- 5/29/2025
#casanova #romeoandjuliet #gormenghast
After a difficult birth to a baby girl, Anna flees with Vronsky without obtaining a divorce from Karenin. Starring: Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter, Stuart Wilson, David Harries, Robert Swann, Caroline Langrishe.
After a difficult birth to a baby girl, Anna flees with Vronsky without obtaining a divorce from Karenin. Starring: Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter, Stuart Wilson, David Harries, Robert Swann, Caroline Langrishe.
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00:00The End
01:00Well, Fomwich, found a swarm, eh?
01:28Ha, found one.
01:31Master, all we can do is keep our own.
01:34This is the second swarm that got away.
01:37Luckily, some of your men with horses were up there.
01:40And they galloped after the bees and we caught them.
01:42Ah, good for you.
01:44Now, what do you say, Fomwich?
01:46Shall we start cutting?
01:47Or do we wait a bit?
01:49Master, you know our old proverb,
01:51don't cut the corn until St. Peter's morn.
01:55What, are the corns ready for cutting?
01:56Oh, ah, it's ready.
01:58Master, I know you.
02:00Always wanting to get on.
02:03Oh, why not?
02:04Will it give us more room for the cattle?
02:06Well, the weather's right.
02:07Ah, it is today.
02:09All of that is in the Lord's hands.
02:12Then we'll hope he's on our side.
02:14A prayer or two would not be amiss.
02:17Well, start cutting tomorrow.
02:19I'll tell the bailiff.
02:20I'll tell the bailiff.
02:47I'll tell the bailiff.
03:17You'll swing too wide, Master.
03:27To wear yourself out, you will.
03:34It needs practice.
03:37Aye, it does.
03:40About 40 years.
03:44Like I've had.
03:45There you are, Master.
04:03Dinner time.
04:04Yes.
04:04Yes.
04:04Yes.
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04:22Yes.
04:39Yes.
04:40Yes.
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04:40Yes.
04:41Yes.
04:41I don't know how it's going to be.
04:56That's great.
05:11ah master take some of my dinner there's plenty praise be to God and I will and thank you
05:31good eh best dinner I've ever had not what you're used to but hunger is the best sauce
05:41there's nothing like it
06:11oh what do you think Fomit when we finish up there can we do Maskin Hill today
06:20with God's will we might it'll be a long day though and there'll be a drop of vodka in
06:26it for the lads vodka all around ah they'll do it then now what's an extra hour or two
06:33they can eat and sleep after dark
06:38so
06:50we've done it the whole field in Mashkin Hill as well a glorious day what have you been up to
07:17well this morning I fished your river for an hour not a bite but who cares you're a very heated costume why do you rush about so much because it's the busiest time of the year that's why not for you surely can't you take even one day off I can't and I'll tell you why because if I did every peasant on the estate I'd do likewise come now aren't you being a little unfair of the peasants you who profess to like them so much I don't profess any such thing I like most people I suppose I I dislike some I'm talking of the
07:47peasantry as a whole as a class you like them you know my sympathies are entirely on their side yes I do and that's your trouble you regard them as a group entirely distinct separate from yourself but they are no no you don't get my point every peasant's an individual different from any other as different as
08:09well as my old friend of Blonsky is from that professor from Kharkov what was his name Professor Wurz yes and I you don't generalize about those people the people you know so why'd you lump the peasants together as if they were a swarm of bees or a herd of cattle
08:24got to think of it if you knew cattle as I do you'd realize they're all individuals too and it's all very well but social philosophy has to take the broad view if we are to improve the social conditions of a certain class then surely we must consider them as a class
08:37I don't know anything about philosophy no Kostya that you don't but you live among these people and you know them I don't I know Mikhail and Fumich and Ivan and Fosky and the widow Kazimov because they come and tell me their troubles and I try and help them but I wouldn't presume to prescribe with the millions of Ivans and Sasha's all over Russia I've never met now you're overheated and it's my fault no it's just
09:01we're talking of Sasha's I I met your old nurse in the village and we we talked about your working in the fields apparently the peasants don't approve of it no rubbish they think it isn't work for the gentry
09:13oh but if I enjoy it as I do as the home I tell you every man should work to the limit of his capacity
09:20I've done that today
09:22all you've done is waste your time your energy and your educated intelligence
09:25oh the old theme eh
09:27public activities the Zumsfer committees now there's a waste of time if you like it doesn't work
09:33well of course not if decent people refuse to help
09:35I don't consider it important
09:36not important but we're spending money and nothing gets done
09:40no local clinics no midwives or district nurses ignorant women starving their children
09:45and peasants steeped in ignorance at the mercy of every village clerk
09:49and what about schools schools what for
09:52surely you must admit that a peasant who can read and write is a better man and a better labourer
09:57simply isn't true
09:58you don't believe in education
09:59yes yes of course I do
