as a mountain spring,
as bright as the sun.
We'll work till we sweat,
till exhaustion!
We'll eat the bread we've earned,
far away from this filth and dust.
We shall...
be enjoying our work!
And our life will become
a celebration of justice,
light and purity.
You will teach children,
and I will help you.
We'll wear simple clothes,
we'll eat simple food.
Only let's go away from here,
Misha, as soon as possible!
Take me!
Here's my hand!
I got so cold waiting for you...
Mikhail Vassilyevich?
No... Sofia, it's not that!
Not that... not that...
I'm thirty five!
I'm thirty five.
Are you all right?
You've been spying on me?! Spying?!
I'm thirty five! Everything's ruined!
Everything! Sasha!
Alexandra!
Everything's ruined! Thirty five!
I'm a zero! A nobody!
Zero! I'm thirty five!
Lermontov had been already
in the grave for eight years!
Napoleon was a general!
And I've done nothing
in that damned life of yours!
Sasha!
You've ruined my life!
It's because of you I'm a nobody!
Alexandra! Where's my true self?
I'm a good-for-nothing cripple!
Where's my strength, my mind, my
talent? A wasted life!
Stop it!
Oh, you're here too, the keeper of
a fire that isn't even smoldering?
How I hate you, with your canaries
and your borsches!
But you have no choice,
just like me!
To see you every day,
to hear your voice,
to despise you and myself,
and to know there's no choice!
Aren't you ashamed?
A nobody!
And I'm just like all of you here!
So everybody's here, aren't you?
I have disturbed everyone, haven't I?
I woke up everybody?
Never mind! You'll get your rest
when I'm gone!
Misha!
Mishenka! Misha!
Mishenka!
Misha! Mishenka!
Mishenka! My darling!
Mishenka, my dear...
my husband...
You're alive...
Therefore, I can live, too.
I love you so much, Mishenka.
I love you, whatever you are.
You're my whole world.
I'm afraid of nothing,
I can endure anything...
Because no one in the world will ever
love you as I do.
Mishenka, you're tired.
You'll have a rest,
and we'll be happy again.
And we'll live a long, long life.
And luck will come our way.
We'll see a new,
bright, pure world.
And new, beautiful people
who will understand us and forgive us.
Only we must love...
We must love, Mishenka.
If we love,
we'll live
a long and happy life...
Sashenka...
My dear girl!
My salvation...
Why is it so, why?
Let's go, my dear.
- Will you forgive me, please?
- Stop it, let's go.
I fell and hurt myself...
I didn't know it was shallow...
I thought it was deep here...
Everything will be as it used to be.
The EndMOSFILM
AN UNFINISHED PIECE
FOR THE PLAYER PIANO
Based on the works
by A.P. Chekhov
Written by
A. ADABASHIAN, N. MIKHALKOV
Directed by Nikita MIKHALKOV
Director of Photography
Pavel LEBESHEV
Production Designers:
Alexander ADABASHIAN
Alexander SAMULEKIN
Music by Eduard ARTEMYEV
Sound by Valentin BOBROVSKY
English Subtitles
by T. Kameneva
Cast:
Mikhail Vassilyevich Platonov -
Alexander KALYAGIN
Sophia Yegorovna - Yelena SOLOVEY
Sashenka - Yevgenia GLUSHENKO
Anna Petrovna Voinitseva -
Antonina SHURANOVA
Sergey Pavlovich Voinitsev -
Yuri BOGATYRYOV
Pavel Petrovich Shcherbuk -
Oleg TABAKOV
Porfiry Semyonovich Glagolyev -
Nikolai PASTUKHOV
Ivan Ivanovich Triletsky -
Pavel KADOCHNIKOV
Nikolai Ivanovich Triletsky -
Nikita MIKHALKOV
Gerasim Kuzmich Petrin -
Anatoly ROMASHIN
Verochka - Natalya NAZAROVA
Lizochka - Xenia MININA
Yakov - Sergey NIKONENKO
Petechka - Seryozha GURYEV
Do you remember the Kalitins?
Ksyusha Kalitina, that plump girl...
I had an affair with her
which was even more annoying.
I kept calling on them,
putting her mother to great expenses
in terms of coffee.
We took walks on shady paths.
I was young and timid then.
So once they made me stay
for the night.
Well, I stayed for the night.
I went to bed.
And in the middle of the night,
you know...
The door opens,
and an old woman appears in my room.
She was