33:16,495 --> 00:33:19,121 Now he's here, and you don't want him. 593 00:33:19,206 --> 00:33:22,375 What am I supposed to tell him now that we've called him here for nothing? 594 00:33:22,459 --> 00:33:24,251 What good can Astrov do me? 595 00:33:24,336 --> 00:33:27,463 The man knows as much of medicine as I do of beekeeping. 596 00:33:27,547 --> 00:33:30,257 What am I to tell him, please? We sent for him. 597 00:33:30,342 --> 00:33:32,468 The man's a fool! I don't want to speak to him. 598 00:33:32,552 --> 00:33:34,845 Well, as you wish then! Fine! 599 00:33:37,849 --> 00:33:39,892 What time is it? 600 00:33:39,976 --> 00:33:41,977 It's almost 1:00. 601 00:33:43,105 --> 00:33:45,106 [Gasping] I can't breathe. 602 00:33:46,108 --> 00:33:48,776 Please, Sonya, my drops - they're on the table. 603 00:33:51,196 --> 00:33:52,863 Just a moment. 604 00:34:00,706 --> 00:34:04,291 No, not these! The ones I asked for, for God's sake! 605 00:34:08,213 --> 00:34:10,464 Some people might appreciate this peevishness! 606 00:34:10,549 --> 00:34:12,007 I do not. 607 00:34:12,092 --> 00:34:14,510 Please spare me. I don't like it. 608 00:34:14,594 --> 00:34:17,596 I need my rest. Tomorrow is a working day! 609 00:34:22,686 --> 00:34:24,812 - Well, there's a storm brewing outside. - Oh. 610 00:34:24,896 --> 00:34:26,564 [Laughs] 611 00:34:26,648 --> 00:34:28,649 Did you see that lightning? 612 00:34:29,568 --> 00:34:32,319 Yelena and Sonya, off to bed. 613 00:34:32,404 --> 00:34:33,904 [Stomps Foot] 614 00:34:33,989 --> 00:34:35,656 You are relieved. 615 00:34:35,741 --> 00:34:38,909 Oh, please don't leave me alone with him. He'll talk me to death. 616 00:34:39,911 --> 00:34:42,580 - They need their rest. - No. 617 00:34:42,664 --> 00:34:45,082 They need their rest. Two nights without sleep? 618 00:34:45,792 --> 00:34:48,127 All right, fine. Both of you, off to bed. 619 00:34:48,211 --> 00:34:50,880 And you, too, please. Sincerely, with thanks. 620 00:34:50,964 --> 00:34:54,008 In the name of our friendship, please leave me alone. 621 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,011 Don't leave me alone with him. I'm quite serious. 622 00:34:57,095 --> 00:35:00,014 - [Vanya] You know, this is becoming funny. - [Groans] 623 00:35:00,098 --> 00:35:03,684 [Sonya] Nanny, what are you doing up? You should be in bed. 624 00:35:03,769 --> 00:35:06,562 Fine. Samovar is on the table. 625 00:35:06,646 --> 00:35:09,023 Easy to say "Go to bed." 626 00:35:09,107 --> 00:35:13,068 Everybody's up. Everybody's fatigued beyond measure. 627 00:35:13,153 --> 00:35:15,070 I'm the only one happy. 628 00:35:15,155 --> 00:35:16,739 I'm ecstatic. 629 00:35:16,823 --> 00:35:19,325 What's the matter, little father? 630 00:35:19,409 --> 00:35:21,702 Your legs? Oh. 631 00:35:21,787 --> 00:35:23,579 My legs hurt too. 632 00:35:23,663 --> 00:35:27,374 I have the 'ralgia. 'Ralgia all day. 633 00:35:27,459 --> 00:35:31,587 Sonya's sainted mother took it so to heart when you hurt. 634 00:35:31,671 --> 00:35:35,633 She loved you so, that woman. Mmm. 635 00:35:35,717 --> 00:35:38,344 Well, the old are like the young. 636 00:35:38,428 --> 00:35:40,721 They want someone to pity them. 637 00:35:40,806 --> 00:35:43,432 But nobody ever feels sorry for the old. 638 00:35:43,517 --> 00:35:46,060 Now, you go to bed now, little father... 639 00:35:46,144 --> 00:35:48,854 and I'll make you some linden tea. 640 00:35:48,939 --> 00:35:51,273 And I'll warm your feet for you. 641 00:35:51,358 --> 00:35:54,777 - And I'll pray for you. Yes, I will. - Oh, go on. Go on. 642 00:35:54,861 --> 00:35:56,987 Now, come - Oh! 'Ralgia. Oh. 643 00:35:57,072 --> 00:35:59,657 Come to bed. That's right. 644 00:36:07,082 --> 00:36:10,000 I've been so tired by him, I can hardly stand. 645 00:36:11,086 --> 00:36:13,420 You're tired by him? 646 00:36:13,505 --> 00:36:15,840 I'm sick of myself. 647 00:36:17,592 --> 00:36:20,719 Two nights without sleep. I'm tired to nausea. 648 00:36:22,389 --> 00:36:24,348 This is not a happy home. 649 00:36:27,310 --> 00:36:31,146 Your mother loathes everything in the world except her pamphlets. 650 00:36:32,607 --> 00:36:34,275 And the professor - 651 00:36:36,152 --> 00:36:38,195 the professor mistrusts me. 652 00:36:40,532 --> 00:36:42,992 - He fears you. - He fears me? 653 00:36:44,035 --> 00:36:46,537 Yes, he does. 654 00:36:48,665 --> 00:36:50,749 Sonya's angry with her father... 655 00:36:51,835 --> 00:36:55,045 pettish with me, hasn't spoken to me in the last two weeks. 656 00:36:56,089 --> 00:36:58,048 Not one word. 657 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,634 And you hate my husband. 658 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,345 You despise your mother and you make no effort to conceal it. 659 00:37:03,430 --> 00:37:05,973 I go around 20 times a day, I'm on the edge of tears. 660 00:37:06,057 --> 00:37:08,225 One would not say this is a happy home. 661 00:37:09,311 --> 00:37:11,604 Oh, let's drop this discourse, shall we? 662 00:37:11,688 --> 00:37:14,189 You're an educated man... 663 00:37:14,274 --> 00:37:16,650 a thoughtful man. 664 00:37:16,735 --> 00:37:19,737 Our world is not worsened by fires or by robbers... 665 00:37:19,821 --> 00:37:22,364 but do you understand? 666 00:37:22,449 --> 00:37:23,949 By hate. 667 00:37:25,076 --> 00:37:27,453 Our world's destroyed by hate... 668 00:37:28,580 --> 00:37:30,164 by pettiness. 669 00:37:31,166 --> 00:37:33,667 And your job should be to be strong... 670 00:37:33,752 --> 00:37:36,337 and not to carp at those around you, not to grumble... 671 00:37:36,421 --> 00:37:39,340 but simply to reconcile and to make peace. 672 00:37:43,178 --> 00:37:45,930 - I'd make my peace with you. - No, stop that. 673 00:37:46,973 --> 00:37:48,641 [Sighs] 674 00:37:50,685 --> 00:37:52,603 I'd like it if you left. 675 00:37:56,775 --> 00:37:59,443 [Laughs] Now, please. 676 00:38:02,197 --> 00:38:05,866 The rain is ending. Everything will be refreshed. 677 00:38:06,910 --> 00:38:08,827 The earth exhales. 678 00:38:09,621 --> 00:38:12,498 But I will not be refreshed... 679 00:38:12,582 --> 00:38:15,209 by the coming and the passing of the storm. 680 00:38:16,044 --> 00:38:18,545 My whole life, day and night, I feel that... 681 00:38:19,756 --> 00:38:22,925 I've squandered my past on nonsense. 682 00:38:24,052 --> 00:38:27,054 My present is sunk in absurdity. 683 00:38:29,432 --> 00:38:31,392 My one feeling is for you. 684 00:38:31,476 --> 00:38:34,228 How can I renounce it? My one feeling in life. 685 00:38:35,271 --> 00:38:38,399 It's dying like a ray of sun that's shone into a well. 686 00:38:38,483 --> 00:38:40,401 You speak to me... 687 00:38:40,485 --> 00:38:41,986 of love? 688 00:38:43,488 --> 00:38:45,155 How am I to deal with that? 689 00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:48,701 Forgive me. I must say good night. 690 00:38:49,953 --> 00:38:51,996 Coincidentally, though, here by my side... 691 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,873 another person's life is being wasted in this house. 692 00:38:54,958 --> 00:38:57,626 Whose could that be? 693 00:38:57,711 --> 00:39:00,963 What are you waiting for? For your life to end? 694 00:39:02,340 --> 00:39:06,927 What stupid, pointless principle is standing in your way? 695 00:39:08,179 --> 00:39:10,973 Do you comprehend what I'm trying to tell you? 696 00:39:12,017 --> 00:39:13,684 Are you drunk? 697 00:39:15,770 --> 00:39:19,064 - It could very well be. [Laughs] - [Laughs] 698 00:39:21,735 --> 00:39:23,652 Where's the doctor? 699 00:39:23,737 --> 00:39:27,031 - He's spending the night in my room. - [Laughs] 700 00:39:27,115 --> 00:39:29,158 Could be. It could be. 701 00:39:29,242 --> 00:39:31,827 - Anything could be. - [Laughing] 702 00:39:33,204 --> 00:39:35,664 - Why have you been drinking? - Why? 703 00:39:36,875 --> 00:39:39,626 Because it gives me the illusion... 704 00:39:39,711 --> 00:39:41,670 that I might be alive. 705 00:39:41,755 --> 00:39:42,796 [Laughs] 706 00:39:42,881 --> 00:39:44,631 Don't scold me. 707 00:39:45,717 --> 00:39:48,135 You never used to drink. 708 00:39:48,219 --> 00:39:50,471 - I drink now. - Yeah, I know. 709 00:39:51,598 --> 00:39:54,725 - And you never spoke so much. - I didn't? 710 00:39:54,809 --> 00:39:56,310 Perhaps that's just - 711 00:39:56,394 --> 00:39:58,812 Go to bed. You bore me. 712 00:39:58,897 --> 00:40:00,189 Do I? 713 00:40:00,273 --> 00:40:02,858 Oh, my enchanted one, my darling. 714 00:40:02,942 --> 00:40:06,278 No, no, no. God, you disgust me! 715 00:40:17,207 --> 00:40:18,832 Ten years ago... 716 00:40:18,917 --> 00:40:20,918 I'd see her at my sister's. 717 00:40:22,212 --> 00:40:23,879 She was 17... 718 00:40:23,963 --> 00:40:26,965 and I was 37. 719 00:40:29,094 --> 00:40:33,430 I could have proposed to her, and now she'd be my wife... 720 00:40:33,515 --> 00:40:37,226 and both of us would've been woken by the storm. 721 00:40:39,687 --> 00:40:41,522 The thunder frightened you. 722 00:40:42,524 --> 00:40:44,691 Don't be afraid. I'm here. 723 00:40:47,904 --> 00:40:51,156 Why, in the name of God, am I old? What happened to me? 724 00:40:52,951 --> 00:40:55,077 [Sighs, Chuckles] 725 00:40:55,161 --> 00:40:58,747 It's that damned pseudo-morality... 726 00:40:58,832 --> 00:41:03,210 and that lazy, stupid intellect. 727 00:41:03,294 --> 00:41:05,712 Jargon, ideas about the "ruin of the world." 728 00:41:05,797 --> 00:41:08,465 Who the hell does she think she is? 729 00:41:09,676 --> 00:41:11,176 [Sighs] 730 00:41:14,472 --> 00:41:16,974 They cheated me. 731 00:41:17,058 --> 00:41:19,643 I worshipped that man. 732 00:41:19,727 --> 00:41:23,063 Sonya and I, we squeezed the last dregs... 733 00:41:23,148 --> 00:41:26,233 from that estate like slaves. 734 00:41:27,318 --> 00:41:29,319 Begrudged ourselves food. 735 00:41:29,404 --> 00:41:32,072 We sent thousands to him. 736 00:41:33,783 --> 00:41:36,410 Why shouldn't we to a man of genius? 737 00:41:37,078 --> 00:41:39,288 We basked in him. 738 00:41:40,498 --> 00:41:42,916 Now the man retires... 739 00:41:43,001 --> 00:41:45,169 it's screamingly clear. 740 00:41:46,963 --> 00:41:50,090 What does he leave as his legacy? This colossus? 741 00:41:50,175 --> 00:41:51,842 What work? What - 742 00:41:53,219 --> 00:41:55,053 He leaves nothing. 743 00:41:57,307 --> 00:41:59,099 Not a single page. 744 00:41:59,184 --> 00:42:01,435 A nothing, a fraud. 745 00:42:02,979 --> 00:42:05,606 A vicious failure... 746 00:42:07,525 --> 00:42:10,819 who cheated a man who loved him. 747 00:42:12,155 --> 00:42:13,572 [Exhales] 748 00:42:14,574 --> 00:42:16,909 - [Astrov] Play something. - No, no, no, no. The whole house is asleep. 749 00:42:16,993 --> 00:42:18,702 Oh, play it. 750 00:42:20,079 --> 00:42:22,789 Aww! 751 00:42:22,874 --> 00:42:24,791 All alone? 752 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,544 No ladies, eh? 753 00:42:27,629 --> 00:42:28,962 [Chuckles] 754 00:42:29,047 --> 00:42:32,049 ♪ The house is flying The stove is flying ♪ 755 00:42:32,133 --> 00:42:35,260 ♪ Where can the master make his bed? ♪♪ 756 00:42:35,345 --> 00:42:37,262 The storm woke me. 757 00:42:38,056 --> 00:42:39,890 Some rain. 758 00:42:39,974 --> 00:42:42,476 I heard Yelena. 759 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,478 Very probably. 760 00:42:44,562 --> 00:42:46,396 She's a splendid woman. 761 00:42:49,442 --> 00:42:50,943 [Sighs] 762 00:42:51,027 --> 00:42:53,737 God help us when doctors disagree. 763 00:42:56,866 --> 00:42:59,993 Is there a town whose pharmacy's not represented here? 764 00:43:00,078 --> 00:43:02,788 The whole region must be sick of his gout. 765 00:43:04,123 --> 00:43:07,209 You tell me - is he ill or shamming? 766 00:43:08,753 --> 00:43:10,295 He's ill. 767 00:43:10,380 --> 00:43:12,881 And you? What's your complaint? A sympathetic nature? 768 00:43:12,966 --> 00:43:14,132 [Scoffs] 769 00:43:14,217 --> 00:43:16,551 Or could you be sick with love for the invalid's wife? 770 00:43:17,762 --> 00:43:20,180 - We're just friends. - Already? 