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I'm so pleased you've come to
help your girl-friend, but, as
you can see,
it is not an interpreter she needs.
I know enough English for that.
It is a more delicate matter,
She wants to do a co-production.
Okay. Great. I'm all for a
co-production.
She needs some specific
documentary material.
Fine. We'll get it for her, but
not all of it. But something.
But now she's asking to see our
copyright to this material.
What copyright?
I talked to every attorney in
Moscow - no one knows whether we
have this copyright or not.
What's a copyright anyway?
Don't take it personal, but it's
so difficult to work with Americans!
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Sex and Jews are our two most
popular subjects today.
Everyone wants to film what used
to be forbidden.
These Jewish looking actors
never used to have any work -
now they're all hot property.
Everyone of them is under three
or four contracts at once.
They're the envy of all other
actors.
Unfortunately, I have to tell you
that there is no mistake in our lists.
You have not been accepted to
the Physics/Math Department.
But isn't there a law that says
everyone graduating high school
with a gold medal
must be accepted without
entrance examinations?
Why wasn't I accepted? Because
I am a Jew?
Have enough courage to tell me
the truth!
Sit down. You snotnose!!
I am not the least bit afraid to
tell you that you weren't
accepted because you're a Jew.
Because we have twice as many
applicants like you - Jews with
gold medals -
than there are spots available
at the University!
And even if I followed the law
and turned this institution one
hundred percent Jewish,
there would still be no place
for you, personally.
I am prepared to take the
examinations along with the
other applicants.
That I cannot forbid you to do.
May I answer right away, without
preparation?
Are you sure you do not want to
think over your answer first?
I got lucky.
I pulled my favorite question.
Well, what is that question?
The modern concept of the
structure of the Universe.
All right, then. Let's hear
what you know about this.
The modern concept of the
structure of the Universe
is based upon Einstein's general
theory of relativity.
In 1917, the same year that the
Great October Revolution took
place in our own country,
another revolution also took
place.
Einstein claimed that all three
of the space Dimensions were curved
and that a spaceship travelling
in the same direction for a long
enough period of time
would return to its point of
origin.
In 1922, the Soviet
mathematician Alexander Friedman
offered another model.
In his model, the Universe
expands.
Expansion began at a point.
All of of today's models allow
for an expanding Universe.
Although I must add that not all
scientists are pleased with this.
I am not sure I like it either.
The idea of the Universe
appearing from nothing
and perishing into collapse is
somewhat unnerving to me.
How is it possible?
Did the Universe begin at the
point?
Did matter evolve from nothing?
What was there before the
creation of the Universe?
Do you know, young man, that
that particular question has
already been answered?
Long before the birth of Albert
Einstein.
No, I didn't. By whom?
By St. Augustine.
And what, in his opinion, was there
before the creation of the Universe?
In his opinion, before the
creation of the Universe
there was already a hell for
those asking such questions.
But you are a world-renowned
physicist.
So what? There are no positions
available at the University for
head of project.
Shiffman will not have me.
He has already let too many Jews
into his school,
he's a Jew himself, he's afraid
to let anyone else in.
Logov has never let Jews in and
is not about to start now
and Sarkisian is far too poor.
I will not be able to continue
my research there.
There really is no place for me
to go.
The only one who wants me is
Burkov.
So, where is the problem?
Go work for