1 00:00:10,687 --> 00:00:15,681 THE SEAGULL 2 00:02:57,365 --> 00:02:59,162 Good evening. 3 00:03:02,205 --> 00:03:03,843 Hello. 4 00:03:34,244 --> 00:03:36,041 Good evening, Masha. 5 00:03:37,924 --> 00:03:40,563 Why do you always wear black? 6 00:03:42,804 --> 00:03:44,362 Why? 7 00:03:46,484 --> 00:03:50,193 I'm in mourning for my life. I'm unhappy. 8 00:03:51,164 --> 00:03:53,632 I don't understand. 9 00:03:54,004 --> 00:03:57,553 You're in good health, your father's well off. 10 00:03:57,724 --> 00:03:59,715 For me life is hard. 11 00:03:59,884 --> 00:04:03,877 I only earn 23 roubles a month, less pension deductions, 12 00:04:04,084 --> 00:04:06,314 but I'm not in mourning. 13 00:04:07,364 --> 00:04:11,562 It's not the money. Even the poor can be happy. 14 00:04:11,764 --> 00:04:13,482 ln theory. 15 00:04:13,964 --> 00:04:17,001 I, my mother, two sisters, my brother 16 00:04:17,164 --> 00:04:19,155 and only 23 roubles... 17 00:04:19,324 --> 00:04:23,476 ..to eat, drink, buy tea, sugar, tobacco... 18 00:04:27,404 --> 00:04:29,395 We have to make do. 19 00:04:36,403 --> 00:04:38,553 The show will start soon. 20 00:04:38,723 --> 00:04:43,433 Yes, Nina Zaryechnaia will act in Konstantin Gavrilovitch's play. 21 00:04:44,723 --> 00:04:46,759 They're in love. 22 00:04:48,083 --> 00:04:52,713 Today their souls will be immortalised in art. 23 00:04:55,483 --> 00:04:58,714 But our souls have nothing in common. 24 00:04:59,123 --> 00:05:00,920 I love you, Masha. 25 00:05:05,963 --> 00:05:07,521 I love you. 26 00:05:08,803 --> 00:05:12,273 I feel depressed, I can't stay at home. 27 00:05:13,003 --> 00:05:16,712 I walk miles here and back to see you. 28 00:05:17,403 --> 00:05:19,871 And all I get is your indifference. 29 00:05:21,483 --> 00:05:23,474 I know... 30 00:05:24,083 --> 00:05:27,314 ..I'm poor, I have to keep a family. 31 00:05:27,643 --> 00:05:31,636 Who'd marry someone without even enough to eat? 32 00:05:31,803 --> 00:05:33,316 Nonsense. 33 00:05:34,083 --> 00:05:37,996 I'm touched by your love, but I can't return it. 34 00:05:45,363 --> 00:05:47,671 - Want some? - No, I don't feel like it. 35 00:05:59,562 --> 00:06:02,793 You talk of philosophy or of money. 36 00:06:03,122 --> 00:06:06,114 You say there's nothing worse than poverty. 37 00:06:08,002 --> 00:06:11,551 But it's better to be a beggar, 38 00:06:11,962 --> 00:06:15,034 or to wear rags, rather than... 39 00:06:15,202 --> 00:06:18,592 But you'll never understand! 40 00:06:26,402 --> 00:06:29,121 Last night I went to bed at ten. 41 00:06:29,282 --> 00:06:31,796 I woke up at nine... 42 00:06:32,002 --> 00:06:36,632 with the feeling my brain was stuck inside my skull. 43 00:06:39,602 --> 00:06:43,072 After dinner I fell asleep 44 00:06:43,242 --> 00:06:45,551 and now I feel awful. 45 00:06:48,762 --> 00:06:51,640 You can't stay here, go away! 46 00:06:51,802 --> 00:06:54,362 We'll call you when it starts. 47 00:06:54,522 --> 00:06:55,557 Masha, 48 00:06:55,762 --> 00:06:58,674 tell your father to free the dog. 49 00:06:58,842 --> 00:07:02,993 It's always barking, my sister can't sleep at night. 50 00:07:04,161 --> 00:07:06,880 Tell him, not me. Let's go. 51 00:07:07,041 --> 00:07:09,555 Call us when it's starting. 52 00:07:09,721 --> 00:07:12,952 The dog will bark all night! 53 00:07:16,801 --> 00:07:18,678 As always! 54 00:07:20,881 --> 00:07:23,953 I could have enjoyed country life... 55 00:07:24,161 --> 00:07:26,959 I came for rest, but people bothered me 56 00:07:27,121 --> 00:07:29,351 with silly things... 57 00:07:29,521 --> 00:07:33,150 ..within a day, I felt like running away. 58 00:07:33,361 --> 00:07:36,512 I was always pleased to leave here. 59 00:07:36,801 --> 00:07:38,359 But now... 60 00:07:38,521 --> 00:07:41,911 Now I'm retired, I don't know where to go. 61 00:07:42,641 --> 00:07:45,872 I've got to stay here, like it or not. 62 00:07:46,961 --> 00:07:50,237 Konstantin, we're going for a swim. 63 00:07:50,401 --> 00:07:53,950 Don't be late, we're starting soon. 64 00:07:54,121 --> 00:07:55,600 All right. 65 00:08:04,641 --> 00:08:06,518 That's the stage. 66 00:08:07,761 --> 00:08:09,240 The curtain... 67 00:08:11,041 --> 00:08:12,520 open space. 68 00:08:12,721 --> 00:08:14,359 No scenery, 69 00:08:14,521 --> 00:08:17,318 just the lake and the horizon. 70 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:19,039 Magnificent. 71 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,868 Nina should be here already. 72 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:25,950 Her father and stepmother keep her locked up. 73 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,032 Coming here is like escaping from prison. 74 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,709 Your hair and beard are ruffled, cut your hair! 75 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,950 It's the eternal tragedy of my life. 76 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,110 Even as a youngster I seemed a drunkard. 77 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,038 Women never really liked me. 78 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,272 Why is my sister in a bad mood today? 79 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:52,711 Because she's bored. 80 00:08:57,720 --> 00:08:59,278 And she's mean. 81 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:01,635 She's got 70,000 roubles in Odessa. 82 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,031 Ask her for a loan and she bursts into tears. 83 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:11,152 You're afraid your mother won't like your play 84 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,038 and you're already angry. 85 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,760 Calm yourself, she adores you. 86 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,432 She loves me, she loves me not. She loves me, she loves me not... 87 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:25,559 She loves me. 88 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:27,199 You see? 89 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:29,837 My mother doesn't love me. 90 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,273 Why should she? 91 00:09:31,439 --> 00:09:34,192 She wants to live, to love, to wear white blouses... 92 00:09:34,359 --> 00:09:37,749 and I, with my 25 years, remind her she's no longer young. 93 00:09:37,959 --> 00:09:40,268 When I'm not here, she's 32. 94 00:09:40,439 --> 00:09:43,511 When I am, she's 43... so she hates me. 95 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,318 What's more, she knows I loathe the theatre, 96 00:09:46,519 --> 00:09:48,714 When the curtain rises 97 00:09:49,519 --> 00:09:51,987 on a room with three walls, 98 00:09:53,239 --> 00:09:56,390 those talented people, 99 00:09:57,759 --> 00:10:00,148 those High Priests of Art... 100 00:10:00,639 --> 00:10:05,588 who depict the way men eat, walk, drink, 101 00:10:06,279 --> 00:10:09,635 make love, wear their clothes... 102 00:10:10,799 --> 00:10:13,074 When, from a thousand banal situations and phrases, 103 00:10:13,239 --> 00:10:15,799 they try to squeeze out a moral, 104 00:10:16,159 --> 00:10:18,548 a trite one for domestic use... 105 00:10:18,719 --> 00:10:23,315 When I'm presented with the same old things... 106 00:10:23,479 --> 00:10:26,994 I flee, like Maupassant from the Eiffel Tower, 107 00:10:27,159 --> 00:10:30,151 disgusted by its banality. 108 00:10:30,719 --> 00:10:32,277 The theatre... 109 00:10:33,079 --> 00:10:36,116 We can't do without the theatre. 110 00:10:36,279 --> 00:10:38,668 We need new art forms. 111 00:10:39,279 --> 00:10:41,588 New art forms are necessary! 112 00:10:41,759 --> 00:10:44,796 And if there aren't any, then better nothing! 113 00:10:58,798 --> 00:11:00,197 Uncle... 114 00:11:01,318 --> 00:11:03,309 I love my mother. 115 00:11:05,438 --> 00:11:08,032 I love her with all my heart. 116 00:11:10,678 --> 00:11:13,146 But she leads a fatuous life. 117 00:11:14,518 --> 00:11:17,396 She goes around with that novelist. 118 00:11:18,158 --> 00:11:21,195 The papers are always talking about her, 119 00:11:21,838 --> 00:11:24,989 and that makes me mad! 120 00:11:26,238 --> 00:11:28,957 It makes me mad that she's a famous actress. 121 00:11:29,118 --> 00:11:31,712 lf she were an ordinary woman, 122 00:11:31,878 --> 00:11:33,869 I'd be much happier. 123 00:11:35,438 --> 00:11:37,588 I'd be much happier. 124 00:11:40,158 --> 00:11:41,955 Who am I? 125 00:11:42,638 --> 00:11:44,629 What am I? 126 00:11:46,798 --> 00:11:49,437 I left university in my third year, 127 00:11:51,038 --> 00:11:53,154 I have no gifts 128 00:11:54,878 --> 00:11:57,073 and not a penny. 129 00:11:58,358 --> 00:12:02,350 My passport says I'm unemployed, lower middle class. 130 00:12:03,597 --> 00:12:05,394 By the way, 131 00:12:05,717 --> 00:12:08,515 what is that novelist like? 132 00:12:09,397 --> 00:12:12,309 He never talks, he's difficult to understand. 133 00:12:21,157 --> 00:12:22,636 Well... 134 00:12:23,717 --> 00:12:26,106 He's intelligent, 135 00:12:26,597 --> 00:12:28,588 he has good taste. 136 00:12:28,757 --> 00:12:31,396 Sometimes melancholic. 137 00:12:33,797 --> 00:12:35,674 He's a decent fellow. 138 00:12:39,877 --> 00:12:41,868 He's only 40, 139 00:12:42,037 --> 00:12:45,188 but he's already famous. 140 00:12:47,637 --> 00:12:50,674 As for his writing... what can I say? 141 00:12:52,117 --> 00:12:55,029 He's got talent, 142 00:12:55,997 --> 00:12:59,956 but after Tolstoy or Zola who wants to read Trigorin? 143 00:13:00,077 --> 00:13:04,116 Being a writer, even a mediocre one, is very pleasant. 144 00:13:04,877 --> 00:13:07,596 - I'm not late, am I? - No. 145 00:13:08,317 --> 00:13:10,785 I've been in a fluster all day. 146 00:13:10,957 --> 00:13:13,869 I was afraid my father wouldn't let me come... 147 00:13:14,037 --> 00:13:17,267 but he went out with his wife. I'm so glad. 148 00:13:17,436 --> 00:13:20,667 These little eyes so full of tears, it's not right. 149 00:13:21,276 --> 00:13:23,585 It's nothing. 150 00:13:24,436 --> 00:13:26,996 I'm out of breath. We must be quick. 151 00:13:27,156 --> 00:13:29,465 - I've only half an hour. - We'll start right away. 152 00:13:29,636 --> 00:13:32,104 - Call the others. - I'll do it. 153 00:13:34,276 --> 00:13:36,506 154 00:13:36,836 --> 00:13:38,906 155 00:13:39,076 --> 00:13:41,544 156 00:13:41,876 --> 00:13:44,265 Once when I sang like this, 157 00:13:44,436 --> 00:13:46,870 an Assistant Prosecutor said: 158 00:13:47,036 --> 00:13:50,711 ''Excellency, you've a strong voice.'' 159 00:13:51,396 --> 00:13:54,388 And added: ''But a revolting one.'' 160 00:13:55,196 --> 00:13:58,313 My family won't let me come here. 161 00:13:58,476 --> 00:14:01,195 They say you're bohemians. 162 00:14:01,876 --> 00:14:04,436 They're afraid I'll become an actress. 163 00:14:06,076 --> 00:14:09,307 But the lake attracts me, like a seagull. 164 00:14:11,876 --> 00:14:14,674 How I'd love to live here with you! 165 00:14:16,676 --> 00:14:19,144 - There's someone... - No, nobody. 166 00:14:40,235 --> 00:14:42,988 - ls that you, Yacov? - Yes, sir. 167 00:14:49,435 --> 00:14:51,903 - Are you nervous? - Very. 168 00:14:52,435 --> 00:14:55,825 Yes, but not because of your mother. Because of Trigorin. 169 00:14:56,075 --> 00:14:59,306 I'm afraid of acting in front of such a famous writer. 170 00:14:59,835 --> 00:15:02,110 He's a famous writer. ls he young? 171 00:15:02,555 --> 00:15:03,908 Yes. 172 00:15:05,915 --> 00:15:08,713 - His stories are marvellous! - I haven't read them. 173 00:15:10,355 --> 00:15:13,506 It's difficult to act your play. 174 00:15:13,995 --> 00:15:16,555 The character's aren't alive. 175 00:15:17,315 --> 00:15:20,864 We shouldn't depict life as it is, 176 00:15:21,155 --> 00:15:23,544 but as we dream it. 177 00:15:27,435 --> 00:15:30,507 There's so little action, it's all spoken. 178 00:15:31,315 --> 00:15:35,103 For me there ought to be love in a play. 179 00:15:45,194 --> 00:15:46,832 It's damp. 180 00:15:47,154 --> 00:15:50,703 - Put on your galoshes. - I feel hot. 181 00:15:50,874 --> 00:15:54,992 You don't look after yourself. You're a doctor, stubborn. 182 00:15:55,314 --> 00:15:58,112 You know the damp's bad for you. 183 00:15:58,274 --> 00:16:00,344 You want to make me suffer. 184 00:16:00,514 --> 00:16:04,393 Last night you stayed outdoors on purpose. 