1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:26,730 - Will you have a little vodka? - No, I don't drink vodka every day. 4 00:04:38,961 --> 00:04:41,124 I am overworked, nurse. 5 00:04:42,701 --> 00:04:46,231 I am on my feet from dawn till dusk. I know no rest; 6 00:04:48,712 --> 00:04:56,049 - At night I'm going to bed and fear being dragged out to visit someone who is sick. 7 00:04:58,896 --> 00:05:05,902 During the third week of Lent I went to Malitskoi. There was an epidemic. 8 00:05:06,608 --> 00:05:07,941 It was eruptive typhoid... 9 00:05:10,015 --> 00:05:15,946 The peasants were all lying side by side in their huts. Such dirt there was, and smoke... 10 00:05:17,159 --> 00:05:21,798 When I got home there was still no rest for me 11 00:05:22,937 --> 00:05:25,807 From the railroad they brought in a switchman. 12 00:05:29,850 --> 00:05:32,151 I laid him 13 00:05:38,452 --> 00:05:40,452 on the operating table 14 00:05:49,918 --> 00:05:53,313 and he went and died in my arms under chloroform 15 00:05:59,869 --> 00:06:03,504 - Exactly the moment he shouldn't. 16 00:06:06,213 --> 00:06:10,677 I sat down, closed my eyes and thought: 17 00:06:10,854 --> 00:06:15,620 Will our descendants one hundred, two hundred years 18 00:06:18,001 --> 00:06:20,468 remember to give us a kind word? 19 00:06:30,456 --> 00:06:32,823 No, nurse, they will forget... 20 00:06:33,293 --> 00:06:36,126 Man is forgetful, but God remembers. 21 00:06:38,603 --> 00:06:42,165 Thank you for that, you have spoken the truth. 22 00:07:10,692 --> 00:07:14,822 - Have you been asleep? - Yes, very much so. 23 00:07:18,205 --> 00:07:21,233 Ever since the Professor and his wife have come, 24 00:07:21,511 --> 00:07:23,377 our daily life seems to have jumped the track. 25 00:07:24,015 --> 00:07:28,582 I sleep at the wrong time, drink wine, and eat all sorts of messes for dinner. 26 00:07:31,528 --> 00:07:35,160 Before they came we used to have dinner at one o'clock, like everybody else, 27 00:07:35,802 --> 00:07:37,395 but now we have it at seven... 28 00:07:39,007 --> 00:07:43,137 Look at this now! The samovar has been on the table for two hours, and they are all out walking! 29 00:07:43,549 --> 00:07:45,313 All right, don't get excited; here they come. 30 00:07:53,366 --> 00:07:56,463 Excellent, excellent. Such beautiful views! 31 00:07:59,209 --> 00:08:03,447 Please be good enough to send my tea into the library. 32 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,762 I still have some work to finish. 33 00:08:19,544 --> 00:08:21,224 My heart swells with unbounded happiness... 34 00:08:22,416 --> 00:08:25,416 The weather is enchanting, the birds are singing... 35 00:08:26,417 --> 00:08:28,257 we are all living in peace and contentment... 36 00:08:30,461 --> 00:08:33,854 ...what more could the soul desire? 37 00:08:37,009 --> 00:08:39,069 Come, Ivan, tell us something. 38 00:08:40,715 --> 00:08:45,111 - What shall I tell you? - Haven't you any news for us? 39 00:08:45,357 --> 00:08:48,277 I am just the same as usual, or perhaps worse, because I have become lazy. 40 00:08:48,362 --> 00:08:51,790 Maman is still chattering about the emancipation of women. 41 00:08:53,070 --> 00:08:56,065 With one eye on her grave and always looking 42 00:08:56,509 --> 00:08:57,973 for the dawn of a new life. 43 00:09:01,284 --> 00:09:04,084 - And the Professor? - The Professor... 44 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:19,360 I'll tell you something... 45 00:09:22,287 --> 00:09:25,381 the man has been writing on art for twenty-five years, 46 00:09:26,863 --> 00:09:28,932 and he doesn't know the very first thing about it. 47 00:09:29,799 --> 00:09:33,704 For twenty-five years he has been chewing on other men's thoughts on realism, naturalism 48 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:37,837 and all such foolishness. 49 00:09:39,216 --> 00:09:44,135 For twenty-five years he has been reading and writing things that clever men have long known and stupid ones are not interested in; 50 00:09:44,159 --> 00:09:47,400 for twenty-five years he has been making his imaginary mountains out of molehills. 51 00:09:48,099 --> 00:09:52,095 - I believe you envy him. - Yes, I do. Look at the success he has had with women! 52 00:09:52,339 --> 00:09:55,539 His second wife, a brilliant beauty married him in his old age 53 00:09:56,346 --> 00:09:59,517 and has surrendered all the glory of her beauty and freedom to him... 54 00:10:00,953 --> 00:10:02,284 Why? What for? 55 00:10:05,027 --> 00:10:08,357 - Is she faithful to him? - Yes, unfortunately she is. 56 00:10:08,868 --> 00:10:12,232 - Why unfortunately? - Because such fidelity is false. 57 00:10:12,476 --> 00:10:17,472 It is thought immoral for a woman to deceive an old husband whom she hates, 58 00:10:18,851 --> 00:10:21,467 but is it moral for her to strangle her poor youth in her breast and banish 59 00:10:21,491 --> 00:10:26,263 every vital desire from her heart? - I don't like to hear you talk so. 60 00:10:26,565 --> 00:10:29,560 Listen, every one who betrays husband or wife is faithless 61 00:10:29,672 --> 00:10:32,836 and could also betray his country - Turn off the tap, Waffles. 62 00:10:43,061 --> 00:10:46,192 There are some peasants waiting out there. Go and see what they want. 63 00:11:01,494 --> 00:11:05,132 I have come to see your husband. You wrote me that he was ill 64 00:11:05,199 --> 00:11:08,180 that he had rheumatism and I know not what else, but it he seems to be safe and sound. 65 00:11:08,204 --> 00:11:13,003 Yesterday evening he complained of pains in his legs, but he seems all right again today. 66 00:11:18,089 --> 00:11:21,861 - This tea is cold! - Yes, the samovar has grown cold. 67 00:11:21,928 --> 00:11:23,508 Don't mind, Ivan Ivanovich, we will drink cold tea, then. 68 00:11:23,532 --> 00:11:27,192 I beg your pardon, my name is not Ivan Ivanovich but Ilia Ilich. 69 00:11:27,404 --> 00:11:30,604 Ilia Ilich Telegin, or Waffles, as I am sometimes called 70 00:11:31,011 --> 00:11:33,841 on account of my pock-marked face. 71 00:11:34,184 --> 00:11:36,216 He is our great help, our right-hand man. 72 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:44,324 I forgot to tell Alexander - I have lost my memory. 73 00:11:45,434 --> 00:11:48,796 I received a letter today from Paul Alexeyevitch in Kharkoff. 74 00:11:49,744 --> 00:11:51,508 He has sent me his new book. 75 00:11:54,352 --> 00:12:01,018 It is strange. He refutes the very theories which he defended seven years ago. It is appalling! 76 00:12:01,463 --> 00:12:03,962 There is nothing appalling about it. Drink your tea, mamma. 