1:05:02
...like you and I before him
1:05:04
The wars ahead... terrible wars...
1:05:07
...but we managed to preserve
all this through the catastrophes
1:05:11
I can't hear any more
1:05:13
And you?
1:05:14
Yes, I hear, but not very clearly
1:05:18
What are they saying?
1:05:21
The elder Piotrovsky is asking...
1:05:24
... whether the director's telephone
is still under surveillance
1:05:28
His father tells him: "Forget it
1:05:32
"I would prefer telling you
about the Hermitage cats
1:05:36
"They are still here"
1:05:42
There are so many people
that I wasn't able to help
1:05:45
Ten years have passed.
You know what I'm referring to
1:05:50
But everyone speaks well of you...
1:05:53
Your books are still in print.
Those of Mr Orbeli too
1:05:56
That's particularly admirable
1:05:58
The dead weep with joy
when their books are reprinted...
1:06:02
...especially 37 years later, Mikhail
1:06:05
Is something still troubling you?
1:06:09
Is it the authorities?
1:06:12
They want acorns without oak trees
1:06:15
They are not interested in knowing
how to nurture the tree of culture...
1:06:18
...but it will be their doom
if the tree falls
1:06:21
Then there will be nothing left.
Can't they understand that?
1:06:24
Mr Orbeli, what awaits us?
1:06:31
- I'm coming!
- Speak!
1:06:34
- Listen, Mikhail...
- Let him go
1:06:37
You're completely alone
1:06:44
They won't tell him anything.
I know, ask me!
1:06:50
I am asking you
1:06:52
Everyone can see the future...
1:06:56
...but no-one remembers the past
1:06:59
Look how handsome they are!
Such fine young men!