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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 BURAVSKAYA 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 KHITRIK

PRODUCTION DESIGNER IGOR KHRUTSKY

EDITORS OLGA PROSHKINA YURY DYDYCHKO

CASTING BY ALINA KHABIBULLINA

COSTUMES BY LYUDMILA GAINTSEVA ANNA PODGORNAYA-KACHANKO

MAKEUP BY YELENA UGNACHEVA

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER YURY KOSTOV

PRODUCERS DANIIL GETMANSKY VALERY SMETSKOY

PRODUCERS YEKATERINA YEFANOVA ALEXANDR BURAVSKY

EPISODE 6

Ervin Klaus Muller

German?

German politician, antifascist. He has long sided with our country.

He’s flying to Moscow tomorrow.

The official part of the negotiations and the interview

will be followed by the unofficial part

I see.

Bolshoy, Tretyakov Gallery, VDNKh,

That’s right.

But our German likes the fair sex and good food.

You will be accompanied by Katerina Panova throughout the day.

Your task is to take him to a restaurant,

and give him something to eat and drink.

When he drinks enough,

he’ll start making passes at Yekaterina Panova.

And if he doesn’t?

He will.

The main thing: you’ll have to take photos of that.

what for?

Valera!

If we have damaging materials against this German, he’ll be on the hook,

and he’ll do anything we want.

Got it?

I did!

Mind you! This is the task from the very top.

... and your future depends on its fulfillment.

And God help you if something happens to Katerina Panova.

You answer for her with your life! Got it?

Felix, stop it!

You haven’t been drinking before. You look terrible now.

Well, it’s you for whom appearance matters that much.

Even if my face becomes warped....

Felix, you haven’t drunk ever before!

Yep, that’s right.

Before, you’ve been only mine.

And now, you are a national asset.

Here you are, drink it.

Not this abominable stuff!

I told you to drink it.

How can I help you?

Buy some Port .

I’m serious.

Look here.

You, the country wenches, you are all compassionate, eh?

You don’t desert your alcoholics. You live with them, don’t you?

You won’t desert me, will you?

Felix! I’ll leave you.

Leave me then, why are you sitting? Leave me!

So I will.

Come on, leave me, I’ll stay here alone. I’ll drink myself to death.

Venya, have you called me?

Wait, just a moment. I’ll be back in a minute.

I wanted to talk to you.

OK, let’s talk.

What's going on?

What do you mean?

Don’t you notice anything?

No, I don’t.

Zhanna, you’ve changed a lot.

Have I?

I don’t understand what... What’s the matter with you?

You can’t.

You are no longer the Zhanna you were.

I look at you and can’t understand the reason.

You show yourself, not the clothes.

I’m getting a little annoyed about it.

Zhanna, please don’t pick on words.

I’ve asked a particular question: what’s going on?

A good question. And what's going on?

Zhanna...

Don’t you notice anything?

After this Panova appeared here, you’ve been around her all the time.

You don’t notice anyone! As if I am just absent.

- What does it have to do with Katya? - Katya?!

What does it have to do with Panova?

I love you all in the same way.

Ah! So you love us in the same way!

Wrong words again.

This is not what I meant. You misunderstood me.

I got it now.

You know, Venya.

Venya, I got it unmistakingly.

Do you know what the matter is?

You love no one else but yourself. That’s it.

Well…

Do you want me to cook lunches at home?

I want everything to be as it was before.

Yep.

Valery, the working day is over, go home.

Look what a deficient article I’ve got!

A gift for my son.

I want him to learn to play football.

Maybe he’ll be an athlete. Mm?

Playing for the national team, what do you think? Come on!

No, he won’t be an athlete.

He’ll be a whistler, like his father.

First of all, I’m not a whistler.

I perform the controlling function.

Secondly, give me a few more years, and I’ll outperform all of you.

Come on, come on!

Since you control everything, tell me about my wife’s movements then.