771 00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:23,225 Well, now, what could that mean? 772 00:43:23,309 --> 00:43:26,812 A woman and a man can be friends only at the end term of this sequence: 773 00:43:26,896 --> 00:43:28,939 First, acquaintances... 774 00:43:29,023 --> 00:43:31,400 and then lovers... 775 00:43:31,484 --> 00:43:33,402 and then - 776 00:43:33,486 --> 00:43:35,487 that's right, friends. 777 00:43:37,323 --> 00:43:39,783 A lovely, elegant philosophy. 778 00:43:39,867 --> 00:43:41,618 [Laughs] Ya think so? 779 00:43:42,662 --> 00:43:45,372 Yes, I confess, I'm becoming a vulgarian. 780 00:43:46,374 --> 00:43:47,916 I'm drunk too. 781 00:43:49,460 --> 00:43:53,297 And when I am this drunk, I become arrogant and brazen to the last degree. 782 00:43:53,381 --> 00:43:56,466 And nothing in that state can faze me then. 783 00:43:57,051 --> 00:44:00,053 I undertake and perform the most difficult feats flawlessly. 784 00:44:01,055 --> 00:44:04,224 I see the future and devise the most elegant plans. 785 00:44:05,727 --> 00:44:08,228 And during this time, I no longer seem to myself... 786 00:44:08,313 --> 00:44:11,565 an awkward and useless member of this world. 787 00:44:11,649 --> 00:44:14,192 No, I seem, on the contrary... 788 00:44:14,277 --> 00:44:15,902 a powerful, a motive force... 789 00:44:15,987 --> 00:44:18,030 with my own system of thought and philosophy. 790 00:44:18,114 --> 00:44:21,158 And all of you, my dears - because it's true - look as big as cockroaches... 791 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,746 [Laughing] Or some quite, quite unimportant things. 792 00:44:25,830 --> 00:44:28,081 - Would you play, please? - Anything for you. 793 00:44:28,166 --> 00:44:31,001 Play, play! Ah! Let's have a drink. Come on. 794 00:44:31,085 --> 00:44:33,587 And in the daylight, we'll go to my place. Ya up for it? 795 00:44:33,671 --> 00:44:36,131 Fellow works for me says that the whole time: "Ya up for it?" 796 00:44:36,215 --> 00:44:38,967 [Laughing] 797 00:44:39,052 --> 00:44:40,677 ♪♪ [Stops] 798 00:44:44,015 --> 00:44:47,017 Um - Excuse me, I'm - 799 00:44:48,019 --> 00:44:50,145 I'm going to go get dressed. 800 00:44:51,147 --> 00:44:53,065 [Clicks Tongue, Whistles] 801 00:44:55,693 --> 00:44:57,652 [Sonya] Uncle Vanya? 802 00:44:58,654 --> 00:45:00,864 You got drunk with the doctor again? 803 00:45:02,784 --> 00:45:05,786 Two free voices found each other in the night... 804 00:45:05,870 --> 00:45:07,788 and formed a pact. 805 00:45:11,709 --> 00:45:13,543 Why do you do this? 806 00:45:15,546 --> 00:45:19,299 At your age, it's truly unattractive. 807 00:45:19,384 --> 00:45:21,051 My age doesn't come into it. 808 00:45:21,135 --> 00:45:22,469 No? 809 00:45:22,553 --> 00:45:25,389 A man with nothing in his life... 810 00:45:25,473 --> 00:45:27,474 with no real life... 811 00:45:27,558 --> 00:45:30,185 subsists on a fantasy. 812 00:45:30,269 --> 00:45:33,271 Then that is something in his life. 813 00:45:33,356 --> 00:45:37,317 The hay is cut. Every day it rains. Everything is rotting. 814 00:45:37,402 --> 00:45:39,403 And you're living on fantasy. 815 00:45:40,863 --> 00:45:44,866 You've thrown your work up, and I'm working alone, and I'm tired. 816 00:45:46,077 --> 00:45:48,078 You neglect your job. 817 00:45:51,707 --> 00:45:54,876 You know, just now when you looked at me... 818 00:45:55,962 --> 00:45:58,130 you looked just like your dear mother. 819 00:46:00,258 --> 00:46:02,759 Phew, my darling sister. 820 00:46:06,013 --> 00:46:08,014 Where are you now? 821 00:46:09,016 --> 00:46:11,476 Oh, my dear... 822 00:46:11,561 --> 00:46:13,478 if you only knew. 823 00:46:15,606 --> 00:46:17,566 What is it she should know? 824 00:46:17,650 --> 00:46:20,861 [Laughing] It isn't good. It isn't good. 825 00:46:20,945 --> 00:46:23,488 [Laughing Continues] It's nothing. 826 00:46:26,826 --> 00:46:28,785 I'm going. 827 00:46:52,393 --> 00:46:54,644 Can I have a word with you, please? 828 00:46:56,230 --> 00:46:59,065 If it aids you to drink, then please drink. 829 00:46:59,150 --> 00:47:03,487 But please don't let my uncle drink anymore. It's very bad for him. 830 00:47:03,571 --> 00:47:05,572 So be it. We'll drink no more. 831 00:47:07,408 --> 00:47:09,367 I can count on you? 832 00:47:09,452 --> 00:47:11,286 Settled and signed. 833 00:47:15,082 --> 00:47:17,042 Ah! Now I'll be getting home. 834 00:47:17,126 --> 00:47:19,503 Well, why don't you just stay until the morning? 835 00:47:19,587 --> 00:47:21,254 - Oh, no, no. - It's raining. 836 00:47:21,339 --> 00:47:23,507 Storm will pass. I think that this is the end of it. 837 00:47:23,591 --> 00:47:25,842 No, I'll go. One thing, please. 838 00:47:25,927 --> 00:47:27,928 Don't call me for your father anymore. 839 00:47:28,012 --> 00:47:31,348 I tell him gout, he says rheumatism. I say stay in bed, he gets up. 840 00:47:31,432 --> 00:47:33,350 I'm called to see him, he won't speak to me. 841 00:47:33,434 --> 00:47:35,101 He's difficult. 842 00:47:36,562 --> 00:47:39,856 Uh, can - can I get you something to eat? 843 00:47:41,526 --> 00:47:43,693 Yes, I'll take something. Thank you. 844 00:47:44,862 --> 00:47:48,114 They say that through his life, he had a great success with women... 845 00:47:48,199 --> 00:47:50,283 and that women spoiled him. 846 00:47:51,744 --> 00:47:55,455 Today I didn't eat a thing. Today I drank. 847 00:47:56,457 --> 00:47:58,458 Yes, your father's difficult. 848 00:47:59,961 --> 00:48:02,212 You know, we're alone here. 849 00:48:02,296 --> 00:48:04,214 Let's speak candidly, do you think? 850 00:48:04,298 --> 00:48:06,675 I couldn't live one month in this house. 851 00:48:06,759 --> 00:48:09,052 I'd suffocate with your father and his gout... 852 00:48:09,136 --> 00:48:12,722 and your uncle and his - what is it, depression? 853 00:48:13,391 --> 00:48:15,267 Your grandmother. [Gasps] 854 00:48:15,351 --> 00:48:17,143 Your stepmother. 855 00:48:17,228 --> 00:48:19,563 - My stepmother. - Hmm. 856 00:48:20,398 --> 00:48:22,482 Beauty should be pure. 857 00:48:22,567 --> 00:48:25,569 Of face, of dress, of the mind. 858 00:48:26,487 --> 00:48:30,407 And here is a beautiful - a lovely woman... 859 00:48:30,491 --> 00:48:34,244 and all she does is eat, sleep and stroll through the day... 860 00:48:34,328 --> 00:48:37,914 to enchant us with that great beauty which is hers. 861 00:48:37,999 --> 00:48:40,917 She does no more. She has no duties. She has no responsibilities. 862 00:48:41,002 --> 00:48:43,461 Others work for her. 863 00:48:43,546 --> 00:48:46,214 How can an idle life be pure? 864 00:48:48,050 --> 00:48:49,509 Am I too hard? 865 00:48:49,594 --> 00:48:52,178 [Laughing] Perhaps I am. 866 00:48:52,263 --> 00:48:56,182 I'm like your Uncle Vanya - disappointed in life, become a detractor. 867 00:48:56,267 --> 00:48:58,560 Disappointed in life? 868 00:48:58,644 --> 00:49:01,021 Um, in life? No. 869 00:49:02,023 --> 00:49:03,857 In our life. 870 00:49:03,941 --> 00:49:05,400 Our provincial life. 871 00:49:05,484 --> 00:49:08,236 I hate it with the power of my soul. 872 00:49:09,238 --> 00:49:11,239 And my life - oh, yes. 873 00:49:12,283 --> 00:49:14,868 In my own personal life, I am pleased to swear to God... 874 00:49:14,952 --> 00:49:17,203 there's not one thing good in it. 875 00:49:19,457 --> 00:49:21,458 When you walk through the woods... 876 00:49:22,793 --> 00:49:25,920 if you walk through the dark woods at night... 877 00:49:27,048 --> 00:49:30,550 if you have a glimmer, a small gleam of light before you... 878 00:49:32,303 --> 00:49:34,929 then you needn't feel the night... 879 00:49:35,014 --> 00:49:37,849 nor darkness, fatigue. 880 00:49:38,851 --> 00:49:39,976 [Inhales Deeply] 881 00:49:40,061 --> 00:49:42,562 Nor the branches as they whip your face. 882 00:49:45,399 --> 00:49:48,401 But, as you know, I work alone... 883 00:49:48,486 --> 00:49:50,445 and live alone. 884 00:49:50,529 --> 00:49:51,696 There is no one. 885 00:49:51,781 --> 00:49:53,865 And those things which assail me... 886 00:49:53,949 --> 00:49:56,534 as there is no light before me... 887 00:49:57,578 --> 00:49:59,871 which could make my burden light. 888 00:50:00,873 --> 00:50:03,041 [Laughing] 889 00:50:03,125 --> 00:50:05,418 So, I expect nothing... 890 00:50:05,503 --> 00:50:07,504 and there is nothing for me. 891 00:50:09,423 --> 00:50:10,924 And do you know? 892 00:50:11,008 --> 00:50:13,343 I don't like people. 893 00:50:13,427 --> 00:50:16,304 And for the longest time... 894 00:50:16,389 --> 00:50:18,181 I've loved no one. 895 00:50:19,350 --> 00:50:21,726 You've loved no one? 896 00:50:23,187 --> 00:50:25,063 No one. 897 00:50:25,147 --> 00:50:26,690 Hmm. 898 00:50:26,774 --> 00:50:28,483 Well... 899 00:50:28,567 --> 00:50:30,527 I feel a certain affection. 900 00:50:33,989 --> 00:50:37,283 I feel affection, for example, toward Nanny. 901 00:50:37,368 --> 00:50:38,868 [Pouring Vodka] 902 00:50:38,953 --> 00:50:40,620 - You do? - Yes. 903 00:50:41,706 --> 00:50:43,707 Our peasants are so alive, living in squalor. 904 00:50:43,791 --> 00:50:46,292 And what do we live in? Our intelligentsia. 905 00:50:46,377 --> 00:50:50,463 Our good and simple friends, to put it bluntly, you understand. 906 00:50:50,548 --> 00:50:53,091 Small concerns, small thoughts and feelings. 907 00:50:53,175 --> 00:50:57,303 And the brighter they are, the worse they are - assailed by introspection and analysis. 908 00:50:57,388 --> 00:50:59,097 I mean, what's happened to the world? 909 00:50:59,181 --> 00:51:01,558 They whine and spew and slander... 910 00:51:01,642 --> 00:51:05,311 "Oh, this one's a psychopath, that one's a phrasemonger." 911 00:51:05,396 --> 00:51:08,690 And then let them find someone whom they can't pigeonhole... 912 00:51:08,774 --> 00:51:11,276 and that one's the most eccentric person. 913 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,237 I love the forest. I don't eat meat. 914 00:51:14,321 --> 00:51:16,239 A most eccentric person. 915 00:51:16,323 --> 00:51:20,535 Where could we look to find a simple, unencumbered and spontaneous relation... 916 00:51:20,619 --> 00:51:22,162 to our fellows and the world? 917 00:51:22,246 --> 00:51:25,540 Where? Nowhere. Nowhere on this earth, I assure you. 918 00:51:28,085 --> 00:51:29,711 Please don't drink anymore. 919 00:51:29,795 --> 00:51:31,296 Why not? 920 00:51:31,380 --> 00:51:33,882 Because it isn't like you, that's why. 921 00:51:33,966 --> 00:51:36,009 Is that what you think? 922 00:51:36,093 --> 00:51:37,969 You are refined. 923 00:51:38,053 --> 00:51:40,221 You - You have a gentle voice. 924 00:51:41,724 --> 00:51:45,727 You, more than anyone I know, are as you spoke of - beautiful. 925 00:51:47,730 --> 00:51:50,190 - Why do you act in an ordinary way? - I? 926 00:51:50,274 --> 00:51:52,609 - You drink, you gamble. - Do I? 927 00:51:52,693 --> 00:51:54,819 Please stop. 928 00:51:54,904 --> 00:51:57,989 You said that we work not to create but to destroy... 929 00:51:58,073 --> 00:52:00,867 gifts that are given from above. 930 00:52:00,951 --> 00:52:03,411 So why do you do it? 931 00:52:03,954 --> 00:52:05,872 You don't have to do it. 932 00:52:07,208 --> 00:52:09,751 Please don't drink. 933 00:52:09,835 --> 00:52:11,336 Please. 934 00:52:12,129 --> 00:52:14,088 I won't drink. 935 00:52:15,674 --> 00:52:17,675 - You won't drink anymore? - No. 936 00:52:19,762 --> 00:52:22,597 - Give me your word of honor. - I give it. 937 00:52:22,681 --> 00:52:24,057 Thank you. 938 00:52:24,141 --> 00:52:25,642 Basta! Eh? 939 00:52:27,186 --> 00:52:30,021 - Look at that. I've sobered up. - [Laughing] 940 00:52:30,105 --> 00:52:31,940 Sober already... 941 00:52:32,024 --> 00:52:35,068 and I shall stay so, as I have vowed... 942 00:52:35,152 --> 00:52:37,111 till the end of my days. 943 00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:42,700 [Chuckles] 944 00:52:42,785 --> 00:52:44,285 Well - 945 00:52:47,540 --> 00:52:49,040 So - 946 00:52:51,168 --> 00:52:54,420 [Sighs] My time has passed. 947 00:52:54,505 --> 00:52:56,339 I'm old. I'm jaded. 948 00:52:57,508 --> 00:52:59,175 I'm overworked. 949 00:53:00,302 --> 00:53:02,303 My feelings are blunt. 