Perestroika
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Time and space are not |
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In the life of every |
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there are special places and |
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unusually important, crucial |
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In my life this special moment, |
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happened in Moscow, Russia, in |
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right after the fall of |
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I came back to my native town after |
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Moscow was in turmoil, so was I. |
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Allow me to introduce myself: |
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That spring I was turning 50 - |
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And it just so happened that at |
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was taking place in Moscow at |
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I am an astrophysicist, so are |
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My entire tiny little world was |
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So I've decided to come to the |
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and to reevaluate my life. |
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At the point it seemed to be a |
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I was eager to reevaluate. |
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Reevaluate everything. |
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Not only my own life but also |
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After lunch we will begin our |
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before we take a break, we would |
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This film is not a scientific |
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but it does include some footage |
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as well as some visual |
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abstracted from the works of |
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May we have the shades drawn, |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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That woman who keeps looking my |
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She is my wife. Or, if you |
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In any event, she is always |
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I need a life. I need a real |
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What's so bad about our life? |
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You call this a life? Right! |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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But it looks like she still |
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My drinking seems to worry her. |
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Well, she had never seen me |
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The creator of the film you are |
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Jill Stratton, is with us today. |
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Do you see the beautiful lady |
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That is miss Stratton herself. |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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Not that we're really lovers. |
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Sasha, what's the matter? I |
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Don't you? |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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Go. Leave Russia. Your place is |
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What about you? |
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What about me? |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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our intimate relationship was |
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As for the past seventeen years, |
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but have not even corresponded. |
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But I didn't correspond with |
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While the room is being engulfed |
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I would like to read a brief |
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In this passage, the angel Raphael |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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is my professor, Doctor Gross. |
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I have not seen Henrich Gross |
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"...To ask or search I blame |
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for Heaven Is as the Book of God |
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Wherein to read his wondrous |
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hours, or days, or months, or |
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the rest from Man or Angel the |
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Did wisely to conceal, to move |
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when they come to model Heaven, |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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before I left Russia. |
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Continue your cosmological |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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both of us each in the country |
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kept calculating the stars for |
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In the past two decades, |
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we have been able to reveal so |
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that we cannot look at footage |
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of this change without utter |
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It is debatable how long the |
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If we may remind him of the old |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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I must admit, I was surprised to |
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Perhaps he has discovered the |
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The city beyond the windows is |
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although until the commencement |
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I have been away from it for |
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I was born in this city, and I |
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It is a living entity to me, so |
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that I introduce it as one of |
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And this is my planet - Earth. |
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On the grand astrophysical |
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a place just as small and cozy |
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Earth is also one of our |
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Ah, Home, Sweet Home. One does |
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Our Universe. The way we "model |
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I have spent my whole life |
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and what lies beyond them. |
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Striving to break through the |
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Why did you walk out on my film? |
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I have seen it many times |
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Why did you walk out on your own |
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I have seen it too. You're |
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You promised to come help me at |
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But you're shooting. |
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I'm done for the day. Wait here, |
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Sasha? Sasha Greenberg? |
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Oh, you don't recognize me! |
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It's me - Kostya Ruemin! |
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It's a shame to forget your |
