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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:03:53,961 --> 00:03:56,401 Will you stop walking up and down? 2 00:03:57,441 --> 00:03:59,641 - You're making me seasick. - I'm sorry. 3 00:04:00,281 --> 00:04:01,601 Drink some tea. 4 00:04:01,921 --> 00:04:03,241 I'm not sure that I can. 5 00:04:03,321 --> 00:04:05,081 Then be done with it and have a vodka. 6 00:04:06,561 --> 00:04:07,841 You think I'm that bad? 7 00:04:09,361 --> 00:04:11,561 I don't drink every single day, you know! 8 00:04:11,641 --> 00:04:14,001 Oh, I see. I... I didn't realise. 9 00:04:15,841 --> 00:04:16,881 Nana? 10 00:04:17,041 --> 00:04:18,081 Mm-hm? 11 00:04:19,001 --> 00:04:20,681 How long have we known each other? 12 00:04:20,761 --> 00:04:22,081 How long? Too long! 13 00:04:22,521 --> 00:04:24,041 I'm joking. 14 00:04:25,521 --> 00:04:27,081 Well, a long time. 15 00:04:29,241 --> 00:04:31,441 Sonya's mother was still alive, so, uh... 16 00:04:31,521 --> 00:04:32,641 That's right. 17 00:04:33,561 --> 00:04:34,681 So, what... 18 00:04:35,241 --> 00:04:38,321 sixteen, seventeen years? 19 00:04:39,281 --> 00:04:40,441 Yes, it must be. 20 00:04:43,121 --> 00:04:45,201 - Oh. - Do you think I've changed 21 00:04:45,281 --> 00:04:46,281 in that time? 22 00:04:46,321 --> 00:04:48,721 Oh, God yes. You used to be gorgeous. 23 00:04:48,841 --> 00:04:50,241 Young and dashing. 24 00:04:50,641 --> 00:04:52,521 We were all mad about you. 25 00:04:53,041 --> 00:04:55,481 - And now, well, you're older. - Yes. 26 00:04:56,521 --> 00:05:00,321 You're still handsome, there's no denying that! 27 00:05:00,841 --> 00:05:02,881 We all like that, but, er... 28 00:05:03,841 --> 00:05:05,561 - Also... - What? 29 00:05:07,641 --> 00:05:09,201 Well, you drink now. 30 00:05:09,721 --> 00:05:11,201 - Yes. - So, um... 31 00:05:11,321 --> 00:05:12,921 No, it's true. 32 00:05:13,961 --> 00:05:16,121 I am a completely different person, you're right. 33 00:05:16,201 --> 00:05:18,441 No, you're not a completely different person 34 00:05:18,521 --> 00:05:19,961 but you're a drinker. 35 00:05:20,081 --> 00:05:21,321 But what of it? 36 00:05:21,921 --> 00:05:24,001 Good for you. So what? 37 00:05:24,761 --> 00:05:26,401 You know why I drink, don't you? 38 00:05:27,401 --> 00:05:28,561 Because... 39 00:05:29,241 --> 00:05:30,601 I am worn out. 40 00:05:31,921 --> 00:05:33,401 The moment I lie down 41 00:05:33,481 --> 00:05:35,481 it's bang, bang, bang on the door 42 00:05:35,561 --> 00:05:38,001 and I'm up and out to someone's deathbed. 43 00:05:38,841 --> 00:05:41,361 Sometimes 20 miles away. 44 00:05:42,481 --> 00:05:44,961 And the rare nights when no one bangs on the door? Well... 45 00:05:45,721 --> 00:05:47,081 you lie awake anyway 46 00:05:47,241 --> 00:05:49,401 in dread of the knock that never comes. 47 00:05:49,481 --> 00:05:53,641 So, of course you age and wither and get old. 48 00:05:53,721 --> 00:05:55,401 Who wouldn't? That's what happens. 49 00:05:55,481 --> 00:05:58,001 But if you could hold your drink, what of it? 50 00:05:59,121 --> 00:06:00,601 You start to go a bit... 51 00:06:01,521 --> 00:06:04,001 wonky, because you have to. I mean... 52 00:06:04,481 --> 00:06:07,121 Look at this beard, Nana. Have you seen it? 53 00:06:07,481 --> 00:06:09,081 - I like it. - No, you don't. 54 00:06:09,441 --> 00:06:11,201 No, I don't. 55 00:06:11,281 --> 00:06:13,401 No, I don't! 56 00:06:13,481 --> 00:06:16,241 I mean, everybody gets a bit... 57 00:06:17,001 --> 00:06:18,441 - "Argh!" - Mm. 58 00:06:19,281 --> 00:06:21,161 I just never really 59 00:06:21,961 --> 00:06:25,561 feel anything anymore 60 00:06:25,841 --> 00:06:27,081 that's what it is. 61 00:06:28,441 --> 00:06:30,441 I never look forward to anything. 62 00:06:30,521 --> 00:06:32,881 Oh, Doctor. 63 00:06:33,561 --> 00:06:36,441 Except you, Nana. 64 00:06:37,721 --> 00:06:39,481 I will always love you. 65 00:06:42,721 --> 00:06:45,361 You know, when I was a little boy 66 00:06:46,281 --> 00:06:49,361 I had a lovely nana, just like you. 67 00:06:51,161 --> 00:06:53,721 Gave me long, deep hugs. 68 00:06:53,801 --> 00:06:57,241 I used to feel like nothing could harm me. 69 00:07:00,521 --> 00:07:02,841 You remind me of someone too. 70 00:07:05,681 --> 00:07:07,841 Please, have a drink. 71 00:07:07,961 --> 00:07:09,121 No... 72 00:07:09,801 --> 00:07:10,801 No. 73 00:07:13,841 --> 00:07:16,201 During Lent, earlier this year 74 00:07:17,321 --> 00:07:19,121 I went up to Malitskoe. 75 00:07:19,241 --> 00:07:20,241 Oh... 76 00:07:21,041 --> 00:07:22,401 Typhus epidemic. 77 00:07:23,601 --> 00:07:27,241 They'd... thrown all of the sick ones into huts 78 00:07:27,521 --> 00:07:30,641 side by side, people on the floor 79 00:07:31,721 --> 00:07:33,321 pigs coming in and out. 80 00:07:34,121 --> 00:07:35,921 Filthy. Depressing. 81 00:07:37,041 --> 00:07:38,241 I didn't stop all day 82 00:07:38,321 --> 00:07:39,961 nothing to eat and by the time I got home 83 00:07:40,041 --> 00:07:41,241 I could hardly stand. 84 00:07:41,401 --> 00:07:43,121 Bang, bang, bang on the door 85 00:07:43,601 --> 00:07:45,961 and they carry in this... 86 00:07:47,321 --> 00:07:48,401 this boy. 87 00:07:49,561 --> 00:07:51,041 A trainee signalman. 88 00:07:52,321 --> 00:07:55,081 A stock car had sliced off half of his foot, so... 89 00:07:56,121 --> 00:07:58,241 I got him on the table, and quickly 90 00:07:58,321 --> 00:08:01,481 gave him the chloroform so that I could... 91 00:08:03,801 --> 00:08:06,841 and he... he just died. 92 00:08:08,961 --> 00:08:10,081 Right there. 93 00:08:12,001 --> 00:08:15,361 And just when you could really do without it 94 00:08:16,041 --> 00:08:18,441 all my feelings came back. 95 00:08:19,441 --> 00:08:22,321 Uh, I felt like I had killed him. 96 00:08:22,721 --> 00:08:25,321 They were all looking at me, asking me if he was alright 97 00:08:25,401 --> 00:08:27,401 and I just sat on the... 98 00:08:28,641 --> 00:08:30,321 Just closed my eyes and... 99 00:08:31,161 --> 00:08:32,961 all I could think of was... 100 00:08:33,881 --> 00:08:34,921 why? 101 00:08:35,841 --> 00:08:38,241 why can't it be a hundred or... 102 00:08:39,081 --> 00:08:40,761 two hundred years from now? 103 00:08:41,041 --> 00:08:42,241 We'll all be gone 104 00:08:42,841 --> 00:08:44,481 none of this will matter. 105 00:08:45,201 --> 00:08:47,321 I mean, the people then 106 00:08:47,401 --> 00:08:48,641 will they even remember us? 107 00:08:48,721 --> 00:08:50,841 Have anything good to say about us? 108 00:08:51,001 --> 00:08:53,841 They'll just forget all about us. 109 00:08:57,241 --> 00:09:00,561 The people may not remember us 110 00:09:02,041 --> 00:09:03,801 but God will. 111 00:09:04,761 --> 00:09:06,201 Yes. 112 00:09:06,281 --> 00:09:08,521 Well said, Nana. Yes. 113 00:09:08,601 --> 00:09:09,921 Yes! 114 00:09:17,361 --> 00:09:18,601 What were we, um... 115 00:09:19,361 --> 00:09:21,041 What were we talking about? 116 00:09:21,481 --> 00:09:23,761 - Typhus. - Ah! Lovely. 117 00:09:24,161 --> 00:09:25,161 Good sleep? 118 00:09:26,081 --> 00:09:27,161 Too good. 119 00:09:27,441 --> 00:09:30,721 Horrible black hole in the middle of the day. 120 00:09:31,441 --> 00:09:34,041 You see, this is what's happened to me. 121 00:09:34,681 --> 00:09:37,601 Ever since the professor and his young bride returned 122 00:09:37,681 --> 00:09:39,881 they've knocked me right off my beanpole. 123 00:09:40,281 --> 00:09:44,521 I keep taking these stupid catnaps in the middle of the day 124 00:09:45,121 --> 00:09:47,721 which means I wander around awake all night. 125 00:09:48,121 --> 00:09:50,001 I miss all the regular mealtimes 126 00:09:50,081 --> 00:09:52,161 so I stuff my face with snacks 127 00:09:52,481 --> 00:09:54,361 which means I drink too much wine 128 00:09:54,881 --> 00:09:57,361 which means I start onto the liqueurs 129 00:09:57,481 --> 00:09:59,521 which inevitably lead me onto the spirits 130 00:09:59,601 --> 00:10:01,521 which always knock me sideways. 131 00:10:02,041 --> 00:10:04,761 Suddenly I wake up, I've missed my breakfast 132 00:10:05,641 --> 00:10:09,481 I've missed my lunch, and the whole blasted nightmare 133 00:10:09,641 --> 00:10:11,801 starts all over again. 134 00:10:12,121 --> 00:10:13,401 It's no good. 135 00:10:13,921 --> 00:10:15,921 I need to be occupied. I... 136 00:10:16,281 --> 00:10:18,561 I need to be worn out, because of my... 137 00:10:18,761 --> 00:10:20,081 Your nervous energy. 138 00:10:20,281 --> 00:10:22,321 Yes, my energy. 139 00:10:23,041 --> 00:10:24,161 It's not nervous, it's... 140 00:10:24,281 --> 00:10:25,561 It's edgy. 141 00:10:26,601 --> 00:10:28,041 It's a little bit edgy. 142 00:10:28,801 --> 00:10:31,161 But ever since the professor came back, I'm... 143 00:10:31,521 --> 00:10:34,121 Well, Sonya's quicker than me 144 00:10:34,201 --> 00:10:37,641 her eyesight's better, so she gets everything done 145 00:10:37,761 --> 00:10:39,361 before I even wake up, so I'm... 146 00:10:39,441 --> 00:10:40,721 You're cast adrift. 147 00:10:41,641 --> 00:10:43,601 I've been cast adrift. 148 00:10:43,881 --> 00:10:45,321 - Haven't I, Nana? - Yes. 149 00:10:46,361 --> 00:10:48,001 The professor... 150 00:10:48,561 --> 00:10:50,921 never even stirs till noon. 151 00:10:51,281 --> 00:10:53,681 I mean, before he came, we always had our lunch 152 00:10:53,761 --> 00:10:56,041 at the normal hour of one o'clock in the afternoon 153 00:10:56,121 --> 00:10:58,481 same as everybody else all over the world 154 00:10:58,561 --> 00:11:00,201 - didn't we, Vanya? - Yes, Nana. 155 00:11:02,481 --> 00:11:06,561 You know what time the professor eats his lunch? 156 00:11:06,641 --> 00:11:07,881 I don't know. 157 00:11:08,121 --> 00:11:09,121 Go on, guess. 158 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:10,120 I don't know. 159 00:11:10,121 --> 00:11:11,201 Six o'clock! 160 00:11:11,281 --> 00:11:12,681 - What? - Six o'clock! 161 00:11:12,761 --> 00:11:14,321 Six o'clock in the evening! 162 00:11:14,401 --> 00:11:15,961 - Six o'clock. - Six o'clock. 163 00:11:16,041 --> 00:11:17,121 Good Lord! 164 00:11:17,201 --> 00:11:19,161 Then up he stirs the whole night 165 00:11:19,241 --> 00:11:21,561 reading, writing, working 166 00:11:21,801 --> 00:11:24,201 insists on keeping that poor young girl he's married 167 00:11:24,281 --> 00:11:26,201 up with him, "attending to his needs" 168 00:11:26,281 --> 00:11:29,721 and suddenly then, at three o'clock in the morning 169 00:11:29,801 --> 00:11:31,121 he's ringing the bell. 170 00:11:31,281 --> 00:11:33,241 - What bell? - He's brought a bell. 171 00:11:33,321 --> 00:11:34,961 And we're all supposed to come running. 172 00:11:35,041 --> 00:11:36,161 Everybody's up. 173 00:11:36,281 --> 00:11:37,281 "Tea! 174 00:11:37,921 --> 00:11:39,561 Tea for the professor!" 175 00:11:39,641 --> 00:11:42,681 At three o'clock in the morning. I ask you. 176 00:11:43,881 --> 00:11:45,681 Nobody gets a moment's rest. 177 00:11:45,841 --> 00:11:47,041 How long are they staying? 178 00:11:47,161 --> 00:11:49,281 Staying? They're not staying. 179 00:11:49,561 --> 00:11:50,761 They're moving here! 180 00:11:50,841 --> 00:11:51,841 To live? 181 00:11:52,041 --> 00:11:54,241 The university's retired him off. 182 00:11:54,361 --> 00:11:55,601 Took his apartment back. 183 00:11:55,681 --> 00:11:57,201 He can't afford to live in the city. 184 00:11:57,281 --> 00:11:58,561 - Oh. - I mean... 185 00:11:58,761 --> 00:12:01,001 do you know how long I've been keeping this hot water 186 00:12:01,081 --> 00:12:03,721 on the go now? Two hours. 187 00:12:04,321 --> 00:12:06,081 "Tea, tea for the professor!" he said 188 00:12:06,161 --> 00:12:09,081 two hours ago, then up he suddenly announces 189 00:12:09,241 --> 00:12:11,201 "I'm going for a walk." 190 00:12:11,281 --> 00:12:12,721 - "A quick walk." - Quick walk. 191 00:12:12,801 --> 00:12:14,377 - "Quick inspection." - Quick inspection. 192 00:12:14,401 --> 00:12:16,321 And we're all supposed to just... Ugh! 193 00:12:17,241 --> 00:12:19,441 Enough to give you a pain up the backside. 194 00:12:19,521 --> 00:12:22,401 Oi, shh! He'll hear you. Don't give him the satisfaction. 195 00:12:22,761 --> 00:12:24,561 ...ended up paying twice what I paid for it 196 00:12:24,641 --> 00:12:27,721 before I sold it for half what I got it for in the first place! 197 00:12:27,961 --> 00:12:30,441 And you haven't even seen the new forest yet, Papa. 198 00:12:30,681 --> 00:12:32,401 Ah, wait till you see up there. 199 00:12:32,481 --> 00:12:34,201 - We can go tomorrow. - Ah, Professor! 200 00:12:34,281 --> 00:12:36,121 Your tea is ready. 201 00:12:36,201 --> 00:12:37,281 Yes! 202 00:12:38,321 --> 00:12:39,481 My dear friends. 203 00:12:39,561 --> 00:12:42,641 I do apologise, but this excursion 204 00:12:42,721 --> 00:12:45,481 has inspired some startling new ideas 205 00:12:45,561 --> 00:12:48,761 and I... I feel I must grasp them while the blood is hot. 206 00:12:48,881 --> 00:12:52,441 Um... be so kind as to have my tea brought to my study. 207 00:12:52,521 --> 00:12:54,241 - Thank you. - Papa, Dr Astrov's here. 208 00:12:54,321 --> 00:12:56,881 Of course, Professor! And, um, anything else? 209 00:12:57,361 --> 00:12:58,441 I beg your pardon? 210 00:12:58,601 --> 00:12:59,601 I'm sorry? 211 00:12:59,841 --> 00:13:01,121 What are you asking me? 212 00:13:01,201 --> 00:13:02,561 No, just... 213 00:13:02,801 --> 00:13:05,241 Anything else? Any other refreshments? 214 00:13:05,361 --> 00:13:06,721 A bowl of fruit? 215 00:13:06,801 --> 00:13:08,161 A pair of new slippers? 216 00:13:08,401 --> 00:13:10,401 Something from the village, perhaps? 217 00:13:10,681 --> 00:13:12,121 I mean, Nana's here. 218 00:13:12,241 --> 00:13:16,081 She's got nothing better to do. She could march into town. 219 00:13:16,961 --> 00:13:18,161 I said just tea. 220 00:13:18,321 --> 00:13:20,721 Oh! Course you did. Thank you, Professor. 221 00:13:21,481 --> 00:13:24,961 Uncle Vanya, you have some kind of sauce all over your trousers. 222 00:13:25,121 --> 00:13:26,601 - What? - Sonya? 223 00:13:26,681 --> 00:13:27,761 Sorry. 224 00:13:28,161 --> 00:13:29,961 Oh, God! 225 00:13:31,721 --> 00:13:35,001 "I've had some startling new ideas..." 226 00:13:36,161 --> 00:13:38,841 It's hot enough to fry a sausage 227 00:13:39,081 --> 00:13:41,721 and the great genius goes about with his overcoat 228 00:13:41,801 --> 00:13:43,121 and his gloves on. 229 00:13:43,401 --> 00:13:45,721 So much for the intelligentsia, eh? 230 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:46,800 Hm? 231 00:13:46,801 --> 00:13:49,201 I said, so much for the intelligentsia! 232 00:13:49,281 --> 00:13:50,921 Maybe he knows something we don't. 233 00:13:51,001 --> 00:13:52,961 Oh, yeah? Like what? 234 00:13:53,521 --> 00:13:54,521 Hmm? 235 00:13:56,481 --> 00:13:58,001 Oh, uh, Madame Professor. 236 00:13:58,161 --> 00:13:59,201 Uncle Vanya. 237 00:14:00,241 --> 00:14:02,721 Uh... Yes, the... 238 00:14:03,161 --> 00:14:04,961 The others have all, um... 239 00:14:14,161 --> 00:14:15,201 That's her. 240 00:14:15,681 --> 00:14:16,721 That's his wife. 241 00:14:16,801 --> 00:14:18,041 Yes, I know. 242 00:14:18,441 --> 00:14:20,641 You ever seen a more gorgeous creature? 243 00:14:20,721 --> 00:14:21,761 Well... 244 00:14:22,081 --> 00:14:23,081 Well, what? 245 00:14:23,201 --> 00:14:24,601 Haven't really had much time to... 246 00:14:24,681 --> 00:14:27,241 Oh, come off it! How much time do you need? 247 00:14:27,321 --> 00:14:28,361 Hey, Vanya. 248 00:14:28,681 --> 00:14:30,561 Don't mind the professor's young wife. 249 00:14:31,041 --> 00:14:32,921 Look at Marina Timofeevna here. 250 00:14:33,001 --> 00:14:35,361 You should have seen this one in her day, my lads! 251 00:14:35,561 --> 00:14:37,041 Grow up! 252 00:14:37,121 --> 00:14:39,281 Whether I'm riding across the fields 253 00:14:39,361 --> 00:14:41,801 or walking into this shady garden 254 00:14:41,881 --> 00:14:44,561 or just looking at the way you lay out a table, Nana 255 00:14:44,641 --> 00:14:46,921 I feel an inexpressible bliss! 256 00:14:47,841 --> 00:14:51,961 Suddenly, one is reminded that winter is far, far away. 257 00:14:53,401 --> 00:14:54,481 And shh! 258 00:14:54,841 --> 00:14:56,041 Listen, shh! Vanya! 259 00:14:56,321 --> 00:14:57,561 I'm not saying anything! 260 00:14:57,681 --> 00:14:58,961 Do you hear the birds? 261 00:15:01,401 --> 00:15:02,401 No. 262 00:15:02,441 --> 00:15:03,841 That's what I mean! 263 00:15:04,161 --> 00:15:06,161 It's such a particular silence! 264 00:15:07,121 --> 00:15:09,281 It's so restful here in this house. 265 00:15:09,361 --> 00:15:11,601 What else could anyone possibly need? 266 00:15:11,921 --> 00:15:15,481 And so much of that is down to you, Nana Timofeevna. 267 00:15:15,681 --> 00:15:17,201 Eat your biscuit! 268 00:15:17,521 --> 00:15:20,041 But you... you... you saw her eyes. 269 00:15:20,161 --> 00:15:21,481 Tell me you saw her eyes. 270 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:22,520 Whose? 271 00:15:22,521 --> 00:15:24,961 Young Madame Professor. Yelena. 272 00:15:25,081 --> 00:15:26,561 I really didn't notice. 273 00:15:26,761 --> 00:15:28,241 Oh, you're no use. 274 00:15:28,881 --> 00:15:31,881 Well, Vanya, how are you today? 275 00:15:33,361 --> 00:15:35,041 - What? - Any news? 276 00:15:35,641 --> 00:15:38,001 Is this some sort of joke, Waffles? 277 00:15:38,521 --> 00:15:41,121 What news could there possibly be? 278 00:15:41,641 --> 00:15:44,161 Everything's the same as ever, except worse. 279 00:15:44,241 --> 00:15:45,321 No, that's not true. 280 00:15:45,401 --> 00:15:46,441 It is, you know! 281 00:15:46,641 --> 00:15:48,561 I sit around getting fatter 282 00:15:48,761 --> 00:15:51,921 and the fatter I get, the more annoyed I am with everyone. 283 00:15:52,081 --> 00:15:54,201 And my mother! Jesus Christ. 284 00:15:54,561 --> 00:15:56,201 She's exactly the same. 285 00:15:56,521 --> 00:15:59,121 Still wanging on about women's rights 286 00:15:59,201 --> 00:16:02,881 as if they're some kind of alien, abstract concept 287 00:16:03,281 --> 00:16:05,561 rather than something that might actually help improve 288 00:16:05,641 --> 00:16:06,801 her own wasted life. 289 00:16:06,921 --> 00:16:07,961 Where is she? 290 00:16:08,201 --> 00:16:10,441 Up in... up in the professor's study! 291 00:16:10,521 --> 00:16:11,801 This is what I'm saying! 292 00:16:12,401 --> 00:16:15,761 She remains completely in thrall to him. 293 00:16:16,041 --> 00:16:17,601 Translating his papers 294 00:16:17,721 --> 00:16:19,881 researching his billions of footnotes. 295 00:16:19,961 --> 00:16:21,801 She'll never change. Nana? 296 00:16:21,961 --> 00:16:23,401 Have you offered the doctor a drink? 297 00:16:23,481 --> 00:16:24,841 - Yes. - I'm working. 298 00:16:25,201 --> 00:16:26,641 Working? Where? 299 00:16:26,761 --> 00:16:29,521 Here! The professor summoned me. 300 00:16:29,601 --> 00:16:30,601 Oh, of course! 301 00:16:30,641 --> 00:16:33,721 Well, he's an incorrigible hypochondriac. 302 00:16:34,321 --> 00:16:37,401 We all have to tiptoe around his various "ailments" 303 00:16:37,721 --> 00:16:40,241 while he composes his latest treatise. 304 00:16:40,881 --> 00:16:43,881 "With straining brain and wrinkled brow 305 00:16:44,081 --> 00:16:45,921 he works into the night. 306 00:16:46,361 --> 00:16:47,881 The only thing that twit produced 307 00:16:47,961 --> 00:16:49,601 - was when he took a sh..." - Ah, Vanya! 308 00:16:51,081 --> 00:16:53,761 You know, he's spent 30 years 309 00:16:54,161 --> 00:16:57,441 writing papers no one understands 310 00:16:57,801 --> 00:17:00,081 for journals no one ever reads. 311 00:17:00,241 --> 00:17:01,521 Thirty years of... 312 00:17:01,681 --> 00:17:03,921 of utter obscurity 313 00:17:04,361 --> 00:17:07,041 all the while, hogging the post of professor 314 00:17:07,121 --> 00:17:09,761 from someone who might actually have something to offer. 315 00:17:10,081 --> 00:17:13,921 So not only has he offered the world nothing 316 00:17:14,401 --> 00:17:16,481 he's actually deprived it. 317 00:17:16,561 --> 00:17:18,041 You sound jealous to me, Vanya. 318 00:17:18,121 --> 00:17:20,281 Yes, too right, I am jealous! 319 00:17:20,841 --> 00:17:24,281 I mean, could someone please explain 320 00:17:24,361 --> 00:17:26,361 his effect on women? Hm? 321 00:17:26,681 --> 00:17:30,161 His first wife, my poor late sister 322 00:17:30,401 --> 00:17:33,481 she was so sweet, so intelligent! 323 00:17:33,681 --> 00:17:36,361 She could have had her pick of anyone in the whole world 324 00:17:36,441 --> 00:17:38,561 but no, it had to be him. 325 00:17:39,361 --> 00:17:42,401 And now his second wife, a full 40 years younger than him 326 00:17:42,481 --> 00:17:45,481 beautiful, stunning, clever, you know 327 00:17:45,961 --> 00:17:47,281 and she's gonna... 328 00:17:47,921 --> 00:17:50,481 give it all away for that old knobbly croaker. 329 00:17:50,601 --> 00:17:52,401 For what? I mean, why? 330 00:17:52,521 --> 00:17:53,761 She must be in love. 331 00:17:54,081 --> 00:17:55,361 You are joking? 332 00:17:55,721 --> 00:17:57,841 Is she faithful to him? 333 00:17:58,081 --> 00:17:59,321 Inexplicably, yes. 334 00:17:59,401 --> 00:18:01,001 Why inexplicably? 335 00:18:01,241 --> 00:18:02,801 Well, it makes no sense! 336 00:18:03,121 --> 00:18:06,481 Well, where's the morality in denying your youth 337 00:18:06,801 --> 00:18:07,841 your vitality? 338 00:18:07,921 --> 00:18:11,321 And pissing it away on some conceited old duffer. 339 00:18:11,561 --> 00:18:14,801 Don't tell me that's moral, it's immoral. 340 00:18:14,921 --> 00:18:17,121 Vanya, please, I hate that language. 341 00:18:17,801 --> 00:18:20,841 Your... your casual manner, disparaging people. 342 00:18:21,881 --> 00:18:25,081 The way I see it, anyone who deceives their wife 343 00:18:25,161 --> 00:18:27,481 or their husband is an unreliable person 344 00:18:27,561 --> 00:18:29,841 who might just as easily one day betray their country. 345 00:18:29,921 --> 00:18:32,721 Oh spare me, Waffles, will you? For God's sake. 346 00:18:32,801 --> 00:18:34,921 I don't mean to upset you, Vanya, but look at me. 347 00:18:35,521 --> 00:18:38,161 On the day after my wedding, my wife left me. 348 00:18:38,321 --> 00:18:39,481 - Here we go. - Yes. 349 00:18:39,561 --> 00:18:42,201 After just one single solitary night 350 00:18:42,281 --> 00:18:44,521 of almost conjugal bliss, she... 351 00:18:44,761 --> 00:18:47,121 left me in the morning, as soon as the sun peeped up 352 00:18:47,201 --> 00:18:50,201 to go back and be with her old, her much older, boyfriend. 353 00:18:52,081 --> 00:18:54,841 She said it was purely to do with my physical appearance 354 00:18:54,921 --> 00:18:56,761 so there was nothing I could do about it. 355 00:18:57,801 --> 00:19:01,401 However, I have remained faithful to her to this day. 356 00:19:01,481 --> 00:19:03,321 Yes, for over 50 years 357 00:19:03,401 --> 00:19:05,401 I've supported her and every single one 358 00:19:05,481 --> 00:19:08,721 of her illegitimate children, as is my duty. Hmm? 359 00:19:10,441 --> 00:19:12,641 You can still see her, down in the village. 