10:00very well then as an honest man you ought to work for it
10:02no no
10:04I don't believe in interference
10:06I don't want to plan anybody's life except my own and that's hard enough God knows
10:10even if I had the ability which I've not what right have I got to tell other people what to do
10:14duty cost you to help others less fortunate
10:16I don't see that
10:17the peasant acts out of self-interest and so do I
10:19I respect his self-interest and he respects mine but the Zumsfer
10:22now wait a minute
10:23there was no self-interest behind our work to emancipate the search
10:26certainly there was theirs and ours to be free
10:29mutually free of that disgusting yoke
10:31now they're striking for freedom
10:33but committees for this and that all they do is pile on new chains
10:37a change of bureaucracy
10:38that's hardly fair
10:39oh from the best of motives
10:41but he will surely the end justifies the means
10:43no
10:44what I say is this
10:45and the peasant would say the same
10:47those rights which affect me
10:49my personal interests
10:51those I will defend to the best of my ability
10:54when we were students and the police came and searched us and read our letters
10:58then I would have defended to the death my right to education and to liberty
11:02I can understand compulsory military service where it affects me or my family or my children
11:07I'll debate anything which affects me
11:10but to be a town councillor and sit on a jury and try a half-witted peasant who stole a fish of bacon
11:17I suppose you were arrested tomorrow
11:19would you prefer to be tried at the old criminal tribunal
11:21I'm not going to be arrested tomorrow
11:23I'm not going to cut anybody's throats
11:25I'm not going to be tried
11:26it's the whole point
11:27innocent men are sometimes arrested and tried
11:31if you were on the jury you might have the wit to recognize innocence
11:38oh you
11:42logic logic
11:44in all things
11:48ah this problem
11:50I've been working at it for an hour and suddenly the answer emerges
11:53not pawn to queen six
11:56emotionally that's what I wanted it to be but I was wrong
11:59queen to kings bishop eight
12:03queen takes queen
12:05black mated in three
12:08logic
12:10all right
12:12but chess isn't life Sergei
12:15without emotion life can't exist
12:18I'm filthy all over
12:22I'll go and wash and we'll have some supper
12:25but you know
12:27today out there in the fields
12:29with all the people and the children
12:32I wanted to change my whole way of life
12:35simplicity and sanity
12:37that's what they've got
12:39that's what I need
12:41well how?
12:43oh
12:44leave this place
12:46join a peasant community
12:47and marry a strong young peasant girl
12:49and raise a family
12:50I hope you're not serious
12:52who knows
12:53maybe
12:57that's from Steve
12:58we know Oblonsky
13:00oh yes
13:02he says
13:04I've heard a letter from Dolly at Yerkeshovo
13:06and everything seems to be wrong there
13:08I can't get away myself
13:10so do please ride over and give her your advice
13:12she'll be so pleased to see you
13:15Kitty and her parents are still abroad
13:17so she's quite alone
13:18poor thing
13:19yes that sounds typical of Oblonsky
13:21leaving the trouble to his friends
13:23I don't mind in the slightest
13:25Dolly's a nice person
13:26let's ride over together
13:27it's only 20 miles and a capital road
13:29have you forgotten I'm going home tomorrow
13:31would you have to?
13:32I'm afraid so
13:33I'm sorry
13:35it's been good having you here
13:37still it can't be held
13:39I'll ride over myself
13:41when I've cut the wheat
13:43help yourself to a drink
13:45I'll have a drink
14:05so
14:07you've decided to come home
14:08home?
14:09did you say I decided to come home?
14:11I meant to say only that
14:12you decided it for me
14:13you ordered me to come
14:14I know
14:15as you have the right to do of course
14:17here I am
14:19yes
14:26how is Seriojo?
14:27it's quite well
14:29I shall not be dining at home today
14:31I have to go out directly
14:32a meeting of the commission
14:33what is that?
14:35something new?
14:36yes
14:37they've set it up at my instigation
14:38to visit the Zaraisky province
14:40and report on the question of the native tribes
14:42the affair has really been quite a scandal
14:45the vast sums poured away
14:47poured away
14:48nothing to show for it
14:50will you understand
14:51actually I...
14:52Alexei
14:53excuse me
14:54we cannot simply converse like this
14:56as if nothing had happened
14:57I have no desire
14:58I must tell you
15:01that evening at the villa
15:03I said terrible things to you
15:06the next day I could hardly believe I had said such things
15:10although at the time
15:12I meant all I said
15:15I never doubted that
15:17but later I realized that
15:19I had only spoken what was in my heart
15:22not out of any wish to hurt you
15:25but only so that once and for all you should recognize the truth
15:28yes
15:30that is what I supposed
15:32but I repeat what I told you in my letter
15:34I repeat
15:36I'm not obliged to recognize anything
15:38I ignore everything you've said and done
15:40but you can't
15:41why not? other men have to
15:44though very few wives are good enough to communicate such agreeable news to their husbands
15:49I must tell you
15:50tell me nothing
15:53I shall ignore it so long as the world knows nothing
15:55so long as my home is not disgraced
15:58on that basis our relationship shall continue
16:01as it has always been
16:03that's impossible
16:05I cannot be your wife
16:07why not?