185 00:16:05,794 --> 00:16:09,309 186 00:16:10,594 --> 00:16:14,064 You were so intent on talking to lrina 187 00:16:14,274 --> 00:16:16,834 that you didn't even notice the cold. 188 00:16:16,994 --> 00:16:19,462 Admit it, you like her! 189 00:16:19,874 --> 00:16:21,785 I'm 55... 190 00:16:22,314 --> 00:16:25,545 So what, that's not old. 191 00:16:26,154 --> 00:16:30,306 You're well preserved, women still like you. 192 00:16:30,634 --> 00:16:32,272 Well, so what? 193 00:16:32,434 --> 00:16:36,746 You'd all throw yourselves at the feet of an actress. 194 00:16:38,634 --> 00:16:41,546 195 00:16:42,634 --> 00:16:46,104 Society always treats artists better than... 196 00:16:46,274 --> 00:16:50,062 shopkeepers, for example. It's natural. 197 00:16:50,234 --> 00:16:51,349 It's idealism. 198 00:16:53,394 --> 00:16:54,873 Dear... 199 00:16:55,394 --> 00:16:57,385 People are arriving... 200 00:17:41,433 --> 00:17:43,583 When does it start? 201 00:17:44,713 --> 00:17:47,511 ln a moment, please be patient. 202 00:17:52,633 --> 00:17:54,351 Oh, Hamlet... 203 00:17:55,073 --> 00:17:59,066 thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul, 204 00:18:00,553 --> 00:18:02,703 and there I see 205 00:18:02,873 --> 00:18:06,422 such black and grained spots 206 00:18:07,313 --> 00:18:09,543 that will not leave their tinct. 207 00:18:09,713 --> 00:18:11,351 Bravo! 208 00:18:14,312 --> 00:18:16,872 Nay, but to live in the rank sweat 209 00:18:17,632 --> 00:18:20,624 of an ensumed bed. 210 00:18:22,792 --> 00:18:24,703 Ladies and gentlemen! 211 00:18:24,872 --> 00:18:27,261 The show's starting. Your attention please! 212 00:18:27,392 --> 00:18:28,950 I'm starting! 213 00:18:31,592 --> 00:18:34,948 Oh venerable ancient shades 214 00:18:35,832 --> 00:18:38,904 who float over this lake at night, 215 00:18:39,512 --> 00:18:41,309 lull us to sleep 216 00:18:41,992 --> 00:18:44,267 and show us... 217 00:18:44,672 --> 00:18:47,744 what there will be 200,000 years from now. 218 00:18:48,472 --> 00:18:51,828 ln 200,000 years there'll be nothing! 219 00:18:52,872 --> 00:18:55,227 Exactly. Then let us see that nothing. 220 00:18:55,392 --> 00:18:57,781 Well then, let's sleep. 221 00:19:03,472 --> 00:19:07,181 Men, lions, eagles, partridges, 222 00:19:07,952 --> 00:19:11,342 the antlered deer, geese, spiders, 223 00:19:12,472 --> 00:19:15,350 silent fishes, starfishes, 224 00:19:15,672 --> 00:19:19,062 and other unseen, silent creatures... 225 00:19:19,272 --> 00:19:21,069 in short, all living things... 226 00:19:21,232 --> 00:19:23,268 - All living things! 227 00:19:23,632 --> 00:19:27,226 - All living things... - Having completed their cycle... 228 00:19:27,391 --> 00:19:30,383 .. Completed their dreary cycle, died out at last. 229 00:19:32,751 --> 00:19:34,742 For hundreds of years, 230 00:19:34,911 --> 00:19:38,381 the Earth has not borne living things... 231 00:19:40,511 --> 00:19:43,981 and the poor moon now lights its lamp in vain. 232 00:19:44,311 --> 00:19:47,303 The cranes no longer wake in the fields with a cry... 233 00:19:47,471 --> 00:19:49,905 No May bugs in the thyme thickets... 234 00:19:50,071 --> 00:19:51,629 Come on! 235 00:19:53,191 --> 00:19:55,386 Cold, cold... 236 00:19:56,271 --> 00:19:57,499 Cold. 237 00:20:03,071 --> 00:20:05,266 Empty, empty... 238 00:20:06,231 --> 00:20:07,630 Empty. 239 00:20:07,871 --> 00:20:10,146 Terrifying, terrifying... 240 00:20:11,311 --> 00:20:12,710 Terrifying. 241 00:20:13,951 --> 00:20:17,660 All living bodies are turned to dust... 242 00:20:17,831 --> 00:20:20,299 She's good, isn't she? 243 00:20:20,551 --> 00:20:24,260 The Eternal Matter changed them into water, clouds... 244 00:20:24,431 --> 00:20:27,423 their souls merged into one. 245 00:20:29,671 --> 00:20:32,390 The common soul of the world is I! 246 00:20:32,551 --> 00:20:36,430 ln me live Alexander the Great, Caesar, Shakespeare, Napoleon 247 00:20:36,591 --> 00:20:38,582 and the lowest leech. 248 00:20:38,791 --> 00:20:42,749 ln me is merged human consciousness with animal instinct 249 00:20:42,910 --> 00:20:45,629 and I remember all! 250 00:20:46,270 --> 00:20:49,307 I relive those lives. 251 00:20:49,670 --> 00:20:52,628 - This is Decadentism! - Mother! 252 00:20:54,070 --> 00:20:55,549 I am alone. 253 00:20:55,710 --> 00:20:58,861 Every hundred years I open my mouth to speak. 254 00:20:59,030 --> 00:21:02,579 My voice resounds dismally through this void... 255 00:21:03,070 --> 00:21:05,140 unheard. 256 00:21:05,870 --> 00:21:08,748 Not even the pale spirits hear me. 257 00:21:09,070 --> 00:21:12,380 At dawn the stagnant marsh regenerates you 258 00:21:12,830 --> 00:21:15,708 and you wonder until daybreak, 259 00:21:16,030 --> 00:21:17,668 aimlessly, 260 00:21:19,270 --> 00:21:21,659 fearing lest life reappears in you. 261 00:21:21,830 --> 00:21:24,708 The Father of Eternal Matter, the Devil... 262 00:21:26,150 --> 00:21:27,469 Hello. 263 00:21:27,630 --> 00:21:31,100 Has created in you, like in rocks and water, 264 00:21:31,270 --> 00:21:34,148 a perpetual flux of atoms so that you... 265 00:21:35,030 --> 00:21:37,669 are constantly changing. 266 00:21:40,470 --> 00:21:44,463 But the Spirit alone remains unchangeable... 267 00:21:44,950 --> 00:21:46,941 in the Universe. 268 00:21:47,670 --> 00:21:51,060 Like a prisoner cast into a well, 269 00:21:51,230 --> 00:21:54,142 I know not where I am, nor what awaits me. 270 00:21:54,310 --> 00:21:57,619 I know only that in my struggle with the Devil 271 00:21:57,829 --> 00:21:59,148 I will win! 272 00:21:59,349 --> 00:22:03,342 Then Matter and Spirit will merge in harmony 273 00:22:03,509 --> 00:22:07,138 and the reign of Universal Will shall begin. 274 00:22:07,349 --> 00:22:10,147 But this will only happen when, 275 00:22:10,909 --> 00:22:14,663 after many millennia, 276 00:22:14,829 --> 00:22:17,866 the Moon and the Earth 277 00:22:18,229 --> 00:22:20,220 will be turned to dust. 278 00:22:20,549 --> 00:22:23,746 Until then... horror! 279 00:22:25,029 --> 00:22:26,667 Horror... 280 00:22:27,589 --> 00:22:28,942 Horror. 281 00:22:30,469 --> 00:22:34,428 My enemy, the Devil, is approaching! 282 00:22:41,869 --> 00:22:44,861 I see his terrifying red eyes... 283 00:22:45,069 --> 00:22:47,742 I smell of sulphur! Was that necessary? 284 00:22:47,909 --> 00:22:48,864 Yes! 285 00:22:49,669 --> 00:22:52,229 - Ah, for the effect... - Mother! 286 00:22:55,189 --> 00:22:57,498 He longs for man... 287 00:22:57,709 --> 00:23:00,940 Put your hat on before you catch cold. 288 00:23:01,949 --> 00:23:05,783 The doctor took his hat off to the Devil! 289 00:23:05,949 --> 00:23:07,348 That's enough! 290 00:23:07,549 --> 00:23:09,426 The play's over! 291 00:23:09,629 --> 00:23:12,506 The play's over! 292 00:23:12,708 --> 00:23:15,700 It's clear that only a select few 293 00:23:15,868 --> 00:23:17,984 may write and act plays. 294 00:23:18,188 --> 00:23:20,497 Why are you so upset? 295 00:23:21,628 --> 00:23:24,700 What do you expect? Calm down. 296 00:23:25,828 --> 00:23:28,467 I have infringed the monopoly! 297 00:23:33,868 --> 00:23:36,018 What's got into him? 298 00:23:38,108 --> 00:23:42,260 lrina, dear, you shouldn't offend a young man's self-esteem. 299 00:23:42,788 --> 00:23:44,267 You offended him. 300 00:23:45,228 --> 00:23:47,219 What did I say? 301 00:23:47,868 --> 00:23:51,656 He told us it was a joke and I took it like one. 302 00:23:51,828 --> 00:23:54,979 Now he says it was a work of art. 303 00:23:55,148 --> 00:23:58,982 It was no joke to fill the air with sulphur. 304 00:23:59,148 --> 00:24:03,460 He wanted to teach us how we should write and act... 305 00:24:03,708 --> 00:24:07,621 And those jibes in my direction... 306 00:24:07,788 --> 00:24:10,177 they'd annoy anyone. 307 00:24:10,348 --> 00:24:13,181 - He's spoilt and presumptuous! - He wanted to please you... 308 00:24:13,348 --> 00:24:14,542 Really? 309 00:24:19,548 --> 00:24:22,426 No one should separate Spirit from Matter. 310 00:24:22,588 --> 00:24:25,704 Maybe Spirit is a combination of other Matter. 311 00:24:25,907 --> 00:24:30,139 - He's very ambitious! - Everyone writes what he believes. 312 00:24:30,307 --> 00:24:32,821 As long as I'm left in peace. 313 00:24:34,467 --> 00:24:37,265 - Jupiter is getting angry. - I'm not Jupiter. 314 00:24:37,467 --> 00:24:40,265 I'm a woman and I'm not angry. 315 00:24:42,987 --> 00:24:45,865 I'm just sorry a young man wastes his time so. 316 00:24:46,507 --> 00:24:48,896 I didn't want to offend him. 317 00:24:54,227 --> 00:24:57,378 Someone should write a play 318 00:24:57,587 --> 00:25:00,977 about how we teachers live. It is a hard, hard life. 319 00:25:02,387 --> 00:25:03,456 Right. 320 00:25:04,307 --> 00:25:08,778 Let's not talk about plays or atoms now. 321 00:25:08,947 --> 00:25:12,542 Boris, listen to the singing, how sweet it sounds. 322 00:25:14,707 --> 00:25:17,426 Ten or fifteen years ago on this lake 323 00:25:17,587 --> 00:25:20,545 we had music and singing every night. 324 00:25:34,387 --> 00:25:37,697 All was noise and romance, such romance... 325 00:25:38,347 --> 00:25:43,101 The idol of those days was Doctor Evgenij Sergeevic. 326 00:25:44,386 --> 00:25:46,980 He's still very attractive now, 327 00:25:47,146 --> 00:25:49,706 but he was irresistible then. 328 00:25:51,266 --> 00:25:52,665 Where's Kostja? 329 00:25:58,586 --> 00:26:00,895 I didn't mean to offend him. 330 00:26:01,386 --> 00:26:03,377 I'm sorry. 331 00:26:03,626 --> 00:26:05,935 I'll go look for him. 332 00:26:14,826 --> 00:26:18,262 Well, the play is over, so I should go home. 333 00:26:18,466 --> 00:26:20,934 Don't go. Stay. 334 00:26:21,426 --> 00:26:24,065 - Bravo! - You were amazing! 335 00:26:24,386 --> 00:26:26,900 You're so talented! 336 00:26:27,066 --> 00:26:30,456 With your looks, it's a crime to hide away in the country. 337 00:26:30,626 --> 00:26:33,823 - You have to work on the stage. - It's the dream of my life... 338 00:26:34,426 --> 00:26:36,815 which will never come true. 339 00:26:38,386 --> 00:26:41,025 This is Trigorin Boris Alekseevic. 340 00:26:41,186 --> 00:26:45,145 - I've read all your books. - Don't be afraid of him, dear. 341 00:26:45,466 --> 00:26:48,822 He's famous but he's also a simple soul. 342 00:26:54,226 --> 00:26:56,375 It was a curious play. 343 00:26:56,545 --> 00:26:59,298 Yes, I didn't understand much. 344 00:26:59,545 --> 00:27:01,342 But I liked it. 345 00:27:01,505 --> 00:27:03,700 You acted with such sincerity. 346 00:27:03,905 --> 00:27:06,624 Then suddenly, much to our surprise, 347 00:27:06,785 --> 00:27:09,015 we heard from the gallery... 348 00:27:13,025 --> 00:27:15,823 A whole octave lower! 349 00:27:16,185 --> 00:27:17,777 Like this. 350 00:27:23,145 --> 00:27:26,501 The audience was left breathless. 351 00:27:28,065 --> 00:27:30,533 The setting was beautiful. 352 00:27:31,465 --> 00:27:34,343 - Are there lots of fish here? - Yes. 353 00:27:34,705 --> 00:27:36,343 I love fishing. 354 00:27:36,505 --> 00:27:39,975 I know of nothing more pleasant than sitting on a lake shore 355 00:27:40,145 --> 00:27:43,057 with one's eyes on a floating cork. 356 00:27:43,425 --> 00:27:46,895 For one who has tasted the joys of creation, 357 00:27:47,065 --> 00:27:49,818 no greater pleasure could exist. 358 00:28:03,945 --> 00:28:06,459 An angel of silence is flying over our heads. 359 00:28:12,584 --> 00:28:15,257 I told you, my dear, 360 00:28:17,384 --> 00:28:19,739 Compliments embarrass him. 361 00:28:19,904 --> 00:28:22,657 - I must go. - Goodbye, my dear. 362 00:28:22,824 --> 00:28:25,054 - Stay. - I can't. 363 00:28:25,224 --> 00:28:26,942 Bravo. 364 00:28:29,304 --> 00:28:30,817 Kostja! 365 00:28:37,704 --> 00:28:39,183 Kostja! 366 00:28:48,784 --> 00:28:52,015 Everyone has gone, there's no one left. 367 00:28:54,384 --> 00:28:55,942 I'm here. 368 00:28:56,104 --> 00:28:59,699 Masha's been looking for me, she's unbearable! 369 00:28:59,944 --> 00:29:01,741 Konstantin Gavrilovic... 370 00:29:03,344 --> 00:29:06,222 Your play delighted me. 371 00:29:06,864 --> 00:29:08,934 It strangely delighted me. 372 00:29:09,624 --> 00:29:13,617 It was strange, I didn't hear the end, but it made a deep impression on me. 373 00:29:14,664 --> 00:29:16,780 When Nina spoke of solitude 374 00:29:16,944 --> 00:29:19,583 and when the red eyes of the devil appeared 375 00:29:19,744 --> 00:29:22,258 my hands trembled with excitement. 376 00:29:22,424 --> 00:29:24,812 It is fresh, ingenious. 377 00:29:24,983 --> 00:29:27,178 You're talented, you must persevere. 