Whistle Stop
Script: R. Pogodin, B. Barnet
Direction: Boris Barnet
Photography: Sergey Poluyanov
Art director: V. Shcherbak
Music: K. Molchanov Conductor: E. Khachaturian
Pavel Pavlovitch: V. Merkuryev - Sima: N. Rumyantseva - Grandma Tatyana: E. Mazurova
Kolkhoz chief: Boris Novikov Klavka the milkmaid: A. Beryozovskaya
This year Pavel Pavlovich, a famous scientist
with PhD in Engineering, an academician,
decided to spend his vacation in an unusual way.
Doctors agreed that the best for Pavel Pavlovich would be to go to the countryside,
to the back of beyond,
far from fashion resorts and busy cities.
What's more he decided to revive the past and his passion for painting,
to which he gave free rein in his youth.
And now Pavel Pavlovich is on the way,
dreaming of silence, clean air,
milk from the cow and... peace and quiet.
- How do you do? - How do you do?
- You're going to our place? - "Your place"?
- Beregovoy. - Indeed, Beregovoy.
Then it's the opposite way. I'll come with you.
The track forks, you might get lost.
Don't worry.
How did you guess I was coming to your place?
Painters are coming here all the time, even from Moscow.
I can't understand why specialists come to every other kolkhoz
while to our place only painters do, distracting people from their work.
I wonder. In what way can I distract?
Sorry, I didn't mean you.
Grandma Tatyana, Grandma Tatyana!
A new painter has arrived.
- Hello! - Hello!
- Aren't you fed up? - I'm not.
- They say I have an interesting texture. - You'd better watch the hens.
- It's my meal break. - Break!
- Hello! - Hello!
- Painter? - Yes, ...
- Can't you see?
- ... a passion. - Do you need a place to stay?
- Yes, for about three weeks. - Follow me.
One minute!
Here it is.
Of course, it's far from being perfect.
Let's take a look.
But all painters who lived here liked it,
said the view from here is beautiful.
Here onto the sea,
at twilight.
Great for drawing!
If you want, we can go to see the hotel.
Well there... it's... noisy. Here it's...
... quiet.
- What does it mean? - They're used to their old place.
It's instinctual. You know? Hens love to dig out worms.
The soil here is manure.
But there, at the new henhouse, it's only stones and rocks.
You shouldn't have let the painters in here.
It's not a sanatorium here, it's a working kolkhoz.
The city demands our products.
Don't cram your instincts into my head.
I studied Pavlov's theory too.
- I like the place very much. - Fine.
Mister, please don't listen to her!
She always makes trouble.
What did you say? You stringless balalaika!
It's your wife who is going to every conference.
And what?
- She's the best in the district. - The best?
And who is that?
- Please ask who that is. - What do you mean "who"?
It's our daughter, Nyuska!
An orphan, that's what she is!
Excuse us.
- Are you married? - Why?
No reason, just to get acquainted.
The most unhappy child in the whole kolkhoz.
She's indeed an orphan.
We lived in perfect harmony.
Everyone has a normal family life, but mine...
... is a succession of smoke breaks.
Come to the board tomorrow.
You'll pay the rent and receive a mattress and furniture.
I'm too busy.
See you later. Come, Nyuska!
Texture!
They rush like mad men, happy with the freedom given them.
They bought fishing boats. They want to grow vines.
They sold all the horses, bought loads of cars.
Instead of manure we have stench.
A little bit to the left. That's it.
We're obliged to feed hens with flour.
And they're running here for worms. The thunder strike them!
Hey! Switch this tractor off!
Jump in and stop it!
Have you all gone mad?
Thanks, dear comrade!
Pest, nothing to draw from him. Blasted pest!
I... I'll give you some.
What!
No! The president is in the district to see some factory.
To show them the plan.
The plan!
I can't say who the leader or the inventor is here.
What?
It's not irony. On the contrary, it's modesty.
Grubohukhov.
Grubohukhov!
- Answer Zarya! - Why are you yelling like this?
Yes.
YES!
- Again on the tractor... - Keep quiet, I'm on the phone!
Yes.
Dad, is it mummy?
No, no!
She's in Budapest.
He nearly ruined Senka's tractor yesterday,
and today he took mine,
broke Grandma Tatyana's well.
He run over my cabbages.
Comrades, keep quiet, I'm on the phone. Yes!
Yes. Yes.
And he stole my motorboat.
So, isn't he a blasted pest?
Is it true?
Yes, true, I'm asking you.
