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a ''2-B-2'' lNTERTAlNMENT Studio
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Fyodor Mikhailovich
Dostoyevsky

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THE lDlOT

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Yevgeny Mironov
as Prince Muishkin

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List of actors:

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Vladimir MASHKOV

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Lidia VELEZHEVA

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Olga BUDlNA

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lnna CHURlKOVA

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Oleg BASlLASHVlLl

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Vladimir lLYlN

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Alexander LAZAREV

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Andrey SMlRNOV

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Scriptwriter and director:
Vladimir BORTKO

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Cinematographer:
Dmitry MASS

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Production Designers:

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Vladimir SVETOZAROV
Marina NlKOLAYEVA

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Music by
lgor KORNELlUK

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Producer:
Valery TODOROVSKY

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Part One

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l need to tell you,
Nastasia Philipovna,

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that my position
is absolutely intolerable.

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Naturally, l am to blame
for everything.

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But l admit: l don't feel
remorse for my conduct.

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l am a man of sensual
passions,

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with no power over myself.

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But now l wish
to marry.

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And the fate of this
most desirable social union

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is in your hands.

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ln one word, l ask you
to forgive me

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from the generosity
of your heart.

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For me, it is definitely
harder of speak of this

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than for
Afanasy lvanovich.

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l admit your right to be
the arbiter of his destiny.

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But now l speak as a father,

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who cares about the fate
of his eldest daughter.

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Her fate, and, maybe,

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the fate of both my other
daughters,

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depends on your
reply.

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What do you wish me to do?

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l was so frightened by you,
when 5 years ago

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you decided to come
to St. Petersburg,

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that l will never
feel comfortable,

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until you get married
yourself.

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This suggestion from me

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would be absurd,

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unless l note

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that a certain young
gentleman of good family,

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Gavrila Ardalionovich
lvolgin,

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to whom lvan Fyodorovich
is a benefactor,

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has long loved you
passionately

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and hopes for some response.

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lt is difficult for me
to speak of this,

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but l trust,

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you will not look upon me
with contempt,

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if l offer,

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in order to guarantee
your successful marriage,

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a gift of 75 thousand roubles.

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This sum would have been
left you in my will.

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ln a word, it is not
an indemnification.

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But, after all, there is
no reason why a man

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should not entertain
a natural desire

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to at least somehow lighten
his conscience?

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l am very happy.

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And l believe the issue
is closed.

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Yes, but could there be
a snake hidden in the flowers?

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By the way, is it true,
lvan Fyodorovich,

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that you have just bought
a necklace on Nevsky

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at an incredible price?

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Absolute nonsense,
Afanasy lvanovich.

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What absolute nonsense!

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Thank God
for that.

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Believe me, lvan Fyodorovich,
before you stands a man

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who in his time
had abandoned himself

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to passion.

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Does General lvan Fyodorovich
Epanchin live here?

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- ls this the General's house?
-Whom should l announce?

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Prince Lev Nikolayevich
Muishkin.

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From abroad.

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To see the general?
-Yes.

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- l have certain business.
- l'm not interested in that.

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All l have to do
is announce you.

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Are you actually
from abroad?

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You wanted to ask if l'm
actually Price Muishkin,

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but refrained
out of politeness.

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l assure you it's true

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and you will not have
to answer for me.

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ls to my clothes,

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my circumstances are
not very rosy.

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You've not come to beg,
have you?

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Oh, no, rest assured,

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l have a different matter.

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Wait in the waiting room,
and leave your bundle here.

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lf you don't mind, l would
rather sit here with you.

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l should prefer it
to sitting alone.

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You can't sit here,
you are a visitor.

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Wait for the secretary
in the waiting room.

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lf l have to wait long,
do you mind telling me,

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if l could have a smoke?

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l'm used to it, and haven't
had a puff for 3 hours.

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Smoke? No, you can't smoke
here.

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You must be ashamed
of the very suggestion.

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Oh, of course!

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Not in this room, of course,
l'd adjourn to another room.

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However,
just as you like.

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You know the saying:
when in Rome...

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How on earth am l
to announce a man like that?

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Leave your bundle here.

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l've already thought of that.

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lf you don't mind.

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You know, l'll leave
my cloak here, too.

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Yes, you can't go in like this.

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ln winter, your rooms are
much warmer than abroad.

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But there it's warmer outside.

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A Russian can't live in their
houses until he gets accustomed

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- Don't they heat them?
- They do.

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But the houses and stoves
are different to ours.

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-Were you away for long?
- Four years.

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But l was in just one place -
in the country.

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You must have forgotten
what life's like here.

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But l hardly knew it
before.

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And now they say so much
has changed here.

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There's a lot of talk
about courts.

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Yes, that's true enough.

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- How's the law over there?
- l don't know.

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l've heard much good
about our courts.

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And there's no capital
punishment here.

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- ls there over there?
-Yes.

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l saw an execution
in France, in Lyons.

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- Do they hang there?
- No, they cut off the heads.

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- Do they yell?
- No, it's done in an instant.

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They put a man in a frame,
and a wide knife,

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it's called a guillotine,
falls with force and weight.

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The head springs off so quickly,
in a wink of an eye.

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But the preparations
are dreadful.

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You know, they announced
the sentence to him,

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tied his hands, prepared him,
took him up the scaffold.

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lmagine what must've been
going on in his mind.

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What convulsions his spirit
must have endured.

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An outrage on the soul,
that's what it was.

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lt is said
'Thou shall not kill'

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but must he to be killed for
murder? No! lt is not right!

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l saw the sight a month ago,

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and it's before my eyes
this very moment.

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Saw it in my dreams 5 times.

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lt's a good thing
there's no pain,

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when the head flies off.

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Look! You made the remark
now, didn't you?

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Everyone says
the same thing!

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Everyone notices it!

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That's what the guillotine
is made for!

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And then a thought
came to my head.

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What if it makes things
worse?

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You know, if you
take torture.

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You suffer pain,
bodily pain.

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lt distracts you
from emotional suffering.

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You suffer bodily pain
until you die.

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Here the most terrible part
is not in the bodily pain,

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but the certain
knowledge

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that in an hour,
then in 10 minutes,

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then in half a minute,
then now, this very instant

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your soul will leave your body
and you'll no longer be a man.

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And that is certain,
that's the main thing.

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When you place your head
under that knife

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and hear the iron
grate over your head,

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that quarter of a second
is worst of all.

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lt is not my fantasy,
many people said the same.

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l feel it so deeply
that l'll tell you what l think.

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To execute a man for murder

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if an immeasurably worse
punishment, than fits the crime.

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A murder by sentence
is far more dreadful,

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than committed by a criminal.

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A man who is attacked by
robbers hopes he can escape.

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Until the very last
moment.

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ln some cases a man hopes on
even when his throat is cut.

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Or runs away, or begs
for mercy.

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But here this last hope, with
which it's much easier to die,

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is taken away, for
certain, there's the sentence.