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Let's get together! My wife will make |
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Excuse me. I am sorry. We |
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I need to discuss something with |
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They're all are over him. |
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I'm afraid he's going to drink |
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It's wonderful |
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Sasha, how's tomorrow? |
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He said he'd come to the studio |
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OK, if he's with you, he'll be |
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Okay, Sasha, let's go. |
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Hello. My name is Victor |
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I have a business proposal to |
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Sasha!! I heard you were here. |
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I just dropped everything and |
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That's great! That's great! |
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Don't forget. Tomorrow! |
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Sasha, we really have to go. |
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I'm the president of |
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Do you have a car? |
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We would like to discuss the |
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Excuse me, mister Greenberg is |
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Sasha, How's tomorrow? |
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I'm Lomova! Asya Lomova! Could |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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So far, I haven't managed to |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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by my old friends Tolik and |
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Jill was already deep into her new |
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so she came to Moscow earlier |
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The whole gang is so excited! |
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He was the first we knew who |
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Hard to believe it is really |
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It seems as if all of Moscow has |
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Natasha was the prettiest girl |
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so, obviously, everybody |
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Every holiday we would gather at |
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Each of us fell in love with |
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Oh, It's rare for a woman to be |
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Especially one like you... |
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My parents are still alive, they |
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They want to have a party |
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Like old times. |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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I had no inkling or even hope that |
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Back then for the first time in |
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a door had been cracked open in |
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Of all the soviet citizens some Jews |
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to supposedly to unite with |
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And everybody knew if you were |
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you'd become "an emigrant" to |
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Officially this word sounded |
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You would never be able to see your |
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But recently, under |
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my friends were permitted again |
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(PHONE RINGS) |
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Hello. |
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It's for you. You've been |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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Everybody wanted to see the man |
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From where no one they knew had |
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They wanted to see but strangely |
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They were no longer interested |
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Too many things were happening |
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They just elected the first |
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and said good-bye to the father |
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the president of disintegrated |
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Did you vote for Yeltsin? |
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Yes... |
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How could you?! Just wait till |
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You have a better alternative? |
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You fear there may be a civil |
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Gorbachev was the greatest |
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Look at what he's done in |
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Gorbachev is the same as the |
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He couldn't revive the economy, he |
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Gorbachev is a man of compromise, |
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He cannot be trusted. I don't know |
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Americans consider compromise a |
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Anyway imagine if Gorbachev went |
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It seems to me we are on the |
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Perestroika is dead! |
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Perestroika has just begun. |
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Perestroika never had a chance. |
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No one knows how to work |
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Lazy, spoiled slaves, all of |
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Master. |
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All day I waited for your call - |
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Tried calling - No answer. |
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If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, |
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Give me a hug. Ahh. |
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What's this? |
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(PHONE RINGS) |
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Couldn't we just unplug it? |
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No, you're not in America. |
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Telephones do not unplug here. |
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That would create too much |
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So, disciple? |
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Do you think you've won our |
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Do you think the time has come |
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They certainly think so and they |
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A human person has broken an |
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Fourth and back! This is an |
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And, it is morning, and it is |
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Congratulations. |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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He had come from America. |
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He had participated in the |
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America dropped this bomb on the |
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It was the age of McCarthyism |