What is she doing, where is she... Who is she with? Eh?

Don’t be jealous.

Trust your wife.

Katerina always behaves very modestly and decently.

And I’ll give you a friend’s advice: stop drinking.

Take up some sport: football, volleyball, pioneer ball.

Hmm, I’ve got my own sport.

Hello, Gek.

Hello.

Are you the guardian angel whom Valera once mentioned?

Don’t say so! Call me Ira.

Will you accompany me?

Yes, of course.

Did Valera say exactly like that? Did he really call me “angel”?

Yes, “the guardian angel”!

Dad often calls me so.

By the way, my dad is the editor-in-chief of the newspaper.

I know, Valera told me about it.

Gek, I read your novel, it’s marvellous.

And has your dad read it?

He’ll read it! The main thing is that I liked it.

Gek, you remind me of the young Gogol so much!

What is your surname?

Well, what will we talk about?

I remember I promised to give you a bike

if you finish the quarter without satisfactory marks.

I called your mum from the business trip to ask about your successes.

She told me you finished the quarter and almost all marks are excellent.

I returned from the business trip with a bike,

waiting for my son to jump for joy.

And you were standing there frowning and said:

“Dad, don’t give me a bike, I don’t deserve it.

I’ve got a satisfactory mark in Russian.”

You could have concealed it, but you didn’t do that.

Dad, have you called me here to recollect my childhood?

You’ve had an acute feeling of justice from your childhood.

All these lectures won’t do you any good.

They want to expel you from the Party.

If you go on like that, it will end up bad.

I can’t do it otherwise.

That’s the way I am.

Really? And I often had to do things against my will in life.

Because of you, your mother, your future children.

Of course, I understand that I am not the authority to you I was before.

Girl! May I have a glass?

Felix, quit drinking.

You have a good job, a beautiful wife.

By the way, when will Katya and you visit us, eh?

Dad...

I’ve got such a handsome husband!

Where did you get the shirt from?

I bought it. I earn some money.

Galya, I’ll be home late today.

What do you mean by late? You come late every day.

Well... I may stay at work till morning.

Aha, like in that joke?

“I’ll go to the meeting and maybe spend the night with her”?

I don’t get your hint.

And I don’t hint.

Are you going to Marianna?

I’ll call and find out what you are going to do till morning!

Listen to me!

Today I am going to perform a very responsible task

that you may find out about in 20 years, when I am awarded…

post mortem.

Is that true?

Yes.

Why didn’t you tell me in advance? I’d cook you something to eat.

I’m not hungry,

I’ll eat later, on site.

Where?

In a restaurant.

And who are you going to hang out at restaurants with?

Galya, don’t you understand, really?

I’m meeting a German this evening.

And no one should know about it!

Or do you want our Sasha to be left fatherless?

Give me a hug.

I’m off.

Enough! Thank you!

Shall we have a drink?

Ah, no.

I’ve quit it.

My health does not allow me to.

Then we’ll drink to your health.

Katya! I’ve seen your photo in the newspaper

and told frau Muller that

if the scoundrel Hitler had won the war,

I could have married her rather than suffer with you.

Sorry, I’ll be back in a minute.

Such a beautiful girl!

The one to sacrifice your life for.

You don’t need to sacrifice your life.

Just some money.

How much?

Not much.

Yekaterina Panova can go to your room this evening.

Is that enough?

Yes.

Good.

Well...I’ll leave you.

Where are you going?

To the same place.

Well, Katya, Katya.

It’s so nice that time has come when

a German and a Russian girl can talk so peacefully right in the center of Moscow.

There is no war now, we can be happy fearing nothing…

I promise.

It will be really nice.

Really nice with me.

Valera!

Felix! I’m at home!

Sorry for coming so late.

The German was drunk. He didn’t want to let us go.

Was it tasty?

Not too much.

Can you imagine? I had a stroke of inspiration.