360 00:19:13,961 --> 00:19:15,401 She's a haggard old woman now. 361 00:19:15,481 --> 00:19:17,001 Her beauty has entirely vanished. 362 00:19:17,081 --> 00:19:18,801 Her lover is long dead and... 363 00:19:19,161 --> 00:19:21,361 what has she left to show for it all, huh? 364 00:19:21,601 --> 00:19:23,721 Nothing. And look at me. 365 00:19:24,561 --> 00:19:25,601 You see? 366 00:19:26,641 --> 00:19:27,641 Vanya... 367 00:19:28,041 --> 00:19:30,881 I still have my pride, hm? 368 00:19:31,281 --> 00:19:32,841 You cannot deny it. 369 00:19:33,361 --> 00:19:34,521 Good God. 370 00:19:34,721 --> 00:19:36,241 Nana? Nana! 371 00:19:36,961 --> 00:19:38,841 There are some peasants outside on the lawn 372 00:19:38,921 --> 00:19:41,281 - will you see what they want? - Ah, y-yes, my dear. 373 00:19:41,361 --> 00:19:42,441 I'll do the tea. 374 00:19:42,881 --> 00:19:45,001 Tea, Doctor? Please have something. 375 00:19:45,481 --> 00:19:46,721 Oh, go on then. 376 00:19:47,561 --> 00:19:48,601 Uncle Vanya? 377 00:19:54,681 --> 00:19:56,041 - Hm? - Tea? 378 00:19:56,321 --> 00:19:57,761 Er, nah. 379 00:19:58,521 --> 00:20:00,401 - Hello. - Hello. 380 00:20:02,081 --> 00:20:03,601 You may or may not be aware 381 00:20:03,681 --> 00:20:05,361 but I've come to see your husband. 382 00:20:05,721 --> 00:20:06,881 Yes, Doctor, he's been... 383 00:20:06,961 --> 00:20:09,201 You wrote to me last night, saying that he was very ill. 384 00:20:09,281 --> 00:20:10,361 Yes, I'm aware of... 385 00:20:10,441 --> 00:20:13,401 But now it appears he's been walking all over the estate. 386 00:20:13,881 --> 00:20:15,921 Well... Yesterday, he was... 387 00:20:16,001 --> 00:20:17,857 He was terrible, he literally couldn't get up... 388 00:20:17,881 --> 00:20:20,241 He does know that I live 20 miles from here? 389 00:20:21,001 --> 00:20:22,121 Well, what can I say? I'm... 390 00:20:22,201 --> 00:20:23,537 And it's not the first time. 391 00:20:23,561 --> 00:20:25,441 You're here now, Doctor. Stay. 392 00:20:25,841 --> 00:20:27,441 I don't suppose you've eaten anything. 393 00:20:27,521 --> 00:20:28,817 Well, I haven't, as a matter of... 394 00:20:28,841 --> 00:20:31,081 Well, then, it's settled. You'll have dinner with us. 395 00:20:31,241 --> 00:20:32,641 We don't dine till after six 396 00:20:32,881 --> 00:20:34,801 so you'll have to stay the night, I'm afraid 397 00:20:34,881 --> 00:20:36,401 but we'll make it perfect for you. 398 00:20:36,481 --> 00:20:38,801 I'm sorry Papa dragged you out. This tea is cold. 399 00:20:38,881 --> 00:20:40,641 It's alright. Too hot today anyway. 400 00:20:40,721 --> 00:20:42,001 You see, what's happened is 401 00:20:42,081 --> 00:20:44,041 there's been a significant decline 402 00:20:44,121 --> 00:20:45,721 in the temperature of the water. 403 00:20:45,801 --> 00:20:47,657 Oh, is that what you think has happened, Waffles? 404 00:20:47,681 --> 00:20:49,441 - Thank you. - Never mind, Ivan Ivanych. 405 00:20:49,521 --> 00:20:50,521 We'll drink it... 406 00:20:57,161 --> 00:20:58,161 I'm sorry, excuse me. 407 00:20:58,201 --> 00:21:01,681 I'm sorry, madam, can I just set one thing straight with you? 408 00:21:02,401 --> 00:21:04,201 It's not Ivan Ivanych 409 00:21:04,281 --> 00:21:05,641 it's Ilya Ilich. 410 00:21:05,721 --> 00:21:07,441 Il'ya Il'ch Telegin. 411 00:21:08,321 --> 00:21:10,281 Or as Vanya likes to call me 412 00:21:10,361 --> 00:21:13,121 on account of my periodic bouts of acne, Waffles 413 00:21:13,401 --> 00:21:15,601 because I don't mind answering to this or that 414 00:21:15,681 --> 00:21:16,761 or any of these names 415 00:21:16,841 --> 00:21:19,441 but please call me by something 416 00:21:19,521 --> 00:21:21,441 which I recognise as my name. 417 00:21:23,441 --> 00:21:24,441 Thank you. 418 00:21:26,081 --> 00:21:29,881 Y-You may have noticed my name on any of the numerous occasions 419 00:21:29,961 --> 00:21:32,041 we have been repeatedly introduced? 420 00:21:32,681 --> 00:21:34,961 You may even perhaps have noticed me dining with you 421 00:21:35,041 --> 00:21:38,161 every day, three times a day, because I actually live here 422 00:21:38,241 --> 00:21:39,561 With you, in this house! 423 00:21:40,201 --> 00:21:41,841 Il'ya Il'ch. Right? 424 00:21:43,281 --> 00:21:44,281 My... 425 00:21:46,281 --> 00:21:48,321 My name is Il'ya Il'ch. 426 00:21:52,681 --> 00:21:53,681 Thank you. 427 00:21:54,601 --> 00:21:56,601 I... I'm sorry about this, I... 428 00:21:57,201 --> 00:21:59,521 I just find it better to clear the air about these things. 429 00:21:59,601 --> 00:22:02,521 No, nicely handled, Waffles. You tell her. 430 00:22:02,761 --> 00:22:05,921 My Godfather, Il'ya Il'ch 431 00:22:06,041 --> 00:22:08,761 he is our rock, our support 432 00:22:08,841 --> 00:22:11,321 and our right-hand man. Isn't that right? 433 00:22:11,601 --> 00:22:12,681 I... 434 00:22:12,761 --> 00:22:13,761 Yes. 435 00:22:14,201 --> 00:22:15,881 Let me get you something nice. 436 00:22:18,241 --> 00:22:20,361 Oh, tea, Grandmaman? It's cold, I'm afraid. 437 00:22:20,441 --> 00:22:22,361 I'm fine, thank you, my dear. 438 00:22:22,721 --> 00:22:24,481 Oh, Dr Astrov! 439 00:22:24,841 --> 00:22:27,281 Oh, no one told me you were here! 440 00:22:27,921 --> 00:22:28,961 How are you? 441 00:22:29,041 --> 00:22:31,881 Very well, Mariya Vasilievna, all fine. How are you? 442 00:22:31,961 --> 00:22:33,081 Well, thank you. 443 00:22:33,201 --> 00:22:35,001 Ironically, we're busier than ever 444 00:22:35,081 --> 00:22:36,521 since the professor retired. 445 00:22:36,601 --> 00:22:37,921 Yes, Vanya told me. 446 00:22:38,321 --> 00:22:39,881 Now that he's no longer teaching 447 00:22:39,961 --> 00:22:41,761 he has so much more time to write. 448 00:22:41,961 --> 00:22:45,121 So we're never finished translating, reading proofs 449 00:22:45,201 --> 00:22:46,721 we hardly stop for a moment. 450 00:22:47,601 --> 00:22:49,641 - Ah. - What's the matter, Grandmaman? 451 00:22:49,841 --> 00:22:51,801 Oh, Sonya... or Yelena. 452 00:22:51,881 --> 00:22:54,361 Ah... although, I don't want to disturb him 453 00:22:54,441 --> 00:22:56,201 now that he's writing but, oh! 454 00:22:56,361 --> 00:22:59,321 I meant to tell Alexandre, the professor 455 00:22:59,481 --> 00:23:01,241 that I received 456 00:23:01,481 --> 00:23:05,361 Pavel Alekseevich's new pamphlet today 457 00:23:05,481 --> 00:23:07,161 in the post from Kharkov. 458 00:23:07,641 --> 00:23:09,521 My memory, it's really going... 459 00:23:09,601 --> 00:23:11,521 What? Oh, dear God in heaven! 460 00:23:11,641 --> 00:23:13,641 Quick, somebody do something! 461 00:23:13,761 --> 00:23:14,881 Alert the professor! 462 00:23:15,001 --> 00:23:17,001 There's a pamphlet in the scullery! 463 00:23:17,121 --> 00:23:20,281 Yes, yes, sarcasm. Of course, Jean, very clever. 464 00:23:20,841 --> 00:23:24,241 The professor has been waiting specifically for this pamphlet. 465 00:23:24,321 --> 00:23:25,721 It must be very interesting. 466 00:23:25,761 --> 00:23:28,321 What's very interesting is that Mr Alekseevich 467 00:23:28,401 --> 00:23:30,921 has suddenly more or less refuted 468 00:23:31,041 --> 00:23:34,001 all the positions that he's held for the past 20 years 469 00:23:34,241 --> 00:23:36,241 which, of course, has grave implications 470 00:23:36,361 --> 00:23:38,721 for the professor's most recent studies 471 00:23:38,841 --> 00:23:40,921 which have only just been published 472 00:23:41,001 --> 00:23:43,041 and may well be just as quickly out of date! 473 00:23:43,121 --> 00:23:45,321 Oh, who cares, Mama? Really. 474 00:23:45,681 --> 00:23:47,201 What do you mean, "who cares"? 475 00:23:47,281 --> 00:23:49,801 Just relax, be quiet, drink your tea. 476 00:23:49,961 --> 00:23:53,321 Don't tell me to be quiet. I'll talk if I want to! 477 00:23:53,401 --> 00:23:54,641 There's been too much talk 478 00:23:54,761 --> 00:23:55,961 and talk and talk. 479 00:23:56,041 --> 00:23:59,241 You've been talking and reading bloody pamphlets 480 00:23:59,521 --> 00:24:01,121 for the last 50 years! 481 00:24:01,241 --> 00:24:03,441 And... and what good has it done anyone? 482 00:24:03,561 --> 00:24:05,001 What good has it done? 483 00:24:05,121 --> 00:24:07,641 Just give it a rest. That's all I'm saying. 484 00:24:08,081 --> 00:24:10,001 Oh, that's all you're saying! 485 00:24:10,561 --> 00:24:13,401 You were asleep in that chair over there half an hour ago! 486 00:24:13,481 --> 00:24:16,521 Don't suddenly pipe up and tell me to stop talking. 487 00:24:16,761 --> 00:24:19,081 You show some respect to your mother. 488 00:24:19,481 --> 00:24:21,761 That you would even speak to me like that 489 00:24:21,841 --> 00:24:22,961 in front of everyone! 490 00:24:23,641 --> 00:24:26,441 I have no idea what's come over you this past year. 491 00:24:26,601 --> 00:24:29,121 You used to cheer us all up! Tell us all to keep going! 492 00:24:29,201 --> 00:24:30,201 Didn't he? 493 00:24:30,321 --> 00:24:31,321 Now all you do is... 494 00:24:31,401 --> 00:24:33,201 is cause fights. 495 00:24:33,281 --> 00:24:34,721 Upsetting everyone. 496 00:24:34,961 --> 00:24:35,961 What's wrong with you? 497 00:24:36,001 --> 00:24:38,721 Yes, it was always left to me to cheer everybody up 498 00:24:38,841 --> 00:24:41,161 and it was bloody exhausting. 499 00:24:41,561 --> 00:24:42,761 Well, here it is. 500 00:24:43,201 --> 00:24:45,281 - I am 47. - Forty-seven? 501 00:24:45,401 --> 00:24:47,081 Yes, I'm 47! 502 00:24:47,161 --> 00:24:51,121 And I'm too long in the tooth to go around fooling myself 503 00:24:51,281 --> 00:24:52,921 that the professor's pamphlets 504 00:24:53,041 --> 00:24:55,601 and all our toiling and working to make sure 505 00:24:55,681 --> 00:24:58,601 he can keep churning them out is worth the bloody candle. 506 00:24:58,681 --> 00:25:00,321 - Alright? - Yes, that's fine. 507 00:25:00,681 --> 00:25:02,041 Thank you, Uncle Vanya. 508 00:25:02,201 --> 00:25:04,201 You've rehearsed these views many times 509 00:25:04,321 --> 00:25:05,721 but we have guests now, so... 510 00:25:05,801 --> 00:25:07,801 And I'll tell you why I never sleep. 511 00:25:07,881 --> 00:25:09,201 It's cos I'm so pissed off! 512 00:25:09,281 --> 00:25:11,601 I've been such a fool, wasting my life away. 513 00:25:11,721 --> 00:25:12,761 For what! 514 00:25:12,841 --> 00:25:15,561 Don't blame your principles for leading you here. 515 00:25:15,641 --> 00:25:16,641 - Principles? - Yes. 516 00:25:16,721 --> 00:25:18,241 You shared the very same principles 517 00:25:18,321 --> 00:25:19,761 the professor sought to espouse. 518 00:25:19,841 --> 00:25:21,241 No, I never shared his principles! 519 00:25:21,321 --> 00:25:23,297 - I can't believe you'd say that. - And I sought diligently 520 00:25:23,321 --> 00:25:25,801 to bring to a wider audience, and you were happy to help. 521 00:25:25,881 --> 00:25:27,481 What bloody choice did I have? 522 00:25:27,561 --> 00:25:28,761 It's you who have failed, Jean 523 00:25:28,841 --> 00:25:30,321 because you abandoned your principles. 524 00:25:30,401 --> 00:25:32,001 Oh, here we go... Go on then. 525 00:25:32,081 --> 00:25:35,401 Your principles have not failed. You have failed. Why? 526 00:25:35,561 --> 00:25:36,921 Because you've never done anything. 527 00:25:36,961 --> 00:25:39,961 What exactly are his principles? That's what I'd like to know. 528 00:25:40,041 --> 00:25:41,777 You criticise me for talking? That's all you ever were. 529 00:25:41,801 --> 00:25:43,361 All talk, and you still are! 530 00:25:43,441 --> 00:25:46,521 How would one even begin to discern his principles? 531 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:47,560 Grandmaman, please. 532 00:25:47,561 --> 00:25:49,121 Uncle Vanya, I beg of you, please! 533 00:25:53,521 --> 00:25:58,801 ♪ The hawk flies above the plain... ♪ 534 00:25:59,121 --> 00:26:02,121 Just because we can't all be pamphlet regurgitators 535 00:26:02,201 --> 00:26:04,001 like Herr Professor up there! 536 00:26:04,081 --> 00:26:06,721 Don't equate laziness with rebelliousness. 537 00:26:06,801 --> 00:26:08,017 You never learnt the difference. 538 00:26:08,041 --> 00:26:10,641 Because some of us refuse to worship nobodies 539 00:26:10,721 --> 00:26:12,681 when we can see there's no point! 540 00:26:12,961 --> 00:26:14,921 - What do you mean by that? - Just what I say! 541 00:26:15,001 --> 00:26:16,801 I mean what I mean when I say what I say. 542 00:26:16,881 --> 00:26:19,001 - Oh, stop it! - What part of what I say 543 00:26:19,081 --> 00:26:21,361 - confuses you? Hmm? - Stop it! Both of you, stop it! 544 00:26:21,441 --> 00:26:23,121 - Stop it! - I'm not saying anything. 545 00:26:23,361 --> 00:26:24,921 What did I say, huh? 546 00:26:39,321 --> 00:26:40,721 Isn't the weather nice? 547 00:26:41,601 --> 00:26:43,801 It's not too hot and it's not too grubby. 548 00:26:43,881 --> 00:26:47,001 Yes! You know, I was reading in the paper just the other day 549 00:26:47,081 --> 00:26:50,601 apparently this is the perfect weather 550 00:26:50,681 --> 00:26:52,081 for slitting your wrists. 551 00:26:52,641 --> 00:26:55,041 Mm. Something to do with the science of it. 552 00:26:55,161 --> 00:26:56,961 The, er... the blood flow. 553 00:26:57,081 --> 00:26:58,401 Nana? 554 00:26:58,601 --> 00:27:00,041 What did the peasants want? 555 00:27:00,481 --> 00:27:01,921 It's the same as they always want. 556 00:27:02,001 --> 00:27:03,841 They want to look through the compost. 557 00:27:04,201 --> 00:27:05,881 Chook? 558 00:27:06,001 --> 00:27:08,001 - Chook, chook, chook? - Which one are you calling? 559 00:27:08,081 --> 00:27:09,761 It's the tawny mummy. 560 00:27:10,201 --> 00:27:11,961 The crows will get her chicks. 561 00:27:12,361 --> 00:27:14,081 Chook... 562 00:27:14,481 --> 00:27:17,241 Chook, chook, chook. Chook, chook, chook! 563 00:27:18,201 --> 00:27:20,401 Chook, chook, chook. 564 00:27:20,961 --> 00:27:22,641 Oh, hello! 565 00:27:23,281 --> 00:27:25,681 Coochinka! What are you doing in... 566 00:27:25,801 --> 00:27:27,641 - Here she is. - Naughty girl... 567 00:27:27,921 --> 00:27:29,161 Oh... 568 00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:31,441 Back to your chicks. Oh! 569 00:27:32,161 --> 00:27:33,521 Come on. 570 00:27:33,641 --> 00:27:34,801 Naughty mummy. 571 00:27:35,481 --> 00:27:36,881 Naughty mummy, mummy. 572 00:27:41,441 --> 00:27:43,321 I'm sorry, excuse me, Doctor? 573 00:27:43,441 --> 00:27:45,841 There's a man outside says there's been an accident. 574 00:27:46,081 --> 00:27:47,961 - Where? - Uh... the factory. 575 00:27:48,441 --> 00:27:49,721 - When? - Sometime this morning. 576 00:27:49,801 --> 00:27:51,401 They say someone has been crushed. 577 00:27:51,521 --> 00:27:52,641 Sometime this morning? 578 00:27:53,481 --> 00:27:54,521 Right... 579 00:27:55,401 --> 00:27:56,401 Thank you. 580 00:27:59,561 --> 00:28:00,817 - Right, well, I'll... - Oh, Doctor. 581 00:28:00,841 --> 00:28:02,137 Do come back for dinner, won't you? 582 00:28:02,161 --> 00:28:04,081 No, no, it's far too far to the factory. 583 00:28:04,161 --> 00:28:06,121 I couldn't possibly keep you all waiting. 584 00:28:10,721 --> 00:28:13,041 ♪ How should I go? ♪ 585 00:28:14,841 --> 00:28:17,801 ♪ When I don't know the way? ♪ 586 00:28:18,801 --> 00:28:22,001 ♪ How could I leave? ♪ 587 00:28:22,241 --> 00:28:25,961 ♪ When you beg me to stay? ♪ 588 00:28:26,401 --> 00:28:29,361 ♪ Only Ramesses knows... ♪ 589 00:28:32,201 --> 00:28:34,521 I tell you what, I will just quickly... 590 00:28:34,721 --> 00:28:36,841 take a glass of that vodka, if it's still going. 591 00:28:38,481 --> 00:28:40,521 Course, you know who I'm like now, don't you? 592 00:28:40,601 --> 00:28:41,641 With this beard? 593 00:28:42,441 --> 00:28:44,761 That chap in Ostrovsky's play. 594 00:28:44,881 --> 00:28:46,881 "I am a man 595 00:28:46,961 --> 00:28:49,161 of large moustaches 596 00:28:49,561 --> 00:28:51,321 and small abilities." 597 00:28:51,481 --> 00:28:53,641 "Who believes in the invisible 598 00:28:54,521 --> 00:28:56,201 yet doubts the things he sees." 599 00:28:56,281 --> 00:28:57,321 I disagree. 600 00:28:58,081 --> 00:29:00,081 I think it makes you look more distinguished. 601 00:29:00,161 --> 00:29:02,161 Older. More distinguished. 602 00:29:05,681 --> 00:29:07,561 Have another before you go? 603 00:29:12,201 --> 00:29:15,281 Well, it's been nice to have had the honour. 604 00:29:17,201 --> 00:29:18,201 You know... 605 00:29:18,681 --> 00:29:21,121 if ever you should feel like an excursion 606 00:29:21,201 --> 00:29:24,361 Sonya knows my place. I would be truly delighted. 607 00:29:24,441 --> 00:29:25,481 Thank you. 608 00:29:25,721 --> 00:29:29,121 It's a small enough estate, 90 acres 609 00:29:29,201 --> 00:29:31,041 but there's an orchard 610 00:29:31,121 --> 00:29:33,721 and a large government forest beside me 611 00:29:33,801 --> 00:29:35,841 and the old chap who's in charge, he's always sick 612 00:29:35,921 --> 00:29:37,841 so it's really me who takes care of it. 613 00:29:37,961 --> 00:29:38,961 Sonya loves it. 614 00:29:39,001 --> 00:29:41,761 It's really very nice for a wander 615 00:29:41,841 --> 00:29:43,001 should you feel inclined. 616 00:29:43,081 --> 00:29:45,481 Yes, Sonya has told me all about it already... 617 00:29:46,281 --> 00:29:48,681 and how well you look after everything. 618 00:29:49,361 --> 00:29:51,841 I hope it doesn't interfere with your real vocation too much. 619 00:29:52,481 --> 00:29:55,201 Only God knows our real vocation. 620 00:29:56,401 --> 00:29:57,801 The forest is your true love. 621 00:29:58,761 --> 00:30:01,081 Well, it's just so interesting. It's... 622 00:30:01,161 --> 00:30:02,881 It's fascinating! 623 00:30:03,281 --> 00:30:05,481 But I've always heard that it's an older man's work. 624 00:30:05,601 --> 00:30:07,521 You don't look, what, more than 40? 625 00:30:07,961 --> 00:30:09,441 Oh? Thank you. 626 00:30:09,561 --> 00:30:11,842 Nothing but tree after tree, you don't find it monotonous? 627 00:30:11,921 --> 00:30:13,241 - No, no! - No, no, in fact... 628 00:30:13,321 --> 00:30:14,977 - it's the opposite. - Precisely the opposite. 629 00:30:19,041 --> 00:30:21,481 Well, the doctor plants new spans of forest 630 00:30:21,561 --> 00:30:22,681 every single year. 631 00:30:22,841 --> 00:30:25,601 He already has a bronze medal for it and a diploma. 632 00:30:25,881 --> 00:30:27,121 You don't mind me saying that? 633 00:30:27,921 --> 00:30:31,041 And he saved the old forest from being destroyed. 634 00:30:31,361 --> 00:30:33,201 We must go, I'll show you! 635 00:30:33,281 --> 00:30:35,801 And if you listen to what he has to say 636 00:30:35,881 --> 00:30:38,001 in 30 minutes, he will change how you see the world. 637 00:30:38,081 --> 00:30:39,201 The world, no less! 638 00:30:39,281 --> 00:30:40,721 Don't listen to Vanya. 639 00:30:41,401 --> 00:30:43,041 I hadn't realised how much we... 640 00:30:43,881 --> 00:30:45,761 depend upon the forest. 641 00:30:46,641 --> 00:30:49,081 D'you know the forest actually softens the climate? 642 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:50,120 What? 643 00:30:50,121 --> 00:30:51,921 And when the climate is less severe 644 00:30:52,001 --> 00:30:54,161 humans expend less energy 645 00:30:54,281 --> 00:30:58,001 we become more responsive, we can develop our culture 646 00:30:58,321 --> 00:30:59,561 our languages. 647 00:30:59,761 --> 00:31:03,361 The arts and sciences flourish in temperate climates. 648 00:31:03,441 --> 00:31:05,801 And... and, and women especially 649 00:31:05,881 --> 00:31:07,361 are treated with more courtesy. 650 00:31:07,561 --> 00:31:09,201 - Courtesy! - It's been shown. 651 00:31:10,041 --> 00:31:11,961 He's gone. 652 00:31:12,681 --> 00:31:14,601 It's a lovely idea, Astrov 653 00:31:14,681 --> 00:31:18,481 and I'm glad it makes Sonya so happy, but if you don't mind 654 00:31:18,681 --> 00:31:21,281 I'll continue to make a nice fire with my logs 655 00:31:21,361 --> 00:31:23,321 and build my barns out of wood. 656 00:31:23,401 --> 00:31:25,401 You could burn peat in your stoves 657 00:31:25,481 --> 00:31:27,041 and build your barns out of stone. 658 00:31:27,121 --> 00:31:29,441 I mean, of course, chop down a tree here and there 659 00:31:29,521 --> 00:31:32,041 if you need to, but why destroy the whole forest? 660 00:31:32,121 --> 00:31:33,337 I'm not destroying the whole... 661 00:31:33,361 --> 00:31:36,281 As we speak, swathes of forest are perishing. 662 00:31:36,961 --> 00:31:38,201 Without their roots 663 00:31:38,281 --> 00:31:40,321 the soil turns to dust and blows away. 664 00:31:40,401 --> 00:31:42,761 Rivers dry up, gone forever 665 00:31:42,841 --> 00:31:46,121 because you're too lazy to pick up fuel from the ground? 666 00:31:46,241 --> 00:31:47,881 It's not all down to just me! 667 00:31:47,961 --> 00:31:50,481 We have the unique capacity 668 00:31:50,561 --> 00:31:52,521 alone amongst all creatures 669 00:31:52,801 --> 00:31:55,481 to appreciate the miracle of creation 670 00:31:55,561 --> 00:31:57,041 and what are we doing? 671 00:31:58,321 --> 00:31:59,841 Destroying the lot. 672 00:32:01,321 --> 00:32:02,441 God, I'm knackered. 673 00:32:02,521 --> 00:32:04,361 Vanya always gives me that ironic look 674 00:32:04,441 --> 00:32:06,761 like I'm always so bloody serious all the time. 675 00:32:06,841 --> 00:32:09,801 I know I am as cranky as the next fellow 676 00:32:09,881 --> 00:32:12,881 but there are moments, you know 677 00:32:13,681 --> 00:32:16,201 when I go down past the peasants' wood 678 00:32:16,281 --> 00:32:19,641 or I see a span of forest 679 00:32:20,001 --> 00:32:23,721 that I've planted, bursting into bloom and... 680 00:32:24,641 --> 00:32:26,001 I realise that... 681 00:32:26,881 --> 00:32:28,441 well, to some extent 682 00:32:29,241 --> 00:32:31,241 the climate is in my power. 683 00:32:31,921 --> 00:32:34,681 And that because of some small thing we do 684 00:32:35,041 --> 00:32:37,721 someone a hundred years from now 685 00:32:37,801 --> 00:32:40,001 will be happier because of it, well, that... 686 00:32:40,481 --> 00:32:43,281 I'm not joking, that does something to me. 687 00:32:44,641 --> 00:32:45,761 To my... 688 00:32:49,961 --> 00:32:51,961 Well, if you will do me the honour 689 00:32:52,041 --> 00:32:53,481 of allowing me to take my leave. 690 00:32:53,561 --> 00:32:54,921 When will you come back and see us? 691 00:32:54,961 --> 00:32:56,977 - God, I don't know. - Don't leave it another month. 692 00:32:57,001 --> 00:32:58,281 Promise me that much. 693 00:33:03,361 --> 00:33:05,321 And as for you, Ivan... 694 00:33:06,081 --> 00:33:08,441 Oh, so now it's "Ivan"? 