professor's
daughter.
All we have to do for it to work
is avoid making two mistakes.
One is lousy grammar, and
the other is asking dumb questions.
What if they ask me a question
and I give a dumb answer?
Do it, but like you mean it.
That's called "point of view".
- Take me, I'm pretty vulgar, right?
- You said it, I didn't.
Well, guys call it eccentric.
So will you do it?
No! I just don't believe you can
act like something you're not.
Meet my little sister.
Pleased to meet you.
- Katia.
- Anton.
And what's your last name?
You can call me just Anton.
The last name is for my office.
Please, come right in.
Put these in some water.
Gentlemen, I think you can make
your own introductions.
Kruglov,
industrial executive.
Seryozha.
Perov. I'm a scientist.
Edward Ozeryansky,
research engineer.
Kruglov, industrial executive.
The one with the badge
is a scientist.
- What science?
- Just science.
- Oh, you shouldn't have...
- That's my contribution.
- It wasn't necessary.
- Go ahead, let's have a look.
Oh, pardon me!
Could you take all this
in the other room?
I'm sorry, I was delayed
at the studio.
I understand.
Meet my little sister.
It's a pleasure.
- Katia.
- Rudolph.
I don't agree. Poetry is definitely
on the rise.
There are interesting young poets.
Yevtushenko, for example.
Who?
You don't know him?
He shows a lot of promise.
Although in my opinion,
Robert is more daring.
Rozhdestvensky. You've heard
of him, haven't you?
He's fabulously talented.
A young rebel.
There're too many rebels now.
They criticize the older generation.
They want to know why we kept
silent for so long.
I wonder what they would have
done in our place.
We would have spoken up.
Seryozha, you haven't touched
your wine.
- I'm not allowed.
- Poor health?
No. The coach won't allow me to.
Cause I'm in training.
You are Gourin, aren't you?
Yes, Gourin.
I thought you looked familiar.
I used to broadcast the games
you played.
We should be honored to be
at the same table as Gourin.
Don't be so modest. I read what
the Swedish press wrote about you.
- You play for Moscow now?
- That's right.
I think we should all drink a toast
to the great hockey player Gourin.
Just one glass toasting yourself.
No. Thank you for your kind words,
but really I'm in training,
and I don't like the stuff anyway.
- Have you been long at the TV?
- Two years now.
- It must be very interesting!
- Yes, very.
Someday television
will change our lives.
We'll never go to the movies,
and theatre and literature will die.
We'll only be interested in
television.
Don't you think you're getting
carried away?
Theatre, I agree, isn't going to last
long, but really, movies, books...
Just wait twenty years and you'll
see.
Well, in twenty years everything
will be completely changed.
It isn't all that much, twenty years.
In twenty years I'll be old.
Believe me, at forty you'll think
that your life just begins.
At forty? You're joking!
If God really created us all,
he should be generous
and give us at least a thimbleful
of hope.
Where did you graduate from?
We don't have any special school
for television yet.
Seryozha, you're like a bear.
Well, what do you think of Sweden?
We just looked out a bus window.
We're still at the beginning of TV,
but it already represents the future.
- Have you been to a studio?
- No, I've never been there.
- Want to visit?
- Oh yes, can I?
I can arrange it.
Washington says we're a bust,
Treats us just like old dust.
But in space we're the first.
With green envy they can burst.
An old house on the block
Was dynamited at one o'clock.
And instead the new one fell,
The old one is holding well.
An old man in a restaurant
Ate a very, very lot.
Now his rent is paid well for,
It's a cemetery plot.
Oh look! It's Katerina!
That's her all right!
She really looks pretty, doesn't she?
It's funny, but for sisters you're
not much alike.
- You mean I'm not