- And where are you? - I’m here!

I decided to finish the book. Are you for long?

No, I’ll get out soon.

I’m tired, I’ll go to bed.

All right. I’ll finish and join you.

- Good night. - Good night.

At last!

You’d be late for your own funeral! Sit down.

It took us some time to develop them, print them…

Come on, come on!

… and dry them.

Well, it’s nice, wow, you’re a wizard, Valera!

Next time please be more gentle with the foreigners.

I see!

And don’t say anyone a word about it.

I see! Can I go?

Yes, you can.

Please put me through

to the editor-in-chief of Rabochaya Stolitsa newspaper.

Hello!

Hello, Vladimir Nikolaevich!

Well, comrade Shnyrev, hello!

So you’ve recognized me?

Wonderful! I thought - why don’t we send our Felix Krutsky abroad?

Where?

To London, for example.

We planned an interview with Lord Clayton.

So arrange it as quickly as possible.

And one more thing, I’ve forgotten to ask you!

How is our employee Valery Zubov doing?

He’s fine.

Really? Wonderful!

Please treat him well. He’s a very valuable employee for us now.

I see.

All right. Thank you.

- I’m proud of you. - Thank you very much.

- It’s strong and true to life! - Thank you for coming.

May I have your autograph?

Here’s the main character. She’s an actress.

We just have hair of a similar color.

No-no, you are Katya Panova who has conquered Paris.

Let's do it quickly.

Do you remember me?

No.

We were in a queue to the Fashion House together! You were hired then.

Well, now I remember!

Thank you very much!

Dear friends! A minute of attention, please.

Marianna, as your friends have all gathered here today,

I think this is the best moment to say it.

Be my wife.

I agree!

Thank you! Thank you very much!

Like in the movies.

At last. We are the next to follow.

Marianna, we need to hurry.

Edik, you are a good guy

and you deserve a fiancee who is really in love with you.

I know everything. You don’t love me.

But it doesn’t matter.

I’ll surround you with such care and such love

that you will have nothing to do but love me.

You are the only girl in the world for me.

Please. Come with me.

I can’t. Sorry. Apologize to the guys.

Let’s go!

I’ll wait for you anyway, can you hear me?

Once you’ll get tired of your married lover.

What books you have! What books!

Yes! Your books will soon stand here, too.

Your father doesn’t think so.

Disregard it. He doesn’t understand anything.

I read your novel three times and thought it was written by a grey-haired old man,

not by a young handsome man like you

Not so handsome.

Don’t say so.

I wish you knew how rarely a person combines

a pleasant appearance and such talent.

I was told you’d been married.

Yes,

my wife left me for a more successful man.

My daughter now calls him dad.

She will be sorry for not seeing your great gift on time.

And you think that I am not pretty.

How can you say that!

You’ve got a rare type of face,

and I feel that you can understand another person.

Not everybody can do that.

I can.

I read your book, woke up my father at night and said,

“We’ll get down into history, we’ll be proud of

living in the same era with such a great writer”.

Come in.

Comrades clothes presenters, let’s greet Second Secretary

comrade Shnyreva.

Hello, comrades! Hello.

Sit down, comrades.

It’s a little hot here.

Yes, of course.

I haven’t been here for a long time.

It’s so unusual and new, thank you.

- That’s a new issue, isn’t it? - Yes, of course, here you are.

Well, Yekaterina Panova, your visit has created a stir.

But I liked it.

You know, it was done well, so openly, honestly and outright.

I liked it.

And I also liked your speech on TV.

Do sit down.

I completely agree with you.

I’ll tell you more, Katerina,

it’s high time things were put right

in the light industry at least within Moscow.

I sometimes spend a lot of time myself looking for a suitable outfit,

but now we are not talking about me.

Look,

an ordinary Soviet woman.

In your opinion, what should ordinary Soviet woman’s clothes be like?

Well, first of all, comfortable.

