cabbage.
3 rubles, 25 kopecks, sir.
Here is the receipt.
Next.
Love you. Miss you. Kisses.
2.50. Return address, please.
Next.
- A blank form, please
- One moment.
A stamp for me, please...
Odessa, Odessa, Odessa...
Kostia, give me the cake factory.
I don't want you, I want the factory.
Half-baked comedian...
Mashenka, break a 10, please.
Will it get there on time?
Don't worry, comrade, your telegram
will arrive promptly.
Here you go. Next.
Rush, please.
Last night we had ice-cream
and went down to the shore,
and then, ladies, Kotia
took me by the arm!
- Takes my arm and says, Klava!
- And?
And nothing. I was worried he'll start
on the Balkan Question again.
What sort of man is that, mulling
over the same thing for 6 months?
I happen to enjoy serious conversation!
And you know my rules!
He's a good man, just a little shy.
Shy? So shake him up a bit!
Tell him, "Kotia, you love me, why
don't you just come out and say it!"
- What, just like that?
- Sure!
- I would never say it like that...
- Nobody asked the professor!
What do you know? You haven't
even danced with a boy.
Well, I appreciate
his seriousness.
I don't envy your future suitor.
You'll take walks and
talk about politics!
- A marvelous flirt, I can just die.
- Yes, you'd better forget it.
- But really, what would you
say to him?
- I would say... I would...
Citizens! This is a drill!
Citizens! This is a drill!
Comrade, you are poisoned!
- How's that?
- Poisoned, contaminated.
- Lie down on the stretcher.
- Ok, ok, I'm going.
- Comrade, you are poisoned.
- Hands off!
- Take him.
- Hey, go easy!
- Comrades, I'm on duty!
- You car will be fine.
- So, what's gonna happen to me?
- You'll get washed like a babe.
Ok, enough of this.
I told you I'm working.
Young lady, I have no time
for jokes.
- Put on your gas mask, comrade.
- Put on, blah, blah...
Fine, to hell with you.
Take me. I'm dead.
- It's double-fare at night.
- Fine...
Double?
It's always like this when you
miss the last tram...
Comrade could we go a bit
slower? The counter...
Hey, I already lost five hours
because of you.
It's not my fault, comrade!
There was a drill.
And the country is in a state...
I get my news in the morning,
thank you very much.
When the war comes we'll be
doing all the fighting,
and you'll be home with mother.
Stop!
- What's the matter?
- I'm getting off.
- It's 6km to Golden Shore.
- Doesn't matter.
- Hey, don't get mad...
- It's not that.
Stop! I don't have
any more money!
Sit still, or you'll fall out.
- Comrade, I'm serious.
- I'm serious, too.
- It's dark, where'll you go all alone?
- I've walked it before.
- And your parents will be worried!
- I live alone.
In Golden Shore? Must be
pretty boring.
It's not boring at all.
I've lived here all my life.
I work by day and study by night.
No time for boredom.
Where do you study?
Nurse school...
- And work?
- I work... at the post office.
- At the district office?
- Yes.
There's three of us there:
me, Klava and Vera.
- Girlfriends?
- Yes...
Those dear girlfriends of mine...
- Klava's very serious, and Vera's pretty.
- And you?
- Me... I'm none of the above.
- What's your name, anyway?
- Me? Masha. Why?
Nothing. My name's Alesha.
Aleksey Soloviev.
Now we're acquainted.
Oh, a shooting star!
- Look at all the pretty stars.
- Yeah, the stars are huge.
- Ha, huge...
- Now there's Mars.
It's half the Earth's size
and 250 mil km away.
- 250 mil, really?
- Really, and may be inhabited.
That's Andromeda.
- How do you know all this?
- I read books.
I'm studying to be an engineer.
I see. I don't read much.
No time.
I just barely started Lenin, and
haven't even touched Marx.
- Did you read Marx?
- Sure.
- How is it?
- Pretty curious, on the whole.
- That's the Big Dipper.
- I know that one too.
How did you decide on your
profession? Was it easy?
Of course not.
It was easy for me.
I'm going to be a