Dashboard?
The dashboard that controls
the boiler's work.
The boiler, yes.
What's the matter with you?
You should be more cordial.
Am I not?
- You didn't get enough sleep or what?
- Everything's all right.
- What's going on with you?
- Nothing.
- I can see something's going on.
- Something's going on with everybody.
Don't say if you don't want to.
Something's wrong at home?
No.
- At the institute?
- Everything's fine.
- Maybe it's her?
- Who?
I don't know. Vera, Valya, Svetlana?
Pelagea.
Or maybe I'm wrong, Anya?
Maybe you're absolutely right
and I don't understand something?
Nothing's important except you and me.
There's nothing else around us,
and that's the point.
I guess it's foolish of us to fight.
It's nonsense, but we can
lose each other because of it.
- I don't want it.
- Me, neither.
I haven't seen you for a whole week,
I can't go on like this.
Me, neither.
Let's see each other and
discuss everything quietly, okay?
- We have to make serious decisions.
- Absolutely.
I got to go.
Yes, the ring.
I got to run.
I love you so much, do you hear?
I hear.
I love you too, very much.
Good afternoon.
Do you have any books by Fokin?
Fokin...
Faulkner, maybe?
No, Fokin.
Ah, Fokina!
Yes, we have.
- How much is it?
- 20 kopecks.
Thank you very much.
Olga Fokina. Poems.
- Are you finished?
- Yes, now it makes sense.
Have to check
the record of a series and zero.
Check it yourself tomorrow.
Sure.
Going home?
I'll stay for a while.
Get the commutation
scheme for tomorrow.
So you'll call me tonight?
As we agreed.
- How you doing?
- All right.
- Have you distributed the tickets?
- Did it yesterday.
Why are you staying late?
I want to think and get down
to the core of the problem.
Let's go take a look at it together.
- I got the whole collected works.
- Good for you.
- All finished?
- Right. Goodbye.
- Take care.
- Bye.
- What's the play?
- "Five Evenings".
- It's Raikin?
- No.
Right, "Sovremennik" Theatre.
Check it once again.
I have already.
I mixed it up with "Good Evening"
by Shurov and Rykunin.
If you get a chance, go and see it.
You're just like Vladimir Vasilyevich.
He advised me to see the Vienna
Ballet, which toured a year ago.
Funny man.
You've known him long?
Since I came to work here.
He's got a swell tape-recorder.
- An imported one?
- He made it himself.
And what do you think?
A very good machine.
I mean Vladimir Vasilyevich.
- In what sense?
- What does one usually think of a man?
I want to check my impressions.
He seems to be a good worker.
You know
my attitude towards him.
He's working all right,
working well.
Yes, he works well.
Sometimes he talks too much.
He's a man with a sense of humor.
Yes, with a sense of humor, but
mind you, he never says it to the end.
He always speaks his mind.
There're no such people who speak
their mind.
- Why?
- I don't know, such is human nature.
No, you're exaggerating.
Sure, he appears
to be bold, and even blunt.
But he's always choosing his words.
Remember what he said about Filippov?
He's not choosing, he just says it.
Don't you think he was right?
The machine is idle now.
And your Filippov had
his finger in the pie.
- Why my Filippov?
- What difference does it make whose?
Now we're sweating over it, then we'll
be in a rush. The old man is right.
In this sense,
he may be partly right.
Though I don't
agree with you completely.
We know those men of principle.
Just a cheap effect.
Gaining popularity.
I don't quite understand you.
What is there to understand?
Nonsense, you don't know him at all.
Right, I know him very little.
Let's have a smoke. Only two
of us here, no fireman.
Listen, I want to talk to you
frankly, without witnesses.
Only try to put yourself in my place
and understand me correctly.
Some of our comrades...
apparently not without good reason,
got an impression that
some of Vladimir Vasilyevich's
pronouncements
disorient...