still believe in love,
in honesty, in friendship!
Or better, let them beat me up with
stones, like a mad dog.
I'm in everyone's way, because
absolutely no one needs me.
Sergel, come on, stop it...
Come, come...
Oh, Platonov, Platonov...
Everything will be all right,
everything will be as it used to be.
No one cares for your ninny,
your coquette.
Platonov is a clever man, he realizes
that there's nothing to her
but pretense and staged exaltations,
and there will never be anything more.
Everything will be all right,
everything will be as before.
Sophia will be with you,
Platonov with me,
Sasha with Platonov.
Nobody wants your Sophia,
you may rest assured.
Maman...
Maman... How can you?
How can you?
How can you?!
How can you!
Yakov! My things!
Zakhar! Mitka! Where the hell
is everybody? Are you all asleep?
When father was alive,
you did everything for me,
now all you're doing is
for my stepmother!
The carriage! Quick, the carriage!
The carriage!
And the horse? Where's the horse?
The horse!
My hat! Where the devil
is my hat?!
What do you want,
Porfiry Semyonovich?
I want to tell you...
that I hate you.
You're a scoundrel.
You've ruined my life.
And you'll ruin many more.
You condemn everybody, but yourself...
You're sowing debauchery,
faithlessness.
And it's so terribly unfair that
life isn't beating you enough...
But you should be punished,
beaten severely!
Why do you think it's not beating me,
Porfiry Semyonovich?
Nothing goes unpunished.
You know...
I know that don't care
what you think of me.
Honest man!
I know why you're honest.
You simply can't sin.
You censure everything you yourself
are incapable of because of old age.
Is it clear?
Oh, Lord...
O merciful God...
How little we need to be happy!
To sit in a cozy, warm train car,
drinking tea by the lamp
and conversing pleasantly with
your chance fellow-traveler.
As you're going away for good,
leaving behind you
the senseless sequence
of years and acts.
Oh, God...
Now I know for sure:
It's enough to betray just once,
just once be unfaithful to what you
believed in and what you loved,
and you would never get rid of
the succession of betrayals and lies.
O merciful God! Save and protect me,
strengthen me and show me the way!
I've been waiting for you,
Mikhail Vassilyevich.
Mikhail Vassilyevich...
Let's go away!
You've resurrected me. I have awakened
from a heavy sleep, I'm happy.
All my life I'll be grateful to you
for that.
I thought of everything!
We'll start a new life!
A life as pure 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 ofjustice,
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!