still be a
house of God.
Him and his lot, you wait,
they'll be calling me a
reactionary and an anti-Semite.
Well, if you want, I am a
reactionary.
Now they're poisoning our youth
with this rock'n'roll crap.
By "they" you mean Jews, of
course?
You see, what did I tell you?
You know, there are Jews and
there are Jews.
(BAND PLAYING)
I have friends who are Jews.
A profiteer like him, who's
Russian,
why, he's just as revolting to
me as a Jew profiteer.
Anyway, nobody can deny that
there's a disproportionately
large amount of Jews
in this new "private sector". Just
as there was in the revolution.
And just who do you think made
warehouses out of churches?
Jews are so overly sensitive to
criticism.
At Nuremberg they tried such
critics! Understand?
SASHA (VOICE-OVER):
Yes, no doubt Russia of 1992
was drastically different from
Russia prior to Perestroika.
In the churches boot warehouses
were replaced with
freedom-loving rock singers,
and Krimsky was running business
activities which in the Russia I left
were punishable by years of
imprisonment or even execution
by firing squads.
So, what does your company
really do?
Are you a scientific research facility,
a film studio, or a rock theatre?
It's like a daisy flower
- in the center is the main enterprise
from which sprout separate
ventures and petals.
Our major petal I'll be showing
you tomorrow.
Site seeing tours of Moscow on
"troikas" with gypsies.
"Troikas"? What's "troikas"?
They're carriages drawn by three
horses together.
Very Russian.
Very Russian.
They're waiting for us in the editing
room, ready to start, I believe.
SASHA (VOICE-OVER):
And now we were going to see footage,
that not long ago was banned
from any screening at all.
So why didn't all these changes
in Russia thrill me?
This is just raw footage.
I understand you're gathering footage
like that from all over the world.
I'll comment as we go along.
Every year Soviet factories release
over sixty million tons of pollutants.
In sixty-eight different
industrial centers,
the air pollution level exceeds
the norm by 100 times.
Twenty percent of Soviet citizens
live in ecologically critical areas
and another thirty five to forty
percent in areas "ecologically unsafe".
This is about 175 million people
- approximately eight times the
population of Canada.
The Black sea is overloaded with
pollutants.
Every year they dump 30 tons of
mercury in there,
not to mention about dozens of
other poisons. The sea is dying.
Two and a half million dolphins
that used to live here not long ago,
are now survived by only eighty
thousand.
The great Russian Volga river, it
contains approximately 700 times
the allowed con-centration of
oil-industry wastes.
Most of Soviet rivers are in
much worse condition.
A farmer passing by threw his
cigarette butt in this river.
Is anyone tired? Should I stop?
These things aren't only
happening in Russia.
I'd like to show you some of my
footage.
SASHA (VOICE-OVER):
"The time is out of joint" -
Shakespeare said it half a
millennium ago
and we are happily repeating it
century after century
and keep switching it out of
joint endlessly.
How long can it go on?
The planet life was healthier in
the time of Shakespeare.
And family life is definitely
deteriorated since then.
I hate you. I hate your face, I hate
your voice, I hate the air you breathe.
SASHA (VOICE-OVER):
At least if I judge by mine.
Sasha, marry me!
You know... I love Helen.
It's crazy! You told me you've
never had sex like this before!
With anybody!
And I'll say it again.
You said you couldn't live with
Helen.
I did.
And she left you?
She did.
Then marry me... I'll stop
making films if you want.
I can be a really good wife.
I'll make breakfast for you
every morning. Want me to?
No.
Why?
Because this is like a deja-vu!
Because I've been through this
with Helen!
And the recurrence of this
pattern scares the hell out of