EndMOSFILM
INTER-ALLIANCE FILM
Third Artistic Association
MY TENDER AND AFFECTIONATE BEAST
(A HUNTING ACCIDENT)
Based on A.P. Chekhov's novel
"A Hunting Accident"
Starring
Galya BELYAYEVA as Olga
Oleg YANKOVSKY as Kamyshev
Kirill LAVROV as Count Karneyev
Leonid MARKOV as Urbenin
Also starring
Svetlana TOMA
Grigory GRIGORIU
V. SIMCHICH, O. FYODOROV
A. ZVENIGORODSKY
Written and Directed by
Emil LOTYANU
Director of Photography
Anatoly PETRITSKY
Production Designer
Boris BLANK
Music by
Eugen DOGA
Sound by V. KURGANSKY
Conductor S. SKRIPKA
English Subtitles by
T. Kameneva
Sergey Petrovich...
A visitor... been waiting to see you
for two days now.
What shall I tell him?
- Show him in.
- Yes, sir.
Please come this way, sir.
Allow me to introduce myself.
Doctor of jurisprudence,
Sergey Petrovich Kamyshev.
Former examining magistrate.
How may I be of service to you?
I wrote a novel I'd like to be
published in your newspaper.
- Have a seat please.
- What?
- I said have a seat.
- Ah, thank you.
To be honest, I wrote this novel not
for the sake of literary glory.
Oh? And what was your reason?
Let's say pecuniary.
I need... to earn some money.
It doesn't matter.
What's the subject of your story?
The subject? Well, it's not very
original.
Murder. Love.
A cheap popular stuff.
Read it and you'll see.
Everything described
in my novel
actually took place right before
my eyes.
I was a witness
and a participant.
Very commendable.
What is the title of your novel?
A Hunting Accident.
All right, leave it, but it may take
a while before you get an answer.
How long?
I don't know. Moscow is swamped
with writers. Everyone writes.
Come back in two or three months.
Better three than two.
It's pretty long.
Well, I understand how busy you are.
So be it.
Thank you for taking the time
to see me.
For the next three months I'll be
living on hope.
That's already something.
Goodbye, sir.
Just a moment...
I see it's written in the first person.
In other words, you mean
the examining magistrate is yourself?
Yes, although the role I play in
the novel is somewhat scandalous.
I'll come back in three months.
Goodbye again.
Go on, Zorka!
- That's a bad omen, sir.
- Never mind.
Moscow.
To the director of the chorus Karpov.
Finish up at once. Period.
Come back immediately by any train,
even freight one. The Count.
Let's get to work, Pyotr Yegorovich.
We'll work
without sparing ourselves.
We'll make these ruins as beautiful
as they once were.
All the greatness of the past
will be resurrected from ashes,
both economic and esthetic.
What do you say, Polychrony
Arkadievich? Is it worthwhile?
Well worth the effort, Your Excellency.
Come on here!
So you're still spying?
Where's the count?
Are you deaf?
You'll talk sooner or later.
Go dust away that cobweb there.
Excellent!
Whoa! Whoa!
Come back here!
Oh God, what is this?
Antichrists! Vandals!
Yes, Pyotr Yegorovich, this is a plot!
They want to reduce me
to a beggar! Vandals!
I know everything!
Who did this? Who?
I did.
I don't believe it. Oh, my God!
My God!
- Oh, my God! Seryozha!
- Your life is so boring, gentlemen.
Seryozha!
A dandy! A Cavalier of the Guard!
Gentlemen, I present a dear friend.
I recommend him to you.
The brilliantjurist, Sergey Petrovich
Kamyshev, my lifelong friend.
Seryozha, meet my friends...
This is Polychrony Arkadievich
Kalidis.
You'll be good friends, I'm sure.
- Well...
- No, no...
Here's to you, Seryozha!
- Seryozha.
- Yes?
A few days ago I went to see
my doctor in St. Petersburg,
I haven't been feeling well lately.
He heard me out, examined me,
poked and prodded me, and said...
He said, I hope you're not a coward?
I'm not a coward, but I turned pale.
He looked at me for a while, not
saying anything,
just looking at me with his glassy
eyes.
Then he told me that I'll be dead
soon, Seryozha.
- No!
- Cirrhosis, my dear. It's my liver.
My liver's