378 00:29:27,863 --> 00:29:29,342 Thank you. 379 00:29:29,503 --> 00:29:33,462 You chose your subject in the realm of abstract thought 380 00:29:33,623 --> 00:29:35,341 and you did right. 381 00:29:35,543 --> 00:29:39,741 A work of art should invariably embody some great idea. 382 00:29:40,823 --> 00:29:43,895 So you advise me to persevere? 383 00:29:44,063 --> 00:29:45,052 Yes. 384 00:29:45,263 --> 00:29:49,097 But express only deep and eternal truths. 385 00:29:50,263 --> 00:29:54,336 As you know, I have led a varied life 386 00:29:54,663 --> 00:29:56,301 and I am contented. 387 00:29:57,703 --> 00:30:00,979 But if experienced the exaltation felt by an artist 388 00:30:01,583 --> 00:30:03,653 during moments of creation, 389 00:30:04,263 --> 00:30:07,733 I would spurn this material envelope of my soul 390 00:30:09,023 --> 00:30:12,732 and soar away to an ideal world. 391 00:30:13,343 --> 00:30:14,662 Do you understand? 392 00:30:14,903 --> 00:30:17,542 You should know why you write, 393 00:30:17,703 --> 00:30:21,173 or you'll lose yourself, your genius will be your ruin. 394 00:30:21,343 --> 00:30:23,982 - Where is Nina? - She's gone home. 395 00:30:24,143 --> 00:30:27,055 I have to see her. 396 00:30:27,223 --> 00:30:28,975 Calm down. 397 00:30:29,503 --> 00:30:33,621 Konstantin, go home, your mother's worried. 398 00:30:33,823 --> 00:30:36,940 Tell her I've gone away. Leave me alone, 399 00:30:37,103 --> 00:30:39,662 stop following me about! 400 00:30:42,262 --> 00:30:43,820 Youth... 401 00:30:44,702 --> 00:30:48,012 It is always ''Youth...'', when you have nothing to say. 402 00:30:50,462 --> 00:30:54,011 Don't do that! Get rid of that, it's horrid! 403 00:30:55,622 --> 00:30:58,341 Let's go home. 404 00:30:58,502 --> 00:31:00,811 Wait a moment. 405 00:31:02,062 --> 00:31:03,859 What do you want? 406 00:31:05,942 --> 00:31:07,660 What is it? 407 00:31:14,622 --> 00:31:16,613 I do not love my father, 408 00:31:17,022 --> 00:31:19,172 but my heart turns to you. 409 00:31:20,822 --> 00:31:24,132 For some reason, I feel that you are near me. 410 00:31:24,422 --> 00:31:26,299 Help me, please, 411 00:31:26,502 --> 00:31:30,575 or I'll do something foolish and ruin my life. 412 00:31:30,942 --> 00:31:33,092 I'm at the end of my strength! 413 00:31:36,462 --> 00:31:37,690 I'm in agony. 414 00:31:37,902 --> 00:31:42,180 - How can I help you? - No one imagines how I suffer. 415 00:31:42,662 --> 00:31:44,539 I love Konstantin. 416 00:31:49,782 --> 00:31:51,898 How excitable you all are! 417 00:31:52,582 --> 00:31:54,776 How excitable you all are! 418 00:31:55,701 --> 00:31:57,498 And how much love there is 419 00:31:57,741 --> 00:31:59,538 in this lake of spells! 420 00:32:00,581 --> 00:32:03,379 What can I do, my child? 421 00:32:23,501 --> 00:32:27,380 422 00:32:28,341 --> 00:32:32,220 423 00:33:01,381 --> 00:33:04,771 You're 22 and I'm almost twice your age. 424 00:33:05,541 --> 00:33:08,850 Doctor, tell me, which of us is younger looking? 425 00:33:11,260 --> 00:33:13,091 You, of course. 426 00:33:13,420 --> 00:33:14,853 Thank you. 427 00:33:15,180 --> 00:33:16,613 Why is it? 428 00:33:16,780 --> 00:33:19,931 Because I work and keep myself busy. 429 00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:23,490 While you never move off the same spot. 430 00:33:23,660 --> 00:33:25,810 And I live by another rule. 431 00:33:27,220 --> 00:33:29,654 Never look into the future. 432 00:33:29,820 --> 00:33:33,130 Never admit the thought of old age or death. 433 00:33:34,820 --> 00:33:38,130 Just accept what comes to you. 434 00:33:43,260 --> 00:33:46,058 I look after myself. 435 00:33:46,780 --> 00:33:50,090 I feel as if I've been around for ages. 436 00:33:50,820 --> 00:33:53,971 I trail my life behind me like an endless scarf. 437 00:33:54,140 --> 00:33:57,337 Often I have no desire to live at all. 438 00:34:33,979 --> 00:34:37,369 Don't worry, I'm talking nonsense. 439 00:34:38,019 --> 00:34:41,409 You have to pull yourself together and shake off such nonsense. 440 00:34:53,139 --> 00:34:55,369 Doesn't he ever get tired? 441 00:34:59,659 --> 00:35:02,014 What are you reading? 442 00:35:04,539 --> 00:35:08,009 Maupassant, but I don't like it, it's very boring. 443 00:35:08,179 --> 00:35:11,057 I'm worried about Konstantin. 444 00:35:12,299 --> 00:35:14,813 He's always so sad, lonely... 445 00:35:14,979 --> 00:35:17,618 He's always at the lake, I never see him. 446 00:35:18,219 --> 00:35:20,414 His heart is heavy. 447 00:35:20,579 --> 00:35:23,730 Nina, please recite something from his play. 448 00:35:24,659 --> 00:35:26,297 Shall I? 449 00:35:26,459 --> 00:35:28,973 It is so uninteresting. 450 00:35:29,179 --> 00:35:32,171 When he recites it, his eyes light up 451 00:35:32,339 --> 00:35:35,456 and his face grows pale. His voice is beautiful. 452 00:35:47,898 --> 00:35:49,217 Pleasant dreams! 453 00:35:55,218 --> 00:35:56,367 Petrusha! 454 00:35:57,058 --> 00:35:59,174 - You're sleeping! - No... 455 00:35:59,338 --> 00:36:01,727 You need help! 456 00:36:01,898 --> 00:36:04,731 I'd get help, but the doctor says no. 457 00:36:04,898 --> 00:36:06,854 At 60? 458 00:36:07,018 --> 00:36:09,771 One still wants to live at sixty. 459 00:36:09,938 --> 00:36:12,088 Take some chamomile tea. 460 00:36:12,258 --> 00:36:14,818 I think a thermal spa would be good for him. 461 00:36:14,978 --> 00:36:17,367 Why not? He could go. 462 00:36:17,538 --> 00:36:19,768 I don't understand you. 463 00:36:19,938 --> 00:36:22,736 There's nothing to understand, it's clear. 464 00:36:24,458 --> 00:36:29,168 Pyotr Nikolaevic, you should give up smoking. 465 00:36:32,218 --> 00:36:33,856 Nonsense. 466 00:36:34,738 --> 00:36:36,535 It's not nonsense. 467 00:36:36,698 --> 00:36:39,576 Wine and tobacco destroy individuality. 468 00:36:39,738 --> 00:36:42,298 After a cigar or a vodka, 469 00:36:42,458 --> 00:36:44,767 you're no longer Pyotr Nikolaevic, 470 00:36:44,938 --> 00:36:47,816 Pyotr Nikolaevic plus somebody else. 471 00:36:48,218 --> 00:36:51,369 Your ego breaks in two, you begin to think of yourself 472 00:36:51,538 --> 00:36:54,176 in the third person. 473 00:36:56,817 --> 00:36:58,853 It's easy for you to condemn. 474 00:36:59,017 --> 00:37:01,577 You've had a life, what about me? 475 00:37:01,737 --> 00:37:04,888 I served in the Department of Justice for 28 years. 476 00:37:05,057 --> 00:37:07,446 but I've never experienced life. 477 00:37:07,617 --> 00:37:09,608 That's why I want to live now. 478 00:37:09,777 --> 00:37:12,610 You're satiated with your life, 479 00:37:12,777 --> 00:37:15,211 that's why you like to philosophise. 480 00:37:15,377 --> 00:37:17,368 But I want to live, 481 00:37:17,537 --> 00:37:20,529 that's why I drink and smoke cigars. 482 00:37:20,697 --> 00:37:22,335 That's all. 483 00:37:23,217 --> 00:37:26,015 You have to take life seriously. 484 00:37:26,617 --> 00:37:30,929 Getting cured at 60 and regretting your youth... 485 00:37:31,337 --> 00:37:33,293 is trifling. 486 00:38:10,456 --> 00:38:13,254 It must be time for lunch. 487 00:38:13,696 --> 00:38:16,005 My leg's gone to sleep. 488 00:38:31,136 --> 00:38:34,287 She's going to have a drink before lunch. 489 00:38:34,456 --> 00:38:35,969 She's unhappy. 490 00:38:36,136 --> 00:38:38,206 It's all talk, all talk. 491 00:38:38,456 --> 00:38:40,924 You sound like a man who has all he wants. 492 00:38:41,296 --> 00:38:42,775 Oh, dear! 493 00:38:44,456 --> 00:38:46,526 What could be duller 494 00:38:46,696 --> 00:38:49,972 than this dear tedium of the country? 495 00:38:51,776 --> 00:38:54,336 It's so quiet and peaceful... 496 00:38:55,216 --> 00:38:58,686 Nobody does anything but philosophise... 497 00:38:59,456 --> 00:39:03,165 It is pleasant to sit here and listen to you, 498 00:39:04,136 --> 00:39:08,527 but I'd rather be in a hotel room learning a part. 499 00:39:09,616 --> 00:39:11,732 I understand how you feel. 500 00:39:12,656 --> 00:39:14,214 You do? 501 00:39:15,656 --> 00:39:18,375 Here we are! Good morning. 502 00:39:22,015 --> 00:39:23,494 Good morning. 503 00:39:26,255 --> 00:39:28,723 You look well. 504 00:39:28,895 --> 00:39:31,853 My wife tells me you want to go to town. 505 00:39:32,015 --> 00:39:33,971 ls that so? 506 00:39:34,655 --> 00:39:36,725 Yes, lf I may. 507 00:39:36,895 --> 00:39:38,487 Splendid. 508 00:39:38,655 --> 00:39:41,533 But how will you get there, madam? 509 00:39:41,855 --> 00:39:45,814 We are hauling rye today, all the men are busy. 510 00:39:46,255 --> 00:39:50,567 - What horses would you take? - Horses... any horses. 511 00:39:51,055 --> 00:39:52,534 Horses. 512 00:39:53,055 --> 00:39:56,764 Any horses, as long as they're horses! 513 00:39:56,935 --> 00:40:00,723 Madam, you do not know what it is to run a farm. 514 00:40:01,495 --> 00:40:03,486 It's the same old story. Well... 515 00:40:03,655 --> 00:40:06,408 I shall leave for Moscow today then. 516 00:40:06,575 --> 00:40:09,885 Order a carriage for me from the village! 517 00:40:10,055 --> 00:40:12,125 Or I'll walk to the station! 518 00:40:12,335 --> 00:40:17,125 I resign from my position, find yourself another manager! 519 00:40:39,854 --> 00:40:42,163 It's the same every summer. 520 00:40:42,894 --> 00:40:45,692 Every summer I'm insulted. 521 00:40:46,014 --> 00:40:48,892 I'll never set foot here again. 522 00:40:49,694 --> 00:40:51,491 Boris, come here! 523 00:40:51,654 --> 00:40:53,133 Boris! 524 00:41:20,054 --> 00:41:23,364 How strange to see a famous actress weeping 525 00:41:24,894 --> 00:41:27,727 and for such a trivial matter! 526 00:41:32,214 --> 00:41:35,012 And yet he, the famous writer, 527 00:41:35,734 --> 00:41:38,328 the idol of the public, 528 00:41:38,534 --> 00:41:42,004 the papers are full of him, his photo is everywhere, 529 00:41:42,774 --> 00:41:45,766 his works have been translated into many languages... 530 00:41:47,214 --> 00:41:51,923 he is overjoyed if he catches a fish. 531 00:42:00,453 --> 00:42:04,685 I thought famous people were unapproachable and proud. 532 00:42:06,893 --> 00:42:11,762 But they weep, play cards, laugh... 533 00:42:14,133 --> 00:42:18,604 and lose their tempers like everybody else. 534 00:42:55,053 --> 00:42:59,046 I committed the cowardly act of killing this seagull today. 535 00:43:02,053 --> 00:43:04,442 What does this mean? 536 00:43:11,772 --> 00:43:13,763 What's happening to you? 537 00:43:13,932 --> 00:43:17,402 Soon, I shall end my own life too. 538 00:43:18,332 --> 00:43:20,800 I do not recognize you anymore. 539 00:43:20,972 --> 00:43:23,850 I don't recognize you either. 540 00:43:24,292 --> 00:43:26,010 You've changed. 541 00:43:26,172 --> 00:43:30,165 Your gaze is cold, my presence bothers you. 542 00:43:30,332 --> 00:43:33,961 You have grown so irritable lately. 543 00:43:34,132 --> 00:43:37,124 You talk so darkly and symbolically. 544 00:43:37,372 --> 00:43:41,684 This seagull is evidently a symbol, but I do not follow you. 545 00:43:43,292 --> 00:43:45,852 I'm too simple to understand. 546 00:43:46,212 --> 00:43:50,000 All this began when my play failed so miserably. 547 00:43:51,012 --> 00:43:53,890 Women never forgive failure. 548 00:43:54,612 --> 00:43:57,763 I burnt the manuscript to the last page. 549 00:43:57,972 --> 00:44:01,203 Your estrangement is to me terrible. 550 00:44:01,372 --> 00:44:03,840 It is as if I've woken up to find 551 00:44:04,012 --> 00:44:07,561 that this lake has dried up and sunk into the earth. 552 00:44:09,212 --> 00:44:12,522 You say you're too simple to understand. 553 00:44:12,852 --> 00:44:16,765 But what's there to understand? You disliked my play. 554 00:44:17,172 --> 00:44:19,890 You have no faith in my feelings 555 00:44:20,051 --> 00:44:23,930 and you think of me as commonplace and worthless, as many are. 556 00:44:27,011 --> 00:44:29,764 How well I can understand you! 557 00:44:30,491 --> 00:44:33,324 It's like a dagger in the brain! 558 00:44:33,651 --> 00:44:35,369 May it be cursed, 559 00:44:35,611 --> 00:44:38,683 together with my pride, which sucks my life-blood 560 00:44:38,851 --> 00:44:41,160 like a snake! 561 00:44:45,131 --> 00:44:46,530 There... 562 00:44:47,211 --> 00:44:49,361 There is a real genius. 563 00:44:51,331 --> 00:44:53,481 Striding along like Hamlet. 564 00:45:12,251 --> 00:45:16,210 You can feel the warmth of the sun and you smile. 565 00:45:17,451 --> 00:45:20,921 Your eyes melt and glow liquid in its rays. 566 00:45:23,971 --> 00:45:25,689 I shall not disturb you. 567 00:45:28,171 --> 00:45:30,401 Good morning, Boris Alekseevic. 568 00:45:30,571 --> 00:45:32,050 Good morning. 