The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not Marry

MOSFILM

Creative Association "TOVARISCH"

THE STORY OF ASYA KLYACHINA

who loved a man,

but did not marry him.

Starring

Iya Savvina

Lyubov Sokolova

Alexander Surin

Gennady Yegorychev

Ivan Petrov

Only three of the actors

are professionals.

The rest are local workers and farmers.

Mishanka!

- Have you seen Mishanka? - No.

- Have you seen him? - No.

- Kolya, give a hand! - I'll help in the winter.

Let me do it. You'll bust a gut.

- Hey, let me help. - Better look after the boy.

Mishanka!

Mother is calling you!

Hello, Asya!

Hello!

Are you late with lunch again?

What are those pipes for?

For sewage?

Who knows...

They're putting in gas pipes. - A gas?

So they're going to dig up the whole threshing floor.

- They're making a new one. - That's good.

- You haven't changed. - Why should I have?

Why not? It's been a whole year.

Did they send you here again to help with the harvest?

Did you forget my name?

Why d'you say that? Sasha.

I don't recall your patronymic.

No, they didn't send me here. I'm on my vacation.

Why didn't you answer my letter? That wasn't nice.

You should've gone to the seaside.

I came after you.

Don't tell me you couldn't find anyone better in town?

Of course not.

Don't you believe me?

Stop kidding!

Honest!

These onions are strong!

I told you everything in my letter.

I got a good apartment. Bought furniture.

What's more, I bought you a washing machine.

I got it through connections.

It's really great!

It turns on and off by itself.

It's specially for you,

to make things easier for you.

You're used to doing things with your hands in the village.

With the machine you just push a button and it does the rest.

Marry me.

Don't feel self-conscious about being lame.

I love you the way you are.

They're shooting at the tank base. You've forgotten...

You muddler!

It's time to mow.

See how much trouble kids are.

Prokhor. Did Asya marry Kostya the Gypsy?

She turned him down last year.

Whom did she marry?

Nobody wants her.

Whose baby is it?

Ask our women. They'll tell you everything.

- Why can't you tell me? - I don't know.

Don't you know who she was seeing?

I'm not interested in those things.

- Aren't you my friend, Prokhor? - Stop all that talk!

The rye crop here is terrific. But in the ravine it's pitiful.

Prokhor, when does the train leave for town?

- What? - When does the train leave for town?

At 9:40 a.m. I don't remember. Why?

I'm going home.

Why don't you stay and relax. Zhenya really misses you.

What Zhenya?

How heavy you are! You've grown in the last year.

I'll take him!

- Did you find him? - Yes, we did.

What could happen to him here?

You're right about that.

- What are you doing? - The shirt smells of you.

God knows what's become of you.

- What? - I can't explain.

Styopa, come here and listen to the baby.

- I don't care about it. - Listen to it!

After all, it's yours. - What?

He's pushing me. Oh, I think it's turning over.

Listen, Anastasiya, stop talking about him! Got it?

- I got it. - And put down the glove!

Why was Chirkunov hanging around you?

- Maybe he likes me. - You?

Why not?

You have a big head!

He used to like me, but not now that my stomach's so big.

Why don't you marry him?

Are you kidding, Styopa! You're the one I love.

Again? Just stop talking about love!

I don't know what the hell I'm doing with you lame fool!

It's moving again. A real lively one.

- Where? - Right here. Can you hear it?

That's it? Incredible!

Uncle Prokhor!

I ask myself what is NATO?

That NATO... Why are you so interested in politics?

Is NATO fighting in South Vietnam?

- No, it doesn't. - No?

Only some of the member countries

are involved in the war.

I thought you'd tell me something new. I know that.

Grisha, turn it off; it's time to go to bed.

It's too early.

We have to get up before dawn.

You can't cut the rye when it's wet with the morning dew.

By the time you get going, and have breakfast... Turn it off!

What do we have for breakfast?

When you're working outdoors any food'll do. Turn it off!

Zhenya.

What d'you want?

Call Asya, please.

Asya's spending the night in the village.

Vasyok, have they brought the diesel oil?

I knew it. Don't you care?

You can't walk without tripping over something.

Slava, run back to the village for the diesel oil.

- Where's Styopa? - He was stuck in the village.

Styopa'll bring it on his way back from the village tomorrow.

You know Styopa. You can't depend on him.

- You always count on Slava. - None of your business!

Slava, get up! Help us out!

Don't yell...

He hasn't slept for 3 nights. He has the right to sleep now.

- Shut up, you fool! - Don't yell.

We talk about the scientific management...

Gena, get up! Take my bike and hurry to the village,

and get the oil back here in an hour!

Get up! Get up!

Come on!

Take my bike and make sure the oil's here in an hour.

Turn out the light!

How many times have you been married?

Once. I brought her back from the war, or rather afterwards.

- When were you born? - In 1927.

You're younger than me.

Can you give me a light?

I was born in 1924.

It's nothing...

During the war she washed bandages in the medical unit.

There was one guy there...

He showed me his fist and said:

"Leave her alone. I have my eye on her first."

So, did he punch you in the nose?

A couple of times I got it from him.

It was nothing...

We agreed to leave her alone.

We figured she'd make the choice if we survived.

Suddenly I got a good singing voice in the spring.

I didn't expect that myself.

She seemed to like me better.

It's nothing...

Looking through fading photos

I'll keep one as a memento

of the girl in the beige dress,

My darling girl, my beauty

That was clever of you!

But then I lost my voice.

No sorry for a freebie.

I noticed that my rival had backed off.

I felt bad about moving in on him.

- Right. - It was nothing...

In the spring the girl was wounded.

As soon as I found out I asked the commander to let me go.

They were taking away the wounded when I arrived.

There were so many of them, I couldn't get through.

I called out her name, and she answered me.

"Prokhor, come here for God's sake to say goodbye."

She started crying.

I couldn't get through.

The truck she was in started off, and I ran after it.

I couldn't keep up with it!

During an assault I was hit by a fragmentation mine.

I have five fragments in my hand.

It's nothing...

Let me have a drink.

They carried me across the Sosh River.

It's in Byelorussia between Gomel and Mogilyov.

That's where I was wounded. I was sent to the medical unit.

I got first aid there.

My finger was hanging. They cut it off.

They wanted to cut this one off, too. I can't move it.

I wouldn't let them. I thought it might heal.

And this is what it looks like now.

I was there over the anniversary holiday.

We got 100 grams of vodka.

We had a good time. We hadn't had a drink for a long time.