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That certainty must be
the worst anguish.

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And there's nothing worse
than that anguish.

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Our Lord Christ spoke
of this anguish.

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No man should be treated so.

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lf you are really so anxious
for a smoke,

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it might be managed.

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See the door there,
under the stairs? But be quick.

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- Cold?
-Very.

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l never thought it would be
so cold here.

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- Been abroad?
-Yes, from Switzerland.

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My goodness!

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l was there for my health.

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What kind of malady?

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A nervous malady, a kind of
epilepsy, convulsive spasms.

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-Were you cured?
- No, they didn't cure me.

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Stumped up your money for
nothing, and we believe them.

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Gospel truth.

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Gospel truth.

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All they do is take hold
of our Russian money free.

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Oh, you're quite wrong in my
particular instance!

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l can't argue because l know
only my particular case,

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but my doctor gave me money
for my return journey

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and kept me at his own expense
for nearly 2 years.

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Was there no one else to pay
for you?

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No, Mr. Pavlicheff, who
had been supporting me there,

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died 2 year ago.

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l wrote here to Mrs. General
Epanchin,

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a distant relative of mine,
but she didn't answer.

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So eventually l came back.

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Whom have l the honor
of talking to?

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Prince Lev Nikolayevich
Muishkin.

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Prince Muishkin, Lev
Nikolayevich, l don't know.

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Of course not! There are
none left. l'm the last one.

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- Do you know the Rogojins?
- No.

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Not at all, l hardly know
anyone in Russia.

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-Are you Rogojin?
-Yes, l'm Parfen Rogojin.

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Parfen?

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The son of that very Semen
Rogojin,

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who died a month or so ago,

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and left 2 million
and a half?

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And how do you know he left
2 million and a half?

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lt's true enough
that my father died,

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and l'm returning from Pskov
with hardly a boot to my foot.

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Not a line, not a far thing
from my mother or brother.

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And now, all of a sudden,
a million roubles.

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At least.

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Five weeks ago l was just
like yourself,

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ran away from my father
to Pskov, with just one bundle.

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To my aunt's house.

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There l fell ill with fever.

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And my father went
and died without me.

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Of a stroke.

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Eternal memory to him.

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But he nearly killed me
then,

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if l hadn't run then.

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You must have angered him.

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Oh yes, l angered
him alright,

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and maybe he was right.

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Devil's doing.

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l riled my father about
Nastasia Philipovna.

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- Nastasia Philipovna?
-You know nothing about her!

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There are plenty
of Nastasia Philipovnas!

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l thought some creature like
you would hang on to me!

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And if l do know something?

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Lebedeff knows everything.

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Her name is Nastasia
Philipovna Barashkoff.

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A famous lady,

248
00:16:45,904 --> 00:16:47,428
a princess,
she is.

249
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Lives with a certain Totski
Afanasy lvanovich,

250
00:16:52,678 --> 00:16:54,839
a man of immense wealth,
high connections,

251
00:16:55,247 --> 00:16:56,976
a director of companies,

252
00:16:57,383 --> 00:17:00,614
who is a close friend of
General Epanchin.

253
00:17:02,488 --> 00:17:04,388
The devil take him!
How does he know that?

254
00:17:05,858 --> 00:17:08,884
l know everything,
all streets and corners.

255
00:17:09,895 --> 00:17:11,920
Your excellency, l was
with Lihachoff

256
00:17:12,331 --> 00:17:15,596
for 2 months after
his father died.

257
00:17:15,834 --> 00:17:18,997
He's in the debtor's prison now.
But that's not the point.

258
00:17:20,773 --> 00:17:22,968
lt was then that l met
Armanse,

259
00:17:23,375 --> 00:17:26,833
Koralia, Princess Patskaya,

260
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and Nastasia Philipovna.

261
00:17:30,449 --> 00:17:32,246
And many others.

262
00:17:35,587 --> 00:17:37,020
Nastasia Philipovna?

263
00:17:38,957 --> 00:17:43,485
- She's with Lihachoff?
- No, nothing of the sort!

264
00:17:43,829 --> 00:17:46,354
Lihacheff, with all his money,
has no chance.

265
00:17:46,598 --> 00:17:49,692
No, she's not like Armanse.
Only Totski has a chance.

266
00:17:49,935 --> 00:17:52,961
ln the evening, at the Bolshoi
or the French theatre,

267
00:17:53,372 --> 00:17:55,533
she sits
in her own box.

268
00:17:58,043 --> 00:18:00,011
Officers can't get further
than that,

269
00:18:00,412 --> 00:18:02,346
because there is nothing
more to say!

270
00:18:08,053 --> 00:18:09,077
lt's quite true.

271
00:18:13,692 --> 00:18:18,720
When my late father gave me
2 government bonds to sell,

272
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worth 5 thousand roubles each,

273
00:18:23,435 --> 00:18:24,993
told me to go and sell them,

274
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and bring 7 thousand
to the Andreyeff office.

275
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l sold the bonds,
took the money,

276
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but didn't go
to the office.

277
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Prince, when l was returning,
l crossed Nevsky.

278
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She was coming out of a shop.

279
00:18:49,895 --> 00:18:51,487
At once
l was all in a blaze.

280
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l took all of my father's
money,

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went straight to the English
shop and got a pair of earrings.

282
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They cost 400 roubles more, l
gave my name, they trusted me.

283
00:19:07,479 --> 00:19:11,575
With them l went to Zalezheff
and then to Nastasia Philipovna

284
00:19:13,485 --> 00:19:16,648
l didn't say right away
who l was.

285
00:19:20,959 --> 00:19:23,985
Zalezheff told her the earrings
were from Rogojin.

286
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Please accept in memory
of his first meeting with you.

287
00:19:30,068 --> 00:19:33,435
She took the box, opened it,
and laughed.

288
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Thank your friend Rogojin,
she said,

289
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for his kind attention

290
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She bowed and left.

291
00:19:47,986 --> 00:19:50,978
The late Semen Rogojin
would hound you to death

292
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for 10 roubles,
not to speak of 10 thousand.

293
00:19:56,094 --> 00:19:57,118
Hound you to death!

294
00:19:59,665 --> 00:20:00,825
What do you know about it?

295
00:20:04,803 --> 00:20:07,829
My father took me upstairs
and locked me up.

296
00:20:08,674 --> 00:20:09,766
And then for a whole hour...

297
00:20:12,945 --> 00:20:16,108
he swore at me. This is only
a foretaste, he told me.

298
00:20:18,817 --> 00:20:21,843
l'll come back when it's dark,
and talk to you again.

299
00:20:22,487 --> 00:20:27,117
That was when l ran away
to Pskov.

300
00:20:28,193 --> 00:20:29,217
To my aunt's house.

301
00:20:30,562 --> 00:20:32,462
l arrived with a fever,

302
00:20:34,099 --> 00:20:37,762
the old women started
lecturing me, but l was drunk!