16:09that thought I suppose reflects on the kind of life you've chosen
16:12it's very far from what I had in mind I do assure you
16:16although
16:18considering what you've become
16:19I don't see why you should deny to your husband what you freely offer to others
16:23oh
16:25that's horrible
16:27you don't for one moment
16:28all I shall say is this
16:29I do not want that man to come here
16:32I want you to conduct yourself in such a way that neither society nor the servants can say anything against you
16:37you are not to see Vronsky
16:40it seems little enough to ask
16:43in return you shall enjoy the privileges of a respectable wife
16:48without fulfilling a wife's duties
16:52that is all knives go
16:54no that is not all
16:56I have to tell you something that the world will know soon enough
16:59I shall not listen
17:00you must listen
17:03I am carrying a child
17:07that man's child
17:08and I am proud that it is his and not yours
17:14sh-
17:25sh-
17:32you see Sludin my wife is back from the country.
17:59yes sir.
18:01I'll be late.
18:02in a very good time sir. the carriage is outside.
18:05good. thank you.
18:07thank you Ilona.
18:29help yourself to brandy.
18:37thanks. just a drop.
18:41what a pleasant place this is.
18:44yes isn't it.
18:46when it rains the roof leaks none of the cupboard door shut properly.
18:49and that's for the kitchen.
18:51still I like it because the children do.
18:54I thought they all looked splendid.
18:56oh yes thank God.
18:58Tanya and Grisha both had scarlet fever in the spring.
19:00it was really rather a bad time.
19:02Kitty was wonderful.
19:04she came and helped me through the west of it.
19:08yes she would.
19:10now Dolly I do wish you'd let me send you over a couple of cows.
19:13those children of yours need the best of milk
19:15and if you feel you must you can repay me at five kopecks a month.
19:18I shall be content.
19:20Kitty is coming here for a holiday.
19:24oh.
19:26is she quite better?
19:28yes.
19:32Konstantin
19:34why are you angry with Kitty?
19:36I'm not. I'm not.
19:38then why did you not come to visit us or them when you were in Moscow?
19:40how can you ask that when you must know?
19:42know what?
19:44that I made an offer
19:46and I was refused.
19:48but I didn't know.
19:50although I knew something had happened that had made her dreadfully unhappy.
19:54she begged me not to talk of it.
19:57so she refused you.
20:00I'm sorry.
20:02I'm sorry for her.
20:04for her?
20:05you only suffer in your pride.
20:09you must forgive me Dolly. I must go.
20:11wait. just let me say this.
20:13let me talk about it.
20:15it is all so easy for men.
20:18you are interested in a girl who come to the house you make friends.
20:21you watch her.
20:23and then when you're quite sure you're in love you make an offer.
20:25it isn't like that.
20:26but for a girl it's different.
20:27she has to wait.
20:29she is expected to make her choice yet she cannot choose.
20:32she can only answer yes or no.
20:34Kitty's choice has been made and that is final.
20:36because of your pride?
20:38Konstantin think.
20:40when you spoke to Kitty she couldn't answer.
20:43she was seeing Vronsky every day and knew she hadn't seen for months.
20:46oh if only she'd been a little older.
20:49if only you knew how much you're hurting me.
20:52it's just as if a child of yours was dead and people kept saying to you
20:56he would have been like this or like that.
21:00if only he'd lived to know how happy you would have been.
21:04but all the time he's dead.
21:06and nothing can bring him back.
21:09that's nonsense.
21:11perhaps.
21:12but I can't help it.
21:14so you won't come and see Kitty?
21:16good-bye Dolly.
21:18good-bye Dolly.
21:19.
21:38ah
21:39Master that's what I call wheat.
21:41yeah, you smell that.
21:43hmm
21:44rare as gold that is.
21:46Is
22:12They make a good pair
22:14That's my youngest
22:16Vanka
22:1821 year old
22:20That's his wife
22:21A fine boy
22:22Not bad
22:23And married already
22:25Two years ago last St. Philip's Day
22:28So young
22:30Have they got any children?
22:32Not yet
22:33They've always been as bashful as a baby
22:36Won't be too long now though I reckon
22:40There's wheat for you
22:42Regular gold I call it
22:45Hot
22:47I
22:49Know
22:51You
22:53I
22:55Know
22:57You
22:59Know
23:01You
23:03Know
23:05My main voice of the church all over had that longing,
23:13that you can contact me with your embellum.
