1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.266 Creative group of historical cinema "History Cinema Group" 2 00:00:03.009 --> 00:00:04.981 presents 3 00:00:04.981 --> 00:00:07.499 film by Galina Malova-Gra 4 00:00:07.499 --> 00:00:09.591 based on Anton Chekhov novel 5 00:00:09.591 --> 00:00:12.583 A PINK STOCKING 6 00:00:12.583 --> 00:00:15.079 starring 7 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:18.259 Somov Andrey Malov-Gra 8 00:00:18.259 --> 00:00:24.012 Lidotchka Galina Malov-Gra 9 00:00:58.847 --> 00:01:02.112 Lidotchka, who is it you are writing such a lot to? 10 00:01:02.753 --> 00:01:05.079 To sister Varya. 11 00:01:05.789 --> 00:01:08.499 Hm... it's a long letter! I'm so bored let me read it! 12 00:01:32.564 --> 00:01:35.256 Well, this is beyond anything! It's positively incredible! 13 00:01:35.258 --> 00:01:37.094 What's the matter? 14 00:01:37.093 --> 00:01:36.619 What's the matter! 15 00:01:37.921 --> 00:01:42.700 What's the matter! You've coreved six pages, 16 00:01:42.722 --> 00:01:47.416 wasted a good two hours scribbling, and there's nothing in it at all! 17 00:01:47.416 --> 00:01:49.485 If there were one tiny idea! 18 00:01:49.486 --> 00:01:53.859 One reads on and on, and one's brain is as muddled 19 00:01:53.860 --> 00:01:57.338 as though one were deciphering the Chinese wriggles on tea chests! 20 00:01:59.301 --> 00:02:00.587 Yes, that's true, Vanya,.. I wrote it carelessly... 21 00:02:01.548 --> 00:02:03.442 Queersort of carelessness! 22 00:02:02.850 --> 00:02:07.160 In a careless letter there is some meaning and style -- there is sense on it -- white yours... 23 00:02:08.249 --> 00:02:10.295 excuse me, but I don't know what to call it! 24 00:02:10.297 --> 00:02:10.607 It's absolute twaddle! 25 00:02:13.695 --> 00:02:15.384 There are words and sentences, but not the slightest sense in them. 26 00:02:16.153 --> 00:02:19.674 Your whole letter is exactly like the conversation of two boys: 27 00:02:20.827 --> 00:02:22.129 "We had pancakes to-day!" 28 00:02:22.855 --> 00:02:23.830 And we had a soldier come to see us!" 29 00:02:24.535 --> 00:02:26.500 You say the same thing over and over again! 30 00:02:27.824 --> 00:02:27.845 You drag it out, repeat yourself. 31 00:02:29.190 --> 00:02:30.215 The wretched ideas dance about like devils: 32 00:02:31.047 --> 00:02:32.050 there's no making out where anything begins, 33 00:02:32.057 --> 00:02:33.144 where anything ends... 34 00:02:34.467 --> 00:02:35.577 How can you write like that? 35 00:02:36.900 --> 00:02:40.144 If I had been writing carefully, then there would not have been mistakes... 36 00:02:41.106 --> 00:02:42.470 Oh, I'm not talking about mistakes! 37 00:02:42.470 --> 00:02:44.200 The awful grammatical howlers! 38 00:02:44.580 --> 00:02:48.399 There's not a line that's not a personal insult to grammar! 39 00:02:48.826 --> 00:02:50.769 No stops nor commas. 40 00:02:51.623 --> 00:02:52.104 and the spelling... brrr! 41 00:02:52.702 --> 00:02:56.287 "Earth" has an a in it! 42 00:02:57.396 --> 00:02:58.300 And the writing! 43 00:02:58.378 --> 00:02:59.556 It's desperate! 44 00:03:00.453 --> 00:03:02.245 I'm not joking, Lida. 45 00:03:03.100 --> 00:03:05.100 I'm surprised and appalled at your letter... 46 00:03:05.148 --> 00:03:07.303 You mustn't be angry, darling, 47 00:03:08.392 --> 00:03:09.900 but, really, I had no idea you were such a duffer at grammar 48 00:03:10.933 --> 00:03.13.100 And yet you belong to a cultivated, 49 00:03:13.303 --> 00:03:14.477 well-educated circle: 50 00:03:15.545 --> 00:03:19.897 you are the wife of a University man, and the daughter of a general! 51 00:03:21.420 --> 00:03:23.319 Tell me, did you ever go to school? 52 00:03:23.596 --> 00:03:26.178 What next! I finished at the von Mebke's boarding school. 53 00:03:32.283 --> 00:03:35.271 You know, Lidotchka, it really is awful! 54 00:03:36.079 --> 00:03:37.400 You are a mother! 55 00:03:37.432 --> 00:03:38.755 do you understand? A mother! 56 00:03:39.929 --> 00:03:42.222 How can you teach your children if you know nothing yourself? 57 00:03:42.799 --> 00:03:46.874 You have a good brain, but what's the use if you have never mastered the very rudiments of knowledge? 