77 00:12:04,201 --> 00:12:07,105 - But I want to speak. - We have been speaking for the past 50 years 78 00:12:07,474 --> 00:12:10,913 and reading books! It's time to put an end. 79 00:12:11,181 --> 00:12:14,352 It seems you never want to listen to what I have to say. 80 00:12:21,398 --> 00:12:26,366 Pardon me, Jean, but you have changed so in the last year that I hardly know you. 81 00:12:31,450 --> 00:12:36,682 You used to be a man of settled convictions and had an illuminating personality... 82 00:12:37,259 --> 00:12:41,394 Oh, yes. I had an illuminating personality,. 83 00:12:42,635 --> 00:12:44,962 Which illuminated no one... 84 00:12:55,525 --> 00:13:00,390 I had an illuminating personality! You couldn't say anything more biting. 85 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,167 Uncle Vanya, how dreary! 86 00:13:04,105 --> 00:13:07,403 You speak as if your former convictions were somehow to blame, 87 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:13,347 You have forgotten that a conviction, in itself... 88 00:13:13,489 --> 00:13:18,830 is nothing but a dead letter.. You should have done something. 89 00:13:19,233 --> 00:13:23,200 Done something! Not every man is capable of being a writing perpetuum mobile 90 00:13:23,707 --> 00:13:27,244 like your Herr Professor. - What do you mean by that? 91 00:13:27,346 --> 00:13:29,382 Grandma! Uncle Vanya! I entreat you! 92 00:13:34,961 --> 00:13:38,531 I am silent. I apologise and am silent.. 93 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:11,687 What a fine day! Not too hot. 94 00:14:29,455 --> 00:14:31,151 A fine day to hang oneself. 95 00:14:34,230 --> 00:14:39,171 - What did the peasants want, nurse? - The same old thing, the same old nonsense. 96 00:15:21,012 --> 00:15:25,849 Is the doctor here? Excuse me, sir, but I have been sent to fetch you. 97 00:15:25,886 --> 00:15:27,950 - Where are you from? - The factory. 98 00:15:28,351 --> 00:15:29,951 Thank you. 99 00:15:30,594 --> 00:15:32,020 Damn it, this is annoying. 100 00:15:36,438 --> 00:15:41,907 - You must come back to dinner from the factory. - No, It will be too late. 101 00:15:45,921 --> 00:15:49,481 Look here, my man, get me a glass of vodka, will you? 102 00:15:53,667 --> 00:15:59,469 I should be really delighted if you would come to see me some day. 103 00:15:59,879 --> 00:16:04,482 My estate is small, but it is surrounded by forests. 104 00:16:04,787 --> 00:16:07,053 I have always heard that you were very fond of the woods. 105 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:12,343 One can do a great deal of good by helping to preserve them, but doesn't it interfere with your real calling? 106 00:16:12,367 --> 00:16:15,395 God alone knows what a man's real calling is. 107 00:16:15,806 --> 00:16:17,699 - Do you find it interesting? - Yes, very. 108 00:16:19,012 --> 00:16:22,761 I suspect that the woods do not interest you as much. I should think you would find them monotonous. 109 00:16:22,785 --> 00:16:26,690 Oh, no, the work is thrilling. 110 00:16:28,761 --> 00:16:31,528 Michael Livovich says that they teach mankind to understand beauty 111 00:16:31,634 --> 00:16:34,601 that forests are the ornaments of the earth and temper a stern climate 112 00:16:35,173 --> 00:16:38,469 and in countries where the climate is milder the people are more kind and gentle 113 00:16:38,579 --> 00:16:42,549 The inhabitants of such countries are handsome, tractable, sensitive, 114 00:16:44,456 --> 00:16:48,022 graceful in speech and gesture. 115 00:16:49,566 --> 00:16:52,163 Art and science blossom among them. 116 00:16:55,910 --> 00:17:01,618 Their philosophy is joyous, their treatment of women is full of exquisite nobility. 117 00:17:05,458 --> 00:17:06,458 Bravo, bravo! 118 00:17:09,300 --> 00:17:12,781 Allow me, dear friend to go on burning firewood in my stoves and building my sheds of planks. 119 00:17:12,805 --> 00:17:16,835 You can burn peat in your stoves. I don't object, of course, 120 00:17:17,479 --> 00:17:20,979 to cutting wood from necessity but why destroy the forests? 121 00:17:22,222 --> 00:17:26,720 The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe. Millions of trees have perished. 122 00:17:26,830 --> 00:17:29,762 And why? Because men are too lazy and stupid 123 00:17:30,603 --> 00:17:32,866 to stoop down and pick up their fuel from the ground. 124 00:17:34,910 --> 00:17:36,606 Am I not right, Madame? 125 00:17:37,816 --> 00:17:41,516 Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove 126 00:17:41,922 --> 00:17:47,228 and destroy that which he cannot make? The forests are disappearing, the rivers are running dry... 127 00:17:49,535 --> 00:17:55,576 the game is exterminated, the climate is spoiled, and the earth becomes poorer and uglier every day. 128 00:18:00,189 --> 00:18:04,184 I read irony in your eye, you do not take what I am saying seriously... 129 00:18:05,965 --> 00:18:07,991 and-after all, it may very well be nonsense, 130 00:18:13,511 --> 00:18:17,575 but when I hear the rustling of the young plantations 131 00:18:17,886 --> 00:18:19,912 set out with my own hands, 132 00:18:20,389 --> 00:18:23,259 I feel as if I had had some small share in improving the climate. 133 00:18:23,494 --> 00:18:29,963 When I plant a little birch tree and then see... 134 00:18:45,300 --> 00:18:48,061 I must be off. Good-bye. 135 00:19:49,478 --> 00:19:50,946 Who is here? 136 00:20:04,872 --> 00:20:06,807 No, it's hot. 137 00:20:09,846 --> 00:20:14,287 I dreamt just now that my left leg belonged to some one else, 138 00:20:17,693 --> 00:20:19,788 and it hurt so that I woke. 139 00:20:24,939 --> 00:20:30,610 No, I don't believe this is gout, it is more like rheumatism. What time is it? 140 00:20:40,399 --> 00:20:44,430 I want you to look for Batushka's works in the library tomorrow. I think we have him. 141 00:20:59,833 --> 00:21:03,913 - Why do I find it so hard to breathe? - You are tired; this is the second night you have had no sleep. 142 00:21:05,009 --> 00:21:08,778 They say that Turgenieff got angina of the heart from gout. 143 00:21:09,016 --> 00:21:12,454 I am afraid I am getting angina too. 144 00:21:16,562 --> 00:21:20,695 I think I am hateful to you all. 145 00:21:23,675 --> 00:21:28,616 - I am more hateful to you than to any one. - You are torturing me. 146 00:21:30,453 --> 00:21:35,360 I torture everybody. Of course. 147 00:21:35,662 --> 00:21:39,659 - This is unbearable! Tell me, what is it you want me to do? - Nothing. 148 00:21:39,903 --> 00:21:42,806 Then be quiet, please. 149 00:21:44,210 --> 00:21:45,576 It is funny... 150 00:21:46,148 --> 00:21:50,519 everybody listens to Ivan Petrovich and his old idiot of a mother, Maria Vasilievna, 151 00:21:51,189 --> 00:21:55,960 but the moment I open my lips, 152 00:21:56,766 --> 00:22:02,902 you all begin to feel ill-treated. You can't even stand the sound of my voice.. 