DIALOGUE LISTS

«THE BOTTOMLESS BAG»

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Company LCC COSMOSFILM

Year

Country of origin

2017

Russia

Rights Kristel, Cosmosfilm, Rustam Khamdamov

Length 01:45:02

Aspect 2,39

Color/b&w B&W

Original language Russian

Titles Russian

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TC IN TC OUT TITLES TEXT (Monologues, conversations, subtitles)

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00:00:00 00:00:03 Company KRISTEL00:00:03 00:00:05 COSMOSFILM00:00:06 00:00:09 ART, SCIENCE AND SPORTS

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With the financial support from the Ministry of Culture

of the Russian Federation00:01:04 00:01:08 THE BOTTOMLESS BAG

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Based upon a story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ‘In the

Woods’00:06:37 00:06:38 Madame,

00:06:39 00:06:44after the grand duchess’s death the duke is

continuously grim.00:06:45 00:06:48 Please don’t scare him too much.00:06:46 00:06:51 One-two murders, not more.00:07:06 00:07:09 - I’m all ears, Your Excellency. - I would like00:07:10 00:07:12 to discuss some details.

00:07:28 00:07:31Madame, how much do you charge for reading? Your

honorarium?00:07:31 00:07:35 Your Excellency, it’s 50 roubles as with everyone else.

00:07:37 00:07:42The previous readeress took extra money for every

extra murder.00:07:42 00:07:45 Then she fancied to sink a ship.00:07:45 00:07:47 And because of a shipwreck and hundreds of victims00:07:47 00:07:49 she charged 50 for every dead soul.00:07:51 00:07:54 Naturally, I refused to and simply turned her away.00:08:03 00:08:06 Don’t worry, Your Excellency.00:08:06 00:08:08 It’s just a usual honorarium00:08:08 00:08:12 and only one single murder.

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00:08:17 00:08:19- I am satisfied.

- Wonderful.00:08:26 00:08:28 Just wonderful.00:10:58 00:11:00 Madame, are you German?00:11:00 00:11:03 Why on earth German, Your Excellency?00:11:04 00:11:06 Everything is too neatly arranged.00:11:06 00:11:09 Well, I’m just trying to subdue my inner chaos.

00:11:10 00:11:13 with such things.Methinks you know what I mean. You

must be familiar

00:11:23 00:11:27To arrange hidden bottles by their color and size, like

all alcoholics do.00:11:28 00:11:31 - Go on. - I can see everything.00:11:33 00:11:37 I can see a massive book cabinet behind the wall.00:11:37 00:11:40 On the third upper shelf,00:11:41 00:11:43 behind the encyclopedia,00:11:44 00:11:46 the bottles are hidden.00:11:54 00:11:56 They are accurately arranged00:11:57 00:11:59 according to their size and color – like soldiers.00:11:59 00:12:01 Go on, Madam!00:12:01 00:12:05 There are seven of them.00:12:06 00:12:08 Pray, go on, Madam!

00:12:08 00:12:13Each one is smaller than the previous one. Two are

uncorked.00:12:15 00:12:18 The smallest and the last one is half empty.00:12:20 00:12:23 - And what color is it? - Black.00:12:27 00:12:31 - Bravo. - The year 1866. Xeres.00:12:31 00:12:35 Bravo, Madame! You are ten-heads clever!00:12:45 00:12:48 Divine a dream... A disquieting one...

00:12:48 00:12:55On awakening, it’s this tense sensation in my head’s

crown -

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00:12:55 00:12:57 a peg to hang your divination on...00:12:57 00:12:59 Birds were beating against the window pane.

00:13:00 00:13:02One of them flew in and was all aflutter near the ceiling. How many birds it was, Your Excellency?

00:13:03 00:13:06 - Methinks, two, two and a half. - Be more precise.00:13:06 00:13:09 What color?00:13:09 00:13:11 - What color? - Yes.

00:13:11 00:13:16- The two birds were... grey. - Specify - what shade of

grey?00:13:14 00:13:16 Almost transparent.00:13:16 00:13:19 Then calm down, Your Excellency.00:13:20 00:13:22 You have no reason to get worried.

