cover my nudeness!
'Why, let the strucken deer go weep,
'The hart ungalled play;
'For some must watch, while some
must sleep:
'So runs the world away!'
So, you're so jubilant, eh?
Of course, you're quite right!
You doomed him to sure death!
Way to go, fellows.
Yes, I'm an evil genius,
and you're benefactors?
You wish him good, I wish him evil?
I want to tell you, Kostya.
Not to Velyurov, he was
just an instrument!
- Me? An instrument?!
- Shut up.
Kostya, you're too young.
And you can't understand
a lot of things.
Yes, I'm young. I've been already
reproached for this today.
But believe a historian:
you can't make one happy
against his own free will.
Stop it, we shall live and see,
in, say, 25 years.
- Where were you?
- Doing what you told me to.
- You fool!
- I was looking for a cab!
- Where is it?
- It's waiting.
Hurry up, we must
catch up with him.
To catch Savransky
is wishful thinking.
Lyudochka!
Stop!
Lyudochka!
Farewell!
Moscow, the 50s... They've turned
around the corner and disappeared...
The 60s quieted down, the 70s
fluttered away.
The 80s have sprouted.
We both, Moscow and I, change:
she is getting younger, me - older...
Where are you, friends of my youth?
My open-hearted girlfriends?..
Oh youth, did you ever exist?
And where hath you gone?..
Only the wind in Neskuchny Garden
sweeping up your traces...
The cast:
Oleg MENSHIKOV as Kostya
Leonid BRONEVOY
as Arkady Velyurov
Inna ULYANOVA
as Margarita Khobotova
Victor BORTSOV
as Savva Ignatievich
Anatoly RAVIKOVICH
As Lev Khobotov
Elena KORENEVA as Lyudochka
Sofya PILYAVSKAYA
as Aunt Alice
Tatiana DOGHILEVA as Svetlana
Valentina VOILKOVA as Rita
Evgheny MORGUNOV as Mr. Soev
Natalya KRACHKOVSKAYA
as Mrs. Soev
Elizaveta NIKISCHIKHINA
as Nina Orlovich
Igor DMITRIEV
as Gleb Orlovich
Written by
Leonid ZORIN
Directed by
Mikhail KOZAKOV
Director of photography
Nikolai NEMOLYAEV
Production designer
Lyudmila KUSAKOVA
Music written and conducted by
G. GARANYAN
Sound by V. KURGANSKY
THE END