1 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,250 Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,750 The Master and Margarita. 3 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,500 PART FOUR. 4 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:33,780 Shhhh... 5 00:02:35,100 --> 00:02:36,620 May I sit down? 6 00:02:45,860 --> 00:02:48,660 How did you get here? 7 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:51,020 Aren't the balcony grilles locked? 8 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:54,985 A month ago I stole a bunch of keys... 9 00:02:55,020 --> 00:02:58,260 ...and so I occasionally call on a neighbor. 10 00:02:58,420 --> 00:03:01,580 If you can get to the balcony, you can escape. Or is it too high? 11 00:03:01,980 --> 00:03:06,140 No, I cannot escape from here, not because it's too high... 12 00:03:06,175 --> 00:03:08,620 ...but because I have nowhere to escape to. 13 00:03:12,540 --> 00:03:15,340 Here we sit 14 00:03:16,140 --> 00:03:17,540 We sit... 15 00:03:52,740 --> 00:03:56,380 Here, citizens, you and I have just beheld a case of so-called... 16 00:03:56,415 --> 00:03:58,465 ...mass hypnosis. 17 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:02,360 A purely scientific experiment, proving... 18 00:04:02,395 --> 00:04:06,220 ...that there are no miracles in magic. 19 00:04:07,340 --> 00:04:09,625 Let us ask Maestro Woland, 20 00:04:09,660 --> 00:04:11,185 ...to expose this experiment for us. 21 00:04:11,220 --> 00:04:15,340 Presently, citizens, you will see these supposed banknotes... 22 00:04:15,375 --> 00:04:18,580 ...disappear as suddenly as they appeared. 23 00:04:29,260 --> 00:04:34,980 And this is a case of so-called lying! 24 00:04:37,620 --> 00:04:39,300 The notes, citizens... 25 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:42,340 ...are genuine! 26 00:04:45,940 --> 00:04:49,105 This one, incidentally, annoys me... 27 00:04:49,140 --> 00:04:52,900 Keeps poking his nose where nobody's asked him... 28 00:04:52,935 --> 00:04:57,500 ...spoils the s�ance with false observations! 29 00:04:59,140 --> 00:05:01,180 What're we going to do with him? 30 00:05:01,420 --> 00:05:03,660 Tear his head off! 31 00:05:11,380 --> 00:05:13,460 Tear his head off? 32 00:05:15,020 --> 00:05:17,420 There's an idea! 33 00:05:19,220 --> 00:05:20,380 Behemoth! 34 00:05:20,460 --> 00:05:21,740 Go to it! 35 00:05:22,140 --> 00:05:23,140 - Eins... 36 00:05:23,180 --> 00:05:24,167 - Zwei... 37 00:05:24,202 --> 00:05:25,155 - Drei! 38 00:05:43,180 --> 00:05:44,660 A doctor! 39 00:05:44,740 --> 00:05:47,025 Don't torture him! 40 00:05:47,060 --> 00:05:49,540 For God's sake, don't torture him! 41 00:05:51,140 --> 00:05:53,340 So, what then, citizens... 42 00:05:54,100 --> 00:05:56,260 ...shall we forgive him? 43 00:05:57,020 --> 00:05:58,340 Forgive him, forgive him! 44 00:06:00,620 --> 00:06:02,860 What are your orders, Messire? 45 00:06:03,940 --> 00:06:05,940 Well, now... 46 00:06:07,660 --> 00:06:12,940 they're people like any other people... 47 00:06:14,140 --> 00:06:15,700 They love money... 48 00:06:16,620 --> 00:06:18,860 ...but that has always been so! 49 00:06:21,660 --> 00:06:24,940 ...they're light-minded well, what of it... 50 00:06:27,180 --> 00:06:31,420 ...mercy sometimes knocks at their hearts... 51 00:06:32,340 --> 00:06:34,860 ...ordinary people... 52 00:06:36,740 --> 00:06:38,780 ...In general... 53 00:06:39,060 --> 00:06:42,940 ...reminiscent of the former ones... 54 00:06:44,780 --> 00:06:47,340 ...only the housing problem... 55 00:06:47,740 --> 00:06:49,700 ...has corrupted them... 56 00:06:52,420 --> 00:06:53,980 ...interesting... 57 00:06:55,340 --> 00:06:58,140 ...they behave like they used to... 58 00:07:02,860 --> 00:07:05,100 Put the head on. 59 00:07:26,980 --> 00:07:28,660 Alive? 60 00:07:33,020 --> 00:07:35,140 Buzz off! 61 00:07:36,620 --> 00:07:39,540 It's more fun without you! 62 00:07:51,820 --> 00:07:53,380 Tell me please... 