950 00:53:03,305 --> 00:53:06,140 I have lost capacity for all attachment. 951 00:53:08,018 --> 00:53:10,186 [Sighs] What attracts me? 952 00:53:11,355 --> 00:53:14,274 What attracts me? Beauty attracts me. 953 00:53:15,442 --> 00:53:18,069 I can't remain indifferent to it. 954 00:53:18,153 --> 00:53:21,531 Yelena, for example, you see, she'd turn my head in a day. 955 00:53:23,325 --> 00:53:25,451 But then... 956 00:53:25,536 --> 00:53:27,537 it's not love, now, is it? 957 00:53:30,875 --> 00:53:32,542 [Sighs] 958 00:53:33,627 --> 00:53:35,378 What is it? 959 00:53:35,462 --> 00:53:38,298 - It's nothing. - No, what is it? 960 00:53:38,382 --> 00:53:41,217 Oh, you know, in Lent I had a patient die under the chloroform. 961 00:53:41,302 --> 00:53:43,553 - It's time you forgot that. - Mmm. 962 00:53:45,723 --> 00:53:48,224 - Can I ask you something? - Hmm? 963 00:53:48,976 --> 00:53:50,476 Um... 964 00:53:51,729 --> 00:53:53,855 if I had a friend... 965 00:53:53,939 --> 00:53:57,233 or a younger sister, let's say... 966 00:53:57,318 --> 00:54:00,612 and then if you found out... 967 00:54:00,696 --> 00:54:02,614 that this girl... 968 00:54:03,949 --> 00:54:05,450 Ioved you... 969 00:54:05,534 --> 00:54:07,493 then... 970 00:54:07,578 --> 00:54:10,079 how would that make you feel? 971 00:54:10,164 --> 00:54:13,416 I have no idea. I suspect that I wouldn't feel a thing. 972 00:54:14,418 --> 00:54:16,252 You'd feel nothing? 973 00:54:19,590 --> 00:54:22,884 I think what I think is that I'd give her to understand... 974 00:54:22,968 --> 00:54:25,678 how I could never love her. 975 00:54:25,763 --> 00:54:29,474 Uh, could you perhaps ask me this later? 976 00:54:29,558 --> 00:54:31,935 If I'm to go, I must go. 977 00:54:32,019 --> 00:54:33,937 And now is the time. 978 00:54:35,731 --> 00:54:38,024 Farewell, my dove. [Kisses] 979 00:54:38,108 --> 00:54:40,193 [Cooing, Laughing] 980 00:54:40,277 --> 00:54:43,655 If we keep talking, we'll be talking at noon. 981 00:54:43,739 --> 00:54:45,239 Good-bye. 982 00:54:56,627 --> 00:54:59,504 He's told me nothing, and yet I'm happy. 983 00:55:02,967 --> 00:55:05,718 He keeps his heart and his soul from me... 984 00:55:07,054 --> 00:55:09,347 yet I'm happy and I don't care. 985 00:55:10,808 --> 00:55:13,142 [Chuckles] 986 00:55:13,227 --> 00:55:16,396 "A beautiful man," I said. "You have a lovely voice." 987 00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,398 Was that forward? 988 00:55:19,733 --> 00:55:23,403 I don't care. I - I love his voice. Why shouldn't I? 989 00:55:26,156 --> 00:55:28,491 And yet... 990 00:55:28,575 --> 00:55:31,494 I told him about my friend. 991 00:55:31,578 --> 00:55:34,247 Oh! "A younger sister," I said... 992 00:55:34,331 --> 00:55:36,749 and he didn't get a word. 993 00:55:44,842 --> 00:55:46,926 Lord... 994 00:55:47,011 --> 00:55:49,512 why did you make me so plain? 995 00:55:54,727 --> 00:55:57,979 Last week in church, I heard the woman behind me. 996 00:56:01,692 --> 00:56:03,609 "She's so kind and generous. 997 00:56:03,694 --> 00:56:05,945 What a pity she's so plain. 998 00:56:08,991 --> 00:56:10,992 That she's so plain." 999 00:56:15,414 --> 00:56:17,206 End of the storm. 1000 00:56:25,049 --> 00:56:27,050 Such a peace in the air. 1001 00:56:33,974 --> 00:56:36,142 - Where's the doctor? - Gone. 1002 00:56:37,394 --> 00:56:38,728 - Sophie. - What? 1003 00:56:38,812 --> 00:56:41,481 How long are you going to go on being short with me? 1004 00:56:44,568 --> 00:56:47,570 We've done no harm to each other. Why should we be enemies? 1005 00:56:50,365 --> 00:56:52,033 Don't you feel - 1006 00:56:53,619 --> 00:56:55,411 Enough. 1007 00:56:55,496 --> 00:56:57,080 - I - - Yes? 1008 00:56:58,082 --> 00:56:59,832 - I wanted to. - I did too. 1009 00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,838 Well, let's not be angry anymore then. 1010 00:57:07,174 --> 00:57:08,925 With all my heart. 1011 00:57:12,596 --> 00:57:14,680 That's good. 1012 00:57:14,765 --> 00:57:16,265 Thank you. 1013 00:57:18,393 --> 00:57:20,561 Has Papa gone to bed yet? 1014 00:57:22,564 --> 00:57:24,357 No. 1015 00:57:24,441 --> 00:57:26,150 He's still sitting up. 1016 00:57:27,152 --> 00:57:31,114 Weeks at a time we don't talk to each other. God only knows why. 1017 00:57:38,122 --> 00:57:39,789 Drink with me. 1018 00:57:44,086 --> 00:57:45,878 Brüderschaft. 1019 00:57:47,131 --> 00:57:49,048 Out of the same glass. 1020 00:58:09,486 --> 00:58:13,990 I wanted to make it up for a long time, and I felt ashamed. 1021 00:58:15,159 --> 00:58:16,993 Why are you crying? 1022 00:58:17,077 --> 00:58:18,661 It's nothing. 1023 00:58:21,874 --> 00:58:23,666 You're angry with me... 1024 00:58:24,710 --> 00:58:28,337 because you think I married your father for my own convenience. 1025 00:58:31,133 --> 00:58:33,718 If you believe in oaths... 1026 00:58:33,802 --> 00:58:35,803 I give you my oath on this: 1027 00:58:36,805 --> 00:58:38,806 I married him for love. 1028 00:58:40,017 --> 00:58:44,020 He was a famous man, a man of learning... 1029 00:58:44,104 --> 00:58:46,105 and I was captivated by it. 1030 00:58:47,274 --> 00:58:49,233 And it was not real. 1031 00:58:51,028 --> 00:58:52,945 The love was not real... 1032 00:58:54,448 --> 00:58:56,449 but I thought it was real. 1033 00:58:57,743 --> 00:59:01,579 At the time I thought it was real, and I'm not to blame. 1034 00:59:03,207 --> 00:59:06,459 But, Sophie, ever since our wedding day, you haven't stopped accusing me. 1035 00:59:06,543 --> 00:59:08,211 - I accused you? - You did. 1036 00:59:08,295 --> 00:59:11,214 I saw it... in your eyes. 1037 00:59:11,298 --> 00:59:13,132 We'll have no more of that. 1038 00:59:13,217 --> 00:59:15,343 You mustn't look like that on people. 1039 00:59:16,220 --> 00:59:17,887 It doesn't suit you. 1040 00:59:20,140 --> 00:59:21,974 And we must trust. 1041 00:59:23,227 --> 00:59:25,561 How can we live if we do not? 1042 00:59:29,775 --> 00:59:33,027 - Can I ask you something? - Yes. 1043 00:59:33,111 --> 00:59:36,405 - But honestly, as a friend. - Yes. 1044 00:59:37,741 --> 00:59:39,825 Are you happy? 1045 00:59:39,910 --> 00:59:41,494 No. 1046 00:59:43,163 --> 00:59:45,248 - I knew you weren't. - [Chuckles] 1047 00:59:48,460 --> 00:59:50,920 And can I ask you something else? 1048 00:59:53,257 --> 00:59:56,342 Wouldn't you have preferred to marry a younger husband? 1049 00:59:56,426 --> 00:59:58,803 Oh, what a schoolgirl you are. 1050 00:59:58,887 --> 01:00:00,888 - Well, wouldn't you have? - Yes. 1051 01:00:00,973 --> 01:00:03,057 [Both Laughing] 1052 01:00:04,768 --> 01:00:07,228 Yes, I should have liked that. 1053 01:00:07,312 --> 01:00:09,272 All right. What else? 1054 01:00:12,025 --> 01:00:14,860 Um, do you like the doctor? 1055 01:00:14,945 --> 01:00:16,404 Very much. 1056 01:00:16,488 --> 01:00:18,698 - Do I look funny? - Mm-mmm. 1057 01:00:18,782 --> 01:00:22,702 Uh! It's - It's just that even though he's not here... 1058 01:00:22,786 --> 01:00:25,705 I can still hear his voice. 1059 01:00:25,789 --> 01:00:29,333 And if I look over by the window, I can see him there. 1060 01:00:30,127 --> 01:00:32,044 God, let me say it! 1061 01:00:32,129 --> 01:00:35,381 Oh, my God. I shouldn't talk so loud. Should we go to my room? 1062 01:00:36,049 --> 01:00:38,217 Do I seem silly to you? 1063 01:00:38,302 --> 01:00:40,970 Ugh. Of course I do. Tell me about him. 1064 01:00:41,054 --> 01:00:44,223 - What should I tell? - Isn't he so clever? Isn't he? 1065 01:00:44,308 --> 01:00:48,060 Beyond that, he does things. He heals people, and he plants. 1066 01:00:48,145 --> 01:00:51,564 - Oh, my dear, it's so much more than that. - It is? 1067 01:00:51,648 --> 01:00:53,399 He plants a tree, and when he plants it... 1068 01:00:53,483 --> 01:00:56,902 he's - he's trying to see what comes of his action in a thousand years. 1069 01:00:56,987 --> 01:01:00,740 A thousand years. Do you know? He's thinking of the happiness of man. 1070 01:01:00,824 --> 01:01:03,409 - When you find such beautiful people - - What? 1071 01:01:03,493 --> 01:01:06,037 They must... be loved. 1072 01:01:08,665 --> 01:01:11,334 - He drinks. - Yes, he does. 1073 01:01:11,418 --> 01:01:12,918 He can be coarse. 1074 01:01:14,463 --> 01:01:17,590 When you think of his life, he ministers to crude, barbarous folk. 1075 01:01:17,674 --> 01:01:21,135 Their poverty, their ignorance around him constantly - 1076 01:01:21,219 --> 01:01:22,636 disease. 1077 01:01:24,306 --> 01:01:26,223 A man who lives this life - 1078 01:01:28,852 --> 01:01:31,020 I wish you this happiness. 1079 01:01:32,606 --> 01:01:34,357 With all my soul. 1080 01:01:35,650 --> 01:01:37,485 You deserve happiness. 1081 01:01:39,196 --> 01:01:42,031 I am a dull, second-rank character, you know. 1082 01:01:44,242 --> 01:01:46,369 Throughout my whole life, that's what I've been. 1083 01:01:46,453 --> 01:01:49,622 When you come to think of it, I am quite thoroughly unhappy. 1084 01:01:49,706 --> 01:01:51,540 - [Laughing] - Why are you laughing? 1085 01:01:51,625 --> 01:01:53,167 I feel so happy. 1086 01:01:53,251 --> 01:01:56,670 - Would you like me to play for you? - Yes! Very much. 1087 01:01:56,755 --> 01:01:58,464 - Yes? - Yes. I can't sleep. 1088 01:01:58,548 --> 01:02:01,592 Good. Go ask your father. 1089 01:02:01,676 --> 01:02:06,472 When he's ill, music sometimes upsets him. If it's all right, then I'll play. 1090 01:02:07,307 --> 01:02:08,808 All right. 1091 01:02:25,659 --> 01:02:27,910 [Crying] 1092 01:02:42,843 --> 01:02:44,593 [Sniffles] 1093 01:02:47,139 --> 01:02:48,556 Oh. 1094 01:02:50,809 --> 01:02:53,519 So long since I've played. 1095 01:02:53,603 --> 01:02:56,439 I'll play and then I'll cry like some damned fool. 1096 01:03:06,199 --> 01:03:08,409 He says we can't. 1097 01:03:19,296 --> 01:03:21,714 Okay. Let's take a little break. 1098 01:03:27,971 --> 01:03:30,556 [Laughing] 1099 01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:33,601 It used to be so nice when you smoked too. Now I'm the only one. 1100 01:03:33,685 --> 01:03:35,269 Sorry, Jer. 1101 01:03:35,353 --> 01:03:40,065 You know, I love to go to Milwaukee. They have wonderful restaurants there. 1102 01:03:40,150 --> 01:03:41,400 - Right. - Yes. 1103 01:03:41,485 --> 01:03:46,238 - Did you find anyplace good to eat in Hartford? - No. Max's on Main. 1104 01:03:46,323 --> 01:03:48,324 [Chattering] 1105 01:03:49,826 --> 01:03:51,785 - Do you know I have an Indian guru? - You do? 1106 01:03:51,870 --> 01:03:54,163 Yes, Gurumayi is a great teacher. 1107 01:03:55,207 --> 01:03:57,917 So, anyway, the, uh, next two acts... 1108 01:03:58,001 --> 01:04:01,795 take place three months later, in September. 1109 01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:04,673 So you can just imagine that all the things that have been going on... 1110 01:04:04,758 --> 01:04:06,842 have been going on for three more months. 1111 01:04:18,146 --> 01:04:21,065 [Animal-like Howling] 1112 01:04:23,693 --> 01:04:26,237 [Howling Continues] 1113 01:04:27,364 --> 01:04:29,365 [Howling] 1114 01:04:31,826 --> 01:04:33,619 - [Gasps] - [Gasps] 1115 01:04:34,829 --> 01:04:39,500 The Herr Professor has been so good as to express this - 1116 01:04:39,584 --> 01:04:42,294 He wishes that we should gather here in this drawing room... 1117 01:04:42,379 --> 01:04:44,463 at 1:00 this afternoon. 1118 01:04:44,548 --> 01:04:46,465 That'll be in one-quarter hour... 1119 01:04:46,550 --> 01:04:49,343 at which time he has some thing... 1120 01:04:49,427 --> 01:04:51,303 which he wishes to share with the world. 1121 01:04:51,388 --> 01:04:53,472 Some business matter probably. 1122 01:04:53,557 --> 01:04:55,641 But what business? He has none anymore. 1123 01:04:55,725 --> 01:04:59,144 He writes garbage, he grumbles, he envies the world, and that's his life. 1124 01:04:59,229 --> 01:05:01,981 - Uncle! - All right. All right. 1125 01:05:02,065 --> 01:05:04,316 You're right. 1126 01:05:04,401 --> 01:05:08,153 Oh, look at how she moves. 1127 01:05:08,238 --> 01:05:10,322 Morbid with laziness. 1128 01:05:10,407 --> 01:05:12,825 A panorama of inaction. 