303
00:20:38,904 --> 00:20:41,202
l went on a drinking tour
with the last of what l had,

304
00:20:42,174 --> 00:20:45,507
and by nightfall was lying
delirious in the streets.

305
00:20:45,744 --> 00:20:46,768
ln the morning
l was ill with fever.

306
00:20:47,546 --> 00:20:49,912
When l was in the street,
some dogs bit me.

307
00:20:51,149 --> 00:20:52,241
l nearly died.

308
00:20:54,152 --> 00:20:59,021
We'll make Nastasia Philipovna
sing another song now.

309
00:20:59,925 --> 00:21:02,018
Those earrings are nothing!

310
00:21:02,294 --> 00:21:04,660
We'll get her some proper
earrings now!

311
00:21:04,930 --> 00:21:06,454
lf you as much as mention

312
00:21:06,732 --> 00:21:09,792
her name again,
l'll tan your hide, believe me!

313
00:21:10,669 --> 00:21:14,628
lf you tan my hide, you won't
turn me away! Go ahead!

314
00:21:16,642 --> 00:21:20,840
You'll bind me to you
with your lash.

315
00:21:24,683 --> 00:21:28,278
And you, Prince, are you
a great hand with the ladies?

316
00:21:29,988 --> 00:21:31,012
No.

317
00:21:31,690 --> 00:21:35,023
l couldn't - because of my
illness. l hardly know any.

318
00:21:36,828 --> 00:21:39,729
lf that's so, you're quite
touched then, for sure.

319
00:21:41,066 --> 00:21:42,727
God has a liking
for people like you.

320
00:21:44,202 --> 00:21:47,262
lt's Petersburg! We've
arrived!

321
00:22:07,592 --> 00:22:08,752
What can l do for you?

322
00:22:10,862 --> 00:22:12,830
l have no special
business.

323
00:22:13,065 --> 00:22:15,590
l just wanted to make your
acquaintance.

324
00:22:15,834 --> 00:22:18,894
l don't want to disturb you, l
don't know the routine here.

325
00:22:19,137 --> 00:22:21,332
l've just arrived
from Switzerland.

326
00:22:22,808 --> 00:22:25,106
l have not much time
for making acquaintances,

327
00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:28,575
but, of course, you have
your purpose in coming,

328
00:22:28,947 --> 00:22:30,608
l felt sure

329
00:22:30,849 --> 00:22:33,841
you would think l had some
purpose in coming here,

330
00:22:34,086 --> 00:22:37,283
but l give my word, it's just
the pleasure of acquaintance.

331
00:22:37,689 --> 00:22:40,249
The pleasure is, of course,
mutual,

332
00:22:40,659 --> 00:22:43,992
but as you are aware,
life's not all pleasure.

333
00:22:44,296 --> 00:22:45,661
And l really
cannot see

334
00:22:45,897 --> 00:22:48,866
what we might have
in common.

335
00:22:49,101 --> 00:22:51,160
-Any possible reason...
- There is no reason.

336
00:22:52,170 --> 00:22:54,570
There is very little in common
between us, for if l am

337
00:22:55,207 --> 00:22:57,232
Prince Muishkin, and your wife
is a member of my house,

338
00:22:57,642 --> 00:22:59,234
that can hardly be
a reason.

339
00:22:59,644 --> 00:23:02,738
And yet, that is my whole
motive for coming.

340
00:23:03,648 --> 00:23:05,081
l have not been in Russia
for 4 years.

341
00:23:05,884 --> 00:23:07,784
l feel l now need
a few good friends.

342
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,053
l have a certain matter, but
l do not know whom to turn to.

343
00:23:12,858 --> 00:23:14,348
l thought of you
when l was passing Berlin:

344
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,627
they're almost relatives,
so l'll begin with them.

345
00:23:17,863 --> 00:23:19,956
Maybe, we'll get on,
if they're kind people.

346
00:23:20,198 --> 00:23:22,632
And l've heard you are
very kind people.

347
00:23:22,934 --> 00:23:24,299
Oh, thank you.

348
00:23:24,703 --> 00:23:27,934
So, you're straight from
the station with your luggage?

349
00:23:28,273 --> 00:23:30,366
l only have
a small bundle,

350
00:23:30,776 --> 00:23:32,243
l'll take a room in some hotel
in the evening.

351
00:23:32,644 --> 00:23:35,078
- Take a room?
-Yes, of course.

352
00:23:35,313 --> 00:23:38,282
- Didn't you intend to stay here?
- lt could have been so,

353
00:23:38,683 --> 00:23:41,117
but only
upon your invitation.

354
00:23:42,287 --> 00:23:44,653
But l wouldn't stay here
even if you invited me.

355
00:23:44,890 --> 00:23:46,858
Not for any particular reason,
it's contrary to my nature.

356
00:23:48,093 --> 00:23:51,062
Well, then it's just as well
that l didn't invite you.

357
00:23:51,830 --> 00:23:54,731
Excuse me, prince, but we
had better make this clear:

358
00:23:54,966 --> 00:23:56,695
we have just agreed,

359
00:23:56,935 --> 00:24:00,427
with regard to our relationship,
there's not much to be said.

360
00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:03,433
- Then, perhaps...
- l'd better get up and go.

361
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,974
Though l know nothing of
local manners,

362
00:24:12,217 --> 00:24:14,014
or how people live
and all that,

363
00:24:14,252 --> 00:24:16,914
yet, l felt quite sure this
visit would end

364
00:24:17,155 --> 00:24:18,247
exactly as it did.

365
00:24:18,490 --> 00:24:20,390
Oh, well, l suppose it's
all right.

366
00:24:20,792 --> 00:24:21,884
Especially since my letter
was not answered.

367
00:24:22,427 --> 00:24:24,395
Forgive me for having
disturbed you.

368
00:24:28,934 --> 00:24:30,094
Prince, wait!

369
00:24:32,804 --> 00:24:35,898
Maybe my wife would like to
look at a man of her own name.

370
00:24:36,141 --> 00:24:39,872
-Wait, if you have the time.
- l have lots of time.

371
00:24:40,111 --> 00:24:42,079
My time is entirely
my own.

372
00:24:42,314 --> 00:24:46,114
Maybe, Elizabeta Prokofievna
remembers l had written to her.

373
00:24:46,885 --> 00:24:48,910
A little while ago your servant

374
00:24:49,154 --> 00:24:51,384
was suspicious that
l had come to beg.

375
00:24:51,790 --> 00:24:53,417
But l came to make friends.

376
00:24:53,892 --> 00:24:55,860
You and l seem so
different,

377
00:24:56,094 --> 00:24:59,120
that there must be very little
in common between us.

378
00:24:59,364 --> 00:25:03,130
But often it just
appears

379
00:25:03,969 --> 00:25:06,870
we have nothing in common,
though actually we do.