00:13:23 00:13:26Because transparent birds mean pickling of

mushrooms.00:13:33 00:13:35 Bravo, Madame.00:21:45 00:21:50 He's that very robber I failed to catch last time.00:21:52 00:21:55 Only back then he was a total ragamuffin.00:21:58 00:22:00 But now he has a bow,00:22:04 00:22:07 a horse with a rich harness00:22:09 00:22:11 and a sword!00:22:22 00:22:24 Was it this man that I killed?00:22:59 00:23:02 Last afternoon I met in the woods a man and a woman.

00:23:05 00:23:08The woman looked back at me and it decided

everything.00:23:15 00:23:19 I killed that man, but I didn't kill that woman.00:23:20 00:23:24 And the robber narrated his story.

00:25:28 00:25:31When the woman looked back, I liked her that very

instant.00:25:31 00:25:34 I decided to possess her

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00:25:34 00:25:38and began thinking how to cheat them into turning

their horse…00:25:38 00:25:40 It hurts!' ...back into the wood.

00:25:40 00:25:43And he told them how he found a treasure not far

away00:25:44 00:25:46 and if anyone would wish it,00:25:47 00:25:50 he would sell cheap ancient mirrors.

00:25:51 00:25:55They believed him and urged their horse into the

woods.

00:25:57 00:26:01The prince hurriedly followed the robber, heeding his story, and the princess stayed waiting on the glade.

00:26:04 00:26:06 The robber attacked him from behind,00:26:06 00:26:10 fell him on the ground and tied him up to the tree.00:26:10 00:26:15 What about a rope? There is no robber without a rope.00:28:24 00:28:27 On seeing her husband tied up to the tree,

00:28:27 00:28:30the woman pulled down her attire and grabbed the

weapon.00:28:51 00:28:54 You will be mine all the same.00:28:54 00:28:58 'You will be mine', said the robber.00:29:38 00:29:40 Never before had I met such a brave woman.00:29:40 00:29:44 'I would dodge and duck,00:29:44 00:29:47 'but she would brandish her sword,00:29:48 00:29:51 'right and left and everywhere.00:29:51 00:29:55 But it's not for nothing that I am a great robber.00:32:04 00:32:06 Madame, I fancy picking mushrooms in the woods.00:32:08 00:32:10 But I understand nothing in mushrooms.00:32:10 00:32:13 Whether it's an edible one or a death angel.00:32:14 00:32:18 - And nevertheless you go a-mushrooming? - Yes.00:32:18 00:32:20 And when we enter the woods, I wander away,

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00:32:21 00:32:23find the most beautiful mushrooms, shower them with

kisses and throw them away.00:32:36 00:32:39 Kill him!00:32:45 00:32:47 - What do I do with her? Kill her? - Kill him!00:32:47 00:32:49 - Or pardon her? Tell me. - Kill him.00:32:49 00:32:51 Just nod your head, hey, you.

00:32:59 00:33:03What do I do with this woman?' shouted out the

robber.00:33:03 00:33:04 What do I do with this woman?

00:33:05 00:33:07- 'Shall I kill her?' - Shall I kill her? - 'Have mercy on

her?' - Have mercy on her?00:33:09 00:33:10 'Just nod your head, and I will kill her.'00:33:16 00:33:18 'I was disgraced!' - shouted out the woman.00:33:18 00:33:20 'One of you should die.'00:33:20 00:33:25 Shall I kill her or not? Come on, just nod your head.00:33:25 00:33:28 Hey, you, what do I do with her?00:33:28 00:33:30 It's you that should die or him.00:33:30 00:33:33 One of you should die.00:33:33 00:33:36 And I will stay with the one alive.00:33:53 00:33:55 So the old man went a-hunting.00:33:56 00:33:58 Only he didn't bring any tangible matter.00:33:58 00:34:00 Except a fairytale.00:34:01 00:34:04 A fairytale with a very bad ending.00:34:08 00:34:10 Kill him! Kill him!00:37:14 00:37:17 And what happened to the woman? Where is she?00:37:21 00:37:23 You may subject me to a most vicious torture.00:37:24 00:37:26 I always knew that my head would be impaled.