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In 1948 he escaped to a "free |
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The "free country" at that time |
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had twenty million of its |
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Gross managed to avoid the labor |
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desperately needed those who |
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Of course, physicists did not |
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The borders of the "free |
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After six months in the Soviet |
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a virtually illiterate country |
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His colleagues were shocked by |
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But Gross lived with her for |
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and always seemed perfectly |
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Good coffee demands precise |
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If, for example, you grind it |
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you will never achieve the |
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Diogenes lived in a barrel. |
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Why should one care where one |
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I am convinced, however, that in |
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Perhaps he prepared an ideal |
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To attain knowledge, one does |
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One should, however, |
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against other paradigms of |
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Master, I've come to share a |
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I have applied for emigration. |
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Psychologists at Harvard once |
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They took some rats and placed |
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These rooms contained everything |
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There were rooms with food, |
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One of the tunnels led to a |
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The rats had no way of knowing |
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since no rat ever returned from |
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Still, fifteen percent of the |
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They were terrified of it. |
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Their fur would stand on end, |
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they would experience |
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they would howl - but, still, |
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As it turns out both you and I |
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Except that in our case the |
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and placed two labyrinths side |
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calling the door connecting them |
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It so happens that the presence |
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does not change the magical |
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and what we end up with is a |
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So,if they let you go, we will |
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Who can tell. Maybe you could |
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Or I could come here. |
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I think not. Rats do not return |
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That's one of the givens of the |
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Otherwise, how "unexplored" |
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SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
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Was I really now back in Moscow? |
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Was I really going in the car |
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to help her to negotiate with |
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desperately desiring to get |
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something that in Moscow I left |
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was in such abundance as water |
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What's the matter? |
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What does all this madness about |
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Gorbachev started a war against |
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and now there is something which |
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I have with me a famous American |
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Good for Russians and bad for |
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You should have called this morning, |
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We can't do anything just now. We |
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I wish he'd take us to the |
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My friend! The American doesn't |
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All he wants is a bottle of vodka. And |
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Well, that's normal. That's what |
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It's funny. When I used to live |
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Now I am back and desperately need |
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There you are. You can get anything |
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Our organization is called |
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and in our joint venture, we are |
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But I am not a businessman. |
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We'll put together a group of |
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who'll generate scientific ideas |
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We'll make lots of hard |
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Excuse me. Aren't we going to |
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The Head of production is |
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He'll wait. His studio is not a |
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It's a government agency - no |
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They say our studio is not up to |
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That is not so. |
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Right now, for example, we're |
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Take a look at this! |
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I'm so pleased you've come to |
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it is not an interpreter she needs. |
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It is a more delicate matter, |
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Okay. Great. I'm all for a |
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She needs some specific |
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Fine. We'll get it for her, but |
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But now she's asking to see our |
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What copyright? |
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I talked to every attorney in |
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What's a copyright anyway? |
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Don't take it personal, but it's |
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Sex and Jews are our two most |
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Everyone wants to film what used |
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These Jewish looking actors |
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Everyone of them is under three |
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They're the envy of all other |
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Unfortunately, I have to tell you |
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You have not been accepted to |
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But isn't there a law that says |
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must be accepted without |
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Why wasn't I accepted? Because |