695 00:33:08,521 --> 00:33:10,521 What are we going to do with you? Hmm? 696 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:11,960 Do what with me? 697 00:33:11,961 --> 00:33:14,961 Do you really have to antagonise your poor mother like that? 698 00:33:15,041 --> 00:33:16,321 She antagonises me! 699 00:33:16,401 --> 00:33:17,961 And this morning too. 700 00:33:18,201 --> 00:33:19,961 You had a go at poor Alexandre. 701 00:33:20,401 --> 00:33:22,201 He was really upset with you, you know. 702 00:33:22,281 --> 00:33:23,921 I can't help it if I loathe him. 703 00:33:24,001 --> 00:33:25,441 What's the point in loathing him? 704 00:33:26,121 --> 00:33:29,081 He's only as bad as anyone else, and certainly no worse than you! 705 00:33:30,001 --> 00:33:31,241 You're one to talk. 706 00:33:31,441 --> 00:33:34,961 Don't think I can't notice the sheer effort it takes you 707 00:33:35,241 --> 00:33:37,201 just to live from moment to moment. 708 00:33:37,281 --> 00:33:39,921 Oh, yes, yes the effort and the boredom. 709 00:33:40,361 --> 00:33:42,241 Since when is it any of your business? 710 00:33:43,401 --> 00:33:44,961 No, and don't pretend it's because 711 00:33:45,041 --> 00:33:46,601 you have any sympathy for me. 712 00:33:47,401 --> 00:33:49,201 Of course I have sympathy for you. 713 00:33:49,281 --> 00:33:51,841 I heard you, Vanya, you have no pity for the woods 714 00:33:51,921 --> 00:33:53,281 or the forest or... 715 00:33:54,121 --> 00:33:55,561 women, or for anyone else. 716 00:33:55,641 --> 00:33:57,801 I'm not sure that's quite what I said, but anyway... 717 00:33:58,681 --> 00:34:01,601 where's all this philosophising coming from everybody 718 00:34:01,681 --> 00:34:02,681 all of a sudden? 719 00:34:02,841 --> 00:34:05,481 That doctor, he had such an exhausted look on his face. 720 00:34:05,641 --> 00:34:07,681 Look at me! I'm exhausted! 721 00:34:07,761 --> 00:34:09,841 Yes, but he has an interesting face. 722 00:34:10,441 --> 00:34:12,321 Thanks. 723 00:34:13,121 --> 00:34:14,961 And Sonya's clearly mad about him. 724 00:34:15,881 --> 00:34:17,881 - I can understand it. - Of course you can. 725 00:34:18,321 --> 00:34:20,761 You know he's visited three times since I've been here? 726 00:34:20,841 --> 00:34:22,281 - But who's counting? - And I... 727 00:34:23,881 --> 00:34:26,521 I've always been too intimidated to speak with him. 728 00:34:26,881 --> 00:34:29,121 Never even said hello or been nice to him 729 00:34:29,201 --> 00:34:31,121 and now Sonya says he thinks I'm moody. 730 00:34:31,521 --> 00:34:32,521 I wonder why. 731 00:34:37,321 --> 00:34:40,361 You know why you and I get along so well, don't you? 732 00:34:41,001 --> 00:34:42,401 - Cos you like me? - No. 733 00:34:42,801 --> 00:34:46,201 Because we are the most tedious, boring people 734 00:34:46,281 --> 00:34:47,681 on the whole estate. 735 00:34:48,841 --> 00:34:49,841 We are! 736 00:34:50,161 --> 00:34:51,201 Tedious. 737 00:34:54,321 --> 00:34:56,681 Don't look at me like that. I don't like it. 738 00:34:56,801 --> 00:34:58,801 How else am I supposed to look at you? 739 00:35:00,041 --> 00:35:01,041 I love you. 740 00:35:01,121 --> 00:35:02,121 No, stop it. 741 00:35:02,361 --> 00:35:05,321 You're the only thing on Earth that makes me happy. 742 00:35:05,481 --> 00:35:07,721 Makes me feel like I was ever young. 743 00:35:07,801 --> 00:35:10,481 Makes me... appreciate my life. 744 00:35:10,681 --> 00:35:11,921 I... 745 00:35:12,161 --> 00:35:13,241 Thank you! 746 00:35:13,321 --> 00:35:15,161 I know the chances of you feeling the same way 747 00:35:15,241 --> 00:35:18,081 are practically zero, but let me look at you. 748 00:35:18,201 --> 00:35:19,657 - Let me listen to your voice. - Vanya. 749 00:35:19,681 --> 00:35:21,761 Vanya, your mother is coming. Will you stop it? 750 00:35:21,841 --> 00:35:24,057 Just let me sit here next to you and I'll be the happiest... 751 00:35:24,081 --> 00:35:25,481 No, God, leave me alone! 752 00:35:25,801 --> 00:35:27,041 You're driving me mad! 753 00:35:37,161 --> 00:35:38,161 Oh... 754 00:35:38,481 --> 00:35:39,561 Where is everybody? 755 00:35:39,641 --> 00:35:41,601 - Go back asleep. - I wasn't asleep! 756 00:35:42,401 --> 00:35:43,401 Was I? 757 00:35:45,321 --> 00:35:46,841 Well, Vanya! 758 00:35:46,921 --> 00:35:47,921 What? 759 00:35:47,961 --> 00:35:49,521 How are you today? 760 00:35:51,441 --> 00:35:52,521 Any news? 761 00:36:30,121 --> 00:36:31,121 Oh... 762 00:36:33,241 --> 00:36:34,241 Oh, no... 763 00:36:34,321 --> 00:36:35,321 Alexandre. 764 00:36:35,961 --> 00:36:37,481 - No! - Alexandre, you're dreaming. 765 00:36:37,561 --> 00:36:38,921 No! No... 766 00:36:39,001 --> 00:36:40,201 You're dreaming. 767 00:36:40,281 --> 00:36:41,521 - You're dreaming. - Oh... 768 00:36:42,001 --> 00:36:43,001 God! 769 00:36:45,721 --> 00:36:47,361 I... I'm frozen. 770 00:36:48,201 --> 00:36:50,161 - Your rug has fallen off. - Oh... 771 00:36:55,721 --> 00:36:56,721 Oh, Sonya. 772 00:36:56,761 --> 00:36:58,241 It's not Sonya, it's me. 773 00:36:59,401 --> 00:37:00,561 Oh, Lenochka. 774 00:37:01,721 --> 00:37:02,721 Forgive me. 775 00:37:04,041 --> 00:37:05,041 I'm sorry. 776 00:37:06,881 --> 00:37:08,081 The pain's back. 777 00:37:08,201 --> 00:37:09,521 I'll shut the window. 778 00:37:09,721 --> 00:37:11,241 No, no, it's fine. 779 00:37:11,441 --> 00:37:13,441 Can't catch my breath. I... 780 00:37:16,961 --> 00:37:18,241 I fell asleep. I... 781 00:37:20,201 --> 00:37:22,481 didn't even realise, I dreamt... 782 00:37:23,201 --> 00:37:25,081 this wasn't my leg, that... 783 00:37:25,201 --> 00:37:26,761 that it belonged to... 784 00:37:29,001 --> 00:37:30,161 someone else. 785 00:37:32,281 --> 00:37:34,561 - Oh, it's agonising. - It's your gout, Alexandre. 786 00:37:34,641 --> 00:37:37,441 No, it can't be gout! It must be something else! 787 00:37:37,801 --> 00:37:39,081 My God, the pain... 788 00:37:41,041 --> 00:37:42,361 What... what time is it? 789 00:37:45,761 --> 00:37:46,761 Yelena. 790 00:37:48,521 --> 00:37:51,921 Did you find the volume of Batyushkov I asked you for? 791 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:52,960 What? 792 00:37:52,961 --> 00:37:56,641 Can you find me the volume of Batyushkov 793 00:37:56,801 --> 00:37:58,241 I asked you about? 794 00:38:00,161 --> 00:38:01,201 Mm... 795 00:38:03,561 --> 00:38:06,521 Why can't I... It's as though I can't get a breath. 796 00:38:06,601 --> 00:38:07,801 You need sleep. 797 00:38:09,441 --> 00:38:12,481 You got none last night, now this tonight. 798 00:38:13,041 --> 00:38:15,081 It's these new ideas I have, I... 799 00:38:15,241 --> 00:38:17,881 If I don't get them up and running, they'll be gone. 800 00:38:17,961 --> 00:38:18,961 And what of it? 801 00:38:19,401 --> 00:38:22,441 You're retired, take your time. Accept it. 802 00:38:23,321 --> 00:38:25,921 But you can't turn your brain off. 803 00:38:27,041 --> 00:38:29,321 You're in a race against the bloody clock. 804 00:38:32,081 --> 00:38:33,081 You... 805 00:38:33,321 --> 00:38:35,641 You know Turgenev 806 00:38:36,041 --> 00:38:39,481 suffered a heart attack because of his gout? 807 00:38:39,961 --> 00:38:41,441 Because of the pain? 808 00:38:42,281 --> 00:38:43,921 And just, bang! 809 00:38:44,601 --> 00:38:46,241 I mean, that's what could... 810 00:38:51,761 --> 00:38:54,001 I daren't even look in the mirror anymore. 811 00:38:55,881 --> 00:38:57,201 I see my father... 812 00:38:58,681 --> 00:39:02,041 scowling back at me from his deathbed. 813 00:39:02,761 --> 00:39:04,321 He had a horrible death. 814 00:39:07,121 --> 00:39:09,001 And what's worse is you're so fully aware 815 00:39:09,081 --> 00:39:11,121 of how revolting people find you. 816 00:39:11,201 --> 00:39:12,601 They leave you in no doubt. 817 00:39:12,681 --> 00:39:14,521 - Oh, now it's my fault? - Oh, no, it's... 818 00:39:14,601 --> 00:39:15,601 it's nothing. 819 00:39:16,041 --> 00:39:17,681 I'm speaking objectively. 820 00:39:18,201 --> 00:39:19,881 Lenochka, it's nothing personal. 821 00:39:21,081 --> 00:39:23,361 You're young, you're healthy, you want to live 822 00:39:23,441 --> 00:39:24,721 and why shouldn't you? 823 00:39:26,281 --> 00:39:28,801 But I have a feeling 824 00:39:29,401 --> 00:39:31,361 it won't be long now. 825 00:39:32,761 --> 00:39:33,801 Yelena? 826 00:39:35,721 --> 00:39:37,401 - Did you hear what I said? - Yes, alright. 827 00:39:37,481 --> 00:39:38,881 Please just stop! 828 00:39:38,961 --> 00:39:40,601 - Stop what? - What do you want? 829 00:39:40,801 --> 00:39:43,241 - What? Stop hounding me! - Hounding you? 830 00:39:43,321 --> 00:39:45,241 Oh, well, of course. I've completely worn you out 831 00:39:45,281 --> 00:39:46,281 haven't I? 832 00:39:46,401 --> 00:39:48,201 Be perfectly understandable if you... 833 00:39:48,521 --> 00:39:50,441 wanted to just... I mean. 834 00:39:50,521 --> 00:39:51,761 Oh, yes? And go where? 835 00:39:52,761 --> 00:39:54,161 - With what? - Mm. 836 00:39:57,201 --> 00:39:59,201 Let's just be quiet, alright? 837 00:40:00,841 --> 00:40:02,361 You know what's really funny? 838 00:40:05,441 --> 00:40:08,401 When Vanya starts to talk 839 00:40:08,481 --> 00:40:10,521 or his mother speaks 840 00:40:11,401 --> 00:40:14,241 everyone is scrupulously attentive to their drivel. 841 00:40:16,201 --> 00:40:17,561 I so much as say two words 842 00:40:17,641 --> 00:40:20,001 and suddenly everyone wants to kill themselves. 843 00:40:21,361 --> 00:40:23,321 You lose the right to exist. That's... 844 00:40:23,401 --> 00:40:26,761 No. No one is denying you your rights. 845 00:40:27,761 --> 00:40:29,881 No one is disputing your rights. 846 00:40:33,081 --> 00:40:34,641 You spend your whole life... 847 00:40:36,241 --> 00:40:37,401 growing... 848 00:40:38,241 --> 00:40:41,281 and learning, developing your expertise 849 00:40:42,441 --> 00:40:45,001 and then, suddenly, that's it, you're old. 850 00:40:45,081 --> 00:40:49,281 You're from the past, and the past is gone. 851 00:40:52,121 --> 00:40:53,281 You end up... 852 00:40:54,041 --> 00:40:55,601 living in a kind of tomb. 853 00:40:59,041 --> 00:41:00,681 And I still want to live! 854 00:41:00,761 --> 00:41:02,281 I can't help it. 855 00:41:02,361 --> 00:41:05,121 I want to publish great works. 856 00:41:05,201 --> 00:41:07,441 I want to be successful! 857 00:41:07,841 --> 00:41:09,961 What's wrong with that? 858 00:41:13,841 --> 00:41:16,641 This was a huge mistake, you know. 859 00:41:17,241 --> 00:41:18,761 Coming out here. 860 00:41:18,921 --> 00:41:20,641 There's nothing here! 861 00:41:22,761 --> 00:41:24,441 It's like being dead 862 00:41:24,561 --> 00:41:27,241 only you're not even allowed to be. It's... 863 00:41:27,441 --> 00:41:30,241 Yes. Well, time is killing me just as certainly as you. 864 00:41:30,841 --> 00:41:31,841 Papa? 865 00:41:33,361 --> 00:41:35,921 You asked for the doctor. He's waited for hours. 866 00:41:36,201 --> 00:41:37,801 I can't believe you'd do this again. 867 00:41:38,441 --> 00:41:39,561 What doctor? 868 00:41:39,801 --> 00:41:41,801 Doctor Astrov, who else? 869 00:41:41,881 --> 00:41:44,321 Ugh! He's so bloody conceited. 870 00:41:44,841 --> 00:41:46,641 Well, what do you want? 871 00:41:46,841 --> 00:41:49,041 Because we can't send for the medical faculty 872 00:41:49,121 --> 00:41:52,121 of St Petersburg every time you get pins and needles. 873 00:41:53,001 --> 00:41:54,201 Just let him have a look. 874 00:41:54,321 --> 00:41:56,041 No! I can't stand him. 875 00:41:56,801 --> 00:41:57,801 Wonderful. 876 00:41:58,561 --> 00:42:00,921 Well, I'm not telling him. You can tell him yourself. 877 00:42:02,881 --> 00:42:03,881 Oh... 878 00:42:04,041 --> 00:42:05,121 Where are my glasses? 879 00:42:08,201 --> 00:42:09,561 What... what time is it? 880 00:42:09,641 --> 00:42:10,801 Past midnight. 881 00:42:10,961 --> 00:42:11,961 Oh... 882 00:42:12,841 --> 00:42:15,881 Sonya, bring me my drops from the table. 883 00:42:19,361 --> 00:42:21,721 No, not those ones! Those are my morning ones. 884 00:42:21,801 --> 00:42:23,561 - I'll be up all bloody night! - Alright! 885 00:42:24,401 --> 00:42:25,841 No need to be rude. 886 00:42:26,041 --> 00:42:28,321 Perhaps other people pander to that behaviour 887 00:42:28,401 --> 00:42:29,841 but you can spare me. 888 00:42:30,201 --> 00:42:32,441 I've to be up in three hours for the haymaking. 889 00:42:32,521 --> 00:42:35,521 I'm not so sure about that. There's a storm brewing. 890 00:42:35,841 --> 00:42:37,921 In case anyone wants to know. 891 00:42:40,961 --> 00:42:42,641 Et voila. 892 00:42:43,361 --> 00:42:45,441 Yelena, Sonya, go to sleep. 893 00:42:45,601 --> 00:42:47,521 I am here to relieve you. 894 00:42:47,641 --> 00:42:50,201 No, no, don't leave me with him! He'll talk me to death. 895 00:42:50,281 --> 00:42:52,441 - I won't say a word! - No, Vanya, I can't. 896 00:42:52,521 --> 00:42:54,481 I'm not in good form. I don't want an argument. 897 00:42:54,601 --> 00:42:57,001 We must give them some rest! 898 00:42:57,401 --> 00:42:58,801 Come on, me old banana! 899 00:42:58,881 --> 00:43:00,561 Be reasonable, me old sausage. 900 00:43:00,641 --> 00:43:02,401 No, I'm asking you, Vanya 901 00:43:02,481 --> 00:43:04,961 in the name of our former friendship 902 00:43:05,041 --> 00:43:06,361 don't antagonise me. 903 00:43:06,441 --> 00:43:08,201 Our friendship! 904 00:43:08,681 --> 00:43:11,961 - "Our former friendship..." - I know what you're doing. 905 00:43:12,041 --> 00:43:13,921 I know what's going to happen. 906 00:43:14,041 --> 00:43:16,201 So, please, I'm too tired. 907 00:43:16,801 --> 00:43:18,841 This is almost funny, isn't it? 908 00:43:18,961 --> 00:43:20,361 It's... It's almost... 909 00:43:20,441 --> 00:43:22,961 Oh, yes, you're all still up! 910 00:43:23,041 --> 00:43:24,761 Everybody, everywhere... 911 00:43:24,841 --> 00:43:26,401 Nana, go to bed, it's so late. 912 00:43:26,481 --> 00:43:28,481 Nothing's cleared away, how can I go to bed? 913 00:43:28,641 --> 00:43:31,041 I've kept everyone up again. 914 00:43:31,521 --> 00:43:35,161 Everybody is worn out! I know, I know. 915 00:43:35,241 --> 00:43:36,921 We love you! 916 00:43:37,521 --> 00:43:39,961 What are you talking about? 917 00:43:40,041 --> 00:43:42,321 Don't start behaving like an old twit. 918 00:43:42,401 --> 00:43:44,041 - You see! - Right, Vanya, go to bed. 919 00:43:44,161 --> 00:43:46,601 I've only just got up! I want to help! 920 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:47,680 Shh! 921 00:43:47,681 --> 00:43:49,641 Shh, shh, shh! 922 00:43:49,841 --> 00:43:51,681 - Shh! - All the geese go cack, cack! 923 00:43:51,761 --> 00:43:53,161 - Cack, cack, cack! - Cack, cack... 924 00:43:53,241 --> 00:43:55,761 Day and night, day and night. 925 00:43:56,281 --> 00:43:57,281 Oh... 926 00:43:57,521 --> 00:43:59,121 Now, come on, now. 927 00:43:59,641 --> 00:44:00,641 Here. 928 00:44:06,361 --> 00:44:07,481 Mmm... 929 00:44:08,521 --> 00:44:10,441 Don't mind them, Professor. 930 00:44:11,161 --> 00:44:13,081 Old people are like children. 931 00:44:13,521 --> 00:44:15,761 We want people to feel sorry for us 932 00:44:15,841 --> 00:44:18,401 but nobody feels sorry for us. 933 00:44:19,481 --> 00:44:20,521 You, uh... 934 00:44:21,441 --> 00:44:22,481 you come with me. 935 00:44:23,881 --> 00:44:26,521 I'll make us some lime flower tea 936 00:44:26,601 --> 00:44:28,761 - and I'll rub your feet... - Mmm. 937 00:44:28,881 --> 00:44:31,041 Say a little prayer to God for you. 938 00:44:31,481 --> 00:44:32,521 Come. 939 00:44:32,641 --> 00:44:33,841 Oh, come on. 940 00:44:35,321 --> 00:44:37,161 I fancy a walk in that. 941 00:44:37,761 --> 00:44:38,761 Anyone? 942 00:44:39,881 --> 00:44:40,881 No? 943 00:44:43,001 --> 00:44:45,241 Vera! 944 00:44:46,641 --> 00:44:50,241 She used to worry all the time about your legs. 945 00:44:51,681 --> 00:44:54,721 She would sit in here and cry with me. 946 00:44:54,841 --> 00:44:56,081 Do you remember? 947 00:44:56,921 --> 00:44:59,161 And Sonya, you would sit with us too 948 00:44:59,241 --> 00:45:01,321 but you wouldn't understand. 949 00:45:02,641 --> 00:45:03,841 You remember. 950 00:45:06,881 --> 00:45:07,881 Wait. 951 00:45:09,721 --> 00:45:11,321 Vanya. Here. 952 00:45:11,841 --> 00:45:12,881 What? 953 00:45:13,961 --> 00:45:15,001 Take it. 954 00:45:15,401 --> 00:45:16,561 It's your watch. 955 00:45:17,041 --> 00:45:18,041 I know. 956 00:45:18,881 --> 00:45:20,801 My sister gave it to you. 957 00:45:23,161 --> 00:45:26,441 I want you... to have it. 958 00:45:27,961 --> 00:45:29,001 Alright? 959 00:45:29,881 --> 00:45:32,321 What a lovely thing to do! 960 00:45:33,801 --> 00:45:35,401 You... come along with Nana. 961 00:45:35,721 --> 00:45:36,761 Come. 962 00:45:37,121 --> 00:45:38,881 Oh... Come along. 963 00:45:46,521 --> 00:45:48,961 God, I am so sick of it. 964 00:45:50,641 --> 00:45:52,441 I can hardly stay on my feet. 965 00:45:54,201 --> 00:45:55,441 You're sick of him... 966 00:45:57,361 --> 00:45:59,681 I'm sick of myself, it's... 967 00:46:00,121 --> 00:46:01,521 Well, it's a perfect... 968 00:46:03,521 --> 00:46:04,921 You know, it's a... 969 00:46:05,641 --> 00:46:06,681 Well, you know. 970 00:46:07,601 --> 00:46:08,881 Look at you! 971 00:46:10,001 --> 00:46:11,601 You're educated and intelligent. 972 00:46:11,681 --> 00:46:13,841 You should be working to reconcile us all 973 00:46:14,081 --> 00:46:15,161 but you do nothing. 974 00:46:15,441 --> 00:46:16,441 Yelena. 975 00:46:17,241 --> 00:46:18,641 I need you... 976 00:46:19,601 --> 00:46:21,361 to reconcile me to myself 977 00:46:21,681 --> 00:46:24,521 before I can even think of doing any of that. 978 00:46:25,121 --> 00:46:26,201 Stop it. 979 00:46:27,481 --> 00:46:29,481 Take your hand away. Go away. 980 00:46:31,401 --> 00:46:32,401 Mariya? 981 00:46:33,401 --> 00:46:34,561 She's asleep. 982 00:46:35,561 --> 00:46:36,761 There's a girl. 983 00:46:38,721 --> 00:46:40,201 She's under the wall. 984 00:46:43,761 --> 00:46:47,521 It's... it's really more her expression than anything else. 985 00:46:49,041 --> 00:46:51,521 If I give her my hand, I won't be able to leave. 986 00:47:03,401 --> 00:47:07,401 Soon the rain will pass, and everything will be clean! 987 00:47:08,721 --> 00:47:11,921 Everything will breathe again. 988 00:47:12,041 --> 00:47:13,041 Ha! 989 00:47:13,521 --> 00:47:16,801 Well, I'll... I'll still be stuck here. 990 00:47:18,401 --> 00:47:21,201 Day, night, wha... what's, what's the difference, hm? 991 00:47:21,481 --> 00:47:23,641 It's all the same to me now. 992 00:47:24,241 --> 00:47:26,361 Now that I've wasted my life. 993 00:47:26,681 --> 00:47:30,041 Wasted my love, in all the wrong places. 994 00:47:30,441 --> 00:47:31,881 It's like the sun 995 00:47:32,481 --> 00:47:36,001 shining down a deep, dark hole. 996 00:47:36,881 --> 00:47:38,401 Utterly pointless. 997 00:47:39,921 --> 00:47:41,041 Vanya, you know what happens 998 00:47:41,121 --> 00:47:43,201 every time you start talking to me about love? 999 00:47:43,481 --> 00:47:44,641 No. Tell me. 1000 00:47:45,601 --> 00:47:47,241 I feel completely dead. 1001 00:47:49,041 --> 00:47:50,321 Well, that's not good. 1002 00:47:51,081 --> 00:47:52,201 Yes. 1003 00:47:53,081 --> 00:47:54,801 I never know what to say to you. 1004 00:47:57,201 --> 00:47:58,241 Goodnight. 1005 00:48:00,041 --> 00:48:03,041 Yelena, do you know what kills me? Shall I tell you? 1006 00:48:03,241 --> 00:48:06,241 I-I don't care if my life amounts to nothing 1007 00:48:06,321 --> 00:48:08,801 it makes no difference to... to anyone. 1008 00:48:08,921 --> 00:48:12,601 But to watch you, wasting your life? 1009 00:48:12,681 --> 00:48:13,881 Vanya, you're drunk. 1010 00:48:13,961 --> 00:48:15,401 - So what? - Oh, God! 1011 00:48:15,481 --> 00:48:17,681 Please, get off me! Go and find the doctor! 1012 00:48:17,841 --> 00:48:18,841 Where is he? 1013 00:48:19,121 --> 00:48:20,521 - In my room. - Drinking? 1014 00:48:21,361 --> 00:48:23,881 Oh, excellent! And what good does drinking do either of you? 1015 00:48:23,961 --> 00:48:25,201 - Hmm? - Kills the days. 1016 00:48:25,281 --> 00:48:26,441 Oh, wonderful. 1017 00:48:27,721 --> 00:48:30,561 You were so much nicer when you never drank. 1018 00:48:31,121 --> 00:48:33,041 You never went around so sad as you do now. 1019 00:48:33,121 --> 00:48:34,241 It wears us all out. 1020 00:48:34,321 --> 00:48:35,801 - Yelena! - What? 1021 00:48:36,561 --> 00:48:39,521 You don't even know how wonderful you are. 1022 00:48:39,601 --> 00:48:41,441 Vanya, I've asked you to stop. 1023 00:48:42,121 --> 00:48:43,721 You're doing it on purpose now. 1024 00:48:58,681 --> 00:48:59,801 This is nothing. 1025 00:49:02,761 --> 00:49:05,401 Our conversations always end like this. 1026 00:49:11,241 --> 00:49:12,921 I met her ten years ago 1027 00:49:13,441 --> 00:49:17,761 when she was 17, and I was only 37. 1028 00:49:19,281 --> 00:49:21,001 I should've proposed to her then. 1029 00:49:21,201 --> 00:49:22,921 She probably would've said yes. 1030 00:49:24,641 --> 00:49:26,441 She wouldn't have known any better. 1031 00:49:29,041 --> 00:49:30,721 She'd be my wife now. 1032 00:49:33,081 --> 00:49:34,921 Storm would wake her up 1033 00:49:35,321 --> 00:49:37,041 and she'd come looking for me. 1034 00:49:39,321 --> 00:49:42,921 I'd take her in my arms and say, "Shh. 1035 00:49:44,521 --> 00:49:45,761 I'm here. 1036 00:49:47,481 --> 00:49:48,921 It's only a storm." 1037 00:49:53,201 --> 00:49:57,001 These are the kinds of thoughts that swirl around my head 1038 00:49:57,081 --> 00:49:59,641 incessantly, now that I'm old. 1039 00:50:00,481 --> 00:50:02,721 She doesn't understand a word I'm saying. 1040 00:50:03,201 --> 00:50:06,761 She gets into these long-winded arguments, lecturing me 1041 00:50:06,841 --> 00:50:09,001 as if I'm somehow to blame 1042 00:50:09,081 --> 00:50:11,481 for all the dreadful things in her world. 1043 00:50:11,921 --> 00:50:12,961 Her husband. 1044 00:50:14,761 --> 00:50:16,521 The professor. 1045 00:50:17,921 --> 00:50:21,161 I worked like an ox to keep him going. 1046 00:50:21,281 --> 00:50:23,041 To keep his money coming in. 1047 00:50:23,721 --> 00:50:27,961 We've squeezed everything out of this estate, me and Sonya. 1048 00:50:28,241 --> 00:50:30,521 Vegetable oil, dried peas... 1049 00:50:31,321 --> 00:50:33,321 you name it, we sold it. 1050 00:50:35,081 --> 00:50:36,721 We kept nothing for ourselves. 1051 00:50:37,561 --> 00:50:40,761 We were proud of his position, you see. 1052 00:50:41,081 --> 00:50:43,121 Made us all feel like somebody. 1053 00:50:44,521 --> 00:50:48,001 We lived and breathed for him 1054 00:50:48,801 --> 00:50:50,121 to tell you the truth. 1055 00:50:52,121 --> 00:50:53,121 And now? 1056 00:50:53,521 --> 00:50:55,561 Here he is, back. 1057 00:50:56,161 --> 00:50:57,841 Not a penny to his name. 1058 00:50:59,921 --> 00:51:03,521 And not one page of anything he's ever written 1059 00:51:03,681 --> 00:51:05,721 is read by anyone. 1060 00:51:06,041 --> 00:51:07,641 He's nothing. A... 1061 00:51:08,681 --> 00:51:09,961 a soap bubble. 1062 00:51:16,441 --> 00:51:19,921 I was cheated out of my life, for that. 1063 00:51:22,041 --> 00:51:23,281 For nothing. 