569 00:45:33,651 --> 00:45:36,210 It seems we are leaving today. 570 00:45:36,370 --> 00:45:38,725 We'll probably never see each other again. 571 00:45:38,890 --> 00:45:40,369 It's a pity. 572 00:45:40,730 --> 00:45:44,803 I seldom meet pretty young girls. 573 00:45:46,290 --> 00:45:49,407 I can hardly remember how it feels 574 00:45:49,570 --> 00:45:51,447 to be nineteen. 575 00:45:51,810 --> 00:45:56,042 And the girls in my books are seldom living characters. 576 00:45:59,450 --> 00:46:02,760 I'd like to change places with you. 577 00:46:02,930 --> 00:46:05,205 - Same here. - Why? 578 00:46:05,370 --> 00:46:08,726 To know out how a genius feels. 579 00:46:08,890 --> 00:46:11,529 What's it like to be famous? 580 00:46:11,690 --> 00:46:14,488 I don't know... 581 00:46:15,890 --> 00:46:18,040 I've never thought of it. 582 00:46:18,290 --> 00:46:21,680 Either you exaggerate my fame, or I don't feel it. 583 00:46:21,850 --> 00:46:24,159 But when you read about yourself in the papers? 584 00:46:24,330 --> 00:46:28,960 lf they praise me, I'm happy. lf not, I'm out of sorts for a while. 585 00:46:29,290 --> 00:46:32,088 What a wonderful world! I envy you. 586 00:46:32,730 --> 00:46:35,369 Men are born to different destinies! 587 00:46:35,530 --> 00:46:38,681 Some lead a weary, useless life, 588 00:46:38,850 --> 00:46:40,841 lost in the crowd and unhappy... 589 00:46:41,010 --> 00:46:43,843 While others, like you, who are one to a million, 590 00:46:44,010 --> 00:46:47,320 have a bright and meaningful destinies. 591 00:46:47,490 --> 00:46:49,525 - You are happy. - Me? 592 00:46:50,609 --> 00:46:55,125 I don't know, you talk of fame, and bright destinies, 593 00:46:55,289 --> 00:46:59,601 but those things mean as much to me as sweetmeat do, which I never eat. 594 00:47:00,369 --> 00:47:03,918 No... you're young and very kind. 595 00:47:04,129 --> 00:47:08,122 - Your life is beautiful. - What's so special about it? 596 00:47:09,969 --> 00:47:11,766 Excuse me, 597 00:47:12,409 --> 00:47:14,400 I must begin writing. 598 00:47:16,089 --> 00:47:18,045 There, you... 599 00:47:19,329 --> 00:47:22,321 You've found my weak spot and... 600 00:47:23,209 --> 00:47:26,997 I feel awkward and a little cross too. 601 00:47:27,169 --> 00:47:30,525 Let's discuss this bright and beautiful life of mine. 602 00:47:30,689 --> 00:47:32,805 Where shall we begin? 603 00:47:34,089 --> 00:47:36,000 There are... 604 00:47:38,209 --> 00:47:40,040 There are... 605 00:47:41,249 --> 00:47:43,888 violent obsessions, for example... 606 00:47:44,289 --> 00:47:47,281 when a man thinks of the moon, day and night. 607 00:47:47,569 --> 00:47:50,447 I have such a moon. 608 00:47:50,609 --> 00:47:55,080 Day and night I'm held in the grip of a besetting thought, to write. 609 00:47:55,289 --> 00:47:58,679 When I finish a book, I have to write another... 610 00:47:58,849 --> 00:48:02,159 I write all the time, as if I were on a treadmill. 611 00:48:02,329 --> 00:48:06,719 I can't help it. What's bright bright and beautiful about that? 612 00:48:07,368 --> 00:48:09,928 It's a wild life all right. 613 00:48:10,368 --> 00:48:13,201 Even now, thrilled as I am to talk to you, 614 00:48:13,368 --> 00:48:16,838 I never forget that an unfinished story awaits me. 615 00:48:17,048 --> 00:48:19,767 I see a cloud shaped like a piano and think: 616 00:48:19,928 --> 00:48:22,396 ''I must mention this in my story, 617 00:48:22,568 --> 00:48:24,957 the piano-shaped cloud.'' 618 00:48:25,128 --> 00:48:27,517 lf I smell something, like heliotrope... 619 00:48:27,688 --> 00:48:31,363 I think: ''A sickly smell, the colour worn by widows'', 620 00:48:31,528 --> 00:48:33,758 I'll use it to describe a summer evening. 621 00:48:33,928 --> 00:48:37,921 I catch an idea in every phrase and lock it in my literary store-room, 622 00:48:38,088 --> 00:48:40,079 it may be useful. 623 00:48:40,248 --> 00:48:43,718 When I stop working, I go to the theatre or fishing. 624 00:48:43,888 --> 00:48:47,961 But no, some new subject comes to mind. 625 00:48:48,128 --> 00:48:51,438 I hear my desk calling me, I have to write. 626 00:48:51,608 --> 00:48:54,486 And so it goes, I can't help it. 627 00:48:54,928 --> 00:48:57,078 I'm consuming my life. 628 00:48:57,248 --> 00:48:59,637 To feed honey to the unknown, 629 00:48:59,808 --> 00:49:03,801 to steal pollen from my best flowers, to tear them from their roots. 630 00:49:04,848 --> 00:49:06,759 Am I not mad? 631 00:49:07,328 --> 00:49:09,888 Do my friends treat me as if I'm sane? 632 00:49:10,048 --> 00:49:13,597 ''Writing something nice?''. It's always the same old story. 633 00:49:13,768 --> 00:49:17,556 At times I think the praise and admiration 634 00:49:17,728 --> 00:49:19,365 must be a deception. 635 00:49:19,527 --> 00:49:21,757 They deceive me, like I'm a sick man. 636 00:49:21,927 --> 00:49:25,124 Sometimes I'm scared someone will grab me 637 00:49:25,287 --> 00:49:27,437 and whisk me off to an asylum. 638 00:49:31,367 --> 00:49:36,043 But when you create, don't you feel happy? 639 00:49:36,727 --> 00:49:38,797 When I die, 640 00:49:38,967 --> 00:49:41,197 my tombstone will read: 641 00:49:41,367 --> 00:49:45,883 ''Here lies Trigorin, a clever writer, but not as good as Turgenev''. 642 00:49:47,207 --> 00:49:51,041 I think you've been spoilt by your success. 643 00:49:52,087 --> 00:49:54,840 What success? No... 644 00:49:56,127 --> 00:49:59,915 I'm never pleased, as a writer I don't like myself. 645 00:50:00,087 --> 00:50:04,000 The trouble is I'm always excited. 646 00:50:04,527 --> 00:50:08,486 For example, I love these trees, this lake, this sky. 647 00:50:09,847 --> 00:50:12,566 Nature speaks to me, I love it. 648 00:50:13,127 --> 00:50:15,516 But I'm not only a painter of landscapes. 649 00:50:15,687 --> 00:50:18,121 I'm also a man of the city. I love my country, and its people. 650 00:50:18,287 --> 00:50:21,677 I feel it's my duty to speak of their sorrows, 651 00:50:21,847 --> 00:50:25,476 also of science, of the rights of man, and so forth. 652 00:50:25,647 --> 00:50:28,639 So I try write on every subject. 653 00:50:30,167 --> 00:50:32,805 My friends encourage me... 654 00:50:33,726 --> 00:50:36,763 I see life and knowledge progressing 655 00:50:36,926 --> 00:50:40,236 and I'm left behind, like I've missed my train. 656 00:50:41,446 --> 00:50:43,801 Then I come to the conclusion 657 00:50:43,966 --> 00:50:47,675 that all I'm fit for is to describe landscapes... 658 00:50:47,846 --> 00:50:49,837 And that whatever else 659 00:50:50,406 --> 00:50:51,964 I attempt... 660 00:50:52,126 --> 00:50:54,082 is completely false. 661 00:50:55,006 --> 00:50:57,566 You work too hard. 662 00:50:57,726 --> 00:51:00,798 You may feel discontented, but to others you're great. 663 00:51:00,966 --> 00:51:04,595 lf I were as talented as you, I'd devote my life to the people, 664 00:51:04,766 --> 00:51:07,724 and they'd send me before them 665 00:51:07,886 --> 00:51:10,446 in a chariot of triumph. 666 00:51:13,446 --> 00:51:16,085 ln a chariot? Like Agamemnon? 667 00:51:16,246 --> 00:51:19,397 For the bliss of being an actress I'd endure 668 00:51:19,566 --> 00:51:22,956 want, the hatred of my friends, disillusionment, 669 00:51:23,206 --> 00:51:26,755 living in an attic eating bread and water... 670 00:51:35,446 --> 00:51:39,234 I have to pack but I don't want to leave. 671 00:51:41,526 --> 00:51:43,482 It's wonderful here! 672 00:51:43,686 --> 00:51:45,642 It's so beautiful. 673 00:51:45,846 --> 00:51:47,836 You see that house? 674 00:51:48,805 --> 00:51:50,796 That was my mother's home. 675 00:51:51,845 --> 00:51:53,801 I was born there. 676 00:51:54,285 --> 00:51:57,277 I've lived beside this lake all my life. 677 00:51:57,445 --> 00:51:59,561 I know it like I know myself. 678 00:52:02,205 --> 00:52:04,196 It's really beautiful. 679 00:52:07,885 --> 00:52:09,682 What's this? 680 00:52:10,605 --> 00:52:12,163 A gull. 681 00:52:12,725 --> 00:52:14,955 Konstantin Gavrilovic shot it. 682 00:52:18,725 --> 00:52:20,443 What a lovely bird! 683 00:52:23,125 --> 00:52:25,685 Really, I can't bear to go away. 684 00:52:27,525 --> 00:52:29,834 Persuade lrina to stay. 685 00:52:32,685 --> 00:52:34,721 What are you writing? 686 00:52:34,885 --> 00:52:37,001 Just some notes. 687 00:52:38,645 --> 00:52:42,115 An idea for a short story. 688 00:52:43,765 --> 00:52:47,644 A young girl lives beside a lake, like you. 689 00:52:50,245 --> 00:52:54,124 She loves the lake as gulls do, and is happy and free as they. 690 00:52:55,845 --> 00:52:58,359 But a man comes her way, 691 00:52:59,405 --> 00:53:01,679 who sees her 692 00:53:02,124 --> 00:53:04,433 and out of idleness, 693 00:53:04,764 --> 00:53:07,232 he kills her, like this gull. 694 00:53:09,204 --> 00:53:10,523 Boris! 695 00:53:15,284 --> 00:53:18,082 We're not going, after all. 696 00:53:28,164 --> 00:53:30,041 It is a dream! 697 00:54:26,483 --> 00:54:29,395 I'm telling you this because you're a writer, 698 00:54:30,363 --> 00:54:32,354 it may be useful to you. 699 00:54:33,643 --> 00:54:36,521 lf Kostja had wounded himself badly, 700 00:54:36,683 --> 00:54:39,561 I would have gone mad. 701 00:54:39,723 --> 00:54:42,521 Yet I am courageous. 702 00:54:43,683 --> 00:54:47,642 I've decided to end this impossible love. 703 00:54:47,843 --> 00:54:49,993 I'll marry Medvedenko. 704 00:54:50,523 --> 00:54:52,991 I don't see the necessity. 705 00:54:54,323 --> 00:54:57,918 To love without hope for years is useless... 706 00:54:58,083 --> 00:55:01,792 Then after marriage, more problems, children... 707 00:55:03,083 --> 00:55:06,234 I'll forget the past. 708 00:55:06,643 --> 00:55:08,952 At least it will be a change. 709 00:55:09,123 --> 00:55:11,239 Another drink? 710 00:55:13,963 --> 00:55:15,954 Haven't you had enough? 711 00:55:18,883 --> 00:55:20,999 Don't look at me like that. 712 00:55:21,283 --> 00:55:24,275 Women drink more often than you think, 713 00:55:24,443 --> 00:55:27,640 but not openly, like I do. 714 00:55:27,923 --> 00:55:31,471 Most of them do it in secret. And always vodka or brandy. 715 00:55:31,922 --> 00:55:33,640 To your good health! 716 00:55:50,522 --> 00:55:52,513 You're a simple man. 717 00:55:56,962 --> 00:55:59,681 I'm sorry to see you go. 718 00:56:00,602 --> 00:56:02,558 And I am sorry to leave. 719 00:56:02,722 --> 00:56:05,953 - Ask her to stay. - She wouldn't now. 720 00:56:06,122 --> 00:56:09,910 Her son has been behaving outrageously. 721 00:56:10,962 --> 00:56:15,672 First he attempted suicide, now he wants a duel. 722 00:56:15,842 --> 00:56:18,151 I can't imagine why! 723 00:56:18,882 --> 00:56:22,079 He's always sulking, preaching about new forms of art... 724 00:56:22,242 --> 00:56:25,200 Art can accommodate both old and new... 725 00:56:25,362 --> 00:56:27,922 without the need for jostling. 726 00:56:31,202 --> 00:56:34,592 It's jealousy, but that's none of my business. 727 00:56:35,442 --> 00:56:38,354 That teacher of mine isn't too clever, 728 00:56:38,522 --> 00:56:41,992 but he's good, he loves me, I feel sorry for him. 729 00:56:42,162 --> 00:56:45,154 And for his mother, so old. 730 00:56:46,081 --> 00:56:49,437 I wish you well, remember me with kindness. 731 00:56:49,601 --> 00:56:52,320 Thanks for your goodwill. 732 00:56:52,841 --> 00:56:57,073 Send me your books, write something in them, but not: 733 00:56:57,281 --> 00:56:59,397 ''Madam...'' 734 00:57:02,401 --> 00:57:05,757 but simply: ''To Masha, who has nobody 735 00:57:06,281 --> 00:57:09,239 and knows not why she is living''. 736 00:57:11,241 --> 00:57:13,960 - Odds or evens? - Evens. 737 00:57:15,201 --> 00:57:16,680 No... 738 00:57:17,801 --> 00:57:21,032 I wanted to see whether I'd become an actress or not. 739 00:57:23,441 --> 00:57:26,274 lf someone would advise me... 740 00:57:26,761 --> 00:57:29,355 One cannot give advice in a case like this. 741 00:57:29,521 --> 00:57:32,593 - Shall I pack your fishing rods? - Yes. 742 00:57:32,761 --> 00:57:34,831 You can give my books away. 743 00:57:35,921 --> 00:57:38,719 Perhaps we'll never meet again. 744 00:57:39,281 --> 00:57:42,273 Please accept this medallion as a remembrance of me. 745 00:57:42,761 --> 00:57:46,595 It has your initials, and the title of your book: ''Days and Nights''. 746 00:57:48,561 --> 00:57:51,394 - It's lovely. - Think of me sometimes. 747 00:57:51,561 --> 00:57:55,156 I'll remember you like on that bright day, 748 00:57:55,321 --> 00:57:59,792 your white dress, as we talked and the gull lay near us. 749 00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:04,794 I have to go, someone's coming. 