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Have enough courage to tell me |
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Sit down. You snotnose!! |
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I am not the least bit afraid to |
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Because we have twice as many |
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than there are spots available |
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And even if I followed the law |
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there would still be no place |
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I am prepared to take the |
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That I cannot forbid you to do. |
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May I answer right away, without |
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Are you sure you do not want to |
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I got lucky. |
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Well, what is that question? |
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The modern concept of the |
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All right, then. Let's hear |
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The modern concept of the |
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is based upon Einstein's general |
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In 1917, the same year that the |
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another revolution also took |
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Einstein claimed that all three |
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and that a spaceship travelling |
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would return to its point of |
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In 1922, the Soviet |
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offered another model. |
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In his model, the Universe |
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Expansion began at a point. |
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All of of today's models allow |
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Although I must add that not all |
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I am not sure I like it either. |
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The idea of the Universe |
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and perishing into collapse is |
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How is it possible? |
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Did the Universe begin at the |
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Did matter evolve from nothing? |
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What was there before the |
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Do you know, young man, that |
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Long before the birth of Albert |
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No, I didn't. By whom? |
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By St. Augustine. |
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And what, in his opinion, was there |
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In his opinion, before the |
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there was already a hell for |
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But you are a world-renowned |
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So what? There are no positions |
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Shiffman will not have me. |
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He has already let too many Jews |
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he's a Jew himself, he's afraid |
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Logov has never let Jews in and |
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and Sarkisian is far too poor. |
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I will not be able to continue |
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There really is no place for me |
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The only one who wants me is |
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So, where is the problem? |
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He has plenty of money and |
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Burkov is making the bomb. |
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And what of that? |
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Do you really believe that if |
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I suffered under that illusion |
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the end result of which was that |
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You cannot stop progress, Sasha. |
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There will always be someone |
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to further causes of evil. |
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What does that mean? |
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That science should be outlawed? |
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Do you think that if you don't |
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some other Burkov in the future |
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to use your achievements for |
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Or something even worse? |
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If that's the case, why not just |
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I am only interested in the |
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Why can't I be left alone to |
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Be left alone - in Burkov's |
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Even Christ, that shining beacon |
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preached to "render unto Caesar |
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and unto God the things which |
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Continue your cosmological |
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and make the bomb - for Caesar. |
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(VOICE-OVER) |
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At nights, I wandered the |
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saying goodbye to my beloved |
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That summer in Moscow was hit |
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The sidewalks practically melted |
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The streets in Moscow were |
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All around the city underground |
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The "refusniks" would jokingly |
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Applying for emigration was |
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One might never get permission |
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"a refusnik" with your career |
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Still I wasn't afraid. Somehow I |
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Our committee reviewed your |
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to the country of Israel and |
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On what grounds? |
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On the grounds that you were |
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But the Institute where I worked |
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You cannot know that. |
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Our committee only can know |
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I suggest you find some other |
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You may return to us in not less |
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What will happen if I find work |
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you again decide that it is |
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Then you will again be refused. |
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The woman who works for me has all |
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She shot it herself, so there won't |
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Let's go right now to the |
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In 15 minutes we are expected to |
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Then you'll come to my place tomorrow |