1064 00:51:26,121 --> 00:51:27,481 And the funny thing is... 1065 00:51:30,161 --> 00:51:32,521 I always thought I was cleverer than him. 1066 00:51:35,321 --> 00:51:38,361 Oh, just play something, for God's sake! 1067 00:51:39,561 --> 00:51:41,201 If you promise to keep your voice down 1068 00:51:41,281 --> 00:51:43,281 - I'll play very quietly. - He won't play! 1069 00:51:43,521 --> 00:51:45,561 I'm not really able to play well, you know. 1070 00:51:46,601 --> 00:51:48,841 What are you always carrying that bloody thing around 1071 00:51:48,921 --> 00:51:49,921 with you for then? 1072 00:51:49,961 --> 00:51:52,401 It was my father's. It's an affectation, really. 1073 00:51:52,481 --> 00:51:55,921 Bloody hell! Well then, affect to play something. 1074 00:51:58,441 --> 00:51:59,721 You all alone, Vanya? 1075 00:52:00,801 --> 00:52:02,041 No ladies? 1076 00:52:03,561 --> 00:52:06,041 ♪ No bed for the master ♪ 1077 00:52:06,161 --> 00:52:08,761 - ♪ No moon in the sky ♪ - Yes, that's... 1078 00:52:08,881 --> 00:52:10,921 - That's alright. - ♪ Oh, my love ♪ 1079 00:52:11,041 --> 00:52:14,241 ♪ Won't you open the door? ♪ 1080 00:52:15,161 --> 00:52:17,481 ♪ Your mother is sleeping ♪ 1081 00:52:17,601 --> 00:52:19,921 ♪ The lamb's in the fold ♪ 1082 00:52:20,401 --> 00:52:25,201 ♪ And the mountains do call to the clouds ♪ 1083 00:52:25,281 --> 00:52:26,281 Come on! 1084 00:52:26,361 --> 00:52:29,401 ♪ No bed for the master ♪ 1085 00:52:29,561 --> 00:52:31,361 ♪ No moon in the sky ♪ 1086 00:52:31,441 --> 00:52:35,961 ♪ Oh, my love, won't you open the door? ♪ 1087 00:52:36,521 --> 00:52:40,081 ♪ No bed for the master! ♪ 1088 00:52:42,081 --> 00:52:44,721 ♪ The mountains do call to the clouds ♪ 1089 00:52:51,481 --> 00:52:53,081 I'd almost fallen asleep! 1090 00:52:53,241 --> 00:52:55,081 - Ha! - Bloody rain woke me up! 1091 00:52:58,361 --> 00:52:59,481 Ah! 1092 00:53:00,281 --> 00:53:01,361 Ah! 1093 00:53:02,241 --> 00:53:03,401 What time is it? 1094 00:53:03,481 --> 00:53:04,841 The devil knows! 1095 00:53:04,921 --> 00:53:06,841 I thought I heard Yelena's voice. 1096 00:53:07,201 --> 00:53:08,201 She's gone. 1097 00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:09,280 Oh. 1098 00:53:09,281 --> 00:53:11,001 I've seen what you mean, by the way. 1099 00:53:11,441 --> 00:53:12,521 About what? 1100 00:53:12,681 --> 00:53:13,801 Her eyes. 1101 00:53:18,201 --> 00:53:20,121 Argh! Ah! 1102 00:53:20,361 --> 00:53:21,601 Ah! Ah! 1103 00:53:21,721 --> 00:53:22,721 Argh! Ah... 1104 00:53:23,081 --> 00:53:24,081 Right! 1105 00:53:25,441 --> 00:53:26,601 Amphetamines. 1106 00:53:27,721 --> 00:53:28,721 Morphia. 1107 00:53:29,321 --> 00:53:33,281 Prescriptions from everywhere: Kharkov, Moscow... 1108 00:53:34,481 --> 00:53:36,761 Do you think the professor's putting it on? 1109 00:53:37,121 --> 00:53:38,841 No, no, no, he's sick. 1110 00:53:39,361 --> 00:53:41,721 What has got you so miserable today? 1111 00:53:41,841 --> 00:53:42,841 Nothing. 1112 00:53:42,921 --> 00:53:44,681 It's such sweet torture, hm? 1113 00:53:45,601 --> 00:53:48,281 To love another man's wife. 1114 00:53:48,401 --> 00:53:50,921 We're not in love. We're friends. 1115 00:53:51,161 --> 00:53:53,561 Friends? Already? 1116 00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:55,640 What? 1117 00:53:55,641 --> 00:53:59,441 Well, a woman can only become a man's friend 1118 00:53:59,561 --> 00:54:00,881 in this order. 1119 00:54:01,321 --> 00:54:03,201 First, acquaintance. 1120 00:54:03,641 --> 00:54:05,841 Second, lovers. 1121 00:54:06,401 --> 00:54:09,241 And only after that, friends! 1122 00:54:09,641 --> 00:54:13,121 You're such a bloody... vulgarian. 1123 00:54:15,121 --> 00:54:17,041 That's true. 1124 00:54:17,281 --> 00:54:18,361 When I drink. 1125 00:54:18,921 --> 00:54:20,561 Because then, all of you 1126 00:54:21,281 --> 00:54:23,881 all my friends and all my patients 1127 00:54:24,361 --> 00:54:28,961 appear to me as mere insignificant insects 1128 00:54:30,121 --> 00:54:32,521 mere microbes. 1129 00:54:38,361 --> 00:54:41,001 Oh, Waffles, play something else for Christ's sake. 1130 00:54:41,681 --> 00:54:42,961 We're gonna wake the whole house. 1131 00:54:43,041 --> 00:54:44,321 Just play something! 1132 00:54:44,401 --> 00:54:46,161 - You will be quiet? - Yes, I promise. 1133 00:54:52,761 --> 00:54:53,761 Vanya. 1134 00:54:54,481 --> 00:54:56,681 - What? - There's no brandy left. 1135 00:54:58,641 --> 00:54:59,841 When dawn breaks 1136 00:55:00,441 --> 00:55:02,721 I say we head over to my place. 1137 00:55:02,801 --> 00:55:04,561 You can stay with me, Vanya. 1138 00:55:05,081 --> 00:55:07,321 I've got this new medical assistant 1139 00:55:08,001 --> 00:55:09,801 who brews his own spirits. 1140 00:55:12,841 --> 00:55:14,481 He never says "alright". 1141 00:55:15,041 --> 00:55:16,361 He can only say... 1142 00:55:16,881 --> 00:55:18,081 "Awright?" 1143 00:55:19,521 --> 00:55:21,281 He's a total reprobate! 1144 00:55:22,561 --> 00:55:24,721 They say he killed someone in a card game. 1145 00:55:25,601 --> 00:55:27,401 "Awright?" he says 1146 00:55:27,761 --> 00:55:29,801 as he leads me astray. 1147 00:55:30,681 --> 00:55:32,881 - "Awright!" I say. - "Awright?" 1148 00:55:33,281 --> 00:55:35,841 And I am very far from "awright". 1149 00:55:35,921 --> 00:55:37,721 - "Awright?" - "Awright!" 1150 00:55:38,041 --> 00:55:40,201 - Where's he going? - ♪ I'm awright ♪ 1151 00:55:40,321 --> 00:55:41,601 Vanya, where you going? 1152 00:55:41,681 --> 00:55:45,001 ♪ I'm awright. ♪ 1153 00:55:45,161 --> 00:55:47,481 ♪ Y'awright? ♪ 1154 00:55:48,401 --> 00:55:50,281 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah... ♪ 1155 00:55:50,721 --> 00:55:51,721 Oh... 1156 00:55:58,441 --> 00:55:59,441 Oh. 1157 00:56:01,161 --> 00:56:02,361 Excuse me. 1158 00:56:02,801 --> 00:56:05,121 I appear to have forgotten my... 1159 00:56:05,681 --> 00:56:06,681 Pfft! 1160 00:56:17,601 --> 00:56:18,881 Awright? 1161 00:56:23,361 --> 00:56:24,361 Awright? 1162 00:56:28,281 --> 00:56:29,281 Awright! 1163 00:56:31,801 --> 00:56:32,841 Ah! 1164 00:56:37,481 --> 00:56:39,081 Drunk with the doctor again? 1165 00:56:42,841 --> 00:56:46,161 You're like two sad, old tramps. 1166 00:56:47,601 --> 00:56:48,681 It's horrible. 1167 00:56:50,401 --> 00:56:51,681 The hay's been cut. 1168 00:56:52,761 --> 00:56:53,881 Nothing's been baled. 1169 00:56:53,961 --> 00:56:56,881 The whole lot is getting soaked in the storm. 1170 00:56:57,561 --> 00:56:59,681 And... you're in here. 1171 00:57:01,641 --> 00:57:03,921 You leave me to do everything! 1172 00:57:07,401 --> 00:57:08,921 Why are you crying? 1173 00:57:12,121 --> 00:57:13,481 No, just... 1174 00:57:16,681 --> 00:57:18,401 You look so like your mother. 1175 00:57:23,241 --> 00:57:25,201 My poor sister. 1176 00:57:28,641 --> 00:57:30,521 W-Where is she now, huh? 1177 00:57:32,241 --> 00:57:33,241 Dead. 1178 00:57:36,241 --> 00:57:38,481 If only she knew. 1179 00:57:41,241 --> 00:57:42,241 Knew what? 1180 00:57:45,441 --> 00:57:46,601 I don't know. 1181 00:58:07,801 --> 00:58:09,001 Were you looking for me? 1182 00:58:09,201 --> 00:58:11,081 Don't let my uncle drink anymore. 1183 00:58:11,161 --> 00:58:12,321 I give you my word. 1184 00:58:12,761 --> 00:58:14,641 There's nothing to drink. 1185 00:58:17,041 --> 00:58:19,081 I'm going home now anyway. 1186 00:58:19,321 --> 00:58:20,361 It's raining. 1187 00:58:20,801 --> 00:58:22,961 Wait till it's bright. We... we can have breakfast. 1188 00:58:23,041 --> 00:58:25,041 The storm's going right over. 1189 00:58:30,281 --> 00:58:32,041 And please... 1190 00:58:32,681 --> 00:58:35,681 don't ask me to come and visit your father anymore. 1191 00:58:36,441 --> 00:58:39,001 I tell him it's gout, he says it's rheumatism. 1192 00:58:39,321 --> 00:58:42,681 I ask him to lie down, he gets up and goes hiking. 1193 00:58:43,561 --> 00:58:45,401 Today, he wouldn't even speak to me. 1194 00:58:45,521 --> 00:58:47,041 He's just spoiled. 1195 00:58:49,481 --> 00:58:51,001 Would you like something to eat? 1196 00:58:52,441 --> 00:58:53,641 Yes, I would, actually. 1197 00:58:57,721 --> 00:58:59,601 Night-time snacks are my favourite. 1198 00:59:03,321 --> 00:59:05,001 There's usually something in here. 1199 00:59:06,081 --> 00:59:08,841 My father has always had great success with women 1200 00:59:09,161 --> 00:59:11,681 his whole life, and they've all spoiled him. 1201 00:59:12,081 --> 00:59:13,761 Look. Cheese. 1202 00:59:14,561 --> 00:59:15,561 Oh! 1203 00:59:26,761 --> 00:59:28,481 - Mmm... - Mmm. 1204 00:59:32,761 --> 00:59:33,761 - I... - I really... 1205 00:59:33,881 --> 00:59:36,041 - Sorry! - No, I just realised... 1206 00:59:36,721 --> 00:59:38,521 Haven't eaten anything for two days. 1207 00:59:42,481 --> 00:59:43,481 You know... 1208 00:59:46,041 --> 00:59:49,121 there's no one here that I can speak frankly with, Sonya? 1209 00:59:50,761 --> 00:59:51,761 You're the only one. 1210 00:59:55,921 --> 00:59:58,641 Your Uncle Vanya, he's depressed, you know? 1211 01:00:00,401 --> 01:00:02,721 Your father. Your grandmother... 1212 01:00:02,841 --> 01:00:04,081 God, your stepmother too. 1213 01:00:04,161 --> 01:00:06,481 I don't know how you do it. 1214 01:00:06,641 --> 01:00:07,761 I would suffocate. 1215 01:00:07,841 --> 01:00:09,641 - What about my stepmother? - Hmm? 1216 01:00:10,521 --> 01:00:12,481 You said my stepmother, Yelena. 1217 01:00:12,881 --> 01:00:13,881 Yelena! 1218 01:00:15,321 --> 01:00:18,361 Oh, don't get me wrong. She's beautiful. 1219 01:00:18,681 --> 01:00:19,681 Stunning. 1220 01:00:21,081 --> 01:00:23,761 But everything about a person should be beautiful. 1221 01:00:23,841 --> 01:00:25,641 Not just the face. Their... 1222 01:00:26,241 --> 01:00:28,001 Their thoughts, their... 1223 01:00:28,641 --> 01:00:30,881 soul should be beautiful. 1224 01:00:33,841 --> 01:00:34,841 I mean... 1225 01:00:35,521 --> 01:00:37,761 she is beautiful. 1226 01:00:38,161 --> 01:00:39,921 She is, but, Jesus Christ... 1227 01:00:40,961 --> 01:00:42,881 all she does is eat and sleep. 1228 01:00:43,201 --> 01:00:47,121 She takes no responsibility for anything, and that's... 1229 01:00:47,801 --> 01:00:48,801 What? 1230 01:00:51,281 --> 01:00:52,961 Maybe I'm being too severe. 1231 01:00:53,481 --> 01:00:56,241 Who am I to judge a creature like that? 1232 01:00:56,321 --> 01:00:57,321 No. 1233 01:00:57,401 --> 01:00:59,881 Ah, I'm just getting old. 1234 01:01:00,721 --> 01:01:02,001 Me and Vanya. 1235 01:01:02,441 --> 01:01:05,801 Two grumpy old men, now. Fed up with life. 1236 01:01:05,881 --> 01:01:07,521 You're not fed up with life. 1237 01:01:07,601 --> 01:01:09,041 Not life, but... 1238 01:01:09,561 --> 01:01:10,561 This. 1239 01:01:11,161 --> 01:01:13,801 Horrible, provincial... 1240 01:01:15,241 --> 01:01:16,961 Blergh! 1241 01:01:17,641 --> 01:01:18,641 Life! 1242 01:01:21,201 --> 01:01:23,601 I absolutely despise this kind of life. 1243 01:01:23,721 --> 01:01:25,361 But your personal life? 1244 01:01:25,641 --> 01:01:27,521 My personal life? 1245 01:01:28,521 --> 01:01:31,041 Oh, God knows there's nothing to speak of there. 1246 01:01:33,681 --> 01:01:34,721 You know how... 1247 01:01:35,841 --> 01:01:38,561 if ever you've been lost in the woods at night 1248 01:01:38,641 --> 01:01:41,081 and you suddenly see a... 1249 01:01:41,921 --> 01:01:44,041 a light in the distance? 1250 01:01:44,121 --> 01:01:46,521 And... you strike out for it 1251 01:01:47,041 --> 01:01:49,481 and you don't notice or you don't care 1252 01:01:49,561 --> 01:01:51,401 about the prickly branches in your face 1253 01:01:51,481 --> 01:01:54,601 you just go straight towards it? 1254 01:01:55,601 --> 01:01:57,681 That's how it is for me, working. 1255 01:01:58,521 --> 01:02:01,601 I work and work and work 1256 01:02:01,681 --> 01:02:04,121 and I get stabbed by all the... 1257 01:02:06,801 --> 01:02:09,161 But there's no light anymore. 1258 01:02:11,521 --> 01:02:15,321 I never expect anything, really, for myself, I mean. 1259 01:02:16,521 --> 01:02:18,041 And is there no one? 1260 01:02:20,161 --> 01:02:22,201 Well, there's the peasants. 1261 01:02:22,521 --> 01:02:24,121 They're all afraid of me, and... 1262 01:02:24,641 --> 01:02:26,561 Well, the supposed intelligentsia. 1263 01:02:27,201 --> 01:02:28,681 I don't bother with them anymore. 1264 01:02:29,201 --> 01:02:31,761 They all... sidle up behind you 1265 01:02:31,841 --> 01:02:34,521 and they say, "Oh, he's a bit strange, isn't he? 1266 01:02:35,681 --> 01:02:36,921 He's a vegetarian. 1267 01:02:38,041 --> 01:02:39,241 He's always in the forest." 1268 01:02:39,321 --> 01:02:42,241 And they... they don't know what to call you 1269 01:02:42,321 --> 01:02:45,161 so they just label you some bloody psychopath. 1270 01:02:45,241 --> 01:02:46,241 No, please. 1271 01:02:47,241 --> 01:02:48,361 - No more. - What's wrong? 1272 01:02:51,441 --> 01:02:53,241 It really doesn't suit you, you know? 1273 01:02:55,401 --> 01:02:58,281 You normally have such a lovely... 1274 01:02:59,041 --> 01:03:00,521 gentle voice. 1275 01:03:02,161 --> 01:03:04,121 You're not like anyone else I've ever met. 1276 01:03:04,241 --> 01:03:06,081 - Oh, Sonya. - You know what I mean. 1277 01:03:07,561 --> 01:03:09,321 You're not like ordinary men 1278 01:03:10,281 --> 01:03:13,361 who go about drinking and playing cards. 1279 01:03:14,921 --> 01:03:16,841 You hate to see people destroying things 1280 01:03:16,921 --> 01:03:18,481 and yet you destroy yourself. 1281 01:03:20,881 --> 01:03:22,201 I'm asking you not to. 1282 01:03:26,401 --> 01:03:28,001 I will never drink again. 1283 01:03:30,161 --> 01:03:31,881 Are you giving me your word on that? 1284 01:03:31,961 --> 01:03:33,161 My word of honour. 1285 01:03:35,041 --> 01:03:36,121 Alright! 1286 01:03:36,241 --> 01:03:37,961 Alright. 1287 01:03:38,241 --> 01:03:40,121 - Well, thank you! - Well, that's it! 1288 01:03:40,201 --> 01:03:42,041 I'm sober now. 1289 01:03:43,681 --> 01:03:46,041 And that is the way I will stay. 1290 01:03:46,561 --> 01:03:47,641 Until I die. 1291 01:03:48,801 --> 01:03:52,761 Although, it's probably too late for me now. 1292 01:03:54,161 --> 01:03:55,881 I've worked myself too hard. 1293 01:03:57,961 --> 01:03:59,281 No feelings. 1294 01:04:00,081 --> 01:04:01,121 No... 1295 01:04:02,241 --> 01:04:03,721 I... 1296 01:04:03,841 --> 01:04:05,521 I lost a patient, Sonya... 1297 01:04:07,041 --> 01:04:08,121 during Lent. 1298 01:04:09,561 --> 01:04:12,121 He died under the chloroform. 1299 01:04:12,681 --> 01:04:13,681 Oh. 1300 01:04:14,521 --> 01:04:16,161 You know what the funny thing is? 1301 01:04:17,681 --> 01:04:18,681 I... 1302 01:04:19,201 --> 01:04:20,201 Yes? 1303 01:04:21,481 --> 01:04:22,481 Uh... 1304 01:04:24,441 --> 01:04:25,441 Mikhail? 1305 01:04:31,881 --> 01:04:33,601 Say if I had a friend... 1306 01:04:34,961 --> 01:04:37,601 or a younger sister, and say that... 1307 01:04:37,721 --> 01:04:39,881 say that... you found out 1308 01:04:40,761 --> 01:04:42,481 that she was in love with you. 1309 01:04:45,481 --> 01:04:46,841 Well, what would you... 1310 01:04:48,001 --> 01:04:49,601 What I mean is, would you do... 1311 01:04:49,721 --> 01:04:51,321 I wouldn't do anything. 1312 01:04:51,401 --> 01:04:53,601 I would just tell her that I... 1313 01:04:53,801 --> 01:04:54,801 I couldn't... 1314 01:04:55,361 --> 01:04:57,801 love her, you know. 1315 01:04:59,801 --> 01:05:01,801 Just... I can't even think straight anymore. 1316 01:05:01,881 --> 01:05:03,001 I'm gonna go. 1317 01:05:06,881 --> 01:05:08,041 Come here. 1318 01:05:12,281 --> 01:05:14,281 Thanks for the grub. 1319 01:05:14,721 --> 01:05:17,561 And the hospitality, and... 1320 01:05:19,561 --> 01:05:22,321 you are such a lovely girl, Sonya. 1321 01:05:22,921 --> 01:05:23,921 Really. 1322 01:05:24,921 --> 01:05:26,681 You are. What? 1323 01:05:26,921 --> 01:05:27,921 Nothing. 1324 01:05:28,801 --> 01:05:29,801 What? 1325 01:05:30,361 --> 01:05:31,361 Nothing! 1326 01:05:33,121 --> 01:05:35,161 Thank you, alright? 1327 01:05:37,081 --> 01:05:38,081 Just... 1328 01:05:40,641 --> 01:05:41,641 Thank you. 1329 01:05:43,001 --> 01:05:44,081 That's all. 1330 01:05:45,521 --> 01:05:48,041 Right, I'm going to go out this way 1331 01:05:48,121 --> 01:05:49,921 because if I run into your Uncle Vanya 1332 01:05:50,001 --> 01:05:51,481 - I will never get home. - Wait. 1333 01:05:58,561 --> 01:05:59,561 Goodnight. 1334 01:06:15,241 --> 01:06:16,521 He gives me nothing. 1335 01:06:19,441 --> 01:06:20,481 He never does. 1336 01:06:24,681 --> 01:06:26,481 But I'm so happy 1337 01:06:28,321 --> 01:06:29,601 every time I see him. 1338 01:06:35,041 --> 01:06:36,081 Oh... 1339 01:06:39,041 --> 01:06:40,041 Oh, I said... 1340 01:06:40,841 --> 01:06:42,081 "You're so intelligent. 1341 01:06:43,361 --> 01:06:45,081 You have such a nice voice". 1342 01:06:48,241 --> 01:06:49,521 What must he think? 1343 01:06:54,361 --> 01:06:57,601 "If I had a sister who liked you..." 1344 01:06:59,361 --> 01:07:00,361 Oh! 1345 01:07:03,281 --> 01:07:04,281 Oh... 1346 01:07:07,561 --> 01:07:08,561 What an idiot. 1347 01:07:12,841 --> 01:07:14,761 And of course, when he talks about love 1348 01:07:15,281 --> 01:07:17,081 he immediately mentions Yelena. 1349 01:07:21,121 --> 01:07:22,201 Of course. 1350 01:07:30,641 --> 01:07:31,801 Last Sunday... 1351 01:07:32,521 --> 01:07:36,001 coming out of the church, I was behind these two old women 1352 01:07:36,561 --> 01:07:37,881 who didn't know I was there. 1353 01:07:40,801 --> 01:07:43,721 "Did you see Sonya Alexandrovna?" they said. 1354 01:07:44,921 --> 01:07:46,401 "Oh, she's a nice girl 1355 01:07:46,921 --> 01:07:48,921 but it's such a pity about her face." 1356 01:07:50,361 --> 01:07:51,561 Where's the doctor? 1357 01:07:51,881 --> 01:07:53,401 - He's gone. - Oh. 1358 01:08:01,201 --> 01:08:02,481 - Sonya? - Mm. 1359 01:08:03,081 --> 01:08:05,281 How much longer do you plan to be like this with me for? 1360 01:08:05,401 --> 01:08:06,401 Like what? 1361 01:08:06,881 --> 01:08:08,001 Like this. 1362 01:08:09,041 --> 01:08:10,081 This way... 1363 01:08:10,161 --> 01:08:12,681 I'm not being any way with you. What way? 1364 01:08:12,801 --> 01:08:14,761 Alright, it... it doesn't matter. 1365 01:08:14,841 --> 01:08:16,521 I just want us to make up. 1366 01:08:17,081 --> 01:08:18,161 That's what I want. 1367 01:08:19,761 --> 01:08:20,761 Good! 1368 01:08:21,441 --> 01:08:22,481 Thank God. 1369 01:08:24,481 --> 01:08:25,641 So, is Papa asleep? 1370 01:08:25,801 --> 01:08:28,161 No, of course he's not, he's in his room. 1371 01:08:28,761 --> 01:08:31,281 He's not speaking to me now, so... 1372 01:08:32,521 --> 01:08:33,961 - Who's this for? - Mikhail. 1373 01:08:34,081 --> 01:08:35,121 The doctor. 1374 01:08:35,281 --> 01:08:36,441 He hadn't eaten all day. 1375 01:08:38,241 --> 01:08:39,681 Why don't we have some wine? 1376 01:08:40,201 --> 01:08:41,201 Yes. 1377 01:08:42,721 --> 01:08:44,521 Drink a toast to each other. 1378 01:08:47,801 --> 01:08:49,001 Share a glass. 1379 01:08:50,121 --> 01:08:51,121 Right. You go. 1380 01:08:59,121 --> 01:09:01,401 I have been trying to make it up with you, you know. 1381 01:09:03,361 --> 01:09:05,401 I just felt too ashamed, somehow. 1382 01:09:05,481 --> 01:09:07,001 Hey! No, that's alright. 1383 01:09:07,081 --> 01:09:08,521 Don't cry! 1384 01:09:08,601 --> 01:09:10,321 No, it's fine, it's just me. 1385 01:09:10,641 --> 01:09:11,681 Oh, no. 1386 01:09:13,001 --> 01:09:14,241 Now I'm crying. 1387 01:09:15,081 --> 01:09:16,161 Oh, God! 1388 01:09:20,121 --> 01:09:22,321 I know why you're angry with me. 1389 01:09:22,441 --> 01:09:24,001 It's perfectly understandable. 1390 01:09:24,481 --> 01:09:26,841 You think I married your father so that I could get ahead. 1391 01:09:26,921 --> 01:09:27,921 No. No... 1392 01:09:28,001 --> 01:09:29,241 No, no. No, it's alright. 1393 01:09:29,321 --> 01:09:30,881 It's what everybody thinks. 1394 01:09:32,401 --> 01:09:34,041 But I swear to God 1395 01:09:34,161 --> 01:09:36,921 I married him because I loved him. 1396 01:09:38,241 --> 01:09:40,081 And of course, I was... 1397 01:09:41,001 --> 01:09:44,641 attracted to him because he was famous and respected 1398 01:09:44,721 --> 01:09:46,521 of course, all of that, and yes 1399 01:09:46,601 --> 01:09:48,121 I thought that was love. 1400 01:09:49,281 --> 01:09:50,441 I mean, now I know. 1401 01:09:50,881 --> 01:09:53,881 But at the time, I thought it was real love. 1402 01:09:56,881 --> 01:09:59,001 - So please, don't blame me. - Aww... 1403 01:09:59,161 --> 01:10:00,841 No, you've given me that punishing look 1404 01:10:00,921 --> 01:10:02,161 since the day we got married. 1405 01:10:02,241 --> 01:10:03,857 - Let's just forget about it. - No, no, no. 1406 01:10:03,881 --> 01:10:05,617 You really shouldn't give people that look, Sonya 1407 01:10:05,641 --> 01:10:07,801 you have no idea how crushing it is. 1408 01:10:07,881 --> 01:10:10,361 If you don't think someone believes you 1409 01:10:10,441 --> 01:10:12,441 it's actually impossible to live, actually. 1410 01:10:12,521 --> 01:10:13,561 I'm sorry. 1411 01:10:14,801 --> 01:10:16,281 I want to be friends. 1412 01:10:18,721 --> 01:10:20,201 But honestly, are you happy? 1413 01:10:20,281 --> 01:10:21,881 Of course I'm not happy. 1414 01:10:23,881 --> 01:10:26,041 And would you be happier, do you think? 1415 01:10:26,121 --> 01:10:28,361 If your husband was younger? 1416 01:10:28,961 --> 01:10:31,801 Of course I would! Don't be so bloody naive. 1417 01:10:33,481 --> 01:10:34,601 Oh, go on. 1418 01:10:35,401 --> 01:10:38,161 Ask me anything. Anything you like. 1419 01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:39,560 Alright... 1420 01:10:41,801 --> 01:10:43,841 - Do you like the doctor? - The doctor? 1421 01:10:44,161 --> 01:10:45,881 That's where we're going, is it? 1422 01:10:46,841 --> 01:10:48,841 Yes, very much. 1423 01:10:49,761 --> 01:10:51,201 And I know how much you do. 1424 01:10:51,601 --> 01:10:54,121 Oh, I have that stupid look on my face, do I? 1425 01:10:54,401 --> 01:10:56,001 Oh, I get it whenever he's here. 1426 01:10:56,441 --> 01:10:59,241 And when he's gone, I can still hear him. 1427 01:11:00,001 --> 01:11:02,121 I can smell him! 1428 01:11:02,841 --> 01:11:05,441 I stare out into the night, and I can see him 1429 01:11:06,201 --> 01:11:07,321 standing there 1430 01:11:07,881 --> 01:11:08,881 plain as day. 1431 01:11:11,201 --> 01:11:12,761 You don't think anyone can hear, do you? 1432 01:11:12,841 --> 01:11:14,601 - No, no... - We could go to my room. 1433 01:11:14,681 --> 01:11:17,041 - Here. - This is really embarrassing! 1434 01:11:19,121 --> 01:11:21,057 So what do you think of him then? Tell me something. 1435 01:11:21,081 --> 01:11:22,081 What can I tell you? 1436 01:11:22,281 --> 01:11:23,881 Well, you see how clever he is. 1437 01:11:24,281 --> 01:11:27,161 All the things he can do, there's nothing he can't do. 1438 01:11:27,641 --> 01:11:29,441 He works with his hands. 