Vanka (Ванька)

STAR MEDIA presents

Maria Bortnik

Maksim Saprykin

Anton Batyrev

Aleksandra Nazarova

In VANKA

Based on a novel by Olga Stepnova

Written by Dmitry Stepnov & Olga Stepnova

Directed by Viacheslav Lavrov

Director of photography: Andrey Lebediansky

Production designer: Vadim Afanasyev

Music by Anatoly Zubkov

Executive producer: Filip Bruskikin

Dashie, hi.

DOMASNY channel producer: Yelena Teplova

Do you remember what I asked you for?

Ah, yes.

Not this…

Producer: Darya Lavrova

Ah, yes. Here.

Dashie, thank you so much!

Are you sure you don’t need it now?

General producers: Natalya Korotkova, Nabalya Bilan, Vlad Ryashin

I am. Well, I was saving for… well, it doesn’t matter… Take it.

Dashie, you’re friend indeed! What would I do without you?

You cannot even imagine: it’s the purse of my dream!

And there’s a 50% discount for it!

Then you must take it for sure!

Agree! I will surely repay you after I get the salary. I promise. Kisses.

Dashie! Have a good holiday!

Oh, guys, thank you… you shouldn’t…

Yes, we should! How will we cope without you here?

Well, the chief said he would provide another proofreader…

Dashie, no one will ever replace you.

But you relax and forget about everything!

Thank you, guys! Come to the meeting room in half an hour.

I’ll serve a table there…

A dietary one?

Very dietary…

All right, we are off. See you.

Masha, I’m having a vacation at last… I’ll be free for four weeks!

No rush when coming to the office in the morning, and no jolting in the bus

on the way back home in the evenings. It’s splendid, isn’t it?

It is. You’ll going to stay home for days, reading detective stories

and eating buns, aren’t you?

Plenty of buns and plenty of patties. And lots of detective stories!

What about going to the gym with me, eh?

What for? A stout body will never be slim and vice versa.

And the gym has nothing to do with it.

A brilliant position. Look, were your parents stout?

Nope. Even my cat is slim.

You answered all your questions. Dasha, you just need to eat less. Dasha…

Dasha, want me to deal with your shape?

No, Masha, it even sounds horrible.

There’s nothing horrible in it. We just check your health… your blood sugar… whatever…

We’ll find a good endocrinologist for you, or a good coach…

Or buy a good dress for you at least.

Can you really dress like a homeless victim of a fire all the time?

You were saving money for it, weren’t you?

Oh, Masha, what are you talking about? It’s so… so beautiful. And me?

Moreover, I don’t have money now – I’ve borrowed a sum…

In short, I’m off to have rest. I need to go. See you.

I’ll deal with you anyway.

Hi.

Hi.

What is it you wish?

Eh… a Berliner, three éclairs…

Excellent choice.

… and half a kilo of… cream puffs. I’ve got a holiday, after all.

All right. Is this all?

Do you have anything else?

Ma’am…

Hi.

Hi.

Will you let me pass?

What?

I say, will you let me pass?

Ah, yes, of course…

Thank you. – Ouch!

What a day! Do you realize what you have done?

I do.

I’m so sorry…

There’s a dry cleaner’s round the corner near here, so I can show you…

You’d better show yourself some… gym.

To improve your coordination of movements and…

your shape in general… No, thank you.

Ah, Dashie, good afternoon.

Have you already seen him?

Good afternoon, Marya Sergeyevna. Seen whom?

Our new neighbor. He moved in the flat 37.

Alone, no wife. Tall and handsome...!

Ah, I wish I were 28 now…

Oh, I am 28 now, and what’s the use?

No, I haven’t seen him, Marya Sergeyevna. Want some tea? I’ve got some pastry.

No, thank you, Dashie. Some other time. I’ve got a fasting day today.

Again?

Well… a woman should take care of her shape… See you.

Well… “Sports tomorrow 9.00”

Speed up!

Masha! I can’t!

To hell with these loads! Masha!