23:19What'd your radiation touch with my witnesses?
23:26Who have I recognized my emergency to the church?
23:29I'm not alone.
23:31I'm not alone.
23:33I'm not alone.
23:59Elona?
24:29Well Dolly, what does he say?
24:39He says... really men are impossible.
24:43He says that he's sorry he was unable to bring the saddle over himself but he hopes that
24:46Katarina Alexandrovna...
24:48My wife has called me Kitty.
24:50Yes dear.
24:51He hopes you will find it useful.
24:52Unhappily he goes on, unhappily, he's been called away to the Swarovski district and will not
24:58be home for several weeks.
25:00Well my little ruse was unsuccessful.
25:03It doesn't matter.
25:06It doesn't matter a scruff.
25:16Yes indeed.
25:19When Betsy told me you can't stray more.
25:23Why princess?
25:24Hardly you'll be here.
25:26Everybody must have some pleasure.
25:28Even politicians.
25:40Explain yourself Alexei or I shall be cross.
25:44Then I shall explain.
25:46We are being visited by a foreign prince.
25:48No I mean it a real prince.
25:50His name is Frederick and he's important to the government.
25:52Why?
25:53I'm not to say why even if I knew which I don't.
25:57He's a large healthy young man and is being shown everything that the government thinks
26:02he ought to see.
26:03When he's bored with that which happens every evening I am ordered to attend to his pleasure.
26:08So they chose the right man.
26:13A year ago perhaps.
26:15They don't always keep up with events.
26:19You don't enjoy it?
26:22Well I feel like a man in charge of a dangerous lunatic.
26:25Oh seriously he makes me fear for my own reason.
26:31Is he so dreadful?
26:37The prince has traveled a great deal but he sampled the delights of all nations.
26:42In Spain he serenaded a lady guitar player.
26:45In England he hunted in a pink coat and he shot 200 pheasants.
26:49He explored a harem in Turkey and he killed tigers in India.
26:53Now in Russia during the course of one week he is determined to dissipate a la rousse.
26:57It's disgraceful.
26:58And what is more he is insufferably arrogant and as to his manners
27:01well I prefer not to speak of his manners.
27:03Oh my poor Alexei.
27:05You may well say so.
27:08And now you must go and attend to this monster.
27:11Yes.
27:15Anna I love to see you so merry.
27:18If I couldn't be merry when you are with me
27:20what a miserable wretch I should be.
27:32Baria you did come after all.
27:35I insisted that she should.
27:36Is my brother with you?
27:37You know better than that Alexei.
27:39No my dear husband left for the Nevsky Club directly after dinner.
27:43As usual.
27:44Yes but this evening is different.
27:45In what way?
27:46He's been told of an infallible sister.
27:49In that case he will infallibly lose more than usual.
27:53Look I have to go. Will you stay and sit with Anna for a while?
27:56That's what I came here for.
27:57You are the kindest soul and the best of sisters.
28:00Au revoir.
28:02Well you can sign the peace treaty.
28:07An armistice count.
28:09Only an armistice.
28:10True and I doubt we'll ever have peace.
28:12The terms are too high.
28:14You really are the most disgusting young man.
28:18Prince Reverend.
28:19Let me come with you.
28:20What about charming?
28:22Quite charming I agree.
28:23But a trifle rarefied.
28:25Sometimes I long for a dirty dishonest
28:28down-to-earth mercenary gypsy.
28:31And tonight Vronsky is one of those times.
28:33Are you sure?
28:34Yes.
28:36You and Prince Frederick are blood brothers.
28:39Didn't Alexei ever tell you?
28:41Not a word.
28:42Why should he?
28:43But that doesn't surprise me.
28:45If he had not been so generous to my husband and me
28:48I don't know where we should have been.
28:50What happened exactly?
28:52I'll tell you.
28:53When the old count died
28:55he left his property equally between the two brothers.
28:58An income of about a hundred thousand roubles.
29:01Each?
29:02The countess of course has her own settlement.
29:05Well
29:07when we were married my husband had huge debts
29:10and I had nothing at all except a pedigree.
29:15So Alexei insisted that he should only use
29:17twenty five thousand roubles of his income
29:19and allow us the rest.
29:21He said that would be enough until he married.
29:24If he ever did.
29:25His mother gave him twenty thousand a year
29:28and he managed very well.
29:30But now?
29:31Now suddenly at a blow
29:33his mother cuts him off completely.
29:36Was that because of me?
29:38Partly.
29:41But I think that's too simple.
29:43She's really very devious.
29:46I think she wanted us to feel ashamed.
29:49Did you?
29:50I did.
29:51My husband?
29:53Well as the eldest
29:55he believes that all things are due to him.