1439 01:11:29,761 --> 01:11:31,201 He heals people. 1440 01:11:31,641 --> 01:11:32,641 And the forest. 1441 01:11:32,721 --> 01:11:34,001 Well, that's because he's... 1442 01:11:34,761 --> 01:11:36,121 It doesn't matter what he does 1443 01:11:36,201 --> 01:11:39,401 whether it's the forest or medicine or... 1444 01:11:40,081 --> 01:11:42,321 He has talent. He has insight. 1445 01:11:42,401 --> 01:11:44,441 - Yes! - His mind is free to imagine. 1446 01:11:44,521 --> 01:11:46,081 - That's right. - So that when he... 1447 01:11:46,601 --> 01:11:48,921 when he plants a sapling, he already visualises 1448 01:11:49,001 --> 01:11:50,361 a fully-grown tree 1449 01:11:50,961 --> 01:11:52,401 and he understands what that means 1450 01:11:52,481 --> 01:11:54,921 - to someone's future happiness. - I know. 1451 01:11:55,961 --> 01:11:58,961 God, can you imagine how horrible his life must be? 1452 01:11:59,881 --> 01:12:01,601 He has all that potential 1453 01:12:02,321 --> 01:12:04,041 and how does he spend his day? 1454 01:12:04,681 --> 01:12:07,081 Trudging through impassable mud on the road 1455 01:12:07,561 --> 01:12:09,761 vast distances in blizzards 1456 01:12:09,841 --> 01:12:12,961 arriving too late to help some poor doomed soul 1457 01:12:13,041 --> 01:12:14,401 in some shed somewhere. 1458 01:12:15,561 --> 01:12:18,281 God, no wonder he drinks. He's had 30 years of it. 1459 01:12:19,161 --> 01:12:20,161 I know. 1460 01:12:22,681 --> 01:12:24,161 I'd love to see you happy. 1461 01:12:25,561 --> 01:12:26,721 See you both happy. 1462 01:12:28,161 --> 01:12:29,961 I've given up on it for myself. 1463 01:12:30,321 --> 01:12:31,321 You? 1464 01:12:32,321 --> 01:12:33,721 I'm just a... 1465 01:12:35,081 --> 01:12:37,361 footnote at the end of your father's life. 1466 01:12:38,081 --> 01:12:40,201 And there are no happy endings down in the footnotes 1467 01:12:40,281 --> 01:12:43,001 just optional details, like... 1468 01:12:43,681 --> 01:12:44,681 Why are you smiling? 1469 01:12:44,761 --> 01:12:46,481 I'm sorry, it's just the doctor. 1470 01:12:48,361 --> 01:12:50,041 - I'm sorry! - Come here. 1471 01:12:52,321 --> 01:12:54,121 Oh, I would love to play something. 1472 01:12:55,801 --> 01:12:56,801 Oh, do. 1473 01:12:56,841 --> 01:12:58,961 - Do! Please do! - Should I? 1474 01:12:59,041 --> 01:13:00,721 We're never gonna go to sleep now! 1475 01:13:00,801 --> 01:13:01,881 - Play something. - OK. 1476 01:13:02,601 --> 01:13:04,561 Just ask your father if it's alright, will you? 1477 01:13:04,641 --> 01:13:06,481 Music always gets on his nerves when he's sick. 1478 01:13:06,561 --> 01:13:08,281 - He won't mind. - No, no. Ask him. 1479 01:13:08,401 --> 01:13:09,521 Just to be sure. 1480 01:14:25,401 --> 01:14:26,521 He says no. 1481 01:15:32,961 --> 01:15:33,961 Sonya. 1482 01:15:36,401 --> 01:15:37,601 - Sonya. - Mm? 1483 01:15:37,881 --> 01:15:38,961 What's the time? 1484 01:15:41,241 --> 01:15:43,761 Four minutes since the last time you asked me. 1485 01:15:44,801 --> 01:15:45,841 Quarter to one. 1486 01:15:46,121 --> 01:15:47,201 Quarter to one. 1487 01:15:49,561 --> 01:15:50,681 Quarter to one. 1488 01:15:54,081 --> 01:15:56,081 Quarter to one. 1489 01:16:00,121 --> 01:16:01,441 It's a quarter to one. 1490 01:16:03,281 --> 01:16:07,401 Fifteen minutes till we hear why the distinguished professor 1491 01:16:07,481 --> 01:16:10,521 has instructed us all to gather in the drawing room. 1492 01:16:11,681 --> 01:16:14,281 He has something he wishes to announce to the world 1493 01:16:14,361 --> 01:16:15,361 at one o'clock. 1494 01:16:15,401 --> 01:16:16,921 Something about his business affairs. 1495 01:16:17,001 --> 01:16:19,161 His business affairs? What business affairs? 1496 01:16:19,241 --> 01:16:20,241 Uncle! 1497 01:16:21,121 --> 01:16:22,121 What? 1498 01:16:25,841 --> 01:16:26,881 Look at her. 1499 01:16:28,681 --> 01:16:32,121 She's practically falling off that piano stool. 1500 01:16:36,361 --> 01:16:38,241 Someone should paint her 1501 01:16:38,401 --> 01:16:41,761 and call it "Lazy Afternoon". 1502 01:16:47,241 --> 01:16:49,601 "A Lazy Lady's Life." 1503 01:16:55,281 --> 01:16:56,281 "Lady... 1504 01:16:57,041 --> 01:16:58,841 With A life That's Lazy 1505 01:16:59,081 --> 01:17:01,201 Playing the Piano on a Sunday After..." 1506 01:17:01,281 --> 01:17:02,721 Oh, shut up, Vanya! 1507 01:17:03,161 --> 01:17:05,681 It's your bloody voice droning on and on. 1508 01:17:05,921 --> 01:17:07,201 How can I help it? 1509 01:17:07,401 --> 01:17:09,601 I'm surprised you don't talk yourself to sleep. 1510 01:17:10,201 --> 01:17:12,161 God, I'm actually dying 1511 01:17:12,281 --> 01:17:13,321 of boredom! 1512 01:17:14,321 --> 01:17:15,361 I can feel it in here. 1513 01:17:15,441 --> 01:17:18,001 What the hell is one supposed to do with oneself around here? 1514 01:17:18,081 --> 01:17:19,817 - There's nothing! - I could find you plenty to do. 1515 01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:20,760 Like what? 1516 01:17:20,761 --> 01:17:22,337 There's a million things that need doing. 1517 01:17:22,361 --> 01:17:23,481 Oh, yes, farm work. 1518 01:17:24,961 --> 01:17:26,161 Or teaching? 1519 01:17:27,881 --> 01:17:31,521 Children for miles around here can't read or write, you know. 1520 01:17:31,601 --> 01:17:32,681 No. No, thank you. 1521 01:17:34,321 --> 01:17:35,801 Help the old people. 1522 01:17:36,561 --> 01:17:37,801 The sick people. 1523 01:17:38,961 --> 01:17:41,601 Uncle Vanya and I used to always enjoy going to the market 1524 01:17:41,681 --> 01:17:43,641 to sell flour! That's something we could... 1525 01:17:43,721 --> 01:17:46,281 Sell flour? I don't know how to do any of that. 1526 01:17:47,601 --> 01:17:50,481 Only people in books go out and teach beggars how to read 1527 01:17:50,561 --> 01:17:52,321 and feed the sick peasants. 1528 01:17:53,001 --> 01:17:54,361 Do you really think that's me? 1529 01:17:54,921 --> 01:17:56,441 It could be you! 1530 01:17:57,641 --> 01:17:59,361 You haven't even tried. 1531 01:18:00,361 --> 01:18:02,921 I bet children would love you. 1532 01:18:08,161 --> 01:18:09,521 Don't lose heart. 1533 01:18:10,361 --> 01:18:11,521 Yelena. 1534 01:18:12,121 --> 01:18:13,401 I know it's hard. 1535 01:18:13,961 --> 01:18:16,801 You don't know what to do, but look. 1536 01:18:17,681 --> 01:18:19,441 We're all doing it to each other. 1537 01:18:20,121 --> 01:18:21,441 It's contagious! 1538 01:18:22,241 --> 01:18:25,001 Uncle Vanya here has all but retired, it seems. 1539 01:18:26,081 --> 01:18:27,321 And I'm no better. 1540 01:18:28,201 --> 01:18:30,321 Here's me hiding in with both of you 1541 01:18:30,441 --> 01:18:32,721 avoiding work, looking for... 1542 01:18:33,161 --> 01:18:34,481 idle chat. 1543 01:18:36,121 --> 01:18:37,521 And even the doctor 1544 01:18:38,521 --> 01:18:41,001 he's practically abandoned his practice. 1545 01:18:42,081 --> 01:18:43,921 We used to be lucky to see him once a month 1546 01:18:44,001 --> 01:18:46,241 now he's here every day 1547 01:18:47,801 --> 01:18:49,921 and forests be damned. 1548 01:18:52,441 --> 01:18:54,641 I think you've put a spell on him, actually. 1549 01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:55,680 Me? 1550 01:18:55,681 --> 01:18:57,321 Absolutely, she's right. 1551 01:18:58,321 --> 01:19:00,081 You know, I have a feeling 1552 01:19:00,521 --> 01:19:03,281 you have mermaid blood in your veins. 1553 01:19:03,641 --> 01:19:06,441 You lure sailors onto the rocks. 1554 01:19:06,761 --> 01:19:09,761 And we're all drowning in your waters. 1555 01:19:10,521 --> 01:19:12,761 So why don't you let yourself go? 1556 01:19:13,121 --> 01:19:14,121 For once in your life. 1557 01:19:14,161 --> 01:19:17,081 - Oh, shut up, Vanya! - Let yourself go, huh? 1558 01:19:17,401 --> 01:19:18,721 Let yourself go! 1559 01:19:19,041 --> 01:19:20,841 For once in your life! 1560 01:19:21,281 --> 01:19:23,761 Huh? Let yourself go! 1561 01:19:24,201 --> 01:19:26,121 Let yourself go! 1562 01:19:29,881 --> 01:19:31,681 - I know what you're thinking. - Really? 1563 01:19:32,361 --> 01:19:35,161 In a world full of ugliness 1564 01:19:35,561 --> 01:19:38,441 why did God choose me to be so handsome? 1565 01:19:39,641 --> 01:19:41,801 That's exactly what I was thinking. 1566 01:19:42,081 --> 01:19:44,921 It's because you deserve it. You deserve to be handsome. 1567 01:19:45,001 --> 01:19:47,041 Well, I just can't help it. 1568 01:19:49,241 --> 01:19:51,001 We should have a ball here! 1569 01:19:52,601 --> 01:19:55,081 Proper dancing. Proper music. 1570 01:19:55,161 --> 01:19:56,601 And invite who, exactly? 1571 01:19:56,681 --> 01:19:58,841 Well, I don't know, someone interesting! 1572 01:19:59,201 --> 01:20:00,961 - Hey, hey, hey. Watch it. - What? 1573 01:20:01,481 --> 01:20:03,881 You'll look at me once too often like that. 1574 01:20:04,281 --> 01:20:05,441 Like what? 1575 01:20:05,761 --> 01:20:07,121 Look at me like that. 1576 01:20:09,521 --> 01:20:12,481 And... I-I was only joking. 1577 01:20:12,561 --> 01:20:15,201 You're not a mermaid at all. 1578 01:20:15,521 --> 01:20:17,401 You're a giant squid. 1579 01:20:18,481 --> 01:20:21,001 And as a token of peace and harmony, I... 1580 01:20:22,601 --> 01:20:25,241 I shall bring you the last roses from the garden. 1581 01:20:27,321 --> 01:20:28,601 Sad roses. 1582 01:20:29,961 --> 01:20:31,281 Autumn roses. 1583 01:20:33,881 --> 01:20:35,281 Sad roses. 1584 01:20:35,681 --> 01:20:37,161 Autumn roses. 1585 01:20:37,681 --> 01:20:39,001 I heard that! 1586 01:20:42,041 --> 01:20:43,481 September already. 1587 01:20:45,201 --> 01:20:48,281 How are we going to live through a whole winter here? 1588 01:20:49,881 --> 01:20:50,881 Where's the doctor? 1589 01:20:50,961 --> 01:20:52,241 He's in Uncle Vanya's room 1590 01:20:52,361 --> 01:20:53,401 working on his maps. 1591 01:20:53,481 --> 01:20:55,201 - I need to ask you something. - What about? 1592 01:20:55,241 --> 01:20:57,361 "What about? What about?" 1593 01:20:58,521 --> 01:21:00,241 - You know what about. - I know. 1594 01:21:00,841 --> 01:21:02,081 I'm so ugly. 1595 01:21:03,001 --> 01:21:04,121 You are not ugly! 1596 01:21:04,201 --> 01:21:05,841 - I am. - Of course you're not! 1597 01:21:06,681 --> 01:21:08,281 You have lovely hair 1598 01:21:08,561 --> 01:21:10,521 - such expressive eyes... - "Lovely hair!" 1599 01:21:10,601 --> 01:21:11,601 Such beau... 1600 01:21:12,321 --> 01:21:13,561 "Nice teeth!" 1601 01:21:15,201 --> 01:21:17,801 People only say that kind of thing to women who aren't... 1602 01:21:20,561 --> 01:21:23,561 You know I've been in love with the doctor for six years? 1603 01:21:24,281 --> 01:21:26,081 More than I ever loved my own mother? 1604 01:21:27,201 --> 01:21:28,601 I can hear his voice 1605 01:21:29,201 --> 01:21:31,601 I feel his hands squeezing mine 1606 01:21:32,481 --> 01:21:35,441 every time I look at the door, I expect him to come in 1607 01:21:36,521 --> 01:21:37,641 and when he actually arrives 1608 01:21:37,681 --> 01:21:39,401 it's like he doesn't even see me. 1609 01:21:40,881 --> 01:21:43,081 I pray every night 1610 01:21:43,361 --> 01:21:45,481 for some change, and then the next day 1611 01:21:45,921 --> 01:21:48,761 I go up to him, and I look into his eyes 1612 01:21:49,361 --> 01:21:51,201 and we start talking, but... 1613 01:21:52,961 --> 01:21:53,961 I mean... 1614 01:21:56,841 --> 01:21:58,201 I hate myself. 1615 01:21:58,641 --> 01:21:59,841 - Stop it. - No! 1616 01:22:00,041 --> 01:22:02,161 Last Sunday, even Uncle Vanya took me aside 1617 01:22:02,241 --> 01:22:03,641 to ask me what was wrong. 1618 01:22:04,001 --> 01:22:06,161 I said, "I have a cold, I'll be alright." 1619 01:22:06,241 --> 01:22:07,401 But everyone knows. 1620 01:22:07,881 --> 01:22:09,921 - Well, they must know. - So he must know? 1621 01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:11,240 The doctor. 1622 01:22:11,241 --> 01:22:12,681 I don't think he's ever noticed. 1623 01:22:13,561 --> 01:22:15,121 Well, he's an unusual man. 1624 01:22:17,681 --> 01:22:19,121 Look, let me speak with him. 1625 01:22:20,321 --> 01:22:21,681 No, no, no. I'll be careful. 1626 01:22:21,761 --> 01:22:23,361 I won't... won't say anything. 1627 01:22:23,481 --> 01:22:24,841 But I'll find out. 1628 01:22:25,281 --> 01:22:27,441 He won't even notice I'm doing it. 1629 01:22:27,521 --> 01:22:29,081 But we have to know, yes or no. 1630 01:22:29,161 --> 01:22:30,241 And if it's a no... 1631 01:22:31,561 --> 01:22:33,281 he'll have to stop coming here. 1632 01:22:35,161 --> 01:22:39,281 And it will be easier then, not seeing him every day. Hm? 1633 01:22:40,401 --> 01:22:41,481 Go and get him. 1634 01:22:42,001 --> 01:22:43,481 He wanted to show me some... 1635 01:22:43,961 --> 01:22:46,241 chart or map or something, tell him it suits me now. 1636 01:22:46,321 --> 01:22:47,801 You'll tell me exactly what he says? 1637 01:22:47,881 --> 01:22:49,841 The whole truth, whatever it is. 1638 01:22:50,641 --> 01:22:51,641 It's got to be better 1639 01:22:51,721 --> 01:22:53,361 than the uncertainty you live with now. 1640 01:22:55,681 --> 01:22:56,761 Yes. 1641 01:22:57,481 --> 01:22:58,481 Yes. 1642 01:22:59,441 --> 01:23:01,601 I'll... I'll tell him you want to see his charts. 1643 01:23:04,681 --> 01:23:05,721 Oh, but... 1644 01:23:06,001 --> 01:23:08,441 But sometimes uncertainty and... 1645 01:23:08,521 --> 01:23:10,321 and... and not knowing something... 1646 01:23:10,921 --> 01:23:12,121 that can be better. 1647 01:23:12,761 --> 01:23:13,961 - Than... - Really? 1648 01:23:15,641 --> 01:23:16,641 No. 1649 01:23:17,721 --> 01:23:18,721 No. 1650 01:23:19,921 --> 01:23:20,921 I'll get him. 1651 01:23:29,161 --> 01:23:31,201 She tells me her deepest secret 1652 01:23:32,801 --> 01:23:34,481 but there's nothing I can do. 1653 01:23:35,441 --> 01:23:37,137 And there's no one in the world that can help 1654 01:23:37,161 --> 01:23:39,081 because he simply isn't in love with her. 1655 01:23:41,121 --> 01:23:42,401 I mean, you could say 1656 01:23:43,001 --> 01:23:44,801 why doesn't he just bloody marry her anyway? 1657 01:23:44,881 --> 01:23:46,881 At his age, he'd be lucky to have Sonya. 1658 01:23:47,801 --> 01:23:50,241 She's bright, she's... she's clever 1659 01:23:50,321 --> 01:23:52,041 she's good at the accounts 1660 01:23:53,281 --> 01:23:55,161 she hasn't a bad bone in her body. 1661 01:23:58,321 --> 01:24:00,161 But it's not about any of that, is it? 1662 01:24:00,241 --> 01:24:01,241 She just... 1663 01:24:02,841 --> 01:24:04,641 She just wants him to love her. 1664 01:24:06,081 --> 01:24:07,561 And, you know, I can see it 1665 01:24:07,841 --> 01:24:09,761 you know, from her point of view. 1666 01:24:10,041 --> 01:24:11,201 Living here 1667 01:24:11,881 --> 01:24:14,241 surrounded by all these grey blobs 1668 01:24:14,761 --> 01:24:16,921 with all their pointless breakfasts and... 1669 01:24:17,361 --> 01:24:19,721 and sleepwalking and napping and... 1670 01:24:21,481 --> 01:24:25,401 into this, arrives someone so... 1671 01:24:26,721 --> 01:24:29,361 different, and so alert and... 1672 01:24:30,281 --> 01:24:31,841 alive, and... 1673 01:24:33,521 --> 01:24:34,881 so handsome... 1674 01:24:36,041 --> 01:24:37,801 and interesting and... 1675 01:24:38,761 --> 01:24:39,961 attractive. 1676 01:24:42,161 --> 01:24:44,161 It's like waking up to find the moon rising 1677 01:24:44,201 --> 01:24:45,401 in your bedroom window. 1678 01:24:45,481 --> 01:24:47,401 Of course you lose yourself in him! 1679 01:24:48,001 --> 01:24:50,681 It's even happened to me, a little. 1680 01:24:51,881 --> 01:24:53,681 It's perfectly understandable. 1681 01:24:54,681 --> 01:24:57,521 It's so boring when he's gone. 1682 01:24:58,321 --> 01:25:01,161 You can't help smiling a little at the thought of his return. 1683 01:25:01,241 --> 01:25:02,241 He's... 1684 01:25:02,681 --> 01:25:04,641 He's funny. He says... 1685 01:25:05,241 --> 01:25:07,481 different things, unexpected things. 1686 01:25:07,561 --> 01:25:09,321 Who wouldn't find that attractive? 1687 01:25:13,881 --> 01:25:16,761 Uncle Vanya says I have mermaid blood in my veins. 1688 01:25:18,921 --> 01:25:20,481 "Let yourself go 1689 01:25:21,441 --> 01:25:23,321 for once in your life!" 1690 01:25:25,401 --> 01:25:26,601 Maybe I should. 1691 01:25:28,361 --> 01:25:31,081 Fly away from all these sleepy faces 1692 01:25:31,161 --> 01:25:33,721 and forget I was ever here. 1693 01:25:36,961 --> 01:25:39,481 But of course, I'm far too much of a coward for that. 1694 01:25:44,961 --> 01:25:46,761 The doctor comes here every day now. 1695 01:25:46,841 --> 01:25:48,081 I know why he comes. 1696 01:25:49,401 --> 01:25:52,081 I should've fallen to my knees in front of Sonya just now 1697 01:25:52,161 --> 01:25:54,521 and begged for her forgiveness. 1698 01:25:54,601 --> 01:25:55,961 I know why he comes. 1699 01:25:59,481 --> 01:26:00,681 Sad roses. 1700 01:26:02,441 --> 01:26:03,681 Autumn roses. 1701 01:26:04,361 --> 01:26:05,361 Hello. 1702 01:26:06,321 --> 01:26:07,401 Hello. 1703 01:26:10,161 --> 01:26:12,201 You... you promised you'd show me. 1704 01:26:12,761 --> 01:26:13,761 I'm no artist. 1705 01:26:13,801 --> 01:26:15,321 No, no, I-I'd like to see. 1706 01:26:16,081 --> 01:26:18,241 Alright, well, you've been warned. 1707 01:26:20,401 --> 01:26:22,321 - Where were you born? - Petersburg. 1708 01:26:22,721 --> 01:26:23,841 You study there? 1709 01:26:23,921 --> 01:26:25,201 Yes, music. 1710 01:26:25,401 --> 01:26:27,001 - At the conservatoire? - Yes. 1711 01:26:27,201 --> 01:26:28,841 Well... 1712 01:26:29,441 --> 01:26:30,801 that's impressive. 1713 01:26:31,601 --> 01:26:34,001 I doubt any of this will be that interesting for you. 1714 01:26:34,121 --> 01:26:36,601 Oh, no, it's just... I know so little 1715 01:26:36,681 --> 01:26:38,921 about really living in the country. 1716 01:26:39,001 --> 01:26:40,401 I mean, I've read so many books. 1717 01:26:40,481 --> 01:26:43,361 I love Turgenev, but I've never actually... 1718 01:26:43,921 --> 01:26:46,441 Well, the reality's a little more... 1719 01:26:46,561 --> 01:26:47,761 - Real? - Yes! 1720 01:26:51,321 --> 01:26:52,961 Vanya lets me work here. 1721 01:26:54,161 --> 01:26:56,241 I keep all my gear in his room 1722 01:26:56,761 --> 01:26:58,641 and when I get exhausted, I mean 1723 01:26:58,761 --> 01:27:01,081 on the point of total collapse 1724 01:27:01,641 --> 01:27:04,161 I throw everything in a bag, and come out here 1725 01:27:04,241 --> 01:27:05,441 and work on these. 1726 01:27:06,521 --> 01:27:09,201 Vanya and Sonya, they're so good. 1727 01:27:09,401 --> 01:27:10,921 - They indulge me. - Aw... 1728 01:27:11,681 --> 01:27:13,961 They click away, counting on their abacuses 1729 01:27:14,041 --> 01:27:15,121 doing their accounts 1730 01:27:15,761 --> 01:27:17,521 and I sharpen my pencils 1731 01:27:18,201 --> 01:27:20,561 and we all sit in silence together 1732 01:27:21,521 --> 01:27:22,881 and I do these. 1733 01:27:25,201 --> 01:27:26,761 I always feel so... 1734 01:27:27,401 --> 01:27:28,401 warm... 1735 01:27:29,121 --> 01:27:30,121 content. 1736 01:27:30,641 --> 01:27:33,081 It's a simple pleasure, really. 1737 01:27:33,641 --> 01:27:35,561 I don't do it often, maybe once a month. 1738 01:27:36,441 --> 01:27:37,521 The mapping. 1739 01:27:39,521 --> 01:27:40,681 It's beautiful. 1740 01:27:43,121 --> 01:27:46,561 So anyway, this represents the whole area. 1741 01:27:47,321 --> 01:27:48,481 This is us here. 1742 01:27:48,681 --> 01:27:49,681 Where? 1743 01:27:50,041 --> 01:27:51,361 Right here. See? 1744 01:27:51,481 --> 01:27:52,641 Oh yes, there we are. 1745 01:27:53,921 --> 01:27:57,161 So, the dark green and the light green, forest. 1746 01:27:57,641 --> 01:27:59,921 Well, just... Half of this map is forest. 1747 01:28:00,321 --> 01:28:02,441 And anywhere you see these different coloured lines 1748 01:28:02,521 --> 01:28:06,121 there are wild elk, horses, wild cats. 1749 01:28:06,201 --> 01:28:08,321 - Oh? - Oh, not very big, but... 1750 01:28:08,841 --> 01:28:12,321 bears, antelope, exotic birds 1751 01:28:12,841 --> 01:28:14,961 this whole cosmos of creatures. 1752 01:28:15,041 --> 01:28:16,201 - Really? - Oh, yes. 1753 01:28:16,321 --> 01:28:18,081 And these crosses, here? 1754 01:28:18,161 --> 01:28:20,081 These are the old hamlets and villages 1755 01:28:20,161 --> 01:28:22,961 small farmsteads, and right here... 1756 01:28:24,721 --> 01:28:27,081 Well, that's where all the heretics used to gather. 1757 01:28:27,841 --> 01:28:29,401 Practice the old religion. 1758 01:28:31,361 --> 01:28:32,601 They're all gone now. 1759 01:28:34,561 --> 01:28:35,601 So... 1760 01:28:35,881 --> 01:28:38,161 blue lines here, horned cattle 1761 01:28:38,641 --> 01:28:39,801 wild horses. 1762 01:28:40,241 --> 01:28:43,201 But this is all a hundred years ago, right? 1763 01:28:43,481 --> 01:28:45,521 We are looking at the past here. 1764 01:28:46,521 --> 01:28:47,521 Now. 1765 01:28:47,761 --> 01:28:49,361 Look. This... 1766 01:28:50,361 --> 01:28:53,041 is 25 years ago 1767 01:28:53,881 --> 01:28:56,241 and two thirds of the forest is gone. 1768 01:28:56,801 --> 01:28:59,521 No wild goats, some elk, very little blue here at all 1769 01:28:59,601 --> 01:29:01,801 but I will keep going, because this... 1770 01:29:03,641 --> 01:29:05,281 This is the present. 1771 01:29:06,241 --> 01:29:07,361 This is now. 1772 01:29:09,921 --> 01:29:11,601 I mean, there's some green. 1773 01:29:11,961 --> 01:29:13,041 Not much. 1774 01:29:13,521 --> 01:29:17,321 All of the elk have disappeared, no swans now, no grouse. 1775 01:29:18,201 --> 01:29:20,201 All of the old settlements are gone 1776 01:29:20,281 --> 01:29:23,561 no farms, no monasteries, no mills. 1777 01:29:23,641 --> 01:29:24,721 In other words... 1778 01:29:25,441 --> 01:29:29,681 this is a picture of steady, irreversible decline. 1779 01:29:30,881 --> 01:29:32,561 Ten more years and... 1780 01:29:33,521 --> 01:29:35,361 the destruction will be complete. 1781 01:29:37,561 --> 01:29:41,121 You say, "Well, that's progress. Nothing stays the same. 1782 01:29:41,521 --> 01:29:43,441 No point wanging on about the good old days." 1783 01:29:43,521 --> 01:29:45,481 And yes, that's fine 1784 01:29:45,561 --> 01:29:47,361 if in place of the ruined forests 1785 01:29:47,441 --> 01:29:48,561 we were seeing... 1786 01:29:49,281 --> 01:29:51,961 decent roads with schools 1787 01:29:52,041 --> 01:29:54,841 and better educated, healthier people 1788 01:29:54,921 --> 01:29:56,041 but look! 1789 01:29:57,601 --> 01:29:59,201 There's nothing of the sort it's... 1790 01:29:59,801 --> 01:30:01,401 swamps, mosquitoes 1791 01:30:02,081 --> 01:30:05,481 mud tracks, typhus, diphtheria... 1792 01:30:06,481 --> 01:30:09,081 the same old backbreaking struggle for existence 1793 01:30:09,281 --> 01:30:11,401 stagnation and decay. 1794 01:30:13,081 --> 01:30:15,841 Who can take responsibility for anything when they're 1795 01:30:16,041 --> 01:30:17,281 sick and hungry? 