153 00:22:15,098 --> 00:22:18,126 Father, you sent for Dr. Astroff, 154 00:22:18,503 --> 00:22:21,720 and now when he comes you refuse to see him. It is not nice to give a man so much trouble for nothing. 155 00:22:21,744 --> 00:22:24,180 I won't talk to that madman! 156 00:22:26,784 --> 00:22:31,521 Do as you please. It's all the same to me. 157 00:22:32,122 --> 00:22:33,122 What time is it? 158 00:22:41,676 --> 00:22:45,106 It is stifling in here. Sonia, hand me that bottle on the table. 159 00:22:55,635 --> 00:23:00,732 No, not that one! Can't I ask you to do a thing? 160 00:23:04,783 --> 00:23:09,848 Please don't be captious with me. Some people may like it, but you must spare me, if you please, because I don't. 161 00:23:12,630 --> 00:23:15,464 Besides, I haven't the time. I have to get up early. 162 00:24:59,183 --> 00:25:00,983 A thunderstorm is coming up. 163 00:25:03,089 --> 00:25:04,290 There it is! 164 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:11,600 Elena, Sonia, go to bed. 165 00:25:16,846 --> 00:25:19,811 - I have come to take your place. - Don't leave me alone with him! 166 00:25:20,053 --> 00:25:23,822 - But you must give them a little rest. - Then let them go to bed, but you go away too! 167 00:25:24,795 --> 00:25:27,766 For the sake of our former friendship do not protest against going.. 168 00:25:28,166 --> 00:25:30,967 - Our former friendship! - Hush, Uncle Vanya! 169 00:25:31,172 --> 00:25:34,906 - Of course 170 00:25:38,751 --> 00:25:40,618 This is ridiculous. 171 00:25:50,973 --> 00:25:54,636 You must go to bed, nurse, it is late. 172 00:25:56,784 --> 00:26:02,056 No one can go to bed. They are all worn out, only I enjoy perfect happiness. 173 00:26:03,294 --> 00:26:07,766 What's the matter, master? Does it hurt? You have had this illness such a long time. 174 00:26:08,506 --> 00:26:14,205 Sonia's dead mother used to stay awake too, and wear herself out for you.. 175 00:26:14,648 --> 00:26:16,883 She loved you dearly. 176 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,757 Old people want to be pitied as much as young ones 177 00:26:22,694 --> 00:26:26,465 Come, master, let me give you some linden-tea and warm your poor feet for you.. 178 00:26:30,643 --> 00:26:34,912 I shall pray to God for you. 179 00:26:42,062 --> 00:26:44,858 Let us go, Marina. 180 00:27:00,694 --> 00:27:06,102 - I am absolutely exhausted by him. - You are exhausted by him, and I am exhausted by my own self. 181 00:27:07,907 --> 00:27:10,874 Your mother hates everything but the professor. 182 00:27:12,147 --> 00:27:17,120 The professor is vexed, he won't trust me, and fears you. 183 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:24,430 Sonia is angry with her father, and hasn't spoken to me for two weeks. 184 00:27:26,338 --> 00:27:31,745 You hate my husband and detest your mother. 185 00:27:33,852 --> 00:27:37,857 I... in this house... 186 00:27:43,836 --> 00:27:48,106 In this house your life is destroyed. 187 00:27:52,085 --> 00:27:55,517 - My darling! - Go away! 188 00:28:02,736 --> 00:28:07,132 Soon the rain will be over, and all nature will awake refreshed. 189 00:28:09,748 --> 00:28:11,611 Only I am not refreshed by the storm.. 190 00:28:16,260 --> 00:28:19,354 What shall I do with my life and my love? 191 00:28:22,069 --> 00:28:24,565 What is to become of them? 192 00:28:25,641 --> 00:28:29,978 This wonderful feeling of mine will be lost as a ray of sunlight that falls into a dark chasm. 193 00:28:33,422 --> 00:28:40,696 I am benumbed when you speak to me of your love and I don't know how to answer you 194 00:28:41,769 --> 00:28:43,434 What are you waiting for? 195 00:28:45,143 --> 00:28:46,863 What accursed philosophy stands in your way? 196 00:28:47,813 --> 00:28:51,619 - Oh, understand, understand... - Ivan Petrovich, you are drunk! 197 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,514 Perhaps. Perhaps. 198 00:28:54,791 --> 00:28:58,923 - Why do you do that? - Because that way I get a taste of life. 199 00:28:59,634 --> 00:29:02,663 Go to bed, I am tired of you. 200 00:29:08,918 --> 00:29:13,951 My sweetheart, my beautiful one- 201 00:29:14,260 --> 00:29:16,358 Leave me alone! 202 00:29:16,831 --> 00:29:18,591 This has become disagreeable. Leave me alone. 203 00:31:27,024 --> 00:31:31,429 What is the matter? You seem sad. Is it because you are sorry for the professor? 204 00:31:33,335 --> 00:31:34,996 Leave me alone. 205 00:31:36,073 --> 00:31:41,742 - Or in love with the professor's wife? - She is my friend. 206 00:31:45,389 --> 00:31:49,384 - Already? - What do you mean by "already"? 207 00:31:49,863 --> 00:31:55,066 A woman can only become a man's friend 208 00:31:57,276 --> 00:31:59,011 after having first been his acquaintance 209 00:32:00,281 --> 00:32:02,774 and then his beloved 210 00:32:03,587 --> 00:32:06,826 - then she becomes his friend - What vulgar philosophy! 211 00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:15,940 Yes, I must confess I am getting vulgar. 212 00:32:19,848 --> 00:32:21,276 But then, you see, I am drunk. 213 00:32:22,419 --> 00:32:29,823 At such times my audacity and temerity know no bounds. 214 00:32:30,968 --> 00:32:32,867 I feel capable of anything. 215 00:32:37,545 --> 00:32:41,542 I attempt the most difficult operations and do them magnificently. 216 00:32:49,835 --> 00:32:57,178 Nd all of you seem to crawl at my feet like so many insects 217 00:32:59,479 --> 00:33:00,679 or microbes... 218 00:33:18,017 --> 00:33:21,013 Play, Waffles! 219 00:33:21,090 --> 00:33:24,852 Do listen to reason; everybody in the house is asleep. 220 00:34:06,068 --> 00:34:09,238 There is nothing I will tell 221 00:34:11,176 --> 00:34:15,380 I won't bother you at all 222 00:34:16,485 --> 00:34:20,624 And of what I'm thinking 223 00:34:22,129 --> 00:34:25,825 Never will I dare to speak. 224 00:34:27,572 --> 00:34:31,031 During daytime all the nightly flowers slept, 225 00:34:32,078 --> 00:34:35,517 But when the sun behind the hill set, 226 00:34:36,553 --> 00:34:40,083 Their petals delicately unclosed 227 00:34:41,561 --> 00:34:45,758 and my heart blossomed again 228 00:34:47,973 --> 00:34:51,737 and my tired, aching chest 229 00:34:53,050 --> 00:34:56,613 The nightly breeze begins to wave, I wince... 230 00:35:00,694 --> 00:35:05,494 No, I won't bother you at all 231 00:35:09,010 --> 00:35:15,174 There is nothing I will tell... 232 00:35:23,735 --> 00:35:28,675 I want a drink. Come, we still have some brandy left. 233 00:35:29,078 --> 00:35:33,040 - And then, you will come home with me. - Shall we go? 234 00:35:40,064 --> 00:35:41,166 Shall we go like this? 235 00:37:18,701 --> 00:37:20,164 Such a drought 236 00:37:32,259 --> 00:37:36,799 Michael Livovich, drink as much as you please, but I implore you not to let my uncle do it. 237 00:37:39,304 --> 00:37:40,970 Very well; we won't drink any more. 238 00:37:54,531 --> 00:37:56,725 I am going home at once. That is settled. 