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Ladies and gentlemen! We have a |
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For those of you who don't know, |
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had to leave us during the years |
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And he is the first of |
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It is Sasha Greenberg! |
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This is especially difficult for |
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as you all know Greenberg is my |
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But treason is treason. |
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Therefore, we'll all have to |
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I confess I should have |
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I should have recognized |
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I only hope never to repeat this |
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We are proud of Sasha's success |
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his achievements are ours, for |
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All the more joyous this day, |
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Sasha, come over to my house! |
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You can't refuse, I've already |
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Does anyone else want to say |
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Comrades, comrades, what is |
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Greenberg wants to emigrate to |
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and professor Gross can find |
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Of course, we all know that |
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Our nation fed him, nourished |
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and now he wants to emigrate to |
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to give his knowledge to our |
00:31:59 |
to the enemies of the all |
00:32:03 |
Comrades, I think we should |
00:32:08 |
Greenberg's place is not Israel, |
00:32:12 |
What do you think about that? |
00:32:19 |
You, Tolik Gurov! |
00:32:24 |
Come up here! |
00:32:32 |
This is true. Sasha was my |
00:32:40 |
Who could have known? |
00:32:47 |
I will try to not have friends |
00:33:11 |
This is better, with the water. |
00:33:15 |
You're not mad at me, are you? |
00:33:16 |
He just left me no choice. |
00:33:18 |
It doesn't matter what I say. |
00:33:23 |
I'm the one who has to stay |
00:33:25 |
Maybe I should leave too? |
00:33:27 |
Just because Galileo publicly |
00:33:31 |
the Earth did not stop orbiting |
00:33:34 |
It is all, like Hamlet said, |
00:33:50 |
Thanks. |
00:33:51 |
For what? |
00:33:53 |
For being the only one to not |
00:33:55 |
Was I? |
00:33:57 |
Yes. |
00:33:59 |
It's alright. It's just a |
00:34:03 |
Yeah. Right. |
00:34:06 |
Want to come over? I have some |
00:34:10 |
No shame! No shame at all! |
00:34:14 |
Now they're bringing men to the rooms... |
00:34:23 |
Don't pay any attention. |
00:34:31 |
You know, I was in love with you |
00:34:34 |
I suspected it. |
00:34:38 |
Everybody was in love with you. |
00:34:39 |
Swarms of Casanovas... |
00:34:44 |
Shall we drink to your |
00:34:56 |
It's a little strange - |
00:34:59 |
Yeah, I'm too picky. |
00:35:06 |
I guess I'm too picky also. |
00:35:08 |
To the picky ones. |
00:35:13 |
You may stay here, if you want. |
00:35:23 |
It's hard to believe you're |
00:35:26 |
We'll never see each other |
00:35:33 |
Never-never-never-never |
00:35:37 |
It's a strange word...Never. |
00:35:41 |
It's not definite yet. |
00:35:45 |
I'm the first PhD physicist to |
00:35:53 |
Oh, you will leave. |
00:35:59 |
You'll be happy there... |
00:36:01 |
Just don't try being noble right |
00:36:08 |
My life's already planned out. |
00:36:15 |
I can't serve astrophysics and a |
00:36:23 |
I would like to have a baby, |
00:36:27 |
and I think sometimes: what if I |
00:36:35 |
I would hide it from the father, |
00:36:39 |
It's easier to care for a child without |
00:36:44 |
So, there is theory in your |
00:36:46 |
Well, then, in mine too. |
00:36:50 |
I have thought of leaving many |
00:36:54 |
I just couldn't figure out how. |
00:36:56 |
I've thought of defecting even. |
00:36:59 |
What would I do with a wife? |
00:37:01 |
It's just pure luck for me that |
00:37:20 |
What? Oh, are you afraid I'm going |
00:37:28 |
Don't worry. Not tonight. |
00:37:57 |
Do you like her? |
00:38:00 |
She is my daughter. |
00:38:03 |
You see, I did it. |
00:38:05 |
I had a child and I raised her |
00:38:10 |
I had this certain plan. |
00:38:15 |
Doesn't her father know he has a |
00:38:17 |
I didn't tell him. |
00:38:18 |
And her? |
00:38:19 |
I didn't tell her either. |
00:38:22 |
Once, when she got especially |
00:38:28 |
She wanted to know why. I said, |
00:38:31 |
She got stuck on the idea, she tells |
00:38:37 |
she speaks to everybody in |
00:38:40 |
So it goes. |
00:38:42 |
Is he actually American? |
00:38:44 |
In a way. |
00:38:46 |
Let me introduce you two. |
00:38:48 |
Sasha, Jill, this is Elena. |
00:38:54 |
Elena, as you know, Sasha is my |
00:38:58 |
Mom has told me lots about you. |
00:39:01 |
You're sort of a legend around |
00:39:03 |
To my surprise, I am discovering |
00:39:05 |
As well as some other things. |
00:39:10 |
Why did you name her Elena? |
00:39:13 |
Why not? |
00:39:16 |
I see you've met my namesake. |
00:39:18 |
We've become quite good friends |
00:39:22 |
I don't have any friends! |
00:39:24 |
I'm sorry. |
00:39:30 |
I really don't have any friends. |
00:39:35 |
Why don't you have friends, |
00:39:36 |
Do you? |
00:39:38 |
As a matter of fact, yes. |
00:39:40 |
That's just because you're |
00:39:42 |
Around here, we don't do that. |
00:39:44 |
What nonsense you're saying! |
00:39:46 |
Don't you know how many friends |
00:39:48 |
I know. That's why I said it. |
00:39:57 |
She's so difficult lately. |
00:39:59 |
Adolescence, you know. |
00:40:00 |
Comrades! Comrades! Ladies and |
00:40:03 |
Sasha Greenberg is not the only |
00:40:10 |
There is another person, well |
00:40:16 |
whom we haven't seen in just as |
00:40:18 |
Friends, let us drink to the |
00:40:25 |
# |
00:41:03 |
Excuse me, are you... Helen |
00:41:06 |
Yes, yes I am. |
00:41:09 |
You called... Asked me to |
00:41:14 |
I am Sasha Greenberg. |
00:41:15 |
Of course! Of course! You're |
00:41:19 |
Famous? How? |
00:41:20 |
The first physicist refusenik. |
00:41:22 |
The freedom fighter. |
00:41:24 |
So, you came over from America |
00:41:27 |
Citizen, you are violating laws |
00:41:31 |
Let's see your pass! |
00:41:33 |
You've been fired from this |
00:41:38 |
You should've turned in your |
00:41:41 |
I'll be leaving in a few |
00:41:43 |
What few minutes? |
00:41:44 |
Chromov, Come on, take his other |
00:41:49 |
Sasha! |
00:41:50 |
This is a serious offense. |
00:41:52 |
This is a scientific facility, we |
00:41:56 |
Lucky for us, a comrade called |
00:41:59 |
Otherwise, we'd be taking the |
00:42:02 |
Is that the spy? |
00:42:06 |
Sasha, I will be behind you. |
00:42:10 |
You're Greenberg? |
00:42:14 |
I am. |
00:42:15 |
You can go. |
00:42:16 |
Why was I detained? |
00:42:18 |
Why don't you ask your buddies |
00:42:21 |
Suddenly, there's this racket - |
00:42:24 |
The director of the institute |
00:42:26 |
So go on, get out of here before |
00:42:30 |
Oh, thank God, it's you! |
00:42:31 |
I called the embassy, I called |
00:42:34 |
I guess Gross he must have got |
00:42:37 |
Did you know this could happen |
00:42:40 |
I didn't entirely discount the |
00:42:43 |
So why did you come? |
00:42:45 |
You asked me to. |
00:42:48 |
Until the end of last century, |
00:42:52 |
All green and white, yellow and |
00:42:57 |
Hills were covered with gardens, |
00:43:01 |
and palaces with green roofs |
00:43:04 |
golden domes crowning churches |
00:43:08 |
So, you were saying that your |
00:43:14 |
Now, if gamma is less than one |
00:43:19 |
you must increase the mass by a |
00:43:21 |
Right. But gamma is more than |
00:43:29 |
Can we see your house from here? |
00:43:32 |
My house? Ah, it's over there. |
00:43:35 |
You see the yellow high-rises |
00:43:41 |
Let's go there? |
00:43:46 |
God, I've never felt so happy. |
00:44:21 |
Happy Birthday! |
00:44:23 |
Of course... Come in, I didn't |
00:44:27 |
Didn't plan anything. |
00:44:30 |
You're not supposed to invite |
00:44:33 |
A birthday party should only be |
00:44:37 |
You think anyone remembers me |
00:44:39 |
We'll see about that. |
00:44:41 |
(door bell) |
00:44:44 |
You see! And you said no one |
00:44:48 |
Oh, Sasha! Happy birthday! |
00:44:52 |
(singing) |
00:45:01 |
Sasha, I want to make a toast! |
00:45:04 |
I'd like to talk to you in |
00:45:07 |
Right now? OK, go ahead. |
00:45:11 |