00:37:26 00:37:29- 'What happened to the woman?' - What happened to

the woman?00:37:31 00:37:33 I don't know...

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00:37:35 00:37:36 I don't know earnestly.00:38:50 00:38:51 One won't even see it in a nightmare00:38:51 00:38:55 that the prince will see such a sad ending.00:38:56 00:39:00 Indeed, human life vanishes in one instance.00:39:00 00:39:04 And do you believe00:39:05 00:39:07 in transfiguration?00:39:07 00:39:10 I personally heard a lot of life stories about it.00:39:13 00:39:17 One ancient Greek man wrote how he was a boy,00:39:19 00:39:20 and then a girl,00:39:22 00:39:23 and then a branch,00:39:25 00:39:26 and then a bird,

00:39:27 00:39:31 and then a fish which for some reason was suffocating

in water. One poet described00:39:33 00:39:37 even more wonderful versions of such life.00:39:38 00:39:41 He was a sword in a general's hands,

00:39:41 00:39:44he was a streetlamp on the bridge… On the bridge?

When I happen to pass00:39:54 00:39:56 a bedraggled neighborhood in Petersburg,00:39:59 00:40:04 I see a dog there on the bridge, she's lame.

00:40:06 00:40:10People must have been stubbing out cigarettes against

her,00:40:10 00:40:12 those stubs are entangled in her fur.00:40:13 00:40:16 She is shivering, looking at me00:40:17 00:40:19 with those lusterless blue eyes of hers.00:40:21 00:40:22 And she is crying.00:40:24 00:40:26 Madame, and it seems to me00:40:28 00:40:30 she is my mother the grand duchess.00:40:32 00:40:34 I once read about people00:40:36 00:40:37 who turned for 100 days00:40:38 00:40:42 into the sea foam

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00:40:42 00:40:45 or a book. But to turn into a dog,00:40:46 00:40:49 on the bridge? In a proletarian district?00:40:49 00:40:51 In the abode of drunks?00:40:52 00:40:54 The grand duchess?00:42:12 00:42:15 Yes. Your mother is a dog.00:42:16 00:42:19 But not the one you told me about.00:42:20 00:42:22 Are you sure you are not mistaken?

00:42:22 00:42:27What the devil for your dear mother the grand duchess

would fare in this city.

00:42:27 00:42:30 After so many years in Petersburg I still can't get used00:42:31 00:42:34 to its coldness, slush and continuous dusk.00:42:34 00:42:37 Besides, the city rests on human bones...00:42:37 00:42:41 No. Your dear mother is a dog.00:42:43 00:42:46 But she is definitely somewhere in the south.00:42:46 00:42:49 Maybe in Crimea, or even in Italy -00:42:49 00:42:53 in some blessed corner where it is so warm,00:42:53 00:42:56 and the air and the trees are so heavenly.00:42:58 00:43:00 Or, maybe, she is in Naples,

00:43:00 00:43:04where everyone is in love, where all men have

continuous erection.00:43:06 00:43:11 But where has that woman disappeared?00:47:54 00:47:56 I can see her.00:47:57 00:47:58 It’s a woman...00:48:00 00:48:03 She came to a forest hermit in the princess's apparel.00:48:04 00:48:06 She says she had killed her husband.00:48:06 00:48:10 She wants to confess how it happened.

00:48:14 00:48:19How she took a bow and sent an arrow right into his

heart.00:51:34 00:51:36 'I raised myself from the grass with difficulty,

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00:51:36 00:51:38and look into his eyes intently. 'His gaze had not

changed at all,00:51:40 00:51:45 'still bespeaking that cold contempt00:51:45 00:51:48 'and that disgusting hatred.'

