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Well, Vanya! What a wonderful life
it used to be before the war!
We two with the girls...
under Sacco and Vantsetti
Brush the pavements
with our bell-bottoms.
- Did you use to be a crook?
- No, Vanya.
I simply loved to live
a full-bloodied life.
And love is...
...such a sweet thing.
It will strike you
like a bolt from the blue and...
...you are an ace.
- Well, various people live in this world!
The Germans took Peschanka!
- What a surprise!
- The Germans are here!
Where should we look forforage, eh?
Well, the showstorm gets stronger
as the night approaches...
Where could they get lost?
Anything could happen
in such a weather.
And this windbag Igor added
an insult to an injury...
Well, boss, when will we
carve this ox up?
- Who is hungry here?
- Do not shout at me!
- We'll do that when the chairman comes back.
- And when will he come back?
The Germans have already seized
the village council.
Well, what shall we do next?
- We'll continue looking forforage.
- Where is yourforage? Where?
- Look at this horrible snowstorm.
- The forage is overthere.
There are almost whole haystacks
left at faraway fields.
Their laziness is our luck.
- When such workers as you, gather it...
- Well, I'm going back. That's all.
- Are you the god of these steppes?
- Well, man, shut up.
- We won't go back without hay.
- To hell with you.
What are you doing, idiot!
Hey, you, city hat!
Stop acting like a fool!
Come here!
I have some food for both.
Let yourfood choke yourthroat!
And I have some potatoes
and some bread.
And some hot food.
Thank me for not bearing
grudges for a long time.
It has become a real hurricane indeed.
- I was drinking some tea at my samovar...
- I've broken all cups, what a cook I am!
- Do you know what an igloo is?
- What?
A palace made of ice.
Let's build an ice shelter
like the Eskimoes do.
- What a spell of weather!
- The weather is whispering!
It whispers: You must have a drink
even on the borrowed money.
Oh, raise, ye Motherland!
ye raise forthe deadly battle!
with the evil fascist forces...
with their dark hordes!
And let the noble wrath...
Vanya, I see some hay!
Wait a minute!
Do you get it?
Listen, what did you
kick me with, man?
The head is still rolling.
Iron knuckles.
Take it. It is my gift.
- You city dwellers are cunning.
- No, we fight honestly back there.
- Vanya!
- What?
Do you think Kalya
is a virgin or not?
Many boys used to court her.
I do not mean courting, you see.
I did not hold her legs
while she was doing that.
And Krasavchikha has slaughtered
my favourite Darya cow.
She's gone nuts
afterthe mourning notice.
Let's have some sleep.
What book did you read this stuff
about "sarai" in?
It is called "an encyclopedia"
It contains precise information
about everything in this world.
- There's even an article on your oxen there.
- You're kidding.
There is nothing about oxen in this...
how is it called?
I'm not kidding. There is even
a constellation named afterthem in the sky.
It is called the Taurus.
And the Taurus is in fact a small calf.
Once very long ago a tsar
named Zeus...
...decided to turn into an ox...
- What for?
- To kidnap a beauty named Europe.
- But Europe is a continent...
- And he kidnapped her...
And he crossed the sea
with this beauty on his back...
and arrived to the
ancient island of Crete.
and they lived happily ever after
and they had a lot of kids.
- It sounds like a faity tale.
- And it is a fairy tale after all.
It is a legend.
And people also say that
when this Taurus emerges in the sky...
it is time to start plowing
and sowing your land.
Here you are wrong.
The plowing season starts
when the rooks arrive.
Don't you believe me?
Look at the sky.
Everything goes on
according to the plan.
Here is my glass, gentlemen.
I'm ready to join you...
Get up, trampey!
Let's have a meal and
go home.
Halt!
Halt! Halt!
The cavalrymen, bare your