it?
- Yes, funny.
- Why don't you laugh, then?
I'm laughing with inner.
Scary?
Very scary.
Actually, at that time I'm
laughing with inner laughter.
You were lying,
It's not that you're tired.
Are you having troubles?
C'mon give me your ticket.
- Everything will end up well.
- How do you know?
You've got a lucky ticket.
Save it.
- I'll sure do it.
- You'll be in luck.
Thank you for that.
Next stop - Burevestnik.
Tomorrow I'm going to sleep late.
It's my day off.
And will go to movies in the evening.
- Did you see the movie "Girls"?
- No.
It'll be on tomorrow again
at "Burevestnik".
No, I haven't seen it.
The tram goes to the depot!
Why?
Well, goodbye, Katya.
By etiquette, a man
shouldn't do it first.
To hell with the etiquette.
You're a nice girl.
Now you've noticed.
Very nice.
Goodbye.
- Take care.
- Thanks. I'll try to.
You're lucky you've got someone
like me, or you would've perished.
Mom, aren't we lucky!
Three books of "The Red and the Black".
- Seryozha, want me to give you one?
- Sure.
He knows the classics only
by movies.
It's shorter and ideologically
correct, everything's clear.
You're as up-to-date as the Youth Cafe.
Does my sister visit the Youth Cafe?
- And where do you go?
- To the planetarium.
So you're going to the planetarium?
What are they showing today?
The mystery of the Tungus meteorite.
The greatest mystery
is your girlfriend.
Why are you pestering the boy?
He's in a hurry, he got no time.
Of course, he got no time.
Very busy young people.
They're deciding now a difficult
problem: where to live.
- Really?
- Really.
I think since you've told me
it's no secret anymore.
Vera, it's none of your business.
Sure, none of mine and none of yours.
You keep mum and try to be delicate.
- You'll have more room for yourselves.
- We're not cramped as it is.
Why don't you bring her here?
For us to meet her and look at her.
- I will.
- Big deal, a very important person.
All right, stop it.
Books are good
when there're not too many of them.
- "The Problems of Therapy".
- Vera, wait, not this one...
All right. Howa bout "Analytical
Geometry", published in 1936?
Perhaps we can throw it away?
I'd rather not,
these are your dad's books.
- You all thumbs.
- I didn't mean to.
Night bird.
Look, what's this?
Some documents.
Documents.
Mom.
- I think this is...
- What?
- Where did you find them?
- Right here.
Where? Here?
Oh God, how could it be?
For the month of October 1941.
It's almost an archeological find.
We can report it to a newspaper.
A worker's food coupon.
A worker's one is mine.
They issued them to us in the hospital.
And a child's one, is it mine?
Seryozha's.
You hadn't been born yet.
Oh God, what a fool I am.
How could I have put them here?
Look, kids.
They're for two full decades.
That means a lot of bread.
Let's celebrate their 20th
anniversary. Esteemed food coupons...
There's nothing funny about it.
Seryozha and I had to live
without them for over half a month.
It's hard to explain it now,
and hard to understand.
- And how did you survive then?
- Just like that...
Eating only potatoes.
At night I had to be
on duty at the hospital,
and in the daytime I went to
the country to dig up some potatoes.
I remember some soldiers gave me
a lift. It was near Skhodnya.
They were digging up trenches,
and I potatoes.
I had no fear
at the time,
except that Seryozha
and I had lost our food coupons.
It was only later
that I got scared to death.
The soldiers went somewhere.
It was evening.
I'm digging up potatoes.
It was so cold, so muddy.
And I'm sobbing,
sobbing all the time.
Then I went back home.
I'm walking, not knowing where
the Germans are. Perhaps ahead of me?
And the sack is very heavy and wet.
But I can't drop and leave it.
The hungry Seryozhka's waiting home,
and there's nothing else to give him.
I reached Moscow.
Moscoww as dark.
The streets were empty and cold.
The