750 00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:08,191 Let me see you for a minute before you go! 751 00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:14,239 Why don't you stay here? 752 00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:17,273 Going around with that rheumatism of yours! 753 00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:20,716 Rheumatism... I feel fine. 754 00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:23,549 I want to go to Moscow. 755 00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,311 Rheumatism... 756 00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:44,950 ''Days and Nights'', 757 00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,072 page 121, lines 11... 758 00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:50,879 11 and 12. 759 00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:16,317 11 and 12... 760 00:59:21,519 --> 00:59:23,908 Are my books here? 761 00:59:24,919 --> 00:59:28,150 ln the study, on the corner shelf. 762 00:59:41,679 --> 00:59:44,557 Petrusha, stay here. 763 00:59:44,839 --> 00:59:46,909 You're leaving, 764 00:59:47,079 --> 00:59:49,877 I'll be lonely without you. 765 00:59:51,279 --> 00:59:53,747 What would you do in town? 766 00:59:57,119 --> 01:00:01,032 They're laying the corner-stone of the new court house soon. 767 01:00:02,319 --> 01:00:05,709 And I want to escape this boring life for a while. 768 01:00:05,919 --> 01:00:09,070 The carriage will be here at one, we'll go together. 769 01:00:09,239 --> 01:00:12,072 Come on, stay here! 770 01:00:12,719 --> 01:00:14,596 Don't sigh. 771 01:00:14,799 --> 01:00:17,267 You mustn't catch a cold. 772 01:00:17,439 --> 01:00:19,669 Keep an eye on Konstantin. 773 01:00:20,479 --> 01:00:22,276 Help him. 774 01:00:22,919 --> 01:00:24,716 Guide him. 775 01:00:25,959 --> 01:00:27,358 There... 776 01:00:28,279 --> 01:00:32,715 I'm leaving and don't know why he shot himself. 777 01:00:36,838 --> 01:00:39,068 He is fond of me, 778 01:00:39,238 --> 01:00:42,389 but feels he is useless here, 779 01:00:42,558 --> 01:00:45,391 little more than a dependant. 780 01:00:45,558 --> 01:00:48,550 It is the pride in him. 781 01:00:52,438 --> 01:00:54,906 He's a misery to me! 782 01:00:55,358 --> 01:00:57,826 He should find work. 783 01:01:00,798 --> 01:01:04,268 The best thing would be if you gave him some money. 784 01:01:18,438 --> 01:01:22,067 For a start, he could dress smarter. 785 01:01:32,838 --> 01:01:36,990 He's had the same old jacket for three years. 786 01:01:38,558 --> 01:01:42,710 He hasn't got a coat. He needs to live a little. 787 01:01:43,158 --> 01:01:46,149 Let him go abroad, it wouldn't cost much. 788 01:01:49,157 --> 01:01:52,547 I could manage his clothes. 789 01:01:53,157 --> 01:01:55,796 But not the rest, no way. 790 01:01:56,037 --> 01:02:00,349 And no, I don't think I can help with clothes, either. 791 01:02:00,517 --> 01:02:02,747 I have no money. 792 01:02:03,357 --> 01:02:08,067 I know, you're a noble and generous woman. 793 01:02:10,517 --> 01:02:12,508 I have no money! 794 01:02:25,877 --> 01:02:30,189 lf I had money, I'd give him some, but I don't have any. 795 01:02:32,237 --> 01:02:34,546 I don't have any money! 796 01:02:42,397 --> 01:02:45,116 Of course I have some money. 797 01:02:45,277 --> 01:02:48,667 But I'm an actress, think of the clothes I need. 798 01:02:48,837 --> 01:02:51,067 A dress alone can bankrupt me. 799 01:02:51,277 --> 01:02:53,837 I know you're kind. 800 01:02:54,237 --> 01:02:56,034 I believe you. 801 01:02:56,437 --> 01:02:58,428 But excuse me, 802 01:02:58,796 --> 01:03:01,515 I don't feel good. 803 01:03:01,676 --> 01:03:04,793 - I feel dizzy. - Help! 804 01:03:07,956 --> 01:03:10,265 Don't worry, mother. He's all right. 805 01:03:10,436 --> 01:03:11,994 It's over now. 806 01:03:12,156 --> 01:03:16,035 I'll lie down for a bit. All right? 807 01:03:16,676 --> 01:03:20,271 Pyotr Nikolaevic, do you know this riddle: 808 01:03:20,436 --> 01:03:23,428 '' There's 4 in the morning, 2 at noon, and 3 in the evening ''? 809 01:03:23,596 --> 01:03:26,827 Yes, and on one's back at night! Get it? 810 01:03:26,996 --> 01:03:30,306 - Thanks, I can walk alone. - Go and lie down. 811 01:03:31,436 --> 01:03:34,269 Let me help you, Pyotr Nikolaevic. 812 01:03:35,716 --> 01:03:39,026 Country life is no good for him, he gets sad. 813 01:04:00,516 --> 01:04:02,313 He gave me a fright. 814 01:04:02,476 --> 01:04:05,946 Don't worry, mother. It's not serious. 815 01:04:07,436 --> 01:04:10,906 lf you'd lend him 1,000 roubles... 816 01:04:14,235 --> 01:04:18,023 he could spend a whole year in town. 817 01:04:18,595 --> 01:04:20,392 I have no money. 818 01:04:21,995 --> 01:04:24,555 I'm an actress, not a banker! 819 01:04:29,035 --> 01:04:30,514 Mother! 820 01:04:31,755 --> 01:04:34,223 Change my bandage! 821 01:04:40,595 --> 01:04:42,984 Change my bandage. 822 01:04:54,435 --> 01:04:56,824 Change my bandage. 823 01:05:19,355 --> 01:05:21,744 It's healing. 824 01:05:22,755 --> 01:05:25,633 You'll just have a small scar. 825 01:05:31,514 --> 01:05:34,074 But when I am gone, 826 01:05:34,354 --> 01:05:36,868 will you still play your silly tricks? 827 01:05:39,274 --> 01:05:40,673 No. 828 01:05:41,314 --> 01:05:44,112 That was a moment of despair, 829 01:05:44,794 --> 01:05:47,433 I lost control of myself. 830 01:05:48,474 --> 01:05:51,147 It won't happen again. 831 01:06:00,834 --> 01:06:03,302 Your touch is golden. 832 01:06:13,114 --> 01:06:15,674 I remember when 833 01:06:15,834 --> 01:06:18,632 you were still acting at the State Theatre. 834 01:06:19,154 --> 01:06:21,270 I was a little chap, 835 01:06:21,754 --> 01:06:24,314 there was a fight one night. 836 01:06:24,474 --> 01:06:27,864 A poor washerwoman was almost beaten to death. 837 01:06:29,154 --> 01:06:31,463 She was found unconscious, 838 01:06:31,634 --> 01:06:33,784 and you helped her. 839 01:06:33,954 --> 01:06:37,390 You nursed her and bathed her children in a tub. 840 01:06:38,034 --> 01:06:40,594 - Remember? - No. 841 01:06:42,473 --> 01:06:45,829 Two ballet dancers lived in the same house. 842 01:06:45,993 --> 01:06:48,223 You'd drink coffee with them. 843 01:06:48,393 --> 01:06:50,463 I remember them. 844 01:06:50,833 --> 01:06:53,301 They were very pious! 845 01:06:54,473 --> 01:06:56,270 You see, mother, 846 01:06:56,433 --> 01:06:59,550 recently and during these last few days 847 01:06:59,713 --> 01:07:01,863 I feel I love you again 848 01:07:02,033 --> 01:07:05,503 as tenderly and trustingly as I did as a child. 849 01:07:06,513 --> 01:07:09,152 You're all I have left. 850 01:07:11,033 --> 01:07:12,466 But... 851 01:07:13,313 --> 01:07:16,544 Why do you let yourself be controlled by that man? 852 01:07:17,593 --> 01:07:19,231 Controlled... 853 01:07:22,873 --> 01:07:25,262 You don't understand him, Konstantin. 854 01:07:27,033 --> 01:07:29,467 He is a very noble man. 855 01:07:29,673 --> 01:07:33,985 But when I challenged him to a duel, he played the coward! 856 01:07:34,153 --> 01:07:37,065 He beat an ignominious retreat! 857 01:07:37,993 --> 01:07:42,350 Nonsense! I asked him to go. 858 01:07:42,553 --> 01:07:46,341 A noble man indeed! We're quarrelling over him, 859 01:07:46,513 --> 01:07:49,823 and he's probably in the garden laughing at us. 860 01:07:49,993 --> 01:07:54,032 Or persuading Nina that he's a man of genius! 861 01:07:56,952 --> 01:07:59,341 You're so unpleasant. 862 01:07:59,952 --> 01:08:04,184 I respect him, don't speak ill of him in my presence. 863 01:08:04,352 --> 01:08:07,662 Well I don't respect him, but you consider him a genius. 864 01:08:07,832 --> 01:08:11,347 I refuse to lie, his books make me sick! 865 01:08:11,512 --> 01:08:12,911 Right. 866 01:08:13,072 --> 01:08:17,463 People with no talent love to criticize those who are gifted. 867 01:08:17,632 --> 01:08:20,704 - Great consolation. - Gifted? 868 01:08:20,912 --> 01:08:24,746 I'm cleverer than any of you, if it comes to that! 869 01:08:24,952 --> 01:08:28,228 You have seized the upper hand 870 01:08:28,392 --> 01:08:31,270 and now lay down as law everything that you do! 871 01:08:31,432 --> 01:08:34,424 All else you strangle and trample on! 872 01:08:36,072 --> 01:08:39,951 I refuse to accept your point of view, I refuse! 873 01:08:40,992 --> 01:08:43,460 You're a failure. 874 01:08:43,632 --> 01:08:45,827 Go back to your beloved stage 875 01:08:45,992 --> 01:08:49,302 and act the miserable plays you admire. 876 01:08:49,752 --> 01:08:51,663 The fact is, my dear man, 877 01:08:51,832 --> 01:08:54,392 that I never acted in plays like that 878 01:08:54,552 --> 01:08:56,543 so leave me alone! 879 01:08:56,712 --> 01:09:00,307 You couldn't even write a trashy music-hall farce. 880 01:09:00,472 --> 01:09:01,871 - Miser! - Beggar! 881 01:09:02,072 --> 01:09:05,542 - Whore! - Beggar! 882 01:09:05,712 --> 01:09:07,111 Tramp! 883 01:09:10,152 --> 01:09:11,869 Tramp! 884 01:09:22,031 --> 01:09:23,749 Don't cry! 885 01:09:37,791 --> 01:09:40,021 I'm a wicked mother. 886 01:09:40,191 --> 01:09:42,182 Forgive me. 887 01:09:47,351 --> 01:09:49,990 I'm so unhappy. 888 01:10:00,151 --> 01:10:02,619 I've lost everything now. 889 01:10:05,311 --> 01:10:08,030 Nina no longer loves me. 890 01:10:08,191 --> 01:10:11,069 I shall never be able to write. 891 01:10:13,911 --> 01:10:16,823 Every hope has deserted me. 892 01:10:24,831 --> 01:10:26,900 Don't despair. 893 01:10:28,110 --> 01:10:30,419 This will all pass. 894 01:10:33,190 --> 01:10:35,658 He'll leave with me today. 895 01:10:37,870 --> 01:10:40,942 And she will love you once more. 896 01:10:56,670 --> 01:10:59,059 The carriage will soon be here. 897 01:11:01,350 --> 01:11:05,059 ''lf you should ever need my life, come and take it.'' 898 01:11:09,270 --> 01:11:11,830 Let us stay one more day. 899 01:11:12,750 --> 01:11:14,308 Let's stay. 900 01:11:15,670 --> 01:11:17,467 Stay? 901 01:11:20,190 --> 01:11:22,420 You've lost your mind. 902 01:11:28,190 --> 01:11:30,021 Let me be. 903 01:11:30,190 --> 01:11:32,499 Be a friend to me. 904 01:11:33,310 --> 01:11:34,868 Friend? 905 01:11:39,430 --> 01:11:41,624 Are you so in love? 906 01:11:41,789 --> 01:11:44,303 I feel attracted to her. 907 01:11:46,509 --> 01:11:49,148 It might be what I need, lrina. 908 01:11:49,589 --> 01:11:52,228 What, the love of a country girl? 909 01:11:54,629 --> 01:11:57,097 How little you know yourself! 910 01:11:57,269 --> 01:11:59,737 I feel as if I'm not here... 911 01:11:59,909 --> 01:12:02,298 I'm here but my mind's elsewhere 912 01:12:02,469 --> 01:12:04,778 Let me be. 913 01:12:08,749 --> 01:12:10,148 No. 914 01:12:10,909 --> 01:12:12,308 No. 915 01:12:14,469 --> 01:12:18,621 I'm a woman too, you can't say such things to me. 916 01:12:19,149 --> 01:12:21,868 Do not torment me, you frighten me. 917 01:12:22,069 --> 01:12:24,299 You're an extraordinary woman. 918 01:12:24,469 --> 01:12:28,701 It's a poetical, youthful love that sweeps away your sorrows. 919 01:12:28,869 --> 01:12:32,225 I've not experienced that. 920 01:12:32,389 --> 01:12:36,507 I had no time for it when I was young and struggling. 921 01:12:36,709 --> 01:12:39,018 Now at last this love has come, 922 01:12:39,189 --> 01:12:42,067 why should I refuse? 923 01:12:47,229 --> 01:12:49,868 - You are mad. - That may be. 924 01:12:52,029 --> 01:12:54,179 You don't understand. 925 01:12:54,349 --> 01:12:55,827 Enough! 926 01:12:57,548 --> 01:13:01,063 Am I so old and ugly 927 01:13:01,708 --> 01:13:04,176 that you can talk to me 928 01:13:04,348 --> 01:13:07,499 without any shame about another woman? 929 01:13:19,868 --> 01:13:22,336 You have lost your senses! 930 01:13:23,868 --> 01:13:25,699 My splendid, 931 01:13:26,788 --> 01:13:28,426 glorious friend... 932 01:13:33,988 --> 01:13:38,539 The last chapter of my life, you are my pride, my joy, 933 01:13:38,908 --> 01:13:41,103 my light... 934 01:13:42,508 --> 01:13:45,341 lf you should desert me for an hour, 935 01:13:45,508 --> 01:13:48,500 I could never endure it, I would go mad. 936 01:13:48,668 --> 01:13:51,740 - Some one might come in... - Let them come! 937 01:13:56,428 --> 01:13:59,704 I am not ashamed of my love. 938 01:14:01,228 --> 01:14:04,777 You want to do a foolish thing, but I don't want you to. 939 01:14:05,588 --> 01:14:07,465 I shan't let you do it, 940 01:14:07,748 --> 01:14:10,215 you are mine! 941 01:14:10,467 --> 01:14:11,866 You are mine! 942 01:14:12,667 --> 01:14:14,703 This forehead is mine, 943 01:14:14,867 --> 01:14:17,062 these eyes are mine, 944 01:14:17,387 --> 01:14:20,185 this silky hair is mine... 945 01:14:22,227 --> 01:14:24,695 All your being is mine! 946 01:14:26,027 --> 01:14:29,497 You are so clever, so wise, 947 01:14:29,947 --> 01:14:32,939 the first of all living writers, 948 01:14:33,107 --> 01:14:35,382 the only hope of your country! 