29:59Do you love him?
30:01Yes.
30:02Yes.
30:03Yes in fact I do.
30:04Well as you may know
30:10Alexei is extremely methodical about money matters.
30:13He sat down and worked out what he could afford in future.
30:17He sold all his horses.
30:19His horses?
30:20Oh but his horse.
30:21Then he went to a money lender and paid his debts.
30:23His honorable debts.
30:24The tailors and the bootmakers have to wait of course.
30:27So in time and they know this
30:30even the tailors and the bootmakers will be paid.
30:33They know it because his word has always been his bond.
30:37But how did you hear all this?
30:41Oh through his colonel.
30:43Betsy.
30:44Paula Shilton.
30:46Such things are always known.
30:48People talk.
30:50What did you do?
30:52I spoke to my dear husband like a Dutch uncle.
30:55Eventually, well eventually he too was ashamed.
30:59And things have been arranged.
31:01And what does your mother-in-law think of that?
31:05She is quite silent upon the matter.
31:08So no one will ever know whether she is elated or outraged.
31:14Amusing yes.
31:17You know I've always been slightly jealous of you.
31:22What happens why?
31:23Because Alexei swears that you're the nicest woman in the world.
31:27Now I know he's right.
31:30The princess is talking of Madame Karenina.
31:33Whom I must say I have always found most charming.
31:36Who doesn't?
31:37But rumor says that you and her husband are deadly enemies.
31:41Rumor exaggerates as usual.
31:44True there are opposite sides but that's politics.
31:47Well what I say is I don't know how she dares show her face here or anywhere else.
31:52Oh come now.
31:53There's nothing wrong with her face.
31:55Six months by the look of her.
31:57And knowing what everyone knows.
31:59Do they?
32:00Or is that another rumor?
32:02Stuff and nonsense.
32:03No question about it.
32:04I find it rather sweet.
32:06Sweet?
32:07And terribly exciting.
32:10Ann.
32:11You look splendid.
32:12Splendid.
32:14I am well this evening.
32:15I'm sorry Betsy this will be my last one here.
32:16Oh surely not.
32:17Why?
32:18But at least until after it's all over.
32:19I've become conspicuous.
32:20Even at this distance I can hear the tongues clacking at me.
32:21If you were the only one my dear gossips would have a thin time.
32:25And in any case quite soon I shan't be able to go out at all.
32:26Not even to see Alexei.
32:27That frightens me.
32:28He'll come to you.
32:29Forbidden to ask him.
32:30Forbidden to ask him.
32:31And my husband.
32:32Oh come now.
32:33Oh really.
32:34And I'm very much alone.
32:35I've nothing to do but think.
32:36So I've become frightened.
32:37And not just a little frightened Betsy.
32:38Very frightened.
32:39Of having the baby.
32:40Is the only one my dear gossips would have a thin time.
32:42I'm not even to see Alexei.
32:44Well that frightens me.
32:45He'll come to you.
32:46Forbidden to ask him.
32:47Forbidden?
32:48And my husband.
32:49Oh come now.
32:50Oh really.
32:51And I'm very much alone.
32:52I have nothing to do but think.
32:54So I become frightened.
32:56And not just a little frightened Betsy.
33:00Very frightened.
33:01And I'm very much alone.
33:04of having the baby oh no what terrifies me is the thought that if i stop seeing alexei
33:12he'll forget me he'll go he'll find someone else forget me
33:34is
34:04.
34:46Down in one, sir. All at a gulp. That's a rule, you know.
34:50No heel taps.
34:53Splendid, sir. Splendid.
34:57That's the one. That's the one I'll have.
35:03So you shall, sir. That's the one for me. What's her name?
35:06Tashiana, sir, and there are certain formalities.
35:09What do you mean, formalities? She means she's no ordinary gypsy.
35:12She is extremely rich. Rich?
35:14Worth a fortune. Even her jewels are genuine.
35:18She charges a great deal. Never been able to afford her myself.
35:21But I have money. You see, sir, that is not enough. No.
35:25You mean she makes her own choice. What?
35:28But she gave you the champagne, so she likes you.
35:32And if she comes back to dance for you, well, she chooses you.
35:36Music. Music.
35:38Music.
35:44Music.
35:51Music.
35:53Music.
38:38You are late.
38:38You are two whole hours late.
38:43I got home only 15 minutes ago to find your note and I came directly.
38:46I have been waiting.
38:47Where were you?
38:48Oh no no no no.
38:49I have no right to ask.
38:50Yes you have.
38:51I saw Prince Frederick after Moscow.
38:52That was to be at five o'clock.
38:53Yes it was.
38:54Then I had to go back and make out my report.
38:57Oh of course.
38:58Of course.
38:58Of course.
38:58So it's over.
39:01He has left Petersburg.
39:04Yes thank heaven forever I hope.