I want to make a toast! |
00:45:15 |
Where's Natasha? |
00:45:18 |
Where's Helen of Troy? |
00:45:20 |
I'll get them. |
00:45:21 |
I want to tell you I'm in love |
00:45:23 |
I want everything to be in the |
00:45:28 |
Wonderful! Why tell me, of all |
00:45:33 |
Because I thought you were |
00:45:36 |
Sasha and I are old friends. |
00:45:38 |
If you mean sex, then, yes, we |
00:45:45 |
You have my permission. |
00:45:47 |
Even if I were in love with him, |
00:45:52 |
I would still tell you to go |
00:45:55 |
Why? |
00:45:55 |
Because Sasha's destiny is not |
00:45:58 |
There is nothing I can do to |
00:46:01 |
What about you? |
00:46:04 |
No, It's very hard for a woman to |
00:46:11 |
I've achieved a lot here and |
00:46:19 |
And anyway where would I go? |
00:46:23 |
Where the hell did everybody go? |
00:46:28 |
(singing) |
00:46:57 |
Your application is accepted. |
00:46:59 |
The trial period is three |
00:47:02 |
Come back in three months and we |
00:47:05 |
Three months! What do you mean, |
00:47:07 |
Her visa expires in two weeks! |
00:47:10 |
Couldn't you speed it up, in |
00:47:13 |
Young man, we do not make |
00:47:18 |
The law is the same for |
00:47:22 |
I know their tricks. You won't |
00:47:24 |
and we'll never be able to get |
00:47:26 |
Fine! I'll contact the Senate. |
00:47:28 |
The American Senate? What does |
00:47:30 |
Everything. |
00:47:40 |
Sasha, this is Rabbi Katz, this |
00:47:44 |
Shalom. |
00:47:44 |
Shalom. |
00:47:46 |
The rabbi has kindly agreed to |
00:47:52 |
But you're not even Jewish! |
00:47:54 |
Now I am. I converted. |
00:47:56 |
Soviet authorities will not |
00:48:00 |
But the American Senate will, and |
00:48:03 |
And then we'll see what your |
00:48:09 |
(MUSIC) |
00:48:49 |
It was my mother's... |
00:48:55 |
Who knows what's hidden inside |
00:49:19 |
Who is this? |
00:49:21 |
That was my father. He was killed |
00:49:25 |
Pictures of military uniforms are |
00:49:28 |
But it's from World War Two! |
00:49:30 |
I don't make up the laws. You can |
00:49:36 |
Go ahead. Cut. |
00:49:51 |
Do you think you've outwitted |
00:49:55 |
I wasn't thinking that at all, |
00:49:58 |
On the contrary, you were right |
00:50:01 |
one does not return from |
00:50:05 |
I have merely made another pass |
00:50:15 |
How long's it been since you've |
00:50:17 |
Seventeen years. |
00:50:19 |
I'll bet you can't wait to see |
00:50:21 |
I can't. |
00:50:23 |
They're gonna tell you how great |
00:50:27 |
Don't believe them. Our lives |
00:50:39 |
You're a guest? Go right ahead, |
00:50:46 |
Go on, your friends are waiting. |
00:50:50 |
Your labyrinth has changed so much, |
00:50:58 |
I have a persistent feeling I'm |
00:51:02 |
Reality can get a little hazy |
00:51:07 |
That's why I drink, partially, |
00:51:11 |
SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
00:51:13 |
Obviously this word still had |
00:51:17 |
As for me, all such words as |
00:51:21 |
time, place lost their sense a |
00:51:26 |
It's amazing. Can I really live here? |
00:51:31 |
I'm really your wife, and I have |
00:51:34 |
We're going to have a baby! |
00:51:40 |
She found him? Thank God. |
00:51:43 |
What happened? |
00:51:44 |
Brenda lost the baby! |
00:51:47 |
Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. |
00:51:54 |
I'm going to have to quit my |
00:51:58 |
If that's what you really want. |
00:52:00 |
I don't think I have a choice. |
00:52:03 |
I, I used to get so angry |
00:52:06 |
women they only go to college to |
00:52:10 |
but, maybe, they were right. |
00:52:15 |
Daddy has to stay home and work |
00:52:20 |
We'll play later. I have to work |
00:52:24 |
Anything? |
00:52:25 |
No, it's useless. There are no |
00:52:28 |
How about universities? They are |
00:52:31 |
Not all universities have the |
00:52:36 |
So, now what? |
00:52:39 |
I don't know. |
00:52:43 |
He keeps calling back. |
00:52:47 |
I remember once you preferred |
00:52:51 |
to working for the military. |
00:52:54 |
Yes, I had somewhere to emigrate |
00:52:57 |
Oh well, if it's a chance for |
00:53:06 |
By the way, he is paying triple |
00:53:37 |
I'm, I'm so tired. So much work |
00:53:50 |
God, if you only knew how much I |
00:53:53 |
I hate your face, I hate your |
00:53:57 |
But most of all I hate that |
00:54:01 |
It sucked away every single drop |
00:54:04 |
You go sacrifice somebody else's |
00:54:07 |
Just go! Worship it. |
00:54:08 |
Go, go! Fuck it for all I care! |
00:54:12 |
I love you. You know that. |
00:54:14 |
Me?! You love me?! |
00:54:16 |
The only thing you worship is |
00:54:20 |
(PHONE RINGING) |
00:54:29 |
Yes? Yes, this is... Sasha |
00:54:32 |
You called before, right? |
00:54:37 |
You're making a film about |
00:54:40 |
Your wife? |
00:54:44 |
Umm... maybe not. |
00:54:47 |
What does that mean? |
00:54:48 |
It means that I am not sure. |
00:54:50 |
I am afraid I can't give you |
00:54:54 |
So, be forewarned. |
00:54:57 |
Scientific progress is a pretty |
00:55:00 |
After Hiroshima, it is very |
00:55:05 |
It may have been a sixties' |
00:55:08 |
But you didn't give up? |
00:55:10 |
I know that and smoking and |
00:55:15 |
Besides, I've already mentioned |
00:55:20 |
Science has done a lot of good |
00:55:23 |
So, if I understand you |
00:55:26 |
that a science is much like the |
00:55:29 |
a definite "maybe". Agree? |
00:55:31 |
Agree. What're you. Would you |
00:55:39 |
Maybe... There is a certain ambiguity |
00:55:48 |
And you do not approve? |
00:55:51 |
Strangely enough, I kind of like |
00:56:01 |
The Universe is boundless. |
00:56:04 |
Imagine that on a small planet |
00:56:10 |
one of billions of such stars in |
00:56:15 |
a group of microscopic creatures |
00:56:20 |
the entire extent of the |
00:56:24 |
Let us drink to ourselves, |
00:56:29 |
the most daring representatives |
00:56:33 |
What's there to be proud of? |
00:56:38 |
The only species with the bent |
00:56:41 |
taking the rest of the planet |
00:56:43 |
I know, I know. Our atmosphere |
00:56:48 |
Our waters are poisoned. |
00:56:50 |
Entire species of animals are |
00:56:53 |
We are living on a bomb with the |
00:56:58 |
And all human family values and |
00:57:04 |
For real, do you have a wife or |
00:57:09 |
In the past two years, she's |
00:57:12 |
And why? |
00:57:14 |
Why did she come back? We have |
00:57:21 |
and, I guess, she does love me. |
00:57:25 |
Why'd she leave? |
00:57:28 |
She says I ruined her career. |
00:57:31 |
She was a scientist before I... |
00:57:38 |
You're a male chauvinist?! |
00:57:41 |
Bullshit! I hate those labels! |
00:57:43 |
For the past two years she's |
00:57:47 |
And before that she's always |
00:57:49 |
I've yet to see a married woman |
00:57:53 |
You two should get along |
00:57:56 |
My God! You're so beautiful! |
00:58:04 |
Are you Helen? |
00:58:08 |
In eighteen years, he's never once |
00:58:13 |
What're you talking about? |
00:58:16 |
Did you thank me every time I |
00:58:20 |
No, it's not. You earned your |
00:58:24 |
What did I get for my work?! |
00:58:26 |
You've done what women have done |
00:58:28 |
You're such a Male chauvinist! |
00:58:32 |
I never asked for your |
00:58:34 |
You wanted me to give up my |
00:58:36 |
To compromise all my principles |
00:58:41 |
Nobody, absolutely nobody forced |
00:58:46 |
Besides, if you want to talk |
00:58:50 |
I'm an astrophysicist Sasha. |
00:58:52 |
So be an astrophysicist! |
00:58:57 |
Professor, you know how much |
00:59:03 |
but there is something I wish to |
00:59:07 |
It is Sasha? |
00:59:09 |
The very one. |
00:59:12 |
What can I do? |
00:59:15 |
Thank you, professor. |
00:59:18 |
It's so stuffy in here. Let's go |
00:59:25 |
Come on, let's go. |
00:59:27 |
We'll be back in a minute. |
00:59:29 |
It's right around here. |
00:59:31 |
SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
00:59:37 |
and at the same time completely |
00:59:39 |
We've been driving for half an |
00:59:42 |
A whole half hour without |
00:59:45 |
It might actually be good for |
00:59:48 |
SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
00:59:52 |
I am struggling with, instead |
00:59:57 |
Will I manage to find answers to |
01:00:01 |
And this is where we live these |
01:00:07 |
When my daughter was born, I |
01:00:13 |
It took three years. You remember |
01:00:18 |
what a rough time I had with |
01:00:22 |
Now we have two rooms. It's |
01:00:27 |
Is Elena coming right back? |
01:00:30 |
Uh uh. She is spending the |
01:00:33 |
There's your vodka. |
01:00:37 |
Is she my daughter? |
01:00:39 |
What difference does it make? |
01:00:43 |
What do you mean, what |
01:00:47 |
Don't bother asking, I'm not |
01:00:55 |
Let's drink to the mysteries in |
01:01:17 |
Natasha, wait... |
01:01:19 |
Don't say a word, Sasha. I am |
01:01:42 |
Look at me. Look at me. |
01:01:44 |
My body is just as good as |
01:01:48 |
Aren't you happy I brought you |
01:01:50 |
Tomorrow we'll dance the tango |
01:01:54 |
You won't believe this. All the |
01:02:00 |