380
00:25:07,305 --> 00:25:09,102
Jealousy
is the reason.

381
00:25:09,341 --> 00:25:12,868
People sort each other into
groups by appearances.

382
00:25:13,111 --> 00:25:15,204
But l must be
boring you.

383
00:25:15,547 --> 00:25:16,912
And this worries me.

384
00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:26,851
lf you are really the sort of
man you appear to be,

385
00:25:27,092 --> 00:25:28,821
it will be a pleasure for us
to make your acquaintance.

386
00:25:31,196 --> 00:25:32,857
- How old are you?
- 26.

387
00:25:34,332 --> 00:25:35,993
l thought you were
much younger.

388
00:25:38,069 --> 00:25:39,229
Just two words.

389
00:25:41,339 --> 00:25:43,000
Do you have any means
at all,

390
00:25:43,241 --> 00:25:46,404
or do you intend to undertake
some employment?

391
00:25:46,811 --> 00:25:47,778
Oh, my dear sir!

392
00:25:48,013 --> 00:25:50,311
l esteem and understand
your questions.

393
00:25:51,082 --> 00:25:54,108
l have no means whatever,
and no employment.

394
00:25:54,419 --> 00:25:56,080
But l have a certain matter.

395
00:25:56,955 --> 00:26:00,391
How do you intend
to live now?

396
00:26:02,294 --> 00:26:03,386
l wish to work.

397
00:26:04,462 --> 00:26:05,861
Oh, you're a philosopher!

398
00:26:06,965 --> 00:26:10,059
Have you any talents,
or ability

399
00:26:10,302 --> 00:26:13,271
to bring in money and bread?
Excuse me again.

400
00:26:13,605 --> 00:26:15,129
Oh, don't apologize!

401
00:26:15,373 --> 00:26:18,865
No, l don't think l have any
talent or abilities.

402
00:26:19,110 --> 00:26:21,442
On the contrary,
l have always been an invalid.

403
00:26:21,846 --> 00:26:24,872
Frequent fits have made me
almost an idiot.

404
00:26:25,116 --> 00:26:27,141
l was unable to learn much,

405
00:26:27,385 --> 00:26:28,943
as for bread...

406
00:26:29,187 --> 00:26:32,554
We have no one in Russia.
Absolutely no one.

407
00:26:33,191 --> 00:26:35,921
Yes, at present, no one,
but l have hope.

408
00:26:36,861 --> 00:26:38,021
And l received a letter...

409
00:26:38,830 --> 00:26:43,096
- Can you write correctly?
- Oh, yes, l can.

410
00:26:43,335 --> 00:26:46,236
-And your handwriting?
- Excellent!

411
00:26:47,005 --> 00:26:50,441
There, perhaps, l'm really
talented. A real calligrapher.

412
00:26:51,276 --> 00:26:52,243
Let me...

413
00:26:54,646 --> 00:26:56,841
Let me write you something,
just to show.

414
00:26:57,082 --> 00:26:58,447
Please do.

415
00:26:59,417 --> 00:27:01,942
l like your readiness,
prince.

416
00:27:03,021 --> 00:27:04,113
ln fact, l like you
very well.

417
00:27:04,356 --> 00:27:07,018
Gania! Give the prince
a piece of paper.

418
00:27:09,094 --> 00:27:11,358
Here's the paper, prince.

419
00:27:12,163 --> 00:27:14,131
Sit down at this table,
please.

420
00:27:14,532 --> 00:27:15,556
Thank you.

421
00:27:21,239 --> 00:27:22,206
What's this?

422
00:27:24,109 --> 00:27:26,475
Nastasia Philipovna!
Did she send it herself?

423
00:27:26,978 --> 00:27:29,538
Today, when l called in
to congratulate her.

424
00:27:30,382 --> 00:27:32,373
-You remember about tonight?
- Oh, yes.

425
00:27:32,617 --> 00:27:35,848
l'll go, of course.
lt's her birthday.

426
00:27:36,254 --> 00:27:37,482
She's 25 years old.

427
00:27:40,191 --> 00:27:44,355
You know, Gania, you must be
ready for great things.

428
00:27:45,697 --> 00:27:48,097
She has promised me
and Afanasy lvanovich,

429
00:27:48,333 --> 00:27:50,927
she will give herfinal answer
tonight.

430
00:27:51,336 --> 00:27:53,497
-Yes or no.
- She did?

431
00:27:54,639 --> 00:27:57,164
-Are you sure she said that?
-Yes, she promised.

432
00:27:58,009 --> 00:28:01,172
But she asked us not to tell
you about it until today.

433
00:28:04,549 --> 00:28:07,279
She said l was to be free too,
until her decision,

434
00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:10,579
and yet even then l was
to have the final word.

435
00:28:11,156 --> 00:28:13,351
-Why, don't you?
- Don't misunderstand!

436
00:28:13,591 --> 00:28:16,116
-What are you doing?
- l'm not rejecting her.

437
00:28:16,361 --> 00:28:17,953
l should think not!

438
00:28:18,563 --> 00:28:22,124
lt's a question of your
readiness to receive her

439
00:28:22,434 --> 00:28:25,062
joyfully,
happily!

440
00:28:26,438 --> 00:28:28,463
Of how you receive
her words.

441
00:28:30,442 --> 00:28:32,410
Maybe l have expressed
myself badly.

442
00:28:34,479 --> 00:28:35,446
Well, all right.

443
00:28:40,185 --> 00:28:42,153
How are things
at home?

444
00:28:42,954 --> 00:28:43,921
Oh, at home!

445
00:28:44,155 --> 00:28:47,147
Father's making a fool of
himself, mother's crying,

446
00:28:47,392 --> 00:28:50,657
sister's sulking. But l'm master
of my own destiny.

447
00:28:51,262 --> 00:28:53,162
l gave my sister to understand
as much, mother was present.

448
00:28:53,631 --> 00:28:55,997
l still cannot understand it!

449
00:28:58,269 --> 00:29:01,067
They see it as some kind of
a dishonor to them.

450
00:29:01,406 --> 00:29:03,203
Why a dishonor?

451
00:29:05,210 --> 00:29:08,407
Who can reproach
Nastasia Philipovna?

452
00:29:10,014 --> 00:29:12,642
Just because she had been
living with Totski? Nonsense!

453
00:29:13,685 --> 00:29:16,586
Especially given
these circumstances.

454
00:29:17,088 --> 00:29:19,181
Your mother told me:
you wouldn't let her

455
00:29:19,424 --> 00:29:21,449
come near
your daughters.

456
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,120
That's Nina Alexandrovna!

457
00:29:26,030 --> 00:29:29,056
- How can she fail to understand?
- Her position?

458
00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:30,324
She does understand.

459
00:29:31,302 --> 00:29:34,203
lf anything is settled tonight,
things will calm down.

460
00:29:35,306 --> 00:29:37,331
So this is Nastasia Philipovna.