949 01:14:35,547 --> 01:14:39,938 We could do great things together. 950 01:14:40,107 --> 01:14:42,337 Don't you understand? 951 01:14:43,027 --> 01:14:45,063 Don't you know? 952 01:14:45,667 --> 01:14:49,216 You think these words are the incense of flattery? 953 01:14:50,987 --> 01:14:52,864 Look into my eyes. 954 01:14:53,587 --> 01:14:55,464 Look into my eyes. 955 01:15:01,307 --> 01:15:03,775 Do you find lies there? 956 01:15:06,987 --> 01:15:09,455 You know... 957 01:15:09,907 --> 01:15:13,058 I alone know how to treasure you. 958 01:15:13,507 --> 01:15:16,146 I alone tell you the truth. 959 01:15:17,387 --> 01:15:19,423 You know that. 960 01:15:23,187 --> 01:15:25,063 You know. 961 01:15:32,746 --> 01:15:35,214 You will go with me? 962 01:15:38,026 --> 01:15:40,586 You won't forsake me? 963 01:15:45,906 --> 01:15:48,295 I have no will of my own. 964 01:15:50,106 --> 01:15:52,176 I never had. 965 01:15:52,346 --> 01:15:55,258 I am too indolent, too submissive. 966 01:15:56,546 --> 01:15:59,697 How can women like that? 967 01:16:00,146 --> 01:16:03,377 Take me away with you, but stay by my side. 968 01:16:03,546 --> 01:16:06,344 You can stay here. 969 01:16:06,506 --> 01:16:08,258 I shall go, 970 01:16:09,026 --> 01:16:11,904 you can follow in a week's time. 971 01:16:13,466 --> 01:16:16,105 Why should you hurry anyway? 972 01:16:19,506 --> 01:16:22,259 Let us go together. 973 01:16:23,586 --> 01:16:26,544 As you wish. 974 01:16:31,266 --> 01:16:33,826 What are you writing? 975 01:16:39,265 --> 01:16:42,974 An expression I heard today, ''a grove of maiden pines''. 976 01:16:43,425 --> 01:16:45,495 It may be useful. 977 01:16:52,105 --> 01:16:55,063 The carriage is here. 978 01:16:55,225 --> 01:16:57,341 The train leaves at five past two. 979 01:16:58,025 --> 01:17:02,462 Would you remember to enquire, lrina Nikolaevna, 980 01:17:02,625 --> 01:17:07,062 where Sudzalev the actor is now? We had a jolly time together. 981 01:17:07,225 --> 01:17:10,058 He was inimitable in ''The Stolen Mail''. 982 01:17:10,225 --> 01:17:14,616 lzmailoff was in the same company, a remarkable tragedian. 983 01:17:14,785 --> 01:17:18,460 Don't worry, you still have five minutes. 984 01:17:18,625 --> 01:17:22,618 They were both conspirators once, in the same play, 985 01:17:22,785 --> 01:17:25,697 when they were discovered. 986 01:17:25,865 --> 01:17:29,062 lnstead of saying: ''We have been trapped'', 987 01:17:29,225 --> 01:17:32,854 lzmaijlov cried out: ''We have been rapped!'' 988 01:17:33,545 --> 01:17:35,376 Rapped! 989 01:17:35,545 --> 01:17:38,935 - Some plums for the journey. - Thank you. 990 01:17:39,105 --> 01:17:42,654 My dear lrina, we must go or we'll miss the train. 991 01:17:44,545 --> 01:17:47,503 I'll walk quickly to the station, 992 01:17:47,665 --> 01:17:49,656 see you there. 993 01:17:51,145 --> 01:17:53,705 Goodbye, all! 994 01:17:53,864 --> 01:17:56,173 Don't forget me. 995 01:17:57,704 --> 01:18:01,583 There is a rouble for all three of you. 996 01:18:02,144 --> 01:18:05,534 Please write soon. 997 01:18:11,024 --> 01:18:12,821 Konstantin... 998 01:18:14,304 --> 01:18:16,374 Where's Konstantin? 999 01:18:19,344 --> 01:18:21,653 Tell him I've left. 1000 01:18:21,824 --> 01:18:23,894 The rouble is for all three of you. 1001 01:18:44,904 --> 01:18:47,623 You forgot your cane. 1002 01:18:52,589 --> 01:18:54,739 I forgot my cane. 1003 01:18:56,869 --> 01:18:59,064 Have a good journey! 1004 01:18:59,749 --> 01:19:02,183 Don't forget Sudzalev! 1005 01:19:27,708 --> 01:19:29,585 I knew we'd meet again. 1006 01:19:29,788 --> 01:19:33,303 I've decided, I'll be an actress. I'll abandon everything 1007 01:19:33,508 --> 01:19:35,499 and begin a new life. 1008 01:19:35,828 --> 01:19:38,820 I'm going to Moscow, as you are. We'll meet there. 1009 01:19:39,868 --> 01:19:42,257 Stay at the ''Hotel Slavianski''. 1010 01:19:43,508 --> 01:19:45,658 I must go now. 1011 01:19:45,868 --> 01:19:47,859 Wait a minute! 1012 01:19:50,108 --> 01:19:52,668 I'm glad I'll see you soon. 1013 01:21:15,107 --> 01:21:17,098 Konstantin Gavrilovic... 1014 01:21:27,907 --> 01:21:29,784 There is no one here. 1015 01:21:32,467 --> 01:21:36,255 His old uncle is forever asking for Kostja. 1016 01:21:36,467 --> 01:21:38,855 He can't live without him. 1017 01:21:41,266 --> 01:21:43,655 He dreads being left alone. 1018 01:21:45,706 --> 01:21:47,583 What awful weather. 1019 01:21:47,746 --> 01:21:50,135 A storm's brewing. 1020 01:21:50,346 --> 01:21:52,223 It's the season. 1021 01:21:54,266 --> 01:21:56,655 It is so dark in the garden! 1022 01:22:07,106 --> 01:22:09,415 That theatre should be knocked down. 1023 01:22:09,626 --> 01:22:12,015 It still stands, naked and hideous... 1024 01:22:13,266 --> 01:22:14,984 And... 1025 01:22:19,946 --> 01:22:23,734 It serves no purpose at all. 1026 01:22:25,466 --> 01:22:28,219 The other day when I passed by 1027 01:22:28,506 --> 01:22:31,896 I thought I heard a voice weeping! 1028 01:22:34,266 --> 01:22:36,336 Come home with me, Masha. 1029 01:22:36,546 --> 01:22:38,741 I'll spend the night here. 1030 01:22:39,386 --> 01:22:42,184 - The baby must be hungry. - The nurse will feed him. 1031 01:22:42,386 --> 01:22:44,183 Come on! 1032 01:22:54,785 --> 01:22:58,334 Poor thing, three nights without his mother. 1033 01:23:02,705 --> 01:23:04,900 You are tiresome. 1034 01:23:06,105 --> 01:23:08,096 You used to philosophise, 1035 01:23:08,265 --> 01:23:11,575 now all you talk about is the baby, home and the baby. 1036 01:23:11,785 --> 01:23:13,980 That's all I ever hear. 1037 01:23:20,265 --> 01:23:22,574 Come home! 1038 01:23:22,785 --> 01:23:24,616 You go. 1039 01:23:24,785 --> 01:23:27,663 Your father won't give me a horse. 1040 01:23:27,825 --> 01:23:30,100 Yes, he will. Ask him. 1041 01:23:31,025 --> 01:23:33,619 I will. 1042 01:23:41,705 --> 01:23:43,343 Will you come tomorrow? 1043 01:23:43,705 --> 01:23:46,583 Yes, yes, tomorrow! 1044 01:23:51,945 --> 01:23:53,663 Mother, why are you here? 1045 01:23:53,825 --> 01:23:56,817 Pyotr asked to sleep here tonight. 1046 01:23:57,025 --> 01:23:58,822 Let me do it. 1047 01:23:59,625 --> 01:24:01,934 The old are like the young. 1048 01:24:07,784 --> 01:24:09,376 Goodbye, Masha. 1049 01:24:11,984 --> 01:24:14,578 - Goodnight. - God bless you. 1050 01:24:23,304 --> 01:24:25,898 Goodnight, Konstantin Gavrilovic. 1051 01:24:36,704 --> 01:24:38,695 No one ever dreamed, 1052 01:24:38,864 --> 01:24:41,742 that our Kostja would one day be a writer. 1053 01:24:41,904 --> 01:24:44,816 The magazines pay well for your stories. 1054 01:24:44,984 --> 01:24:47,214 You have grown handsome. 1055 01:24:48,104 --> 01:24:49,696 Dear man... 1056 01:24:50,664 --> 01:24:53,542 be a little nicer to my Masha. 1057 01:24:54,824 --> 01:24:56,542 She is a sweet child. 1058 01:25:03,264 --> 01:25:04,777 Leave him alone. 1059 01:25:05,784 --> 01:25:09,777 A woman asks only for kind looks. 1060 01:25:10,784 --> 01:25:13,093 I know that from experience. 1061 01:25:30,783 --> 01:25:34,935 There now! You've vexed him. I told you not to bother him. 1062 01:25:36,023 --> 01:25:39,015 - I am sorry for you. - You needn't be. 1063 01:25:41,503 --> 01:25:43,971 I see how things are, and understand... 1064 01:25:45,223 --> 01:25:47,691 My heart aches for you. 1065 01:25:50,543 --> 01:25:54,013 Hopeless love is only found in novels. 1066 01:25:54,263 --> 01:25:56,299 There no point 1067 01:25:56,463 --> 01:25:59,421 waiting for the grass to grow, is there? 1068 01:25:59,823 --> 01:26:03,418 My husband will be transferred to another district. 1069 01:26:04,703 --> 01:26:07,661 Leaving this place, I'll forget it all. 1070 01:27:07,302 --> 01:27:09,770 I need him out of my sight. 1071 01:27:10,702 --> 01:27:14,695 Once I've left, I shall forget it all in a month. 1072 01:27:17,062 --> 01:27:18,780 It is a trifle... 1073 01:27:20,102 --> 01:27:23,617 Flour's gone up, I have six mouths to feed. 1074 01:27:23,782 --> 01:27:28,094 - A hard riddle to solve! - You can jest about it, you're rich. 1075 01:27:28,302 --> 01:27:33,092 Rich? I've not called my soul my own in thirty years of practise... 1076 01:27:33,302 --> 01:27:35,497 - What is it? - My cane was stuck. 1077 01:27:35,702 --> 01:27:38,500 I scraped together 2,000 roubles. 1078 01:27:38,702 --> 01:27:40,977 I spent it all, on a trip abroad. 1079 01:27:43,902 --> 01:27:46,700 - You didn't go home? - They won't give me a horse. 1080 01:27:46,902 --> 01:27:48,620 I wish never to see you again. 1081 01:27:48,822 --> 01:27:51,779 You've changed this room around. 1082 01:27:51,941 --> 01:27:53,977 Yes, Konstantin Gavrilovic works here. 1083 01:27:54,181 --> 01:27:58,174 So he can step out into the garden to meditate. 1084 01:27:59,181 --> 01:28:02,969 - Where is my sister? - She went to meet Trigorin. 1085 01:28:03,181 --> 01:28:04,773 She'll soon be back. 1086 01:28:04,981 --> 01:28:08,053 lf you sent for my sister, I must be very ill. 1087 01:28:13,861 --> 01:28:15,658 But it's strange... 1088 01:28:15,861 --> 01:28:19,456 I'm seriously ill but you won't give me medicine. 1089 01:28:19,661 --> 01:28:22,858 What do you want? Chamomile tea? Soda? 1090 01:28:23,061 --> 01:28:25,256 - Can you help me? - No! 1091 01:28:25,461 --> 01:28:27,179 The same old story... 1092 01:28:29,501 --> 01:28:32,493 - ls that for me? - Yes. 1093 01:28:32,701 --> 01:28:34,498 Thank you. 1094 01:28:56,701 --> 01:29:00,489 I want to give Kostja an idea for a story. 1095 01:29:01,301 --> 01:29:03,690 It shall be called: 1096 01:29:04,101 --> 01:29:06,295 ''The Man Who Wished''. 1097 01:29:24,820 --> 01:29:27,414 When I was young, I wished to become an author. 1098 01:29:27,580 --> 01:29:29,491 I failed. 1099 01:29:29,700 --> 01:29:32,294 I wished to be an orator, 1100 01:29:32,500 --> 01:29:35,014 I speak abominably. 1101 01:29:35,300 --> 01:29:37,860 ''And then, after all, 1102 01:29:38,420 --> 01:29:40,570 well, after all...'' 1103 01:29:41,180 --> 01:29:43,569 Sometimes, attempting to conclude, 1104 01:29:43,820 --> 01:29:47,893 I'd drag each sentence on until I broke out in a sweat. 1105 01:29:48,340 --> 01:29:50,331 I wished to marry 1106 01:29:50,660 --> 01:29:52,457 but I didn't. 1107 01:29:52,900 --> 01:29:55,812 I wished to live in the city, 1108 01:29:56,500 --> 01:29:59,697 here I am ending my days in the country. 1109 01:29:59,900 --> 01:30:01,015 And that's that. 1110 01:30:01,220 --> 01:30:04,610 I wished to become State Councillor 1111 01:30:04,820 --> 01:30:06,617 and I am one. 1112 01:30:07,820 --> 01:30:11,972 I didn't try for that, it came of its own accord. 1113 01:30:20,419 --> 01:30:22,979 To admit at 62 1114 01:30:23,619 --> 01:30:26,372 that you have regrets... 1115 01:30:26,579 --> 01:30:29,047 - It's a bit late. - You're pig-headed. 1116 01:30:29,259 --> 01:30:32,137 Can't you see I want to live? 1117 01:30:35,659 --> 01:30:37,650 That is futile. 1118 01:30:38,299 --> 01:30:41,894 Nature commands that every life shall come to an end. 1119 01:30:42,699 --> 01:30:46,089 You speak like a man who is satiated with life. 1120 01:30:48,739 --> 01:30:51,936 You're indifferent and calm. 1121 01:30:54,459 --> 01:30:57,610 But even you dread death. 1122 01:30:58,899 --> 01:31:00,969 The fear of death 1123 01:31:01,179 --> 01:31:03,135 is an animal passion 1124 01:31:03,659 --> 01:31:05,650 which must be overcome. 1125 01:31:12,539 --> 01:31:16,134 Only those who believe in eternal life 1126 01:31:16,419 --> 01:31:18,410 and tremble for sins committed, 1127 01:31:19,099 --> 01:31:20,896 can fear death. 1128 01:31:21,819 --> 01:31:24,128 But you don't believe in anything, 1129 01:31:24,619 --> 01:31:27,008 you've committed no sins. 1130 01:31:28,499 --> 01:31:32,731 You've served the Department of Justice for 25 years. 1131 01:31:34,698 --> 01:31:37,690 - That's a long time. - 28 years. 1132 01:31:43,658 --> 01:31:47,810 We are keeping Konstantin from his work. 1133 01:31:48,018 --> 01:31:49,815 It doesn't matter. 1134 01:31:52,698 --> 01:31:54,495 Doctor, 1135 01:31:55,258 --> 01:31:56,896 may I ask you... 1136 01:31:58,258 --> 01:32:01,056 Which city did you like most? 1137 01:32:03,498 --> 01:32:04,897 Genoa. 