239 00:37:58,905 --> 00:38:00,300 It is still raining 240 00:38:04,047 --> 00:38:05,618 Wait till morning. 241 00:38:16,369 --> 00:38:18,650 Please don't ask me to come and see your father any more.. 242 00:38:18,940 --> 00:38:21,234 Today he refused to see me at all. 243 00:38:22,513 --> 00:38:23,576 He has been spoilt. 244 00:38:26,521 --> 00:38:30,525 - Won't you have a bite to eat? - Yes, please. I believe I will. 245 00:38:32,764 --> 00:38:37,264 I love to eat at night. 246 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:44,976 Do you know, I could not stand living in this house for even a month? It would stifle me. 247 00:39:45,287 --> 00:39:48,756 There is your father, your Uncle Vanya with his hypochondria, your grandmother 248 00:39:49,597 --> 00:39:55,333 - And finally, your step-mother... - What about her? 249 00:40:01,384 --> 00:40:04,880 A human being should be entirely beautiful: 250 00:40:05,725 --> 00:40:10,392 the face, the clothes, the mind, the thoughts... 251 00:40:11,936 --> 00:40:15,670 Your step-mother is beautiful to look at, but she has no responsibilities, 252 00:40:15,944 --> 00:40:17,674 everything is done for her... 253 00:40:17,914 --> 00:40:20,315 However, I may be judging her too severely. 254 00:40:20,551 --> 00:40:24,286 - Aren't you satisfied with life? - I like life as life, 255 00:40:24,492 --> 00:40:31,335 but I hate and despise our narrow, petty Russian life. 256 00:40:31,837 --> 00:40:34,368 It is boring, stupid, filthy. 257 00:40:36,847 --> 00:40:44,387 As far as my own personal life goes, 258 00:40:47,163 --> 00:40:50,228 by heaven! There is absolutely no redeeming feature about it 259 00:40:52,173 --> 00:40:56,608 I work, that you know - as no one else in the county works... 260 00:41:01,589 --> 00:41:05,686 but I see no light ahead. 261 00:41:06,799 --> 00:41:10,102 - I beg you, don't drink anymore! - Why? 262 00:41:11,774 --> 00:41:16,874 It is so unworthy of you. You are well-bred, your voice is sweet. 263 00:41:17,684 --> 00:41:20,817 You are even - more than any one I know - handsome. 264 00:41:22,526 --> 00:41:24,825 Why do you want to resemble the common people, 265 00:41:25,397 --> 00:41:27,434 that drink and play cards? 266 00:41:35,515 --> 00:41:37,144 I won't drink any more. 267 00:41:37,785 --> 00:41:40,552 - Promise me. - I give you my word of honor. 268 00:41:41,325 --> 00:41:42,526 Thank you. 269 00:41:45,332 --> 00:41:50,803 You see, I am perfectly sober again, and so I shall stay till the end of my life. 270 00:42:13,882 --> 00:42:17,010 - What is it? - Nothing... 271 00:42:20,359 --> 00:42:24,023 During Lent one of my patients died under chloroform. 272 00:42:25,468 --> 00:42:27,063 It is time to forget that. 273 00:42:33,951 --> 00:42:40,787 Tell me, doctor, if I had a friend or a younger sister 274 00:42:43,666 --> 00:42:49,069 and if you knew that she loved you... 275 00:42:51,447 --> 00:42:53,210 what would you do? 276 00:42:54,987 --> 00:42:57,189 I don't think I should do anything. 277 00:42:59,728 --> 00:43:03,500 I should make her understand that I could not return her love. 278 00:43:05,904 --> 00:43:08,636 My mind is not bothered about those things now 279 00:43:10,446 --> 00:43:14,883 Good bye. At this rate we shall stand here talking till morning.. 280 00:43:19,863 --> 00:43:23,756 I shall go out through the sitting-room, 281 00:43:26,608 --> 00:43:30,409 because I am afraid your uncle might detain me. 282 00:43:55,759 --> 00:43:59,556 The storm is over. What delicious air! 283 00:44:03,581 --> 00:44:05,381 - Sonia... - Yes... 284 00:44:08,582 --> 00:44:10,685 How much longer are you going to sulk at me? 285 00:44:12,454 --> 00:44:16,051 We have not hurt each other. Why not be friends? 286 00:44:17,697 --> 00:44:22,331 - I myself... - There, there, don't cry 287 00:44:28,883 --> 00:44:31,719 Now I am crying too. 288 00:44:36,496 --> 00:44:41,664 You are angry with me because I seem to have married your father for his money? 289 00:44:44,210 --> 00:44:48,716 Don't believe the gossip you hear. I swear I married him for love. 290 00:44:55,196 --> 00:44:57,092 Peace, peace! Let us forget the past. 291 00:44:58,534 --> 00:45:03,861 You must not look so at people. It is not becoming to you. 292 00:45:06,281 --> 00:45:10,450 - Tell me truly, are you happy? - Truly, no. 293 00:45:11,090 --> 00:45:13,025 Do you wish your husband were young? 294 00:45:14,862 --> 00:45:19,031 - Of course I do - Do you like the doctor? 295 00:45:20,205 --> 00:45:21,799 Yes, very much indeed. 296 00:45:23,778 --> 00:45:25,910 I seem foolish to you, don't I? 297 00:45:38,336 --> 00:45:39,929 Talk to me of him. 298 00:45:41,643 --> 00:45:48,278 He is brave, profound, and of clear insight. People like him are rare and should be loved. 299 00:45:49,890 --> 00:45:52,952 What if he does drink and act roughly at times? 300 00:45:53,897 --> 00:45:59,033 A man of genius cannot be a saint in Russia. 301 00:46:00,808 --> 00:46:02,372 You deserve happiness 302 00:46:05,818 --> 00:46:06,843 As for me... 303 00:46:17,672 --> 00:46:22,476 I am a worthless, futile woman, I have always been futile 304 00:46:23,517 --> 00:46:27,815 in music, in love, in my husband's house. 305 00:46:30,995 --> 00:46:33,733 Happiness can never exist for me in this world. 306 00:46:43,050 --> 00:46:45,019 - Why do you laugh? - I am so happy, so happy! 307 00:48:17,114 --> 00:48:23,678 We were asked by the professor to be here at one o'clock. 308 00:48:23,821 --> 00:48:25,860 It seems he has something important to say. 309 00:48:27,097 --> 00:48:29,032 Probably a matter of business. 310 00:48:29,935 --> 00:48:31,803 He never had any business. 311 00:48:34,477 --> 00:48:37,979 - Uncle! - All right. I beg your pardon... 312 00:49:04,292 --> 00:49:06,453 Look at her. Wandering up and down from sheer idleness. 313 00:49:07,768 --> 00:49:10,671 A sweet picture, really. 314 00:49:16,783 --> 00:49:18,780 Why should you languish here? 315 00:49:22,594 --> 00:49:25,862 My beauty, the blood of a Nixey runs in your veins. 316 00:49:26,568 --> 00:49:29,315 Won't you let yourself be one? Give your nature the reins for once in your life. 317 00:49:29,339 --> 00:49:32,867 Fall head over ears in love with some other water sprite. 318 00:49:32,912 --> 00:49:35,512 And plunge down head first into a deep pool, 319 00:49:35,513 --> 00:49:39,281 so that the Herr Professor and all of us may have our hands free again 320 00:49:39,357 --> 00:49:41,426 Leave me alone! 321 00:49:43,429 --> 00:49:44,909 There, there, my beauty, I apologise. 322 00:49:58,924 --> 00:50:02,444 As a peace offering I am going to fetch some flowers which I picked for you this morning. 323 00:50:07,268 --> 00:50:11,374 September already! Where is the doctor? 