461
00:29:41,746 --> 00:29:43,270
How wonderfully beautiful!

462
00:29:45,583 --> 00:29:50,043
Do you already know
Nastasia Philipovna?

463
00:29:51,723 --> 00:29:55,318
Only one day in Russia, but
l've heard of the great beauty.

464
00:29:55,660 --> 00:29:58,390
A merchant told me about her
in the train.

465
00:29:58,696 --> 00:29:59,788
Parfen Rogojin.

466
00:30:01,166 --> 00:30:02,258
That's news!

467
00:30:03,134 --> 00:30:06,103
the young merchant was indulging
in some fun, l've heard.

468
00:30:07,071 --> 00:30:09,039
Yes, so have l,
she told us about it herself.

469
00:30:10,675 --> 00:30:12,370
l'm afraid of some scandal.

470
00:30:16,748 --> 00:30:18,716
How did he strike you,
prince,

471
00:30:19,117 --> 00:30:22,348
did he seem a serious man
or just a rowdy fellow?

472
00:30:22,787 --> 00:30:24,516
l really don't know
how to tell you.

473
00:30:24,756 --> 00:30:27,554
But he seemed to me
so full of passion.

474
00:30:28,226 --> 00:30:29,386
Not perhaps quite healthy.

475
00:30:29,627 --> 00:30:32,596
Very likely he'll be in bed
again, if he lives fast.

476
00:30:34,365 --> 00:30:35,730
Or perhaps he won't.

477
00:30:37,435 --> 00:30:41,235
-What if something else happens?
-What are you smiling at?

478
00:30:41,873 --> 00:30:43,272
Gania, you're so curious!

479
00:30:44,375 --> 00:30:47,208
You actually seem glad
of this merchant's arrival.

480
00:30:47,745 --> 00:30:50,339
As if it's a way for you
to get out of it.

481
00:30:51,449 --> 00:30:53,679
No one is forcing you in
a snare, if you see a snare.

482
00:30:54,085 --> 00:30:55,052
Do you understand me?

483
00:30:56,321 --> 00:30:57,811
Do you desire this arrangement
or not?

484
00:30:58,656 --> 00:31:01,557
lf not, say so, and -
welcome.

485
00:31:08,766 --> 00:31:09,733
l do desire it.

486
00:31:20,211 --> 00:31:21,508
Oh, just look at that!

487
00:31:21,813 --> 00:31:23,474
Done in very old handwriting.

488
00:31:23,848 --> 00:31:25,816
Look, Gania, there's real
talent there.

489
00:31:28,219 --> 00:31:31,780
The humble abbot Pafnuty
signed this.

490
00:31:32,490 --> 00:31:35,152
You are not a calligrapher,
you're an artist!

491
00:31:37,161 --> 00:31:40,597
Quite surprising, and
he knows it, too.

492
00:31:40,865 --> 00:31:43,390
You may smile,
but there's a career in this.

493
00:31:44,435 --> 00:31:48,166
You can get a place with 35
roubles a month, to start with.

494
00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:50,708
However, it's 12 already,
so on to business, price.

495
00:31:52,176 --> 00:31:54,337
l'll find you
an office job,

496
00:31:54,579 --> 00:31:55,876
an easy place, but you'll
have to be accurate.

497
00:31:56,281 --> 00:31:58,215
Now as to your plans.

498
00:31:58,783 --> 00:32:00,751
ln the house of Gavrila
Ardalionovich lvolgin,

499
00:32:01,152 --> 00:32:04,918
my young friend
here,

500
00:32:06,190 --> 00:32:08,215
his mother rents rooms
to lodgers.

501
00:32:08,459 --> 00:32:11,826
Gania, you have nothing against
the prince living in your house

502
00:32:12,797 --> 00:32:14,788
On the contrary, and my mother
will be very glad.

503
00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:16,790
The rent is quite moderate,

504
00:32:17,201 --> 00:32:21,194
and l expect your salary
will be sufficient.

505
00:32:21,539 --> 00:32:24,906
Of course, pocket money is
a necessity.

506
00:32:25,543 --> 00:32:28,444
Do not be offended, price,
if l strongly recommend you

507
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,274
to avoid carrying money in
your pocket.

508
00:32:31,983 --> 00:32:34,383
l conclude this
from the way you look.

509
00:32:34,619 --> 00:32:36,712
But since at the moment
your pocket is empty,

510
00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:39,185
permit me to press upon you
these 25 roubles.

511
00:32:39,424 --> 00:32:42,154
We'll settle this later. Are you
happy with this arrangement?

512
00:32:44,762 --> 00:32:46,559
Thank you,
general.

513
00:32:47,699 --> 00:32:51,533
You have behaved very
kindly to me.

514
00:32:53,237 --> 00:32:55,899
l certainly didn't know
where to lay my head tonight.

515
00:32:56,307 --> 00:32:58,332
A while ago Rogojin asked me
to come to his house.

516
00:32:59,544 --> 00:33:02,274
Rogojin? l'd recommend you,
paternally,

517
00:33:02,513 --> 00:33:05,380
to forget about Mr. Rogojin.

518
00:33:07,719 --> 00:33:09,983
And to stick to the family
into which

519
00:33:10,388 --> 00:33:11,878
you are about to enter.

520
00:33:13,257 --> 00:33:17,421
-Yes, there is just one matter...
- Excuse me, l have no time.

521
00:33:17,662 --> 00:33:20,688
l'll just tell Elizabeta
Prokofievna about you.

522
00:33:20,932 --> 00:33:23,833
And if she wishes to see
a man of her own name,

523
00:33:24,235 --> 00:33:26,465
l recommend you ingratiate
yourself with her.

524
00:33:26,704 --> 00:33:30,231
And you, Gania, just look over
these accounts.

525
00:33:33,478 --> 00:33:34,445
What, receive him?

526
00:33:35,413 --> 00:33:37,278
You say: receive him.
Here, at once?

527
00:33:37,749 --> 00:33:40,912
There's no need for
ceremony, he's quite a child.

528
00:33:41,319 --> 00:33:44,015
He has fits of some sort. He's
arrived from Switzerland.

529
00:33:44,422 --> 00:33:47,619
Dressed in a strange way,
without a farthing.

530
00:33:49,894 --> 00:33:53,295
Ladies, l'd like you
to feed him well.

531
00:33:53,998 --> 00:33:55,022
He looks hungry.

532
00:33:55,767 --> 00:33:58,497
You astonish me:
fits and hungry, too.

533
00:33:58,770 --> 00:34:00,931
-What kind of fits?
- They're not frequent.

534
00:34:01,339 --> 00:34:03,830
Besides, he's a regular
child, but fairly educated.

535
00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:06,373
You can examine him,

536
00:34:06,611 --> 00:34:08,442
and see what he's
good for.

537
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,846
- Examine him?
- lt's not that important.

538
00:34:13,084 --> 00:34:17,714
l meant make him feel
welcome, be kind to him,

539
00:34:17,955 --> 00:34:19,547
it's almost a good deed.

