Love and Lies

Central Studio of Children and Youth Films named after M.Gorky

YOU WOULDN'T EVEN DREAM IT...

Based upon the book by G.SHCHERBAKOVA

Screenplay by G.SHCHERBAKOVA with participation of I.FREZ

Directed by Ilya FREZ

Director of Photography G.TUTUNOV

Production Designers A.DIKHTYAR, V.VLASKOV

Music by A.RYBNIKOV

English Subtitles

Starring

Katya - Tanya AKSYUTA Roman - Nikita MIKHAILOVSKY

Tatiana Nikolayevna - Yelena SOLOVEY Lyudmila Sergeyevna - I.MIROSHNICHENKO

Vera - L.FEDOSEYEVA-SHUKSHINA Kostya - A.FILOZOV

Grandmother - T.PELTSER Tatiana Nikolayevna's Mother - R.NIFONTOVA Volodya - E.GERASIMOV

Misha - L.FILATOV Sashka - V.KURKOV Alyona - E.VASILYEVA

"Poetic Notebook" at 9:15

"Radio for Kids",

broadcast from Leningrad at 10:10.

For school students: "Invitation" (a concert on your demands)

and a radio essay, "Your Electronic Helpers",

at 10:25

A concert of Petrov's compositions, broadcast from Leningrad,

at 11:15...

The 15th session of thermal treatment

Enough for today

Now, legs apart, we start our morning exercises.

One, two, one, two

Now turn. One, two...

- Well, how do you feel? - Fine.

Sit down. One, two, one two

Get down. You'll go with us

I don't want to. I'm fine here

Let's make a draw. Half-way your way, half-way my way

- Please help her - All right. Uncle Volodya, take me down

There we go flying

We're losing time at this crossing, ma'am,

and we have three more runs to make

Ok, I'll pay extra

And what do you suggest? Unloading right here?

I don't know how to deal with them

Call me in such cases

Oh, we've got a man in our house. Ha-ha-ha!

- What year at school is that smarty? - She'll start grade 9

She looks small for her age. My daughter is in grade 9 too

We had to buy size 14 school dress. Can you imagine? Why are they rushing to grow?

To be the right size

Uncle Volodya, can you shave? I don't like bearded men

But our mom likes it. - Yes! So you have to submit, Katya

Are you newly married?

Exactly!

I'll die laughing! New lymarried!

I'm going to flog you. On Saturdays, after bath

Theatre's tour

"Westside Story"

He came to see me off

He rushed there after his shift, without getting any sleep

What do you really want?

You know...

Time will be gone forever, as it's happened to me

Mom, I beg you...

By the way, Tanechka, a very famous theatre's coming here

I know

I wouldn't go if I were you

I can't understand that acting zigzag of yours after the university

You've got too analytical mind. Hasn't she, Misha?

Yes, too analytical

What a woman!

Why don't you fly?

I like to travel by train and dream

It's serious

Why not go somewhere in winter, all three of us?

Mom, I beg you. Otherwise we will quarrel

Tanya Koltsova!

I was afraid you were not in Moscow

- I've put the books under the seat. - Fine

- Is that your husband? - No

- But he may become one, right? - Ella, I hardly recognized you

- Did I get better or worse? - Better, of course

Honestly? I've lost 5 kilos. I can squeeze into size 8 now

We have a terrific "Westside". Such expressivity! Such a great tempo!

You would look lovely in tights. Why are we standing here?

Ella, I'm sorry, I'm seeing my mother off

You look so much alike!

I was just telling Tanya how much we miss her at our theatre

Everybody has failures at first

I think that Tanya did the right thing

Our schools are awful, children hold nothing sacred, teachers are idiots

Please proceed into the carriage

All right, have a nice trip. I'll expect you to see "Westside" tomorrow

Well, goodbye

Mommy

Tanya, I must tell it, and you should bear with me

We're not supposed to cheat nature, it will take revenge for that. Remember it

Give me a grandson or a granddaughter. Even with the first man you meet

All right, I'm going right now to look for the first man I meet

What first man you meet were you talking about?

The one I have to have a baby with

Well, we have met already

Oh God, what a man you are!

I'm going home alone

I don't mind. I'm terribly tired today

I can't believe it

The air is so good!

I'm so happy that we are far away from everybody now!

Lyusia! Lyusia!

Lyusia, it's heavy, let me help

Kostya, what are you doing here?

I live nearby. Let me carry these things

Thank you, we'll do it ourselves. I'm here with my husband

- Nice to meet you. - Hello

So we're neighbors now

And here's Vera, and Romka

Goodbye, Kostya. We have lots to do

- I could give you a hand. - Kostya

- You don't need to feel shy. - Go away, for God's sake!

Please

You did well, jumped like a real athlete.

What is it, mom?

At home he has radiculitis, but once she's in his way, he's healthy, goat.

Stop it, Vera... Didn't I forget my medical certificate?

I haven't seen her for 15 years

Did you count? You counted it, didn't you?

I just remember it

We'll have to change the apartment

Just imagine, we're neighbors! I couldn't dream of anything better!

Who was that man?

Who? My sometime admirer

We were even kissing then. It makes me sick just to think of it

My so-called first love. I feel like changing the apartment!

The woman went crazy

That feeble will fly from here like a butterfly

He will keep coming, pestering, moaning. I know him

Then we'll have to punch him. Right, Katya?

We will, if we need to

Vera

What do you think? Shall we order a suit made for me?

As you wish

People say they make good suits now

Really? For 15 years he's been happy with suits from a store

Mom, let him have one made

I can do without, if you make such conclusions

Mom, why did you get upset?

It's all because of her, haven't you noticed? He hasn't been sick since

But it's good, isn't it?

I won't be home for supper. We're going to see "Westside Story"

Parents,

I love you

Do not fight

Vera

Let's have something made for you

I was waiting all evening, then figured out you were at the theatre

With the kids

You're crazy. You could've asked me to go. If you had asked really well,

I would have been difficuIt at first, but then would have gone with you

You would have been difficult all the evening

Yawned, coughed and groaned

Tanya, I don't feel comfortable when you want me to impersonate Chekhov

You set too high standards for life

Change the angle of your compasses, and everything will come right

Actually, it's atavism, to follow heart's call

I know everything you're going to say

"I'm coming to you after work, tired and drawn out."

Right, my love. That's reality

As a doctor, I'm a hundred times above Chekhov

As for the rest, please spare me this comparison

The show was awful. My children behaved abominably

Pure feeling of love...

...and they roar with laughter

Anyway, I'll start my lesson tomorrow with discussion of this play

I'll tell them, "You were laughing. I feIt like laughing, too.

But we're about to enter the world of literature

which all tells us of love, all of it.

Pushkin, and Tolstoy, and Turgenev."

Yet the classics wrote not only about love,

but sometimes about the daily bread, too,

which is more important for life.

You want everyone to be like you

Why not? A healthy society without any complexes

I'm the only teacher whose subject concerns the soul

I can't get away from it

Or you think that the soul is a complex, too?

I'm not building bridges, because I don't know how

Then, how can you teach about love

if you yourself are running from it like...

...a chased hare?

Still smooching?

Like kids

All right, go

You're making fun of me

- And then you yourself will fall in love at 16. - So it'll be soon

And that will be just a trifle, like what I had with Kostya

Then with your dad

And at last, I've got something real...

...when I didn't expect it at all

Not everybody has it like this

Of course. But you, like me, have two crowns on your head

You're so beautiful, mom. You'll never grow old

We'll see

I am a reckless woman

It's not such a big deal to have a child