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TV CHANNEL RUSSIA

KINOGRAD 21 PRODUCTION COMPANY

KARINA ANDOLENKO

PAVEL PRILUCHNY

ANASTASIA ZADOROZHNAYA VLADIMIR ZHEREBTSOV

ALEXANDR TUTIN YELENA STAROSTINA

SERGEY SHNYREV LUIZA MOSENDZ

KSENIYA BURAVSKAY GALINA PETROVA

VALERIA KOZHEVNIKOVA PAVEL KHARLANCHUK

IN THE FILM BY KAREN OGANESYAN

RUSSIAN BEAUTY

WRITTEN BY GANNA SLUTSKY

CAMERA DIRECTORS ANDREY GURKIN NIKOLAY SMIRNOV

MUSIC BY ANNA KHIRTRIK

PRODUCTION DESIGNER IGOR KHUTSKY

EDITORS OLGA PROSHKINA YURY DYDYCHKO

PRODUCERS DANIIL GETMANSKY VALERY SMETSKOY

PRODUCERS YEKATERINA YEFANOVA ALEXANDR MURAVCKY

EPISODE 3

Go forward after the girls, go, get ready.

Nastya, I’m scared

When I’m scared, I use a rhyme, it helps:

one potato, two potato, three potato, four.

Five potato, six potato, seven potato, more.

Got it?

A rhyme... What are you doing here?

Panova, it’s your turn. Come on, go, go, go.

Meet our next collection.

Our models demonstrate simplicity and delicacy,

tenderness and femininity of style.

The feature is boldness of fabric work.

Interesting fit, sky-blue shades, glitter of fabric

and original trimming make our collection...

Panova, come here.

Go change. Quickly.

Together with the traditional cut,

pay attention to the delicate shapes, tenderness and femininity of the style.

The interesting lines, the riot of color,

all this creates a very interesting effect.

Pay attention to the boldness of details of the item,

at the interesting lines, the glow of the fabric,

the original trimming,

all this makes the collection rather attractive.

We all are in a spring mood

and this collection is evidence of it.

Look at the next model. It’s the same dress

with bright floral print,

bright colors are characteristic of this collection.

Onefold... fabric together with traditional cut.

In our models you can see the simplicity

and lightness of shapes, delicacy and femininity of style.

The next mode is also a dress with large floral print,

unusual purple combined with pink.

Delicacy, lightness, airiness, transparency of this model

together with the unusual cut

make our collection very original and attractive.

Dresses with bright large floral design form the basis of this collection.

The last model is also a dress with large floral print,

pay attention to the brightness of the color,

to the unusual choice of fabric combined with traditional cut,

this delicate style, femininity, lightness, simplicity,

all this creates an unusual effect

and makes this collection extremely attractive for everybody.

In all models you see the simplicity, lightness and femininity of style.

Thank you for your attention.

Hello.

I’ve been wondering, were you named Felix after Dzerzhinsky?

You are right. His portrait hangs in father’s office. You saw it.

Out of great respect to your father we won’t keep you long.

- Thank you. - Burjuno is a difficult region.

And journalists should be very careful there.

They can eat you up?

Felix Sergeevich, jokes are inappropriate in this case.

So, natives won't understand my jokes.

I wondered, do native girls still wear breechclouts?

- You aren’t married yet, are you? - Does it matter?

A Soviet journalist abroad should be thinking only about his wife.

And should not stare at native girls in breechclouts.

Well, I have a fiance.

We advise you to register your relations officially as soon as possible.

That’s what I’ll do.

Did they like it or not...

Igor Vladimirovich, may I introduce somebody to you.

Come, come. Here.

Today this girl surprised everybody during the show.

And I was completely charmed.

I think, you should pay more attention to her.

She is our future.

Great work, it was a wonderful show.

I’m very much pleased with you.

It was beautiful, elegant and very dignified.

Igor Vladimirovich, this is our rising star, Yekaterina Panova.

Sorry, I was late for the show, my work...

Panova, wake up. Give your hand.

Don’t worry, he doesn’t bite.

Katya Panova.

Igor Vladimirovich Shnyrev. He’s our lord and master.

You are the daughter-in-law of Sergey Lvovich Krutsky, aren’t you?

Felix’s future wife. So, nice to meet you.

By the way, where is Felix?

Congratulations... Well done!

Here, this is for you. Hello. Sorry, I’m... Hello...

Hi. My congratulations. Now I see, you are in good hands.

I’ve known Felix since he was that big.

His father and me are old friends.

So, welcome to our family.

If you have any questions or, God forbid, problems, contact me.

Yes, don’t hesitate, Katya. Turn to us.

- I have a question. - Later, later.

Yes, comrades. I think, we’ll consider all your questions later.

Now, thank you all. It’s time for us to go.

Work to do, you know.

I’ll see you to the door.

