this area so much?
- Why shouldn't I love this area?
- Don't you want to return
to where you were born?
- Look, there's more...
Depressions, dunes...
- I see it every day when I go to the hospital!
- So the young man is a doctor?
- A doctor and a writer.
- Is it true, that you write?
- Why, is it forbidden?
- My dear...
- I'm old enough to be your father.
Listen to what I'm going to tell you.
There is no need to write.
Don't invent anything.
It's the work of the devil, believe me...
Because... you are a doctor.
So be a doctor...
Like Hippocrates... or Botkin...
You know?..
Angina is cured by garling.
For running nose, one puts on
wollen socks with mustard powder.
Sleeping pills help for insomnia.
- And analgesics - for cancer...
- Analgesics - for cancer...
My friends!
Listen to me!
Why can't you love Life?
Why can't you just love Life?
- Vladlen Semenovich...
- Rubbish!
If you are human beings,
you must understand the unwritten
laws of human life.
To love women,
to have children
to grow trees
to swim in a river.
My God,
how great it is to hold
beautiful life in your arms!
Or to have a sip of hot coffee.
Turkish coffee...
- By the way, the coffee is ready.
- So bring it!
- Do not answer the door!
- Shut up!
Let me go!
- Let him go, will you.
- You are hurting me, let me go!
- Here we go...
- Don't listen to him, Sasha,
open the door.
- Alexander! I'm asking you to think
very hard before answering the door!
- Vladlen Semenovitch, this is for you.
- Who? Who is it?! Who?!
- Look, it's Marina!
I only stepped in for a second.
To show my friends some photographs...
Photo albums...
- How many times have I asked you
not to leave on Sundays.
- This is really my fault, Marina.
- Please don't get upset.
Marina, it's awkward,
they don't understand...
Speak Russian...
- And I don't want to!
Open the door for me.
- By the way, Alexander, do
you have a recent newspaper?
There must be a criminal drama on TV tonight.
Great, thank you!
There you go, at 19:50.
Take care, my friends!
- Sorry, Vladlen Semenovich...
- Good by...
- So, you are going to quit
because you are afraid?
- Leave me alone, for god's sake.
- You couldn't have
told me in advance?
- What are you looking at?!
- Don't yell...
Why did I have to tell you?
Think about it...
You are used to jumping in,
in full speed.
- There's nowhere to run.
- I've left everything...
- For some reason...
I pity Gluhov.
Do you see your parents often?
- What?
- Do you see your parents often?
- No, they live on the other
side of town, as you know.
- Father calls me.
At night. When he suffers from insomnia.
- How long ago were they exiled
to this place?
- Well, this is good-by...
It's cooled down quite a bit.
May be you could stay...
It will be difficult for me without you...
- It will be difficult for me too.
- Stay...
- When I was a kid, I was happy to
find yout that the Earth is round.
It would be impossible to get lost,
I thought.
Wherever you go, you'd always
return to where you started from.
Call my parents.
Make up a story.
Tell them I promised to come back soon.
- I will call.
And make up a lie.
And you won't come back...
OK, I have to leave the boat now.
What is it?
- My diaries.
- Take care!
Alexey Ananishnov
as Dmitrij Malianov
Escander Umarov
as Alexander Vecherovskij
a.g.a. 2006Why have you come?
Go away.
The living don't belong here.
Don't you understand,
how painful it is...
when your body is not
under your control any more,
and only your powerless
and sad mind remains...
Don't take this sin upon your soul.
A fly!
I can feel it...
each one of us...
has an invisible circle around them
and we can not venture beyond it
for even a single moment...
Forgetting this limit,
trying to break it
with your mind...
you don't know what guardians
you have awakened,
what forces...
directed against yourselves.
Crossing the circle...
you lose everything