Different Fortunes (Raznye sudby / Разные судьбы / Many Roads)

Gorky Film Studio

- Tanya! - Oh, Fedya!

You put on a dress for a very special date,

You look quite grownup in every way.

Only yesterday you were my schoolmate.

What will you become to me today?

We can't wait to leave the school forever,

And it doesn't occur to you and me

That this moment won't be repeated ever,

Nor another graduation will come to be!

DIFFERENT FORTUNES

Screenplay by L. LUKOV, Ya. SMOLYAK

Directed by Leonid LUKOV

Director of Photography M. KIRILLOV

Production Designer P. PASHKEVICH

Music by Nikita BOGOSLOVSKY

Lyrics by N. DORIZO

English Subtitles by T. Kameneva

Cast:

Tanya Ogneva - Tatyana PILETSKAYA Fedya Morozov - Yu. PANICH

Ognev - L. SVERDLIN His wife - O. ZHIZNEVA

Sonya Orlova - Tatyana KONYUKHOVA Stepan Ogurtsov - G. YUMATOV

Morozova - A. VOITSIK Sergeychuk - V. DOROFEYEV

Zubov - S. BLINNIKOV Vera Zubova - V. USHAKOVA

Head of Personnel Department - K. SOROKIN

Party Secretary - V. SANAYEV

Roshchin - B. FREINDLIKH His wife - L. MAKSIMOVA

Since early years to grow up we were impatient,

Hastening the school days in their tide.

For our childhood to get appreciation,

One has to leave it once and for all behind.

As I try to recall the past most carefully,

A disturbing thought is vexing me:

Parting with my childhood irrevocably,

I may so part with you, never to see!..

Why work at a plant? You write poetry, you got to enter a literary college.

All youths go through a malaise of writing verses.

It's like measles, you got to get over it and forget.

So you're going to leave?

Don't we have enough plants in Leningrad?

I can't leave. I have to see every day...

White nights, the embankment.

And...

Such girl as you, Tanya, was born to be loved.

And I'm already in love, Styopa.

With Fedya?

Well, he's a good boy, a jolly boy.

Very good.

You think I'm not as good? You find me boring?

- Styopa! - Look!

You're crazy! Crazy!

- Well? - Well what?

I told you honestly, as my best friend.

If a girl offers you friendship, then it's hopeless.

It's late, I got to run.

Don't be angry, okay?

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

It's good dreaming in the early morning, isn't it?

Sonya?

I can't believe that our childhood is over.

And it's time to think about the future.

I'm already trying to solve an arithmetic problem.

- What's better - five or ten? - Meaning what?

Meaning this. You study in college for 5 years.

You acquire a specialty, but only theoretically.

You come to a factory, and before you become a real engineer,

you'll have to add another 5 years of practical work.

Wouldn't you better do it the other way round?

That's what I decided: to work and study at an evening department.

And you'll gain 5 years.

Thanks for the support. You really pleased me.

- If I did, you must dance. - I don't dance.

Don't lie, I know you did.

Yes, I did. But only once in my life.

And only for one person, but there were no witnesses.

Or there weren't supposed to be any. Were you spying?

I was.

You think too much of yourself, and you shouldn't .

As though Styopa Ogurtsov is the one and only.

- But Fedya Morozov is much better! - Sonya.

I've never thought you could be so coarse.

Leningrad - Novosibirsk

Styopa, listen to your aunt.

Forget about this ticket and stay.

Sorry, we are almost late.

We attended the day performance.

I would've never left, if only because of the Kirov Theatre.

And I approve of him. I even feel envious.

Why don't you kiss each other? Everybody does it at the station.

I'm a friend, too, am I not?

I hope you'll learn to kiss there.

Well, good luck.

I had no idea that Styopa was so weak-willed.

Giving up his native city for the sake of some aim he set himself...

Save your pathos for a public meeting.

As for the aim,

he went not towards it, but from it.

You mean yourself?

No, no, blooming mills, open-hearth furnaces.

How can you make fun of your friend in this way?

I'm not making fun of Styopa, but of your copybook maxims and slogans.

You're talking to me as if you're at a public meeting. It sucks.

Tanya dear!

- Excuse me. Sonya? - Yes, Sonya.

What a surprise! How did you get here?

- I bought a ticket. - I see.

What do you see?

Just one thing. I've hardly left and I'm already missing her.

- Not too late to jump off the train. - That wouldn't change anything.

Try it, maybe this way you'll touch her heart.

Goodbye.

- But you've got the ticket. - Just to the next stop.

I wanted to show my sympathy, as a friend. Goodbye.

Tanya!

You're wrong, my name is Sonya.

Excuse me.

Tanya! Tanechka!

Let's agree never to quarrel again.

I realized that sometimes it's useful to quarrel.

Right. We did and the next minute I was missing you, looking for you.

And I almost burst crying, so much I wanted to see you immediately.

Look, guys, they're kissing!

Kissing in the street in full daylight!

What's wrong about it?

- You're crazy. - Tanya.

Aren't you ashamed of yourself?

- We have nothing to hide. - What do you mean?

Your mother already knows it.

What did you tell her?

Nothing. She just took a look at me and understood everything.

So it's no longer a secret to your mother, either.

No. And it's good.

You're crazy.

Tanya!

Dear Tanya.

I got the news only yesterday, so it was too late to send a telegram.

Sorry.

My heartfelt congratulations to you and Fedya.

I wish you a happy...

I wish the newlyweds a happy family life.

It's two years now...

It's almost two years now

that I've been working at the plant.

I'll never forget my first day here.

They received me as one of the family.

And right away, will you believe it, I was appointed a steel founder.

Sparks of fire all around.

But I wasn't scared at all.

Will you stop it, Styopa, for God's sake? I can't go to sleep.

What are you doing there?

Creaking with your pen.

What are you writing, eh?

What... what...

An article for the wall newspaper.

I study at the evening college.

As you can see, I'm not lagging behind.

You're sophomores, and I am, too.

I work and study, and don't feel any tiredness.

Yes, I'm not going to hide anything.

I met a girl here.

She's a little devil, just like you.

Beautiful, and even intelligent.

I live in a separate, splendid room.

Already managed to buy furniture,

books and even a rug.

They say it's an Uzbek rug.

So I don't regret at all having left Leningrad.

Leningrad.

That's about all, I guess. Best regards to your spouse.

Sounds funny - " spouse" .

He puts " spouse" in inverted commas. What cheek.

Deduce: " He used to be just Fedka the dude, and now a spouse."

It's quite another thing.

That's what he writes: I'm kidding.

"I'm kidding, of course. Give him my love.

Once again, I wish you two all the happiness in the world."

The bus! Let's run!

Oh, shit!

Anything else there?

That's it.

Give it to me for a sec.

There's also: " Shaking your hand, Styopa."

May I see it?

Anyway, he's a jerk. Didn't even sent a 'hi' to her.

- Don't start this. - I'm not saying anything.

Say what you like, but Styopa's doing great. He's already got an apartment.

You don't get it, do you?

He's lying. He made it all up.

He has no apartment, and it doesn't go well with his work,

and he got no girl. Don't you understand?

Fedya!

Fedya, the bus!

Shall we go?

Oh, it's always like this with you.

Yes...

If I tried to tell somebody, they will laugh at me and won't believe it.

Our daughter got married without telling her parents about it.

Mommy!

They write in newspapers only about divorces.