And why does he park his tractor all day long?
'cause he only knows the way to the milkmaids.
Lies! I just went past to drink.
To drink! While you were there,
one can drink three buckets of milk and mow down a whole meadow.
Lies, lies.
I swear, nothing but lies.
If she weren't your sister, I'd run over you with the tractor.
I didn't drag you here.
Klavka threw him off the farm, and he's taking it out on me now.
Oh! Excuse me, please. Oh...
It's nothing. I came to pay the rent.
Come in, please. Come in.
And you, leave, please. Off you go!
You haven't heard the last of it.
Sit down, please. Sit down.
- May I smoke? - Yes, yes, please do.
Excuse me, do you have any matches?
- Please. - Thank you.
Sima, can you come one second?
Please don't to smoke in here.
Excuse me.
- Sorry, but the mattress? - The mattress!
You'll get it from that house there.
Excuse-me.
Why is she... ?
Why are you taking it out on everybody?
Because they're all arrogant.
All painters are arrogant.
Maybe you could take some medicine for your temper.
Dad, let's go.
We're beginning our concert with requests from our listeners.
The "Communist Labour" brigade of the tobacco mill Ducat
asked for Carmen's Overture by Bizet.
Hello, children!
How are you?
- What are you doing here? - We're tidying up.
Well done, kids!
What are you doing? Nyusa!
A bull's out there!
It's not dangerous. His name is Shurik. Painters accustomed him to drink.
So, ...
- Hello! - ... speaking of smoke breaks.
We lived in harmony. Because of her I gave up the police.
Then Nyuska is born, grew up.
And she wanted more and more :
6 000, 8 000, 10 000...
Is that possible?
What, what, 10 000 a month! That's...
- A year! - A year!?
I'm talking about milking. From one cow.
Is your wife famous?
You would have understood me.
Well... conferences, exchanges of experiences.
And I bring up Nyuska.
Who must I to be?
I must be a chief for the people, and a husband at home.
But I'm in fact...
... a husband for the people, and at home...
no chief at all.
- That's how it is, you understand? - I do.
Well, okay.
We'll talk later. Come on, Nyuska.
Good bye.
Why are you carrying this poor girl by night?
Grandma, she can't sleep without me.
And what does Valentina think?
Think what! Valentina is in Budapest. Come on, Nyuska.
Shurik!
What are you doing here! Go away at once!
Get lost!
Shurik!
Come here.
Who's here?
It's me, Grisha.
Get out all of you, let me sleep!
I'm alone.
Why have you come here?
To make an oven.
For me? What for?
To make gruel with.
I won't make gruel. I'll have a quick bite to eat.
And what if it rains?
There's a roof.
What will you dry your clothes with?
With a fire.
Everybody has an oven.
- Who is that? - It's Nyuska.
- What Nyuska? - Nyuska.
- What do you want? - To install the oven.
- Are you all like that here? - No, we're all normal.
You're off our subject.
Well, off you go kids.
Let me sleep. Get out.
Dawn is so beautiful here
We could live like that for a hundred years
The sun's in the sky And our hearts feel light
Dawn is so beautiful here
All over the earth it's all blue
All the meadows around Shine under stars and dew
Go, go kids, be on your way!
- We came to see you. - We came to see you.
To see me? And why?
- To install the oven. - To install the oven.
You didn't understand me. I don't need one.
- The oven isn't only for you. - The oven isn't only for you.
- The foreman ordered me to install the oven, full stop. - Full stop!
- That's all! - Enough!
- Now we need clay. - What clay?
There won't be any clay. I won't go any further.
The lodgers are always required to do the subsidiary work.
Pal Palych! Get up, let's go!
Shhh, silence!
We haven't got the horse for long.
While you're singing here, the horse will be sent for sale.
- Will you let us sleep? - Well, sleep!
We used to have a chairman. He slept all the time.
Well, they kicked him out.
Hey, Pal Palych. You're singing when the horse is ready to fetch the bricks.
A magic moment I remember: I raised my eyes and you were there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.
Well, this has been built without purpose, but it's solid.
Last year they built a silo here. And already it has cracks.
Well, the cracks may be caused by different reasons.
Poor quality work.
Or the soil could have subsided, karstic phenomenon, or it's just bungling!
- What phenomenon? - Karstic.
Well it's a specific form of relief with some hydrologic conditions,
pecular to places, shaped by the dissolution of layers
of soluble bedrock, well, let's say, limestone, gyspsum...