39:06You say that but I expect you enjoyed it all the same.
39:09I used to certainly but no longer.
39:10And I confess Anna this week I have been looking at my own past as if in a mirror and I didn't
39:17like what I saw.
39:19Paula came to see me this morning.
39:21Patritsky had told her about your Athenian evening.
39:23Disgusting.
39:24Anna please.
39:24And that French actress who used to know Therese.
39:27Was she there?
39:29Anna you know perfectly.
39:30What do I know?
39:32What have I ever known?
39:33Only what you tell me.
39:35How do I know whether you tell me the truth?
39:38Simply because I always have.
39:42I haven't a single thought that I wouldn't share with you.
39:48Yes.
39:50Oh yes Alexei my darling.
39:53Forgive me.
39:55Demon again.
39:57There.
39:58He's gone.
39:59I have driven him away.
40:01I am not jealous.
40:04I don't think I'm jealous.
40:06It's just that when you're away somewhere and you're leaving your separate life.
40:09Anna.
40:11You said in your note that your husband would be out at the council.
40:16You met him.
40:17At the door.
40:18Well it's your punishment for being late.
40:20He didn't go to the council then he came back here and now he is gone again.
40:23To the opera I think but who cares.
40:27Nobody.
40:30But to meet him like that on his own doorstep.
40:34Now what is the matter with the man?
40:36If he'd only fight or stand up for his honor but this abject acceptance it makes me feel like a snake in the grass which is something I never intended to be.
40:48How did he greet you?
40:49Like this?
40:54It's exactly like that.
40:56It is all very well Anna.
40:57And how can he put up with such a position?
41:02He feels it.
41:04That is obvious.
41:06No you're wrong.
41:07He has no feelings.
41:09If he had any feelings could he possibly live with me the way he does?
41:12Could he possibly live with a wife that he knows to be unfaithful?
41:15Could he talk to her?
41:16Call her my dear?
41:18Anna my dear.
41:19Anna my share.
41:21Oh he's a puppet.
41:24He's not a man.
41:26If I were a man I would have murdered.
41:28Torn to pieces a wife like me.
41:30And I'd love her too if I could.
41:34Do you know what he said to me yesterday?
41:37Don't.
41:37You're exciting yourself and it can't be good for you.
41:40Perhaps and perhaps I don't care.
41:42Yes but you must.
41:43No.
41:44Oh no what is going to happen will happen.
41:50And it will happen soon.
41:53But not the way we expect.
41:55Soon everything will come right.
41:58We shall all be at peace.
42:01We shall suffer no more.
42:03I have no doubts about it.
42:06About what?
42:07Well you can guess but I know.
42:10I know for certain.
42:11When this baby is born I shall die.
42:14I shall be glad to die.
42:25Oh.
42:26It will set you free.
42:28And me as well.
42:31What nonsense you speak.
42:34What utter rubbish.
42:36No no.
42:37I had a dream about it.
42:38You know how I dream.
42:39Dreams mean nothing.
42:40You dreamt once.
42:41Do you remember that you and your husband and I...
42:44Yes.
42:45Yes that was a horrible dream.
42:46I was in a dark pit.
42:49But this was worse.
42:50Don't.
42:51Think about it.
42:52I ran into my bedroom to fetch something or find something.
42:55You know how it is in dreams and...
42:56And in the bedroom in the corner...
42:58Anna.
42:58There was a peasant with a tangled beard.
43:01He was little.
43:02Dreadful looking.
43:03He stooped down over a sack and he was fumbling about in it with his hands.
43:09And all the time he kept muttering very quickly in French you know rolling his R's.
43:13The iron must be beaten.
43:18Beat it.
43:19Pound it.
43:20Hammer the iron.
43:22So terrified I tried to wake up.
43:25And I did.
43:27But it was still part of the dream because suddenly my old nurse was there.
43:30She's been dead for ten years and she said to me
43:33In childbirth you will die.
43:37In childbirth Anna.
43:39Anna then I did wake up.
43:43Anna my dearest girl.
43:47But Alexei.
43:49The baby won't die.
43:51Of course not.
43:51Of course it won't.
43:54Listen.
43:57Put your head close.
44:07Can you hear?
44:09Can you hear his heart beating?
44:34Look up.
44:35Look up.
44:39Would it not be more polite to knock?
44:53Give me go.
44:55Annus Castellia.
44:56Out.
44:57Out!
45:04What do you want?
45:05I'm looking for your lover's letters.
45:12They're not there.
45:13Oh yes.
45:14I think so.
45:16I think so.
45:18Ah.
45:19Yes.
45:20I told you.
45:23I ordered you.
45:24Not to receive that man in this house.
45:26I had to see him.
45:27I am not interested as to why a married woman wants to see her lover.
45:30How can you be so cruel?