1138 01:32:05,098 --> 01:32:06,895 Why? 1139 01:32:07,978 --> 01:32:10,970 There is such a splendid crowd in the streets. 1140 01:32:11,418 --> 01:32:13,807 When you leave your hotel in the evening, 1141 01:32:14,218 --> 01:32:16,607 and throw yourself into that throng, 1142 01:32:16,898 --> 01:32:21,096 and move with it without aim or object, 1143 01:32:21,298 --> 01:32:23,334 hither and tither. 1144 01:32:23,538 --> 01:32:26,530 Their life seems yours, their soul flows into you. 1145 01:32:27,298 --> 01:32:31,894 You begin to believe in a great world spirit. 1146 01:32:32,658 --> 01:32:36,651 Like the one in your play, 1147 01:32:36,898 --> 01:32:38,695 that Nina acted in. 1148 01:32:38,898 --> 01:32:42,095 By the way, where is Nina now? ls she well? 1149 01:32:45,658 --> 01:32:47,535 I believe so. 1150 01:32:47,738 --> 01:32:51,013 I hear she's led a strange life, is that true? 1151 01:32:51,177 --> 01:32:53,407 It is a long story, doctor. 1152 01:32:54,297 --> 01:32:57,494 She ran away from home and joined Trigorin, did you know? 1153 01:32:57,697 --> 01:32:58,891 Yes. 1154 01:33:02,297 --> 01:33:05,687 She had a child that died. 1155 01:33:07,497 --> 01:33:11,888 Trigorin soon tired of her and returned to his former ties, 1156 01:33:12,097 --> 01:33:14,167 as might have been expected. 1157 01:33:15,297 --> 01:33:18,687 He had never broken them. 1158 01:33:19,257 --> 01:33:21,248 Out of weakness of character. 1159 01:33:22,297 --> 01:33:26,290 He'd vacillated between the two. 1160 01:33:27,897 --> 01:33:32,095 As far as I know, Nina's private life has not been a success. 1161 01:33:33,097 --> 01:33:36,806 - What about her acting? - She failed even worse. 1162 01:33:37,257 --> 01:33:40,567 She made her debut in Moscow. 1163 01:33:41,297 --> 01:33:43,253 Then toured the province. 1164 01:33:46,457 --> 01:33:48,334 I never let her out of my sight, 1165 01:33:48,497 --> 01:33:51,489 wherever she went I followed her. 1166 01:33:53,057 --> 01:33:56,447 She chose great parts, but... 1167 01:33:56,817 --> 01:33:59,536 her delivery was poor, 1168 01:34:00,057 --> 01:34:03,015 monotonous and exaggerated. 1169 01:34:04,496 --> 01:34:06,407 Her gestures were crude. 1170 01:34:07,896 --> 01:34:11,969 At times, she would shriek well 1171 01:34:12,136 --> 01:34:14,127 and die well 1172 01:34:15,696 --> 01:34:17,687 but those were just moments. 1173 01:34:20,976 --> 01:34:24,366 - You think she has talent? - I don't know... 1174 01:34:25,536 --> 01:34:26,935 Perhaps. 1175 01:34:29,816 --> 01:34:33,047 I saw her, but she refused to see me. 1176 01:34:34,056 --> 01:34:38,447 Her servant would never admit me to her rooms. 1177 01:34:40,296 --> 01:34:42,935 I appreciated her feelings 1178 01:34:43,296 --> 01:34:45,935 and did not insist upon a meeting. 1179 01:34:48,696 --> 01:34:53,087 Then after, when I returned home, she started writing me letters. 1180 01:34:53,816 --> 01:34:57,331 Clever, sympathetic and caring letters. 1181 01:35:00,656 --> 01:35:05,730 But I could tell she was profoundly unhappy. 1182 01:35:06,816 --> 01:35:09,774 Every line spoke of aching. 1183 01:35:10,816 --> 01:35:13,011 She had a strange fancy. 1184 01:35:14,296 --> 01:35:15,695 She signed herself: 1185 01:35:16,296 --> 01:35:17,888 ''The Seagull''. 1186 01:35:20,295 --> 01:35:22,889 The miller in ''Rusalka'' called himself ''The Crow'', 1187 01:35:23,055 --> 01:35:26,127 she always signed herself ''The Seagull''. 1188 01:35:26,895 --> 01:35:28,692 She is here now. 1189 01:35:29,295 --> 01:35:30,933 What do you mean? 1190 01:35:33,095 --> 01:35:35,325 ln town, at the inn. 1191 01:35:35,495 --> 01:35:39,090 She's been there 5 days. I went to see her. 1192 01:35:39,295 --> 01:35:43,083 Masha went too, but she refuses to see anyone. 1193 01:35:43,495 --> 01:35:48,091 Medvedenko saw her wandering in the fields, yesterday. 1194 01:35:48,295 --> 01:35:49,648 Yes. 1195 01:35:51,295 --> 01:35:55,083 Yes, I saw her. She was headed for town. 1196 01:35:55,615 --> 01:35:57,412 We spoke. 1197 01:35:57,615 --> 01:35:59,924 I asked her why she hadn't come to see us. 1198 01:36:00,135 --> 01:36:02,091 She said she would come. 1199 01:36:02,295 --> 01:36:03,887 But she won't. 1200 01:36:04,295 --> 01:36:07,287 Her father has watchmen around their estate, 1201 01:36:07,495 --> 01:36:09,963 to keep her hidden away. 1202 01:36:11,015 --> 01:36:14,405 How easy it is to be a philosopher on paper, 1203 01:36:15,615 --> 01:36:18,083 and how difficult in real life. 1204 01:36:18,895 --> 01:36:22,205 She was a beautiful girl. 1205 01:36:22,815 --> 01:36:24,294 What do you mean? 1206 01:36:24,495 --> 01:36:26,963 She was a beautiful girl. 1207 01:36:27,655 --> 01:36:30,852 Even the State Councillor, Sorin, 1208 01:36:31,055 --> 01:36:34,046 was in love with her for a time. 1209 01:36:34,654 --> 01:36:36,485 Old Lovelace! 1210 01:36:36,694 --> 01:36:40,050 We all grow old and wither, 1211 01:36:40,254 --> 01:36:42,324 while you have eternal youth. 1212 01:36:42,534 --> 01:36:44,923 Your gay spirits, your grace... 1213 01:37:12,494 --> 01:37:16,282 Trigorin brought you a magazine with your latest story. 1214 01:37:18,414 --> 01:37:20,052 Masha! 1215 01:37:20,414 --> 01:37:23,804 - How are you? Did you marry? - Yes. 1216 01:37:24,014 --> 01:37:26,403 - Are you happy? - No. 1217 01:37:26,614 --> 01:37:28,206 Hello. 1218 01:37:30,054 --> 01:37:32,045 - How nice to see you. - How are you? 1219 01:37:32,254 --> 01:37:33,448 Fine. 1220 01:37:33,654 --> 01:37:35,007 Doctor! 1221 01:37:35,894 --> 01:37:39,489 - Thank you. - You're still not well, Sorin. 1222 01:37:44,814 --> 01:37:46,213 Konstantin... 1223 01:37:49,093 --> 01:37:52,085 lrina told me you've forgotten the past. 1224 01:37:52,613 --> 01:37:56,686 - That you're no longer angry. - Thanks for the magazine. 1225 01:38:01,293 --> 01:38:03,761 Your admirers send their regards. 1226 01:38:03,973 --> 01:38:07,124 Everyone in St. Petersburg and Moscow asks me about you! 1227 01:38:07,293 --> 01:38:11,172 How old you are, whether you are fair or dark. 1228 01:38:11,373 --> 01:38:14,171 For some reason, they think you're old. 1229 01:38:17,813 --> 01:38:19,804 You expect to be here long? 1230 01:38:20,013 --> 01:38:23,005 No, I'll go back to Moscow tomorrow. 1231 01:38:23,253 --> 01:38:24,652 I have to. 1232 01:38:24,853 --> 01:38:27,048 I need to finish a novel, 1233 01:38:27,253 --> 01:38:29,244 and have promised a journal... 1234 01:38:29,693 --> 01:38:31,843 It's the same old business. 1235 01:38:32,053 --> 01:38:36,046 I'd like to see the theatre where your play was given. 1236 01:38:36,253 --> 01:38:38,403 I have an idea. 1237 01:38:39,293 --> 01:38:40,692 Excuse me. 1238 01:38:43,293 --> 01:38:46,091 Father, let my husband have a horse. 1239 01:38:46,293 --> 01:38:49,683 The horses have just been to the station, 1240 01:38:49,893 --> 01:38:52,009 I can't send them out again. 1241 01:38:52,213 --> 01:38:54,010 But there are other horses. 1242 01:38:54,573 --> 01:38:56,723 You're impossible! 1243 01:38:59,413 --> 01:39:02,370 I'll go on foot then! 1244 01:39:25,412 --> 01:39:26,891 Goodbye. 1245 01:39:27,812 --> 01:39:29,404 Goodbye, mother. 1246 01:39:29,732 --> 01:39:31,723 It's only six miles. 1247 01:39:33,892 --> 01:39:35,644 ln this weather... 1248 01:39:35,852 --> 01:39:38,241 He'll get there, he's not a general. 1249 01:39:41,452 --> 01:39:44,046 I shouldn't have troubled you. 1250 01:39:48,812 --> 01:39:50,291 Goodbye. 1251 01:39:57,292 --> 01:39:59,760 Ten kopecks for each card. 1252 01:40:01,652 --> 01:40:02,846 Three. 1253 01:40:03,692 --> 01:40:05,648 Doctor, are you in? 1254 01:40:05,852 --> 01:40:07,251 Thanks. 1255 01:40:11,892 --> 01:40:17,443 During the long autumn evening, we always play lotto. Always. 1256 01:40:17,851 --> 01:40:20,285 We played with this set as children. 1257 01:40:20,491 --> 01:40:22,482 With our mother. 1258 01:40:23,291 --> 01:40:26,283 It's a tedious game, but you get used to it. 1259 01:40:26,491 --> 01:40:28,721 It's no worse than others. 1260 01:40:29,091 --> 01:40:31,844 - Shall we play? - Yes. 1261 01:40:32,171 --> 01:40:34,321 Kostja, won't you play? 1262 01:40:34,531 --> 01:40:36,328 I don't feel like it. 1263 01:40:36,891 --> 01:40:38,290 Two. 1264 01:40:39,691 --> 01:40:41,090 Forty-nine. 1265 01:40:44,411 --> 01:40:46,288 - Three. - Here it is. 1266 01:40:46,491 --> 01:40:48,880 - You're sure? - Positive. 1267 01:40:49,691 --> 01:40:51,170 Forty-one. 1268 01:40:52,691 --> 01:40:54,170 Thirty-five. 1269 01:40:54,971 --> 01:40:57,565 Fifty-nine, forty-five, 1270 01:40:57,771 --> 01:41:00,160 twenty-two, five, 1271 01:41:00,371 --> 01:41:01,963 - Sixty-four. - Double! 1272 01:41:02,171 --> 01:41:04,765 - Not so fast. - Twenty-two, five... 1273 01:41:05,651 --> 01:41:08,449 - Forty. - ''Naughty forty''. 1274 01:41:11,691 --> 01:41:13,044 Fifty-six! 1275 01:41:13,251 --> 01:41:15,401 I must tell you about... 1276 01:41:15,611 --> 01:41:18,603 the reception I got in Karkov, it was amazing. 1277 01:41:18,811 --> 01:41:21,325 It was a huge success. 1278 01:41:21,531 --> 01:41:24,887 The theatre was on fire! 1279 01:41:25,611 --> 01:41:27,090 Twelve. 1280 01:41:28,011 --> 01:41:29,410 One. 1281 01:41:29,691 --> 01:41:32,409 A real triumph, the students gave me an ovation. 1282 01:41:32,610 --> 01:41:34,566 They took the horses from my carriage. 1283 01:41:34,770 --> 01:41:37,489 - I can imagine! - No you can't. 1284 01:41:37,690 --> 01:41:39,885 The theatre was full of flowers. 1285 01:41:40,090 --> 01:41:41,887 36 baskets of gladiolas. 1286 01:41:42,090 --> 01:41:45,480 Bernhardt got 18 on the first night of ''Aiglon''! 1287 01:41:45,690 --> 01:41:47,089 Fifty! 1288 01:41:47,490 --> 01:41:49,446 Ah, yes! My dress... 1289 01:41:49,650 --> 01:41:53,199 My dress was a triumph of gems, it cost a fortune. 1290 01:41:53,450 --> 01:41:58,240 - Forty-three. - It cost me a real fortune! 1291 01:42:06,490 --> 01:42:07,843 Eight. 1292 01:42:11,170 --> 01:42:12,649 Twenty-eight. 1293 01:42:18,490 --> 01:42:20,082 Kostja is playing. 1294 01:42:20,290 --> 01:42:22,246 The poor boy is sad. 1295 01:42:22,450 --> 01:42:23,929 Seventy-seven. 1296 01:42:24,810 --> 01:42:26,801 ''All the sevens''. 1297 01:42:30,490 --> 01:42:32,082 Kostja... 1298 01:42:35,690 --> 01:42:38,682 - Fifty-one. - The paper's criticize me. 1299 01:42:39,490 --> 01:42:42,084 - Fifty-one? - Bad luck. 1300 01:42:42,290 --> 01:42:45,680 - He can't strike the right note. - Sixty-nine. 1301 01:42:45,890 --> 01:42:49,165 There is an odd vagueness about him, 1302 01:42:49,729 --> 01:42:51,879 that verges on delirium. 1303 01:42:52,889 --> 01:42:54,368 Eighteen. 1304 01:42:55,449 --> 01:42:57,644 He has never created a living character. 1305 01:42:57,849 --> 01:42:59,441 Fifty-six. 1306 01:43:01,409 --> 01:43:03,001 Forty-seven. 1307 01:43:45,609 --> 01:43:49,921 lf I lived in such a place, I wouldn't be a writer. 1308 01:43:50,129 --> 01:43:52,359 - Seven. - With this lake... 1309 01:43:52,569 --> 01:43:54,924 I would just go fishing. 1310 01:43:55,129 --> 01:43:56,608 Eighty. 1311 01:43:59,889 --> 01:44:03,676 Petrusha, you have three winning numbers! 1312 01:44:06,968 --> 01:44:08,447 Thirty-eight. 1313 01:44:08,888 --> 01:44:12,085 I have great faith in Konstantin Gavrilovic. 1314 01:44:12,688 --> 01:44:15,043 There's something special about him. 1315 01:44:17,088 --> 01:44:20,797 He thinks in images, his stories are full of colour. 1316 01:44:21,008 --> 01:44:23,397 - They affect me deeply. - Twenty-seven. 1317 01:44:23,608 --> 01:44:27,203 It is a pity he has no definite object in view. 1318 01:44:29,648 --> 01:44:33,436 He has style, but he cannot go far on that alone. 1319 01:44:33,648 --> 01:44:35,843 - I realize that. - Forty-eight. 1320 01:44:36,048 --> 01:44:37,447 - Forty-eight? - Yes. 1321 01:44:37,648 --> 01:44:39,047 Eighteen. 1322 01:44:39,688 --> 01:44:41,246 Seventy-three. 1323 01:44:41,448 --> 01:44:45,839 lrina, are you happy your son is an author? 1324 01:44:48,048 --> 01:44:49,527 Forty-three. 1325 01:44:51,648 --> 01:44:53,240 Four winnings numbers. 1326 01:44:53,888 --> 01:44:55,685 Nine, eleven, 1327 01:44:56,288 --> 01:44:58,438 forty-three and fifty-one. 1328 01:45:00,968 --> 01:45:03,402 I've not read anything of his, 1329 01:45:03,568 --> 01:45:05,559 I never read. 1330 01:46:00,487 --> 01:46:01,920 Seven. 1331 01:46:02,687 --> 01:46:04,245 Fifty-one. 1332 01:46:04,407 --> 01:46:09,276 We have something that belongs to you, Boris. 