00:51:50 00:51:53I don't know how to describe what I felt at that

moment: it was sadness, shame and anger…00:51:54 00:51:56 The woman told the starets00:51:57 00:52:00 that she saw indescribable anger00:52:00 00:52:02 and decided to kill him.00:52:03 00:52:05 Hardly suppressing the emotions00:52:06 00:52:09 from which my bosom was nearly bursting, I...00:52:10 00:52:14 ...began to look for his bow.00:52:15 00:52:17 I picked up the bow, the arrows

00:52:20 00:52:23and calmly told to the prince: 'Now I'm going to take

your life00:52:24 00:52:25 'and will follow you immediately.'00:52:26 00:52:28 On hearing my words,00:52:28 00:52:31 the prince made an effort to move his lips00:52:33 00:52:35 but he wasn't able to utter a word.00:52:35 00:52:37 His mouth was sealed.00:52:39 00:52:42 And then I looked at his lips closely.00:52:43 00:52:45 And I understood everything.00:52:45 00:52:49 He meant to say only this: 'Kill me!'00:54:03 00:54:05 It defies any words00:54:07 00:54:11 how woeful it all is.00:54:21 00:54:23 How can one bear through all this?00:54:25 00:54:28 That's why day can't last for long:00:54:29 00:54:31 that's why it longs to hide, to go away00:54:32 00:54:34 and to come to an end.00:54:35 00:54:38 And it takes away with itself all harm done,

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00:54:38 00:54:42 all grief, all human pain...00:54:45 00:54:48 And in its stead there comes the night darkness:00:54:49 00:54:51 it disperses everything00:54:53 00:54:55 and distinguishes everything,00:54:58 00:55:02 putting an end to all sins committed in the daytime,00:55:05 00:55:09 making everything invisible,00:55:11 00:55:16 so that everything stop existing for some time.00:55:16 00:55:18 At that moment I again lost my consciousness.00:55:19 00:55:20 When I came to,

00:55:21 00:55:24the prince who was tied to the tree, breathed

nevermore.00:55:25 00:55:28 The arrow got him right into his heart.

00:55:29 00:55:32The setting sun shone over his pallid face: stifling my

sobs I00:55:34 00:55:35 undid the ropes.00:55:36 00:55:37 And after that… What happened to me after that?00:56:30 00:56:33 - She'll drown herself! - No, she won't.00:56:33 00:56:35 - She'll drown herself! - No, she won't.

00:56:36 00:56:40Do you remember that story from Sheherazade's

Arabian Nights?00:56:41 00:56:43 Fairytale number 29500:56:43 00:56:45 about the bottomless bag?00:56:45 00:56:48 The one who spins more words, wins.00:56:48 00:56:49 Let's make a bet!00:56:51 00:56:53 So, let me begin.00:56:58 00:56:59 Very well then.

00:57:01 00:57:09Oh, Ruler of the faithful ones, in so-and-so year I left

my home city that is Baghdad00:57:09 00:57:12 and I carried with me but a small bag

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In a so-and-so town. I was purchasing and selling items at the market. All of a sudden rascaly Kurd grabbed

my bag from me and said: "This bag and all its contents are most certainly mine".

00:57:26 00:57:31So we went to the magistrate and he said to that

villain…

00:57:34 00:57:45

…and he said to that villain: "If this nag is your property, as you claim, than describe to me its

contents"00:57:47 00:57:49 And the villain said:00:57:50 00:57:54 "This bag conyains two silver needles, a handkerchief,00:57:54 00:57:57 two gilded pots, two chandeliers00:57:57 00:58:00 two carpets, two jars, a tray, two basins,00:58:00 00:58:04 two cauldron, two mags, a ladle,

00:58:05 00:58:21

two nosebags, a cat, two dogs, and also a plate, a kaftan, two fur coats, a cow, two calves, a she-goat, two lambsa sheep, two green tents, a he-camel and

two she-camels, a buffalo and a couple of bulls, a she-lion,

00:58:21 00:58:27a she-bear, two foxes, a stool, a palace and two

gazebos

00:58:28 00:58:31and also two castrated cockerels, two chambers and

the kitchen

00:58:31 00:58:42and two kitchen workers who will testify that this bag

is mine!"

00:58:51 00:59:11

Ii was so amazed by the Kurd's tall tale and said: "And I only have in this bag a dilapifated house and a small

hut with no door and also a dog's kernel and children's school some tents and ropes, the cities of Basra and

Baghdad, a blacksmith forge

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a fishing net, Sherzad's palace and lads and lassies and one thousand of whoremasters who will testify that

this bag is mine!"00:59:23 00:59:28 And this junction the villain sobbed and cried out:00:59:28 00:59:29 "Your Honor!