45:33Cruel?
45:34You call it cruelty for me to give you freedom?
45:36Freedom?
45:36Offer you the honorable protection of my name on condition that you obey the proprieties.
45:41Is that cruelty?
45:42It's worse.
45:43It's cowardly.
45:45And it's indecent.
45:47How would you describe your own behavior?
45:48Tell me that.
45:49Tell me that.
45:51Huh?
45:51I have nothing more to say to her.
45:54Oh but I have this to say.
45:56Since you refuse to obey my wishes
45:57I'm going to end this state of things.
46:00It will come to an end of itself.
46:03Sooner than you think.
46:06All you want is to gratify your animal passion.
46:09I want only to be loved.
46:11And you think only for yourself but what about me?
46:13What do you care that my whole life is in ruins?
46:15What do you care how much I've...
46:16How much I've...
46:18I'm going at once to Moscow.
46:32I shall not return to this house.
46:35You shall hear from the lawyer with whom I shall arrange a divorce.
46:39And my son shall go to my sister's.
46:42Leave Sir Yosio.
46:43No.
46:43With me.
46:44You're taking him away just to hurt me.
46:46You don't love him.
46:47When I look at him all I can think about is my loathing for you.
46:49But I shall take him all the same.
46:51Goodbye.
46:51Please.
46:52I beg you leave me Sir Yosio.
46:55That's all I shall ever ask.
46:57Leave him at least until...
46:59Until my confinement.
47:01He needs me.
47:03Please.
47:06He came about an hour ago.
47:08Well the poor man looked famished.
47:09So I got some food for him.
47:11Has he eaten it?
47:12Hardly a bite.
47:14Did you give him some vodka?
47:15Good for you.
47:15Well sir.
47:23There.
47:24I have come to see you.
47:27Good for you.
47:29Why did you leave it so long?
47:31I haven't been well.
47:33Not at all well.
47:35But I'm much better now.
47:36Agafia.
47:46Will you take your dinner sir?
47:49When it's ready Agafia.
47:57So.
47:58You've got my letter about the money due to you.
48:00Well that's really what I came for.
48:07No for 2,000 rubles.
48:08Are you sure?
48:09It's all mine.
48:09I'm quite sure.
48:10Do you remember that property we had at Belinsk?
48:13We couldn't sell it.
48:14But now it's sold.
48:16And this is your share.
48:20Good.
48:21How long can you stay?
48:23Not long.
48:23I'm off to Moscow.
48:25Should you?
48:25Why not?
48:27Has work to be done.
48:30Let me tell you.
48:32Myakov's promised me a post.
48:34Doesn't pay much of course.
48:36What's money after all?
48:37The thing is to have one's health.
48:40Mine thank the Lord is mended.
48:41And yourself?
48:45What have you been up to?
48:47Helping with the harvest I suppose.
48:50Yes.
48:50Yes.
48:52But more than that.
48:53I'm writing a book.
48:57You a book.
48:59Shouldn't you leave all that sort of thing to Sergei?
49:01What's it all about?
49:10This book.
49:12It's a new scheme for Russian agriculture.
49:17God in heaven.
49:19I'm trying to sit down as a theory
49:21what I've started in practice here on the estate.
49:24A land and profit sharing scheme for the peasants.
49:27And a lot the peasants care.
49:29Why do you bother about them?
49:30I'm doing it for my own good.
49:32Oh well if it's a question of that
49:34one must think of the soul salvation before anything else.
49:39Is that what you're asking?
49:40No no.
49:41I mean I'm doing it for my own profit.
49:44It's better for me if the peasant works better.
49:47And if it's in his own interest.
49:49Stuff if he's lazy he won't work.
49:51If he has a conscience he will.
49:52Black and white are your governor.
49:54You can't change human nature.
49:55Oh come you said yourself that Ivan looked after the cattle better than he used to.
49:58All I say is you ought to get married.
50:00That's what it comes to.
50:01Now we eat your soup.
50:09Now won't you sit down your excellency.
50:12So you know who I am.
50:19Oh my dear sir who doesn't.
50:27Excuse me.
50:28Ant eggs you know.
50:30I beg your pardon?
50:31Ant's eggs.
50:32For the fish.
50:33They're from the Black Sea.
50:34The fish of Corpus.
50:36It's always hungry.
50:39Now sir.
50:41Before I begin.
50:43I must tell you that my business is strictly private.
50:45Oh my dear sir.
50:47Very well.
50:49I have the misfortune
50:51to have been deceived in my marriage.
50:54I wish to break off all relations with my wife by legal means.
50:57You wish a divorce?
50:59Yes.
51:00And in such a way that my son does not remain with his mother.
51:04Excuse me.
51:05And you would like me to arrange this?
51:08If it can be arranged as I wish.