324 00:50:11,813 --> 00:50:13,253 He is writing in Uncle Vanya's room. 325 00:50:15,753 --> 00:50:18,048 - I want to talk to you about something. - About what? 326 00:50:22,898 --> 00:50:25,164 Last Sunday, while leaving church 327 00:50:26,536 --> 00:50:31,800 I've heard people whispering: she's good and kind-hearted 328 00:50:31,913 --> 00:50:35,819 it's a pity she's so ugly - You have lovely hair. 329 00:50:35,856 --> 00:50:41,593 When a woman is ugly they always say she has beautiful hair or eyes. 330 00:50:42,466 --> 00:50:45,933 I have loved him now for six years I've loved him more than one loves one's mother. 331 00:50:46,808 --> 00:50:49,545 If I look up, I seem to see him coming. 332 00:50:49,946 --> 00:50:53,187 He is here every day now, but he never looks at me, he doesn't notice my presence. 333 00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:58,351 It is agony. My pride is gone. 334 00:50:58,961 --> 00:51:02,281 Yesterday I told Uncle Vanya I couldn't control myself, and all the servants know it 335 00:51:02,901 --> 00:51:04,861 - Every one knows that I love him. - Does he know? 336 00:51:05,706 --> 00:51:07,231 No, he never notices me. 337 00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:15,781 He is a strange man. Listen, Sonia, will you allow me to speak to him? 338 00:51:18,161 --> 00:51:20,762 Really, to be in uncertainty all these years! 339 00:51:24,172 --> 00:51:26,699 - Let me do it... - Will you tell me the whole truth? 340 00:51:26,910 --> 00:51:30,075 Of course I will. Trust me, dearest. 341 00:51:42,370 --> 00:51:47,206 No, it is better not to know - and yet-there may be hope 342 00:52:19,901 --> 00:52:20,901 How do you do? 343 00:52:21,971 --> 00:52:24,612 You promised to show me what you had been doing. Have you time now? 344 00:52:26,247 --> 00:52:28,842 - Where were you born? - In St. Petersburg. 345 00:52:29,185 --> 00:52:31,817 - And studied? - At the Conservatory there. 346 00:52:35,428 --> 00:52:37,799 You don't find this life very interesting, I dare say? 347 00:52:38,234 --> 00:52:42,067 It is true I don't know the country very well, but I have read a great deal about it. 348 00:52:48,786 --> 00:52:50,322 Here I have my little quiet place. 349 00:52:52,258 --> 00:52:55,557 When I am absolutely too exhausted to go on I drop everything 350 00:52:56,934 --> 00:53:00,131 and rush over here to forget myself in this work for an hour or two. 351 00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:05,320 Look there! 352 00:53:08,621 --> 00:53:15,461 That is a map of our county as it was fifty years ago... 353 00:53:16,334 --> 00:53:19,200 Half the map is covered with forests. 354 00:53:20,006 --> 00:53:26,139 The forests were inhabited by elk and wild goats here lived great flocks of swans and ducks... 355 00:53:28,896 --> 00:53:29,896 Now, look lower down... 356 00:53:33,997 --> 00:53:36,993 We are confronted by the degradation of our country. 357 00:53:38,644 --> 00:53:39,844 Look... 358 00:54:01,245 --> 00:54:04,045 Stagnation, negligence. 359 00:54:05,386 --> 00:54:09,157 The ignorance and unconsciousness of starving, shivering, sick humanity 360 00:54:09,359 --> 00:54:12,820 instinctively snatches at everything that can warm it and still its hunger. 361 00:54:13,599 --> 00:54:16,263 But I see by your face that I am not interesting you. 362 00:54:19,010 --> 00:54:20,979 I know so little about such things! 363 00:54:24,486 --> 00:54:29,324 There is nothing to know. It simply isn't interesting, that's all. 364 00:54:30,195 --> 00:54:32,563 Frankly, my thoughts were elsewhere. 365 00:54:34,368 --> 00:54:39,603 - Forgive me! I want to submit you to a little examination - Examination? 366 00:54:43,504 --> 00:54:45,404 Sit down. 367 00:54:52,267 --> 00:54:54,998 I don't know how to begin. 368 00:55:01,015 --> 00:55:04,586 It is about my step-daughter. 369 00:55:06,826 --> 00:55:08,394 Do you like her? 370 00:55:09,229 --> 00:55:10,892 Yes, I respect her. 371 00:55:12,902 --> 00:55:14,871 Do you like her - as a woman? 372 00:55:21,049 --> 00:55:22,049 No. 373 00:55:31,102 --> 00:55:32,102 She is suffering. 374 00:55:34,807 --> 00:55:40,316 You must realise that, and not come here any more. 375 00:55:43,656 --> 00:55:47,254 My sun has set, yes, and then I haven't... 376 00:55:52,906 --> 00:55:55,805 What an unpleasant conversation! 377 00:55:58,549 --> 00:56:02,749 Now let us forget everything as if nothing had been said. 378 00:56:05,291 --> 00:56:06,561 And ...you're leaving. 379 00:56:07,965 --> 00:56:12,428 If you had spoken a month ago 380 00:56:12,973 --> 00:56:15,239 I might perhaps have considered it. 381 00:56:15,912 --> 00:56:21,185 But now I cannot understand why you had to put me through this examination. 382 00:56:25,529 --> 00:56:29,600 Oh, my sweet, don't look at me in that way; I am an old bird! 383 00:56:32,441 --> 00:56:34,342 You must have your victims? 384 00:56:38,686 --> 00:56:46,686 For a whole month I have done nothing but seek you eagerly... 385 00:56:47,133 --> 00:56:52,474 I have thrown over everything for you, and you love to see it.. 386 00:56:52,676 --> 00:56:56,712 - You have gone mad! - You are afraid! 387 00:56:57,952 --> 00:57:01,954 - More than you think. - I'll leave today. 388 00:57:04,497 --> 00:57:06,398 I won't come here again. 389 00:57:08,938 --> 00:57:14,276 But where can we meet, tell me, tell me? 390 00:57:14,514 --> 00:57:16,507 Someone might come, tell me quick. 391 00:57:21,426 --> 00:57:25,999 Well, look... A kiss. 392 00:57:26,435 --> 00:57:31,399 - I swear to you... - What's that good for. You don't have to swear! 393 00:58:22,766 --> 00:58:25,056 Have pity! Leave me. 394 00:58:26,406 --> 00:58:33,812 - Be in the forest tomorrow at two o'clock - No. 395 00:58:39,788 --> 00:58:42,064 - Oh! It's terrible! - Nothing -yes, yes, nothing. 396 00:58:50,081 --> 00:58:55,149 You must use all your power to get my husband and myself away from here today. 397 00:58:56,058 --> 00:58:59,158 Do you hear? I say, this very day!! 398 00:59:11,217 --> 00:59:17,481 The weather is fine to-day, my dear Ivan Petrovic. 399 00:59:19,732 --> 00:59:26,003 Honestly, we have had a very fine autumn, and the wheat is looking fairly well. 400 00:59:27,746 --> 00:59:32,514 But the days are growing short.. 401 00:59:53,157 --> 00:59:54,758 Where are the others? 402 01:00:22,674 --> 01:00:24,606 I hate this house. It is a regular labyrinth. 403 01:01:58,374 --> 01:02:01,510 - What did he say? - I'll tell you later. 404 01:02:02,816 --> 01:02:04,817 You are moved. Are you afraid? 405 01:02:09,261 --> 01:02:11,261 Moreover, he said he would not come here any more.. 406 01:03:05,859 --> 01:03:08,153 Where are the others? 407 01:03:25,325 --> 01:03:28,285 Every one is always scattered through the rooms and you can't find anybody. 