00:59:29 00:59:45

Thios bag is similar to me Forinasmuch it contains fortifications and fortresses, the cranes and lions, and people playing chess, a mare and two colts, a stallion

and two horses,

00:59:46 00:59:51and also one city, two villages, and one whore and two

lads relaxed by her,

00:59:51 01:00:00and also the judge and two witness who will testify

that this bag is mine!"

01:00:01 01:00:17

I was nearly stumped at this and said: "No! In this bag there is a whore and three lads relaxed by her, and also coats of mail, daggers, armories, a thousand of

butting rams, a thousand of barking dogs,01:00:17 01:00:20 the beautiful brides and rich grooms,

01:00:20 01:00:30

the weddings, the humdrum, joyful shouts, close brothers and faithful friends cages for eagles,

tambourins,

01:00:30 01:00:37and pipes, fifty Persian girls, twenty Georgian ones,

two laim lassies01:00:37 01:00:38 and two Indian beauties

01:00:46 01:01:00

An old woman with a cracked mag, the Tigris and the Euphrates, a fire sticker, a flint a piece of wood, a nail,

a clack Aran with a flute a tilt yard, mosquers, caravanserais, bath houses

01:01:00 01:01:04 a mason, a carpenter, a master and his sunordinate,

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a lot of cities, and one hundred thousand dinars, twenty chests with silk and ouze cloth the land as far

as Assuan, the Palace of Prince Khosrov,01:01:14 01:01:18 Samarkand, Isphahan and my underwear,

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an old woman with her mag glued together and a thusand of sharp razors to shave off the magistrate's

beard if he dares to say that this bag is not mine!"

01:01:33 01:01:46On hearing these words, the magistrate felt puzzled

and he exclaimed: "Both of you are scoundrels!01:01:46 01:01:47 I swear by Allah Himself!01:01:47 01:01:54 From China to the nearby village,01:01:54 01:01:56 from the land of Iran to the land of Soudan,01:01:56 01:02:01 from the valley of Namang to the land of Khurasan01:02:01 01:02:03 you can't put inside the bag all that you described.01:02:07 01:02:11 Can it be like the sea that has no bottom?01:02:12 01:02:14 Or maybe it is like the Judgment Day?01:02:14 01:02:17 which will gather all sinners and the pious ones?"01:02:23 01:02:24 Having said this01:02:26 01:02:29 the magistrate ordained:01:02:31 01:02:34 "Open the bag!01:02:42 01:02:44 And the man opened his bag01:02:45 01:02:47 And inside there was01:02:48 01:02:49 only one lemon01:02:52 01:02:54 And he threw the bag at the villains feet01:03:02 01:03:03 And he's gone.

01:03:04 01:03:07You have won. She won't drown herself. The

Mushroom says the princess01:04:11 01:04:14 is going to drown herself.

01:04:28 01:04:33The Mushroom said the princess didn't drown herself

but ascended.

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01:04:37 01:04:39 I decided not to die.01:04:40 01:04:43 So I stayed alive,01:04:45 01:04:48 but I have no reason to be proud of this.01:04:51 01:04:55 It means The Holy Mother has turned away from me,01:04:58 01:05:00 a useless one.01:05:01 01:05:03 What do I do now?

01:05:03 01:05:07 After killing my husband, after being wronged by a robber, what

01:05:09 01:05:10 do I do now?01:08:25 01:08:28 Tear away your anger and be at peace.01:08:29 01:08:31 Don't take into your head all evil and vicious things.01:08:33 01:08:35 Isn't the best thing to do01:08:35 01:08:37 is to leave everyone be01:08:38 01:08:41 with their good and evil, and just sit01:08:41 01:08:44 in the company with the beaming ones.01:08:45 01:08:48 Your Excellency, have you01:08:49 01:08:53 - ever been in love? - Yes.01:08:54 01:08:57 I once caught a mermaid.01:08:58 01:09:00 We lived nicely01:09:01 01:09:03 until I took to bottle.01:09:04 01:09:06 After this she swam away.01:09:08 01:09:11 - And are you in love, Madame? - No.01:09:11 01:09:15 In my age it defies things aesthetic.01:09:39 01:09:42 Madame, and what do you think about these bottles?01:09:45 01:09:48 They look like young women.01:09:52 01:09:54 They are clinging to each other.01:09:56 01:09:58 They feel cold and lonely...01:09:58 01:10:01 For once they were in love, too.01:10:03 01:10:05 They live in a province, so full of dreams...01:10:06 01:10:09 Dreaming to leave to Moscow. To Moscow.