51:10If not I may forego my legitimate desire.
51:13Oh quiet quiet.
51:15Well I have a general idea on the law on this subject.
51:16You would like me to be so safe.
51:18If you would be so good.
51:19Delighted.
51:20Now divorce by our laws is possible in the following circumstances.
51:24One physical defect in either party.
51:27Applicable.
51:28No.
51:29No.
51:29Two desertion without communication for five years.
51:34No.
51:35Well finally then.
51:37Adultery.
51:39Are these the grounds that we have in mind?
51:43Adultery of the wife I take leave to presume.
51:48Yes.
51:48Just so.
51:49Now then.
51:50Adultery as grounds for divorce is subdivided into two categories.
51:56One detection of the guilty party by mutual agreement.
52:00Or two failing such agreement involuntary detection.
52:04In the first instance it is customary for the husband however innocent to provide evidence for divorce.
52:11The most usual simple and sensible arrangement in my opinion is adultery by mutual consent.
52:18It is also by far the surest method.
52:21In this case out of the question.
52:24Really?
52:24You wish to insist that your wife is guilty?
52:27She is.
52:28She is.
52:28My dear sir.
52:32Involuntary detection supported by letters in my possession.
52:37Letters?
52:37I beg you not to forget that cases of this sort come under ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
52:43The revered fathers like to investigate such cases down to the minutest detail.
52:49And they do.
52:50Letters was partial confirmation perhaps but direct evidence is required that is of eyewitnesses.
52:58All are called and few if sufficiently rewarded will fail to talk.
53:03Yes I understand.
53:05And may I perhaps remind you if you divorce your wife under these conditions she will never be allowed to remarry.
53:12Moreover she will be totally deprived of her children.
53:16But if that is what you desire you should leave the choice of measures to me.
53:22If one wants the result one shouldn't be shy of the means.
53:25And if these conditions are met a divorce is possible.
53:34Oh quite quite if you give me a free hand.
53:44May I may I expect to hear from you?
53:47Within the week I shall write to you.
53:49Good good.
53:50Oh and let me have your terms.
53:53Certainly.
53:55It's rubbish Gostya.
54:18You ought to know that.
54:19All you've done is borrow some ideas from the communists and distort them.
54:23You're wrong.
54:24Communism denies the right to private property to inheritance and to capital.
54:28I do not.
54:29I regard them as vital stimuli.
54:31All I want to do is to regulate labour.
54:33Precisely.
54:34You've borrowed an idea.
54:35Restricted of all it's false.
54:37Now you pretend it's something new.
54:39I tell you my idea has nothing to do with...
54:41Communism has at least a charm of clarity.
54:44It may be utopian.
54:45But if one could completely erase the existing system, no private property, no family, then labour comes into its own.
54:52But you have nothing.
54:54Why will you persist in mixing things up?
54:56I have never been a communist.
54:57But I have.
54:58I believe it's premature but rational.
55:01And it has a future.
55:03As Christianity did in the early centuries.
55:05I know that religion got to do with it.
55:07Don't you even know that?
55:08No.
55:09All I want to do is to find some way of relating the task of the labourer to his character and his capacity.
55:14I want to make labour profitable to myself and to the labourer.
55:17Complete waste of time.
55:18I want to organise.
55:19No you don't.
55:21You want to show that you aren't simply exploiting the peasants.
55:24That you have some idea in mind.
55:27You have no convictions.
55:29None at all.
55:31All you're doing is flattering your own self-esteem.
55:35If that's what you think, you can leave me alone.
55:37And so I shall.
55:39High time too.
55:41You can go to the devil your own way.
55:44I won't say thank you for the money because it's mine anyway.
55:46But thank you for the vodka and the soup.
55:50Oh for letting me read this appalling.
55:52Rivia.
55:53Goodbye.
55:57Nikolai.
55:59Nikolai, you can't go.
56:00You must stay for one night.
56:01Not by now.
56:03I'm from Moscow.
56:04Well at least some people know what I'm talking about.
56:08If I've hurt your feelings.
56:10Oh.
56:11You want to apologise, do you?
56:14Magnanimous, aren't you?
56:15Very well.
56:17If you want the satisfaction of being on the right,
56:19I can let you have that satisfaction.
56:20I'm wrong.
56:21You're right.
56:22No, I...
56:22But I'm going anyway.
56:23Don't think too badly of me.
56:49Will I cost you?
56:53Will you?
57:04What, is he gone?
57:06Gone, yes.
57:10And whether I'll ever see him again.
57:12Oh, you will, sir.
57:13You may be sure of that.
57:14No, he's dying.
57:19He'll be dead before the spring.
57:24What can I do for him?
57:26What can I do?
57:28Something's the best left to God.
57:37Death.
57:37Death.
57:44Death.
57:57Death.
58:04Death.
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