fools.
They're indestructible.
You're... pure gold, Ilya.
Anyway, let's drop by
the new installation.
What for?
Just to take a look.
All right.
Well, all my hopes
are put in it now.
Are you sure that it's principally
different from the old one?
Absolutely.
First, it's more powerful.
And besides, it's a little bit cleverer.
Ilya.
What if it wasrt thermonuclear?
Ask me this question tomorrow morning.
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
- Where are they going?
- To dance.
Shall we go too?
If it were thermonuclear...
Stop torturing yourself. You'll test
the new installation and you'll see.
Let's go to dances.
When will the pumps start working?
- At the new one?
- Yes, at the new installation.
They were started today.
And how long will they pump?
For about two months.
- Mitya...
- I know, you may leave even tomorrow.
I'm not sleeping.
Go back to sleep.
- What are you looking for?
- Coffee.
It's in the lower drawer.
Why do you need coffee at night?
I still need to think.
Why don't you move to the institute?
You can put a folding bed there.
That's possible.
Look, Mitya, tell me frankly,
what do you need me for?
That's a silly question.
You see, I thought it would
be easier for you with me beside you.
Apparently I was wrong.
I have an impression
I'm in the way all the time.
No, you're not in my way.
Listen, Goosev,
let's be honest.
I see that I'm
a nuisance for you,
I'm demanding your attention, I'm
annoying you with my idiotic moods.
But what can I do?
I'm not some pet, I'm a woman.
I told you on the first day
you'd regret it.
I don't regret anything!
If I could feel just for a minute that
you need me, I would be happy.
- I need you.
- It's not true!
It's simply not true.
Your coffee's going to boil over.
Not true?
You...
A delicate,
intellectual creature...
What do you know about life?
Back in Moscow, I thought
you loved me.
I love you.
All right then.
Sit down and eat.
I'm again in your way.
- Mitya, are you asleep?
- No.
Are you all right?
What is it?
Did something happened?
- Yes.
- Today?
A month ago, the day Ilya came.
Oh, my God!
I knew. I knew it would happen!
Goosev!
My poor Goosev!
- It's the beginning of the end.
- No! I don't want!
I don't want! I don't want!
Don't you dare! Don't you dare!
I'm sorry.
I'm just a vulgar fool.
Mitya.
Why don't you say anything?
Say something!
Didrt I?
DAY SEVEN
He spent that day
in the place where he was born.
Nyura, I didn't recognize you.
And I recognized you right away,
Dmitri Alexeyevich.
- Why so official?
- I don't know.
Come on, meet someone.
Come on, come on.
This is my wife, Lyolya.
- Hello.
- Hello.
There you go...
- Dad went to the store to buy bread.
- Let's go.
- Don't call me by patronymic.
- Sorry, I won't.
We were expecting you yesterday.
We did expect you,
but not today.
I came out to the water well not
properly dressed and saw them coming.
First, let's drink to Mother.
May her memory live forever.
She was waiting for this day,
but didn't live up to it.
Everything's here like it was when
she was alive, I didn't change a thing.
- You hurt her, Mitya, very much.
- Please don't, Father.
Our house will be pulled down soon.
Almost all the rest are gone already.
They say we stand on iron.
The irons under us.
What? Did I say something wrong?
No, everything's right.
A new village has already
been built at Zimogorye.
If you came a month later,
you wouldn't have found us here.
Where are we? We're gone.
Well, to your health.
And for me, Grandpa?
Want some sauerkraut?
- No.
- Just look at him!
Remember Sashka Golovin,
Styosha's youngest one?
Got five years,
he drank too much.
And Vitka Voronov, their
eldest, is already a general.
We're doing pretty well,
have plenty of everything.
I've brought you some money, Dad.
No, Mitya, we don't need anything.
Thanks for coming yourself.
You better tell me what.
Are you satisfied with your