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01:10:13 01:10:16 No, this dream will never be fulfilled,01:10:16 01:10:18 and it will remain just a dream.01:10:19 01:10:22 They will never leave anywhere.01:10:24 01:10:27 They will feel blue, suffering.01:10:28 01:10:31 It will be only their chores left for them.01:10:32 01:10:35 They will grow old, and their mind will become stiff.01:10:36 01:10:38 We are imagining things.01:10:39 01:10:43 Imagination is better than reality.

01:10:45 01:10:49Without fairytales, how would we protect ourselves

from life?01:10:51 01:10:55 Moscow is so far away... far away...

01:10:56 01:11:02Such exquisite life is what provincial artillery officers

are dreaming about, too.01:11:03 01:11:06 But history is growing darker and darker.01:11:08 01:11:11 There is nowhere they can run away.01:11:13 01:11:14 Madame, what do you think...01:11:14 01:11:17 You are asking about this lonely bottle?01:11:20 01:11:21 It's Catherine:

01:11:21 01:11:26she's standing on a high cliff, she's about to jump into

the Volga.01:11:28 01:11:30 Are you sure?01:11:32 01:11:34 The Volga is a great Russian river.01:11:35 01:11:36 She will perish.01:11:39 01:11:42 Death is imminent.01:11:45 01:11:46 You made many a mistake, Madame.01:11:47 01:11:50 I remember how we went a-fishing to Tver gubernia,01:11:50 01:11:52 but the rivers were empty of fish.01:11:52 01:11:55 We wrote to you, and you said that01:11:55 01:11:57 the water-sprite had lost all fish in a card game01:11:58 01:12:00 and all fish had left to the Novgorod gubernia.

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01:12:00 01:12:03 We sent a wire there, and they said: no,01:12:03 01:12:06 - all fish is in Tver gubernia. - Well, I misdivined.

01:12:07 01:12:11I did make a mistake. I didn't know that all fish had

gone to the bottom.01:12:12 01:12:14 But let me remind you

01:12:14 01:12:18 how the Emperor's all jewel decorations disappeared.01:12:19 01:12:21 His closest milieu01:12:21 01:12:23 was under his suspicion.

01:12:23 01:12:28Even an old and loyal gentleman in waiting was

humiliated!01:12:29 01:12:30 Still they didn't find the jewelry.01:12:30 01:12:32 And it was when they called for me.01:12:33 01:12:35 And I did a most simple thing.01:12:36 01:12:38 I asked to bring a glassful of vodka01:12:38 01:12:41 and a saucer with two lumps of sugar atop it.01:12:41 01:12:44 I asked to take it to the icon chamber.

01:12:44 01:12:49And in the icon chamber they put all this near the icon

of St. Nicholas.

01:12:50 01:12:53Because the house spirit is silly, we needed him to get

drunk.01:12:53 01:12:56 For it was him who had stolen the jewelry.

01:12:56 01:13:00In the meantime, I singled out just a random thing in

the room,01:13:01 01:13:03 something unimportant.

01:13:04 01:13:09In our case, it was a pearl pencil, a present from Prince

of Oldenburg.

01:13:09 01:13:13 And I asked: 'Your Majesty, where is that pearl pencil?'01:13:14 01:13:17 Yes, Your Majesty, where is it, that pearl pencil?'01:13:17 01:13:21 Imagine: very soon the pearl pencil disappeared.

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01:13:22 01:13:25 And the hidden jewelry

01:13:25 01:13:30was revealed in the kitchen, on the Christmas tree

decorated for the cook's son.01:13:32 01:13:34 It was the house spirit who hanged them there.01:13:37 01:13:40 Madame. Still, once you made a very grave mistake.

