crowning churches
and cathedrals..
So, you were saying that your
experiments support my hypothesis?
Now, if gamma is less than one
you must increase the mass by a
factor of two.
Right. But gamma is more than
one in this case.
Can we see your house from here?
My house? Ah, it's over there.
You see the yellow high-rises
right behind there.
Let's go there?
God, I've never felt so happy.
Happy Birthday!
You gonna let me in?
Of course... Come in, I didn't
invite anyone.
Didn't plan anything.
Thanks for remembering.
You're not supposed to invite
anyone.
A birthday party should only be
for those who remember.
You think anyone remembers me
now?
We'll see about that.
You see! And you said no one
would remember!
Oh, Sasha! Happy birthday!
Sasha, I want to make a toast!
I'd like to talk to you in
private.
Right now? OK, go ahead.
I want to make a toast!
Where's Natasha?
Where's Helen of Troy?
I'll get them.
I want to tell you I'm in love
with Sasha.
I want everything to be in the
open between us.
Wonderful! Why tell me, of all
people?
Because I thought you were
together.
Sasha and I are old friends.
If you mean sex, then, yes, we
did sleep together... once.
You have my permission.
Even if I were in love with him,
maybe even he with me,
I would still tell you to go
ahead.
Why?
Because Sasha's destiny is not
with me.
There is nothing I can do to
help him, but you can.
What about you?
Don't you wanna leave?
No, It's very hard for a woman to
attain any sort of position in science.
I've achieved a lot here and
Gross appreciates me.
And anyway where would I go?
For what?
Where the hell did everybody go?
I want to make a toast already.
Your application is accepted.
The trial period is three
months.
Come back in three months and we
will marry you.
Three months! What do you mean,
in three months?
Her visa expires in two weeks!
Couldn't you speed it up, in
view of the circumstances?
Young man, we do not make
exceptions or "speed things up"!
The law is the same for
everybody!
I know their tricks. You won't
be able to get a visa for longer
than a month
and we'll never be able to get
married.
Fine! I'll contact the Senate.
I'm going to get you out of here!
The American Senate? What does
it have to do with anything?
Everything.
Sasha, this is Rabbi Katz, this
is Sasha.
Shalom.
Shalom.
The rabbi has kindly agreed to
marry us.
But you're not even Jewish!
Now I am. I converted.
Soviet authorities will not
recognize a marriage performed
by an American rabbi.
But the American Senate will, and
I think the American people will.
And then we'll see what your
authorities will have to say.
It was my mother's...
Who knows what's hidden inside
this little figurine.
Who is this?
That was my father. He was killed
in 1945. That's his last picture.
Pictures of military uniforms are
forbidden to leave the country.
But it's from World War Two!
I don't make up the laws. You can
leave it behind or I can cut it.
Go ahead. Cut.
Do you think you've outwitted
the experimenters and returned
from unexplored space?
I wasn't thinking that at all,
Master.
On the contrary, you were right
all along:
one does not return from
unexplored space.
I have merely made another pass
into a new unexplored space.
How long's it been since you've
been here?
Seventeen years.
I'll bet you can't wait to see
your friends!
I can't.
They're gonna tell you how great
everything has become, how
things have changed.
Don't believe them. Our lives
are still pretty hard.
You're a guest? Go right ahead,
I'm not even going to open it.
Go on, your friends are waiting.
Your labyrinth has changed so much,
I can't keep a sense of reality.
I have a persistent feeling I'm
in a dream.
Reality can get a little hazy
when one consumes such vast
amounts of alcohol.
That's why I drink, partially,
to regain a sense of reality.
Reality!
Obviously this word still had
some