1129 01:05:12,909 --> 01:05:16,412 Must you go on always? Is there nothing to do? 1130 01:05:17,497 --> 01:05:18,998 I'm dying of boredom. 1131 01:05:19,082 --> 01:05:21,875 There's no end of things to do, if you wish to do them. 1132 01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:25,963 - Tell me one. - Teach, treat the sick, care for the estate. 1133 01:05:26,047 --> 01:05:28,215 - Hmm. - Much to do. When you and Papa weren't here... 1134 01:05:28,300 --> 01:05:30,759 Uncle and I used to go to the market to sell flour. 1135 01:05:31,845 --> 01:05:33,512 I wouldn't know how. 1136 01:05:33,597 --> 01:05:36,098 Eh - [Laughs] 1137 01:05:36,182 --> 01:05:38,434 Besides, it doesn't interest me. 1138 01:05:39,519 --> 01:05:43,856 In ideological novels, people always jump up and declare that they'll teach or treat the sick. 1139 01:05:43,940 --> 01:05:46,191 But how should I do that? Just suddenly - Just - 1140 01:05:46,276 --> 01:05:49,528 I-If - If you did it, you'd be drawn to it. You would. 1141 01:05:49,613 --> 01:05:53,699 I know you're bored. It's so contagious. Uncle Vanya has it now. 1142 01:05:53,783 --> 01:05:58,454 He does nothing except follow you like a cloud on a leash all day long. 1143 01:05:58,538 --> 01:06:01,498 I put down my work, and I come to chat. 1144 01:06:01,583 --> 01:06:03,709 I've grown so lazy. 1145 01:06:03,793 --> 01:06:07,171 And our doctor, who used to come here once a month, if that... 1146 01:06:07,255 --> 01:06:08,714 is here every single day... 1147 01:06:08,798 --> 01:06:13,385 and turns his back on his forests and his medicine and lives under your spell. 1148 01:06:13,470 --> 01:06:18,140 But... why are you languishing, my dear, my splendor? 1149 01:06:19,309 --> 01:06:20,809 Wake up! 1150 01:06:20,894 --> 01:06:23,187 Pulse with life! 1151 01:06:24,105 --> 01:06:28,233 You, when the blood of mermaids courses through your veins... 1152 01:06:28,318 --> 01:06:31,236 wake up to your mermaid life. 1153 01:06:31,321 --> 01:06:34,990 For once in your life, let yourself go. 1154 01:06:35,992 --> 01:06:38,243 Rise to the heights... 1155 01:06:38,328 --> 01:06:42,247 and then plunge into the frothy brine. 1156 01:06:43,583 --> 01:06:46,335 Love with a water spirit awaits you... 1157 01:06:46,419 --> 01:06:49,588 in your guise as the naiad of perfection... 1158 01:06:49,673 --> 01:06:52,716 so that our Herr Professor and all of us... 1159 01:06:52,801 --> 01:06:56,178 can just throw back our heads and say... 1160 01:06:56,262 --> 01:06:57,930 "Who was that nymph?" 1161 01:06:58,014 --> 01:06:59,848 [Yelena] Will you shut up? 1162 01:07:00,892 --> 01:07:03,143 It's very cruel. 1163 01:07:03,228 --> 01:07:05,771 Forgive me, my joy. Forgive me. 1164 01:07:05,855 --> 01:07:08,524 [Panting] I apologize. 1165 01:07:09,859 --> 01:07:13,320 - Forgive me. Peace. - You'd try the patience of a saint. 1166 01:07:13,405 --> 01:07:15,906 - Hmm, as a peace offering - - Admit it! 1167 01:07:15,990 --> 01:07:19,201 As an offering of peace, I am going to bring you... 1168 01:07:19,285 --> 01:07:22,121 a bouquet of roses! 1169 01:07:22,205 --> 01:07:26,875 Flowers which I had the foresight to have obtained this morning. 1170 01:07:27,877 --> 01:07:30,963 Sad roses. 1171 01:07:31,047 --> 01:07:32,840 Autumn roses. 1172 01:07:34,092 --> 01:07:35,592 For you. 1173 01:07:40,306 --> 01:07:42,975 Sad autumn roses. 1174 01:07:46,187 --> 01:07:48,147 It's already September. 1175 01:07:48,815 --> 01:07:51,400 How are we gonna get through the winter here? 1176 01:07:54,821 --> 01:07:56,780 Where's the doctor? 1177 01:07:56,865 --> 01:08:00,159 He's up in Uncle Vanya's room. He's writing something. 1178 01:08:00,243 --> 01:08:01,910 [Yelena Laughing] 1179 01:08:05,832 --> 01:08:08,751 I'm glad Uncle's gone, 'cause I wanted to talk to you. 1180 01:08:10,086 --> 01:08:11,628 About what? 1181 01:08:12,630 --> 01:08:14,923 - "About what?" - [Laughs] 1182 01:08:19,763 --> 01:08:21,430 I'm ugly. 1183 01:08:22,098 --> 01:08:26,560 Oh, you have beautiful hair, and you have beautiful eyes - 1184 01:08:26,644 --> 01:08:30,522 No. The unattractive woman is told that she has beautiful hair... 1185 01:08:30,607 --> 01:08:32,733 and beautiful eyes. 1186 01:08:33,777 --> 01:08:35,277 [Sighs] 1187 01:08:36,362 --> 01:08:39,656 I've loved him for six years. 1188 01:08:40,533 --> 01:08:43,494 I love him more than I love my own mother. 1189 01:08:45,205 --> 01:08:48,373 I always hear his voice, and I always feel his hand on my hand. 1190 01:08:48,458 --> 01:08:52,336 And I always - always look at the door, like at any moment and - 1191 01:08:52,420 --> 01:08:56,840 I keep coming to you about him. And he's here. He looks right through me. 1192 01:08:59,469 --> 01:09:03,514 All night long, I pray. I know I have no hope. 1193 01:09:03,598 --> 01:09:05,474 Yesterday, I confessed to Uncle Vanya. 1194 01:09:05,558 --> 01:09:08,227 All the servants know I love him. Everybody knows. 1195 01:09:08,311 --> 01:09:10,229 What does he think? 1196 01:09:10,313 --> 01:09:13,065 He doesn't notice me. 1197 01:09:13,149 --> 01:09:15,567 Well, he's a strange man. 1198 01:09:15,652 --> 01:09:18,570 Why not let me approach him? What do you think? 1199 01:09:18,655 --> 01:09:20,280 I'll be discreet. 1200 01:09:21,449 --> 01:09:23,492 A most gentle hint. 1201 01:09:24,285 --> 01:09:26,954 Really, how long are you to live in uncertainty? 1202 01:09:27,580 --> 01:09:30,833 He loves you, or he doesn't. Yes or no. 1203 01:09:32,335 --> 01:09:34,670 If it's no... 1204 01:09:34,754 --> 01:09:36,880 then let him stop coming here. 1205 01:09:37,924 --> 01:09:39,299 Yes? 1206 01:09:41,678 --> 01:09:43,846 He said he would show me his maps. 1207 01:09:47,851 --> 01:09:49,601 Tell him that I want him. 1208 01:09:52,063 --> 01:09:53,730 And you'll tell me the truth? 1209 01:09:53,815 --> 01:09:56,483 Oh, I will because... 1210 01:09:56,568 --> 01:09:59,111 I think the truth, no matter how bad... 1211 01:09:59,195 --> 01:10:01,864 is always better than an uncertainty. 1212 01:10:02,699 --> 01:10:04,324 I promise you. 1213 01:10:20,884 --> 01:10:24,386 [Crying] Not knowing is better because then at least there's hope. 1214 01:10:24,470 --> 01:10:27,097 - What's that? - Nothing. 1215 01:10:32,854 --> 01:10:34,354 [Thinking] Lord... 1216 01:10:36,190 --> 01:10:39,776 what's worse than knowing someone's secret and standing by powerless? 1217 01:10:40,695 --> 01:10:43,363 Clearly the man cares nothing for her. 1218 01:10:44,741 --> 01:10:47,284 Why shouldn't he take her? 1219 01:10:47,368 --> 01:10:49,995 A country doctor his age? 1220 01:10:50,079 --> 01:10:53,415 A kind, pure, intelligent girl. 1221 01:10:54,667 --> 01:10:56,793 What's wrong with her for a wife? 1222 01:10:58,087 --> 01:10:59,421 Nothing. 1223 01:11:01,424 --> 01:11:03,091 Not a thing. 1224 01:11:05,428 --> 01:11:07,304 Poor child. 1225 01:11:08,181 --> 01:11:12,309 Live in a gray world like this, hear nothing but the banal every day. 1226 01:11:12,393 --> 01:11:14,645 Then this man appears. 1227 01:11:16,230 --> 01:11:17,773 A handsome man. 1228 01:11:19,108 --> 01:11:21,276 A captivating man. 1229 01:11:22,737 --> 01:11:24,655 To yield... 1230 01:11:24,739 --> 01:11:26,448 to such a man. 1231 01:11:29,327 --> 01:11:31,745 Vanya said, "Mermaid's blood runs in your veins. 1232 01:11:31,829 --> 01:11:34,039 For once in your life, let yourself go." 1233 01:11:36,459 --> 01:11:38,669 Oh, should I not do that? 1234 01:11:40,797 --> 01:11:42,839 For once in my life? 1235 01:11:43,967 --> 01:11:46,551 For once in my life, when the man comes here every day... 1236 01:11:46,636 --> 01:11:49,471 and every day I know the reason why he comes. 1237 01:11:49,555 --> 01:11:51,264 Oh, God. 1238 01:11:52,266 --> 01:11:54,309 I'm stained already. 1239 01:11:55,103 --> 01:11:59,064 I should fall on my knees to Sonya and beg her forgiveness. 1240 01:11:59,148 --> 01:12:01,108 [Footsteps Approaching] 1241 01:12:04,237 --> 01:12:06,613 [Astrov] Good morning. 1242 01:12:06,698 --> 01:12:08,323 Good morning. 1243 01:12:09,242 --> 01:12:11,326 You wanted - You wanted to see my drawings. 1244 01:12:13,121 --> 01:12:16,123 Uh, yesterday, you said you had some maps you were working on? 1245 01:12:16,207 --> 01:12:18,542 - Yes, I have them. - Are you free? 1246 01:12:18,626 --> 01:12:20,127 I am. 1247 01:12:21,671 --> 01:12:23,505 Um - 1248 01:12:24,674 --> 01:12:26,633 Uh, where were you born? 1249 01:12:27,593 --> 01:12:29,720 Uh, in Petersburg. 1250 01:12:29,804 --> 01:12:32,597 - And where did you study? - In the conservatory. 1251 01:12:32,682 --> 01:12:35,017 Mm-hmm. You may find that this won't interest you. 1252 01:12:35,101 --> 01:12:37,185 No? Why not? 1253 01:12:38,813 --> 01:12:40,856 - It's true, I don't know the country. - Uh-huh. 1254 01:12:40,940 --> 01:12:42,691 The, um... 1255 01:12:44,318 --> 01:12:45,736 topography. 1256 01:12:45,820 --> 01:12:47,112 [Chuckles] Indeed. 1257 01:12:47,196 --> 01:12:48,697 But I've read a great deal. I - 1258 01:12:48,781 --> 01:12:52,701 I have my own worktable in Vanya's room, and when I'm on the point of extreme exhaustion... 1259 01:12:52,785 --> 01:12:56,496 I steal away to spend an hour or two over my maps. 1260 01:12:57,540 --> 01:12:59,332 Vanya and Sophie working away at the accounts... 1261 01:12:59,417 --> 01:13:03,754 and I'm seated beside them at my worktable, painting away. 1262 01:13:03,838 --> 01:13:06,965 And I'm warm. Everything's quiet. 1263 01:13:07,050 --> 01:13:09,051 I'm at peace. 1264 01:13:09,135 --> 01:13:10,969 I hear the crickets outside. 1265 01:13:11,054 --> 01:13:12,679 Totally at peace. 1266 01:13:13,389 --> 01:13:14,973 Once a month perhaps. 1267 01:13:16,392 --> 01:13:17,893 All right. 1268 01:13:17,977 --> 01:13:21,396 Now this is our district as it was 50 years ago. 1269 01:13:21,481 --> 01:13:24,816 The greens indicate the forests. As you see, half of the whole is wooded. 1270 01:13:24,901 --> 01:13:28,695 Where we see the green crosshatched with red, we have the range of elk and wild goats. 1271 01:13:28,780 --> 01:13:30,697 I show both flora and the fauna here. 1272 01:13:30,782 --> 01:13:33,283 On the lakes, there were swans, geese, ducks... 1273 01:13:33,367 --> 01:13:37,079 and, as the old folks say, "a power of birds," they would say. 1274 01:13:37,997 --> 01:13:41,041 We have the villages and hamlets, and here and there the various small farms. 1275 01:13:41,125 --> 01:13:43,919 Outposts, religious encampments, water mills - 1276 01:13:44,003 --> 01:13:46,463 Much cattle, and horses. These are marked with blue. 1277 01:13:46,547 --> 01:13:50,383 There were great herds here. Each household kept, on the average, 12 horses. 1278 01:13:50,468 --> 01:13:51,968 Now, here... 1279 01:13:53,805 --> 01:13:55,472 25 years have passed. 1280 01:13:55,556 --> 01:13:59,309 Now already we see that only one-third of the area is timbered. 1281 01:13:59,393 --> 01:14:01,353 The goats are gone. We still see elk occasionally... 1282 01:14:01,437 --> 01:14:05,023 but the blues and greens are vanishing and, uh, so on. 1283 01:14:05,108 --> 01:14:09,653 As we go down to the third rendition where we see the district as it is today... 1284 01:14:09,737 --> 01:14:11,196 there's no solid green. 1285 01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:15,408 The elk and swans and geese have disappeared. There's no sign of the old settlements. 1286 01:14:15,493 --> 01:14:18,036 In short, here's a perfect picture of a gradual and relentless decay... 1287 01:14:18,121 --> 01:14:20,539 which, in 10 or 12 more years... 1288 01:14:20,623 --> 01:14:22,874 will be totally complete, and the land will be dead. 1289 01:14:22,959 --> 01:14:25,877 So you say, fine. You say deep cultural influences are at work... 1290 01:14:25,962 --> 01:14:28,922 and that the old life must naturally give way to the new. 1291 01:14:29,006 --> 01:14:31,633 And I would agree with you if in place of decimated forests... 1292 01:14:31,717 --> 01:14:34,511 we had industry, railroads, schools. 1293 01:14:34,595 --> 01:14:36,888 If the populous were happier, better employed, in better health. 