The Blonde Around the Corner (Блондинка за углом)

Hello

Take a seat

Everyone is seated?

May I start? Thank you

Imagine life one day will become simple for all

Each of us will be happy, singing, carefree

This time is very near - we will all become ideal people

In each role we will be faultless

Just as we are in love

This will happen, without doubt

While for now there is both laughter and sorrow

So let us return to our time

And exaggerate a few things

We will ascertain with a touch of sadness and shame

That we are capable of becoming heroes

Unfortunately, not all the time

LENFILM

First Creative Union

A fantastic story with a prologue, an epilogue and a musical commentary by Andrei Mironov

Tatyana Dogileva Andrei Mironov

In the film

A blonde girl around the corner

Script by ALEKSANDR CHERVINSKY

Director VLADIMIR BORTKO

Operators IVAN BAGAEV VALENTIN KOMAROV

Artist VLADIMIR SVETOZAROV

Composer ISAAC SHWARZ Sound Operator NATALIYA AVANESOVA

Stage Directors: A. ABAKAROV A. BURMISTROVA Editor: V. SHWARZ

Montage: M. AMOSOVA Costumes: Yu. KOLOTKO

Conductor E. HACHATURIAN

Song lyrics: V. SUMARKOVA B. RAZERA V. KONSTANTINOVA

Assistant producers: V. MIHAILOV N. VASIL'EVA Operators M. KULIKOV Montage E. MARTINOVA

Assistant director: T. PUTENKOVA Photographer: M. LELYA Decorator: I. MISHINA Sound recording V. MIHNEVICH

Administrators: V. GRISHIN R. TUR A. KABAKOV S. SOKOLOV

Film Director: VLADIMIR SEMENEZ

Starring

Gavrila Maksimovich: MARK PRUDKIN Tatiana Vasil'eva: EVGENIYA HANAEVA Regina: ELENA SOLOVEI Crocodile: ANATOLY SLIVNIKOV Rashid Rashidovich BAADUR TSULADZE

Supermarket worker: ANATOLY RAVIKOVICH, ALEKSEI ZHARKOV Nervous customer SERGEY BEHTEREV Ogurzov: PAVEL KADOCHNIKOV

Could you tell me please, there will be onions for sale?

Excuse me, will there be onions?

He knows

Tell me please, will there be onions or not?

I am asking you, will there be onions?

I am talking to you - will there be onions for sale?

The Torpeda team is losing

Goal! Another one!

Yes, that was the last chance for Torpeda during the match

What a possibility - such opportunities must be made the most of

Zero - one, torpeda loses

Please could you let me know, if there will be onions

You will lose your amber ring in the bet, before you know it

I am here about the onions

Could you tell me...?

You don't know?

Please could you let me know, if you will have onions?

Take the ring, if they don't want to play

You know me, I would not feel sad to give away a diamond ring if only the bourgeious team was punished

Stop it, I won't take it

Take it, I say! My word is the law

I will earn myself another one, no problem! I don't undestand...

I honestly don't understand why our team keeps losing

All the conditions are created for them

They train all year - cars are there for their taking

Free flats, trips abroad

They have 60 million fans!

And they still lose, the devils!

Excuse me please, I am asking you again

Will onions be for sale?

There is no order in the team

As they write in newspapers - people act like they have no responsibility

No-one cares about anything

No respect for their role

Because people have become greedy

Forgot how life used to be - only pasta to eat, but we were still happy. We would get together, sing songs

And won, by the way

Now everyone has everything but it is not enough

If he is sacked from one place, he will go somewhere else

Comrades, will anyone answer me?

They think too much of themselves

I tell my children - the most important thing is community

Here is one branch, it is easily snapped

Lots of branches make a broom - that can't be broken

Football is a group sport - everyone has become too clever

A person needs to have fear

So, no-one knows anything?

Young man, why are you shouting?

I am asking, will there be onions or not?

He does not want my soul, he wants onions

Do not be rude to me!

The queue sent me

Young man, the queue could not have sent you as we do not have any such organisation

Go to the hall, take the book of complaints and write in it

I will write!

Write

A real beast, huh? How he looked at me

You are a human though - you could have talked to him

Next time he would have been wiser

Maybe no-one told him how he should behave

Maybe he grew up without a mother

He grew up without Mummy, without Daddy - can't explain anything to someone like that

A beast will never become a human

A fool will never become clever

Anyone can be made a human being if he is approached humanely

Nadya, you exaggerate. Only in films can you make a person right

In life, a person who all is lost for can't even be helped by his own mother

I would have helped my son

Yes

Why are there no onions?

Because the alcoholic heaver is asleep in it

Go and make a human being out of him

Alcoholism is an illness, which should be treated. Which one is the heaver?

The new one, first day here today

Only the grave will cure him

Each one has his own fate, Nadya

What fate? We do not believe in that stuff

Reform him. For a bet!

You don't care that a person is being lost

Do you care?

Yes

If we do not help him, Rashidik, then who will?

Who will save a person?

Yes... a pessimistic vision

Pessimistic?

Why did you drink in the heat?

You could die like that

I do not think death is the most frightening thing

A person cannot know if he has died - he simply no longer exists

If you do not exist, why do you drink?

Why?

Did you get sacked from your previous job for drinking?

No, I wasn't sacked

An even worse thing happened - I committed suiside

I've been dead 5 years and I can tell you - I used to be in love with you

I do not even know your name

Nadezhda

What a miracle

Come on!

Pleasure to meet you

Even though I have been seeing you every morning

Where?

You were leaving a magically green car

Genas Chrysler

You did not notice me

I really liked you then

And now?

Even more

Now I am a corpse

I am in the afterlife

Stop that! You are in our life, not the afterlife

We will fight for you

You are lovely

Our professor in the narcotics clinic is a specialist in alcoholics

If need be - I will arrange a specialist rehab centre, if you run away - we will catch you

No problem. You will stop drinking

Drinking is fairly disgusting

I have nowhere to run - I really like it here

Well done - realisation is half of your success

What is your name?

Nikolai Gavrilovich

Like Chernishevsky

Funny, isn't it?

Why funny? A great russian name and patronymic

A great one

For a great person

You needed to study

I did study

Not the right subjects, or with the right teachers

Oh not the right subjects or teachers at all

You see the point

Your head hurts?

It always hurts from something

You persuaded me. But this is the first and last time

No more alcohol in future. Here you go

I brought you some cold beer

What is this?

Imported beer

Drink it, don't be scared

What a great thing - I've never seen one like it

You haven't seen many good things in life in general

That is why you have such pessimistic thoughts

Pessimistic

Come on. All right, let's get out

I will get you cleaned up

Just listen to me and all will be in order

Help me a second

No, he is with me

I will arrange it so I can always see you

Whether you want it or not we will make a human being out of you

Do you want to be human?

Very much

No problem. All the roads are open for everyone, and for you too

Simply you didn't have a goal in life up to now

I had the wrong goal, and now none at all. I do not know what a goal should be

Like everyone else. Everyone must be happy

It is as though you fell from the moon

That is a very creative way of putting it. Yes, I used to be the man from the moon

Maybe you are not a drinker?

I used to not drink

I thought you were loading furniture into houses before starting to work for us

No, Naden'ka, I used to work at the institute of space research, did research