58 00:03:47.877 --> 00:03:49.009 There never mind about knowledge... 59 00:03:49.714 --> 00:03:51.101 the children will get that at school, 60 00:03:51.912 --> 00:03:54.707 but, you know, you are very shay on the moral side too! 61 00:03:55.305 --> 00:03:59.167 You sometimes use such language that it makes my ears tingle! 62 00:04:43.590 --> 00:04:46.983 Landowner Aksyonov sells the remains of the estate. 63 00:04:48.050 --> 00:04:51.528 Lord, what is going on, the nobility is selling the land. 64 00:04:51.934 --> 00:04:53.753 The end of the era. Yes, indeed. 65 00:04:55.887 --> 00:04:58.000 It's all mother's fault! 66 00:05:00.411 --> 00:05:01.078 Everyone advised her to send me to the high school, 67 00:05:01.740 --> 00:05:04.087 and from the high school I should have been sure to go to the University! 68 00:05:04.646 --> 00:05:07.097 University...high school, 69 00:05:07.610 --> 00:05:08.300 That's running to extremes, my girl! 70 00:05:08.379 --> 00:05:09.700 What's the good of being a blue stocking! 71 00:05:09.767 --> 00:05:11.010 A blue stocking is the very deuce! 72 00:05:11.517 --> 00:05:14.600 Neither man nor woman, but just something midway: neither one thing nor another. 73 00:05:15.987 --> 00:05:18.655 I hate blue stockings! I would never have married a learned woman. 74 00:05:19.616 --> 00:05:20.500 There's no making you out. 75 00:05:20.833 --> 00:05:22.00 You are angry beacause I am not learned, and at the same time you hate learned women; 76 00:05:23.785 --> 00:05:28.863 you are annoyed because I have no ideas in my letter, and yet you yourself are opposed to my studying... 77 00:05:29.657 --> 00:05:33.242 You do catch me up at a word, my dear, 78 00:05:50.200 --> 00:05:53.259 It was stupid of me to depress her, poor girl... 79 00:05:54.198 --> 00:05:55.800 Why did I say such a lot of dreadful things? 80 00:05:56.889 --> 00:05:59.343 She is silly, that's true, uncivilised and narrow; 81 00:06:00.474 --> 00:06:05.211 but... there are two sides to the question, and audiatur et altera pars 82 00:06:05.873 --> 00:06:11.200 Perhaps people are perfectly right when they say that woman's shallowness rests on her very vocation. 83 00:06:12.203 --> 00:06:18.433 Granted that it is her vocation to love her husband, to bear children, and to mix salad, what the devil does she want with learning? 84 00:06:18.635 --> 00:06:20.130 No, indeed! 85 00:06:20.579 --> 00:06:22.200 The learned women are usually tedious, that they are exacting, strict, and unyielging; 86 00:06:24.569 --> 00:06:27.108 and, on the other hand, how easy it is to get on with silly Lidotchka, 87 00:06:27.130 --> 00:06:31.353 who never pokes her nose into anything, does not understand so much, and never obtrudes her criticism. 88 00:06:32.527 --> 00:06:36.325 There is peace and comfort with Lidotchka, and no risk of being interfered with. 89 00:06:37.094 --> 00:06:38.400 Comfound them, those clever and learned women! 90 00:06:39.894 --> 00:06:42.476 It's better and easier to live with simple ones. 91 00:06:43.210 --> 00:06:44.662 Well, what to do, when 92 00:06:45.750 --> 00:06:49.600 a civilised man sometimes feels a desire to talk and share his thoughts with a clever and well-educated woman. 93 00:06:51.137 --> 00:06:51.900 What of it? 94 00:06:51.982 --> 00:06:56.578 If I want to talk of intellectual subjects, I'll go to Natalya Andreyevna or to Marya Frantsovna. 95 00:06:58.093 --> 00:06:59.433 It's very simple! 96 00:07:00.075 --> 00:07:04.877 But no, I shan't go. One can discuss intellectual subjects with men. 97 00:07:21.859 --> 00:07:23.800 Director Galina Malova-Gra D.O.P. Alexey Polukarov Gaffer Juriy Khvorostov Editing Alexey Polukarov, Ilya Ul'yanchuk 98 00:07:25.422 --> 00:07:28.600 Sound recording Pavel Gudimov Director's assistant Dmitriy Kacher Sound processing Ivan Grimak Color processing Michael Kur'yanov Photographers Ivan Fedoseev, Kseniya Vasil'eva 99 00:07:31.065 --> 00:07:33.800 Production design, costumes, props, make-up Creative group "History Cinema Group" Andrey Malov-Gra Galina Malova-Gra 100 00:07:35.507 --> 00:07:45.556 THE END