1796 01:30:18,241 --> 01:30:21,601 If you're trying to save your child from pain 1797 01:30:21,761 --> 01:30:22,921 and cold 1798 01:30:23,201 --> 01:30:24,881 you will snatch at anything 1799 01:30:25,001 --> 01:30:26,961 that might keep it warm for a few hours 1800 01:30:27,041 --> 01:30:30,241 not realising that you're destroying this very habitat 1801 01:30:30,321 --> 01:30:32,081 that sustains us all, because... 1802 01:30:32,881 --> 01:30:34,601 Well, you can't think about the future. 1803 01:30:34,681 --> 01:30:37,161 Who has time for that? That is a luxury. 1804 01:30:38,921 --> 01:30:39,921 Ah... 1805 01:30:40,001 --> 01:30:42,001 I can see from your face that I've alarmed you. 1806 01:30:42,081 --> 01:30:44,561 - That's not what I... - Oh no, no, it's not that. 1807 01:30:45,761 --> 01:30:48,401 I mean, it's obviously terrible, and it's just... 1808 01:30:51,561 --> 01:30:53,401 - My mind is... - Of course, I... 1809 01:30:53,481 --> 01:30:55,041 No, I wanted to ask you about something 1810 01:30:55,121 --> 01:30:56,641 and I'm finding it difficult to know... 1811 01:30:57,201 --> 01:30:59,241 - where to begin. - Ask me about what? 1812 01:30:59,361 --> 01:31:01,401 No, it's really harmless. Sit down. 1813 01:31:02,601 --> 01:31:04,361 No, actu... No, you don't have to sit down. 1814 01:31:04,441 --> 01:31:05,481 It's not that... 1815 01:31:07,441 --> 01:31:08,441 Look, I... 1816 01:31:10,481 --> 01:31:13,921 I know this young person, and... 1817 01:31:15,321 --> 01:31:17,521 Look, I'm just gonna be really honest with you 1818 01:31:17,921 --> 01:31:21,161 and like two friends, we can have this chat. 1819 01:31:21,401 --> 01:31:23,881 Alright? And then we just forget we ever spoke about it. 1820 01:31:23,961 --> 01:31:25,321 - Alright? - Alright. 1821 01:31:25,761 --> 01:31:28,321 This matter concerns my stepdaughter Sonya. 1822 01:31:29,401 --> 01:31:31,321 Do you like her? Yes or no? 1823 01:31:32,201 --> 01:31:33,321 Of course I do. 1824 01:31:33,841 --> 01:31:36,721 No, of course, but... but do you like her... 1825 01:31:40,121 --> 01:31:41,201 as a woman? 1826 01:31:41,561 --> 01:31:43,601 What do you mean, "as a woman"? 1827 01:31:44,521 --> 01:31:46,881 You haven't noticed anything? Over time? 1828 01:31:46,961 --> 01:31:48,881 No. Should I? 1829 01:31:50,761 --> 01:31:53,121 Alright. You don't love Sonya. Listen... 1830 01:31:54,041 --> 01:31:56,281 She is in agony about this. 1831 01:31:56,401 --> 01:31:58,801 So it would be better if you stopped coming by 1832 01:31:59,281 --> 01:32:01,681 - so often, it's... it's too much. - Are you serious? 1833 01:32:04,041 --> 01:32:05,121 Bloody hell. 1834 01:32:06,681 --> 01:32:07,681 Look... 1835 01:32:09,041 --> 01:32:11,761 my days for all that carry on are over. 1836 01:32:12,241 --> 01:32:14,522 And anyway, even if they weren't I wouldn't be able to... 1837 01:32:14,681 --> 01:32:16,721 where would I find the time for all that? 1838 01:32:16,801 --> 01:32:18,217 Oh my God, this is such an unpleasant 1839 01:32:18,241 --> 01:32:20,217 and embarrassing conversation. Thank God it's over. 1840 01:32:20,241 --> 01:32:22,721 Now let's forget it, the weight has lifted. 1841 01:32:22,801 --> 01:32:24,041 and you should go. 1842 01:32:25,001 --> 01:32:26,201 You're an intelligent person. 1843 01:32:26,281 --> 01:32:28,121 - I know you understand. - I understand... 1844 01:32:28,201 --> 01:32:29,737 - This is so uncomfortable. - You know... 1845 01:32:29,761 --> 01:32:31,961 If you'd have said all of this to me a month or two ago 1846 01:32:32,041 --> 01:32:33,041 things were... 1847 01:32:33,201 --> 01:32:34,977 I mean, I probably could've given it some thought 1848 01:32:35,001 --> 01:32:36,041 but things have... 1849 01:32:36,681 --> 01:32:37,681 I mean... 1850 01:32:38,841 --> 01:32:40,681 Why do you ask me all this? 1851 01:32:41,201 --> 01:32:43,041 - What do you mean? - I mean, why now? 1852 01:32:43,481 --> 01:32:45,361 - I don't... - You think you're being clever. 1853 01:32:45,441 --> 01:32:47,201 - No, I don't! - Alright. 1854 01:32:47,441 --> 01:32:50,081 Alright, suppose Sonya is suffering because of me 1855 01:32:50,161 --> 01:32:51,561 what is that to you? 1856 01:32:51,841 --> 01:32:53,801 - How can you ask me that? - Look. 1857 01:32:54,081 --> 01:32:55,721 I am too old. 1858 01:32:56,041 --> 01:32:59,001 I have seen too much, you can't pretend you don't know. 1859 01:32:59,081 --> 01:33:00,481 Doctor! I asked you here... 1860 01:33:00,561 --> 01:33:02,761 I beg myself not to return, yet here I am every day 1861 01:33:02,841 --> 01:33:04,321 I am hardly ever at home, 1862 01:33:04,401 --> 01:33:06,057 I've given up everything else so please don't pretend 1863 01:33:06,081 --> 01:33:07,481 it doesn't give you any satisfaction 1864 01:33:07,561 --> 01:33:09,361 to see me like this. 1865 01:33:09,441 --> 01:33:11,321 Of course we all like to see you, Doctor. 1866 01:33:11,401 --> 01:33:12,921 What do you mean, "see you like this"? 1867 01:33:13,001 --> 01:33:15,721 Like this! Like some... helpless animal 1868 01:33:15,801 --> 01:33:16,881 lost in the woods at night. 1869 01:33:16,921 --> 01:33:18,441 But the fox knows exactly where I am... 1870 01:33:18,521 --> 01:33:19,681 - What fox? - You! 1871 01:33:22,201 --> 01:33:23,401 And there it is. 1872 01:33:24,841 --> 01:33:27,161 There's nothing more I can say, but then you knew that 1873 01:33:27,241 --> 01:33:29,297 before I stepped in the room, before you sent for me. 1874 01:33:29,321 --> 01:33:31,001 I didn't "send" for you! 1875 01:33:31,081 --> 01:33:32,201 - Yes, you did. - Oh, my God! 1876 01:33:32,281 --> 01:33:33,441 You're out of your mind. 1877 01:33:33,521 --> 01:33:34,881 And suddenly now you're shy. 1878 01:33:34,961 --> 01:33:38,081 No, no, I'm not shy, I'm just not what you take me for! 1879 01:33:38,161 --> 01:33:39,937 It's alright, I am leaving and I won't come back here 1880 01:33:39,961 --> 01:33:42,201 but please tell me where we can meet 1881 01:33:42,281 --> 01:33:43,681 before somebody comes. Just tell me. 1882 01:33:43,761 --> 01:33:45,937 - You know I am mad about you. - Listen, listen, I swear 1883 01:33:45,961 --> 01:33:47,977 - I didn't ask you here. - There's no need to swear, God! 1884 01:33:48,001 --> 01:33:49,337 - Look at you. - That's enough now. 1885 01:33:49,361 --> 01:33:50,857 That's enough, you've forgotten yourself. 1886 01:33:50,881 --> 01:33:52,401 Yes, I know. Tell me where we can meet. 1887 01:33:52,441 --> 01:33:53,937 - You know it's inevitable. - No, Doctor... 1888 01:33:53,961 --> 01:33:56,401 - We must see each other. - I'm begging you, please, no. 1889 01:33:56,481 --> 01:33:58,201 - No, you have to go. - Yes. Tomorrow. 1890 01:33:58,281 --> 01:33:59,601 Two o'clock. Say yes. 1891 01:34:00,161 --> 01:34:01,321 Say you'll come. 1892 01:34:06,561 --> 01:34:07,681 Oh, my goodn... 1893 01:34:09,641 --> 01:34:10,681 It's alright. 1894 01:34:11,641 --> 01:34:13,041 I... It's... 1895 01:34:13,321 --> 01:34:14,401 Ivan... 1896 01:34:17,641 --> 01:34:18,881 How are you today? 1897 01:34:20,321 --> 01:34:22,561 You know, this weather is nowhere near as bad 1898 01:34:22,641 --> 01:34:23,761 as it should be. 1899 01:34:24,041 --> 01:34:25,921 It was overcast this morning and I thought, "Oh! 1900 01:34:25,961 --> 01:34:28,041 We'll have rain!" But look, the sun is shining. 1901 01:34:28,361 --> 01:34:29,681 A perfect autumn day. 1902 01:34:29,761 --> 01:34:31,481 The crops will be in great nick. 1903 01:34:32,161 --> 01:34:34,401 The only trouble is the days are getting shorter. 1904 01:34:35,201 --> 01:34:37,201 And there is nothing we can do about that. 1905 01:34:45,961 --> 01:34:47,721 Vanya. 1906 01:34:48,521 --> 01:34:49,601 Promise me... 1907 01:34:50,481 --> 01:34:53,361 that you will do everything that you can to make sure 1908 01:34:53,441 --> 01:34:56,241 that myself and my husband leave here today. 1909 01:34:56,401 --> 01:34:58,081 Do you hear me, Vanya? 1910 01:34:58,161 --> 01:34:59,561 Please tell me that you'll help me. 1911 01:34:59,641 --> 01:35:01,601 I have to leave here today. Oh... 1912 01:35:03,081 --> 01:35:04,841 ...haven't been well for three days! 1913 01:35:04,921 --> 01:35:06,681 My head, my tummy... 1914 01:35:06,761 --> 01:35:09,681 Where the hell is everyone? 1915 01:35:13,161 --> 01:35:15,761 I hate this house. It's like a damned maze. 1916 01:35:16,121 --> 01:35:17,561 Twenty-six room. 1917 01:35:17,881 --> 01:35:20,481 Anyone wanders off, you don't see them for days! 1918 01:35:20,681 --> 01:35:23,521 Er, someone ask Mariya Vasilievna 1919 01:35:23,601 --> 01:35:25,601 and Yelena Andreevna to come in. 1920 01:35:26,761 --> 01:35:27,801 I'm here. 1921 01:35:28,281 --> 01:35:29,721 Oh, good. Right then. 1922 01:35:29,841 --> 01:35:32,401 Everyone, please, sit down. 1923 01:35:34,641 --> 01:35:35,721 What did he say? 1924 01:35:35,801 --> 01:35:36,801 I'll tell you later. 1925 01:35:37,001 --> 01:35:38,801 It wasn't good. He's not coming anymore. 1926 01:35:38,881 --> 01:35:39,881 That's it, isn't it? 1927 01:35:40,721 --> 01:35:43,841 One can always come to terms with ill health 1928 01:35:43,921 --> 01:35:45,761 but you want to know what'll really kill you? 1929 01:35:46,361 --> 01:35:47,401 Boredom. 1930 01:35:47,521 --> 01:35:51,361 I feel like I've fallen out of the bottom of the Earth 1931 01:35:51,441 --> 01:35:54,001 and landed on some alien planet. 1932 01:35:54,801 --> 01:35:56,521 Sit down, everyone, please! 1933 01:35:57,921 --> 01:35:59,041 Sonya? 1934 01:35:59,521 --> 01:36:01,321 Sonya! Can't she hear me? 1935 01:36:03,081 --> 01:36:04,081 Nana! 1936 01:36:04,721 --> 01:36:07,241 Nana, you too! Nana! 1937 01:36:12,521 --> 01:36:13,921 Ladies and gentlemen. 1938 01:36:15,681 --> 01:36:16,721 Friends... 1939 01:36:18,201 --> 01:36:20,921 Romans, Russians! 1940 01:36:21,561 --> 01:36:23,881 Lend me your ears. 1941 01:36:24,241 --> 01:36:26,321 Ha! What's that from, Waffles? 1942 01:36:26,761 --> 01:36:28,081 - What? - What's that from? 1943 01:36:28,200 --> 01:36:29,200 What's what from? 1944 01:36:29,201 --> 01:36:31,201 I'm assuming you probably won't need me, so I'll... 1945 01:36:31,281 --> 01:36:33,401 No, no, on the contrary, Ivan Petrovich. 1946 01:36:33,481 --> 01:36:36,121 This concerns you. Please sit. 1947 01:36:36,761 --> 01:36:39,401 What business of yours could possibly concern me? 1948 01:36:40,521 --> 01:36:41,841 Vanya. 1949 01:36:42,361 --> 01:36:45,041 I've offended you in some way. 1950 01:36:45,161 --> 01:36:47,561 Have I annoyed you somehow? 1951 01:36:47,641 --> 01:36:50,201 If I have, please forgive me. 1952 01:36:50,321 --> 01:36:52,841 No, just stop being so bloody condescending. 1953 01:36:52,921 --> 01:36:54,121 What do you want? 1954 01:36:54,961 --> 01:36:56,121 Sorry, sorry. 1955 01:36:56,521 --> 01:36:59,561 And at last, here is Maman. 1956 01:37:00,201 --> 01:37:02,081 I shall begin. 1957 01:37:05,801 --> 01:37:06,921 Ladies and gentlemen. 1958 01:37:07,001 --> 01:37:10,521 I have invited you all here today 1959 01:37:10,761 --> 01:37:14,161 in order to inform you that 1960 01:37:14,361 --> 01:37:18,641 the government inspector is coming to visit us. 1961 01:37:18,761 --> 01:37:20,561 The government inspector! 1962 01:37:21,001 --> 01:37:22,001 That's a joke. 1963 01:37:22,281 --> 01:37:24,681 Nana! It's a joke! Nana, sit down! 1964 01:37:29,081 --> 01:37:30,121 However... 1965 01:37:31,161 --> 01:37:32,801 joking aside. 1966 01:37:32,921 --> 01:37:36,521 I've gathered you all here today 1967 01:37:36,601 --> 01:37:39,801 to ask for your help and advice 1968 01:37:39,881 --> 01:37:42,881 and knowing, as I do, your customary kindness 1969 01:37:43,241 --> 01:37:45,121 I hope that I may receive it. 1970 01:37:46,641 --> 01:37:49,441 I am a man of learning, of books. 1971 01:37:49,641 --> 01:37:52,601 I've always been a stranger to the practical life. 1972 01:37:53,121 --> 01:37:55,441 I can't survive without 1973 01:37:56,441 --> 01:37:59,241 advice from people in the know 1974 01:37:59,521 --> 01:38:02,921 and so I ask you, Ivan Petrovich 1975 01:38:04,161 --> 01:38:07,041 and you too, Ilya Ilich, and you, Maman 1976 01:38:07,161 --> 01:38:09,761 for your views on this. 1977 01:38:10,401 --> 01:38:14,241 The fact is, manet omnes una nox. 1978 01:38:15,161 --> 01:38:18,721 That is, "one night awaits us all". 1979 01:38:19,801 --> 01:38:20,881 I'm old. 1980 01:38:22,001 --> 01:38:23,161 And sick. 1981 01:38:23,681 --> 01:38:29,201 I need to put my affairs regarding my property in order. 1982 01:38:29,881 --> 01:38:31,641 I'm not thinking of myself 1983 01:38:31,881 --> 01:38:33,721 my life is already over 1984 01:38:33,841 --> 01:38:38,001 but I have a young wife, and an unmarried daughter. 1985 01:38:38,921 --> 01:38:40,321 I must think of them. 1986 01:38:41,521 --> 01:38:42,721 Alright. Here it is. 1987 01:38:43,921 --> 01:38:47,881 It has become impossible for me to continue 1988 01:38:48,241 --> 01:38:50,161 living in the country. 1989 01:38:50,401 --> 01:38:53,841 I was not created for the country. 1990 01:38:53,961 --> 01:38:56,041 I can't work here. 1991 01:38:56,201 --> 01:38:58,201 I-I'm blocked up 1992 01:38:58,281 --> 01:38:59,921 - and I... - I've always said this! 1993 01:39:00,001 --> 01:39:01,121 ...I just can't. I know. 1994 01:39:01,201 --> 01:39:03,561 You need the movement and bustle of the city. 1995 01:39:03,641 --> 01:39:06,681 - I know. - The salons and the intrigue 1996 01:39:06,801 --> 01:39:08,561 - and the gossip... - I know, Maman. 1997 01:39:08,641 --> 01:39:10,241 You know me better than I know myself. 1998 01:39:10,321 --> 01:39:11,577 Without that, you're absolutely... 1999 01:39:11,601 --> 01:39:14,401 I know! And there it is. 2000 01:39:15,601 --> 01:39:18,561 But... to live in the city 2001 01:39:18,641 --> 01:39:22,961 on the means that we receive from this estate is impossible. 2002 01:39:23,321 --> 01:39:25,201 So, what to do? 2003 01:39:26,241 --> 01:39:28,121 If, for example, we sold the forest 2004 01:39:28,241 --> 01:39:32,081 we get a lump sum, we live in the city for a year 2005 01:39:32,161 --> 01:39:34,201 on the proceeds, for a year or two. 2006 01:39:34,681 --> 01:39:36,521 But once it's sold, it's gone. 2007 01:39:36,601 --> 01:39:38,601 And the money's gone. 2008 01:39:39,921 --> 01:39:44,361 So we need, therefore, to seek out measures 2009 01:39:44,961 --> 01:39:47,521 that will provide us all 2010 01:39:48,001 --> 01:39:51,921 with a constant, eternal and fixed income 2011 01:39:52,001 --> 01:39:56,601 going forward, and for the rest of our lives. 2012 01:39:57,081 --> 01:39:59,841 I have therefore devised 2013 01:39:59,961 --> 01:40:01,641 just such a measure 2014 01:40:02,001 --> 01:40:05,201 and I have the honour to submit it 2015 01:40:05,481 --> 01:40:07,521 for your consideration. 2016 01:40:08,281 --> 01:40:11,601 I'm not going to bamboozle you 2017 01:40:11,681 --> 01:40:13,681 with financial detail 2018 01:40:13,761 --> 01:40:17,081 I'll just spell it out in general. 2019 01:40:17,761 --> 01:40:19,721 Our estate yields... 2020 01:40:20,401 --> 01:40:24,521 no more than 2% per annum. 2021 01:40:26,121 --> 01:40:30,281 If, however, we liquidate our assets 2022 01:40:30,361 --> 01:40:32,321 i.e. the whole estate 2023 01:40:33,001 --> 01:40:35,961 and convert it into cash, hm? 2024 01:40:36,081 --> 01:40:40,161 Which can then be converted into stocks and shares 2025 01:40:40,361 --> 01:40:44,361 i.e. ploughed into the stock exchange 2026 01:40:44,521 --> 01:40:46,801 I mean, really forcefully, really rammed in there 2027 01:40:47,201 --> 01:40:51,281 according to my calculations, we will easily receive 2028 01:40:52,561 --> 01:40:53,801 four... 2029 01:40:54,481 --> 01:40:58,401 or even 5% per annum! 2030 01:40:58,921 --> 01:41:03,761 Notwithstanding a lump sum of some thousand rubles 2031 01:41:03,841 --> 01:41:05,121 which I will retain 2032 01:41:05,241 --> 01:41:08,641 in order to purchase a modest villa 2033 01:41:08,721 --> 01:41:10,321 in Finland, er... 2034 01:41:10,801 --> 01:41:14,601 simply so that I may continue my work there in the holidays 2035 01:41:14,921 --> 01:41:17,321 and to which, of course, you would all be 2036 01:41:17,521 --> 01:41:20,241 most welcome to visit. 2037 01:41:20,361 --> 01:41:22,161 I hope that goes without saying. 2038 01:41:24,641 --> 01:41:25,841 Now, what do you think? 2039 01:41:30,601 --> 01:41:33,761 Wait a minute, I think my hearing must be failing. 2040 01:41:34,161 --> 01:41:35,961 Can you repeat what you just said? 2041 01:41:37,121 --> 01:41:39,401 Convert the money into stocks and shares 2042 01:41:39,721 --> 01:41:42,641 and with the excess remaining, buy a villa in Finland. 2043 01:41:42,761 --> 01:41:45,041 No, not the bit about Finland, I-I got that. 2044 01:41:45,121 --> 01:41:46,921 There was something else you said? 2045 01:41:47,361 --> 01:41:49,841 Well, it's quite simple, Vanya. I propose to sell the estate. 2046 01:41:49,921 --> 01:41:52,881 That's the bit! Sell the estate. 2047 01:41:52,961 --> 01:41:55,161 Excellent! What a brilliant idea. 2048 01:41:55,361 --> 01:41:58,681 And... and what would you have me, my mother, Nana 2049 01:41:58,761 --> 01:42:01,121 and... and Sonya here do with ourselves? 2050 01:42:01,281 --> 01:42:03,841 Well, that's what we're all here to discuss! 2051 01:42:03,921 --> 01:42:05,281 What do you suppose I'm doing here? 2052 01:42:05,361 --> 01:42:06,361 Right, but, um... 2053 01:42:06,441 --> 01:42:08,481 Bear with me a moment, because up until now 2054 01:42:08,761 --> 01:42:12,201 I-I was under the impression that this estate 2055 01:42:12,281 --> 01:42:13,721 belonged to Sonya. 2056 01:42:13,881 --> 01:42:16,721 My late father bought it as a dowry for my sister, Vera. 2057 01:42:16,801 --> 01:42:18,561 Therefore, under the law 2058 01:42:18,681 --> 01:42:21,321 this estate passed to her daughter, Sonya. 2059 01:42:21,641 --> 01:42:23,281 Yes, "under the law" 2060 01:42:23,361 --> 01:42:25,361 if you want to be pedantic about it. 2061 01:42:25,441 --> 01:42:27,281 Of course the estate belongs to Sonya. 2062 01:42:27,361 --> 01:42:28,481 No one's disputing that. 2063 01:42:28,561 --> 01:42:31,841 I'm proposing that this is done for Sonya's benefit! 2064 01:42:31,921 --> 01:42:34,281 Right, because I'm... I'm struggling to understand this 2065 01:42:34,361 --> 01:42:36,241 although in fairness, I must admit 2066 01:42:36,321 --> 01:42:38,921 I may have lost my reason some time ago. 2067 01:42:39,001 --> 01:42:42,201 Jean, please, don't contradict Alexandre. 2068 01:42:42,921 --> 01:42:45,321 Who else among us has his learning? 2069 01:42:45,641 --> 01:42:48,321 See, who else can know what's best for us? 2070 01:42:48,681 --> 01:42:52,481 If that's what the professor decides, it's settled. 2071 01:42:53,361 --> 01:42:54,601 We need to be practical. 2072 01:42:55,081 --> 01:42:56,761 I need a drink of water. 2073 01:42:57,641 --> 01:43:00,321 Getting agitated won't help anyone, Vanya. 2074 01:43:00,401 --> 01:43:02,841 I'm not saying my plan is ideal. 2075 01:43:02,921 --> 01:43:05,281 I wish we didn't have to do it. 2076 01:43:05,401 --> 01:43:07,841 If there's a unanimous objection 2077 01:43:08,121 --> 01:43:10,881 I may be obliged to reconsider 2078 01:43:10,961 --> 01:43:13,561 but that's what we need to ascertain. 2079 01:43:13,640 --> 01:43:14,600 Right. 2080 01:43:14,601 --> 01:43:18,041 Your Excellency, I think I might be of some assistance here. 2081 01:43:18,361 --> 01:43:21,721 My brother, Grigory Ilyich's wife's brother 2082 01:43:22,201 --> 01:43:23,401 perhaps you know him 2083 01:43:23,481 --> 01:43:25,681 Konstantin Trofimovich Lakedemonov? 2084 01:43:27,281 --> 01:43:30,201 He holds a Master's degree from Tubingen. 2085 01:43:31,001 --> 01:43:35,121 The question of unanimity is one he holds in great regard. 2086 01:43:35,201 --> 01:43:36,561 You are absolutely correct... 2087 01:43:36,641 --> 01:43:37,817 Hold on a minute, Waffles 2088 01:43:37,841 --> 01:43:39,441 because we're discussing business now 2089 01:43:39,561 --> 01:43:41,281 the philosophy can wait. 2090 01:43:42,121 --> 01:43:44,721 Actually no, here... Ask him. 2091 01:43:45,081 --> 01:43:46,481 Because he'll tell you 2092 01:43:46,641 --> 01:43:48,241 this estate was bought from his uncle. 2093 01:43:48,321 --> 01:43:49,321 Ask him what? 2094 01:43:49,401 --> 01:43:51,401 Well, because he'll tell you, the estate was bought 2095 01:43:51,441 --> 01:43:53,161 for 95,000 rubles. 2096 01:43:53,241 --> 01:43:55,601 My father paid 70,000 down 2097 01:43:55,681 --> 01:43:58,081 with a remaining debt of 25. 2098 01:43:58,241 --> 01:44:00,321 The only way that this estate could be afforded 2099 01:44:00,401 --> 01:44:03,041 was if I renounced my inheritance. 2100 01:44:03,121 --> 01:44:06,081 - This is correct. - So I signed away my share 2101 01:44:06,201 --> 01:44:07,921 in favour of my late sister 2102 01:44:08,321 --> 01:44:11,121 your first wife, whom I passionately loved. 2103 01:44:11,521 --> 01:44:13,841 Alright? To make it all possible. 2104 01:44:13,921 --> 01:44:17,641 And what's more, I then stupidly 2105 01:44:17,801 --> 01:44:20,961 worked like a dog for the next 20 years 2106 01:44:21,041 --> 01:44:22,801 to pay off the debt, so 2107 01:44:23,001 --> 01:44:26,801 in actuality, my share of this estate cost me double 2108 01:44:26,881 --> 01:44:28,721 what it would have cost anybody else 2109 01:44:28,801 --> 01:44:31,161 and yet I still have absolutely nothing on paper 2110 01:44:31,241 --> 01:44:33,161 to show for that! Nothing! 2111 01:44:33,481 --> 01:44:36,361 And you propose to sell it out from under me? 2112 01:44:36,441 --> 01:44:38,441 I regret that I started this discussion. 2113 01:44:38,521 --> 01:44:41,161 The only reason that this estate is free of debt 2114 01:44:41,241 --> 01:44:43,841 is because of my personal efforts. 2115 01:44:43,921 --> 01:44:47,241 I'm the only reason it's actually worth selling at all! 2116 01:44:47,361 --> 01:44:49,921 Except now that I'm too old to do anything about it 2117 01:44:50,001 --> 01:44:51,881 I'm gonna get thrown out on my ear! 2118 01:44:52,001 --> 01:44:54,721 Is this just wilful misunderstanding or... 2119 01:44:54,801 --> 01:44:55,921 What are you saying? 2120 01:44:58,001 --> 01:45:01,601 I'm saying that for 25 fucking years... 2121 01:45:01,681 --> 01:45:03,801 I have managed this estate 2122 01:45:03,921 --> 01:45:06,841 I've sent you more money than any land agent would have 2123 01:45:06,921 --> 01:45:10,281 and I've raised your daughter for you, in your absence 2124 01:45:10,361 --> 01:45:11,561 and in all that time 2125 01:45:11,641 --> 01:45:13,561 you haven't ever once thanked me. 2126 01:45:14,081 --> 01:45:15,721 Well, you must stop this now! 2127 01:45:15,800 --> 01:45:16,760 And! 2128 01:45:16,761 --> 01:45:18,681 And in all that time and even now 2129 01:45:18,801 --> 01:45:21,281 I never received more than 200 rubles a year. 2130 01:45:21,441 --> 01:45:23,281 Two hundred rubles. 