Nothing has changed at their |
01:02:03 |
Do you remember the old church |
01:02:06 |
The one that used to be all |
01:02:11 |
We used to sneak in at night? |
01:02:14 |
It's being restored. |
01:02:21 |
We'll go there, |
01:02:25 |
Mom! It's me. |
01:02:29 |
SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
01:02:35 |
Everyone hardly changed at all, |
01:02:38 |
as if out of sea foam - there |
01:02:41 |
There was something mystical |
01:02:44 |
Don't come in here. |
01:02:46 |
I know you're not. |
01:02:50 |
Why did you come back then? |
01:02:52 |
It's my house too. |
01:02:55 |
It is. Now go to sleep, darling. |
01:02:57 |
SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
01:03:01 |
and, look, here she was. |
01:03:04 |
Now she will move furniture all |
01:03:08 |
SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
01:03:11 |
was definitely changing my |
01:03:15 |
Do you know how it is in science |
01:03:17 |
when you return from a trip to |
01:03:20 |
to find out you accidentally |
01:03:23 |
Both your past and your present |
01:03:26 |
They may seem the same at first |
01:03:28 |
but you look closer and no - |
01:03:32 |
So, you inevitably start |
01:03:39 |
We cannot be the same, life |
01:03:52 |
Good morning. |
01:03:55 |
Good morning. Although I am not |
01:03:59 |
I've wanted to talk to you. |
01:04:02 |
Sure, let's. After all, what |
01:04:08 |
Oh, sure. In America, you can |
01:04:16 |
at 5 in the morning, at 7 |
01:04:18 |
Yes. |
01:04:19 |
I hate it! I hate all of this. |
01:04:24 |
Because there aren't any cafes? |
01:04:26 |
Because there isn't any life. |
01:04:33 |
Do you think you're my father? |
01:04:37 |
I don't really know. |
01:04:44 |
I don't know. But I don't think |
01:04:48 |
According to my papers, I am |
01:04:51 |
Which means that you left at least |
01:04:56 |
Of course, she could've forged |
01:04:58 |
Who? |
01:05:00 |
My mother. She can do anything. |
01:05:04 |
You're so harsh. |
01:05:07 |
I hate her. |
01:05:14 |
Well, obviously our perspectives |
01:05:18 |
Want to know what I think of |
01:05:21 |
Yeah. |
01:05:25 |
She's a lovely, talented woman. |
01:05:28 |
A hard worker. Alone, she |
01:05:33 |
but to raise you as well. |
01:05:37 |
Through all this she's retained |
01:05:41 |
You call her a liar, but I'd |
01:05:46 |
Because she lies? Yeah? |
01:05:49 |
We were talking about tomorrow. |
01:05:53 |
She was dreaming of showing me |
01:05:56 |
I'm sure. She takes all her men |
01:06:01 |
She's been there a thousand |
01:06:03 |
You are cruel. |
01:06:05 |
You're cruel! Don't you see? |
01:06:08 |
If you loved her even a little |
01:06:13 |
I don't think I understand. |
01:06:15 |
And what do you do understand? |
01:06:18 |
I want to tell you about myself. |
01:06:24 |
I grew up under the portrait of |
01:06:29 |
He was a hero, they said. |
01:06:32 |
A man who wasn't afraid to apply |
01:06:37 |
But mostly, he was going to |
01:06:42 |
A genius. The new Einstein. |
01:06:47 |
Kiss me. |
01:06:53 |
Not like that. For real. |
01:07:04 |
Elena. |
01:07:06 |
You're supposed to know how to |
01:07:12 |
This is my cab. Yours is the |
01:07:37 |
Hi. |
01:07:42 |
Morning. |
01:07:43 |
Were you waiting for me? |
01:07:44 |
Yeah. You want to get some |
01:07:50 |
It's already morning. |
01:07:53 |
What do you want most of all |
01:07:59 |
Seriously? |
01:08:01 |
Absolutely. |
01:08:03 |
An interesting question. |
01:08:05 |
There's no rush. |
01:08:08 |
I'd really like to see the house |
01:08:12 |
Something has definitely changed |
01:08:19 |
I can't believe this. |
01:08:22 |
To think that, in this yard, I |
01:08:29 |
I recognize it, but, at the same |
01:08:32 |
I have this strange feeling I'm going |
01:08:37 |
You know, I can't find our |
01:08:43 |
It's as if they disappeared. |
01:08:45 |
Maybe I am sleeping? |
01:08:50 |
The window has been bricked up. The |
01:08:55 |
They were going to tear it down, |
01:09:03 |
Stop, kike! |
01:09:05 |
Stop. kike! Stop kike! |
01:09:07 |
We've got you now! |
01:09:08 |
Ugh! I smell garlic! |
01:09:10 |
Ugh! The kike stinks of garlic! |
01:09:14 |
You're Sasha Greenberg, aren't |
01:09:16 |
Yes, I am. |
01:09:18 |
I'm Volodya Listov. |
01:09:20 |
We've got you now, you dirty |
01:09:22 |
On your knees, kike! |
01:09:25 |
Do you recognize me? |
01:09:28 |
We haven't seen each other in, |
01:09:34 |
I recognized you, though. |
01:09:37 |
We used to be friends when we |
01:09:39 |
When we were little, we used to fight, |
01:09:43 |
Repeat after me: |
01:09:45 |
I am a dirty kike... |
01:09:48 |
"I stink." |
01:09:49 |
I stink. |
01:09:51 |
"I am gross." |
01:09:52 |
I am gross. |
01:09:54 |
"I am begging you to beat the |
01:09:57 |
I am begging you to beat me. |
01:10:00 |
Then we used to share a desk at |
01:10:02 |
I, a young pioneer of the Union |
01:10:10 |
here, before my comrades, do |
01:10:22 |
and to fight for Victory of |
01:10:28 |
To fight for the ideals of Lenin |
01:10:34 |
Always prepared! |
01:10:51 |
You're lucky you ran into me. I am |
01:10:57 |
Everyone's been moved out to the |
01:11:02 |
The building's not the same, |
01:11:05 |
All the walls have been moved |
01:11:07 |
I can't even show you your old apartment |
01:11:11 |
I am the only one who could get |
01:11:15 |
And that, um, only because it was mainly |
01:11:21 |
You must be pretty powerful to |
01:11:25 |
Don't you know? I'm a writer. |
01:11:28 |
Pretty famous too, in a way. |
01:11:31 |
I live in America. I'm in |
01:11:35 |
that's a science about how the |
01:11:38 |
Interesting stuff! Do you want |
01:11:43 |
We can talk, have a drink over |
01:11:46 |
I really don't think so. |
01:11:49 |
We have to meet someone in a |
01:11:50 |
Krymsky. At his church. Then |
01:11:54 |
Krymsky, the millionaire? I know |
01:12:02 |
Morning. Hello. |
01:12:09 |
(BAND PLAYING) |
01:12:13 |
Ah, my worst enemy! |
01:12:17 |
What brings you here? |
01:12:19 |
I've long been curious to see what |
01:12:23 |
Not at all! Welcome, welcome. |
01:12:25 |
Any tongue-lashing by your magazine |
01:12:30 |
(BAND PLAYING) |
01:12:36 |
You see, he calls me his worst enemy! |
01:12:40 |
Why, of course, I am. |
01:12:42 |
Look! He's turned God's house into |
01:12:47 |
You people want me to be happy |
01:12:50 |
Would you prefer if it were |
01:12:53 |
I didn't turn it into a |
01:12:55 |
I would prefer it to still be a |
01:12:58 |
Him and his lot, you wait, |
01:13:03 |
Well, if you want, I am a |
01:13:06 |
Now they're poisoning our youth |
01:13:10 |
By "they" you mean Jews, of |
01:13:14 |
You see, what did I tell you? |
01:13:18 |
You know, there are Jews and |
01:13:22 |
(BAND PLAYING) |
01:13:26 |
I have friends who are Jews. |
01:13:28 |
A profiteer like him, who's |
01:13:31 |
why, he's just as revolting to |
01:13:34 |
Anyway, nobody can deny that |
01:13:39 |
in this new "private sector". Just |
01:13:43 |
And just who do you think made |
01:13:47 |
Jews are so overly sensitive to |
01:13:51 |
At Nuremberg they tried such |
01:13:59 |
SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
01:14:04 |
was drastically different from |
01:14:07 |
In the churches boot warehouses |
01:14:12 |
and Krimsky was running business |
01:14:16 |
were punishable by years of |
01:14:20 |
So, what does your company |
01:14:23 |
Are you a scientific research facility, |
01:14:27 |
It's like a daisy flower |
01:14:31 |
from which sprout separate |
01:14:33 |
Our major petal I'll be showing |
01:14:36 |
Site seeing tours of Moscow on |
01:14:40 |
"Troikas"? What's "troikas"? |
01:14:42 |
They're carriages drawn by three |
01:14:44 |
Very Russian. |
01:14:48 |
They're waiting for us in the editing |
01:14:52 |
SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
01:14:54 |
that not long ago was banned |
01:14:58 |
So why didn't all these changes |
01:15:01 |
This is just raw footage. |
01:15:05 |
I understand you're gathering footage |
01:15:09 |
I'll comment as we go along. |
01:15:12 |
Every year Soviet factories release |
01:15:18 |
In sixty-eight different |
01:15:21 |
the air pollution level exceeds |
01:15:25 |
Twenty percent of Soviet citizens |
01:15:31 |
and another thirty five to forty |
01:15:36 |
This is about 175 million people |
01:15:43 |
The Black sea is overloaded with |
01:15:47 |
Every year they dump 30 tons of |
01:15:50 |
not to mention about dozens of |
01:15:55 |
Two and a half million dolphins |
01:15:58 |
are now survived by only eighty |
01:16:01 |
The great Russian Volga river, it |
01:16:07 |
the allowed con-centration of |
01:16:10 |
Most of Soviet rivers are in |
01:16:15 |
A farmer passing by threw his |
01:16:19 |
Is anyone tired? Should I stop? |
01:16:26 |
These things aren't only |
01:16:28 |
I'd like to show you some of my |
01:16:30 |
SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
01:16:32 |
Shakespeare said it half a |
01:16:34 |
and we are happily repeating it |
01:16:38 |
and keep switching it out of |