You are absolutely right,

because a woman hurries to work in the morning.

And why is she in a hurry?

Right!

She’s got a husband and children at home,

she should feed to eat, and have the time to get to work.

Clothes for a working woman should not only be comfortable,

but also smart and beautiful.

I absolutely agree with you, Katya.

A woman at work is a responsible employee,

and she sets an example to the whole working collective.

She is the builder of communism,

and after the Soviet woman brought some benefit to the country,

she returns home to her husband,

and he looks at her with loving eyes and can’t even think

of a more beautiful and younger lover.

Sit down.

Unfortunately, not everybody in your top management agrees with it.

The clothes for our women should be paid special attention to.

Yes.

That’s why, comrades,

we made a decision

to subordinate your Fashion House

to the State Committee

for Light Industry under the USSR State Planning Committee.

Such good news.

Do you understand the scale and responsibility?

Yes, of course.

You’ve got a very beautiful hat.

Don’t worry, the City Committee of the Party and the Moscow Council

won’t stand aside.

We’ll do our best to help.

Prepare a new set of clothes to show to the responsible committee.

We’ll surely prepare it.

You don’t have much time left, so get down to work.

Good-bye.

Have a nice day. Thank you for the warm welcome.

Well, comrades, let’s get down to work, bravely, with enthusiasm and good mood.

Let’s work, comrades!

All the best! Good-bye.

Do come in.

Let’s drink!

I don’t drink, thank you.

You’ll soon be a public person, you have to get used to it.

And people drink at the events, so you have to train.

You’ll have to keep your end up

with your face in the salad.

I’m not striving to be a public person.

Reclusion has nothing to do with writer’s activity.

A recluse lives and writes for himself, while a writer

lives and writes for the people.

Otherwise there is no sense in writing. You can keep everything in your head.

So what?

Not bad.

French.

I read your novel very attentively and thoughtfully.

Do you like it?

Shall I tell you the truth? I don’t.

Everybody can write like that.

You’ve put some efforts, but it’s not enough.

So you won’t help me with the publication?

I’ll look at the way you behave.

What do you mean?

I play the fool all day long at work, at the functions.

But I can relax at home. Can I do so?

I’ll help you.

But I won’t do that

because of your abilities or talents because you haven’t got any.

My daughter likes you.

DAD!

What do you want to say?

I like her, too.

Excellent!

You’ll marry Ira and start publishing two novels a year.

- It’s impossible since I… - It’s possible.

Others will write instead of you, who have more talent but less male charms.

By the way, male charms are also a talent.

- You are absolutely right! - Let’s drink to it.

And you’ve become a real Muscovite.

Yes, I remember you were quite an aggressive provincial.

Now I even regret your not becoming my son-in-law.

And I don’t.

I dreamed of it. Vladimir Nikolaevich, but I’m married.

Sorry for misunderstandings between us.

Things happen.

And there are understanding people working in the KGB.

Very understanding, I’d say. It’s better not to joke with them.

I was told you’d moved your wife to Moscow.

Yes.

You should not have.

It’s good to have a wife at a good distance.

Dad, what are you talking about!

I sent my wife to a spa resort five times a year.

And everybody felt fine.

Wife was healthy, may she rest in peace, and I was free.

I can smell something burning. I’ll have a look.

Look then.

Let’s drink.

To you!

She comes here cause she doesn’t know

where her husband and brother were buried.

- Manya, how quiet it is here! - It infuriates me.

She calls me “Manya” all the time, such a pig’s name.

“Manyunya” would sound better, it seems to me.

And who is this young man? Will you introduce him to me?

This is Felix, aunt.

I’ll kill you if you call me “Manyunya” in her presence.

Felix, you haven’t visited us for a long time!

Vera Ivanovna, it’s my fault.

I had a lot of work. And I’ve just finished the book.

You’ve finished the book?

I think you should read it first.

I am sent on a business trip. To London.