My congratulations. You are as good as in Paris already.

Please forgive me. I really hurried.

What the... Calm down.

Don’t stand like this, bring some water!

It’s the third time that you wake me up in the middle of the night.

Oh, sorry, sorry.

Marianna went to the shooting, Valery is also hanging around somewhere.

We don’t have children, so we’ll have to die alone.

And we should accept this fact courageously.

But I raised Marianna. She could be more attentive to me.

Marianna had parents. When her father, who was your brother,

by the way, was arrested, you did nothing to help.

You worked in the Kremlin, in the Central Committee of the party.

You cared about your career. What if Marianna knows?

- Stepa, you are irritated today. - Irritated!

You woke me up in the middle of the night!

I’m sorry. Forgive me. I was too nervous, perhaps.

Felix and I were working on the book.

He asks so many questions about my life,

it’s difficult to answer them honestly.

Did you tell Felix how you led your dear husband to execution?

- Betrayed him! - You are at it again!

I loved Kolya, you know it.

I married him when I was very young.

He was the perfect communist for me.

But then he began to say things

which showed terrible disappointment in our cause.

And don’t you dare say that I betrayed him!

I just shared my doubts with my party comrades.

Just as we had been taught!

To doubt is human.

I realized too late that he wasn’t an enemy of the people.

He was sincerely mistaken.

And I couldn’t help my poor brother.

Thank God, I saved Marianna from the orphanage.

Why did you start that talk again?

You ruined them for nothing. Pointlessly.

I paid for that with my solitude. Look at me!

I’m old, sick and nobody needs me. Satisfied?

Don’t yell at me! Go to sleep.

Kolya, forgive me. Please, forgive me.

Oh, it’s so beautiful. So you really went to Paris?

I did. I went there twice on business trips.

Soon I’m going there, too.

Paris is a city for people in love. We must go there together.

- Do you promise? - I do.

Hold on, who is this plump boy? Hold on.

It’s different. It’s me and my mom in the Crimea.

- It’s me in childhood. - Hold on, please.

- Where do you work? - In the fashion house.

- What’s your job? - A model.

- You mean, they show dresses on you? - And me in dresses.

What happens to those dresses? Stores sell only some shabby stuff.

As doctors, we are lucky to wear our whites.

All the rest might as well wrap themselves in Pravda newspaper.

Only one thing helps. We were taught to sew in childhood.

But you, perhaps, can’t. You don’t need it.

I can. Everybody can in our village.

So, straight from the village. No education.

I was studying to be a nurse.

So, the white coat doesn’t fit you, does it? Decided to be a model.

Okay, that’s your business.

Well, colleague, do you want a boy or a girl?

- What do you mean? - You are pregnant.

- Are you married? - The wedding is coming.

- And when will the belly grow? - Soon.

So you’d better not delay the wedding. You should run these tests.

You’ve left your bag.

Goodbye.

One lollipop, please. Thank you.

Panova, another centimeter and you are going back to your village.

Venya, I’m pregnant.

So what?

What do you mean, so what? Can you hear me? I’m pregnant.

- Does Felix know? - No. But he will know today.

Are you crazy?

What do you mean?

Make a choice. Either you are a mother or a runway star.

But I want a baby. And I want to go to Paris.

- You want too much. - Venya!

Venya what? Such chance can be once in lifetime.

It’s Paris! You are young, beautiful, you can have a baby any time.

That’s it. Panova, don’t irritate me.

After you go to Paris, you may give birth to a dozen of babies.

Hold your back! Gather the stomach in. Smile.

You’ve spoiled everything again. Are there any white ones?

Come on, shove in.

How’s your novel?

Great. You know I work practically without drafts.

I think, it will be a good honest book.

That’s good. I found a job in a newspaper.

So maybe I could help you with the book.

They won’t publish the truth in newspapers.

- Who needs the truth? - I don’t get you.

Will the truth make anybody happier, freer?

- Are you satisfied with everything? - I am.

Because there is some kind of order at least..

Everything will collapse soon.

God forbid! You are talking. Come on, eat.

No, no. That’s for tomorrow. An artist should be hungry.

An artist... I couldn’t imagine it.

I’m sitting and talking with a real writer.

Don’t. Thank you.

Least I could do.

- Don’t forget to return the jars. - Okay.

Last time you didn’t even wash them.

Katya, why are you here?

I want to practice walking a bit. Irina said, I’m stooped anyway.

Don’t pay attention. You are great.

Go to Felix, it’s your happiest time now.

You don’t have kids yet, so enjoy each other.

Trust me, I know what I’m talking about.

- Do you have children? - Sure!

- My son is 12. - Mine are 10 and 8.

You’ve had them so early.

Early... But for them, we could have conquered Paris and Rome.

And Milan!

- Don’t stay late. - Goodbye.