408 01:03:28,831 --> 01:03:31,101 Please call here Maria Vasilievna. 409 01:03:37,580 --> 01:03:39,177 Please, gentlemen, take a seat. 410 01:03:48,499 --> 01:03:52,028 Please, gentlemen, please. Sonia. 411 01:03:56,413 --> 01:04:00,145 - Perhaps you do not need me... - You are needed now more than any one. 412 01:04:00,386 --> 01:04:04,224 - But what are you angry about? 413 01:04:04,526 --> 01:04:07,521 If it is anything I have done, I ask you to forgive me. 414 01:04:08,367 --> 01:04:13,136 Ladies and gentlemen, I shall begin, please pay attention... 415 01:04:16,415 --> 01:04:20,644 I am a book-worm and a scholar, and am unfamiliar with practical affairs. 416 01:04:21,923 --> 01:04:27,126 I want to ask you for your assistance and advice. 417 01:04:29,705 --> 01:04:32,039 In this very important matter. 418 01:04:33,944 --> 01:04:37,976 As I am old and ill, I realise that the time has come 419 01:04:38,486 --> 01:04:41,406 for me to dispose of my property in regard to the interests of my family.. 420 01:04:44,196 --> 01:04:46,397 My life is nearly over, and I am not thinking of myself, 421 01:04:46,734 --> 01:04:50,097 but I have a young wife and daughter. 422 01:04:52,911 --> 01:04:55,913 I cannot continue to live in the country. 423 01:04:56,919 --> 01:04:59,355 We were not made for country life. 424 01:04:59,722 --> 01:05:04,622 We cannot afford to live in town on the income derived from this estate. 425 01:05:05,967 --> 01:05:11,306 Avoiding all details, I propose selling the estate. 426 01:05:11,443 --> 01:05:15,179 If we then invest our capital in bonds, 427 01:05:15,317 --> 01:05:19,313 we should probably have a surplus over of several thousand roubles, with which 428 01:05:19,658 --> 01:05:22,652 we could buy a summer cottage in Finland. 429 01:05:23,097 --> 01:05:24,097 What? 430 01:05:29,642 --> 01:05:34,143 - Hold on! Repeat what you just said. - And buy a summer cottage in Finland. 431 01:05:36,954 --> 01:05:41,785 - No, not Finland - you said something else. - I propose to sell this place. 432 01:05:44,001 --> 01:05:46,081 Aha! That was it! So you are going to sell the place? 433 01:05:47,706 --> 01:05:49,635 Splendid. The idea is a rich one. 434 01:05:54,683 --> 01:05:57,483 And what do you propose to do with my old mother and me and with Sonia? 435 01:05:58,025 --> 01:05:59,346 That will be decided in due time. 436 01:05:59,962 --> 01:06:03,330 I have always been stupid enough to think that the estate belonged to Sonia. 437 01:06:05,003 --> 01:06:08,401 My father bought it as a wedding present for my sister. 438 01:06:08,842 --> 01:06:11,814 Of course it is Sonia's. Has any one denied it? 439 01:06:12,082 --> 01:06:15,283 I don't want to sell it without Sonia's consent. 440 01:06:18,660 --> 01:06:20,629 This is absolutely unbelievable. 441 01:06:21,265 --> 01:06:27,372 Jean, don't contradict Alexander. Trust him; he knows better than we what's right and what's wrong. 442 01:06:32,084 --> 01:06:34,351 Either I have gone mad or... 443 01:06:34,587 --> 01:06:37,350 I don't pretend that my scheme is an ideal one. 444 01:06:37,393 --> 01:06:40,559 If you all object to it I shall not insist. 445 01:06:40,798 --> 01:06:44,636 I not only nourish feelings of respect toward learning, but I am also drawn to it 446 01:06:44,872 --> 01:06:47,792 by family ties. My brother Gregory's wife's brother, whom you may know... 447 01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:53,282 The price was ninety-five thousand roubles. My father paid seventy 448 01:06:53,387 --> 01:06:57,251 and left a debt of twenty-five. Now listen! 449 01:07:01,100 --> 01:07:04,036 His place could never have been bought had I not renounced my inheritance 450 01:07:04,037 --> 01:07:05,636 in favour of my sister. 451 01:07:06,611 --> 01:07:10,547 Thanks entirely to my own personal efforts, the place is entirely clear of debts. 452 01:07:21,870 --> 01:07:24,530 I regret ever having started this conversation. 453 01:07:28,615 --> 01:07:32,782 For twenty-five years I and Sonia have managed this place, 454 01:07:34,626 --> 01:07:37,893 We made deals, sold oil, peas and cheese 455 01:07:38,667 --> 01:07:43,571 We didn't afford to eat but saved every penny to send them to you 456 01:07:44,910 --> 01:07:49,643 During all these years you have never even thought of adding a rouble to it. 457 01:07:49,651 --> 01:07:51,780 A single ruble! 458 01:07:52,022 --> 01:07:55,084 What did I know about such things, Ivan? I am not a practical man. 459 01:07:55,529 --> 01:07:57,498 You might have helped yourself to all you wanted. 460 01:07:57,733 --> 01:07:58,927 Why did I not steal? 461 01:08:01,405 --> 01:08:04,032 You all despise me because I have not stolen? 462 01:08:09,820 --> 01:08:13,923 For twenty-five years I have been sitting with my mother like a mole in a burrow. 463 01:08:14,595 --> 01:08:18,497 Day and night we worked, our nights we wasted your books and papers. 464 01:08:19,104 --> 01:08:22,633 Our every thought and hope was yours and yours only. 465 01:08:23,043 --> 01:08:25,875 We spoke your name with veneration. 466 01:08:33,220 --> 01:08:34,980 I don't understand. What do you want from me? 467 01:08:37,535 --> 01:08:39,903 We used to think of you as almost superhuman, 468 01:08:40,206 --> 01:08:42,141 we knew your articles by heart. 469 01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:46,609 But now the scales have fallen from my eyes. 470 01:08:51,693 --> 01:08:54,927 You write on art without knowing anything about it. 471 01:08:55,199 --> 01:09:00,804 Those books of yours are not worth one copper kopeck. You are a hoax! 472 01:09:06,218 --> 01:09:09,987 Can't any one make him stop? I am going! 473 01:09:10,893 --> 01:09:13,158 - I command you to stop this instant! - Stop it! 474 01:09:13,597 --> 01:09:16,660 I refuse! Wait! I have not done yet! 475 01:09:19,007 --> 01:09:22,673 You have wrecked my life. I have never lived. 476 01:09:22,948 --> 01:09:26,813 My best years have gone for nothing, have been ruined, thanks to you. 477 01:09:27,956 --> 01:09:30,222 You are my most bitter enemy! 478 01:09:30,761 --> 01:09:33,197 I can't stand it; I can't stand it. 479 01:09:36,037 --> 01:09:40,008 What earthly right have you to use such language to me? 480 01:09:40,210 --> 01:09:44,081 If this estate is yours, then take it, and let me be ruined! 481 01:09:44,819 --> 01:09:47,618 I am going away out of this hell this minute. This is too much! 482 01:09:48,091 --> 01:09:52,891 My life has been a failure. I am clever and brave and strong. 483 01:09:53,300 --> 01:09:55,030 If I had lived a normal life 484 01:09:55,236 --> 01:09:58,606 I might have become another Schopenhauer or Dostoyevsky. 485 01:10:15,940 --> 01:10:21,075 - Mother, I am in despair! - Listen, Alexander! 