63 00:07:53,740 --> 00:07:55,980 ...you're not violent, I hope? 64 00:07:56,180 --> 00:08:00,260 Because, you know, I cannot stand noise, turmoil, force... 65 00:08:00,295 --> 00:08:02,340 ...or other things like that... 66 00:08:03,340 --> 00:08:06,940 Yesterday in a restaurant I socked one type in the mug! 67 00:08:08,020 --> 00:08:09,380 Your grounds? 68 00:08:11,660 --> 00:08:14,100 No grounds, I must confess... 69 00:08:14,340 --> 00:08:16,020 Outrageous! 70 00:08:17,780 --> 00:08:19,980 And besides, what a way to express yourself... 71 00:08:20,220 --> 00:08:21,780 ...socked in the mug! 72 00:08:22,940 --> 00:08:25,580 It is not known precisely whether a man has... 73 00:08:25,615 --> 00:08:26,980 ...a mug or a face. 74 00:08:29,980 --> 00:08:31,785 And, after all... 75 00:08:31,820 --> 00:08:34,180 ...it may well be a face. 76 00:08:35,420 --> 00:08:38,980 No, you should give that up, and for good. 77 00:08:40,660 --> 00:08:42,260 Your profession? 78 00:08:44,020 --> 00:08:45,220 Poet! 79 00:08:47,980 --> 00:08:50,860 Ah, just my luck! 80 00:08:53,500 --> 00:08:55,740 And what is your name? 81 00:08:56,860 --> 00:08:57,980 Homeless. 82 00:09:04,260 --> 00:09:05,820 What, you mean you dislike my poetry? 83 00:09:05,900 --> 00:09:07,260 I dislike it terribly... 84 00:09:07,295 --> 00:09:08,585 And what have you read? 85 00:09:08,620 --> 00:09:11,620 I've never read any of your poetry! 86 00:09:11,655 --> 00:09:13,397 Then how can you say that? 87 00:09:13,432 --> 00:09:15,140 As if I haven't read others? 88 00:09:16,820 --> 00:09:20,020 ...Or else maybe there's some miracle... 89 00:09:20,660 --> 00:09:21,500 Very well... 90 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:24,500 ...I'm ready to take it on faith. 91 00:09:28,620 --> 00:09:30,580 ...Is your poetry good... or not? 92 00:09:30,615 --> 00:09:31,780 ...You tell me yourself. 93 00:09:42,060 --> 00:09:43,700 Monstrous... 94 00:09:45,980 --> 00:09:47,980 Don't write any more... 95 00:09:52,780 --> 00:09:54,740 I promise! 96 00:10:01,020 --> 00:10:02,140 ...and I swear... 97 00:10:22,740 --> 00:10:27,060 All righty, now that we've kicked that nuisance out... 98 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:35,140 ...let's open a ladies' shop! 99 00:10:42,060 --> 00:10:44,540 Latest fashion in dresses for the ladies... 100 00:10:46,020 --> 00:10:47,140 Shoes... 101 00:10:48,660 --> 00:10:50,020 Hats... 102 00:10:50,940 --> 00:10:53,300 Lingerie... 103 00:10:58,460 --> 00:11:01,780 Spring of '35... 104 00:11:02,980 --> 00:11:04,300 Paris... 105 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:06,700 Rome... 106 00:11:07,580 --> 00:11:08,740 Berlin... 107 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:10,940 Guerlain... 108 00:11:11,900 --> 00:11:13,740 Chanel nr 5... 109 00:11:14,780 --> 00:11:16,260 Mitsuko... 110 00:11:18,180 --> 00:11:19,780 Narcisse Noir... 111 00:11:21,220 --> 00:11:24,300 ...evening gowns... 112 00:11:24,780 --> 00:11:26,780 ...cocktail dresses... 113 00:11:28,180 --> 00:11:31,220 Please take it Madame... 114 00:11:33,100 --> 00:11:35,980 Welcome to the store ladies! 115 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:36,900 Our firm... 116 00:11:37,420 --> 00:11:39,585 ...is offering perfectly gratis... 117 00:11:39,620 --> 00:11:42,940 ...an exchange of the ladies' old dresses... 118 00:11:42,975 --> 00:11:46,260 ...for Parisian models and Parisian shoes! 119 00:11:46,380 --> 00:11:49,860 The same held, for the handbags and perfumes... 120 00:11:49,895 --> 00:11:50,780 Welcome! 121 00:11:56,100 --> 00:12:00,340 With no embarrassment or ceremony! 122 00:12:01,060 --> 00:12:02,740 Well!... 123 00:12:03,340 --> 00:12:08,460 Completely gratis! 124 00:12:28,460 --> 00:12:30,220 Welcome! 125 00:12:34,740 --> 00:12:37,340 Welcome to the store... Madame! 126 00:12:54,380 --> 00:12:56,780 Maestro! 127 00:12:57,180 --> 00:12:59,060 ...Strauss waltz! 