01:13:40 01:13:44You made a good horoscope, but everything went

awry.01:13:46 01:13:48 A bomb exploded and many people died.01:13:48 01:13:50 It was an attempt on His Majesty.01:13:50 01:13:52 As for my mother the grand duchess,01:13:52 01:13:55 her carriage was moving from around the corner01:13:55 01:13:58 and met with the bomb accidentally.01:13:58 01:14:01 My dear mother was wounded01:14:01 01:14:03 Shortly thereafter I received a letter01:14:03 01:14:07 from a lady. She was pleading with me01:14:07 01:14:10 to ask to pardon a lad who was allegedly01:14:10 01:14:12 an indirect accomplice in that tragedy.

01:14:12 01:14:15He had only made a chemical preparation for that

bomb.01:14:15 01:14:18 She wrote he was a serious and sincere person.

01:14:18 01:14:20 He had made a mistake and his mother was suffering.

01:14:21 01:14:25And that he himself was repenting. He had only made

that chemical preparation.01:14:25 01:14:27 But my dear mother was killed by that bomb.01:14:28 01:14:30 Madame, it was you who wrote that letter.01:14:30 01:14:32 You did everything to help that young man.01:14:32 01:14:34 In the end he was released.01:14:34 01:14:37 And here is his letter: 'My dear sir!01:14:37 01:14:39 'When released from prison on September 6,

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01:14:39 01:14:43I did not get back my suspenders, for they couldn't find

them.01:14:44 01:14:47 You promised to find them by Friday, September 9th.

01:14:47 01:14:50If they are found, I'm asking you to return my

suspenders.01:14:50 01:14:53 Also I kindly ask you to return a chemistry book01:14:54 01:14:55 'estranged from me. Prisoner so-and-so.'

01:14:55 01:14:59Resolution: dear Mr. N! Most probably, your

suspenders

01:14:59 01:15:03were returned to someone else. Unfortunately, we

have no others to redeem...'

01:15:05 01:15:09And the book on chemistry we took to the prison

library01:15:09 01:15:11 which is a common procedure in such cases.01:15:11 01:15:14 'So, you won't have your book back.'01:15:14 01:15:17 Signature: 'Head of prison so-and-so.'01:15:18 01:15:21 Yes, it was a grave mistake of mine.01:15:23 01:15:27 Why throwing boxes with explosives at the tsars?

01:15:28 01:15:31Our Father The Tsar is the only person who is not a

thief.01:15:31 01:15:34 And the tsarina is not a thief either.

01:15:45 01:15:50Madame, all I have left from my dear mother is this

photo portrait.01:15:58 01:16:01 'This is all I have left from her.01:16:05 01:16:06 I was told one secret:01:16:07 01:16:10 photographers are agents of death.01:16:11 01:16:13 Only they don't even know about this.01:16:15 01:16:19 And people are so eager to have their photos,

01:16:20 01:16:26to have at least something left from their unimportant

life.

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01:16:26 01:16:28 These daguerreotypes are mortal all the same.01:16:29 01:16:34 Photos are born from silver grains.01:16:34 01:16:38 The silver blooms and then becomes ageing01:16:38 01:16:41 because of the air and the sun.01:16:42 01:16:45 It fades, withers away and vanishes.

01:16:48 01:16:52Once this fact aroused amazement. But soon it will

vanish, too.01:16:52 01:16:55 And when you are nevermore, Your Excellency,

01:16:55 01:17:00there will be no one to feast their eyes on this treasure

of love.01:17:00 01:17:03 There will be only the indifferent Nature. So...

01:17:03 01:17:08You should rather throw them awayinto a waste

basket,01:17:09 01:17:11 or, even better, burn them down.01:17:15 01:17:19 To throw into a waste basket? The grand duchess?01:17:19 01:17:21 Madame, you're spiteful!01:17:22 01:17:24 Better tell me who killed that man.01:17:25 01:17:27 You should pour01:17:27 01:17:29 a glassful of vodka,01:17:35 01:17:38 and I will ponder.01:17:40 01:17:42 Please ponder.

01:17:46 01:17:50She said to kindle the fireplace so as to ponder, lying

on the polar bear's skin.01:17:52 01:17:54 She'll ponder, lying on the polar bear's skin.