1333 01:46:09,487 --> 01:46:11,478 - What is it? - Sixty-three. 1334 01:46:11,687 --> 01:46:14,281 Konstantin killed a gull some time ago, 1335 01:46:14,487 --> 01:46:16,876 you told me to have it stuffed. 1336 01:46:17,287 --> 01:46:18,845 I don't remember. 1337 01:46:19,167 --> 01:46:20,725 Forty-eight. 1338 01:46:21,047 --> 01:46:22,639 Five winning numbers! 1339 01:46:22,847 --> 01:46:25,236 You always win. 1340 01:46:25,447 --> 01:46:30,839 29, 37, 55, 74 and 80. 1341 01:46:42,046 --> 01:46:45,755 - ..55, 74 and 80. - You've won. 1342 01:46:45,966 --> 01:46:48,196 Shut the widow, there's a draught. 1343 01:46:50,886 --> 01:46:52,365 Eighty-eight? 1344 01:47:01,286 --> 01:47:02,765 Forty-two. 1345 01:47:04,286 --> 01:47:06,675 Why am I so restless? 1346 01:47:07,486 --> 01:47:09,283 I don't understand. 1347 01:47:26,486 --> 01:47:29,796 - Eighty-two. - Full house! 1348 01:47:30,006 --> 01:47:31,405 Full house. 1349 01:47:41,406 --> 01:47:43,920 - ..52, 81. - Exactly, you've won. 1350 01:47:44,685 --> 01:47:48,473 Our renowned guests must be hungry. 1351 01:47:48,685 --> 01:47:51,995 Come to supper. We'll continue later. 1352 01:47:53,325 --> 01:47:56,123 Kostja, will you come to supper? 1353 01:48:07,805 --> 01:48:09,875 - Who is there? - Nobody. 1354 01:48:10,045 --> 01:48:13,560 - Lock the door, someone might come. - No one will come. 1355 01:48:13,725 --> 01:48:16,285 Your mother's here, I know. Lock the door. 1356 01:48:25,205 --> 01:48:27,196 There's no lock... 1357 01:48:31,885 --> 01:48:33,876 Let me look at you. 1358 01:48:36,285 --> 01:48:38,480 It's nice and warm here. 1359 01:48:38,685 --> 01:48:40,277 It's peaceful. 1360 01:48:41,925 --> 01:48:44,155 This used to be a sitting-room, didn't it? 1361 01:48:48,445 --> 01:48:50,242 Have I changed much? 1362 01:48:56,005 --> 01:48:57,597 You are thinner. 1363 01:48:58,165 --> 01:49:00,962 And your eyes are larger. 1364 01:49:02,084 --> 01:49:03,483 Nina... 1365 01:49:03,884 --> 01:49:06,114 It's so strange to see you. 1366 01:49:07,404 --> 01:49:09,474 Why didn't you come? 1367 01:49:09,644 --> 01:49:11,794 Why didn't you come to see me? 1368 01:49:12,004 --> 01:49:13,881 You've been here a week. 1369 01:49:14,084 --> 01:49:17,281 I came every day, hoping to see you. 1370 01:49:17,684 --> 01:49:19,914 I was afraid you might hate me. 1371 01:49:21,404 --> 01:49:23,713 Every night, I dream that you don't recognize me. 1372 01:49:25,084 --> 01:49:29,077 Ever since I came back, I've wandered around the lake, 1373 01:49:29,284 --> 01:49:32,640 I've often been near your house. 1374 01:49:32,844 --> 01:49:35,233 But I never had the courage to come in. 1375 01:49:36,684 --> 01:49:38,276 Let us talk. 1376 01:49:38,804 --> 01:49:40,396 Let us talk. 1377 01:49:42,644 --> 01:49:46,034 It's nice here, so warm and quiet. 1378 01:49:46,684 --> 01:49:48,640 You hear the wind? 1379 01:49:48,964 --> 01:49:51,194 Remember Turgenev? 1380 01:49:51,484 --> 01:49:53,873 ''Happy is he who can sit at night 1381 01:49:54,084 --> 01:49:56,678 under the roof of his home, in a warm corner.'' 1382 01:49:56,884 --> 01:49:58,681 I am a seagull! 1383 01:49:58,884 --> 01:50:00,681 No... no... 1384 01:50:00,884 --> 01:50:02,681 What was I saying? 1385 01:50:03,044 --> 01:50:04,636 Oh, yes... Turgenev! 1386 01:50:05,284 --> 01:50:08,879 ''May God help all homeless wanderers''. 1387 01:50:11,084 --> 01:50:12,802 No, Nina... 1388 01:50:13,883 --> 01:50:16,681 I'm all right, I'll feel better after. 1389 01:50:18,483 --> 01:50:21,043 I haven't cried for two years. 1390 01:50:23,643 --> 01:50:25,838 I went into the garden last night, 1391 01:50:26,043 --> 01:50:28,841 to see if our old theatre was still there. 1392 01:50:29,643 --> 01:50:31,440 I saw it was. 1393 01:50:32,683 --> 01:50:36,471 I wept there for the first time in two years. 1394 01:50:37,243 --> 01:50:39,438 My heart grew lighter. 1395 01:50:40,003 --> 01:50:42,198 I felt relieved. 1396 01:50:46,443 --> 01:50:48,399 I'm no longer crying. 1397 01:50:50,883 --> 01:50:52,953 So you're an author now! 1398 01:50:56,683 --> 01:50:58,992 And I'm an actress. 1399 01:51:01,083 --> 01:51:03,881 We have both been sucked into a whirlpool. 1400 01:51:06,483 --> 01:51:09,077 My life was happy as a child's. 1401 01:51:09,683 --> 01:51:12,675 I used to wake singing in the morning... 1402 01:51:12,883 --> 01:51:16,034 I loved you, dreamt of fame but now.. 1403 01:51:17,243 --> 01:51:18,835 Don't cry. 1404 01:51:22,083 --> 01:51:27,077 I'm leaving for Yeliez tomorrow, by train, in a third-class carriage. 1405 01:51:28,282 --> 01:51:32,241 The educated tradesmen will court me. 1406 01:51:33,482 --> 01:51:35,279 It's a hard life. 1407 01:51:37,042 --> 01:51:39,033 Why are you going to Yeliez? 1408 01:51:40,562 --> 01:51:43,554 I've accepted an engagement there for the winter. 1409 01:51:44,282 --> 01:51:46,273 I have to go. 1410 01:51:48,122 --> 01:51:49,919 I have cursed you, 1411 01:51:50,242 --> 01:51:53,234 hated you, torn up your letters and photos, 1412 01:51:53,442 --> 01:51:57,560 but I always knew my heart was yours forever. 1413 01:51:57,762 --> 01:52:02,153 Without you my life is unbearable, I'm suffering! 1414 01:52:02,362 --> 01:52:05,354 My youth has been plucked from me. 1415 01:52:05,562 --> 01:52:08,952 I feel I've lived for ninety years. 1416 01:52:09,162 --> 01:52:11,278 I see your face everywhere, 1417 01:52:11,442 --> 01:52:15,640 the smile that illuminated the best years of my life. 1418 01:52:19,042 --> 01:52:22,637 I am alone, unwarmed by any attachment. 1419 01:52:23,802 --> 01:52:25,793 Why do you speak like this? 1420 01:52:26,682 --> 01:52:28,673 Why do you speak like this? 1421 01:52:30,042 --> 01:52:32,272 I'm cold, as if living in a cave. 1422 01:52:32,442 --> 01:52:35,752 Whatever I write is dry, gloomy and harsh! 1423 01:52:36,682 --> 01:52:38,479 Nina, stay here! 1424 01:52:43,601 --> 01:52:46,911 Stay with me, or let me come with you. 1425 01:52:48,041 --> 01:52:50,839 Don't, I'll see myself out. 1426 01:52:57,921 --> 01:53:00,151 Could I have some water? 1427 01:53:04,001 --> 01:53:05,480 Here you are. 1428 01:53:10,121 --> 01:53:12,681 Where will you go? 1429 01:53:14,201 --> 01:53:16,669 - Where will you go? - Back to town. 1430 01:53:17,601 --> 01:53:21,071 - ls lrina here? - Yes, our uncle fell ill. 1431 01:53:21,241 --> 01:53:23,630 We telegraphed for her to come. 1432 01:53:23,841 --> 01:53:26,309 Why do you kiss the ground I walk on? 1433 01:53:26,481 --> 01:53:28,711 You should kill me rather. 1434 01:53:30,521 --> 01:53:32,477 I am so tired! 1435 01:53:33,281 --> 01:53:35,237 lf only I could rest... 1436 01:53:35,441 --> 01:53:37,033 Rest. 1437 01:53:37,481 --> 01:53:39,278 I am a seagull. 1438 01:53:39,481 --> 01:53:41,472 No, no... 1439 01:53:42,121 --> 01:53:44,430 I'm an actress, of course! 1440 01:54:28,240 --> 01:54:30,117 He is there too... 1441 01:54:33,280 --> 01:54:34,872 Of course. 1442 01:54:38,880 --> 01:54:41,075 He doesn't believe in the theatre. 1443 01:54:41,960 --> 01:54:44,599 He laughed at my dreams. 1444 01:54:45,200 --> 01:54:49,193 Little by little I ceased to believe in it too. 1445 01:54:55,000 --> 01:54:56,592 Then... 1446 01:54:57,280 --> 01:54:59,271 came all the troubles of love. 1447 01:55:00,280 --> 01:55:01,918 Jealousy. 1448 01:55:02,840 --> 01:55:05,434 The constant anxiety about my little one. 1449 01:55:08,800 --> 01:55:11,189 I grew trivial and spiritless. 1450 01:55:12,000 --> 01:55:15,708 I played my parts without meaning, 1451 01:55:15,879 --> 01:55:18,871 I could not walk properly or control my voice. 1452 01:55:19,079 --> 01:55:21,673 I knew I was acting very badly. 1453 01:55:24,279 --> 01:55:26,156 I'm a seagull. 1454 01:55:30,399 --> 01:55:32,196 I am a seagull. 1455 01:55:34,759 --> 01:55:36,556 Remember? 1456 01:55:37,239 --> 01:55:39,230 Remember you shot a seagull? 1457 01:55:40,959 --> 01:55:43,427 A man passed that way, saw it... 1458 01:55:44,319 --> 01:55:46,549 and killed it, out of idleness. 1459 01:55:46,719 --> 01:55:49,279 It's an idea for a short story. 1460 01:55:51,239 --> 01:55:53,628 What was I saying? 1461 01:55:56,319 --> 01:55:58,310 I've changed now. 1462 01:55:59,479 --> 01:56:01,834 Now I'm a real actress. 1463 01:56:02,519 --> 01:56:05,113 I act with joy, with exaltation... 1464 01:56:05,279 --> 01:56:08,669 I'm intoxicated by it and feel superb. 1465 01:56:10,119 --> 01:56:13,998 Ever since I've been here, I've been walking and thinking. 1466 01:56:15,079 --> 01:56:17,957 My spirit grows in strength each day. 1467 01:56:21,079 --> 01:56:22,637 Now... 1468 01:56:23,159 --> 01:56:26,629 I know, I understand. 1469 01:56:28,038 --> 01:56:32,395 Whether we write or act, success is not important, 1470 01:56:32,558 --> 01:56:34,674 or the glory I dreamt of, 1471 01:56:35,398 --> 01:56:37,753 but the strength to endure. 1472 01:56:38,638 --> 01:56:41,630 Knowing how to bear one's cross and how to have faith. 1473 01:56:43,798 --> 01:56:46,437 I believe, and so do not suffer much. 1474 01:56:47,558 --> 01:56:51,346 When I think of my calling, I do not fear life. 1475 01:56:59,158 --> 01:57:01,194 You have found your way. 1476 01:57:03,558 --> 01:57:05,628 You know where you are going. 1477 01:57:07,438 --> 01:57:10,874 But I'm still groping in a chaos of phantoms and dreams, 1478 01:57:11,398 --> 01:57:13,514 not knowing whom 1479 01:57:14,038 --> 01:57:16,677 and what end I am serving. 1480 01:57:18,118 --> 01:57:20,074 I do not believe in anything. 1481 01:57:20,518 --> 01:57:23,510 I do not know what my calling is. 1482 01:57:23,678 --> 01:57:25,475 I must go. 1483 01:57:29,358 --> 01:57:33,351 When I become a famous actress, promise you'll come to see me. 1484 01:57:37,518 --> 01:57:39,713 I can hardly stand. 1485 01:57:40,798 --> 01:57:44,346 - I'm hungry. - Have some supper. 1486 01:57:45,037 --> 01:57:47,676 No, I'll see myself out. 1487 01:57:48,997 --> 01:57:51,386 She brought him back with her. 1488 01:57:53,397 --> 01:57:56,070 Don't tell Trigorin anything when you see him. 1489 01:57:56,237 --> 01:57:58,671 I... I love him. 1490 01:57:59,117 --> 01:58:01,233 I love him passionately. 1491 01:58:01,557 --> 01:58:03,946 It's an idea for a short story. 1492 01:58:04,357 --> 01:58:07,986 I love him even more than I used to, I love him to despair. 1493 01:58:09,837 --> 01:58:12,749 Remember how pleasant the old times were? 1494 01:58:14,437 --> 01:58:16,792 What a peaceful, 1495 01:58:16,997 --> 01:58:19,306 bright and pure life we led. 1496 01:58:21,717 --> 01:58:23,548 How a feeling 1497 01:58:24,517 --> 01:58:27,873 as sweet as a flower blossomed in our hearts. 1498 01:58:29,677 --> 01:58:31,668 Do you remember? 1499 01:58:32,277 --> 01:58:35,587 ''All men and beasts, lions, eagles, partridges, 1500 01:58:35,757 --> 01:58:39,193 and other unseen, silent creatures, 1501 01:58:39,357 --> 01:58:41,712 in short, all living things, 1502 01:58:42,197 --> 01:58:45,234 having completed their dreary cycle, died out. 1503 01:58:45,517 --> 01:58:50,386 For hundreds of years, the Earth has not borne living things.'' 1504 01:59:24,036 --> 01:59:26,504 I hope no one sees her. 1505 01:59:26,876 --> 01:59:29,344 My mother would be distressed. 1506 01:59:43,956 --> 01:59:45,309 That's true, 1507 01:59:45,516 --> 01:59:48,952 The same thing happened with me and Sarah Bernhardt, 1508 01:59:49,156 --> 01:59:53,308 On her naked shoulder, I extinguished 1509 01:59:53,476 --> 01:59:55,148 my cigar. 1510 01:59:55,636 --> 01:59:57,866 I didn't know what else to do, 1511 01:59:58,036 --> 02:00:00,994 they started it... 1512 02:00:44,315 --> 02:00:47,466 - Do come in. - Ana, sit down. 1513 02:00:47,635 --> 02:00:51,230 - Did you eat well? - The food's great here. 1514 02:00:51,395 --> 02:00:55,149 I read your article and really liked it. 1515 02:00:59,155 --> 02:01:01,191 Would you like a drink? 1516 02:01:35,594 --> 02:01:37,550 - You liked it? - Yes. 1517 02:01:37,754 --> 02:01:40,029 - For you, Sorin. - Thank you. 1518 02:01:51,514 --> 02:01:53,630 - What was that? - Nothing. 1519 02:01:53,794 --> 02:01:57,264 Probably one of my medicine bottles has exploded. 1520 02:02:19,954 --> 02:02:23,424 Just as I thought, a flask of ether exploded. 1521 02:03:01,953 --> 02:03:03,864 I need to talk to you. 1522 02:03:05,913 --> 02:03:08,302 Constantin has killed himself. 1523 02:04:31,592 --> 02:04:35,471 Subtitles: Laser S. 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