1294 01:14:36,973 --> 01:14:39,891 But what do we have here? We have the same swamps, the same mosquitoes... 1295 01:14:39,976 --> 01:14:44,938 the same lack of roads, the same typhus, diphtheria, rickets - diseases of poverty. 1296 01:14:45,022 --> 01:14:46,898 The same eternal fires. 1297 01:14:46,983 --> 01:14:51,361 So that what we see is a struggle for existence that is beyond human strength... 1298 01:14:51,445 --> 01:14:54,406 where we degenerate in ignorance and sloth. 1299 01:14:54,490 --> 01:14:57,033 And so man, freezing, starving, diseased - 1300 01:14:57,118 --> 01:14:59,870 Man, to preserve the last vestige of his life, to save his children... 1301 01:14:59,954 --> 01:15:02,080 reaches out reflexively... 1302 01:15:02,165 --> 01:15:05,417 in his animal fear and destroys, with no thought for tomorrow... 1303 01:15:05,501 --> 01:15:10,839 so that nearly everything is destroyed and nothing new brought into being. 1304 01:15:10,923 --> 01:15:13,175 And I see this doesn't interest you. 1305 01:15:15,219 --> 01:15:18,138 - I understand so little of it. - Ah. 1306 01:15:18,222 --> 01:15:21,308 But aside from that though, it holds no interest for you. 1307 01:15:22,435 --> 01:15:26,271 - In - In truth, my mind was on other things. - I see. 1308 01:15:26,355 --> 01:15:27,856 - Forgive me. - Not at all. 1309 01:15:27,940 --> 01:15:31,693 And what preoccupied me - [Sighs] was - 1310 01:15:33,404 --> 01:15:36,364 - In fact, I don't know how to begin. - Please. 1311 01:15:37,700 --> 01:15:40,285 - It was an interrogation. - An interrogation? 1312 01:15:40,369 --> 01:15:43,121 Yes, a harmless one. 1313 01:15:43,206 --> 01:15:45,624 If I may. 1314 01:15:45,708 --> 01:15:47,209 Will you sit down? 1315 01:15:53,966 --> 01:15:56,760 This matter concerns a certain friend of mine... 1316 01:15:57,845 --> 01:15:59,471 a young friend. 1317 01:16:01,098 --> 01:16:03,475 May we speak frankly? 1318 01:16:03,559 --> 01:16:05,477 Of course. 1319 01:16:05,561 --> 01:16:08,188 And the things we say, we never spoke of. 1320 01:16:09,232 --> 01:16:11,399 - Do you understand? - I do. 1321 01:16:13,694 --> 01:16:16,488 The matter concerns my stepdaughter, Sonya. 1322 01:16:17,823 --> 01:16:19,407 Yes? 1323 01:16:20,743 --> 01:16:23,328 How do you feel about her? 1324 01:16:26,707 --> 01:16:28,500 I respect her. 1325 01:16:30,253 --> 01:16:32,837 Your feelings for her as a woman? 1326 01:16:34,590 --> 01:16:37,175 - My feelings for her - - Yes. 1327 01:16:37,260 --> 01:16:38,885 I have none. 1328 01:16:40,221 --> 01:16:41,888 Ah. Uh-huh. 1329 01:16:41,973 --> 01:16:43,765 Um - 1330 01:16:45,101 --> 01:16:47,060 Two more words, and I'm done. 1331 01:16:48,104 --> 01:16:51,356 Have you perhaps remarked her attitude toward you? 1332 01:16:51,440 --> 01:16:52,857 No. 1333 01:16:56,862 --> 01:16:59,197 Well, then I'm done. 1334 01:17:00,533 --> 01:17:02,742 You don't love Sonya... 1335 01:17:03,786 --> 01:17:05,578 and you will not. 1336 01:17:09,709 --> 01:17:12,168 Now, she's suffering... 1337 01:17:12,253 --> 01:17:14,296 and I must ask your compassion... 1338 01:17:15,464 --> 01:17:17,382 that you not come here anymore. 1339 01:17:20,261 --> 01:17:21,845 Uh-huh. 1340 01:17:27,893 --> 01:17:30,520 Well, it's late. I see I've stayed, um - 1341 01:17:32,231 --> 01:17:37,319 - I really don't have the time to come here. - Oh, Lord, what a sordid... interview. 1342 01:17:37,403 --> 01:17:41,072 Well, it's done. And we never spoke of it at all. 1343 01:17:41,157 --> 01:17:43,700 And now you must go. 1344 01:17:43,784 --> 01:17:45,285 You see that. 1345 01:17:46,662 --> 01:17:50,332 - If only one month ago, you had approached me - - No. 1346 01:17:50,416 --> 01:17:52,000 Yes. Then I might have considered it. 1347 01:17:52,084 --> 01:17:54,753 And if she's suffering, of course - 1348 01:17:54,837 --> 01:17:57,505 I mean, if the poor girl's suffering, I, um - 1349 01:17:59,008 --> 01:18:00,550 Um - 1350 01:18:02,094 --> 01:18:04,095 I understand. 1351 01:18:04,180 --> 01:18:06,056 You understand what? 1352 01:18:07,099 --> 01:18:11,186 To belabor the obvious, you call me here for an interrogation... 1353 01:18:11,270 --> 01:18:13,521 and I walk into your trap, didn't I? 1354 01:18:17,068 --> 01:18:19,694 "What do you feel as a man? 1355 01:18:19,779 --> 01:18:22,280 Could we know your true feelings?" 1356 01:18:22,365 --> 01:18:25,533 All right, I'll tell you, and without the charade. 1357 01:18:27,119 --> 01:18:28,620 I confess it. 1358 01:18:29,747 --> 01:18:33,333 - I'm yours. I surrender. - Are you out of your mind? 1359 01:18:33,417 --> 01:18:36,252 I've confessed it. Your sweet ruse has forced it out of me. 1360 01:18:36,337 --> 01:18:38,630 I'm going to tell you something. I'm better than you think. 1361 01:18:38,714 --> 01:18:42,300 - I'm nobler than you think, I swear it to you. - All right. I'll take my leave of you. 1362 01:18:42,385 --> 01:18:45,011 This is the last time. Where shall we meet? Quickly, say it. 1363 01:18:45,096 --> 01:18:46,679 - And one kiss. - I swear to God! 1364 01:18:46,764 --> 01:18:49,474 - How beautiful you are. Your face - - No, please. Please go away. 1365 01:18:49,558 --> 01:18:51,184 - You tell me where we're gonna meet tomorrow. - No! 1366 01:18:51,268 --> 01:18:53,395 - It's over. It's decided. - Please leave me. 1367 01:18:53,479 --> 01:18:55,563 By the orchard, 2:00. Yes? 1368 01:19:01,404 --> 01:19:03,780 Let me go. Let me - 1369 01:19:03,864 --> 01:19:05,365 Oh, God. 1370 01:19:13,874 --> 01:19:15,708 Very well. 1371 01:19:15,793 --> 01:19:17,502 Never mind it. 1372 01:19:33,060 --> 01:19:36,479 Today, my dear friend - 1373 01:19:38,607 --> 01:19:40,692 The weather - 1374 01:19:40,776 --> 01:19:44,571 Wouldn't you say the weather, which looked so cloudy formerly... 1375 01:19:46,282 --> 01:19:48,867 is changed and the sun's out... 1376 01:19:48,951 --> 01:19:51,953 in what we must say has turned into a splendid afternoon? 1377 01:19:54,957 --> 01:19:57,625 The winter crop's quite good actually. 1378 01:19:57,710 --> 01:19:59,627 The only mark against it is... 1379 01:20:00,629 --> 01:20:02,755 the days grow short and - 1380 01:20:04,925 --> 01:20:07,135 What can anyone do about that? 1381 01:20:17,730 --> 01:20:20,064 I would entreat you... 1382 01:20:20,149 --> 01:20:21,483 please... 1383 01:20:22,568 --> 01:20:27,447 to exercise all of your influence to see that my husband and I... 1384 01:20:27,531 --> 01:20:30,116 quit this place at once. 1385 01:20:31,202 --> 01:20:32,827 This afternoon. 1386 01:20:33,996 --> 01:20:36,498 - Do you hear? - Yes. 1387 01:20:39,210 --> 01:20:41,628 Did you hear what I said? 1388 01:20:41,712 --> 01:20:45,089 You know, I - I - I saw this whole thing. 1389 01:20:46,008 --> 01:20:47,300 I - 1390 01:20:50,179 --> 01:20:52,597 Tell me you - [Crying] 1391 01:20:52,681 --> 01:20:54,641 Heard what I said. 1392 01:20:56,393 --> 01:20:58,770 We're leaving here today. 1393 01:21:04,151 --> 01:21:07,278 You know, Your Excellency, I myself have been feeling... 1394 01:21:07,363 --> 01:21:09,864 particularly other than well of late. 1395 01:21:09,949 --> 01:21:12,450 Although in my case it's my head. [Coughs] 1396 01:21:12,535 --> 01:21:15,578 - My head in particular has been feeling - - Where are the others? 1397 01:21:15,663 --> 01:21:18,122 Where are they? I hate this house. 1398 01:21:18,207 --> 01:21:22,168 Why should I live in a labyrinth? Twenty-six rooms, everybody wandering - 1399 01:21:22,253 --> 01:21:24,170 Please ask Maman to come in here. 1400 01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:28,049 [Sighs] Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. 1401 01:21:29,593 --> 01:21:33,096 - What did he say? - Oh, not now. 1402 01:21:33,180 --> 01:21:34,681 What is it? 1403 01:21:36,308 --> 01:21:40,144 [Alexandr] I simply cannot learn to live the country life. 1404 01:21:40,229 --> 01:21:44,148 - He won't be coming here anymore, is that it? - [Chattering] 1405 01:21:44,233 --> 01:21:46,734 - Tell it to me. Yes? - [Alexandr] Sonya. 1406 01:21:48,571 --> 01:21:50,655 Sonya! 1407 01:21:50,739 --> 01:21:55,410 Fine, she ignores me. Oh, Nurse, would you come in too, please? 1408 01:21:56,245 --> 01:21:59,330 And now, ladies and gentlemen, if you would... 1409 01:21:59,415 --> 01:22:03,001 like the sunflower, turn your attentive heads. 1410 01:22:03,085 --> 01:22:05,336 - Here is Maman. - [Indistinct] 1411 01:22:07,006 --> 01:22:08,840 Now, ladies and gentlemen... 1412 01:22:09,633 --> 01:22:13,428 "I've summoned you here, citizens, to inform you that the inspector general... 1413 01:22:13,512 --> 01:22:15,722 has chosen to pay us a visit." 1414 01:22:15,806 --> 01:22:18,850 [Laughing] 1415 01:22:18,934 --> 01:22:21,311 Uh, joking aside then, and in a serious vein... 1416 01:22:21,395 --> 01:22:25,732 I've asked you here for your help and advice in the full hope that I shall receive them. 1417 01:22:26,609 --> 01:22:29,485 I'm a scholar, a man of books. 1418 01:22:29,570 --> 01:22:32,530 I've long been a stranger to the intricacies... 1419 01:22:32,615 --> 01:22:35,199 the vicissitudes of the business life. 1420 01:22:35,284 --> 01:22:39,245 I cannot live without the help and guidance of practical folk. 1421 01:22:39,330 --> 01:22:40,955 So, I've asked you... 1422 01:22:41,665 --> 01:22:44,584 Ivan Petrovich, Yelena... 1423 01:22:44,668 --> 01:22:46,544 Ilya llych - 1424 01:22:46,629 --> 01:22:49,005 - Maman. - Ah. 1425 01:22:49,089 --> 01:22:52,050 An old man, not a well man. 1426 01:22:52,134 --> 01:22:56,888 A man who knows from his age - manet omnes una nox - 1427 01:22:56,972 --> 01:22:58,139 Uh-huh. [Chuckling] 1428 01:22:58,223 --> 01:23:01,142 That time and tide happens to us all. 1429 01:23:02,478 --> 01:23:05,313 - My life is finished. - Oh. [Chuckling] 1430 01:23:06,148 --> 01:23:07,732 But I possess a young wife... 1431 01:23:07,816 --> 01:23:11,569 and for us to continue living in the country is simply not possible. 1432 01:23:11,654 --> 01:23:14,739 We are not made to live the country life. 1433 01:23:14,823 --> 01:23:17,075 Nor can we live in town... 1434 01:23:17,159 --> 01:23:20,912 on an income of the magnitude this estate provides. 1435 01:23:21,914 --> 01:23:24,874 [Chuckles] We could sell the forest. 1436 01:23:24,958 --> 01:23:26,793 [Chuckles] 1437 01:23:26,877 --> 01:23:28,961 A measure both extreme and nonrenewable. 1438 01:23:29,046 --> 01:23:31,464 For once sold, it yields no more income. 1439 01:23:32,132 --> 01:23:36,386 So where can we seek to find a strategy that provides... 1440 01:23:36,470 --> 01:23:41,683 both a definite and still a permanent source of income? 1441 01:23:42,685 --> 01:23:45,269 I have sought for and, I think, found that strategy... 1442 01:23:45,354 --> 01:23:47,605 and now have the honor of presenting it to you. 1443 01:23:48,941 --> 01:23:51,442 In broad strokes, in general principle... 1444 01:23:51,527 --> 01:23:55,947 our estate yields on the average two percent. 1445 01:23:56,031 --> 01:23:57,448 I propose to sell it. 1446 01:23:57,533 --> 01:24:01,369 If we sell the estate and invest in interest-bearing bonds... 1447 01:24:01,453 --> 01:24:03,287 we receive four to five percent. 1448 01:24:03,372 --> 01:24:05,748 Four to five! 1449 01:24:05,833 --> 01:24:08,459 And I think there'll be enough surplus... 1450 01:24:08,544 --> 01:24:11,295 to purchase a villa in Finland! 1451 01:24:12,256 --> 01:24:16,509 Excuse me. I'm sorry. Uh, would you repeat what you said? 1452 01:24:17,261 --> 01:24:21,305 I will, with the proceeds, invest in interest-bearing bonds... 1453 01:24:21,390 --> 01:24:23,641 and with whatever residue there is... 1454 01:24:23,726 --> 01:24:26,144 purchase a small home in Finland. 1455 01:24:26,228 --> 01:24:27,603 Yes. 1456 01:24:28,564 --> 01:24:32,150 No, not the Finland part. You - You said the proceeds. 1457 01:24:32,234 --> 01:24:34,402 The proceeds of what? 1458 01:24:34,486 --> 01:24:35,987 My sale of the estate. 1459 01:24:36,071 --> 01:24:39,490 Ah, yes. You see, now that was the thing... 1460 01:24:39,575 --> 01:24:41,576 that caught my attention. 1461 01:24:42,953 --> 01:24:45,496 You're going to sell the estate? 