work in Podgorsk, too?
- Yes, me too. And who else?
- Aleksandr Petrovich.
- Who?
- Ilyin.
Ilyin? Perhaps.
What do you mean, perhaps?
Don't you know it?
- What's your position?
- Chief engineer.
- What?
- Chief engineer.
What about Ilyin?
He works in Podgorsk, too.
Very strange.
It's Timofeyev.
I know everything.
Yes, we'll work on the 21st, and
everyone should be there on the 22nd.
I know everything.
I'll be there on the 20th.
Send a car for me.
I've arranged everything.
Did you get me?
I'm asking: did you get me?
All right, I'm writing it down.
Right.
That's it. Bye.
Who are you to him? His wife?
Me?
No, just an acquaintance.
What's on your mind?
Say it, as long as you've begun.
What's your name?
My name?
Tamara Vasilyevna.
Tamara Vasilyevna, I don't like
meddling in someone else's affairs.
Perhaps you're intimating
he lives a disorderly life?
You're a strange woman.
I'm intimating nothing.
Or you want to say
that he's hot-tempered?
That he was expelled from
the institute because of that?
And he was absolutely right.
That Fomichyov,
to whom Sasha was rude,
is hated by all students even now.
He made a mistake,
but he said the right thing.
What's most important is not making
mistakes but making amends.
- Why didn't he make amends?
- Because the war broke out!
You don't say! Bu the way,
I fought in the war too.
Only after the war,
I munched on millet,
unloaded cabbages at night, and then
attended lectures with a dumb head.
- And he...
- What about him?
Why did he need all that?
He'd never finished the institute.
He suddenly remembered
he'd been good at sports.
Earned himself some badge.
Left several of his teeth
in the ring.
Then lost interest and got recruited
to work somewhere in the North.
Are you all right?
In the North?
Yes, in the North.
In the North, of course!
He told me and I didn't understand.
Of course, of course, in the North!
For God's sake, I'm awfully sorry.
You know, actually,
I live alone.
It's all right on weekdays, I got
an interesting, important job.
But on holidays it's too bad,
I don't feel like going out.
I ride in a tram and think that I'd
rather ride on and never arrive there.
I come home - the floors are clean,
everything scrubbed and polished.
I throw my things about the room,
and then I have to put
all in order again.
May I make a call?
- I'll bring the telephone.
- Please do.
To the North!
How could I fail to understand?
Thank you.
Hello? Slava?
Yes, it's me.
Has anybody asked for me?
Slava, listen,
Aleksandr Petrovich is still here.
Aleksandr Petrovich hasn't left yet.
I need to see him very much
on a personal matter.
What personal matter?
I told you Aleksandr Petrovich
is gone! He's not here!
I'll lock you up like an insane
person. You got me?
All right, I'm sorry.
All right, I'll do everything.
I'll tell him.
Bye, Toma. Bye!
You described it all so eloquently.
What a bastard you are!
Who asked you
to recount your biography?
What does she care if you're a chief
engineer or not, and in Podgorsk?
You could as well tell her about your
salary and how many women you had.
What did I ask you to tell? No one's
here, you don't know anything.
I never lie, I don't like lying,
and you won't make me do it.
What?
- What?
- I don't like to, and I can't lie.
- Where are you going? It's night!
- Never mind, I'll be all right.
Why should I lie to someone
that I'm not the chief engineer?
I am the chief engineer!
I work in Podgorsk!
At a chemical plant!
The biggest in the Soviet Union!
I am the chief engineer
of Podgorsk chemical plant!
It's really the biggest
in the Soviet Union.
Evening Five
Waffles.
Description, quality, grade.
So, the waffles...
Waffles are plates
with cellular, porous surface.
They are characterized by
a characteristic smell.
Oh no... they have
a characteristic smell.
- Zoya, someone to see you!
- Who?
- Says you know him. Shall I let him in?