01:17:59 01:18:02She'll recline on the polar bear's skin, in front of the

fire,01:18:02 01:18:04 pondering about one more murder.01:18:09 01:18:11 She will ponder.01:20:26 01:20:28 Madame said...01:20:29 01:20:31 I am sorry...

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01:20:38 01:20:42Madame wants to get into the chandelier and said to

bring the ladder.01:21:11 01:21:12 Now bring the duke.01:21:17 01:21:20 Now bring the duke. I am going to narrate.01:21:49 01:21:51 The mushrooms on a glade in the woods01:21:51 01:21:54 are doing gymnastic figures.01:21:57 01:22:00 A young peasant woman sits near a coffin01:22:00 01:22:02 nailing it together.01:22:34 01:22:38 A tot pees into a pottie.

01:22:39 01:22:43The mother puts a silver pottie under the spout

because he hasn't peed much enough.01:22:45 01:22:47 He hasn't peed much enough.01:23:13 01:23:15 Now the pottie is full,01:23:15 01:23:18 and she wraps it into a piece of cloth...01:23:21 01:23:22 Now she runs...01:23:30 01:23:32 The children sit in the coffin,01:23:35 01:23:36 sailing away...01:23:43 01:23:46 How frightening it is in the woods...01:24:33 01:24:34 'Drink this, grannie...01:24:42 01:24:43 'For your good health...'01:25:12 01:25:14 Now she came to...01:25:40 01:25:42 'Time to go.'01:25:47 01:25:51 The old witch walks...01:26:01 01:26:03 The mushrooms...01:26:06 01:26:08 The horse...01:26:15 01:26:17 A dead man.01:26:21 01:26:22 She passed him.01:26:24 01:26:27 No, she is crawling back.01:26:33 01:26:34 She has found him.01:26:50 01:26:52 She is doing her witchery...

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01:27:07 01:27:09 He is breathing.01:27:14 01:27:18 The man opened his eyes, ready to speak.01:27:22 01:27:26 He narrates his version of the murder.01:32:46 01:32:48 Now I am wandering in nothingness,01:32:49 01:32:52 but every time I recollect what she said,01:32:52 01:32:54 I can feel that scorching in my chest.01:33:03 01:33:04 The princess said:01:33:05 01:33:08 'Take me wherever you want.'01:33:09 01:33:13 Have such awful words ever before01:33:13 01:33:16 reached human ear?01:33:18 01:33:20 'Take me wherever you want.'01:33:21 01:33:25 Have such awful words ever before01:33:25 01:33:27 reached human ear?01:33:28 01:33:30 It seemed to me it was going on in some nightmare.01:33:38 01:33:40 Come with me...01:33:45 01:33:47 Come with me...01:33:52 01:33:55 Then silence fell everywhere.01:33:57 01:34:00 No, not everywhere. Someone was sobbing nearby.01:34:03 01:34:06 I undid the rope and listened closely.01:34:09 01:34:12 And realized it was I myself sobbing.01:34:29 01:34:31 Take me wherever you want.01:34:39 01:34:42 'Take me wherever you want...'01:36:31 01:36:35 If I can't stand for myself, then whoever will?01:36:36 01:36:40 And if I stand only for myself, then what for am I?01:36:41 01:36:43 'If not now, then when?01:36:45 01:36:47 'And I decided to do away of myself.01:37:43 01:37:48 With difficulty I disentangled myself from the tree.01:37:50 01:37:53 'A dagger was glistening in front of me...01:37:56 01:37:58 'I took it, and at one stroke01:37:58 01:38:01 'thrust it into my chest...'

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01:38:06 01:38:09 'At night, someone sneaked up to me,01:38:11 01:38:14 'pulled out the dagger01:38:15 01:38:19 'and put a ruby on my forehead.01:38:23 01:38:26 'It still remains a mystery who it was.01:38:29 01:38:33 'And I left to the other world forever.'01:38:46 01:38:49 Tell me, oh you, the ten-headed one,01:38:49 01:38:51 does paradise exist?01:38:52 01:38:53 Paradise?01:38:57 01:39:00 We all had our paradise01:39:01 01:39:02 in childhood...01:39:06 01:39:10 And we all were immortal in that paradise...

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