128 00:12:59,740 --> 00:13:00,940 ...in B flat major 129 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:03,940 "Voices of Spring" 130 00:13:51,980 --> 00:13:55,660 ...to the right please to the left please... 131 00:14:17,980 --> 00:14:19,780 She is ill and sent me... 132 00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:21,400 Can you prove it? 133 00:14:21,435 --> 00:14:21,540 Passport! 134 00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:24,220 Thank you comrade! 135 00:14:26,860 --> 00:14:30,460 Completely gratis! 136 00:14:53,420 --> 00:14:55,580 So, how did you wind up here? 137 00:14:57,780 --> 00:15:00,860 On account of Pontius Pilate! 138 00:15:02,220 --> 00:15:03,420 What? 139 00:15:07,580 --> 00:15:09,980 A staggering coincidence! 140 00:15:18,380 --> 00:15:20,700 I beg you... 141 00:15:21,540 --> 00:15:23,380 Tell me about it, I beg you! 142 00:15:27,380 --> 00:15:29,580 Good bye... good bye... 143 00:15:30,980 --> 00:15:32,145 That's all... 144 00:15:32,180 --> 00:15:37,460 to the lateness of the hour, the shop would close! 145 00:15:41,780 --> 00:15:44,260 All the same it is desirable, citizen artiste... 146 00:15:44,620 --> 00:15:49,860 ...that you expose the technique of your tricks to the spectators without delay 147 00:15:50,260 --> 00:15:53,320 ...especially the trick with the paper money. 148 00:15:53,355 --> 00:15:56,380 The mass of spectators demands an explanation! 149 00:16:00,340 --> 00:16:03,220 The mass of spectators, doesn't seem to be saying anything 150 00:16:04,860 --> 00:16:07,480 But, in consideration of your most esteemed desire... 151 00:16:07,515 --> 00:16:10,100 ...of the chairman of the Acoustics Commission... 152 00:16:10,135 --> 00:16:12,100 Arkady Apollonovich Sempleyarov... 153 00:16:12,540 --> 00:16:15,620 ...so be it - I will perform an exposure. 154 00:16:17,580 --> 00:16:21,580 Allow me to ask, where were you last evening at seven? 155 00:16:26,780 --> 00:16:32,900 Last evening Arkady Apollonovich was at a meeting of the Acoustics Commission... 156 00:16:32,935 --> 00:16:36,220 ...but I don't understand what that has got to do with magic. 157 00:16:36,380 --> 00:16:39,740 Ouee, Madame! Naturally you don't understand... 158 00:16:39,775 --> 00:16:43,505 After driving off to the said meeting... 159 00:16:43,540 --> 00:16:47,020 ...which incidentally was not even scheduled for last night! 160 00:16:47,055 --> 00:16:49,917 ...Arkady Apollonovich went to Yelokhovskaya Street... 161 00:16:49,952 --> 00:16:52,780 to visit an actress from the regional itinerant theatre... 162 00:16:52,815 --> 00:16:55,225 ...Militsa Andreevna Pokobatko! 163 00:16:55,260 --> 00:16:58,660 ...with whom he spent some four hours. 164 00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:02,300 But... 165 00:17:14,980 --> 00:17:16,760 It's all clear... 166 00:17:16,795 --> 00:17:18,505 ...Now I see... 167 00:17:18,540 --> 00:17:22,620 ...why that giftless thing got the role of Louisa! 168 00:17:26,700 --> 00:17:29,980 Here, honorable citizens, is a typical case... 169 00:17:30,100 --> 00:17:31,260 ...of the exposure! 170 00:17:31,780 --> 00:17:34,980 ...Arkady Apollonovich so importunately insisted on! 171 00:17:35,620 --> 00:17:38,740 The s�ance is over! 172 00:17:38,775 --> 00:17:39,740 Maestro! 173 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:42,460 Hack out a march! 174 00:18:11,140 --> 00:18:14,140 'And so, I wound up here! 175 00:18:16,340 --> 00:18:18,100 Unlucky poet! 176 00:18:19,380 --> 00:18:23,940 You oughtn't to have behaved so casually and even impertinently with him. 177 00:18:23,975 --> 00:18:25,580 ...So you've paid for it... 178 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:32,700 And you must still say thank you that you got off comparatively cheaply. 179 00:18:32,735 --> 00:18:35,340 But who is he, finally? 180 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:41,980 Yesterday at the Patriarch's Ponds... 