Felix, are you at home? Felix!

- Why are you so late? - The fitting took too long.

- Your fans wouldn’t leave you alone? - What fans?

Do you think, I don’t see the way men look at you?

- Are you jealous? - No. I’m not jealous.

I'd like to kill a couple of them.

Oh, you’re my Othello.

Well, our wedding is in two days and you will be only mine.

- Are you okay? - Yes.

Won't you change your mind?

I don’t want a child. I’ve made up my mind.

Let’s go and sign some documents.

Dear newlyweds, today is the happiest and the most important day in your lives

and in the lives of your loved ones.

The day you will remember your whole life.

It’s the day when your family was created.

And today, in the presence of us all here

you take the obligation to walk along the path of life together,

to love and take care of each other,

to be faithful to each other so as to preserve the today’s happiness

for years to come. Now let me ask you:

Felix, do you agree to marry Yekaterina?

I do.

Ekaterina, do you agree to marry Felix?

I do.

In the name of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

I pronounce you man and wife.

Valery the Straight-Shooter - who is it?

That’s my pen name. What do you think?

Not bad. But I would like to have real names.

To know who are these devoted young people

where they study, how they got to the church.

No real names. I gave you the address.

I do not know their surnames. When do you take me on the staff?

It’s too early. You should work part-time a bit more.

Too early? Yura, I handed you the black marketeers,

I handed you the devotees. What else should I do? Wash the floor?

Valera, there are people to wash the floor here.

Valera!..

Vladimir Nikolaevich, Valery.

A young starting promising journalist. I told you about him.

I remember him. We welcome young talents, join our team.

Yury Andreevich will put you in the picture and tell what’s what.

- The working place. - We’ll find something.

- Sure! - Thank you, Ira.

Congratulations. You have a great future, Valera.

Valeriy Ivanovich. We’ll be working together now.

- Hello, comrades. - Hello.

Dear girls, our supreme administration provided us with these wonderful

home shoes that you could feel at home

in the hotel before shows.

Listen now. I’ll read the list of names of the people going to Paris,

come, get it, sign.

Minalova, Anastasiya.

- Nastenka. - Here, please.

- Birkina, Zhanna. - It’s me.

- Dear Zhanna. - Thank you.

- Zhukova, Lyudmila - Ah... So beautiful….

- Sign, please. - Dear Lyuda.

And our most beautiful: Radova, Dina. Here.

Dinochka.

Listen now. You may be provoked in Paris.

So, you mustn’t leave the hotel alone, at least in twos.

Best of all, the whole group. With me and Irina.

It's not too long ago when Soviet models

started to go to capitalist countries, so it’s a great responsibility.

They will judge our people by you.

Yes, and they will think that we all march in columns here.

And we wanted to see Paris.

You will be shown the most important things.

The house where Vladimir Ilyich Lenin lived,

Père Lachaise cemetery and we’ll walk around the city in a group.

So, I repeat. Go out in a group. Don’t go anywhere without escort.

Don’t take any invitations, especially presents.

After the show you should go straight to the hotel.

Excuse me, may I ask you a question?

No, you may not.

After we come home, give the shoes back to Irina.

Well, as the French say...

- Bon voyage - Bon voyage. Right.

- That’s for you. - I’ll see you to the door.

I can find the way. Goodbye, comrades.

Let’s go.

Thank you, it’s okay.

Just got something in the eye.

Are you avoiding me? - I will come.

- You promised... -Hi.

I don’t see you much after I helped you to get a job in the newspaper.

I have a lot of work.

Take care. If I tell dad, you’ll have little work.

Or no work at all.

Why do you say so? You know my attitude to you.

- What is your attitude? -Great.

Good. Tonight you will come to me and prove it.

Maybe, we’d better go to the cinema?

As I see, your place is as gloomy as it used to be.

Yes. Things don’t change much here.

Serezha, I miss you.

Tamara, we agreed about everything. It’s all over between us.

Do you think, I’m old, too?

Don’t be silly.

- You are beautiful. - My husband doesn’t think so.

If you want I can make him crawl under your feet and beg to forgive him.

No, Serezha, it’s too much.

The second secretary of the city committee is being tolerant.

You know, I never dreamed about this. That’s life.

It always seemed to me that my career was payment for something sacred.

Maybe, for love.

Come in.

Tomochka, I’m through with everything, let’s go.

- I do. Okay. - We are through, too.

It was nice to see you. Is he nice with you?

If anything goes wrong, we’ll scold him at the party meeting.

Oh, no. Everything’s fine. We really should go. Let’s go.

Bye.

Take care of her.

Come and sit down.

Water?

- It’s not fair. - Don’t get upset. You are new here.

Some girls walk the runway for years before they can go to Bulgaria.

By the way, last time I smoked in Bulgaria.

Paris... Paris...

Irina Semenovna, but you said they were sure to take me to Paris.

