you it's Viktor.
And what happened?
Who broke the lamp?
Did someone fall there?
What's going on?
Seryozha?
- I'm going to die now.
- No, now you won't die.
Vitya.
- But what happened?
- Nothing. Everything's all right.
All right?...
I can't understand anything.
Seryozha, how's your side?
Does it hurt?
What's going on...
Stop looking at me like that.
He's not looking. Right, Seryozha?
Why, father? Everything's all right.
Everybody's home.
That's it, I'm leaving.
- Going where?
- Home, to Moscow.
Why, Vitya?
They'll fire me at my work!
- Call them and take a leave.
- Take a leave!
I've taken hundreds of leaves already!
They'll fire me!
Just a couple of minutes!
Wait!
Vitya, what about these jars?
The locomotive is waiting!
Whatjars?
- For Mishenka!
- All right.
- Hurry up, mother.
- In a jiffy, son.
How are you going to carry it?
Please, Vitya, sonny, don't!
It's for Mishenka, I beg you.
You'll get it there alright.
Don't enter her room now,
let her sleep.
Or you'll have another case here.
Vitya, what's the matter with her?
Nothing's the matter.
- Did she try to poison herself?
- Where did you get that idea?!
Vitya, come on...
You think I'm afraid
of your shitty prison?
I can be a driver there, too.
I'll be all right.
But what will happen to you?
Later, Kolia, later.
All right, that's it. I'm off.
Vitya, sonny...
You sort it out between yourselves
here, but, please, no violence.
Go to bed.
You have to get up early.
You won't get enough sleep.
I have a morning shift too.
- Go to bed, Kolia.
- You go, mother, I'll come soon.
Turn off the light.
Why did you come back?
I got scared.
Do you love me?
Vitya!
Vera...
Vera - Natalya NEGODA
Sergey - Andrei SOKOLOV
Father - Yuri NAZAROV
Mother - Ludmila ZAITSEVA
Viktor -
Alexander ALEXEYEV-NEGREBA
Chistyakova - Alexandra TABAKOVA
Andrei - Andrei FOMIN
Tolik - Alexander MIRONOV
Mikhail Petrovich -
Alexander LINKOV
Screenplay by
Maria KHMELIK
Directed by
Vasily PICHUL
Director of Photography
Yefim REZNIKOV
Production Designer
Vladimir PASTERNAK
Music by
Vladimir MATETSKY
English subtitles by
T. Kameneva
The EndCentral Studio of Children and
Youth Films named after M. Gorky
LITTLE VERA
Natalya NEGODA
Ludmila ZAITSEVA
Andrei SOKOLOV
Yuri NAZAROV
Alexander ALEXEYEV-NEGREBA
Now we've got it!
Just look at her! Just look!
She finished school, but got
nothing but foolishness in her head!
It's all your doing!
Kissing her ass when she was little.
- Come on, stop it.
- That's why she's grown up like this.
Who knows what happens now!
- Will you eat?
- Yes, I'm hungry as a wolf.
Is there nobody in this house
to fix the light?
Vera!
Victor's coming with his wife.
Come here!
Come here, I said!
What do you think
you're doing, Verka?
Why are you torturing your mother?
How can we look people straight
in the eye after that?
Instead of helping your mother,
you're loafing about with your...
It's Chistyakova, the bitch,
who's putting you up to it!
I don't want to see her again
in our courtyard!
What's her telephone number?
What's her number, I say!
She says she got no telephone.
All right, I'll check it.
I'll get everything from the school -
the telephone and the address.
Aren't you ashamed of yourself?
Your mother and I are
killing ourselves
to put you on your feet.
Thank God, Viktor has made it.
And you?
Have you ever thought that he might
be fired because of this thing?
She even began to smoke for everyone
to see how liberated she is!
What are you smirking at?
- Will you give me something to grub?
- In a minute.
Why don't you say something?
What am I supposed to say?
- Where did you get the money?
- Found it.
You hear? You shall go to the police
today and tell them everything!
Sit down.
You eat, and I'll go and call Viktor.
Let him talk to her
if she won't listen to her mother.
- Isn't he on duty today?
- He was yesterday.
Hello? Who is it?
Is it