drying crackers!
Dima, don't worry!
We need to bribe him!
Bribe him?! Are you crazy?
You're crazy!
- If you give a lot, he'll take it!
- Be quiet! Calm down!
I won't allow it!
A disgrace!
Dad, why don't you go back
to the marketplace with your wisdom!
I sell strawberries grown
with my own two hands!
For bribery - I'll destroy not only
a son-in-law, but my own daughter!
Don't worry...
In jail you'll be re-educated.
Ten years from now,
you'll return a new man!
Put the birdie down!
Should have married an orphan...
Don't worry, I really do have
all that money. Here, a full bag.
Do you really want to
transfer that amount
- ...to that orphanage?
- Yes.
Did you grow up there?
Are these your personal savings?
Well, how shall I put it...
I, too, played a part in it.
- Hello. I'm looking for Yuri Ivanovich
Detochkin. - Please enter.
- I'm Yuri's mother.
- Nice to meet you.
I'm from the community theater.
I'm so glad Yuri's in the theater.
- I think he has skill.
- He's really talented!
- He didn't show up for rehearsal...
- Sweetheart, he's on a business trip.
I hate his business trips!
Running off at night, disappearing.
- Luba's got a point, it's not right!
- But when...?
Luba - that's his bride.
There's her photo.
He's kind of old-fashioned.
His courtship was very long.
She drives the trolleybus.
Admirable woman.
They met when he came
to sell her insurance...
Tell me, what sort of business trips
could an insurance agent even have?
Why does he return nervous?
- You know... - What is it you do?
- I'm an investigator.
Well you should figure this out!
When I was young, I was being
courted by an investigator.
But I married a man from the Red Army.
The whole battalion came to the wedding!
We sang: "Our train flies forward,
next stop - in The Commune!"
- Do you know it?
- (he recites next line)
- But when did he leave? For how long?
- Two days ago, at night.
And the strangest thing was he came
to bid goodbye to Luba in some Volga.
- Well, a taxi then.
- No! He was behind the wheel!
- Can Yuri really drive a car?
- Yuri? He was a driver for 10 years.
He had an accident, got a concussion.
He lay in the hospital, I sat next to him.
The doctors advised him
to stop driving for a while,
and he became an insurance
salesman, temporarily.
I can't wait till they're married.
I dream of a grandson. Or daughter...
What's with you?
What city did you send
your employee
...Mr. Detochkin on a business trip?
I didn't send him anywhere.
You see...
Detochkin has many sickly relatives,
in various cities
in the Soviet Union.
I recently got a telegram...
There it is.
Yet another nephew... a beloved one,
got sick. He took an unpaid vacation.
Maxim was beside himself.
Memories burned in his heart.
How cleverly Detochkin had masked his interest
in the gang leader's pursuit! Hypocrite!
How he stole a car using a crane!
Sneaky liar!
Thief! Traitor!
He betrayed what's most important:
friendship! No mercy for such a man...
Mom? It's me. Just got back.
I'm healthy.
Everything calm at home?
No visitors?
You've really done it with
your community theater!
The was an investigator
looking for you!
- En garde, Sir!
- I'm at your service...
It's my honor to attack you...
- Where've you been hiding?
- What?? I had a business trip!
And how's the nephew doing?
- What nephew?
- The beloved one!
And the wolf trap? The injured foot?
And the Droog cigarettes??
Stop improvising! There were no
"Droog" cigarettes in Shakespeare's time!
And why suddenly the past tense?
- Podberozivokov!
- Yes?
What do you keep
thinking about?
Stop! Stop waving that sword!
- What a blow!
- Calm down!
- Where is he??
- He's awake!
- He's alive.
- Take five!
- How many cars did you sell?
- Four.
Suppose it's four. In perfect condition,
they're worth quite a bit of money!
What made you this way?
Such a good mother, sings about trains...
- Pardon me, are you a loony?
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