181 00:18:42,740 --> 00:18:45,380 ...you met Satan! 182 00:19:16,660 --> 00:19:17,910 My God! 183 00:19:27,940 --> 00:19:29,460 Oh my God, My God... 184 00:19:33,940 --> 00:19:35,580 Come over!... it's interesting... 185 00:19:43,380 --> 00:19:47,580 So I thought, so I thought... 186 00:19:50,860 --> 00:19:52,780 I'll call... 187 00:19:53,140 --> 00:19:54,390 ...to NKVD! 188 00:20:08,220 --> 00:20:10,540 Don't call anywhere, Rimsky... 189 00:20:10,575 --> 00:20:12,180 ...it'll be bad... 190 00:21:41,580 --> 00:21:43,980 God... 191 00:21:44,460 --> 00:21:48,700 ...you frightened me... 192 00:21:52,340 --> 00:21:55,620 Excuse me, please, I thought you had already left. 193 00:21:56,980 --> 00:22:00,100 Why didn't you call? 194 00:22:01,620 --> 00:22:03,945 What are all these shenanigans about Yalta? 195 00:22:03,980 --> 00:22:07,660 Well, it's as I was saying, He was found in the tavern in Pushkino. 196 00:22:08,820 --> 00:22:10,700 He got a telegrapher drunk in Pushkino... 197 00:22:11,220 --> 00:22:12,820 ...and the two of them started acting up... 198 00:22:13,460 --> 00:22:16,060 ...sending telegrams marked "Yalta", among other things 199 00:22:19,620 --> 00:22:21,105 Then where is he now? 200 00:22:21,140 --> 00:22:22,740 Well, where else could he be? 201 00:22:22,775 --> 00:22:24,340 In a sobering-up cell, naturally. 202 00:22:26,220 --> 00:22:28,105 And what they were doing... 203 00:22:28,140 --> 00:22:30,340 ...dancing in the arms of the telegrapher... 204 00:22:30,375 --> 00:22:31,580 ...in front of the post office... 205 00:22:31,980 --> 00:22:34,020 ...chasing after some female citizens... 206 00:22:35,020 --> 00:22:37,580 ...fought with the barman in the Yalta itself 207 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:40,740 ...Scattering green onions all over the floor of the same Yalta 208 00:22:41,380 --> 00:22:44,580 Smashing eight bottles of dry white Ai-Danil. 209 00:22:44,860 --> 00:22:46,820 ...Broke the meter in a taxi cab... 210 00:22:48,060 --> 00:22:52,420 He was so out of it, he resisted those... 211 00:22:53,140 --> 00:22:57,100 ...who came for him... 212 00:22:57,340 --> 00:22:59,220 In short, black horror! 213 00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:04,740 What's that on your face? 214 00:23:07,580 --> 00:23:10,180 The car skidded, I bumped against the door-handle! 215 00:23:11,140 --> 00:23:12,640 You're lying! 216 00:23:17,860 --> 00:23:20,060 You cast no shadow! 217 00:23:20,500 --> 00:23:24,700 He's guessed, damn him! 218 00:23:25,180 --> 00:23:27,940 Always was clever... 219 00:23:34,020 --> 00:23:36,380 He's here! 220 00:23:48,260 --> 00:23:49,460 He's here! 221 00:23:59,180 --> 00:24:01,620 Come here... 222 00:24:01,655 --> 00:24:04,060 Help me! 223 00:24:09,140 --> 00:24:10,060 Help me! 224 00:24:11,460 --> 00:24:13,140 No... 225 00:24:13,175 --> 00:24:14,820 I won't! 226 00:24:20,100 --> 00:24:21,900 Come to me! 227 00:24:25,700 --> 00:24:29,260 I don't want to! 228 00:25:15,620 --> 00:25:17,740 What did you find out? 229 00:25:18,020 --> 00:25:19,300 Practically nothing! 230 00:25:19,860 --> 00:25:22,820 One of them said that the man was short... 231 00:25:23,260 --> 00:25:25,820 ...had gold teeth, and limped on his right leg. 232 00:25:26,380 --> 00:25:30,700 The other that the man was enormously tall, had platinum crowns... 233 00:25:31,340 --> 00:25:33,220 ...and limped on his left leg... 234 00:25:34,420 --> 00:25:35,985 And this citizen insists... 235 00:25:36,020 --> 00:25:38,820 ...that the man had no distinguishing marks. 236 00:25:40,260 --> 00:25:41,700 Anything else? 237 00:25:44,260 --> 00:25:45,465 Wanted magician... 238 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:47,700 ...did not registered anywhere on arrival... 239 00:25:47,735 --> 00:25:49,900 ...had not shown anyone his passport... 240 00:25:49,935 --> 00:25:51,825 ...or any other papers... 241 00:25:51,860 --> 00:25:53,545 ...contracts, or agreements... 