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NINE DAYS OF ONE YEAR
We will be telling you
about the events
which might have never
been in reality.
We can even admit that
the specialists in nuclear physics
would say that those events
just couldn't happen.
We can't argue with them.
However, the people we're
going to tell you about,
their relationships, their approach
to science,
to life - that is all true.
The film's action spans a period of
one year.
It could be a much longer time.
We'll select
only nine days from that year.
Why these particular days,
you will understand later.
In any case, these events
begin far from the capital,
in a small town consisting
ofjust two or three streets
that surround a large
institute of physics.
DAY ONE
(early autumn)
DANGER!
Sintsov?
Sintsov? Who else?
Screenplay by M. ROMM
D. KHRABROVITSKY
Directed by Mikhail ROMM
Cinematography by G. LAVROV
Production Designer G. KOLGANOV
Music by D. TER-TATEVOSYAN
English Subtitles by
T. Kameneva
Starring
A. BATALOV
I. SMOKTUNOVSKY
T. LAVROVA
N. PLOTNIKOV
S. BLINNIKOV
Ye. YEVSTIGNEYEV
M. KOZAKOV
I. GRABBE
V. NIKULIN
P. SHPRINGFELD
A. PELEVIN
Ye. TETERIN
N. SERGEYEV
A. VOITSIK
V. BELYAYEVA
L. OVCHINNIKOVA
Yu. KIREYEV
B. YASHIN
I. DOBROLYUBOV
A. SMIRNOV
A. PAVLOVA
R. ESADZE
G. YEPIFANTSEV
L. DUROV
N. BATYREVA
Z. CHEKULAYEVA
I. YASULOVICH
Narrated by Z. GERDT
It's a real success!
A real success!
Pavel Demyanovich, you can kiss me!
- What have you done?
- All right if you don't want to.
What have you done?
We got a fully
ionized plasma.
I've waited 5 years for this moment!
And what happened to the reactor?
They're building a new one. Come on.
Tell me what happened there?
Well, something has happened.
Victors need never explain.
Sergey Ivanovich, you owe me a bottle.
I prefer cognac.
Well, let it be cognac.
Mitya, what has he done?
He killed himself.
Tanechka, why don't you dance?
It's our victory day!
- Was he standing by the peephole?
- I think so.
- You think so or he was?
- I think he was.
- And what about Goosev?
- I don't know.
Who's going to tell me the truth?
What happened there?
The reactor was working at the red
line.
Konstantin Ivanovich
wanted to get plasma.
He kept increasing, got carried
away and miscalculated.
- And?!
- The reactor took a dead run.
Excuse me.
And Goosev?
MOSCOW
Thank you.
- It's always unsettling.
- What?
- Don't you hear?
- The planes?
A usual association: The aviation
always reminds you of the war.
Where shall I have my ticket
to Novosibirsk registered?
Does this finger gesture of yours mean
over there, in the hall? Thank you.
Itjust disgusts me to think
that about 5 or 6 men
on the other side of the planet decide...
- Pretty girl.
- Very pretty.
Decide whether I live or not,
whether I have my dinner tomorrow.
A month ago I met
those people - nothing special.
They're pretty boring, each of them
is not as smart as you and I.
But they don't decide anything.
We're physicists
and we know perfectly well
that liquid can be heated up
to a very high temperature
if we simultaneously
increase pressure.
But you can't do it infinitely.
There'll be an explosion.
Don't you think
that our planet's temperature
has reached a critical level?
I think we've passed it.
Let's go back.
Why are you trying
to scare me all the time?
Atavism.
Apparently, the Stone Age man
was supposed to inspire horror.
- Am I?
- You are.
Boarding time
for Flight 18
from Moscow to Novosibirsk.
All right. Straighten up
your muffler and button up.
What shall I tell Mitya?
You start it again.
Explain it to him.
Tell him I've proposed to you.
You haven't lost the letter, have you?
- No, it's here.
- I wrote everything in it.
Tell him that I got tired.
All right. I'll tell him
we've decided to get married.
I'll tell him you got tired.
What did you get tired of?
Mostly of him.
And partly, of you.
Listen...
May I ask you,
what was it between