education,
and now he wants to emigrate to
Israel,
to give his knowledge to our
imperialistic enemies,
to the enemies of the all
progressive humankind!
Comrades, I think we should
petition the authorities not to
allow this!
Greenberg's place is not Israel,
it's prison!
What do you think about that?
You, Tolik Gurov!
You used to be his friend!
Come up here!
Tell us what you think!
This is true. Sasha was my
friend... I am sorry...
Who could have known?
Who could have guessed?
I will try to not have friends
again... I mean, such friends.
This is better, with the water.
In case it's bugged.
You're not mad at me, are you?
He just left me no choice.
It doesn't matter what I say.
You're leaving anyway.
I'm the one who has to stay
here...
Maybe I should leave too?
What do you think?
Just because Galileo publicly
denied his beliefs,
the Earth did not stop orbiting
the Sun.
It is all, like Hamlet said,
words, words, words.
Thanks.
For what?
For being the only one to not
say anything.
Was I?
Yes.
It's alright. It's just a
ritual, anyway. No one really
thinks like that.
Yeah. Right.
Want to come over? I have some
vodka... OK? Let's go.
No shame! No shame at all!
Now they're bringing men to the rooms...
Oh, wait till I call the police.
Don't pay any attention.
She's totally harmless.
You know, I was in love with you
our freshmen year.
I suspected it.
Why didn't you say something?
Everybody was in love with you.
Swarms of Casanovas...
I was too shy.
Shall we drink to your
departure, yeah?
It's a little strange -
everybody wanted to be with you
and you're still not married.
Yeah, I'm too picky.
Why aren't you married?
I guess I'm too picky also.
To the picky ones.
You may stay here, if you want.
It's hard to believe you're
leaving us.
We'll never see each other
again. "Never".
Never-never-never-never
It's a strange word...Never.
It's not definite yet.
I'm the first PhD physicist to
apply for emigration. They may
not let me out.
Oh, you will leave.
And a good thing too.
You'll be happy there...
Just don't try being noble right
now and asking me to marry you
so we could leave together.
My life's already planned out.
I'll never make a good wife, I'm afraid.
I can't serve astrophysics and a
man too at the same time.
I would like to have a baby,
though...
and I think sometimes: what if I
pick one of you guys, one of the
best, and get pregnant.
I would hide it from the father,
of course.
It's easier to care for a child without
having to care for a man too, huh?
So, there is theory in your
solitude.
Well, then, in mine too.
I have thought of leaving many
times,
I just couldn't figure out how.
I've thought of defecting even.
What would I do with a wife?
It's just pure luck for me that
emigration started when it did...
What? Oh, are you afraid I'm going
to try and get pregnant right now?
Don't worry. Not tonight.
Do you like her?
She is my daughter.
You see, I did it.
I had a child and I raised her
without a husband.
I had this certain plan.
Sasha knew about it.
Doesn't her father know he has a
daughter?
I didn't tell him.
And her?
I didn't tell her either.
Once, when she got especially
persistent, I told her she
couldn't meet him anyway.
She wanted to know why. I said,
"because he is an American".
She got stuck on the idea, she tells
everyone her father is an American,
she speaks to everybody in
English...
So it goes.
Is he actually American?
In a way.
Let me introduce you two.
Sasha, Jill, this is Elena.
Elena, as you know, Sasha is my
old friend.
Mom has told me lots about you.
And not just Mom.
You're sort of a legend around
here.
To my surprise, I am discovering
this for myself.
As well as some other things.
Why did you name her Elena?
Why not?
I see you've met my namesake.
We've become quite good friends
in the past few days.
I don't have any friends!
I'm sorry.
Don't take it personally.
I really