1462 01:24:47,166 --> 01:24:50,042 And - [Chuckles] Wh-where do I go? 1463 01:24:50,127 --> 01:24:52,712 And - And, uh - And Sonya here, please? 1464 01:24:52,796 --> 01:24:56,007 Uh, and my mother, if I may be so picayune? 1465 01:24:56,091 --> 01:24:58,676 [Alexandr] Why, certainly. All in good time. 1466 01:24:58,761 --> 01:25:01,554 - One cannot do everything at once. - No, one cannot. 1467 01:25:02,264 --> 01:25:05,099 You know, speaking of human ignorance... 1468 01:25:05,184 --> 01:25:09,061 I always supposed that this estate, which you're going to sell, belonged to Sonya. 1469 01:25:09,146 --> 01:25:10,688 - No. - If I may... 1470 01:25:10,773 --> 01:25:14,776 as my late father purchased this estate as a dowry for my sister... 1471 01:25:14,860 --> 01:25:18,029 so that it passed, in my ignorance to look upon the law... 1472 01:25:18,113 --> 01:25:21,365 from my sister to Sonya, to whom it belongs. 1473 01:25:21,450 --> 01:25:23,493 - Certainly. Who denies it? - Well - 1474 01:25:23,577 --> 01:25:28,164 Of course, it belongs to Sonya, without whose consent one would not think of selling it... 1475 01:25:28,248 --> 01:25:31,375 and - and for whose benefit it shall be sold. 1476 01:25:31,460 --> 01:25:35,630 Am I out of my mind? Am I raving? Why are we listening to this? Why - 1477 01:25:35,714 --> 01:25:39,509 Please! Please don't contradict Alexandr! Please! 1478 01:25:39,593 --> 01:25:43,596 Believe me, he sees far better than we what is right. 1479 01:25:44,973 --> 01:25:47,850 Well, I'm going to have a drink of water. 1480 01:25:48,852 --> 01:25:51,020 Then you just say... 1481 01:25:53,816 --> 01:25:55,316 whatever you wish to say. 1482 01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:58,569 - You just - - Why do you inflame yourself? 1483 01:25:59,488 --> 01:26:01,823 Do I say my plan is ideal? 1484 01:26:01,907 --> 01:26:04,659 It's a plan. Just a plan! 1485 01:26:04,743 --> 01:26:08,246 If it is found unsuitable, I shall discard it. 1486 01:26:09,248 --> 01:26:11,582 - Your Excellency - - Yes. 1487 01:26:11,667 --> 01:26:16,504 I myself have, in addition to my reverence for your learning - 1488 01:26:16,588 --> 01:26:18,381 - Yes. - A feeling of kinship... 1489 01:26:18,465 --> 01:26:20,591 which brings me close to you. 1490 01:26:20,676 --> 01:26:23,928 Now, my brother, whom I think you know, Grigory llych - 1491 01:26:24,012 --> 01:26:27,431 Do you know his brother-in-law, Fustian Trofich Lakidomov? 1492 01:26:27,516 --> 01:26:29,934 - He has a degree too - - No, not now. Not now. Please! 1493 01:26:30,018 --> 01:26:32,186 - No, we're talking business! - All right. 1494 01:26:32,271 --> 01:26:33,771 Ask him. 1495 01:26:34,815 --> 01:26:38,609 - What should I ask him? - The estate was purchased from his uncle. 1496 01:26:38,694 --> 01:26:42,488 - Was it not? - Yes, it was, for the price at that time. 1497 01:26:42,573 --> 01:26:45,074 Yes, it was, for the price... 1498 01:26:45,158 --> 01:26:48,119 of 95,000 rubles... 1499 01:26:48,203 --> 01:26:51,747 of which my father paid down 70... 1500 01:26:51,832 --> 01:26:53,791 leaving a debt outstanding of - 1501 01:26:53,876 --> 01:26:55,376 [Shouting] Now are you following this? 1502 01:26:57,296 --> 01:27:01,132 Because this estate could not have been bought... 1503 01:27:01,216 --> 01:27:05,136 had I not renounced my share, you see, of my inheritance... 1504 01:27:05,220 --> 01:27:08,639 in favor of my sister, whom I dearly loved. 1505 01:27:08,724 --> 01:27:14,353 Additionally, had I not toiled like an ox to discharge the remaining debt - 1506 01:27:14,438 --> 01:27:17,648 - I'm sorry I brought it up. - Which stands free and clear... 1507 01:27:17,733 --> 01:27:21,152 thanks to me, thanks to my efforts. 1508 01:27:21,236 --> 01:27:25,948 And here you walk in here and propose throwing me out in the snow. 1509 01:27:29,244 --> 01:27:32,038 I have managed the estate for 25 years. 1510 01:27:32,122 --> 01:27:36,626 For 25 years I have worked, I have sent you the money. 1511 01:27:36,710 --> 01:27:39,003 During all that time, not once... 1512 01:27:39,087 --> 01:27:42,506 have you thought to think about the man who worked for you! 1513 01:27:43,133 --> 01:27:44,800 Not once. 1514 01:27:46,637 --> 01:27:49,305 Twenty-five years, you have paid me... 1515 01:27:49,389 --> 01:27:54,268 the magnificent sum of 500 rubles a year. 1516 01:27:54,895 --> 01:27:57,188 500 rubles a year. 1517 01:27:57,272 --> 01:28:01,025 And not once did it occur to you that you might increase it. 1518 01:28:01,109 --> 01:28:05,655 Ivan Petrovich, I am not a practical man. You could've raised it anytime you wanted. 1519 01:28:05,739 --> 01:28:09,241 Oh-ho, I see. I should've stolen! 1520 01:28:10,327 --> 01:28:14,038 And you despise me because I'm not a thief! 1521 01:28:14,122 --> 01:28:17,375 Yes, I should've stolen. Then I wouldn't be a pauper today! 1522 01:28:17,459 --> 01:28:20,586 - Jean, please. - Vanya, Vanya, words. 1523 01:28:20,671 --> 01:28:23,214 Don't ruin good relations. 1524 01:28:23,298 --> 01:28:26,884 I've lived like a mouse in the wall, my mother and I. 1525 01:28:26,969 --> 01:28:30,221 Our thoughts and our feelings turned toward you. 1526 01:28:30,305 --> 01:28:33,724 Talked about your works, we talked about our pride in you... 1527 01:28:33,809 --> 01:28:36,227 mentioned your name in awe. 1528 01:28:38,271 --> 01:28:41,732 Our nights were spent reading your periodicals... 1529 01:28:41,817 --> 01:28:44,819 your publications... 1530 01:28:44,903 --> 01:28:46,988 which now fill me with disgust. 1531 01:28:47,656 --> 01:28:50,408 My eyes have opened now. You write about art? 1532 01:28:50,492 --> 01:28:54,412 You understand nothing about art, because you have no soul. 1533 01:28:54,496 --> 01:28:57,665 You're a philistine, a fraud! 1534 01:28:57,749 --> 01:29:01,168 - A swine feeding on the leavings of your betters. - [Alexandr] I beg you, stop it! 1535 01:29:01,253 --> 01:29:02,753 - [Alexandr] I'm leaving. - You bilked us! 1536 01:29:02,838 --> 01:29:05,172 - I insist you stop - - No, I won't stop! I won't! 1537 01:29:05,257 --> 01:29:09,385 Not finished! I have something else to say! You ruined my life! 1538 01:29:09,469 --> 01:29:13,431 I lost the best years of my life for you, you thief! 1539 01:29:13,515 --> 01:29:18,269 - You assassin, you ruined my life! - I cannot - I-I'm going! 1540 01:29:18,812 --> 01:29:21,105 [Alexandr Shouting] What is it you want? 1541 01:29:21,189 --> 01:29:23,899 And how can you speak to me that way? 1542 01:29:23,984 --> 01:29:25,985 What gives you the right? 1543 01:29:27,571 --> 01:29:30,239 - You're nothing. Nothing! - Ah. 1544 01:29:32,701 --> 01:29:34,368 You want the estate... 1545 01:29:35,829 --> 01:29:37,872 it's yours. 1546 01:29:39,207 --> 01:29:41,208 Take it. 1547 01:29:41,293 --> 01:29:44,295 Take it! I've no need of it! 1548 01:29:45,005 --> 01:29:49,467 I can't bear this hell! Do you hear me? I can't bear it any longer! I'm leaving! 1549 01:29:50,093 --> 01:29:53,679 I've ruined it all. I had talent, intelligence, courage! 1550 01:29:53,764 --> 01:29:56,140 - I could've been a Schopenhauer! - [Moaning] 1551 01:29:56,224 --> 01:29:58,225 I could've been the new Dostoyevsky! 1552 01:29:58,310 --> 01:30:00,644 - I could've designed a new philosophy! - [Moaning] 1553 01:30:02,064 --> 01:30:04,315 What am I saying? 1554 01:30:04,399 --> 01:30:07,276 Am I losing my mind? Maman. 1555 01:30:08,528 --> 01:30:11,489 Maman. What is this pain, Maman? 1556 01:30:12,574 --> 01:30:14,784 [Vanya] Maman? Maman? 1557 01:30:16,244 --> 01:30:19,246 - Maman. - Do as Alexandr says. 1558 01:30:20,165 --> 01:30:23,959 What am I going to do? What am I going to do? 1559 01:30:24,044 --> 01:30:26,504 All right. All right, all right! 1560 01:30:26,588 --> 01:30:28,506 I know. I know! 1561 01:30:31,218 --> 01:30:34,428 So... do you think you'll forget me? 1562 01:30:36,598 --> 01:30:39,266 Jean, please! 1563 01:30:40,227 --> 01:30:44,438 [Crying] Jean! Jean. Please. 1564 01:30:44,523 --> 01:30:46,732 Inform me. What is going on? 1565 01:30:46,817 --> 01:30:49,026 Take him away from me! 1566 01:30:49,111 --> 01:30:52,196 Am I to live under the same roof with that? He lives right here! 1567 01:30:52,280 --> 01:30:55,366 I cannot live in the same house with that man! 1568 01:30:55,450 --> 01:30:58,202 Take him away, or I shall have to leave, and I tell you I will. 1569 01:30:58,286 --> 01:31:00,955 - We are leaving here today. Please. - That nothing of a man! 1570 01:31:01,039 --> 01:31:04,208 May we start the arrangements, please? 1571 01:31:04,292 --> 01:31:05,459 Papa. 1572 01:31:11,925 --> 01:31:14,343 We are so unhappy, Uncle and I. 1573 01:31:16,680 --> 01:31:20,141 What about all the nights that we worked for you? Do you remember? 1574 01:31:20,225 --> 01:31:22,726 We - We copied out your books for you. 1575 01:31:22,811 --> 01:31:27,523 We translated your texts for you. We worked without rest, Papa! 1576 01:31:27,607 --> 01:31:31,402 We didn't spend a penny on ourselves! We sent it all to you. 1577 01:31:31,486 --> 01:31:35,906 [Sonya Crying] We earned our bread. I know - I know it's wrong, Papa. 1578 01:31:35,991 --> 01:31:40,661 But please, Papa, just hear me and try to understand us and be charitable. 1579 01:31:40,745 --> 01:31:43,247 Alexandr, have it all out with him. 1580 01:31:43,331 --> 01:31:46,167 Have it all out with him now, I beg you. 1581 01:31:47,419 --> 01:31:49,837 - I beg you. - Very well. 1582 01:31:49,921 --> 01:31:52,590 - Thank you. - I'll speak to him. 1583 01:31:53,967 --> 01:31:56,760 - Did I accuse him? - No. 1584 01:31:56,845 --> 01:31:59,847 - What have I accused him of? - Nothing. 1585 01:32:02,017 --> 01:32:04,602 I'm not angry with him, you understand. 1586 01:32:04,686 --> 01:32:07,354 His actions - Uh - 1587 01:32:07,439 --> 01:32:09,356 His actions towards me - 1588 01:32:10,984 --> 01:32:14,111 One has to say, charitably... 1589 01:32:14,196 --> 01:32:15,696 they are strange. 1590 01:32:18,366 --> 01:32:19,950 I - 1591 01:32:20,035 --> 01:32:22,286 For your sake... 1592 01:32:22,370 --> 01:32:23,954 I'll speak to him. 1593 01:32:38,970 --> 01:32:42,640 Alexandr, be gentle with him. Be calm. Try to calm him. 1594 01:32:48,897 --> 01:32:51,649 - [Sobbing] - Oh. Oh. 1595 01:32:51,733 --> 01:32:55,736 - Nanny! - Oh, hush. Hush, my child. 1596 01:32:55,820 --> 01:32:59,281 Hush. The geese, they cackle. 1597 01:32:59,366 --> 01:33:02,660 The geese cackle, and then they stop. 1598 01:33:02,744 --> 01:33:05,371 - [Sobbing] - They cackle, and then they stop. 1599 01:33:05,455 --> 01:33:07,831 - [Sobbing Continues] Nanny! - Aw! 1600 01:33:07,916 --> 01:33:11,168 Poor little orphan girl. You're trembling. 1601 01:33:11,253 --> 01:33:13,254 Are you cold? 1602 01:33:13,338 --> 01:33:14,838 A little linden tea? 1603 01:33:14,923 --> 01:33:19,176 - A little raspberries and tea, and it will pass. - [Loud Arguing In Distance] 1604 01:33:19,261 --> 01:33:23,305 You geese, stop it! Stop it now! 1605 01:33:23,390 --> 01:33:24,348 [Gunshot] 1606 01:33:24,432 --> 01:33:26,350 - Oh, God! - [Gunshot] 1607 01:33:26,434 --> 01:33:29,061 - [Indistinct Shouting] - Stop him! 1608 01:33:29,145 --> 01:33:31,480 - [Gunshot] - Stop him! He's gone mad! 1609 01:33:31,564 --> 01:33:34,608 Give it to me! Give me the gun! 1610 01:33:34,693 --> 01:33:36,443 - [Hammer Clicking] - [Shouting, Screaming] 1611 01:33:36,528 --> 01:33:38,487 Damn this. Damn this. 1612 01:33:38,571 --> 01:33:41,198 Take me away from here. I can't stand it any longer. 1613 01:33:41,283 --> 01:33:43,951 - Oh, what do I think I'm doing? - [Crying] 1614 01:33:44,035 --> 01:33:45,494 Oh! 1615 01:33:59,301 --> 01:34:01,427 [Waffles] If we're going to finish, we'd better hurry. 1616 01:34:01,511 --> 01:34:03,804 Oh, there's not much left. 1617 01:34:04,431 --> 01:34:08,475 - They'll be calling us soon. - Mm-hmm. 1618 01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:11,061 - To say good-bye. - Mm-hmm. 1619 01:34:11,146 --> 01:34:13,647 They've already sent for the horses. 1620 01:34:14,441 --> 01:34:17,318 [Sighs] There's not much left. 1621 01:34:17,402 --> 01:34:21,113 You know, they're going to go to Kharkov... 