You and Me (Ты и я)

APARTMENT 72 KNOCK!

Hands up.

- Well? Still alive? - As you see.

Mmm, Kent cigarettes.

- I'm back. - Back where? - Back with you.

Back with me?!

That's something.

You're about 3 years late then, my friend.

Your honeymoon dragged on a bit long.

And you have a ticket to Stockholm in your pocket.

Back in Russia on a business trip?

- How do you know? - I know everything these days.

- Ah yes. I saw the door plate. Big man now?

People grow.

- I'm seriously back. - Why?

- To work. With you, by the way.

- With me? - With you.

- Interesting! As if nothing happened? - Nothing.

- Clean slate? - Clean slate.

- Attaboy! Just like that! - Yes, like that.

Because one can't live like we do.

You're a bureaucrat, I'm a God-knows-what...

Mendeleyev was a bureaucrat.

- Really? Who else? - The founding father, Dr Pavlov.

- You and them. - I'm in good company.

Cut it out. There's a grand foreign term, neurosurgeon.

Remind you of anything?

Oh my God.

- You're a curious guy, Peter. - Am I? - Yeah.

Wasn't it you who ditched us like a whore?

Cleared off to that foreign kingdom.

"Tre kronor". What piece of good luck!

Embassy doctor! The frontline of Soviet science.

So cut out the swagger now.

As if you stepped out for 5 minutes.

Escuse me, Peter. I don't play these games.

Don't you understand...

I can't do anything without you.

Listen.

How much does this thing cost over there?

You're right.

Like it? A present.

YOU AND ME

Starring Leonid D'yachkov

Yuri Vizbor Alla Demidova

Written by Gennady Shpalikov and Larisa Shepitko

Directed by Larisa Shepitko

Photographed by Alexander Knyazhinsky

Music by Alfred Schnittke

Katya, what's he saying?

Something about our side. About Firsov.

But what?

Like... Firsov is...

world's best player.

A talent finding its full expression.

Go on!

He's an era in hockey.

A master, an icon for millions.

Achieved everything,

a veteran, still only 31.

- How old? - 31.

What did I say?!

The puck is decisevely in the goal,

and who put it there?

Firsov, naturally!

- Where are you going? - Back in a sec.

Oh, go on!

- Big change? - You look better than ever.

Curious coincidence. Away for 3 years,

and you know the first person I met in Moscow?

- Who? - My first husband.

- And what about him? - He also said I look better.

What about you? Finally married?

No. Standing firm so far.

Thank you.

Sasha. I am not taking too much of your time?

No, I have library day today.

- What day? - Library day.

I just didn't get anything over the phone.

I am not at my best in the mornings.

So what's the matter with Peter?

But you know everything.

He just took off and ran away.

For no conceivable reason.

You can't imagine the furore at the Embassy.

I tried to explain, make excuses...

The horror!

OK, damn that Sweden, it's a stupid job,

there's the nostalgia...

But he's a grown-up person,

he made that choice himself.

And he doesn't care.

He meets us in Moscow, with flowers, smiling...

I came near to killing him.

Is that your work?

What?

Just don't play the innocent!

He'd been in Moscow before making off. And he saw you.

- For 2 minutes. - What did you say to him?

He came back and everything went haywire.

Katya, I had nothing to do with it.

You must have forgotten me. Or you never knew me.

Look at me.

Do I look like a person

who could lead somebody astray?

I am too lazy for that.

What's he going to do? - I don't know.

He sits on the windowsill and sings all day.

You know what he did the other day?

Nothing anti-social, I hope?

You're mocking me. Well, go ahead.

Never, Katya. Under no circumstances.

Whatever the temptation.

- So you remember. - I do.

Fine.

You know, you changed.

I always thought you very unreliable,

unlike Peter.

That's quite true.

No. You're calm.

You don't fuss like the others.

Tell me. Is Peter really talented?

Questions, questions.

Why not talk some more about me?

Making comparisons?

No. Those postgraduate experiments...

Why couldn't you finish the work yourself?

There was no work.

Not true. I remember. One dog survived.

- That was just a start. - So?

- Just an idea. - Well?

The idea was there, Peter wasn't.

And me, you know, I'm unreliable.

And not irresponsible enough to be a genius.

It's just the geniuses who can make anything work.

An idea yesterday, and today... Sweden.

Tomorrow someting else again.

I understand, he let you down terribly.

What prevents you from finishing the work now?

Together. - Nothing prevents us.

Maybe one day Peter will leave the windowsill.

And his talent will make up for time lost.

Me, I even forgot what it was about.

But that's another story.

I don't know about the windowsill,

but he is already jumping from bridges.

- What bridges? - The one in Silver Wood.

For no reason. There could have been logs underwater.

How do you like that?

Seems I am present at a major confession of love.

I forgot how it's done.

Take today. It's funny...

I know you for ages.

And it's no kind of date, and yet I was nervous.

Why on earth? But I felt it.

We're getting older. He doesn't love me.

What?

He doesn't. Not for years now, I think.

Sasha... I beg you.

Talk to the people in the Directorate.

Peter's there, he has an appointment at 1pm.

Talk him into something, anything.

We can't live like that. We need some stability.

Katya.

I am not going anywhere.

- Why? - Because.

It's useless.

Nobody will decide anything for him.

So, he made a show pulling out.

The main thing is, what's behind it?

And there's nothing, Katya.

There's the rub.

You have to pay for everything.

Like what?

Like ditching us then, and taking off.

And how are you going to pay?

You took off, too, a bit later.

May I?

Come in, come in.

Yes, yes. I understand.

Yes, I'm writing it down.

Good.

Well?

The 5th department's here.

Ask them to wait please.

"Memorandum.

I wonder if you know the feeling of waking up

in a city that's utterly foreign to you.

And the whole meaningless day

can already be imagined with all its faces,

meetings, conversations

that make you want to never open your eyes.

The heart is heavy as if something were wrong.

So that neither your wife,

the person who is closest to you..."

This is urgent, for the flood victims.

Excuse me. Medical supplies.

- When do they go out? - Two flights today.

Excuse me.

"...so that neither your wife,