2131 01:45:23,521 --> 01:45:24,561 A year! 2132 01:45:24,721 --> 01:45:27,121 Children in the city get more pocket money than that! 2133 01:45:27,201 --> 01:45:29,361 And it... and it never crossed your mind 2134 01:45:29,441 --> 01:45:31,561 to add so much as a ruble more. 2135 01:45:31,641 --> 01:45:34,401 Vanya, for Christ's sake! How was I to know? 2136 01:45:34,881 --> 01:45:37,041 You could have had more if you wanted 2137 01:45:37,121 --> 01:45:39,361 as much as you need. I would never have known! 2138 01:45:39,441 --> 01:45:41,601 You mean, why didn't I steal the money? 2139 01:45:41,681 --> 01:45:45,241 Why didn't I have the initiative to pilfer the account? 2140 01:45:45,321 --> 01:45:47,441 Well, I realise now that's what I should've done! 2141 01:45:47,721 --> 01:45:49,641 That would've been the right thing to do 2142 01:45:49,721 --> 01:45:52,521 because then I wouldn't be a beggar now, facing the street! 2143 01:45:52,601 --> 01:45:55,161 - Jean! - No one is facing the street. 2144 01:45:55,281 --> 01:45:57,441 Vanya, my old pal, don't do this to yourself. 2145 01:45:57,521 --> 01:45:58,961 Everything can be discussed. 2146 01:45:59,161 --> 01:46:01,281 Oh, look, my hands are shaking too! 2147 01:46:01,401 --> 01:46:02,881 Let's all have a cup of tea! 2148 01:46:02,961 --> 01:46:05,681 - We can all discuss... - 25 years stuck in here! 2149 01:46:05,761 --> 01:46:07,641 Like a rat running round a pipe! 2150 01:46:07,761 --> 01:46:10,481 Still living with my mother, never going anywhere! 2151 01:46:10,561 --> 01:46:11,561 This is irrelevant! 2152 01:46:11,601 --> 01:46:14,481 Blue in the face telling Sonya what a great man you are! 2153 01:46:14,561 --> 01:46:16,321 How frightfully busy you must be! 2154 01:46:16,401 --> 01:46:18,921 With your books and your works and your fame! 2155 01:46:19,001 --> 01:46:22,161 All those nights, we should've been resting or meeting people 2156 01:46:22,241 --> 01:46:23,961 or... or being sociable 2157 01:46:24,041 --> 01:46:25,721 just having some time on our own. 2158 01:46:25,801 --> 01:46:27,561 Well, we wasted them away. God! 2159 01:46:27,721 --> 01:46:29,161 God, when I think of it! 2160 01:46:29,241 --> 01:46:30,961 Don't, Vanya, don't. It's not worth it. 2161 01:46:31,041 --> 01:46:33,401 I don't understand what it is you want. 2162 01:46:33,481 --> 01:46:35,521 We'd all been duped, hadn't we? 2163 01:46:36,081 --> 01:46:39,121 That you were some form of higher being 2164 01:46:39,201 --> 01:46:41,561 who understood more than we could ever see. 2165 01:46:41,641 --> 01:46:44,161 Well, my eyes have been opened a long time now, mate! 2166 01:46:44,321 --> 01:46:45,321 I see it all! 2167 01:46:45,401 --> 01:46:46,921 Oh, yes, of course you do. 2168 01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:48,000 Yes, I do! 2169 01:46:48,001 --> 01:46:50,001 And what is it, pray tell, that you see? 2170 01:46:50,081 --> 01:46:53,281 What great insight have you to impart to the world? 2171 01:46:53,401 --> 01:46:54,521 Oh, it's very simple. 2172 01:46:54,681 --> 01:46:57,521 You lecture everybody about art 2173 01:46:57,601 --> 01:47:00,921 about politics, about life, about people 2174 01:47:01,081 --> 01:47:03,561 but you don't have the faintest understanding 2175 01:47:03,641 --> 01:47:05,801 about art or real people 2176 01:47:06,401 --> 01:47:09,921 the way real people think and feel and need to be loved! 2177 01:47:10,121 --> 01:47:13,921 All those years, I-I struggled to read your essays 2178 01:47:14,001 --> 01:47:16,521 thinking I was stupid cos I couldn't make sense of them. 2179 01:47:16,641 --> 01:47:19,161 Well, I realise now, you were just having us on! 2180 01:47:20,081 --> 01:47:22,481 This is pointless. There's no point talking to him like this. 2181 01:47:22,561 --> 01:47:24,081 - I'll be in my room. - No, no, no. 2182 01:47:24,161 --> 01:47:25,841 No, you don't get away that easily! 2183 01:47:26,361 --> 01:47:28,561 You've ruined my life! 2184 01:47:28,641 --> 01:47:30,761 Don't you understand that? You've destroyed me! 2185 01:47:30,921 --> 01:47:33,881 What in God's name do you want from me, man? 2186 01:47:34,121 --> 01:47:37,921 What do you want me to do about your life? 2187 01:47:38,081 --> 01:47:39,241 What life? 2188 01:47:39,801 --> 01:47:41,241 You think this estate is yours? 2189 01:47:41,601 --> 01:47:43,041 Why don't you take it? Have it. 2190 01:47:43,121 --> 01:47:44,801 You think I need it? 2191 01:47:44,881 --> 01:47:47,761 I'll be gone in a few years! I have no need of it! 2192 01:47:47,881 --> 01:47:49,401 What are you talking about? 2193 01:47:49,481 --> 01:47:51,561 It's not even yours to give me! 2194 01:47:51,641 --> 01:47:53,041 I am leaving! Right now! 2195 01:47:53,121 --> 01:47:54,641 Do you hear me? I can't do this! 2196 01:47:54,761 --> 01:47:56,721 - Oh, Lenochka... - Stop it, both of you! 2197 01:47:56,801 --> 01:47:58,761 If I'd just gone on and lived a normal life 2198 01:47:58,841 --> 01:48:01,561 continued with my writing, 2199 01:48:01,641 --> 01:48:03,361 I could've been another Dostoevsky. 2200 01:48:03,521 --> 01:48:04,641 Another Schopenhauer! 2201 01:48:04,761 --> 01:48:05,921 Oh yes, of course. 2202 01:48:06,001 --> 01:48:08,961 Mama! Mama, what am I gonna do? 2203 01:48:13,641 --> 01:48:16,401 You will listen to the professor. 2204 01:48:17,961 --> 01:48:20,681 We all live under sufferance. 2205 01:48:21,041 --> 01:48:22,881 I'm not going to beg. 2206 01:48:24,041 --> 01:48:25,641 Mariya, listen. 2207 01:48:25,721 --> 01:48:28,961 No one has to beg for anything. This is a proposal. 2208 01:48:29,041 --> 01:48:31,401 - It's a discussion. - Yes, I know what it is. 2209 01:48:32,241 --> 01:48:35,001 Please, Vanya. Some decorum. 2210 01:48:35,321 --> 01:48:36,401 Decorum? 2211 01:48:36,521 --> 01:48:39,001 Decorum, yes, decorum. 2212 01:48:39,801 --> 01:48:41,401 To think that you had the good fortune 2213 01:48:41,481 --> 01:48:43,041 to be born a man 2214 01:48:43,441 --> 01:48:46,241 a human being with agency and respect 2215 01:48:46,321 --> 01:48:48,721 and what have you done with it? Sweet damn all! 2216 01:48:48,921 --> 01:48:52,121 What I wouldn't have done with that freedom! 2217 01:48:55,681 --> 01:48:57,561 The time to pull up your boots 2218 01:48:57,641 --> 01:49:00,521 and fight for your rights was long before this. 2219 01:49:00,641 --> 01:49:04,081 That day is long past 2220 01:49:04,361 --> 01:49:07,441 so you... you choose to blame everybody else. 2221 01:49:08,721 --> 01:49:12,561 But you're too vain to even see that. 2222 01:49:20,401 --> 01:49:22,601 So don't ask me what to do. I don't know. 2223 01:49:22,721 --> 01:49:24,401 I have no idea... 2224 01:49:28,561 --> 01:49:30,921 No, no, it's alright. I know what to do. 2225 01:49:31,361 --> 01:49:32,481 I know what it is. 2226 01:49:33,521 --> 01:49:35,001 You think you can... 2227 01:49:36,121 --> 01:49:38,121 just forget about me, don't you? 2228 01:49:39,161 --> 01:49:41,401 Wash your hands of all of us and be gone! 2229 01:49:41,521 --> 01:49:43,361 That's what you think, isn't it? 2230 01:49:44,921 --> 01:49:47,321 "Another Schopenhauer!" 2231 01:49:47,801 --> 01:49:49,321 That's all we need! 2232 01:49:51,841 --> 01:49:53,201 I hear him, you know, every night. 2233 01:49:53,281 --> 01:49:56,241 I'm in the room right below him, shouting in his sleep! 2234 01:49:57,481 --> 01:49:58,481 I offered him 2235 01:49:58,761 --> 01:50:01,361 "Move into a room in the village, I'll pay for it." 2236 01:50:01,841 --> 01:50:03,961 "Move into one of the barns," I said to him. 2237 01:50:04,121 --> 01:50:07,161 "We'll fix it up." But oh no, not good enough. 2238 01:50:07,241 --> 01:50:08,441 Nothing's good enough! 2239 01:50:08,521 --> 01:50:10,041 So that's it. I'm moving out! 2240 01:50:10,121 --> 01:50:11,481 It's done, it's settled. 2241 01:50:11,601 --> 01:50:13,161 We have to pack. We have to do it now. 2242 01:50:13,241 --> 01:50:14,401 Papa, please. 2243 01:50:15,641 --> 01:50:16,921 You don't understand. 2244 01:50:19,721 --> 01:50:22,161 Uncle Vanya, a-and me too 2245 01:50:22,241 --> 01:50:24,081 it's just that we're both... S... 2246 01:50:24,561 --> 01:50:27,881 I suppose it's just that neither of us have ever had... 2247 01:50:28,001 --> 01:50:31,201 I can't help it if the man's a non-entity, Sonya. 2248 01:50:31,281 --> 01:50:33,201 I didn't force him to achieve nothing! 2249 01:50:33,281 --> 01:50:34,761 He managed that all by himself. 2250 01:50:34,841 --> 01:50:38,321 But Papa, Uncle Vanya and Grandmaman and me too 2251 01:50:38,401 --> 01:50:41,121 we... we copied out your papers for you 2252 01:50:41,201 --> 01:50:43,561 we... we translated them for you 2253 01:50:43,681 --> 01:50:45,321 we... we corrected them. 2254 01:50:45,401 --> 01:50:47,401 No one needed to correct them! 2255 01:50:47,481 --> 01:50:51,201 We annotated them, we... we bound them for publication. 2256 01:50:51,281 --> 01:50:53,121 I could've asked anyone to do that! 2257 01:50:53,201 --> 01:50:55,201 - Why didn't you just... - No! No. 2258 01:50:55,641 --> 01:50:58,681 As soon as our estate work was complete, all of us 2259 01:50:58,801 --> 01:51:01,241 we were... we were were straight back in here. 2260 01:51:01,801 --> 01:51:03,161 We wanted to! 2261 01:51:03,961 --> 01:51:05,321 And the... the papers 2262 01:51:05,641 --> 01:51:08,441 they were... they were all over the floor! 2263 01:51:09,441 --> 01:51:11,641 And I'm not saying this very well... 2264 01:51:11,961 --> 01:51:13,681 but I'm asking you to be compassionate. 2265 01:51:13,760 --> 01:51:14,760 Compassionate? 2266 01:51:14,761 --> 01:51:16,201 Yes, to show some compassion! 2267 01:51:16,281 --> 01:51:18,161 Don't tell me I don't have compassion, Sonya. 2268 01:51:18,241 --> 01:51:19,641 It's too late! 2269 01:51:19,761 --> 01:51:22,041 We have to be practical. 2270 01:51:22,121 --> 01:51:24,081 No one ever wants to face the truth in this house. 2271 01:51:24,161 --> 01:51:25,777 - That's the... - Alexandre, for God's sake 2272 01:51:25,801 --> 01:51:27,721 go and explain it to him. 2273 01:51:29,281 --> 01:51:30,721 I've explained it! 2274 01:51:30,801 --> 01:51:34,361 Jesus Christ! Someone else needs to explain it to him. 2275 01:51:34,441 --> 01:51:36,561 Sonya... you... 2276 01:51:37,681 --> 01:51:40,081 you do realise I'm doing this for you too? 2277 01:51:40,201 --> 01:51:41,681 You realise that, don't you? 2278 01:51:41,761 --> 01:51:43,041 You tell him. 2279 01:51:43,761 --> 01:51:46,081 It's too late! 2280 01:51:46,761 --> 01:51:49,081 Unless we all want to putrefy together in this tomb. 2281 01:51:49,161 --> 01:51:50,241 Is that what he wants? 2282 01:51:50,321 --> 01:51:53,801 Is that what you want for yourself, Sonya? 2283 01:51:54,201 --> 01:51:55,721 Sonya... 2284 01:51:56,401 --> 01:51:59,121 Don't make Sonya do it. Go to Vanya! 2285 01:52:00,081 --> 01:52:02,041 - Me go to him? - Yes, you! Who else? 2286 01:52:02,121 --> 01:52:04,241 Just do it. Talk with him! 2287 01:52:04,321 --> 01:52:05,401 Don't get upset. 2288 01:52:07,121 --> 01:52:09,121 I'll explain it again. 2289 01:52:09,681 --> 01:52:11,081 If anyone thinks it'll help. 2290 01:52:12,081 --> 01:52:13,361 I'll go to him. 2291 01:52:13,881 --> 01:52:16,841 Let him calm down. Be kind and understanding, Alexandre. 2292 01:52:17,601 --> 01:52:19,681 I've been understanding. 2293 01:52:20,001 --> 01:52:22,401 - That's the problem... - Don't mind them 2294 01:52:22,481 --> 01:52:23,641 my little chuck. 2295 01:52:24,161 --> 01:52:26,761 The geese go cack, cack, cack. Nobody minds. 2296 01:52:27,001 --> 01:52:28,081 So they stop. 2297 01:52:28,921 --> 01:52:30,001 They stop. 2298 01:52:32,001 --> 01:52:34,481 Look, your hands are shaking. 2299 01:52:36,041 --> 01:52:39,881 Oh! You feel as though you've been out in the cold. 2300 01:52:45,441 --> 01:52:47,361 Some lime flower tea... 2301 01:52:47,641 --> 01:52:48,961 raspberry tea... 2302 01:52:49,201 --> 01:52:51,001 Everything will be right as rain. 2303 01:52:56,641 --> 01:53:00,201 My... poor little orphan girl. 2304 01:53:04,241 --> 01:53:07,401 God is merciful. 2305 01:53:08,921 --> 01:53:10,321 All will be well. 2306 01:53:12,721 --> 01:53:14,281 Oh, listen to them, the silly geese. 2307 01:53:15,841 --> 01:53:17,641 Vanya! 2308 01:53:17,681 --> 01:53:18,761 Leave me alone! 2309 01:53:20,801 --> 01:53:22,041 Vanya, don't! 2310 01:53:22,121 --> 01:53:23,201 - Vanya, please! - No! 2311 01:53:24,521 --> 01:53:25,681 To hell with you! 2312 01:53:27,841 --> 01:53:29,441 To hell with you all! 2313 01:53:29,521 --> 01:53:30,961 Take me away from here! 2314 01:53:32,281 --> 01:53:35,281 Take me away or kill me but I can't stay here! 2315 01:53:36,001 --> 01:53:37,681 Sonya. 2316 01:53:38,121 --> 01:53:39,201 Sonya! 2317 01:53:40,841 --> 01:53:42,481 What am I gonna do? 2318 01:54:21,441 --> 01:54:23,201 - Where are they? - No, nearly done. 2319 01:54:24,161 --> 01:54:26,041 We're gonna miss our chance to say goodbye! 2320 01:54:26,121 --> 01:54:29,001 I said we've nearly finished. 2321 01:54:29,961 --> 01:54:31,161 Hold still. 2322 01:54:35,841 --> 01:54:37,721 Apparently, they're headed for Kharkov. 2323 01:54:38,241 --> 01:54:39,481 Kharkov, of all places! 2324 01:54:39,641 --> 01:54:41,361 - They must be desperate. - They are. 2325 01:54:42,641 --> 01:54:45,441 I heard her, Yelena, shouting in their room. 2326 01:54:45,561 --> 01:54:47,481 Said she wouldn't stay here a minute longer. 2327 01:54:47,601 --> 01:54:49,321 "Send for our things later!" she said. 2328 01:54:49,401 --> 01:54:51,281 What "things"? Really... 2329 01:54:53,681 --> 01:54:55,481 It just wasn't meant to be. 2330 01:54:56,121 --> 01:54:57,281 Their living here. 2331 01:54:57,801 --> 01:54:59,721 It wasn't predestined. 2332 01:55:02,041 --> 01:55:03,561 Or... Or else it... 2333 01:55:03,681 --> 01:55:06,801 No, it was predestined, but this is what was predestined. 2334 01:55:06,881 --> 01:55:08,881 - Not that. - What are you talking about? 2335 01:55:09,681 --> 01:55:12,121 I-I can't stop talking when I'm upset. You know that. 2336 01:55:12,321 --> 01:55:15,241 Ah, it's better for everyone! 2337 01:55:16,001 --> 01:55:19,401 He starts too many fights, that one, the professor. 2338 01:55:20,761 --> 01:55:23,361 It's an absolute disgrace. 2339 01:55:24,081 --> 01:55:26,641 And that is all. 2340 01:55:26,801 --> 01:55:27,801 Kharkov. 2341 01:55:28,401 --> 01:55:29,841 I hate Kharkov. 2342 01:55:30,321 --> 01:55:32,281 And the people! It's like the living dead. 2343 01:55:32,361 --> 01:55:33,921 Well, it's good enough for them. 2344 01:55:36,361 --> 01:55:40,841 And we can go back to the old ways, Ilya Ilich 2345 01:55:41,321 --> 01:55:44,801 breakfast at six, lunch at noon 2346 01:55:45,081 --> 01:55:47,841 and in the evening, we'll sit down for a light supper. 2347 01:55:47,921 --> 01:55:50,121 Everything in its proper order again. 2348 01:55:50,201 --> 01:55:52,241 The way normal people live. 2349 01:55:52,321 --> 01:55:53,841 Like Christians live! 2350 01:55:55,601 --> 01:55:58,121 Oh, it's far too long since we had noodles. 2351 01:55:59,201 --> 01:56:01,041 Noodles! Now you're talking. 2352 01:56:06,161 --> 01:56:07,281 What's the matter? 2353 01:56:08,041 --> 01:56:09,801 - Huh? - What's that look for? 2354 01:56:10,521 --> 01:56:11,801 Oh, it's nothing, I... 2355 01:56:14,081 --> 01:56:16,841 I was just remembering something 2356 01:56:17,041 --> 01:56:19,161 the shopkeeper in the village said to me this morning. 2357 01:56:19,321 --> 01:56:20,321 Mm? 2358 01:56:20,881 --> 01:56:22,681 I had forgotten my wallet. 2359 01:56:23,121 --> 01:56:24,601 He was so rude about it. 2360 01:56:25,601 --> 01:56:27,841 "You always were a sponger," he said. 2361 01:56:27,920 --> 01:56:28,880 - What? - Yeah. 2362 01:56:28,881 --> 01:56:30,217 He said we were all spongers up here 2363 01:56:30,241 --> 01:56:31,337 living off the work of others. 2364 01:56:31,361 --> 01:56:32,641 Said we should all be thrown out. 2365 01:56:33,521 --> 01:56:35,281 It really hurt me, the way he said it. 2366 01:56:35,361 --> 01:56:37,001 I hope you put him in his place. 2367 01:56:38,041 --> 01:56:40,361 I was too embarrassed, to tell you the truth. 2368 01:56:41,361 --> 01:56:44,561 Nobody came to my defense, so I just left. 2369 01:56:44,801 --> 01:56:46,481 What an ignorant pig. 2370 01:56:48,081 --> 01:56:51,241 We're all living off God's charity anyway. 2371 01:56:51,361 --> 01:56:53,761 Shopkeepers, most of all! How dare he? 2372 01:56:56,801 --> 01:57:00,201 None of us here has lived an idle life. 2373 01:57:00,761 --> 01:57:02,801 Sonya never stops. 2374 01:57:02,881 --> 01:57:06,121 Vanya has almost killed himself with work and you... 2375 01:57:08,321 --> 01:57:09,601 Uh... 2376 01:57:09,801 --> 01:57:11,001 Where is Sonya? 2377 01:57:11,561 --> 01:57:14,321 Last I saw, she was with the doctor, looking for Vanya. 2378 01:57:14,401 --> 01:57:16,081 Tell me, what did you do with the pistol? 2379 01:57:16,161 --> 01:57:17,161 Shh! 2380 01:57:18,561 --> 01:57:19,641 I broke it up. 2381 01:57:20,201 --> 01:57:21,881 I stashed it in the cellar. 2382 01:57:22,481 --> 01:57:24,281 - It never happened, alright? - No, of course! 2383 01:57:25,001 --> 01:57:26,521 It's unbelievable. 2384 01:57:26,681 --> 01:57:28,921 - Vanya... - Just leave me alone! 2385 01:57:29,161 --> 01:57:30,281 - Vanya! - Out. 2386 01:57:30,401 --> 01:57:31,961 - Out! - Yeah, a-alright, we're going! 2387 01:57:32,041 --> 01:57:33,881 - We're going! - Chook, chook, chook, chook! 2388 01:57:34,001 --> 01:57:35,001 Chook, chook! 2389 01:57:38,201 --> 01:57:39,561 I've asked you to leave me alone. 2390 01:57:39,641 --> 01:57:41,561 Listen, nothing would give me more pleasure. 2391 01:57:41,641 --> 01:57:43,001 I'm not even supposed to be here! 2392 01:57:43,361 --> 01:57:45,921 But you have something belonging to me 2393 01:57:46,001 --> 01:57:47,001 and if you think... 2394 01:57:47,081 --> 01:57:49,577 - I don't have anything of yours. - Vanya, I am keeping my temper 2395 01:57:49,601 --> 01:57:51,561 I can't be here. Do you understand me? 2396 01:57:52,241 --> 01:57:54,921 Now, give me back what you took and I'll be gone. 2397 01:57:55,001 --> 01:57:56,761 I don't have it, whatever you think I have. 2398 01:57:56,841 --> 01:57:58,001 I don't have it. 2399 01:57:58,081 --> 01:57:59,761 Right then, I am going nowhere. 2400 01:58:01,441 --> 01:58:04,081 If you force me to, I will have to take it from you 2401 01:58:04,201 --> 01:58:05,481 I mean, physically. 2402 01:58:05,561 --> 01:58:06,601 - Alright. - No, I mean it. 2403 01:58:06,681 --> 01:58:08,241 I will tie you up and I will search you. 2404 01:58:08,281 --> 01:58:09,961 - Do what you want! - You think I'm joking? 2405 01:58:17,281 --> 01:58:18,801 I've been such a fool! 2406 01:58:20,161 --> 01:58:21,881 If I'd hit him, it wouldn't be so bad 2407 01:58:21,961 --> 01:58:26,201 but to miss him from three feet away, twice! 2408 01:58:26,281 --> 01:58:28,241 You'd have had better luck shooting yourself. 2409 01:58:28,721 --> 01:58:30,761 What's worse is no one does anything about it. 2410 01:58:30,841 --> 01:58:33,001 No one attempts to arrest me, they... 2411 01:58:34,201 --> 01:58:36,481 they think I'm just sick in my head, that I'm... 2412 01:58:37,161 --> 01:58:38,561 I'm pitiful. 2413 01:58:41,001 --> 01:58:42,521 I saw you with her 2414 01:58:43,401 --> 01:58:44,401 in your arms. 2415 01:58:44,481 --> 01:58:45,561 That's right. 2416 01:58:45,761 --> 01:58:47,721 And you know what I have to say to you about that? 2417 01:58:48,361 --> 01:58:49,441 Pffft! 2418 01:58:50,921 --> 01:58:54,401 Mother Earth must be mad, sustaining the pair of you. 2419 01:58:54,481 --> 01:58:56,481 Again, I say... Pffft! 2420 01:58:58,041 --> 01:59:00,801 Anyway, don't flatter yourself. Nobody thinks you're mad. 2421 01:59:01,521 --> 01:59:03,281 Everybody just thinks you're an idiot. 2422 01:59:04,401 --> 01:59:07,641 One who has been fatally starved of love. 2423 01:59:08,481 --> 01:59:10,321 In other words, you are completely normal. 2424 01:59:10,441 --> 01:59:12,681 This is worse than any physical pain. 2425 01:59:15,441 --> 01:59:16,561 The shame. 2426 01:59:21,161 --> 01:59:22,921 What am I gonna do now? 2427 01:59:23,521 --> 01:59:24,521 I mean... 2428 01:59:26,001 --> 01:59:27,881 what the hell can I do? 2429 01:59:27,961 --> 01:59:29,921 There is nothing you can do. 2430 01:59:30,321 --> 01:59:31,801 Don't say that, Jesus Christ! 2431 01:59:31,881 --> 01:59:34,281 I'm 47 years old. 2432 01:59:34,641 --> 01:59:37,161 If I live till I'm 60, that's another 12 years. 2433 01:59:37,241 --> 01:59:38,241 Thirteen. 2434 01:59:38,321 --> 01:59:39,481 Thirteen years! 2435 01:59:41,401 --> 01:59:43,681 How am I gonna live through 13 years of this? 2436 01:59:43,801 --> 01:59:46,761 How do you fill up 13 years? 2437 01:59:50,681 --> 01:59:52,041 If only you could just... 2438 01:59:53,081 --> 01:59:54,081 wake up 2439 01:59:54,881 --> 01:59:56,321 some clear... 2440 01:59:58,001 --> 02:00:00,241 tranquil morning, and everything 2441 02:00:00,921 --> 02:00:03,481 your whole past was forgotten 2442 02:00:04,121 --> 02:00:06,441 and you could start to lead a new life. 2443 02:00:06,561 --> 02:00:08,201 Oh, come on, Vanya! 2444 02:00:08,921 --> 02:00:10,201 What new life? 2445 02:00:11,081 --> 02:00:13,041 You don't get a new life! 2446 02:00:14,001 --> 02:00:17,801 Old codgers like you and me, we are stuck here now. 2447 02:00:18,121 --> 02:00:19,321 This is our life. 2448 02:00:19,761 --> 02:00:22,001 - Our situation is hopeless. - Don't say that. 2449 02:00:22,081 --> 02:00:23,601 I'm only telling you the truth. 2450 02:00:23,681 --> 02:00:25,201 Will you give me something for my head 2451 02:00:25,281 --> 02:00:27,281 - it's going like a train! - I said stop it, Vanya! 2452 02:00:28,841 --> 02:00:30,361 - Right, thank you. - No, no, no, no. 2453 02:00:30,481 --> 02:00:31,761 Listen to me, listen. 2454 02:00:31,841 --> 02:00:32,841 Listen. 2455 02:00:37,161 --> 02:00:40,841 In a hundred, or two hundred years 2456 02:00:40,921 --> 02:00:42,521 this is what I always think about. 2457 02:00:43,801 --> 02:00:45,201 I think about... 2458 02:00:45,961 --> 02:00:47,001 the people. 2459 02:00:47,961 --> 02:00:49,441 A hundred years from now 2460 02:00:50,521 --> 02:00:52,161 they'll have figured it all out. 2461 02:00:52,961 --> 02:00:55,281 And they'll be looking back on us and they'll say 2462 02:00:56,081 --> 02:01:00,641 "How sad it is to think that all these people were so unhappy." 2463 02:01:01,601 --> 02:01:03,321 But you and me, right now 2464 02:01:03,721 --> 02:01:05,441 this is what we have to hope for. 2465 02:01:07,041 --> 02:01:08,081 Are you listening? 