Pal Palych! Remember, we haven't got the horse for long.
Ah! Well I'll explain it to you in details later.
Pal Palych, I'm going.
You know the way. You know how to ride a horse.
I've still many things to do.
- Pal Palych! - Mm?
Ah! Here I go, here I go.
- The thread is tearing again. - We'll fix that.
Grandma Tatyana! I heard that you have the best oven.
- Repair my machine instead. - We'll repair.
What are you doing there? Blasted pest!
I asked you to fix my machine, not to poke around in the stoves.
Grandma, I have no time now. I'll fix your machine later.
I have other things in mind at the moment.
No matter how intelligent you all are all, I'll whip you with nettles.
Fix my machine. Nina Osipova asked me to sew her a skirt.
Maybe you want hot milk with curd tart?
- No, I've eaten well. - What did you sniff in the oven then?
- Hello. - Hello.
Good heavens! Who tortured you like that?
Grisha!
I dismantled the bricks. What shall we do now?
Nothing, have a rest. Tomorrow morning at dawn.
Excuse-me, please, for the inconvenience.
What is that?
Interesting!
I can show you some other portraits if you want. I have many.
- Thank you, I'll be delighted. - You're welcome.
Very good!
- May I smoke? - Please do.
Oh, excuse-me.
Wait!
Thank you.
I have these one too.
Interesting!
Very interesting!
Oh, you're not holding it right.
It should be like that.
- Interesting! - It's me too.
Pest! Good Lord, pardon me!
What are you doing here? Blasted pest!
The devil's bringing someone else.
Who's here?
Grandma Tatyana! Take Nyuska, I have to go
and see Valentina before the end of the conference.
I'll say a word to her at the smoke break.
Of course!
You and Valentina only know how to go back-and-forth.
And throw children along the way.
Grandma Tatyana! She might be sent elsewhere after the conference!
- Take Nyuska please! - Let's go, Nyuska!
Grandma for the hens! Grandma in the fields! Grandma, please bread for everyone!
- Let's go, Nyuska! - You go away!
For two years you've been unable to patch my roof up.
How many times have I told you!
Dismantle that barn where the painters live.
And patch my roof up.
They'll set the barn on fire anyway.
And what's more, they'll burn the village with their tobacco.
They covered the whole place with their pictures,
the hell with icons!
- Have you stopped posing, grandma! - At once!
Look at all these pictures. Patch yourself a roof with them!
See you!
Allow me to bow.
Good bye!
Won't you look at some more pictures?
I have interesting sketches in the attic.
I'll heat some milk or cook some potatoes, if you wish?
Thanks, I'm not hungry.
Good bye!
Tomorrow morning at dawn!
- Good bye! - Good bye!
Hello!
I'd like some advice from an artist. Is this material all right?
- Hello! - Hello!
Here it is!
The right colour.
Well, you lads, do you like it?
To complete the set.
- Hey, give the necklace back! - I'll bring the money later.
Come to our club tonight.
- To the dance. - Thank you.
Tell me, have you...
I say...
Have you army boots?
- Hm, which size? - 44, sometimes 45.
I bring them, bring them.
Hello! Hello, Pal Palych!
Have you some bike spokes?
Hm... we have, we have.
And welding tin?
Hm... I bring it.
Back of the queue, back of the queue!
- Hello, Pal Palych! - Hello!
- I'll come early tomorrow. - Well well.
- Sima! - Get out of here!
Go try it on your Klava!
It's for you, I just tried it on her.
And you couldn't try it on Zoya?
She has a large neck.
And Klava has a fine one?
Sima!
It's for you, I told you. Come on, put in on.
Get out of here!
Sima darling!
Vanya!
I'll break you into a thousand pieces.
You've ruined my whole life.
Go home at once.
Out of my sight!
Easy, easy!
- Easy I tell you! - Don't come near me!
Let the oven fork at its place!
Silence! Father's sleeping.
Sima!
Iron this shirt!
Sima!
Come here a minute!
I don't like this Ivan!
He's a real enemy!
What's he done to you?
He wants to marry Sima.
And if she's serious?
And what if I have only a father without a mother!
Sima will go with Ivan, and who will take care of daddy?
He comes back from work exhausted.
He's got four ribs missing.
A piece of shrapnel from Budapest.
What's there so cheerful and loud?
People are finishing the harvest and gathering together from everywhere.
Will you come tonight to our dance?
I'll lead the music.
- Hello! - Hello!
- How are you settled in? - Well, thanks!
