now.
Is there any left for mom?
Yeah, I’ve got two bags full.
I’ll be off then.
Damn.
Dammit!
Hi.
Where is Lisa?
Lisa? She is a…
She thought she’d go to bed early.
We leave tomorrow early morning.
Hey, don’t you recognize me?
It’s me, Angelika, Lisa’s friend.
It’s my dacha we are going to tomorrow.
Of course I recognized you.
Wanna dance?
Sure, just wait a sec.
I’ll be back.
OK.
Stay here.
Hi.
Good evening.
Excuse me, are you the boss here?
Excuse me for barging in.
I was just going to Leninsk, and my engine died.
I tried to hitch, but no one stopped.
And I saw your house.
And thought… Maybe here is someone who knows about engines?
Thank you.
Hello.
Are you the boss here?
Good rifle. Simpson.
I am a hunter myself, I have granddad’s Simpson.
Vodka?
What?
You see, I am going to Leninsk…
and my engine died on me.
No one stopped, so I thought…
maybe you could help me?
I saw your lights from the road.
Tonya!
Sit down.
Thank you.
Tonya!
Hello.
Where is Sunka?
He was in the bathhouse.
Call him.
And get us something to eat.
How long do I have to wait!
Where are you from?
From Leningrad.
I am going to my mother, to Leninsk.
What’s your name?
Kazakov Artem Nikolaevich.
We don’t use patronymics here.
I am Alexey.
You wait, maybe we’ll think up something.
Are you an engineer?
No, I am professor
of scientific atheism in the university.
Sunka!
Eh?
Come, the master is calling.
Coming.
What comes first, the matter or the conscience?
Marxist-Lenin philosophy denies
the idea of God,
as the idea based on the impossibility
of cognizing the world that surrounds a human…
No, you scientist just tell me,
does God exist or does he not?
This is exactly what I am trying to explain you.
You called me, master?
Go bring us some from the bathhouse…
or we won’t be able to sort it
out with the professor here.
All right, master.
OK then, come on, professor.
Master asked this… from bath…
A buyer?
No, this… professor…
You hear, Ton’? The scientist professor
says here God does not exist.
So, no God then?
No.
What is it?
Mushroom soup.
Well then, what does exist?
There is a dynamic matter that
is given to us in the form of sensations.
And soul? Is there a soul?
No, Alexey, there is no soul either.
So, what about my car?
Here.
So, Artem, no God then?
No soul.
There is conscience and matter.
Then where this all comes from?
Conscience, for instance?
Alexey, this is just an idle talk.
There is the Darwinian theory,
which is taught at school.
You want me to believe that a monkey
grabbed a stick and then evolved to…
abstract thinking?
Let’s drink.
No, I can’t, thank you.
I need to go to Leninsk.
How?
OK, I’ll go.
Wait.
You came, so don’t offend the hosts now.
We opened our soul to you,
though you don’t have one.
Good, this is our way, professor.
You eat your soup, eat.
Tonka makes good soups.
Have cucumbers too, homemade.
Sun’, when you’re finished,
get the car keys from the professor.
Check what’s wrong there.
So, Artem, nothing’s there?
You see, Alexey, I am an agnostic.
I believe in the cognizability of world,
and I don’t believe in the supernatural.
So, will you repair it?
It’s… Plug needs cleaning…
and carburetor.
Give me a cloth.
Cloth.
Will it take long?
Half an hour takes...
Are you Chinese?
No, I am Vietnamese.
And why do they call you Sunka?
I Suan-Van-Hey.
It’s in Russian become…
Sunka.
I was working in big plant.
It’s in Leninsk.
Then they took me here.
To pour vodka, and work in garden.
I like here.
I love garden.
I’ll go to the house.
It’s cold here.
Here.
So, you are a communist.
Yes, I am a member of Communist Party.
There is nothing to be proud of!
All the evil comes from you, the communists.
You want to replace God with your party
and your Lenin.
- Well...
- This is what you get!
There’s no God – so everything goes, you remember?
You can kill millions.
And I, when I was a kid…
I killed a guy