Five more minutes. Then we go to exercise the legs.

The legs?!

Dasha? Are you all right?

Is there a doctor here?

All of my body aches…Masha, I don’t want to lose weight anymore. I want nothing more!

Here, have some water! Wanna get married?

I do. But somehow without a gym.

No, you can’t do without the gym.

What is a modern man? Exactly. He’s hard-to-please and capricious.

That’s why no excess kilo or you will never put on a wedding dress.

Won’t I? You’ve been exhausting yourself for years, yet you still aren’t married.

Got an excess kilo hiding somewhere?

Well, let’s say, I’m not ready for marriage now. Psychologically.

Well, it’s not about me now… By the way, know what I’ve prepared? A food list.

This is what you may eat for breakfast and dinner.

Do you want me dead?

No, I don’t. You said you a new neighbor moved in your block, haven’t you?

Tall, handsome, charming and attractive – a real dream… So you need to conform.

Conform to what?

To the dream. Or he’ll slip away.

Yes, conform.

He will never look in my direction no matter how hard I will try to lose weight.

Hi, sis!

Alka? You seem to be in Canada in search of job, are you not?

What Canada? What job? I’m in search of happiness now, not job.

Come on, take off your jacket.

Ugh! – I see…

Oh, Vanka has grown so much! How old is he?

Eight. Or nine?

Do you remember when Gokokhov went to prison?

You mean the one with moustache?

No. The one with a scar on his forehead.

Alla, I don’t. How can one remember all of your boyfriends?

Damn, I was as though in a daze then. I don’t even remember how I delivered Vanka,

how I discharged from the hospital and how his gaffer Gorokhov made off…

Vania, honey, how old are you?

Eight and a half.

Here. See how smart the boy is? Good boy.

Yeah, he’s a good boy. A very nice one.

Sis, I’ve come on a business.

I need to go to Sochi resort and arrange my private life…

All oligarchs are making money there now.

Please, do me a favor: take Vanka to live with you for a while, will you?

Meaning? For how long?

A couple of weeks. Or a months. I’m not sure. We’ll see.

Eh… Well, I… I’m on holiday now.

All right, I will. We’ll get on, Vanka, won’t we?

Just let him try not! Dashie!

You’re a great sister! Vanka’s stuff’s in the bag. All right…

I should be off. Son, mind and behave! Got it?

Aha.

Dashie, I need to go, don’t see me off.

Hi, Vania.

Ugh…

I don’t want borsch! I don’t want meat dumplings, I don’t want beetroot salad!

Why?

I don’t like them.

You don’t? And what is it you like?

Seafood pizza.

Ah… Well, buddy, excuse me.

I don’t have either pizza or seafood. Will you eat borsch?

I won’t.

Then leave the table.

All right. Fie… ugh…

Have you ordered pizza?

What pizza?

Seafood, a medium one on a thin bread layer. Is this your order?

Yes, it’s ours. Thank you.

It’s 750 roubles.

How much?

750.

Ah… wait.

I’m not sure whether I have… enough money.

Thank you. Good bye.

Listen, let’s make a… deal…

Damn Vanka… he’s drawn drawings all over the walls… I’ll show you…

Vanka! I’ll kill you!

What is it with you?

Don’t play innocent! Come here! Come here!

I say, stop now! You!.. Little maggot…

Catch it!

Ah...! Vanka, you’re swine!

YOU are swine! Fat swine!

Just come here! You’ll catch it for “fat”!

What on earth is this! I’ll show you!

Eat!

I won’t eat borsch! I won’t eat potatoes!

Why?

It’s vile! Nothing but fats!

What is it you will eat?

A vegetable salad, fish. Tuna fish, for instance, will do.

Well… Are them being brought here?

Aha.

Look here! There’s food in the fridge. You will eat what we have!

You’re fat one!

You little maggot! Just come here!

I’m no fat; I’m stout! Got that?

Oh, come on! Catch up with me first! Stout one! Plop!

I will! Ouch!