WEBVTT 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:04.320 You know, our generation, after all, 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:10.240 the generation of the sixties, was different from yours. 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:14.320 I know what you were. 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:16.200 Forgive me, for God's sake. 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:21.400 More, well, shall we say, open and sincere. 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:23.480 And what did you do? 00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:26.080 The sincere people of the sixties? 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:27.280 Where are you? 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:28.720 Gone. 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:33.040 Some adapted and started doing extremely well for themselves. 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:36.520 And others simply up and left for abroad. 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:39.320 And still others just drag along through life. 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:44.040 Well? Elena Sergeyevna, isn't that so? 00:00:47.800 --> 00:00:50.800 Oh, no, it's not so. 00:00:51.160 --> 00:00:57.400 Because many simply remained good people — kind, decent, honest. 00:00:57.680 --> 00:00:59.080 And that's no small thing. 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:03.598 Because it is precisely they who carry within them that charge of truth, you understand, 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:05.678 without which a nation withers. Well, of course. 00:01:05.720 --> 00:01:09.478 They waited for glasnost handed down from above, and started yapping at the past. 00:01:09.520 --> 00:01:11.040 What do you understand about any of it? 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:12.880 That's pure and simple — 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:17.960 You don't understand that now it's a different time, harsher, more dynamic, more businesslike. 00:01:18.160 --> 00:01:20.958 And it demands from new people equally new qualities. 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:24.720 We want to do our work and get paid fair and square for it. 00:01:25.080 --> 00:01:26.240 That, at least, is honest. 00:01:26.282 --> 00:01:29.440 Right — it's the honesty of a shopkeeper and a huckster. 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:32.320 There you go again with phrases, Elena Sergeyevna — how you love to slap labels on everything. 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:34.918 Understand, Russia has always suffered from infantilism. 00:01:34.960 --> 00:01:38.478 And these lofty-minded intelligentsia, you know, that's the absence of normal, 00:01:38.520 --> 00:01:39.718 businesslike, clear-headed people. 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:42.038 Being practical is considered among us as something almost indecent. 00:01:42.080 --> 00:01:45.640 Russia can be saved from mismanagement — which, by the way, all the newspapers are trumpeting about now — 00:01:45.682 --> 00:01:48.118 only by our new generation of businesspeople. 00:01:48.160 --> 00:01:50.278 You — a new generation! 00:01:50.320 --> 00:01:51.838 Don't make me laugh! 00:01:51.880 --> 00:01:54.478 They've come to save us. At last! 00:01:54.520 --> 00:01:55.800 Thank you very much. 00:01:56.080 --> 00:01:57.400 We've finally waited long enough! 00:01:58.160 --> 00:01:59.120 What are you doing? 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:02.240 Phew, phew phew phew phew. 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:06.920 Lord God almighty, Lord! 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:09.040 At least he washes himself. Sure. 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:12.680 Awful! They've come to save us. 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:15.038 Of course, except for Viktor. 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:18.438 Thank you very much, saviors! Except for Viktor. 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:19.600 Why except for Viktor? 00:02:19.642 --> 00:02:21.640 Is he some different kind of person? Of course he is. 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:26.120 I thought he was your friend, that he was part of your group? 00:02:26.440 --> 00:02:29.118 Vovka just keeps him around as a lackey, plain and simple. 00:02:29.160 --> 00:02:31.800 You see, Elena Sergeyevna, every society has its dregs. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:33.920 He comes from a family of hereditary alcoholics anyway. 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:36.680 No, that's not true. 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:39.440 Excuse me, please, that's not true. 00:02:39.720 --> 00:02:43.518 He's a capable boy, and kind, and good. 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:48.120 And, by the way, I once saw his drawings at a competition back in the fifth grade. 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:51.678 He drew in a way none of you could match. 00:02:51.720 --> 00:02:53.238 He is a talented person. 00:02:53.280 --> 00:03:00.078 It's you who are immoral, cold, cruel egoists. 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:04.520 It's from people like you — right, people like you — that Russia needs saving. 00:03:04.640 --> 00:03:08.120 I don't even have anywhere to escape from you, because — 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:10.280 Lord! 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:17.160 Come now! 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:22.440 Elena Sergeyevna. 00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:25.520 Please forgive me. 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:32.160 Please, I had no right to search through your things. 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:35.000 And I tore out the phone. 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:41.718 Elena Sergeyevna, forgive me — you're my favorite teacher 00:03:41.760 --> 00:03:45.000 since fifth grade and all that. 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:47.000 Give me your hand, get up. What do you — 00:03:48.200 --> 00:03:51.278 Ivan, you offer a hand together with your heart. Bravo! 00:03:51.320 --> 00:03:53.160 Bravo, Vitek! Romeo! 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:56.880 So what? 00:03:57.680 --> 00:03:59.040 I can offer my heart too. 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:01.440 As long as she gives me a passing grade. 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:04.160 Don't believe him, Elena Sergeyevna. 00:04:04.202 --> 00:04:06.120 You give him a three, and he'll take off. 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:08.680 Quiet. 00:04:09.320 --> 00:04:10.400 Elena Sergeyevna. 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:12.760 I feel terrible. 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:16.038 Where's the — you know — around here? Down the hall. 00:04:16.080 --> 00:04:20.520 Oh, you know what surprises me most of all about this whole situation? 00:04:22.280 --> 00:04:25.560 That she took pity on the worst one among us — a plain drunk, in plain terms. 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.520 That's simply astonishing — a purely Russian phenomenon. 00:04:29.880 --> 00:04:34.958 We are ready to feel sorry for anyone — a criminal, a swindler, an alcoholic, 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:36.918 just not for our fellow intellectual. 00:04:36.960 --> 00:04:38.118 Interesting — why? 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:39.840 It's quite the honor, after all. 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:42.440 He broke the phone and searched the place. 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:43.958 And what's he doing in there now? 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.080 We didn't even want to bring him. He pushed his way in himself. 00:04:46.440 --> 00:04:49.440 He says: "Take me with you — I'll steal crystal from my parents-in-law." 00:04:49.760 --> 00:04:51.240 That's to sweeten us up. 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:53.198 Let's take him, it'll be more fun. 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:56.878 I also want Elena Sergeyevna to take pity on me. 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.640 But you're a woman of principle. 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.120 You, like Pavlik Morozov, would sell out your own father for the sake of principles? 00:05:03.960 --> 00:05:04.880 You scoundrel! 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:11.200 Thank God. 00:05:11.760 --> 00:05:12.840 That you're a woman. 00:05:14.640 --> 00:05:18.560 Otherwise, if you were a man, I would have struck you. 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:21.840 I don't raise my hand against women. Go ahead and raise it! 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:24.120 You already did. 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:26.480 And you'll do it again more than once. 00:05:27.520 --> 00:05:29.520 And so don't call yourself a man. 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:41.560 I simply don't know if there's any line that you would not be capable of crossing. 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:44.320 You're not human beings at all. 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:48.160 How easy life must be for you. 00:05:50.640 --> 00:05:52.920 Your soul never aches at all.