want you to promise me
you'll never do anything like this
without my permission.
Yes, ma'am...
But I want you to respect my wishes
as well.
If you talk to me in that manner
once more,
I will never set foot
in this house again.
As for the decisions in this house,
I'll be making them.
For the simple reason
that I'm the man here.
I'm sorry. Forgive me.
Alexandra, one of your friends.
Please never raise your voice
to me like that.
I was so afraid you'd get hurt.
I'm sorry.
You want to see mother?
So you're Alexandra?
Please come in.
- Will you join us?
- Well, thank you.
Alexandra, would you mind?
- This is for you.
- Thank you.
Are you going to introduce me
or should I do it myself?
Meet Rodion Rachkov,
he's a television cameraman.
An old friend of mine.
So old that he didn't even
recognize me when he saw me.
- Georgy and Alexandra.
- It's a pleasure. Sit down, please.
- Would you like some cognac?
- I won't say no.
There you go.
I think I have some lemon around.
Well, what did you think of the show?
Mom looked a little nervous.
- You were on TV?
- Oh, who cares?
You made quite an impression
with our bigwigs.
They saw in you a real leader
of today.
There're plans to make a film
about you.
About a woman who has made herself,
coming all the way from a common
worker to a factory director.
- Who's the director?
- Let's have a drink...
What d'you mean? Katerina, of course.
Oh yes, sure...
How long have you been working
at television?
It will be twenty-five years soon.
So you were at the very beginning?
Even then I knew
that television was
the future of mankind.
- I wanted to explain...
- I understand...
It would change our life.
There will be no books, no newspapers,
no theatre, no movies.
- What will remain?
- Only television.
- That's some misunderstanding.
- I understand.
I can agree about the movies.
But theatre...
This is a special art.
Let's talk about it
in another twenty years.
In twenty years the world will be
nothing like today.
- Have you ever visited the studios?
- No, never.
I can arrange it if you want.
I think I'll go now.
I'm pretty tired. I think
I'll get to bed early.
Don't go. I want to talk to you.
We'll talk tomorrow.
I better go.
I won't let you leave here!
She's in a very bad mood today.
He won't ever come back.
I'll never see him again!
Damn you. Why did you have to do
this to me again?
What did I do now?
- Do you know who this man is?
- Rodion Rachkov.
- He's your father.
- My father's dead!
As you can see, he's very much alive
and pretty well.
Don't cry. You know
what Moscow thinks of tears.
We shouldn't be sitting around,
we should do something!
How long has it been
since he disappeared?
A week.
Why don't you swallow your pride
and go see him yourself?
Oh, what pride. I would go to
the ends of the earth...
We don't know where he lives.
Look in the phone book, that's all.
What was his last name again?
I don't know.
A good start.
You didn't... Is anything gone
from the apartment?
What do you mean?
All right, I'll find him.
A tool and die maker, you say?
Yeah, he works in some sort of
institute.
Does he have any particular marks
I can look for?
A scar, for instance?
Not that I know of.
They took out his appendix.
That's not what I meant.
Wait for me here.
Let everyone in and no one out.
If need be, shoot first
and ask questions afterwards!
Is there a Georgy living here?
Alias Goga, alias Gosha,
or Yuri or Jora?
There's only a man named Georgy
living here. Right in there.
- Is he in there?
- I don't know.
He's there all right.
You'll have to go around.
They're redoing the walls.
To the right. And to the right again.
- Gosha.
- Nikolai.
Has it been raining hard?
For three days now.
What's going on in the world?
Another airplane was hijacked.
What's wrong with you?
Katia, you don't know how lucky
you really are!
You often said that at our age
it's impossible to