540
00:34:20,324 --> 00:34:21,450
From Switzerland?

541
00:34:21,926 --> 00:34:23,655
Switzerland has nothing
to do with it.

542
00:34:23,895 --> 00:34:27,456
l thought he may interest you,
because of your family name.

543
00:34:33,871 --> 00:34:35,839
Do you admire that sort
of woman?

544
00:34:36,407 --> 00:34:37,931
A wonderful face.

545
00:34:39,343 --> 00:34:42,312
l'm sure, her destiny must be
extraordinary.

546
00:34:42,747 --> 00:34:45,773
Her face is smiling, but
she must have suffered terribly.

547
00:34:46,417 --> 00:34:47,907
lt's a proud face.

548
00:34:48,986 --> 00:34:50,317
But l can't say

549
00:34:50,822 --> 00:34:51,846
whether she's kind or not.

550
00:34:53,691 --> 00:34:56,717
-Would you marry her?
- l can't marry.

551
00:34:56,961 --> 00:34:57,928
l'm an invalid.

552
00:35:00,698 --> 00:35:06,295
-Would Rogojin marry her?
- He would.

553
00:35:07,438 --> 00:35:09,998
And then, perhaps, murder her
in a week.

554
00:35:10,508 --> 00:35:11,634
What's the matter?

555
00:35:16,581 --> 00:35:20,483
Your highness, please proceed
to her excellency's apartments.

556
00:35:29,527 --> 00:35:30,585
Oh, if she were good!

557
00:35:31,229 --> 00:35:32,719
That would make all well.

558
00:35:34,031 --> 00:35:36,625
We'd better have him
tie a napkin under his chin,

559
00:35:36,868 --> 00:35:38,460
when he sits at the table.

560
00:35:38,703 --> 00:35:40,603
Or ask Fyodor or Marfa,

561
00:35:40,838 --> 00:35:44,103
that they stand behind him
while he eats.

562
00:35:44,509 --> 00:35:46,568
ls he quiet when he
has these fits?

563
00:35:47,478 --> 00:35:50,106
- He's not violent, is he?
- No, he's very well brought up.

564
00:35:50,548 --> 00:35:53,574
His manners are excellent,
but he's a bit simple.

565
00:35:53,818 --> 00:35:54,785
Here he is himself!

566
00:35:55,620 --> 00:35:57,019
Let me introduce you.

567
00:35:57,955 --> 00:36:00,651
Prince Muishkin, the last
of the Muishkins.

568
00:36:01,659 --> 00:36:04,059
A relative of your own, or,
at least, of the same name.

569
00:36:04,462 --> 00:36:05,895
Receive him kindly, please.

570
00:36:06,130 --> 00:36:08,030
They'll be bringing in
lunch, prince.

571
00:36:08,432 --> 00:36:11,492
Stay and have some, but you
must excuse me. l'm off.

572
00:36:11,836 --> 00:36:13,531
We all know where.

573
00:36:13,905 --> 00:36:16,430
l must hurry, my dear,
l'm late.

574
00:36:17,508 --> 00:36:18,998
Let him write something
in your albums.

575
00:36:19,443 --> 00:36:22,844
He's quite a calligrapher!
Extraordinary! Atalent!

576
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,481
He has just written
out for me:

577
00:36:26,717 --> 00:36:29,015
Abbot Pafnuty signed
this.

578
00:36:29,420 --> 00:36:32,548
Abbot Pafnuty?
Who is this abbot?

579
00:36:32,924 --> 00:36:35,518
My dear, there was
an old abbot of that name.

580
00:36:36,460 --> 00:36:40,487
The count is waiting for me.
l'm late.

581
00:36:40,731 --> 00:36:42,392
Good-bye, prince.

582
00:36:48,673 --> 00:36:50,402
l know what count
he's going to see.

583
00:36:52,543 --> 00:36:53,601
Now then?

584
00:36:54,212 --> 00:36:56,077
What's all this about?

585
00:36:56,614 --> 00:36:58,980
What abbot?

586
00:36:59,550 --> 00:37:03,077
- Mamma!
- l want to know, too.

587
00:37:04,021 --> 00:37:07,821
Prince, you sit over there,
opposite me.

588
00:37:08,259 --> 00:37:09,226
ln that chair.

589
00:37:09,694 --> 00:37:15,098
No, here, closer to the window,
so l might see you.

590
00:37:21,138 --> 00:37:23,538
So, who was this abbot?

591
00:37:24,508 --> 00:37:25,668
Abbot Pafnuty.

592
00:37:26,043 --> 00:37:27,135
That's interesting.

593
00:37:30,047 --> 00:37:31,071
But who was he?

594
00:37:32,216 --> 00:37:35,447
Abbot Pafnuty was in charge
of a monastery on the Volga.

595
00:37:35,686 --> 00:37:38,553
He lived the life of a saint,
went to the Golden Horde.

596
00:37:39,824 --> 00:37:41,724
And signed
an edict.

597
00:37:41,959 --> 00:37:43,984
So l copied that
signature.

598
00:37:44,228 --> 00:37:46,196
l liked it and
memorized it.

599
00:37:46,931 --> 00:37:48,592
Aglaya, remember, Pafnuty.

600
00:37:49,066 --> 00:37:51,534
Or better make a note,
or l forget.

601
00:37:51,936 --> 00:37:53,233
Where is this signature?

602
00:37:54,305 --> 00:37:56,170
l think it's left
on the general's table.

603
00:37:57,875 --> 00:37:59,137
Send for it and bring it here.

604
00:38:00,311 --> 00:38:02,108
Oh, l'll write you
a new one.

605
00:38:02,513 --> 00:38:05,539
But let's have lunch now,
we're all hungry.

606
00:38:07,084 --> 00:38:09,552
- Prince, are you hungry?
-Very much so!

607
00:38:09,954 --> 00:38:12,718
l am pretty hungry,
thank you very much.

608
00:38:14,825 --> 00:38:16,850
l like to see you know
your manners.

609
00:38:17,261 --> 00:38:19,923
You are not the kind of
person

610
00:38:20,331 --> 00:38:22,856
as the general thought
fit to describe you.

611
00:38:23,100 --> 00:38:24,761
Alexandra, Adelaida,

612
00:38:25,002 --> 00:38:27,163
he doesn't seem very ill,
does he?

613
00:38:27,571 --> 00:38:29,198
l think he doesn't require
a napkin under his chin.

614
00:38:29,707 --> 00:38:30,867
No napkin, then!

615
00:38:31,909 --> 00:38:33,774
Are you accustomed to
having one on, prince?

616
00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:40,041
Formerly, when l was 7 years
old, l wore one.

617
00:38:40,551 --> 00:38:42,542
Now l put it
on my knees.

618
00:38:43,988 --> 00:38:45,080
He talks very well.