242 00:25:53,580 --> 00:25:55,220 ...and no one had heard anything about him! 243 00:26:00,540 --> 00:26:02,940 So no one... 244 00:26:09,020 --> 00:26:10,620 Don't leave a stone unturned... 245 00:26:12,060 --> 00:26:13,980 ...collect evidence... 246 00:26:15,260 --> 00:26:18,140 ...pick up anyone even remotely suspicious... 247 00:26:19,340 --> 00:26:23,140 ...investigation in this political matter is classified... 248 00:26:23,175 --> 00:26:24,740 ...direct all resources... 249 00:26:25,140 --> 00:26:28,420 Investigation of these hypnotic tricks... 250 00:26:28,455 --> 00:26:31,757 performed by these bold criminals, 251 00:26:31,792 --> 00:26:35,060 ...should be tied up in two days! 252 00:26:35,095 --> 00:26:37,020 Go to it! 253 00:26:37,580 --> 00:26:38,830 As ordered! 254 00:26:42,220 --> 00:26:45,900 Oh... and use this Baron... 255 00:26:45,935 --> 00:26:47,337 ...Meigel! 256 00:26:47,372 --> 00:26:48,740 As ordered! 257 00:26:55,620 --> 00:26:58,505 As soon as you started describing him, I began to realize... 258 00:26:58,540 --> 00:27:01,140 ...who it was that you had the pleasure of talking with yesterday! 259 00:27:02,540 --> 00:27:05,380 One can't fail to recognize him, my friend! 260 00:27:06,060 --> 00:27:09,100 Though you... again I must apologize, but I'm not mistaken... 261 00:27:09,135 --> 00:27:10,740 ...you are not an educated man? 262 00:27:13,340 --> 00:27:15,220 I went to sanatorium a lot... 263 00:27:15,255 --> 00:27:16,380 ...in Yalta! 264 00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:19,540 Well, so, so... hardly surprising... 265 00:27:19,660 --> 00:27:21,900 But Berlioz, astounds me... 266 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:25,740 ...Though I must say in his defense... 267 00:27:26,020 --> 00:27:29,540 that Woland is, capable of pulling the wool over the eyes of an even shrewder man... 268 00:27:29,575 --> 00:27:30,460 What?! 269 00:27:36,220 --> 00:27:37,960 I see... 270 00:27:37,995 --> 00:27:39,700 ...I see. 271 00:27:40,140 --> 00:27:44,620 He had the letter "W" on his visiting card. 272 00:27:46,860 --> 00:27:48,180 Ai-yai-yai, what a thing! 273 00:27:48,580 --> 00:27:52,020 So that means he might actually have been at Pontius Pilate's... 274 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:55,860 He was already born then! 275 00:27:57,780 --> 00:28:00,020 And they call me a madman! 276 00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:05,420 Your interlocutor was at Pilate's... 277 00:28:06,660 --> 00:28:08,100 ...and had breakfast with Kant... 278 00:28:10,460 --> 00:28:11,980 ...and now he's visiting Moscow. 279 00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:15,020 But he'll be up to devil knows what here! 280 00:28:15,420 --> 00:28:17,500 We ought to catch him somehow! 281 00:28:17,535 --> 00:28:19,380 You've already tried... 282 00:28:20,340 --> 00:28:22,820 I don't advise others to try either! 283 00:28:24,580 --> 00:28:28,220 And as for being up to something, rest assured, he will be. 284 00:28:29,060 --> 00:28:32,540 Ah, ah! But how annoying that it was you who met him and not I... 285 00:28:35,620 --> 00:28:38,020 Though it's all burned up... 286 00:28:38,180 --> 00:28:40,580 ...for that meeting I'd give back... 287 00:28:40,780 --> 00:28:43,500 ...all of the keys, for I have nothing else to give. 288 00:28:44,460 --> 00:28:46,340 I'm destitute. 289 00:28:47,620 --> 00:28:50,380 But what do you need him for? 290 00:28:53,540 --> 00:28:55,780 You see, it's such a strange story... 291 00:28:57,420 --> 00:28:59,820 ...I'm sitting here for the same reason you are... 292 00:29:04,820 --> 00:29:07,180 ...on account of Pontius Pilate. 293 00:29:10,740 --> 00:29:11,820 The thing is that... 294 00:29:13,620 --> 00:29:15,660 ...a year ago I wrote... 295 00:29:16,380 --> 00:29:18,780 ...a novel about Pontius Pilate. 296 00:29:21,460 --> 00:29:24,300 You're a writer? 