1622 01:34:21,197 --> 01:34:24,408 - [Chuckling] to live. - Mm-hmm. 1623 01:34:25,827 --> 01:34:29,747 - Much better so. - Mmm, yes. They've had a bad trauma here. 1624 01:34:29,831 --> 01:34:32,624 - Well, we'll live again. - Mmm. 1625 01:34:32,709 --> 01:34:35,961 I know we will, as we used to... 1626 01:34:36,046 --> 01:34:38,797 in the old ways. 1627 01:34:38,882 --> 01:34:42,718 Tea at 7:00, dinner at 12:00. 1628 01:34:43,345 --> 01:34:47,723 And in the evening, we'll sit down to supper as we used to do. 1629 01:34:47,807 --> 01:34:48,766 [Chuckling] 1630 01:34:48,850 --> 01:34:50,476 As Christians. 1631 01:34:51,770 --> 01:34:53,771 Ah, yes. 1632 01:34:53,855 --> 01:34:55,939 You know... 1633 01:34:56,024 --> 01:35:01,320 - I haven't had simple noodles for the longest time. - [Chuckling] 1634 01:35:01,404 --> 01:35:03,113 Black with sin as I am. 1635 01:35:03,198 --> 01:35:07,368 Well, it's a - it's a long time since they gave us noodles, that's true. 1636 01:35:07,452 --> 01:35:10,704 It's been... quite a while. 1637 01:35:13,166 --> 01:35:16,168 There I was coming through the village this morning... 1638 01:35:16,252 --> 01:35:18,796 and that shopkeeper yells out... 1639 01:35:18,880 --> 01:35:21,465 "Oh, look, there's the deadbeat. Hey, freeloader!" 1640 01:35:21,549 --> 01:35:24,510 Oh, don't pay him any mind, my darling. 1641 01:35:24,594 --> 01:35:28,097 - We're all freeloaders under God. - Mmm. 1642 01:35:28,181 --> 01:35:30,599 Besides, you work. 1643 01:35:30,683 --> 01:35:34,019 Sonya works. Vanya works. 1644 01:35:34,104 --> 01:35:37,523 - Even me. Busy all the time. - [Laughing] 1645 01:35:38,400 --> 01:35:40,025 Where is Sonya? 1646 01:35:40,110 --> 01:35:43,570 Oh, she went out into the garden with the doctor, looking for Vanya. 1647 01:35:43,655 --> 01:35:45,155 - Are they - - Well, yes. 1648 01:35:45,240 --> 01:35:48,200 They're afraid he's going to lay hands on himself next. 1649 01:35:48,284 --> 01:35:51,995 - Oh. Where's his pistol? - I hid it. It's in the root cellar. 1650 01:35:52,080 --> 01:35:53,539 - Shh! - Mercy. 1651 01:35:53,623 --> 01:35:54,915 [Chuckles] 1652 01:35:57,919 --> 01:36:01,171 - Would you leave me, please? - Oh. 1653 01:36:01,256 --> 01:36:02,756 Certainly. 1654 01:36:09,597 --> 01:36:11,598 Would you please leave? 1655 01:36:11,683 --> 01:36:13,767 For my part, with the greatest joy. 1656 01:36:13,852 --> 01:36:15,894 Ought to have left a decent time ago. 1657 01:36:15,979 --> 01:36:19,356 As I said though, I will not do so till you return what you took from me. 1658 01:36:19,441 --> 01:36:22,067 - I took nothing from you. - Uh-huh. 1659 01:36:23,570 --> 01:36:26,447 All right. [Clears Throat] Mm-hmm. 1660 01:36:26,531 --> 01:36:29,241 Well, if you wish, I'll sit here for a while. 1661 01:36:29,325 --> 01:36:32,119 And then, if you'll oblige me... 1662 01:36:32,203 --> 01:36:34,455 - subdue you and bind you and search you. - [Snorts] 1663 01:36:34,539 --> 01:36:36,290 My word on it. 1664 01:36:40,628 --> 01:36:43,964 The worst of it, fool of the world... 1665 01:36:45,008 --> 01:36:48,260 is to have shot twice... 1666 01:36:49,471 --> 01:36:51,388 and twice missed him. 1667 01:36:51,473 --> 01:36:54,475 If the mood for shooting struck you, why not shoot yourself? 1668 01:36:55,977 --> 01:36:57,561 Myself? Mmm. 1669 01:36:58,938 --> 01:37:03,233 I'll tell you an oddity. A man, myself, attempts a murder. 1670 01:37:03,318 --> 01:37:05,986 Do they arrest him? No. Now, why not? 1671 01:37:06,070 --> 01:37:08,780 Obviously, as I am regarded as insane. 1672 01:37:08,865 --> 01:37:12,075 - I am thought mad. - Mmm. 1673 01:37:12,160 --> 01:37:16,288 But a man who cloaks his cruelty and his heartlessness... 1674 01:37:16,372 --> 01:37:18,499 and his swinishness, if you will - 1675 01:37:18,583 --> 01:37:22,044 a man hides behind a veil of false achievement - 1676 01:37:22,128 --> 01:37:26,089 this wizard, this genius, this exploiter is not mad. 1677 01:37:26,174 --> 01:37:28,967 And a young woman who marries this old man... 1678 01:37:29,052 --> 01:37:31,678 and in the sight of the entire world betrays him. 1679 01:37:32,722 --> 01:37:35,098 I-I saw what you did. 1680 01:37:35,183 --> 01:37:36,975 [Sighs] 1681 01:37:38,311 --> 01:37:41,104 That's right. I did. 1682 01:37:43,942 --> 01:37:45,609 And you can go to hell. [Chuckles] 1683 01:37:45,693 --> 01:37:49,404 And you - you're not mad. 1684 01:37:49,489 --> 01:37:53,450 - It's the world that's mad to put up with you. - Quite poetic. 1685 01:37:53,535 --> 01:37:57,120 Well, you see, I'm a madman, so I'm not responsible. 1686 01:37:57,205 --> 01:37:58,997 - Uh-huh. - I can say whatever I wish. 1687 01:37:59,082 --> 01:38:01,542 Well, you're not mad, you know. 1688 01:38:01,626 --> 01:38:03,210 You're a fool. 1689 01:38:04,295 --> 01:38:08,298 I used to think the foolish, the deranged... 1690 01:38:09,342 --> 01:38:10,801 the irresponsible are sick. 1691 01:38:10,885 --> 01:38:12,511 They're not sick. They're normal. 1692 01:38:12,595 --> 01:38:15,597 - You're quite well. - [Whispers] Oh, God. 1693 01:38:16,391 --> 01:38:19,393 - What am I going to do? - Nothing. 1694 01:38:19,477 --> 01:38:23,146 [Sighs] I'm 47 years old. 1695 01:38:23,231 --> 01:38:26,692 If I live to be 60, I would have to live through... 1696 01:38:26,776 --> 01:38:29,319 13 more years. 1697 01:38:29,404 --> 01:38:31,822 How could I do that? How can I stand it? 1698 01:38:31,906 --> 01:38:35,117 I have nothing to do with those years, you see. 1699 01:38:35,201 --> 01:38:37,578 Nothing. 1700 01:38:37,662 --> 01:38:43,166 I mean, if I could start anew, if I could live the rest of my life out in some different way. 1701 01:38:43,251 --> 01:38:46,587 If that were possible, as people do. 1702 01:38:46,671 --> 01:38:50,340 To wake - To awaken each day and say... 1703 01:38:50,425 --> 01:38:52,676 "This is a new day." 1704 01:38:52,760 --> 01:38:56,179 If I could lose the past. How could a person do that? 1705 01:38:56,264 --> 01:38:58,265 How could a person start anew and begin a new life? 1706 01:38:58,349 --> 01:39:00,434 Oh, will you shut up? 1707 01:39:04,939 --> 01:39:06,773 To start anew. 1708 01:39:08,276 --> 01:39:11,612 We cannot start anew, you or I. 1709 01:39:11,696 --> 01:39:15,324 [Clears Throat] This or that that we're living, you know, is our life. 1710 01:39:16,284 --> 01:39:18,285 - It is? - Quite. 1711 01:39:20,371 --> 01:39:23,874 People who live after us in 100 or in 200 years - you know what they'll feel? 1712 01:39:23,958 --> 01:39:27,002 They'll despise us for our stupid and insipid lives. 1713 01:39:27,086 --> 01:39:29,254 Perhaps they'll know how to be happy. 1714 01:39:30,006 --> 01:39:34,092 We, however - But for you and I there is but one hope, and that hope is this: 1715 01:39:34,177 --> 01:39:37,471 That when we are dead, lying in our graves... 1716 01:39:37,555 --> 01:39:41,016 visions may visit us and that they are of peace. 1717 01:39:41,100 --> 01:39:42,893 - [Chuckles] - Oh, yes. 1718 01:39:44,312 --> 01:39:46,647 You know, my friend... 1719 01:39:46,731 --> 01:39:51,777 we've said - [Clears Throat] in this district we find but two decent, cultivated men... 1720 01:39:51,861 --> 01:39:53,862 and we spoke of ourselves. 1721 01:39:55,531 --> 01:39:58,617 But this last decade has undone us. 1722 01:39:58,701 --> 01:40:02,871 Life has sucked us in - this foul, philistine life - 1723 01:40:04,165 --> 01:40:05,999 and it's corrupted us. 1724 01:40:07,293 --> 01:40:10,087 What a shocking surprise. 1725 01:40:10,171 --> 01:40:12,255 We've turned out like the rest. 1726 01:40:15,593 --> 01:40:18,261 But we've changed the subject. Give me back what you took. 1727 01:40:18,346 --> 01:40:19,513 I took nothing. 1728 01:40:19,597 --> 01:40:21,932 You took a large vial of morphine from my medicine case. 1729 01:40:22,016 --> 01:40:25,268 If you intend on killing yourself, take your gun and go off into the woods. 1730 01:40:25,353 --> 01:40:27,938 But give me back the drug, or people will say I gave it to you. 1731 01:40:28,022 --> 01:40:31,483 It's enough I'll have to pronounce you dead and cut you open. You think I'll enjoy that? 1732 01:40:31,567 --> 01:40:33,318 Sophie. 1733 01:40:33,403 --> 01:40:37,698 Your uncle has filched a vial of morphine from me and he won't give it back. 1734 01:40:37,782 --> 01:40:39,408 - I-Is this true? - It is true. 1735 01:40:39,492 --> 01:40:42,953 Now, will you please tell him that I must leave and I must have it returned? 1736 01:40:46,040 --> 01:40:47,958 Uncle, give it back. 1737 01:40:51,003 --> 01:40:53,046 Give it back, Uncle. 1738 01:40:54,882 --> 01:40:56,925 Uncle, am I more happy than you? 1739 01:40:58,469 --> 01:41:00,345 Am I despairing? 1740 01:41:02,306 --> 01:41:06,560 I bear my life, and I shall, until it comes to its natural end. 1741 01:41:07,228 --> 01:41:09,229 So must you. Please. 1742 01:41:12,108 --> 01:41:13,734 Give it back. 1743 01:41:19,198 --> 01:41:20,824 Give it to me. 1744 01:41:23,411 --> 01:41:25,245 Be kind. 1745 01:41:26,914 --> 01:41:30,500 You can be so kind. Take pity on me. 1746 01:41:30,585 --> 01:41:32,502 Give the bottle back. 1747 01:41:42,472 --> 01:41:45,640 Thank you. 1748 01:41:49,562 --> 01:41:52,731 All right. I need to do some work. I need to turn my hand to something. 1749 01:41:52,815 --> 01:41:54,983 - Yes. - Yes. 1750 01:41:55,067 --> 01:41:57,611 As soon as they've gone, we'll sit down and we'll - 1751 01:41:57,695 --> 01:41:59,029 Yes. 1752 01:41:59,113 --> 01:42:00,238 Do the accounts. 1753 01:42:00,323 --> 01:42:02,741 Vanya! Are you here? 1754 01:42:05,912 --> 01:42:08,371 Please go to Alexandr. 1755 01:42:08,456 --> 01:42:10,916 He has something he wishes to say. 1756 01:42:11,000 --> 01:42:14,461 Go on, Uncle. You have to make it up with him. You know that. 1757 01:42:18,925 --> 01:42:20,967 Come on. I'll go in with you. 1758 01:42:34,357 --> 01:42:36,775 - I'm leaving. Good-bye. - Leaving? 1759 01:42:39,153 --> 01:42:41,404 - The horses are here. - Good-bye? 1760 01:42:41,489 --> 01:42:43,406 Today, you promised me you'd move away from here. 1761 01:42:43,491 --> 01:42:46,910 Yes, I remember. I will, presently. 1762 01:42:46,994 --> 01:42:48,495 - You're frightened? - Yes. 1763 01:42:48,579 --> 01:42:51,331 Then stay. Stay. 1764 01:42:52,208 --> 01:42:54,251 Stay, and tomorrow at the orchard - 1765 01:42:54,335 --> 01:42:57,462 No, we're going, which is the reason I can look at you. 1766 01:42:58,464 --> 01:43:02,968 One thing I should like, when you think of me, to think well of me... 1767 01:43:03,052 --> 01:43:04,928 if you can. 1768 01:43:05,012 --> 01:43:07,264 I should like you to respect me. 1769 01:43:07,348 --> 01:43:09,015 I beg you to stay. 1770 01:43:09,100 --> 01:43:12,811 Admit it. There's not one thing in the world for you to go to. 1771 01:43:12,895 --> 01:43:15,522 Sooner or later, you're going to have to face that fact. 1772 01:43:15,606 --> 01:43:18,316 In Kharkov, in Kursk, somewhere. 1773 01:43:18,401 --> 01:43:21,111 Why not here, right now? 1774 01:43:21,195 --> 01:43:23,947 Just throw it up and begin again. 1775 01:43:24,031 --> 01:43:26,449 Right now. Hmm? 1776 01:43:26,534 --> 01:43:28,451 It's such a lovely autumn. 1777 01:43:28,536 --> 01:43:30,078 We have orchards. 1778 01:43:30,162 --> 01:43:33,623 We have rundown country homes right out of Turgenev. 1779 01:43:34,625 --> 01:43:36,126 You're funny... 1780 01:43:37,086 --> 01:43:38,795 and I'm angry with you. 1781 01:43:38,880 --> 01:43:41,965 [Sighs] I'm sorry. 1782 01:43:42,049 --> 01:43:44,634 But I'll think of you with pleasure. 1783 01:43:44,719 --> 01:43:46,636 Why is that? 1784 01:43:46,721 --> 01:43:48,430 You're an original. 1785 01:43:50,141 --> 01:43:52,058 I'll tell you, I was... 1786 01:43:53,895 --> 01:43:56,146 taken with you. 1787 01:43:56,230 --> 01:43:58,565 I was tempted... by you. 1788 01:43:59,734 --> 01:44:02,152 So... 1789 01:44:02,236 --> 01:44:04,195 good. 1790 01:44:04,280 --> 01:44:07,073 Shake hands. Don't think ill of me. 1791 01:44:07,992 --> 01:44:09,534 Good-bye then. 1792 01:44:11,704 --> 01:44:14,956 You know, I'll tell you something. 