-Very glad.
-My congratulations, prince.
-Oh, thanks.
-Wish you good health, prince.
-Thank you. Yes.
l have a couple of words to say to you
and those on a very important matter.
-Just a couple of words.
-Wait a second. So?
Do you remember Ferdishenko?
-Where have you dropped from?
- l have met him, prince.
l met him outside and brought him in.
He is rare of my friends.
-He is sorry for his sins now.
-Why, what has he done?
Oh, sit down, gentlemen.
l beg you to sit.
-l'll come back directly.
-We're waiting for you, prince.
That's good.
You are very gay here.
Now then, my dear Lef Nicolaievitch, this is what's the matter.
l've arranged it all with Moloftsoff,
and have just come in to relieve your mind on that score.
He was very sensible,
for l think he was entirely to blame himself.
What Moloftsoff?
The young fellow whose arms
you held, don't you know?
He was so wild with you
that he was going to send a friend to you
tomorrow morning.
That's impossible!
What nonsense!
curse it is nonsense, and in nonsense it would have ended.
But you know these fellows.
Excuse me, but l think you must have something
else to speak about, Evgenie Pavlovitch?
Of course, l have!
l have come to beg your friendship,
my dear prince.
You are in the thick of things
at every step.
And there is a matter in which
l need a true and sincere friend and councilor
For l really may claim
to be among the number of bona fide unfortunates just now.
Do you mind if l wait
until the party is broken up.
Goodness only knows
when this party will break up.
lsn't it better for us to talk now?
They could wait indeed.
-l'll excuse myself.
- No, no!
There are gentry present who are a little
too much interested in us.
l don't believe, scounderly Lebedeff,
in these waggons bringing
bread to humanity.
For waggons bringing
bread to humanity
founded on no moral principle
may coldly exclude a considerable portion
of humanity from enjoying it
l agree.
What, these waggons may
coldly exclude?
And l highly appreciate your
worm word of frindly relationships
Don't you even suspect, dear prince,
that l just came to foolish you
and extort from you something at the same time
You came here to foolish me
lt cannot be even doubted
and even thought to cheat me a little
So what? l'm not afraid of you.
You know it doesn't matter to me
Evgenie Pavlovitch
l liked you very much.
You are a very
very honest person, to my mind.
You are nice to deal with, prince.
Let's go,
l'll drink for you.
Has Mr. Hippolyte
moved to you?
Yes.
He will not die just now, l guess.
Why so?
That's nothing.
l stayed with him for half an hour here.
with the support of
the Cinematography Service
the Russian Ministry
of Culture
produced by 2-B-2 Studio
ENTERTAlNMENT
Fyodor Mikhailovitch
Dostoevsky
lDlOT
Evgeni MlRONOV
As prince Muishkin
Starring
Vladimir MASHKOV
Lidiya VELEZHEVA
Olga Budina
lnna CHURlKOVA
Alexei PETRENKO
Vladimir lLYlN
Michael BOYARSKY
Alexander LAZAREV
Larisa MALEVANNAYA
Maria KlSELYOVA
Written and directed by
Vladimir BORTKO
Photography by
Dmitri MASS
Design by
Vladimir SVETOZAROV
Marina NlKOLAYEVA
Original music by
lgor KORNELYUK
Producer
Valery TODORORVSKl
Episode 7
Let's go,
l'll drink the health of you.
Has Mr. Hippolyte
moved to you?
Yes.
He will not die just now, l guess.
Why so?
That's nothing.
l stayed with him for half an hour here.
ls it true, prince, that you said once
that beauty will save the world?
Yes.
Gentlemen, the prince asserts that beauty will save the world
But l assert
that the reason he has such playful ideas is
that he is in love.
Gentlemen, l intend to read
an article.
Supper, of course, is more interesting, but...
Why read? lt's time to supper now.
An article? A magazine article?
What have you there?
You wrote it yesterday.
l was writing it all day yesterday,
and all night,
and finished in this morning.
Better not read!
Don't read