486 01:10:22,452 --> 01:10:24,183 Mother! What shall I do? 487 01:10:28,895 --> 01:10:32,796 But no, don't speak! I know what to do. 488 01:10:50,599 --> 01:10:52,296 And you will understand me! 489 01:10:56,178 --> 01:11:00,579 Tell me, what on earth is the matter? Take this lunatic out of my sight! 490 01:11:00,818 --> 01:11:04,499 I cannot possibly live under the same roof with him. Let him take himself off into the village, 491 01:11:04,558 --> 01:11:07,962 or I shall leave here at once. I cannot stay in the same house with him. 492 01:11:08,263 --> 01:11:11,599 We are leaving today; we must get ready at once for our departure. 493 01:11:13,139 --> 01:11:16,908 - What a perfectly dreadful man! - Papa, you must be merciful to us. 494 01:11:18,749 --> 01:11:22,949 Uncle Vanya and I are so unhappy! Have pity on us. 495 01:11:23,624 --> 01:11:27,290 Uncle Vanya has toiled without rest; he would never spend a penny on us, 496 01:11:27,731 --> 01:11:29,723 we sent it all to you. 497 01:11:30,703 --> 01:11:32,605 I am not saying this as I should like to, 498 01:11:39,384 --> 01:11:40,918 but you must understand us. 499 01:11:43,058 --> 01:11:44,820 For heaven's sake, Alexander, go and have a talk with him. 500 01:11:44,821 --> 01:11:46,421 - I beg you! - Very well! 501 01:11:47,732 --> 01:11:51,170 I am not angry with him. 502 01:11:52,207 --> 01:11:55,201 - I shall go to him. - Be gentle with him; try to quiet him. 503 01:12:02,992 --> 01:12:09,059 - Nurse, oh, nurse! - It's all right, they'll stop. 504 01:12:13,911 --> 01:12:15,373 The devil take them! 505 01:12:16,382 --> 01:12:19,217 Hold him! He has gone mad! 506 01:12:21,925 --> 01:12:25,795 - Give it to me! - Let me go! Where is he? 507 01:12:27,401 --> 01:12:29,165 Ah, there he is! 508 01:12:32,110 --> 01:12:33,202 I didn't get him? 509 01:12:34,915 --> 01:12:38,080 I missed again? Damnation! To hell with him! 510 01:12:42,094 --> 01:12:45,122 Take me away! 511 01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:50,031 I can't stay here. 512 01:12:52,278 --> 01:12:54,942 I can't! 513 01:12:57,120 --> 01:12:59,750 What shall I do? 514 01:13:18,089 --> 01:13:19,089 Oh, nurse, nurse! 515 01:13:55,221 --> 01:13:56,990 - Go away and leave me to myself! - Yes, yes. 516 01:13:57,225 --> 01:13:59,387 I should have left a long time ago. 517 01:14:02,468 --> 01:14:05,368 The doctor fears he may lay violent hands on himself. 518 01:14:06,206 --> 01:14:09,467 - Where is his pistol? - I hid it in the cellar. 519 01:14:26,475 --> 01:14:30,209 If you knew how ashamed I am! 520 01:14:38,997 --> 01:14:41,762 - What can I do now? - Nothing. 521 01:14:46,105 --> 01:14:49,511 If only I could live the rest of my life in some new way! 522 01:14:50,483 --> 01:14:54,388 If I could only wake some still, bright morning and feel that life had begun again, 523 01:14:54,757 --> 01:14:57,419 that the past was forgotten and had vanished like smoke. 524 01:14:57,896 --> 01:15:00,298 Tell me, tell me how to begin. 525 01:15:00,501 --> 01:15:04,668 What nonsense! What sort of a new life can you and I look forward to? 526 01:15:05,844 --> 01:15:09,177 We can have no hope. 527 01:15:10,352 --> 01:15:17,119 I may live to sixty; I still have thirteen years before me; That's a lot! 528 01:15:17,964 --> 01:15:21,232 - How shall I be able to endure life for thirteen years? - Stop it. 529 01:15:29,318 --> 01:15:32,754 It may be that posterity, which will despise us 530 01:15:33,962 --> 01:15:38,062 for our blind and stupid lives 531 01:15:40,463 --> 01:15:42,063 that we lived, 532 01:15:43,175 --> 01:15:48,783 will find some road to happiness 533 01:15:50,220 --> 01:15:51,220 but we - you and I... 534 01:15:53,265 --> 01:15:54,496 Yes, brother... 535 01:15:56,697 --> 01:15:58,697 there were only two respectable, 536 01:16:00,441 --> 01:16:07,410 intelligent men in this county, 537 01:16:09,921 --> 01:16:13,758 you and I. 538 01:16:17,102 --> 01:16:19,733 Ten years or so of this life of ours, 539 01:16:21,041 --> 01:16:25,078 this miserable life, have sucked us under. 540 01:17:10,194 --> 01:17:13,428 You took a little bottle of morphine out of my medicine-case. 541 01:17:16,740 --> 01:17:20,174 If you are positively determined to make an end to yourself, 542 01:17:20,478 --> 01:17:22,513 go into the woods and shoot yourself there. 543 01:17:24,318 --> 01:17:28,382 Give up the morphine, or there will be a lot of talk and guesswork 544 01:17:30,094 --> 01:17:36,059 I don't fancy having to perform a postmortem on you. 545 01:17:43,851 --> 01:17:45,531 Do you think I should find it interesting? 546 01:17:54,770 --> 01:17:58,767 Your uncle has stolen a bottle of morphine out of my medicine-case and won't give it up. 547 01:17:58,946 --> 01:18:01,746 Tell him that his behaviour is unwise. I haven't time, I must be going. 548 01:18:10,531 --> 01:18:13,400 Uncle Vanya, did you take the morphine? 549 01:18:21,919 --> 01:18:25,213 Give it up! Why do you want to frighten us? 550 01:18:26,564 --> 01:18:33,258 My misfortune is perhaps even greater than yours 551 01:18:33,802 --> 01:18:35,082 but I am not plunged in despair. 552 01:18:36,878 --> 01:18:40,810 I endure my sorrow, and shall endure it 553 01:18:42,320 --> 01:18:45,423 until my life comes to a natural end 554 01:18:51,269 --> 01:18:52,561 You must endure yours, too. 555 01:18:57,280 --> 01:19:02,281 Give it up! Dear, darling Uncle Vanya. 556 01:19:08,632 --> 01:19:13,096 I am sure you will have pity on us and give it up. 557 01:19:28,167 --> 01:19:29,565 There it is! 558 01:19:34,509 --> 01:19:37,806 We must get to work at once; we must do something, 559 01:19:38,584 --> 01:19:41,481 or else I shall not be able to endure it. 560 01:19:43,426 --> 01:19:47,331 Yes, to work! As soon as we have seen them off we shall go to work. 561 01:19:47,700 --> 01:19:52,003 Are you here, Ivan Petrovich? We are starting in a moment. 562 01:19:53,108 --> 01:19:55,712 Go to Alexander, he wants to speak to you. 563 01:19:57,050 --> 01:20:00,317 Go, Uncle Vanya. You and papa must make peace 564 01:22:16,125 --> 01:22:19,356 - I am going away. Good-bye. - So soon? 565 01:22:23,338 --> 01:22:25,033 Good-bye. 566 01:22:26,275 --> 01:22:28,712 You promised me you would go away yourself today. 567 01:22:28,915 --> 01:22:31,045 I have not forgotten. I am going at once. 568 01:22:34,657 --> 01:22:38,195 Were you frightened? Was it so terrible? 569 01:22:40,367 --> 01:22:44,272 Couldn't you stay? Couldn't you? Tomorrow - in the forest 570 01:22:44,542 --> 01:22:46,508 No. It is all settled, 571 01:22:47,312 --> 01:22:50,617 That is why I can look you so bravely in the face. Our departure is fixed. 572 01:22:52,387 --> 01:22:57,121 One thing I must ask of you: don't think too badly of me. 573 01:23:11,088 --> 01:23:14,855 How comical you are! I am angry with you and yet 574 01:23:20,303 --> 01:23:25,642 I shall always remember you with pleasure. 