1793 01:44:15,041 --> 01:44:17,208 [Chuckles] This is strange. 1794 01:44:17,293 --> 01:44:21,338 You see, I'm sure you're a good, warmhearted person. 1795 01:44:21,422 --> 01:44:23,840 Yet what is there in your nature? 1796 01:44:23,925 --> 01:44:25,258 Something. 1797 01:44:25,343 --> 01:44:27,010 Here you come, you and your husband... 1798 01:44:27,094 --> 01:44:30,263 and industrious people drop their work and neglect their duties... 1799 01:44:30,348 --> 01:44:34,100 spend whole months ministering to you, talking of you, buzzing around you... 1800 01:44:34,185 --> 01:44:36,353 worrying for your husband's gout... 1801 01:44:36,437 --> 01:44:38,063 your wishes for this and the other thing... 1802 01:44:38,147 --> 01:44:40,857 and all become entangled in your idleness. 1803 01:44:40,942 --> 01:44:43,443 One whole month, I haven't done a thing. 1804 01:44:43,527 --> 01:44:46,947 People are falling ill. Everything I cared about's decaying. 1805 01:44:47,031 --> 01:44:50,700 Your husband and you, where you alight, you seem to spread decay. 1806 01:44:50,785 --> 01:44:52,702 I overstated myself. 1807 01:44:52,787 --> 01:44:55,914 Yet had you stayed, I feel something - 1808 01:44:56,666 --> 01:44:59,751 something quite terrible for me... 1809 01:44:59,835 --> 01:45:01,920 for you too, would've come to pass. 1810 01:45:02,797 --> 01:45:04,631 You know it too. 1811 01:45:05,800 --> 01:45:07,550 So... 1812 01:45:07,635 --> 01:45:09,386 finita la commedia. 1813 01:45:09,470 --> 01:45:11,596 Go. And good-bye. 1814 01:45:15,184 --> 01:45:17,686 I take this as a memento. 1815 01:45:18,980 --> 01:45:22,732 Isn't that something? You come, we meet. 1816 01:45:22,817 --> 01:45:24,693 Suddenly you're gone. 1817 01:45:24,777 --> 01:45:26,987 That's the way the world is, it seems. 1818 01:45:28,739 --> 01:45:31,241 Do this though... 1819 01:45:31,325 --> 01:45:34,536 before Vanya comes back with some bouquet for you - 1820 01:45:34,620 --> 01:45:36,329 A kiss. 1821 01:45:37,123 --> 01:45:40,000 One kiss. Yes? 1822 01:45:40,084 --> 01:45:42,085 For good-bye. 1823 01:45:42,169 --> 01:45:43,753 Yes? 1824 01:45:55,141 --> 01:45:57,267 All right then. That's done. 1825 01:45:58,894 --> 01:46:01,312 That's done, and all's well. 1826 01:46:01,397 --> 01:46:03,398 - I wish you all the best. - As I wish you. 1827 01:46:03,482 --> 01:46:05,734 Whatever. Whatever. 1828 01:46:05,818 --> 01:46:08,278 [Chuckles] Whatever. 1829 01:46:08,362 --> 01:46:11,865 Um, for once in my life. 1830 01:46:14,201 --> 01:46:16,119 - I must go. - Go quickly. 1831 01:46:16,203 --> 01:46:20,081 - They're coming. I think - - Let bygones be bygones. 1832 01:46:20,166 --> 01:46:24,627 I have lived through so much in the last four hours. I have thought so much. 1833 01:46:24,712 --> 01:46:28,131 I think I could compose a treatise for posterity on how one ought to live. 1834 01:46:28,215 --> 01:46:32,135 I gladly accept your apology, and I ask you to accept mine as well. Farewell. 1835 01:46:32,219 --> 01:46:34,637 You shall receive the same amount that you received before. 1836 01:46:34,722 --> 01:46:38,183 Sent without fail, regularly. Everything will be as it was before. 1837 01:46:38,267 --> 01:46:40,226 - Maman. - Alexandr. 1838 01:46:40,311 --> 01:46:44,522 Sit for another photograph. Have it sent to me. How precious you are to me. 1839 01:46:44,607 --> 01:46:47,484 - [Alexandr] I will. - Farewell, Your Excellency. 1840 01:46:47,568 --> 01:46:51,029 - Don't forget about us. - Farewell. Farewell, all. 1841 01:46:51,113 --> 01:46:54,657 And thank you for the pleasure of your company. 1842 01:46:54,742 --> 01:46:58,119 I have nothing but the utmost respect for your way of thinking... 1843 01:46:58,204 --> 01:47:01,039 your impulses, your enthusiasm. 1844 01:47:01,123 --> 01:47:03,958 But, I pray you, let an old man season his farewell... 1845 01:47:04,043 --> 01:47:06,169 with one small observation. 1846 01:47:06,253 --> 01:47:09,464 It's not enough to think. One must work. 1847 01:47:09,548 --> 01:47:11,132 You understand me? 1848 01:47:11,217 --> 01:47:15,678 After all, there is no greater joy than to do real work in the real world. 1849 01:47:15,763 --> 01:47:18,223 All the best to you, ladies and gentlemen. All the best. 1850 01:47:18,307 --> 01:47:20,350 I wish you all the best. Good-bye. 1851 01:47:20,434 --> 01:47:23,353 Waffles, while they're at it, have them bring my horses too. 1852 01:47:23,437 --> 01:47:25,563 My friend, I will. 1853 01:47:27,983 --> 01:47:29,776 Forgive me. 1854 01:47:29,860 --> 01:47:31,569 We'll never meet again. 1855 01:47:34,281 --> 01:47:36,116 Farewell, my dear. 1856 01:47:43,374 --> 01:47:44,791 Farewell. 1857 01:47:52,216 --> 01:47:53,758 [Astrov] Not going to see them off? 1858 01:47:55,511 --> 01:47:57,929 Let them go where they're going to. 1859 01:48:00,182 --> 01:48:02,308 No, it's, uh... 1860 01:48:03,686 --> 01:48:04,686 too difficult. 1861 01:48:04,770 --> 01:48:07,397 I'm gonna just... 1862 01:48:07,481 --> 01:48:11,151 turn - turn my hand to something. 1863 01:48:11,235 --> 01:48:15,572 - [Horses Whinnying] - [Sleigh Bells Ringing] 1864 01:48:21,036 --> 01:48:22,537 They're gone. 1865 01:48:24,498 --> 01:48:26,708 Well, the professor must be thrilled. 1866 01:48:26,792 --> 01:48:29,919 God himself couldn't lure that man back here. 1867 01:48:30,004 --> 01:48:31,504 They're gone. 1868 01:48:34,550 --> 01:48:36,342 They've gone. 1869 01:48:37,261 --> 01:48:39,679 God grant them the best. 1870 01:48:43,309 --> 01:48:45,643 Well, Uncle, what shall we do? 1871 01:48:48,355 --> 01:48:50,273 - Work. - Yes. 1872 01:48:50,357 --> 01:48:52,692 Absolutely! 1873 01:48:53,777 --> 01:48:56,905 [Laughing] 1874 01:48:56,989 --> 01:48:59,949 What? A long while since we've been here together. 1875 01:49:00,034 --> 01:49:01,784 [Sighs] 1876 01:49:04,163 --> 01:49:06,247 I think the ink is gone. 1877 01:49:09,376 --> 01:49:11,711 Now they're gone, I'm sad. 1878 01:49:17,176 --> 01:49:19,177 - They're gone. - All right. 1879 01:49:19,261 --> 01:49:22,555 First we'll start with the accounts. They're in a wretched state. 1880 01:49:22,640 --> 01:49:27,060 A fellow wrote today and said this is the third time he's asked for his balance. 1881 01:49:27,144 --> 01:49:31,814 So you take that one and I'll take the next one, and so on. 1882 01:49:31,899 --> 01:49:34,943 [Vanya] Oh, this is for the account of - 1883 01:49:39,615 --> 01:49:41,658 [Muttering] 1884 01:49:46,747 --> 01:49:49,040 [Astrov] In the stillness, pens are scratching. 1885 01:49:50,960 --> 01:49:53,461 The crickets chirp. 1886 01:49:53,545 --> 01:49:54,879 Warm. 1887 01:49:56,757 --> 01:49:58,299 Close. 1888 01:50:00,469 --> 01:50:03,263 You know, I don't feel like leaving somehow. 1889 01:50:04,473 --> 01:50:06,933 [Sleigh Bells Ringing] 1890 01:50:08,060 --> 01:50:10,395 [Sighs] There are my horses. 1891 01:50:10,479 --> 01:50:13,398 I guess all that's left is my good-bye. I'm off then. 1892 01:50:13,482 --> 01:50:15,525 - Stay a while. - I can't. 1893 01:50:15,609 --> 01:50:18,444 - Doctor, your horses are here. - Yes, I heard them. Thank you, Waffles. 1894 01:50:18,529 --> 01:50:22,407 Uh, would you put this in my carriage? Exercise extreme care with this, please. 1895 01:50:22,491 --> 01:50:24,200 And the portfolio. 1896 01:50:26,453 --> 01:50:28,454 - Well - - When will we see you again? 1897 01:50:28,539 --> 01:50:30,790 Ah, not before summer, I'd think. 1898 01:50:30,874 --> 01:50:33,251 Hardly this winter. Of course, if you should need me. 1899 01:50:33,335 --> 01:50:36,379 - Thank you for your hospitality. - Yes. 1900 01:50:36,463 --> 01:50:38,840 - For your kindness. - [Chuckling] Yes. 1901 01:50:38,924 --> 01:50:40,717 Thank you for everything. 1902 01:50:42,928 --> 01:50:46,306 Old one, farewell. 1903 01:50:47,349 --> 01:50:49,142 Mmm. 1904 01:50:49,226 --> 01:50:52,228 - You haven't had your tea. - I don't want any. 1905 01:50:52,313 --> 01:50:55,898 - A little vodka? - Perhaps a small one. 1906 01:51:06,702 --> 01:51:09,245 I've got my trace horse limping. Don't know why. 1907 01:51:09,330 --> 01:51:11,998 I noticed it yesterday when he was coming up. 1908 01:51:12,666 --> 01:51:16,461 - He needs reshoeing. - I'll stop by the farrier at Rozhdestvennoye. 1909 01:51:16,545 --> 01:51:18,838 - I would. - No help for him. 1910 01:51:30,059 --> 01:51:33,728 You know, I would think down in Africa the heat must be intense. 1911 01:51:34,688 --> 01:51:36,564 I think so. 1912 01:51:38,108 --> 01:51:40,443 - Here you are. - Oh. 1913 01:51:40,527 --> 01:51:43,279 - To your health, little father. - Thank you, Nanny. 1914 01:51:47,493 --> 01:51:50,286 - Eat some bread with it. - Ah! 1915 01:51:50,371 --> 01:51:52,372 No, I don't want any, thank you. 1916 01:51:55,334 --> 01:51:58,044 Good-bye. All the best to you. 1917 01:52:06,887 --> 01:52:08,471 Good-bye. 1918 01:52:17,773 --> 01:52:19,273 [Kisses] 1919 01:52:35,874 --> 01:52:37,959 February the 15th... 1920 01:52:38,043 --> 01:52:41,921 16 pounds vegetable oil. 1921 01:52:42,005 --> 01:52:44,132 February 20th... 1922 01:52:44,216 --> 01:52:46,884 five pounds buckwheat. 1923 01:52:46,969 --> 01:52:49,470 [Sleigh Bells Ringing] 1924 01:52:51,932 --> 01:53:01,691 He's gone. 1925 01:53:03,735 --> 01:53:09,198 For a subtotal of 15.20. 1926 01:53:09,950 --> 01:53:13,453 - Twenty-five. - [Sighing] 1927 01:53:14,580 --> 01:53:16,247 Mercy. 1928 01:53:31,680 --> 01:53:34,640 How hard this is for me. 1929 01:53:35,642 --> 01:53:38,227 You don't know how hard it is for me. You can't know. 1930 01:53:38,312 --> 01:53:39,812 [Chuckling] 1931 01:53:42,316 --> 01:53:43,816 What can we do, Uncle? 1932 01:53:46,987 --> 01:53:49,155 All we can do is live. 1933 01:53:52,201 --> 01:53:54,160 We'll live through... 1934 01:53:54,244 --> 01:53:56,621 a long row of days... 1935 01:53:58,415 --> 01:54:01,667 and through the endless evenings. 1936 01:54:04,171 --> 01:54:06,088 And we'll bear up... 1937 01:54:07,633 --> 01:54:09,759 under the trials fate has sent to us. 1938 01:54:09,843 --> 01:54:13,763 We... will constantly toil for others... 1939 01:54:15,432 --> 01:54:18,434 now and for the rest of our days. 1940 01:54:20,479 --> 01:54:22,772 And when we come to die... 1941 01:54:24,816 --> 01:54:26,817 we'll die submissively. 1942 01:54:32,157 --> 01:54:35,576 Beyond the grave, we will testify that we've suffered... 1943 01:54:38,330 --> 01:54:40,039 that we've wept... 1944 01:54:42,459 --> 01:54:44,544 that we've known bitterness. 1945 01:54:47,381 --> 01:54:49,882 And God will take pity on us... 1946 01:54:52,219 --> 01:54:53,970 you and I, Uncle. 1947 01:54:55,305 --> 01:54:58,849 God will take pity on us, and we will live... 1948 01:54:58,934 --> 01:55:01,644 a life of radiant joy... 1949 01:55:02,938 --> 01:55:04,772 and beauty. 1950 01:55:06,942 --> 01:55:11,153 And we'll look back on this life of our unhappiness with tenderness. 1951 01:55:11,238 --> 01:55:13,155 [Chuckles] 1952 01:55:13,240 --> 01:55:14,949 And we'll smile. 1953 01:55:17,202 --> 01:55:20,037 [Laughing] 1954 01:55:21,290 --> 01:55:24,125 And in that new life, we shall rest, Uncle. 1955 01:55:26,003 --> 01:55:27,920 I have faith. 1956 01:55:29,298 --> 01:55:32,633 We shall rest to the songs of the angels - 1957 01:55:33,594 --> 01:55:35,845 [Laughing] 1958 01:55:35,929 --> 01:55:40,349 In a firmament arrayed in jewels, and we'll look down... 1959 01:55:40,434 --> 01:55:43,019 and we'll see evil... 1960 01:55:43,103 --> 01:55:45,605 all the evil in the world... 1961 01:55:46,356 --> 01:55:50,151 and all our sufferings bathed in a perfect mercy... 1962 01:55:52,613 --> 01:55:55,489 and our lives grown sweet as a caress. 1963 01:56:01,121 --> 01:56:04,081 I know you've had no joy in your life. 1964 01:56:05,083 --> 01:56:06,876 But just wait. 1965 01:56:09,296 --> 01:56:11,422 Only wait, Uncle. 1966 01:56:13,467 --> 01:56:22,975 We shall rest. 1967 01:57:07,312 --> 01:57:10,356 [Chattering] 1968 01:57:48,061 --> 01:57:49,019 [No Audible Dialogue] 1969 01:58:01,575 --> 01:58:03,075 [No Audible Dialogue]