619
00:38:45,589 --> 00:38:46,749
l really didn't expect him to.

620
00:38:47,291 --> 00:38:48,724
Enjoy your food, prince.

621
00:38:49,060 --> 00:38:52,962
And tell us about yourself.
l want to hear you speak.

622
00:38:54,665 --> 00:38:56,565
l wouldn't speak, if l were
ordered like that.

623
00:38:57,001 --> 00:38:58,628
What's so strange about it?

624
00:38:58,869 --> 00:39:01,531
He has a tongue. Why shouldn't
he tell us something?

625
00:39:01,772 --> 00:39:04,138
l want to know, how well
he speaks.

626
00:39:04,608 --> 00:39:09,636
Tell us how you liked
Switzerland.

627
00:39:10,614 --> 00:39:12,241
Your first impression.

628
00:39:13,951 --> 00:39:16,943
The impression was
quite strong.

629
00:39:19,023 --> 00:39:19,990
There, he has begun!

630
00:39:20,624 --> 00:39:23,058
Well, then, let him
speak.

631
00:39:23,294 --> 00:39:24,784
The prince is not an idiot.

632
00:39:27,331 --> 00:39:29,231
l saw that at once.

633
00:39:29,633 --> 00:39:32,101
The first impression was
very strong.

634
00:39:32,336 --> 00:39:36,272
When they took me away
from Russia, l was very ill.

635
00:39:37,408 --> 00:39:39,239
l just looked,
without saying a word.

636
00:39:39,643 --> 00:39:42,806
l asked no questions,
and alien things frightened me.

637
00:39:43,047 --> 00:39:45,948
l awoke from this state
for the first time

638
00:39:46,183 --> 00:39:48,276
in Basle, when we came
to Switzerland.

639
00:39:48,686 --> 00:39:51,951
The bray of a donkey in
the town market awoke me.

640
00:39:52,289 --> 00:39:53,381
That donkey had...

641
00:39:54,992 --> 00:39:56,823
a staggering effect on me.

642
00:39:57,428 --> 00:39:59,259
l liked him so much!

643
00:40:00,131 --> 00:40:02,224
And my head began
to clear.

644
00:40:02,633 --> 00:40:05,261
From that very moment, l
became very fond of donkeys,

645
00:40:05,669 --> 00:40:07,967
and started to like the whole
country!

646
00:40:08,205 --> 00:40:10,605
Yes! And my melancholy
passed away!

647
00:40:16,147 --> 00:40:17,239
lt's very nice of you
to laugh.

648
00:40:18,749 --> 00:40:21,843
l see you're a very
kind-hearted young man.

649
00:40:22,887 --> 00:40:24,047
l'm not always kind.

650
00:40:24,388 --> 00:40:25,650
l'm kind myself.

651
00:40:26,323 --> 00:40:28,791
That's my only
fault.

652
00:40:29,693 --> 00:40:31,854
One ought not to be always
kind.

653
00:40:32,763 --> 00:40:36,096
But enough of that.
Please, continue, prince.

654
00:40:37,835 --> 00:40:42,863
Perhaps, you can think of
something more exciting.

655
00:40:43,107 --> 00:40:46,099
Then it was very nice
all the time.

656
00:40:46,343 --> 00:40:49,642
l was very happy.

657
00:40:50,481 --> 00:40:51,448
Happy?

658
00:40:53,184 --> 00:40:55,243
-You can be happy?
-Yes.

659
00:40:55,486 --> 00:40:58,387
- Teach us, then.
- l cannot.

660
00:41:00,491 --> 00:41:02,652
l have always lived
in the country

661
00:41:02,893 --> 00:41:04,690
and have hardly gone
anywhere else.

662
00:41:04,929 --> 00:41:06,226
What can l teach you?

663
00:41:08,499 --> 00:41:11,468
l always wanted
to go somewhere.

664
00:41:11,869 --> 00:41:14,337
l felt very
restless.

665
00:41:14,939 --> 00:41:17,100
l kept thinking

666
00:41:18,142 --> 00:41:21,236
how l would live, and decided
to put my fate to a test.

667
00:41:22,813 --> 00:41:26,214
Sometimes, at noon, l climbed
the mountains,

668
00:41:27,384 --> 00:41:29,875
stood there alone,

669
00:41:30,754 --> 00:41:33,917
with huge, old pines
around me.

670
00:41:34,458 --> 00:41:37,450
With only the ruins
of an old castle on top,

671
00:41:38,162 --> 00:41:41,256
and our little village
in the distance,

672
00:41:41,499 --> 00:41:45,265
the blue skies so blue, the sun,
and the terrible silence.

673
00:41:45,836 --> 00:41:47,861
And everything seemed to call
me somewhere.

674
00:41:48,105 --> 00:41:50,767
lt seemed to me, that if
l went straight ahead

675
00:41:51,008 --> 00:41:52,236
and crossed the line,

676
00:41:52,476 --> 00:41:54,910
where the earth and the sky
met,

677
00:41:55,246 --> 00:41:59,239
l might find a new life there,
and that would be the key!

678
00:41:59,783 --> 00:42:01,944
And that very instant,
l'd see that new life.

679
00:42:02,186 --> 00:42:04,211
lt would be a thousand times
grander and richer!

680
00:42:05,489 --> 00:42:08,458
l visualized a big city,
like Naples.

681
00:42:08,859 --> 00:42:09,951
With its life and noise!

682
00:42:14,064 --> 00:42:16,032
But it doesn't matter
what l imagined then.

683
00:42:16,267 --> 00:42:17,427
Then l thought

684
00:42:18,502 --> 00:42:21,300
that life can be grand
even in prison.

685
00:42:21,805 --> 00:42:24,968
l once heard a story
of a man

686
00:42:25,809 --> 00:42:27,538
who lived in prison
for 12 years,

687
00:42:27,945 --> 00:42:29,776
his life there was
sad enough,

688
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:31,138
l can assure you that,

689
00:42:31,382 --> 00:42:33,782
but it was not worthless.

690
00:42:35,019 --> 00:42:37,453
His only acquaintance
was a spider,

691
00:42:38,956 --> 00:42:40,981
and a tree that grew
outside his prison window.

692
00:42:44,161 --> 00:42:47,130
l read that last thought
in my manual,

693
00:42:47,364 --> 00:42:49,229
when l was 12 years old.

694
00:42:50,034 --> 00:42:53,231
You are a philosopher and
have come to instruct us.

695
00:42:55,105 --> 00:42:58,302
Perhaps, you are right,
l am a philosopher.

696
00:42:58,542 --> 00:43:02,569
Who knows, perhaps, l do wish
to teach my views.

697
00:43:08,319 --> 00:43:11,550
l will tell you of
a man l met.

698
00:43:12,923 --> 00:43:17,326
He had once been brought up
to the scaffold.

699
00:43:17,995 --> 00:43:21,795
He was read his death-
sentence by shooting

700
00:43:22,132 --> 00:43:24,293
for a political crime.