01:16:41 |
How long can it go on? |
01:16:43 |
The planet life was healthier in |
01:16:48 |
And family life is definitely |
01:16:53 |
I hate you. I hate your face, I hate |
01:16:57 |
SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
01:16:59 |
Sasha, marry me! |
01:17:01 |
You know... I love Helen. |
01:17:05 |
It's crazy! You told me you've |
01:17:15 |
And I'll say it again. |
01:17:16 |
You said you couldn't live with |
01:17:19 |
I did. |
01:17:20 |
And she left you? |
01:17:22 |
She did. |
01:17:23 |
Then marry me... I'll stop |
01:17:26 |
I can be a really good wife. |
01:17:32 |
No. |
01:17:34 |
Why? |
01:17:36 |
Because this is like a deja-vu! |
01:17:39 |
And the recurrence of this |
01:17:43 |
Helen and I have been through |
01:17:46 |
I don't want that for you. |
01:17:47 |
But I won't be like that. |
01:17:49 |
If you marry me you will. |
01:17:52 |
Why? |
01:17:54 |
Because the world's gone crazy! |
01:17:57 |
Because the traditional family |
01:18:02 |
Everyone - women, nations, |
01:18:09 |
but, sometimes, the price of |
01:18:19 |
Before I deliver my paper, I |
01:18:24 |
The world is changing at an |
01:18:28 |
When I was younger, scientists were |
01:18:34 |
The 19th century philosophy still |
01:18:39 |
would all magically disappear if we |
01:18:45 |
The Biblical parable of Adam and |
01:18:51 |
eating forbidden fruit from the |
01:18:57 |
The very thought that knowledge |
01:19:05 |
The curiosity that is the essential |
01:19:11 |
was regarded as a moral virtue. |
01:19:15 |
It was referred to as "sacred |
01:19:22 |
My own professor, Doctor |
01:19:26 |
would do everything in his power to |
01:19:30 |
I do the same thing now, with my |
01:19:34 |
It is the only moral basis of |
01:19:36 |
the only thing that separates us from |
01:19:40 |
This is correct. Animals do not |
01:19:44 |
Perhaps that is why animals haven't |
01:19:52 |
and humans, are even now, |
01:19:57 |
My friends, tell me honestly, |
01:20:09 |
God's punishment, an implement |
01:20:16 |
something akin to a virus or a |
01:20:22 |
Demagogy! |
01:20:23 |
Do not fear, Master, I am not |
01:20:38 |
I felt I had to say these words. |
01:20:45 |
(CLAPPING) |
01:20:50 |
Ah, let's now get down to |
01:21:00 |
How close is your model to a final |
01:21:03 |
I feel it's very close. |
01:21:05 |
Excuse me, I think I missed |
01:21:07 |
does your theory offer an |
01:21:10 |
I need a drink. |
01:21:12 |
You need some sleep. |
01:21:13 |
Do you really think I could |
01:21:16 |
You should try. Call room |
01:21:18 |
But you probably won't get it |
01:21:20 |
Was I really that bad? |
01:21:22 |
Everyone seemed to like it. |
01:21:25 |
I feel horrible. |
01:21:26 |
Get some sleep, Sasha. |
01:21:29 |
If I don't have a drink I'm |
01:21:32 |
I heard your parents are giving |
01:21:35 |
Um um. Yes, they are. |
01:21:37 |
Are you expecting a lot of |
01:21:40 |
A dozen or so... |
01:21:42 |
We're going to have a trial run |
01:21:47 |
and I would like to invite your |
01:21:50 |
Sasha and Jill are coming. |
01:21:52 |
Thank you. |
01:21:54 |
I'd also like to ask if you |
01:21:57 |
Eh. |
01:21:59 |
Thanks. Yeah. |
01:22:01 |
It was awful. Just awful. |
01:22:03 |
Sasha, you're a hero here and |
01:22:07 |
I guess you had to think of |
01:22:11 |
Now, why did you say that? |
01:22:16 |
Weren't you trying to help, not |
01:22:19 |
Cut it out! I am not your |
01:22:23 |
Leave, then. |
01:22:25 |
Fine! |
01:22:26 |
(KNOCK ON DOOR) |
01:22:28 |
Come in! |
01:22:29 |
What happened to you? The |
01:22:32 |
(SINGING) |
01:23:25 |
Stop here for one second. I see |
01:23:46 |
What, are all these grandmothers |
01:23:51 |
They get forty rubles a month |
01:23:55 |
If you remember, we paid thirty |
01:23:59 |
Tonight, each of them will sell |
01:24:05 |
It's called survival. |
01:24:09 |
Forty rubles! That's enough for |
01:24:13 |
With no drinks. But why would |
01:24:19 |
SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
01:24:23 |
We are worrying about having too |
01:24:32 |
and the old ladies are fighting |
01:24:35 |
that can't buy one diner in a |
01:24:38 |
Where are we headed? |
01:24:48 |
More sanctions they are imposing |
01:24:51 |
A month ago, they permitted |
01:24:55 |
and now they're forbidding it |
01:24:57 |
What are people supposed to do |
01:25:01 |
How's anyone going to make any |
01:25:04 |
That's a weak government for |
01:25:06 |
Those helpless liberals don't know |
01:25:09 |
If it were up to me, I'd shut that |
01:25:14 |
It's a joke! A fur hat costs |
01:25:18 |
Who's going to buy it? Only |
01:25:21 |
So! In a government store you'd |
01:25:24 |
So, who needs hats anyway! |
01:25:26 |
First it was the party bigwigs |
01:25:30 |
It's never the plain folk. |
01:25:33 |
I don't care if I'm being |
01:25:37 |
We need justice, equality. |
01:25:40 |
There! The true voice of Russia! |
01:25:42 |
Wait a minute! If you don't let |
01:25:47 |
Better without hats than without |
01:25:50 |
Where did you get that? |
01:25:52 |
We'll spare no expense when it |
01:25:56 |
You bought it at a private |
01:25:59 |
So let them grow pigs! |
01:26:02 |
What prices?! |
01:26:04 |
If they don't survive, you'll |
01:26:09 |
During Stalin you could get |
01:26:12 |
During Stalin twenty million |
01:26:16 |
And if you were ten minutes late |
01:26:20 |
At least there was order. |
01:26:22 |
You see! I rest my case! |
01:26:24 |
Chaos! Disaster! We're headed |
01:26:28 |
I must say, I don't envy Gorbachev. |
01:26:32 |
You've budged it enough. |
01:26:37 |
What's that supposed to mean? |
01:26:38 |
We're going to set things |
01:26:41 |
And who died and left you boss? |
01:26:43 |
We don't need your blessing. As |
01:26:49 |
it will fall into our hands, |
01:27:02 |
May I have this dance? |
01:27:07 |
I can't dance to this. |
01:27:09 |
Oh, it's simple. Come, come, |
01:27:18 |
What is the reason for all this |
01:27:24 |
It's all so boring. All these |
01:27:33 |
You can leave if you're bored. |
01:27:36 |
Kids my own age! What a joke! |
01:27:39 |
Professor, you're a wise man. |
01:27:48 |
Why is everybody so mean? |
01:27:51 |
Whenever I tell someone I want |
01:27:58 |
Like they want to leave you |
01:28:02 |
In Chekhov's play, the three sisters |
01:28:09 |
they keep saying "we want to go |
01:28:11 |
and in the whole play there's no |
01:28:19 |
Happiness is not found in Moscow |
01:28:24 |
You just need time to find it. |
01:28:26 |
Have you? |
01:28:29 |
I have. |
01:28:31 |
Want to go see the old church? |
01:28:39 |
What's the matter? |
01:28:41 |
My mother's interest in |
01:28:46 |
She has just invited Greenberg |
01:28:51 |
A church! What church? |
01:28:54 |
That's right! There's a famous |
01:28:58 |
Let's all go see it together! |
01:29:01 |
SASHA (VOICE-OVER): |
01:29:06 |
but I still remember it as it |
01:29:12 |
You seem troubled, my man. What |
01:29:18 |
Master, life has somehow lost |
01:29:22 |
It's called a mid-life crisis. |
01:29:29 |
It's a troubled time. Difficult. |
01:29:31 |
But It will pass. You'll get |
01:29:34 |
I feel like my mid-life crisis |
01:29:37 |
to America, to the whole human |
01:29:40 |
And if you believe the theory that |
01:29:44 |
than, it's also happening to the |
01:29:48 |
I don't understand this world, |
01:29:52 |
There's a story, of a woman who |
01:29:59 |
because she did not understand |
01:30:02 |
He answered, that he didn't |
01:30:08 |
Here it is called "perestroika" |
01:30:12 |
Although some people seem to think |
01:30:16 |
If you look at the film Jill is |
01:30:21 |
You tell me it's only a phase, |
01:30:25 |
but I feel like my life is |
01:30:28 |
Adolescents feel that way. Some |
01:30:35 |
But there are few of those. |
01:30:40 |
Look at Elena. How she suffers! |
01:30:46 |
And it's not so bad. It's, in |
01:30:51 |
To you, for example. |
01:30:53 |
Master, I am old enough to be |
01:30:55 |
So what? |
01:30:57 |
Why do you tell me all this? |
01:31:00 |
To ease your conscience about |
01:31:04 |
It's not so easy! It's quite possible, |
01:31:09 |
No, she is not. |
01:31:12 |
What makes you so sure? |
01:31:14 |
Because she is my daughter. |
01:31:19 |
My loss, your luck. |
01:31:36 |
Enjoying the architecture? |
01:31:39 |
There is something interesting I |
01:31:44 |
Interested? Let's go. |
01:32:21 |
I come up here a lot. At dawn. |
01:32:33 |
You know, Professor Gross told |
01:32:42 |
I guess. |
01:32:43 |
Did you find it? |
01:32:45 |
I'm afraid not. |
01:32:46 |
Why not? |
01:32:47 |
I don't know. |
01:32:49 |
Sometimes it's like some outer |
01:32:51 |
how can I be happy when the |
01:32:58 |
Is it the people? Why they don't |
01:33:04 |
Yes. |
01:33:05 |
They don't hear. Not you, not |
01:33:11 |
Nobody listens. But we can make |
01:33:17 |
Come on! Help me! You said you |
01:33:23 |
(BELLS RINGING) |
01:33:50 |
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01:36:07 |
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