2466 02:01:09,921 --> 02:01:11,161 When you and I 2467 02:01:11,961 --> 02:01:15,121 and Ilya Ilich and Nana 2468 02:01:15,961 --> 02:01:17,001 and your mum... 2469 02:01:18,721 --> 02:01:21,041 when we're all slumbering in our graves 2470 02:01:22,001 --> 02:01:26,241 we will be visited by such pleasant visions 2471 02:01:26,841 --> 02:01:29,281 we won't even realise we're dreaming. 2472 02:01:30,801 --> 02:01:32,201 How nice will that be, eh? 2473 02:01:35,401 --> 02:01:37,281 You see, you and me 2474 02:01:38,641 --> 02:01:40,601 we are the only two intelligent people 2475 02:01:40,681 --> 02:01:42,121 who have ever lived around here. 2476 02:01:42,881 --> 02:01:44,001 That's half our trouble. 2477 02:01:45,481 --> 02:01:48,921 And I really feel that in these last 2478 02:01:49,401 --> 02:01:51,401 what, ten years or so 2479 02:01:52,361 --> 02:01:55,161 we've let this... horrible 2480 02:01:56,001 --> 02:02:00,441 provincial, small, stupid life out here 2481 02:02:00,521 --> 02:02:03,001 really get in on us. 2482 02:02:05,361 --> 02:02:06,681 And it's killed us 2483 02:02:07,841 --> 02:02:08,921 in a way. 2484 02:02:11,241 --> 02:02:12,721 But hey, look at me. 2485 02:02:13,161 --> 02:02:15,681 Don't start distracting me 2486 02:02:16,161 --> 02:02:17,801 with all this "yak, yak, yak". 2487 02:02:18,761 --> 02:02:20,961 Give me back what you took. 2488 02:02:21,641 --> 02:02:23,121 - I haven't. - Vanya. 2489 02:02:23,601 --> 02:02:26,441 You have taken a whole bottle of morphine from my bag. 2490 02:02:26,521 --> 02:02:28,081 Now, if you really wanna do yourself in 2491 02:02:28,161 --> 02:02:30,481 walk out into the forest and put a bullet in your brain 2492 02:02:30,561 --> 02:02:32,081 but don't do it with my medicine. 2493 02:02:32,161 --> 02:02:34,441 They'll think I gave it to you and I'll be struck off. 2494 02:02:34,721 --> 02:02:37,201 It's enough that I'll have to do your post-mortem 2495 02:02:37,281 --> 02:02:38,521 without it being my last job. 2496 02:02:38,641 --> 02:02:41,001 I don't have it! I swear to God! 2497 02:02:41,721 --> 02:02:42,721 Sonya. 2498 02:02:43,041 --> 02:02:44,841 I was supposed to have been gone hours ago 2499 02:02:44,921 --> 02:02:47,161 but your Uncle Vanya has taken a bottle of morphine 2500 02:02:47,281 --> 02:02:49,001 from my bag. Now, it's already getting dark 2501 02:02:49,081 --> 02:02:50,961 please will you ask him to give it back to me? 2502 02:02:51,041 --> 02:02:52,121 Give it back this minute! 2503 02:02:53,641 --> 02:02:55,681 Why would you frighten us like that? 2504 02:02:56,801 --> 02:02:57,921 Come on! 2505 02:02:59,761 --> 02:03:01,761 I'm at least as unhappy as you. 2506 02:03:04,841 --> 02:03:06,321 Probably even more so 2507 02:03:08,281 --> 02:03:09,601 and I'm not giving up. 2508 02:03:10,761 --> 02:03:13,481 I'll endure it, till the bitter end 2509 02:03:14,921 --> 02:03:16,841 and I'm not doing it on my own. 2510 02:03:18,521 --> 02:03:19,521 So... 2511 02:03:20,401 --> 02:03:21,961 you better hang on with me 2512 02:03:23,641 --> 02:03:24,801 or I'll kill you! 2513 02:03:35,761 --> 02:03:36,841 Uncle Vanya. 2514 02:03:39,721 --> 02:03:40,841 For me. 2515 02:03:42,481 --> 02:03:43,681 Please give it back. 2516 02:03:56,001 --> 02:03:58,121 You'll give me something to do, Sonya? Hm? 2517 02:03:59,201 --> 02:04:01,641 - You'll keep me busy? - I promise. 2518 02:04:03,121 --> 02:04:04,881 As soon as everybody has gone 2519 02:04:06,241 --> 02:04:07,721 we'll sit down to work 2520 02:04:08,601 --> 02:04:10,201 just the two of us. 2521 02:04:10,841 --> 02:04:12,361 Same as always, alright? 2522 02:04:13,361 --> 02:04:15,921 Oh, we have an absolute ton of invoices 2523 02:04:16,441 --> 02:04:17,721 on every account. 2524 02:04:18,081 --> 02:04:20,401 We've never let it pile up like this in our whole lives. 2525 02:04:20,481 --> 02:04:21,601 Right, well, I'd better... 2526 02:04:23,201 --> 02:04:24,441 Vanya. 2527 02:04:24,921 --> 02:04:26,001 We're leaving. 2528 02:04:26,441 --> 02:04:28,361 Alexandre wants to see you before we go. 2529 02:04:29,000 --> 02:04:29,960 Oh, God. 2530 02:04:29,961 --> 02:04:31,361 Oh, do go, Vanya. 2531 02:04:32,001 --> 02:04:33,441 Make your peace with him. 2532 02:04:34,041 --> 02:04:35,081 Come on! 2533 02:04:36,120 --> 02:04:37,120 I'll go with you. 2534 02:04:37,121 --> 02:04:38,801 Jesus Christ. 2535 02:04:39,321 --> 02:04:40,521 What a day! 2536 02:04:44,201 --> 02:04:45,481 Right, well, I'm... 2537 02:04:46,041 --> 02:04:47,481 - I'm leaving, so... - Don't go. 2538 02:04:47,561 --> 02:04:49,481 No, no, you promised, you promised you'd leave! 2539 02:04:49,561 --> 02:04:51,041 I am! Leaving now. 2540 02:04:51,561 --> 02:04:52,561 Please... 2541 02:04:54,241 --> 02:04:55,641 don't take fright. 2542 02:04:57,761 --> 02:05:00,641 Is it really so terrible? 2543 02:05:03,281 --> 02:05:04,361 To be loved? 2544 02:05:06,881 --> 02:05:07,881 Yes. 2545 02:05:09,801 --> 02:05:12,201 Stay one more day. 2546 02:05:12,921 --> 02:05:14,121 - See me tomorrow. - No. 2547 02:05:14,201 --> 02:05:15,457 - Come to the forest. - No, no, no. 2548 02:05:15,481 --> 02:05:16,801 It's already been decided. 2549 02:05:17,801 --> 02:05:20,241 But I will ask you one thing. 2550 02:05:21,961 --> 02:05:24,561 Please think better of me than you do. 2551 02:05:25,161 --> 02:05:26,881 I am more than what you take me for 2552 02:05:26,961 --> 02:05:29,201 and I would like you to respect me. 2553 02:05:30,601 --> 02:05:31,641 Respect you? 2554 02:05:33,561 --> 02:05:35,881 How can I respect you? 2555 02:05:38,681 --> 02:05:41,641 You have no aim in life. 2556 02:05:43,001 --> 02:05:46,521 You do absolutely nothing to occupy your attention 2557 02:05:46,601 --> 02:05:49,281 so it may not be today 2558 02:05:49,401 --> 02:05:51,161 or tomorrow, but sooner or later 2559 02:05:51,241 --> 02:05:55,321 you will have to give in to this... feeling. 2560 02:05:56,921 --> 02:05:58,241 it's inevitable. 2561 02:05:58,881 --> 02:06:00,521 Better that you give into it here 2562 02:06:00,641 --> 02:06:01,881 in the bosom of nature. 2563 02:06:01,961 --> 02:06:04,361 God, don't live to regret everything 2564 02:06:04,441 --> 02:06:06,001 in a dump like Kharkov! 2565 02:06:06,521 --> 02:06:08,521 Out here, we have the forest 2566 02:06:09,241 --> 02:06:11,401 all these quaint, old, rundown estates. 2567 02:06:11,481 --> 02:06:14,921 Out here, at least, we can dream we're in a Turgenev novel. 2568 02:06:15,001 --> 02:06:17,881 Oh, stop it, stop it, stop being so absurd. 2569 02:06:18,521 --> 02:06:21,241 God, you make me so angry, Dr Astrov. 2570 02:06:23,001 --> 02:06:24,201 But all the same 2571 02:06:25,241 --> 02:06:26,641 I will remember you. 2572 02:06:27,921 --> 02:06:32,001 You are an interesting and original person. 2573 02:06:33,121 --> 02:06:34,921 And we'll never see each other again 2574 02:06:35,681 --> 02:06:37,281 so why bother keeping it a secret? 2575 02:06:37,361 --> 02:06:38,361 I was... 2576 02:06:38,601 --> 02:06:40,361 I was actually quite smitten with you 2577 02:06:41,841 --> 02:06:42,841 for a time. 2578 02:06:44,841 --> 02:06:45,921 So, there we are. 2579 02:06:47,601 --> 02:06:50,961 Let's shake hands and part as friends. 2580 02:06:51,081 --> 02:06:52,961 And remember me kindly. Alright? 2581 02:06:55,161 --> 02:06:57,681 You know, it's so strange. 2582 02:06:59,361 --> 02:07:03,401 I look at you and I see a well-intentioned 2583 02:07:04,241 --> 02:07:05,721 warm-hearted person 2584 02:07:07,441 --> 02:07:11,681 but everywhere you go, you wreak havoc. 2585 02:07:11,761 --> 02:07:13,601 - No, I don't. - Yes, you do. 2586 02:07:14,401 --> 02:07:16,921 You don't mean to, but no sooner do you arrive 2587 02:07:17,001 --> 02:07:18,801 than everyone who was working here 2588 02:07:19,121 --> 02:07:21,561 busy with something, creating something 2589 02:07:21,641 --> 02:07:24,281 everybody abandons everything to attend to you 2590 02:07:24,361 --> 02:07:25,401 and your husband 2591 02:07:25,481 --> 02:07:27,641 and your various dissatisfactions. 2592 02:07:27,721 --> 02:07:29,481 - Oh, please! - Yes, both of you. 2593 02:07:29,681 --> 02:07:33,561 You have infected everybody with your idleness. 2594 02:07:35,721 --> 02:07:37,041 Including me. 2595 02:07:38,841 --> 02:07:41,041 I haven't done a damned thing this whole month. 2596 02:07:42,081 --> 02:07:43,241 People are sick. 2597 02:07:43,561 --> 02:07:46,481 The peasants have let their animals graze on my land. 2598 02:07:46,601 --> 02:07:48,841 Everything that I've planted has been destroyed... 2599 02:07:48,921 --> 02:07:51,481 That's hardly my fault, Doctor. 2600 02:07:53,121 --> 02:07:55,441 You know, part of me wonders 2601 02:07:56,481 --> 02:07:57,921 if you had stayed here 2602 02:07:59,201 --> 02:08:01,001 how long it would be before 2603 02:08:01,081 --> 02:08:05,281 our devastation was total. 2604 02:08:07,001 --> 02:08:09,521 Oh, I'd be finished within a few months. 2605 02:08:12,681 --> 02:08:13,841 Well, there it is. 2606 02:08:15,521 --> 02:08:17,961 "Our revels now are ended." 2607 02:08:21,361 --> 02:08:24,281 I want to take something to remember you by, Doctor. May I? 2608 02:08:36,121 --> 02:08:38,081 This pencil? Is this the one that you use? 2609 02:08:38,801 --> 02:08:39,801 Yes. 2610 02:08:40,001 --> 02:08:41,521 It's so strange, isn't it? 2611 02:08:42,521 --> 02:08:44,281 Just as we come to know each other 2612 02:08:44,361 --> 02:08:46,361 suddenly we must never see each other again. 2613 02:08:46,521 --> 02:08:48,481 - It's the way with everything. - Mm. 2614 02:08:49,121 --> 02:08:50,641 Will you allow me to kiss you? 2615 02:08:51,881 --> 02:08:55,801 Before Uncle Vanya comes? Just to... say goodbye? 2616 02:08:58,121 --> 02:08:59,161 Is that alright? 2617 02:09:01,201 --> 02:09:02,201 Can I? 2618 02:09:06,601 --> 02:09:07,841 I wish you all the best. 2619 02:09:21,961 --> 02:09:23,401 Shh... 2620 02:09:54,961 --> 02:09:56,241 There you are. Right. 2621 02:09:56,321 --> 02:09:57,521 Ahem. Thank you. 2622 02:10:02,561 --> 02:10:03,561 Well. 2623 02:10:04,481 --> 02:10:06,641 Look, it's been decided. 2624 02:10:08,161 --> 02:10:12,201 We will all put all of this behind us. 2625 02:10:13,641 --> 02:10:16,201 It's been a stressful time 2626 02:10:16,281 --> 02:10:17,961 and a stressful day. 2627 02:10:18,361 --> 02:10:21,401 I've been turning it all over in my mind and... 2628 02:10:22,161 --> 02:10:23,961 no doubt, it's inspired me. 2629 02:10:24,081 --> 02:10:27,801 I feel a paper coming on, Mariya Vasilievna! 2630 02:10:28,121 --> 02:10:33,281 A kind of guide as to how one should live one's life. 2631 02:10:34,081 --> 02:10:35,121 How wonderful. 2632 02:10:36,761 --> 02:10:40,201 I've accepted Vanya's apologies. 2633 02:10:41,241 --> 02:10:42,321 And I... 2634 02:10:44,801 --> 02:10:46,681 I ask you to forgive me too. 2635 02:10:48,281 --> 02:10:49,721 There it is, alright? 2636 02:10:52,681 --> 02:10:53,681 Oh! 2637 02:10:56,041 --> 02:10:58,561 So, we'll just go back to the way it was. 2638 02:10:58,641 --> 02:11:00,881 I-I'll send you the same as before, alright? 2639 02:11:00,961 --> 02:11:02,081 - And we'll... - Goodbye. 2640 02:11:02,521 --> 02:11:03,641 - Alright? - Maman. 2641 02:11:03,841 --> 02:11:05,601 - Ah! - I mean, is that... 2642 02:11:05,961 --> 02:11:07,921 Er, Alexandre, um... 2643 02:11:08,681 --> 02:11:10,801 Have your photograph taken in the city. 2644 02:11:11,081 --> 02:11:14,441 I want to see you both looking fine and urbane and... 2645 02:11:14,841 --> 02:11:16,601 You make sure he does, now. 2646 02:11:17,801 --> 02:11:18,881 Alexandre! 2647 02:11:20,001 --> 02:11:21,401 What are we going to do? 2648 02:11:22,921 --> 02:11:26,001 Oh, Maman. It's all for the best. 2649 02:11:28,241 --> 02:11:30,601 Goodbye, Your Excellency. Don't forget us, alright? 2650 02:11:35,121 --> 02:11:36,281 Listen... 2651 02:11:37,921 --> 02:11:41,481 I thank you all for the pleasure 2652 02:11:41,801 --> 02:11:43,401 of your company. 2653 02:11:44,761 --> 02:11:47,641 I do respect your way of thinking, and... 2654 02:11:48,481 --> 02:11:52,601 your enthusiasms and your energy for things 2655 02:11:52,681 --> 02:11:54,881 but permit an old man 2656 02:11:55,201 --> 02:11:57,841 one parting word 2657 02:11:59,201 --> 02:12:00,281 before he goes. 2658 02:12:01,921 --> 02:12:04,921 We must, all of us 2659 02:12:05,161 --> 02:12:06,441 ladies and gentlemen 2660 02:12:07,081 --> 02:12:10,081 we must be practical 2661 02:12:11,361 --> 02:12:16,041 and face up to the practicalities. 2662 02:12:16,721 --> 02:12:17,721 Now. 2663 02:12:21,081 --> 02:12:22,641 My best wishes to you all. 2664 02:12:33,281 --> 02:12:35,281 I'll probably never see you again. 2665 02:12:38,241 --> 02:12:39,481 Please forgive me. 2666 02:12:39,721 --> 02:12:41,001 Vanya, I... 2667 02:12:41,361 --> 02:12:42,401 Lenochka! 2668 02:12:44,801 --> 02:12:46,041 Dear sweet Vanya. 2669 02:13:01,561 --> 02:13:03,481 I tell you what, Waffles. You couldn't... 2670 02:13:03,521 --> 02:13:05,001 bring my stuff around, could you? 2671 02:13:05,521 --> 02:13:06,601 Of course. 2672 02:13:10,401 --> 02:13:12,401 You not going out to see them off? 2673 02:13:14,481 --> 02:13:16,201 Oh. No, no. 2674 02:13:16,841 --> 02:13:19,161 I... I can't. I just need to... 2675 02:13:21,281 --> 02:13:22,761 I just need something to do. 2676 02:13:25,241 --> 02:13:26,441 Well, that's it. 2677 02:13:27,401 --> 02:13:28,401 They're gone. 2678 02:13:31,321 --> 02:13:33,041 Professor's relieved, I'd say. 2679 02:13:36,401 --> 02:13:38,801 You won't see him back here for a very long time 2680 02:13:38,881 --> 02:13:40,801 I shouldn't think! If ever. 2681 02:13:44,881 --> 02:13:45,921 They've gone. 2682 02:13:50,841 --> 02:13:51,841 They're gone. 2683 02:13:56,241 --> 02:13:57,361 Right! 2684 02:13:58,281 --> 02:13:59,321 Uncle Vanya? 2685 02:14:05,841 --> 02:14:06,881 That's it. 2686 02:14:09,921 --> 02:14:10,921 There we are. 2687 02:14:13,801 --> 02:14:14,841 Right. 2688 02:14:15,521 --> 02:14:16,601 Thank you, Nana. 2689 02:14:19,121 --> 02:14:20,281 So, where were we? 2690 02:14:21,881 --> 02:14:23,321 January, February. 2691 02:14:26,121 --> 02:14:28,481 Feels like forever since we sat here together. 2692 02:14:31,161 --> 02:14:32,401 Look, there's no ink. 2693 02:14:45,321 --> 02:14:46,561 They've gone. 2694 02:14:55,001 --> 02:14:56,121 Right. 2695 02:14:56,321 --> 02:14:58,841 First thing, Vanya, we can start 2696 02:14:58,961 --> 02:15:02,161 by writing out... these ones. 2697 02:15:04,401 --> 02:15:06,601 We got a letter from the factor this morning 2698 02:15:06,761 --> 02:15:08,481 asking us for our invoices. 2699 02:15:09,281 --> 02:15:11,441 I can't believe none of these have been sent. 2700 02:15:14,361 --> 02:15:15,401 Can you see? 2701 02:15:22,241 --> 02:15:25,201 Let's start here. You do one, I'll do another. 2702 02:15:25,481 --> 02:15:26,521 And so on. 2703 02:15:26,601 --> 02:15:29,041 "Account... in the name of Mr..." 2704 02:15:29,121 --> 02:15:32,001 I feel really sad now they're gone. You know? 2705 02:15:34,721 --> 02:15:36,401 I'm ready for the hills. 2706 02:15:43,961 --> 02:15:46,201 Pens scratching in the silence. 2707 02:15:47,681 --> 02:15:49,321 The crickets are singing. 2708 02:15:51,281 --> 02:15:52,961 All is warm and cosy. 2709 02:15:54,161 --> 02:15:56,641 I just don't want to leave. 2710 02:15:59,721 --> 02:16:00,721 Right, well. 2711 02:16:01,481 --> 02:16:04,361 All that's left is to say goodbye. 2712 02:16:07,761 --> 02:16:09,041 Goodbye, table. 2713 02:16:10,721 --> 02:16:11,841 Goodbye, friends. 2714 02:16:11,961 --> 02:16:14,761 Why are you always fussing about? Stay! 2715 02:16:16,441 --> 02:16:18,681 - Just sit down! - I can't. I have an obligation. 2716 02:16:18,801 --> 02:16:20,601 "Which leaves an outstanding balance 2717 02:16:20,681 --> 02:16:22,881 of two rubles, 75 kopeks..." 2718 02:16:23,121 --> 02:16:24,881 - Doctor. - Ah! Yes, that's... 2719 02:16:25,001 --> 02:16:26,321 Let me give you a hand with this. 2720 02:16:26,401 --> 02:16:27,401 Oh, thank you. 2721 02:16:31,161 --> 02:16:32,841 No, no, no! I don't want to bend those. 2722 02:16:32,921 --> 02:16:34,641 - Oh, I... - I keep them rolled up. 2723 02:16:34,721 --> 02:16:36,777 - It keeps them flat. - Oh, I see. I wasn't thinking. 2724 02:16:36,801 --> 02:16:38,457 - Sorry about that. - No, I'm sorry, it's just 2725 02:16:38,481 --> 02:16:39,761 you know, works in progress. 2726 02:16:39,841 --> 02:16:41,241 Well, I-I'll leave that to you then. 2727 02:16:41,281 --> 02:16:42,321 Thank you, Waffles. 2728 02:16:54,641 --> 02:16:55,641 Right, well. 2729 02:16:55,681 --> 02:16:57,001 When will we see you again? 2730 02:16:57,121 --> 02:16:58,201 I imagine... 2731 02:16:58,481 --> 02:17:00,481 it won't be until next summer now. 2732 02:17:01,321 --> 02:17:03,041 It's hardly possible in the winter. 2733 02:17:03,481 --> 02:17:05,881 Though, of course, if there's an emergency or... 2734 02:17:06,841 --> 02:17:08,361 if you should need me, then just 2735 02:17:08,441 --> 02:17:09,841 just let me know, and I'll... 2736 02:17:11,521 --> 02:17:12,641 I'll come. 2737 02:17:16,321 --> 02:17:17,321 Thanks for the... 2738 02:17:18,201 --> 02:17:19,521 meals and... 2739 02:17:20,481 --> 02:17:22,281 the hospitality and... 2740 02:17:24,481 --> 02:17:25,521 Well... 2741 02:17:29,161 --> 02:17:30,241 Thanks for everything. 2742 02:17:34,001 --> 02:17:36,161 - Cheerio, Nana. - You're going without any tea? 2743 02:17:36,241 --> 02:17:37,601 Oh, I don't want any, Nana, really. 2744 02:17:37,641 --> 02:17:40,521 A drop of vodka then? For the long road ahead. 2745 02:17:40,601 --> 02:17:41,601 Well, maybe... 2746 02:17:41,681 --> 02:17:43,121 I knew, you see! 2747 02:17:54,441 --> 02:17:55,921 My old horse, Belka 2748 02:17:56,521 --> 02:17:58,801 back at the stable at home, she's gone lame. 2749 02:17:59,321 --> 02:18:00,361 Oh no... 2750 02:18:01,281 --> 02:18:02,961 - poor old Belka. - Mm. 2751 02:18:03,801 --> 02:18:05,361 Not sure what I'll do with her now. 2752 02:18:06,841 --> 02:18:10,001 Why don't you bring her to the smith at Rozhdestvennoe? 2753 02:18:10,481 --> 02:18:11,921 Yes. I'll have to. 2754 02:18:12,841 --> 02:18:14,041 See what he says. 2755 02:18:14,801 --> 02:18:15,921 Can't be helped. 2756 02:18:19,281 --> 02:18:20,281 Can you imagine... 2757 02:18:21,521 --> 02:18:24,841 the heat in Africa right now, Vanya? 2758 02:18:26,121 --> 02:18:27,121 What? 2759 02:18:27,361 --> 02:18:28,921 The heat in Africa. 2760 02:18:29,641 --> 02:18:30,841 Right this minute. 2761 02:18:32,281 --> 02:18:33,401 What about it? 2762 02:18:34,201 --> 02:18:37,601 It must be absolutely unbearable. 2763 02:18:39,401 --> 02:18:40,441 Yes. 2764 02:18:43,601 --> 02:18:44,601 Here. 2765 02:18:44,921 --> 02:18:45,961 Oh! 2766 02:18:48,361 --> 02:18:49,521 To your good health. 2767 02:18:54,121 --> 02:18:55,921 Eat something. 2768 02:18:56,201 --> 02:18:58,041 No, I couldn't. That'll do me now. 2769 02:18:58,561 --> 02:19:00,281 Don't see me out, there's no need. 2770 02:19:02,081 --> 02:19:03,601 Mariya Vasilievna. 2771 02:19:04,401 --> 02:19:05,401 Doctor. 2772 02:19:05,761 --> 02:19:06,761 Ivan. 2773 02:19:11,121 --> 02:19:12,121 I'm... 2774 02:19:14,321 --> 02:19:15,321 I'll... 2775 02:19:16,241 --> 02:19:17,241 Alright? 2776 02:19:18,361 --> 02:19:19,361 Hm? 2777 02:19:22,321 --> 02:19:23,321 Yes. 2778 02:19:24,321 --> 02:19:25,601 "February the second. 2779 02:19:26,481 --> 02:19:28,761 Lenten oil, 20 funts. 2780 02:19:30,241 --> 02:19:32,161 Buckwheat meal..." 2781 02:19:36,401 --> 02:19:37,441 He's gone. 2782 02:19:46,121 --> 02:19:47,121 Sonya. 2783 02:19:52,721 --> 02:19:55,481 "Which... which leaves 15... 2784 02:19:56,241 --> 02:19:58,561 rubles, 25 kopeks." 2785 02:20:14,121 --> 02:20:15,161 My goodness. 2786 02:20:23,041 --> 02:20:24,041 Oh, Sonya. 2787 02:20:27,921 --> 02:20:30,121 I just feel so completely... 2788 02:20:37,041 --> 02:20:38,121 I know. 2789 02:20:45,041 --> 02:20:46,241 What can we do? 2790 02:20:49,441 --> 02:20:50,681 We have to live. 2791 02:20:55,481 --> 02:20:56,561 We have... 2792 02:20:57,841 --> 02:21:01,441 days and days and days ahead of us. 2793 02:21:04,801 --> 02:21:06,361 Endless evenings. 2794 02:21:11,081 --> 02:21:12,081 And we... 2795 02:21:13,241 --> 02:21:15,121 will bear it all 2796 02:21:16,721 --> 02:21:17,881 with good grace. 2797 02:21:21,241 --> 02:21:22,641 We'll do our work... 2798 02:21:25,841 --> 02:21:27,081 and we'll support... 2799 02:21:28,521 --> 02:21:30,161 everyone who relies on us. 2800 02:21:34,241 --> 02:21:35,281 We'll do it now 2801 02:21:36,641 --> 02:21:39,041 and we'll continue to do it till we're old... 2802 02:21:42,001 --> 02:21:44,201 and we'll accept our time of dying 2803 02:21:47,121 --> 02:21:48,441 and afterwards, we'll say... 2804 02:21:51,001 --> 02:21:52,121 "Yes, we suffered. 2805 02:21:56,121 --> 02:21:57,921 Yes, there were times we wept. 2806 02:22:00,681 --> 02:22:02,281 Times we could hardly keep going." 2807 02:22:08,841 --> 02:22:10,401 And God will smile on us. 2808 02:22:16,881 --> 02:22:18,041 And you and I... 2809 02:22:19,281 --> 02:22:22,041 We'll see, Uncle Vanya 2810 02:22:23,761 --> 02:22:25,441 we'll see that life 2811 02:22:26,321 --> 02:22:27,561 is beautiful... 2812 02:22:30,881 --> 02:22:32,401 and radiant... 2813 02:22:35,361 --> 02:22:36,601 and dignified. 2814 02:22:44,201 --> 02:22:46,761 And we'll look back on these unhappy moments 2815 02:22:48,801 --> 02:22:51,041 and we'll feel nothing but compassion. 2816 02:22:55,241 --> 02:22:56,401 Then we'll smile... 2817 02:22:59,481 --> 02:23:01,121 and we'll take our rest. 2818 02:23:04,961 --> 02:23:06,441 I believe that, Vanya. 2819 02:23:09,201 --> 02:23:10,201 I do. 2820 02:23:14,321 --> 02:23:15,961 We'll hear the angels. 2821 02:23:21,881 --> 02:23:24,041 The whole sky will be full... 2822 02:23:25,201 --> 02:23:27,321 of diamonds... 2823 02:23:30,361 --> 02:23:31,601 and we'll see... 2824 02:23:33,441 --> 02:23:35,081 all the evil in the world... 2825 02:23:37,241 --> 02:23:38,601 and all the pain... 2826 02:23:41,321 --> 02:23:42,761 and all the suffering... 2827 02:23:46,761 --> 02:23:48,241 all engulfed... 2828 02:23:51,281 --> 02:23:52,321 by the mercy... 2829 02:23:54,401 --> 02:23:56,361 that's going to fill up the whole world. 2830 02:24:01,641 --> 02:24:04,401 And our lives will be as sweet 2831 02:24:05,161 --> 02:24:06,481 and gentle 2832 02:24:08,401 --> 02:24:09,721 as a caress. 2833 02:24:16,081 --> 02:24:17,161 I believe it. 2834 02:24:20,001 --> 02:24:21,001 I do. 2835 02:24:28,201 --> 02:24:29,361 And I know... 2836 02:24:31,241 --> 02:24:32,281 Uncle Vanya... 2837 02:24:34,961 --> 02:24:36,001 I know... 2838 02:24:37,081 --> 02:24:39,561 that you have yet to see happiness... 2839 02:24:41,361 --> 02:24:42,521 in this life. 2840 02:24:45,161 --> 02:24:46,801 I know. 2841 02:24:51,241 --> 02:24:53,241 Oh, but just you wait. 2842 02:24:56,761 --> 02:24:57,921 You'll see. 2843 02:25:01,201 --> 02:25:02,441 We'll rest. 2844 02:25:06,161 --> 02:25:07,281 We'll rest. 2845 02:25:13,161 --> 02:25:14,561 We will rest. 199354