701
00:43:24,868 --> 00:43:28,395
Twenty minutes later
he was reprieved,

702
00:43:29,073 --> 00:43:31,803
a different punishment
was substituted.

703
00:43:32,042 --> 00:43:34,033
Between the two sentences

704
00:43:34,278 --> 00:43:38,840
he lived in the certainty
that he would soon die.

705
00:43:41,151 --> 00:43:44,917
He remembered everything
most accurately and distinctly.

706
00:43:45,155 --> 00:43:46,179
He told me

707
00:43:46,423 --> 00:43:49,449
he would never forget a single
second of those minutes.

708
00:43:50,661 --> 00:43:53,858
About 20 paces from
the scaffold there were 3 posts,

709
00:43:54,598 --> 00:43:57,431
because there were
several criminals.

710
00:43:57,668 --> 00:44:01,126
The first three criminals
were taken to the posts, tied,

711
00:44:01,672 --> 00:44:05,403
long white caps were pulled
overtheir heads.

712
00:44:06,043 --> 00:44:07,874
Soldiers took their stand
opposite the posts.

713
00:44:09,246 --> 00:44:11,339
My acquaintances
was 8th on the list,

714
00:44:11,582 --> 00:44:15,416
so he would have had to wait
about 5 minutes.

715
00:44:19,990 --> 00:44:21,958
He said those 5 minutes

716
00:44:22,393 --> 00:44:24,088
seemed to him
an interminable period,

717
00:44:24,328 --> 00:44:25,920
an enormous wealth of time,

718
00:44:26,163 --> 00:44:29,257
in these 5 minutes he seemed
to have lived so many lives,

719
00:44:29,500 --> 00:44:32,469
there was no need to think
of that last moment.

720
00:44:32,703 --> 00:44:34,898
So he even made
several arrangements.

721
00:44:35,139 --> 00:44:38,233
Two minutes for saying
farewell to his companions.

722
00:44:38,475 --> 00:44:41,000
Two more minutes to think
about himself.

723
00:44:41,245 --> 00:44:45,113
And then - the last moment
to take a look around.

724
00:44:45,649 --> 00:44:49,107
When saying good-bye to his
friends, he asked one of them

725
00:44:49,353 --> 00:44:52,447
an everyday questions and was
very interested in the answer.

726
00:44:53,090 --> 00:44:54,990
Then began the 2 minutes

727
00:44:55,225 --> 00:44:58,285
he allotted for looking
into himself.

728
00:44:58,529 --> 00:45:01,430
He was thinking, how could
it be, that here he was,

729
00:45:01,699 --> 00:45:04,668
a living man,

730
00:45:05,069 --> 00:45:08,436
and in 3 minutes
he would be nothing.

731
00:45:09,039 --> 00:45:11,530
Or if somebody or something,
then who and where?

732
00:45:11,942 --> 00:45:13,967
He wanted to decide this
in these 2 minutes.

733
00:45:14,211 --> 00:45:15,542
A little way off stood
a church.

734
00:45:15,946 --> 00:45:20,042
lts gilded spire and dome
glittered in the sun.

735
00:45:20,451 --> 00:45:21,975
A gilded spire.

736
00:45:22,219 --> 00:45:25,382
He remembered staring
stubbornly at this spire,

737
00:45:25,622 --> 00:45:28,591
and the rays of light sparking
from it. He couldn't look away

738
00:45:28,992 --> 00:45:32,086
He imagined these rays were
his new nature,

739
00:45:32,329 --> 00:45:35,560
and in a few minutes he
would become one of them.

740
00:45:35,966 --> 00:45:38,526
The uncertainty and repugnance
to what would happen

741
00:45:38,769 --> 00:45:41,499
almost immediately,
were terrible.

742
00:45:42,272 --> 00:45:44,638
But worst of all at that point
was the idea,

743
00:45:45,042 --> 00:45:50,105
the persistent thought
what if l don't die now?

744
00:45:51,648 --> 00:45:53,445
What is l return
to life again?

745
00:45:56,487 --> 00:45:59,752
What infinity!
And all mine!

746
00:46:01,625 --> 00:46:04,025
l'd turn every minute
into a century,

747
00:46:04,261 --> 00:46:06,195
l'd never lose an instant.

748
00:46:06,430 --> 00:46:09,092
l would count
every minute of it,

749
00:46:09,333 --> 00:46:10,960
not to waste an instant.

750
00:46:11,568 --> 00:46:14,594
And this thought became such
a terrible burden upon him,

751
00:46:15,005 --> 00:46:17,735
hat he wished they shoot him
quickly and be done with it.

752
00:46:30,053 --> 00:46:31,077
Are you through?

753
00:46:35,526 --> 00:46:36,493
What?

754
00:46:37,394 --> 00:46:38,452
Yes, l am.

755
00:46:39,830 --> 00:46:42,025
And why did you
tell us this?

756
00:46:43,133 --> 00:46:46,398
Oh, l happened to recall it,
it fitted in our conversation.

757
00:46:48,305 --> 00:46:49,670
An abrupt ending, prince.

758
00:46:50,073 --> 00:46:52,041
You probably wish to deduce

759
00:46:52,276 --> 00:46:55,712
that time cannot be reckoned
in terms of money value.

760
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:59,649
Your friend, who told you
this terrible story,

761
00:47:00,050 --> 00:47:02,041
was given those
wonderful riches of time.

762
00:47:02,286 --> 00:47:04,516
And what did he do with
them afterwards?

763
00:47:04,788 --> 00:47:07,655
- Did he keep careful count?
- No, he didn't.

764
00:47:08,158 --> 00:47:10,126
He wasted many,
many minutes.

765
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,760
Then, one cannot live
and count all minutes.

766
00:47:13,497 --> 00:47:14,555
That is true.

767
00:47:16,099 --> 00:47:17,464
lt's true, one can't.

768
00:47:19,436 --> 00:47:22,234
l have thought so myself. Yet,
why shouldn't one do it?

769
00:47:23,507 --> 00:47:25,805
You think you could live
more wisely than others?

770
00:47:27,878 --> 00:47:30,073
Yes, l have had that
idea.

771
00:47:30,581 --> 00:47:31,605
And you have it still?

772
00:47:34,184 --> 00:47:35,208
Yes, l have it still.

773
00:47:39,890 --> 00:47:40,857
Very modest of you.

774
00:47:41,892 --> 00:47:44,383
Why are you so angry?

775
00:47:45,829 --> 00:47:47,797
The prince told us
a wonderful tale.

776
00:47:48,532 --> 00:47:50,625
Why do you want
to discourage him?

777
00:47:51,401 --> 00:47:53,369
He began all right,
he was laughing.

778
00:47:54,137 --> 00:47:55,627
And now he is sad.

779
00:50:27,491 --> 00:50:29,015
End of Part One

780
00:50:30,015 --> 00:50:40,015
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