It's so beautiful here for painters.
- You know, even painters from Moscow come here. - Yes!
- Pardon, and you are? - I'm a milkmaid.
Is the milk yield good?
Milk yield? I work so hard every day
my arms and legs are aching.
Well, I have a strange organism. If I don't dance each night, I can't find sleep.
So when there are no dancing party, I dance alone at home.
And I feel better at once.
Yes, dance has strange powers, beyond understanding.
The art of dance is born before people knew how to speak.
Besides rhythm characterizes all living beings.
Mister Pavel, come tonight to our party. Before they switch off.
Though our girls know how to be visible by night!
Thank you. Thanks.
Who made you that?
I stumbled.
Are you cooling off here?
Don't worry. I'll keep an eye on Klava as if she was mine.
You want to stumble once again?
Thank you.
Hello!
- Hello, sit down please! - Don't worry!
Thank you. Thanks.
Wonderful club.
We're trying to make it so!
Play! Klava bought new shoes.
Come on.
Hello!
What should I play?
Klava! Dance!
For you, women, comrades, We, kolkhoz girls and milkmaids,
will sing now chastushki 'bout how here it's good to be.
A painter once took a pew And nothing but hens he drew
He did it all in one large sup cackling "draw and swallow up!"
Our foreman we know well by bike he rides to hell.
He's sometimes a hard life Such glory, such a wife!
A sweet boy rode me west, His arm around my chest.
Said goodbye to me later on, Both his hands were then numb!
Vassya!
You'd better take steps before it's too late!
Mind your own business!
Hey, you dancer! Hepcat! Swamp swan!
Wait a minute for the death blow!
Pal Palych, are you okay?
Come on, I'll take you home.
Switch your torch off! It's shining right in my eyes.
Mister Pavel! Mister Pavel!
I brought you some pancakes with sour cream and boiled milk.
Daddy sends you his regards!
- Thank you, my dear child. - You're welcome!
- May I? - You may. Come in!
- Hello! - Hello, Klava!
I brought you pelmeni and hot fresh milk.
Thank you.
Did Klava come here?
- She did. - Where is she then?
We don't have this information.
- Grandma Tatyana, did Klavka come here? - She didn't.
- Where is she then? - How should I know!
- Do you like it? - Yes, very much!
I can offer it.
And I like it very much too!
- It's for you. - Thank you very much.
Klavka didn't come here?
She didn't, She didn't.
Do you have a necklace?
I'll bring it. Wait!
Back of the queue, back of the queue!
- Pal Palych! - No, no.
It's not for drinking.
It's the unguent Grandma Tatyana applies for her rheumatism.
It might be helpful.
Pal Palych, is it from a bullet?
Yes, it is. In the Civil War.
And this is from a sabre?
No, a piece of shrapnel. At Leningrad.
- Pour. - Where?
Here.
Come on, pour, pour!
- Is it good? - It is.
- And here? - Very good.
Tighten!
Nyuska, move a little!
- Tighten! - Alright.
That's fine. Go there.
Pal Palych?
How much do you earn?
Why?
Well if you earn a lot, it's better to install an electric oven.
Look.
We'll put the insulator here.
The spiral here.
We'll have to find a regulator though.
- A regulator, you said? - Aha.
I'll tell you, my friend, Complete what you began!
Cement!
Mister Pavel, cement!
Bricks!
Mister Pavel, bricks!
Oh, kids!
Excuse me, Tatyana... hm. I always forget your patronymic.
Is there someone there?
- Who's there? - It's me, Grisha.
- Where are you? - Up here.
Why have you given up there, and fiddling here?
It's not the done thing, I think.
I'm studying the bend, the air flow.
The bend... My G... !
Hey, Mister Painter, what are you doing here?
I'm talking to Grisha!
And where is our Grisha?
- He probably vanished. - Vanished!
Pal Palych! Pal Palych!
Pal Palych, quick!
- What happened? - A man on the phone.
- Which line? - Long-distance.
- Who is it? - I couldn't tell. Quick, to the office!
- We found him in the end! - Pal Palych!
I found him, he's coming!
- Allo. Allo. - Hallo, Guten Tag.
- Genosse Werner? - Ja.
- Guten Tag. Wie geht es Ihnen? - Danke bestens ich fühle mich wohl. Und Sie?
- Danke. - Gut - Danke. Bestens - Ich habe eine Frage an Sie
- Bitte? - Eine Frage. - Bitte.
- Können Sie im Januar uns besuchen? - Im Januar? - Ja.
