Vassilyevich, will you?
Sophia, hold it.
For good luck!
I didn't mean to...
Sophie, please, don't worry.
Careful, you may cut yourself.
You see? I knew it.
I don't understand how it could
happen...
Yakov!
Yakov will clean everything.
I just can't understand...
Oh, poor finger...
Come on, leave me alone!
Well, all right!
Though I'm not in good voice today.
Well, ladies and gentlemen...
All right...
As a matter of fact, these are just
childhood pranks.
This imitation
of a deer's mating call in the woods
was shown to me by Prince Konyaev, so
the authorship doesn't belong to me.
Following some preparation,
you'll be presented a clearing
with the king of the forest on it.
Cows!
Didn't you forget how to whistle yet?
No, no, we'll do it ourselves!
Me or my daughters.
What can I do for you?
I need to see the doctor urgently.
I was told he's here.
My name is Gorokhov. I'm a clerk
at the factory.
I took my shoes off, not to dirty
the floor.
Very pleased, Mr. Gorokhov.
Come on, you're not pleased at all.
I'm not pleased either.
- The doctor is downstairs.
- Thank you.
What do you want?
I'm Gorokhov from the factory.
I came for you.
Here's the letter.
Will you hold it, please?
Is it spiritism?
I don't understand.
Is patient Gorokhova your wife?
Why the letter then?
Wouldn't it be easier just to say it?
The letter's just in case. If they
hadn't let me in, I would've given it.
No, today I can't come.
Tomorrow by the evening.
I see. Or maybe we better go?
The horses are good, my boss's horses.
I'd be much obliged.
I understand, but you know, Mister...
Gorokhov.
I can't go today. Tomorrow.
Or the day after at the latest.
Doctor, for Christ's sake,
I beg you, let's go.
I got it.
Excuse me.
You might have warned me that Doctor
is busy. I wouldn't have bothered him.
Now he may not come at all.
- This way out, Mr. Gorokhov.
- Sorry.
May I put it here?
Kolia, why didn't you go with him?
Please, spare me your moralizing.
Try to be human.
Get used to the idea that I'm like
a brick wall, with you up against it.
She may be very ill, and you remain
here? It's not good.
It's none of your business.
You're too little to interfere.
Don't you dare speaking in that tone
to my wife! Loafer!
You're the only doctor
in the neighborhood!
People beg you, as if for alms,
for what you're supposed to give them.
You should treasure every opportunity
to help thy neighbor.
- You want me to go?
- Yes!
Very well, I'll go after dinner.
But you know...
as for you, Michel,
you're not the most
conscientious teacher
I've met in my life either.
So I'm to blame, right?
I'm sorry.
So since I'm a bad teacher, you can
afford not to visit your patients?
Let them all die while you go on
partying and drinking vodka!
Only I've neither finished university,
nor taken anyone else's place.
And you did finish it,
so please act in kind.
Excuse me, I...
Ladies and gentlemen, will you please
all drink to my health?
- Sergel, where are you?
- Coming!
You know, the village constable
told me the other day
that earthquakes happen
because of water evaporation.
It seems that some Germans made
that discovery, and they said
that only metalloids could save us.
You'd better take a nap, father.
And you, Kolia, stop laughing.
Sleep is an amazing miracle of nature
that rejuvenates man's energy.
Perhaps I've lived that long
because I sleep so often.
Here, I found it! Listen!
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Isn't that something?
But who is that dashing man?
The representative of blue blood.
Precisely!
All the best
the humanity possesses,
it owes to
the representatives of blue blood!
And what do we do now? Fraternize
with the trash, with the publicans.
Civilization is in danger!
There're no ideas or ideals left!
In no time the grubby-faced
will gobble up everything.
The grubby-faced!
The grubby-faced all around, my God!
Where are the