297 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:32,180 I am a master! 298 00:29:58,020 --> 00:30:01,060 She sewed it for me with her own hands... 299 00:30:07,620 --> 00:30:09,220 And what is your name? 300 00:30:14,140 --> 00:30:16,180 I no longer have a name... 301 00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:20,220 I renounced it, as I generally did everything in life... 302 00:30:21,940 --> 00:30:25,340 Then at least tell me about the novel... 303 00:30:28,620 --> 00:30:30,620 If you please, sir... 304 00:30:33,620 --> 00:30:37,220 My life, it must be said, has taken a not very ordinary course... 305 00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:41,620 ...I'm a historian by education... 306 00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:47,740 ...I had worked until two years ago at one of the Moscow museums... 307 00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:51,380 ...besides that, I had also done translations. 308 00:30:51,415 --> 00:30:53,060 From what language? 309 00:30:53,740 --> 00:30:56,065 I know five languages besides Russian... 310 00:30:56,100 --> 00:31:00,060 ...English, French, German, Latin and Greek... 311 00:31:00,095 --> 00:31:02,780 Well, I can also read Italian a little. 312 00:31:02,860 --> 00:31:03,945 Oh, my! 313 00:31:03,980 --> 00:31:06,620 ...I was alone in Moscow... 314 00:31:06,655 --> 00:31:09,437 ...I had no acquaintances... 315 00:31:09,472 --> 00:31:12,466 ...And, just imagine, one day... 316 00:31:12,501 --> 00:31:15,460 ...I won a hundred thousand rubles. 317 00:31:17,180 --> 00:31:19,500 I got the ticket at the museum... 318 00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:24,380 Having won a hundred thousand rubles... 319 00:31:24,460 --> 00:31:25,860 ...here's what I did: 320 00:31:25,980 --> 00:31:27,265 ...I bought books... 321 00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:29,780 ...I gave up my room on Myasnitskaya... 322 00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:31,980 Ohh, that accursed hole! 323 00:31:33,340 --> 00:31:35,260 ...and rented from a builder... 324 00:31:35,740 --> 00:31:37,060 ...two rooms... 325 00:31:37,660 --> 00:31:42,460 ...in the basement of a little house in the garden. 326 00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:45,820 ...I left my work at the museum... 327 00:31:47,140 --> 00:31:52,660 ...and began writing a novel about Pontius Pilate. 328 00:31:57,140 --> 00:31:58,740 And then... 329 00:31:59,940 --> 00:32:02,420 ...one day... 330 00:32:03,900 --> 00:32:07,780 ...last spring, something happened far more important... 331 00:32:07,815 --> 00:32:11,380 ...than winning hundred thousand rubles. 332 00:33:13,620 --> 00:33:16,300 Do you like my flowers? 333 00:33:19,420 --> 00:33:20,940 No! 334 00:33:23,820 --> 00:33:26,860 You generally don't like flowers? 335 00:33:28,460 --> 00:33:30,260 No, I like flowers... 336 00:33:31,540 --> 00:33:33,500 ...but not this kind! 337 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:35,980 Which, then? 338 00:33:37,620 --> 00:33:39,820 I like roses... 339 00:34:24,260 --> 00:34:25,580 Go on... 340 00:34:25,780 --> 00:34:28,060 ...and please don't leave anything out! 341 00:34:28,095 --> 00:34:28,900 Go on? 342 00:34:30,060 --> 00:34:33,260 Why, you can guess for yourself how it went on... 343 00:34:38,100 --> 00:34:40,860 Love leaped out in front of us... 344 00:34:41,780 --> 00:34:44,860 ...like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, 345 00:34:46,700 --> 00:34:49,260 ...and struck us both at once. 346 00:34:53,740 --> 00:34:56,220 As lightning strikes. 347 00:34:56,660 --> 00:34:59,580 ...as the bandit's knife strikes! 348 00:35:12,220 --> 00:35:17,340 ...I went out that day with yellow flowers so that you would find me at last... 349 00:35:19,620 --> 00:35:23,820 ...if it hadn't happened, I would have poisoned myself! 350 00:35:33,020 --> 00:35:37,500 ...because my life was empty... 