- I did. - Am I worse than Dina?

Dina has a very serious sponsor, we depend on him.

I know Shnyrev. Can I talk to him?

- Keep away from this man. - Why?

You are Krutsky’s daughter-in-law.

While Shnyrev needs pretty girls ready to do anything.

Yes. Like Dina.

Katya, people choose their own fate. You are incredibly lucky.

You are a star here. Why Paris?

Okay. I will go.

Stop.

Turn your back to me.

Take the cane.

Ten laps.

No, Katya, twenty laps around the runway.

Silly girl. She wants Paris, really.

It’s all right. Things happen. Did you have a bad day?

- My wife helped. - Your wife?

Yes. She came to us for some reason. And Krutsky was there.

What did he do?

What... He used his chance to humiliate me in front of her.

In front of his ex-mistress? I don’t understand why you tolerate it.

- You could leave her. - Are you stupid?

- Why stupid? - She is a secretary of City Committee.

- The second secretary. - It doesn’t matter “second” or “third”.

If she only wants,

she could turn inside out not only our whole office

but the Colonel and myself altogether.

Besides, I should have a wife in accordance with the status.

If you took Krutsky’s position, she couldn’t kick you around.

So what. What then?

Imagine, you are a general, you tell you wife to go to hell or,

even better, call her in for an investigation at any moment.

And I am your loving wife.

Don’t touch my hair. And I’m not in Krutsky’s position.

You are not yet in Krutsky’s position...

Don’t you have any compromising materials about him?

I have, I have. There are always some materials.

- I read your materials. - What do you think?

- Shall I tell you the truth? - Is it bad?

It’s nothing. Everybody can write like that.

- Are you firing me? - Depends on your behavior.

What do you mean?

Valera, I play the fool all day long at work,

at meetings, here at home I can relax. May I?

You should.

I took you on the staff not because of your talents, you don’t have any.

But...

If you marry Ira, I will make you a star of Soviet journalism.

I’m afraid, I won’t be able to do it, I have no talent.

You will. Others will write instead of you,

those who have more talent but less male charms.

By the way, male charms are also a talent. Take it.

I’ll remember.

Dad, I wanted a white fur coat.

There was no white fur coat of your size in London.

You should lose weight.

- Ira, it’s a very nice coat. -Thank you.

Women...

- Thank you very much. Goodbye. - Goodbye.

How is she?

They’ve made an injection. She’s asleep.

I’m in a bad time. Don’t worry, she’ll get better. I’ll come next time.

- Some tea? - No, thanks. I should go.

- Talk to me a bit. - Where is Valera?

I don’t know.

Is something wrong?

- He has somebody. - Yes, he has a wife.

I’m not speaking about Galya. He has someone else.

What’s wrong with me?

Marianna, come here.

Everything is all right with you.

Well...

- Does your father know I’m married? - I told him.

So, what does he say?

He said, he could help you to get divorced quickly.

Did you ask me, if I want to get divorced?

What the... Don’t you?

I do want. To eat. I want.

Okay. But I have only caviar.

Will you have red or black?

I don’t eat caviar. I’m afraid to get used to it.

- Hello. I need colonel Shnyrev. - Do you have an appointment?

- I do. - Name?

Panova. Katya Panova.

You are not on the list.

It must be a mistake. Call him, tell him that Katya Panova is here.

He’s expecting me.

Comrade Colonel, citizen Panova wants to see you.

Come, please. Down to the cloakroom. Then go to the second floor, room 13.

Thank you.

Just a moment.

Yes, yes.

Hello.

Katerina Panova. What a wonderful and pleasant surprise.

Hello. Take a seat, Katerina. How are things at home?

- How’s the family? How’s Felix? - Thank you, everything is fine.

Great.

What can I do for you?

I need your help.

I want to go to Paris to the fashion show.

To Paris? Ah, Paris, Paris...

Unfortunately, Katya, the members of the group flying to Paris

have been approved already and I can do nothing about it.

Don’t worry.

In a year or two you will certainly fly to Paris, I promise.

I understand it all. But maybe, it’s possible to do something

by way of exception?

Well, maybe we could think of something by way of exception.

What do you mean?

Katya, I like to receive payment for the work I do, so, maybe

maybe we could negotiate it.

Don’t worry, nobody will know anything.

If you don’t let me go, I will disfigure myself,

I’ll start yelling that you are trying to rape me,

you will immediately include me in the group flying to Paris.

Why all that fuss?

Comrade Seints, I’ve been thinking, what if we include Katerina Panova

in the group flying to Paris? Huh? I think, this girl has a great future.

I do. She is as good as approved by us. Do it.

Katya, Katya. You will go to Paris

but you shouldn’t think that you scared me.

I just didn’t want anything to happen to such a pretty face.

Thank you.

Goodbye.