1:06:01
It's been like that for years.
1:06:04
Should I dare look askance
at any of my creditors,
1:06:07
I'd be banished from that estate
tomorrow.
1:06:11
Either estate or honor!
I choose estate.
1:06:17
Gerasim Kuzmich can send us all to
the poorhouse, but he bears with us.
1:06:23
Your health, Gerasim Kuzmich!
1:06:27
My goodness...
Oh, God, it's so painful.
1:06:34
You see, Sophia?
Poor Russia, our kind country!
1:06:41
Leave Russia alone, for God's sake!
1:06:44
- But I wanted to say...
- What?
1:06:47
What did you want to say?
1:06:50
You've been uttering that cryptic
phrase for fifteen years now.
1:06:54
It's time to stop!
We talk and talk!
1:06:59
Russian soul! People's good! Ideas!
Haven't your tongues withered yet?
1:07:06
You go on and on about Russia,
Shcherbuk about the grubby-faced...
1:07:12
One could climb the walls from our
wise ideas, the lamp begins to smoke.
1:07:19
We talk, eat, sleep, and do it all
with a clear conscience!
1:07:25
We've got European self-esteem,
though our development is Asian.
1:07:28
How can you? What you're saying
is immoral!
1:07:35
Sure, to admit your own inadequacy
is immoral.
1:07:40
But to amuse oneself
by feeding infants from the bottle
1:07:45
and giving the peasants one's tails,
that's not immoral.
1:07:50
- He's a bell!
- Yes! And you're a bell, too!
1:07:53
Only I'm tolling by myself,
and anyone can ring you.
1:07:57
When did you finish university?