575 01:23:35,430 --> 01:23:37,764 Yes, go. 576 01:23:40,505 --> 01:23:44,909 I am strangely sure that had you stayed here 577 01:23:47,284 --> 01:23:51,120 we should have been overtaken by the most immense desolation. 578 01:23:52,959 --> 01:23:57,360 I would have gone to my ruin, and you would not have prospered. 579 01:23:58,803 --> 01:24:03,265 So go! E finita la comedia! 580 01:24:08,755 --> 01:24:10,287 I wish you... 581 01:24:15,532 --> 01:24:16,865 For once in my life... 582 01:24:22,845 --> 01:24:24,144 I must go. 583 01:24:33,564 --> 01:24:39,795 How strange it is. We meet, and then suddenly 584 01:24:40,476 --> 01:24:43,406 it seems that we must part forever. 585 01:24:44,717 --> 01:24:48,146 - Someone's coming. - E finita! 586 01:25:09,227 --> 01:25:11,525 Shame on him who bears malice for the past. 587 01:25:11,864 --> 01:25:15,701 I have gone through so much in the last few hours 588 01:25:16,238 --> 01:25:18,835 that I feel capable of writing 589 01:25:19,377 --> 01:25:24,674 a whole treatise on the conduct of life. 590 01:25:25,721 --> 01:25:30,151 I gladly accept your apology, and myself ask your forgiveness. 591 01:25:39,952 --> 01:25:45,952 I gladly accept your apology, and myself ask your forgiveness. 592 01:25:55,774 --> 01:25:59,004 You will receive the same amount as you used to. 593 01:25:59,881 --> 01:26:01,521 Everything will be like in the old times. 594 01:26:10,800 --> 01:26:14,235 Have your picture taken, Alexander, and send me one. 595 01:26:14,940 --> 01:26:16,636 You know how dear you are to me. 596 01:26:16,877 --> 01:26:19,871 Good-bye, your Excellency. Don't forget us. 597 01:26:20,817 --> 01:26:23,982 Good bye, papa. Take care of you. 598 01:26:25,526 --> 01:26:27,257 Good-bye. I shall never see you again! 599 01:26:32,571 --> 01:26:34,002 Good-bye, good-bye all. 600 01:26:39,783 --> 01:26:41,882 Many thanks for your pleasant company. 601 01:27:07,031 --> 01:27:12,439 I have a deep regard for your opinions and your enthusiasm 602 01:27:13,710 --> 01:27:18,640 but let me, as an old man, give one word of advice at parting: 603 01:27:21,489 --> 01:27:26,026 Do something, my friend! 604 01:27:28,902 --> 01:27:32,432 Work! Do something! Good luck to you all. 605 01:27:40,289 --> 01:27:43,352 Tell them to bring my carriage around. 606 01:27:43,635 --> 01:27:51,602 - Why don't you go to see them off? - Let them go! I can't go out there. 607 01:28:00,958 --> 01:28:05,458 They have gone! The professor, I suppose, is glad to go. 608 01:28:07,738 --> 01:28:10,666 He couldn't be tempted back now by a fortune. 609 01:28:17,887 --> 01:28:19,322 They have gone. 610 01:28:36,619 --> 01:28:39,887 They have gone. God be with them. 611 01:28:41,228 --> 01:28:46,300 And now, uncle, let us do something! - To work! To work! 612 01:28:47,506 --> 01:28:51,501 First, let us write up the accounts. They are in a dreadful state. 613 01:28:52,882 --> 01:28:54,847 All these debts... 614 01:28:58,591 --> 01:29:01,822 You take one and I will take the other. 615 01:29:28,543 --> 01:29:29,543 They have gone. 616 01:29:53,421 --> 01:29:56,013 It is so warm and comfortable, 617 01:29:59,631 --> 01:30:02,064 I hate to go. 618 01:30:10,583 --> 01:30:18,583 - We also have the older debt... - Two hundred and seventy five. 619 01:30:21,670 --> 01:30:24,100 Is the carriage ready? 620 01:30:25,175 --> 01:30:26,175 Here. 621 01:30:30,852 --> 01:30:33,550 Look out, don't crush the portfolio! 622 01:30:49,618 --> 01:30:54,482 - When shall we see you again? - Hardly before next summer. Probably not this winter 623 01:30:54,894 --> 01:30:59,061 though, of course, if anything should happen you will let me know. 624 01:31:04,043 --> 01:31:08,743 Thank you for your kindness, for your hospitality, 625 01:31:12,724 --> 01:31:14,660 for everything! 626 01:31:18,802 --> 01:31:22,204 - Good-bye, old nurse! - Are you going without your tea? 627 01:31:22,742 --> 01:31:25,102 - I don't want any, nurse. - Won't you have a drop of vodka? 628 01:31:29,687 --> 01:31:31,714 Yes, I might. 629 01:31:58,037 --> 01:32:02,031 My off-wheeler has gone lame for some reason. 630 01:32:04,548 --> 01:32:06,711 I noticed it yesterday 631 01:32:10,462 --> 01:32:12,093 You should have him re-shod. 632 01:32:21,644 --> 01:32:27,544 I shall have to go around by the blacksmith's in Rojdesdvenskoie on my way home. 633 01:32:42,716 --> 01:32:48,622 I suppose it is roasting hot in Africa now. 634 01:32:55,705 --> 01:32:57,140 Yes, I suppose it is. 635 01:33:00,526 --> 01:33:07,853 Help yourself. 636 01:33:08,604 --> 01:33:16,604 - Eat your bread with it. - No, I like it so... 637 01:33:22,683 --> 01:33:25,483 And now, good-bye. 638 01:33:27,092 --> 01:33:29,058 You needn't come out to see me off, nurse. 639 01:33:34,412 --> 01:33:42,412 Twenty pounds of butter... 640 01:34:02,653 --> 01:34:05,055 He has gone. 641 01:34:19,950 --> 01:34:21,942 He has gone. 642 01:35:03,225 --> 01:35:05,889 Six, five, nine... 643 01:35:31,341 --> 01:35:35,211 seventeen, fifteen, seven... 644 01:36:21,428 --> 01:36:25,759 Oh, my child, I am miserable. 645 01:36:27,138 --> 01:36:30,266 What can we do? We must live our lives. 646 01:36:34,752 --> 01:36:36,622 Yes, we shall live, Uncle Vanya. 647 01:36:38,691 --> 01:36:43,656 We'll live through the long procession of days before us, and through the long evenings. 648 01:36:45,304 --> 01:36:48,908 We shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us. 649 01:36:49,443 --> 01:36:55,080 We shall work for others without rest, both now and when we are old. 650 01:36:58,327 --> 01:37:02,689 And when our last hour comes we shall meet it humbly. 651 01:37:04,871 --> 01:37:10,673 And there, beyond the grave, we shall say that we have suffered and wept, 652 01:37:12,616 --> 01:37:16,383 that our life was bitter, and God will have pity on us. 653 01:37:21,934 --> 01:37:25,235 Ah, then dear, dear Uncle, we shall see 654 01:37:26,174 --> 01:37:29,107 that bright and beautiful life; 655 01:37:30,682 --> 01:37:36,388 we shall rejoice and look back upon our sorrow here. 656 01:37:38,294 --> 01:37:42,495 A tender smile - and we shall rest. 657 01:37:45,175 --> 01:37:50,542 We shall hear the angels. We shall see heaven shining like a jewel. 658 01:37:51,217 --> 01:37:56,518 We shall see all evil and all our pain sink away in the great compassion 659 01:37:57,129 --> 01:37:59,760 that shall enfold the world. 660 01:38:02,405 --> 01:38:08,807 Our life will be as peaceful and tender and sweet as a caress. 661 01:38:12,756 --> 01:38:15,855 I have faith; I have faith. 662 01:38:18,199 --> 01:38:19,400 We shall rest. 663 01:38:23,240 --> 01:38:24,467 We shall rest. 664 01:38:33,168 --> 01:38:36,168 THE END