Ein Moment. Moment.
Leider nicht.
- Vereisen für Philadelphia. - Im Februar.
- Ah.
- Auch nicht. - Ah, ich bedaure. Wann denn?
Wahrscheinlich im April.
Didn't I say he was a strange man! ?
- Da, da. Bitte. - Du sollst im April kommen?
- Gerne. - Wiedersehen
Wiedersehen!
- Leben Sie wohl! - Leben Sie wohl!
- Danke. - Bitte.
I brought you some little things.
- Pancakes with sour cream? - There are some too.
I was thinking, a mature man, how can he live without hot meal!
- Thanks! - Is your back aching? - It's better now, thanks.
How can a wife let go a man with so many wounds?
Haven't you any wife?
Pal Palych!
- Are you really a technician? - I am.
You could maybe fix my sewing machine?
- Unfortunately it's not my speciality. - Well, excuse me.
Wait, I fixed one once.
Pal Palych, Grandma Tatyana asked me to give you this.
Couldn't she give everything at once!
Where will I stick them now?
Does it work?
- Work? Only just, but it works! - Good.
These are parts of a meat grinder!
- Grisha, what's the matter? - Nothing.
- Were you crying? - No.
Don't worry, I'll make the oven for you anyway.
My only problem is with the bend, how to evacuate the air.
In a Russian oven the bend goes like this.
Why can't you just tell me the truth?
You never installed an oven, did you?
I never told you I did.
I can make everything except ovens.
So why did you string me along?
Why me?
It's not you, You're a short-stay guest.
You come in then go away.
Our stove maker is an egoist and a skinflint. The whole village has complaints about him.
He's the only one and keeps it all secret.
I spied on him for three days.
When he reached the bend, he saw me and chased me with a shovel.
I'll catch that cheapskate out with his extra money.
- A skinflint you said? - A skinflint!
- A cheapskate! - A cheapskate!
- This way, you said? - That way.
Pal Palych, what are you doing?
D'you think I'll sit here waiting that you find how to build the evacuation bend.
Little brother, I built the first blast furnace in Magnitogorsk.
Dear Pal Palych! What does it mean?
Are the visitors always doing the subsidiary work here?
Pal Palych, don't worry. I'll sort that out with Grisha.
I've already done it without you.
- Cement! - Cement!
Mirage!
Pal Palych, you'd better visit our laboratory.
No, my dear, it's not my speciality.
- I know neither manure nor soils. - That's a pity!
- Is it tearing? - No.
It's working well.
- Pal Palych? - Hmm.
We received the phone commutator. Will you have a look?
Oh, unfortunately, my dear, it's not my speciality.
It's a pity!
Nyuska! Nyuska!
Pal Palych, what if we put a hem on Nyuska's dress?
Let's try!
Come on, undress.
A beauty!
Her mother's image!
They sent her to Poland by the way.
Can I turn it?
Come on!
- Is the oven drawing well? - It is, it is!
Come on!
- Pal Palych! - Hm?
Would you help us to install an oven in the hay drier?
Our stove maker has gone away. Skinflint!
The grain is ready now. If it rains...
I'll make a yoke of him.
Pal Palych! Agree! I'll help you.
Pal Palych! I'll install you a radio.
- A radio is simple! - Go on, install!
Kids, have you ever mounted a phone commutator?
No, Pal Palych, it didn't happen.
It's not our speciality!
Come on, kids, agree! I'll help you!
Let's try!
When do we begin?
When we complete the hay drier, then we'll begin.
Just don't forget.
Gruboukhov, your daddy, will make all the subsidiaries work.
That's right, the landlords always do the subsidiary work.
From Nyuska to P. P.
Nyuska! For you P. P.
Commutator?
Yes, hello, it's me!
Can you put Grisha on?
Of course!
Ah!! Already gone!?
It's a pity!
Tell him I phoned.
Of course! Good bye.
Grisha, my little friend, I have to go. They called me urgently.
If you go to Moscow, come to see me.
I'm very glad
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Good bye, Grisha
I've been called urgently and this time in my speciality.
I'm sad not to see you, Nyuska and all the others as well.
I have to go, so, little brother, don't hold it against me!
You gave me so much. Thank you and everyone here.
Grow up tall, my friend!
You'll probably do more in life than I did.
And probably better.
We gave you all the things we could accumulate.
It's now your heritage!
I know you won't deceive our hopes.
You have so much to do now.
And, believe me, here lies your happiness.
Good...
The End
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