Well, you don’t say! Will you bring me a present?

For sure, Manyunya!

Feh, Felix! You’ve picked a cow’s name for our Marianna.

Well then! You’ve done a lot.

I hope it will be appreciated in our country.

Of course, it will.

Unless they are afraid to publish it! Vera Ivanovna!

Manya, we have to go.

Come along!

Not this way.

Well, what do you think of it?

I like it!

it’s interesting,

but it seems to me clothes exist

not only to hide our nudity or keep us warm.

Clothes can help us to express what we are like at present.

Yes.

I have a good mood, for example.

I put on bright clothes to share it with everyone.

- You do on the contrary. - Right.

I’m wearing black. I feel anxious.

And I show that I am closed to everyone and it’s better not to bother me.

I understand, but try to explain it to our bosses.

And do you remember that white summer dress?

Katya, how can I forget it? You inspired me to create it.

When I came onto the catwalk in it,

I felt so protected despite having naked shoulders.

I didn’t fear anything.

Like in my childhood.

I woke up in the morning,

ran to the lake,

washed my face and ran away from everyone over the hills and far away.

Muse of mine! I love you!

I love you very much, too.

Why does Katya visit us so rarely?

She works a lot. And comes home late.

It’s a pity.

We haven’t become friends with her,

though I’ve always thought I’d make friends with your wife.

Has father been asleep for long?

Yes. He’s asleep.

Now he often comes home in the afternoon and sleeps.

He gets tired.

All right. I have to go.

Did you want to talk to him?

I’ll give him a call.

Call him!

Felix,

I’m begging you, take care of yourself there.

Mum...

- I love you. - Me too.

I’ll call, all right.

Here it is!

The range will be like this!

Turn round and round, Panova!

How do you like it?

Are you crazy? It’s too revealing!

Lena, I told them, but they won’t hear anything.

Well, it’s all the same to her what to sew.

Venya, but you! you! What is it?!

It… It will be all the rage!

- Do you like it? - I like it very much!

I hope the committee will appreciate it.

- It's no good! - Why so?

We need a modern business suit.

What’s this? It’s a clown’s outfit!

A clown’s outfit?

We’ve seen some good models at the western shows.

Listen… I’m...

I’m enraged by your worshipping those western clowns.

In case one of them offered such costume, you would accept it at once.

I think we can do better than them.

Probably we can! But not now.

Don’t make any experiments.

We need to create ordinary clothes.

The commission should approve it.

Let’s show it at least.

Not in a million years.

Only over my dead body.

Remake it all.

- By the way, it’s a good idea. - What do you mean?

Let’s kill her!

Venya, I haven’t heard it.

- Panova, are you with me? - Yes, of course!

…what should I do with these...

Dear Venya…

Venya is absent, Venya is dead.

So what? Keep it for luck, fiancee.

Thank you!

Why are you walking around with such a suitcase?

You need to have your own children.

It’s too early.

I’ll love yours.

Do you love your fiance very much?

The one who has never eaten candies does not know what they taste like.

How should I know whether this is love or not?

Senya made me a woman.

It turned out that I was pregnant.

And he went to the army.

And our dad wrote a letter to him there.

Promising to kill him if he doesn’t marry me.

He’ll have a 4-day leave, and we’ll get married.

And whether this is love or not...

And I wish you to have real great love.

Promise to come to the wedding!

Of course, I promise!

Let’s go, I’ll accompany you.

I don’t want to go to London.

I’ll miss you.

The same is about me.

I’ll miss you very much.

You are the dearest thing I have.

I’ll return from the show and go to Hosta.

Take mud baths.

The doctor said that it will be easier to get pregnant after them.

Maybe we’ll succeed after all.

Do you know what the main thing is?

Up!

Keep your chin up!

That’s the main thing!

And everything will be fine.

I promise you.

I’ll go to London,

breathe the fog of freedom,

come back and we’ll start everything from the very beginning.