351 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:47,700 No one knew of our liaison... 352 00:35:49,340 --> 00:35:51,500 Her husband didn't know... 353 00:35:51,860 --> 00:35:54,180 ...her acquaintances didn't know. 354 00:35:55,860 --> 00:35:58,260 But who is she? 355 00:36:06,100 --> 00:36:09,980 She used to come to me every day... 356 00:36:10,380 --> 00:36:13,700 ...but I would begin waiting for her in the morning. 357 00:36:25,900 --> 00:36:34,460 Scissors, knives sharpened... axes, scythes sharpened... 358 00:38:41,540 --> 00:38:43,300 You are a Master! 359 00:38:57,060 --> 00:39:00,540 She, by the way, insisted afterwards... 360 00:39:03,180 --> 00:39:09,780 that we had, loved each other for a long time, never having seen each other, 361 00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:18,940 and that she was living with a different man... as I was, too, then... with that, what's her... 362 00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:22,505 You were married? 363 00:39:22,540 --> 00:39:27,220 With that... Varenka... Manechka... 364 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:29,060 ...striped dress 365 00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:31,020 ...museum... 366 00:39:32,140 --> 00:39:35,860 Anyhow, I don't remember. 367 00:40:30,260 --> 00:40:33,380 I foretell you fame, Master. 368 00:40:34,660 --> 00:40:37,345 ...only work faster... 369 00:40:37,380 --> 00:40:40,300 ...I'm waiting for the already promised last words. 370 00:40:43,620 --> 00:40:50,580 ..."the fifth procurator of Judea, the equestrian Pontius Pilate" 371 00:40:52,980 --> 00:40:55,460 My whole life is in this novel... 372 00:40:56,420 --> 00:40:59,020 It was finished in the month of August... 373 00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:05,420 And finally the hour came when I had to leave my secret refuge and go out into life. 374 00:41:07,780 --> 00:41:09,400 And I went out into life... 375 00:41:09,435 --> 00:41:11,020 holding my novel in my hands... 376 00:41:12,980 --> 00:41:15,260 ...and then my life ended! 377 00:41:33,140 --> 00:41:34,980 Tell me please... 378 00:41:37,740 --> 00:41:39,660 ...who are you? 379 00:41:39,940 --> 00:41:41,620 I what sense? 380 00:41:46,220 --> 00:41:50,860 who had given you the idea of writing a novel... 381 00:41:50,895 --> 00:41:53,900 ...on such a strange theme? 382 00:41:56,140 --> 00:41:58,380 Will you publish the novel? 383 00:42:01,980 --> 00:42:03,905 You know... 384 00:42:03,940 --> 00:42:08,060 I cannot decide the question on my own... 385 00:42:09,660 --> 00:42:13,500 .. other members of the editorial board have to acquaint themselves with your work 386 00:42:13,535 --> 00:42:16,900 ...namely, the critics Latunsky... 387 00:42:18,260 --> 00:42:19,460 ...Ariman... 388 00:42:21,940 --> 00:42:26,745 ...and the writer Mstislav Lavrovich 389 00:42:26,780 --> 00:42:32,900 ...I was told that the publisher was provided with material for two years ahead... 390 00:42:32,935 --> 00:42:36,700 ...and therefore the question of printing your novel... 391 00:42:39,460 --> 00:42:42,580 ...did not arise. 392 00:42:50,660 --> 00:42:54,900 Good bye! 393 00:42:57,020 --> 00:42:59,940 What do I remember after that? 394 00:43:07,940 --> 00:43:11,860 Yes, red petals strewn across the title page... 395 00:43:13,900 --> 00:43:16,140 and also the eyes of my friend... 396 00:43:16,175 --> 00:43:19,977 Yes, those eyes I remember. 397 00:43:20,012 --> 00:43:23,096 No... for pushing me to fight... 398 00:43:23,131 --> 00:43:25,835 I don't blame her... not at all! 399 00:43:25,870 --> 00:43:28,505 But why did I... why did I go 400 00:43:28,540 --> 00:43:32,380 ...to another publisher so they would publish an excerpt from the novel... 401 00:44:07,340 --> 00:44:10,660 "Enemy under the publisher's wing" 402 00:44:11,460 --> 00:44:14,620 ...author ensured that the outrageous publisher would protect him... 403 00:44:14,655 --> 00:44:17,780 ...had attempted to foist into print an apology for Jesus Christ. 404 00:44:18,860 --> 00:44:20,380 ...critic Ariman. 405 00:44:26,940 --> 00:44:29,785 ...we must strike, and strike hard, at Pilatism... 406 00:44:29,820 --> 00:44:33,580 of this the icon-dauber who had ventured to foist it into print! 407 00:44:33,940 --> 00:44:36,580 ...Mstislav Lavrovich 408 00:44:37,940 --> 00:44:42,260 I assure you, the works of Ariman and Lavrovich... 409 00:44:42,295 --> 00:44:46,580 ...could be counted as jokes compared with what... 410 00:44:46,615 --> 00:44:48,185 ...critic Latunsky wrote. 411 00:44:48,220 --> 00:44:50,220 ...Suffice it to say it was entitled... 412 00:44:51,940 --> 00:44:55,700 "A Militant Old Believer" 413 00:45:02,940 --> 00:45:04,980 I will poison Latunsky!... 414 00:45:07,780 --> 00:45:10,420 Joyless autumn days set in! 415 00:45:10,455 --> 00:45:13,060 ...the novel was finished... 416 00:45:13,620 --> 00:45:15,620 I had nothing more to do! 417 00:45:16,020 --> 00:45:17,305 ...I lived from one day to the next... 418 00:45:17,340 --> 00:45:19,980 ...we sat on a rug in front of a fireplace... 419 00:45:20,900 --> 00:45:22,980 ...looking into the fire... 420 00:45:25,420 --> 00:45:27,980 Besides, 421 00:45:28,460 --> 00:45:31,620 ...we saw each other less than before... 422 00:45:34,060 --> 00:45:37,020 She was going for a walk... 423 00:45:39,380 --> 00:45:42,420 .. and I suddenly gained a new friend! 424 00:45:42,500 --> 00:45:44,760 ...I'm not inclined to making friends... 425 00:45:44,795 --> 00:45:47,020 ...I lack confidence... I'm suspicious... 426 00:45:47,700 --> 00:45:51,820 ...I'd sooner get to like someone unexpected... 427 00:45:52,220 --> 00:45:53,860 ...out of the blue... 428 00:45:54,780 --> 00:45:58,580 ...devil knows why this one... 429 00:46:00,100 --> 00:46:04,460 ...I remember him fondly, that's how I liked him... 430 00:46:09,260 --> 00:46:11,225 Good day... 431 00:46:11,260 --> 00:46:13,740 I have a very funny name Mogarych 432 00:46:13,775 --> 00:46:15,065 Aloisy Mogarych... 433 00:46:15,100 --> 00:46:18,580 I'm a journalist and live near by just like you... in a small apartment 434 00:46:18,615 --> 00:46:20,025 ...a little too small... 435 00:46:20,060 --> 00:46:22,740 ...I went to talk to the owner of this house... 436 00:46:22,775 --> 00:46:24,820 ...and he told me that you live here... 437 00:46:25,180 --> 00:46:26,980 ...I've read a part of your novel... 438 00:46:27,015 --> 00:46:29,825 ...and I love literature... 439 00:46:29,860 --> 00:46:32,820 ...please, let me read the rest of it... 440 00:46:33,660 --> 00:46:36,340 Your novel is incredible! 441 00:46:37,900 --> 00:46:42,300 I thank you, but the critics don't think so. 442 00:46:48,860 --> 00:46:50,740 I'll tell you if you want... 443 00:46:51,140 --> 00:46:54,020 ...what the publisher said of your novel 444 00:47:10,300 --> 00:47:11,380 Get acquainted... 445 00:47:11,415 --> 00:47:12,300 Good day! 446 00:47:12,780 --> 00:47:15,945 I have a very funny name Mogarych 447 00:47:15,980 --> 00:47:17,985 Aloisy Mogarych... I'm a journalist... 448 00:47:18,020 --> 00:47:19,980 ...I live near by just like you... in a small apartment 449 00:47:20,015 --> 00:47:21,580 ...a little too small... 450 00:47:21,980 --> 00:47:23,580 ...so I don't invite you to my place... 451 00:47:24,060 --> 00:47:25,700 ...but if you don't run me away... 452 00:47:25,735 --> 00:47:28,660 ...I will visit you often. 453 00:47:38,180 --> 00:47:40,465 I don't like him very much... 454 00:47:40,500 --> 00:47:42,860 I haven't met a man yet who within a space of a minute... 455 00:47:42,895 --> 00:47:45,020 ...could explain the meaning of a newspaper blurb... 456 00:47:45,540 --> 00:47:49,900 ...and do it without any effort. 457 00:47:51,020 --> 00:47:52,780 He's a smart person! 458 00:47:54,220 --> 00:47:55,260 It's your business... 459 00:47:55,420 --> 00:47:58,940 I'm just telling you that he made the worst impression on me!