Today’s her day off!įrosya: A-ha! Can’t understand anything! Have housekeepers got holidays? Nikolai Vasiliyevich: One lady, living in this house. Nikolai Vasiliyevich: Frosya, you are asking too many questions!įrosya: A-ha! I won’t anymore! But who keeps your flat? Nikolai Vasiliyevich: It was her who had left me! Nikolai Vasiliyevich: Indeed where is she? I have got no wife. I can’t see your wife, I don’t know why! Where is she? Nikolai Vasiliyevich: That’s what I need for my work.įrosya: It sounds obscure. Nikolai Vasiliyevich: What village are you from?įrosya: Strictly, I am not from a village, even Yeltsovka village is 8 km far from our apiary. Nikolai Vasiliyevich: You don’t like Moscow.įrosya: I can’t say it so for certain. Today I had to carry my luggage all day long until I found your whereabouts at last. But we have to pull it, pull it out of our well until shoulders get tired and hurt. Peace and quiet! And no crowd! Just look! Water’s running. with tea.įrosya: It is not the word! So good!. Nikolai Vasiliyevich: Where are you from?įrosya: It’s in Siberia! Help yourself to this. Nikolai Vasiliyevich: Are you in transit or directly to Moscow? Nikolai Vasiliyevich: Well, let’s drink some tea, Fro-sya! Besides, you must have felt tired from your trip and needed a rest.
Nikolai Vasiliyevich: By the way, what’s your name? Nikolai Vasiliyevich: You think there’s no honey in Moscow? Nikolai Vasiliyevich: That yellow liquid. Alive and kicking?įrosya: Alive! He works and lives with no trouble at all. Nikolai Vasiliyevich: Well, what about the custodian. Nikolai Vasiliyevich: Ivan Kirilitch! M-m! What to do? Well, come on in if that’s the case.įrosya: It’s so nice you’ve remembered him, I have got nobody in Moscow, otherwise I have to stay out in the cold and cry! Nikolai Vasiliyevich: (pretending to have remembered) Ah! (getting immediately obvious) So it was him who’d written to me to accept you? Together: I-van Ki-ril-lovich! I-van Ki-ril-lo-vich! It was six years ago! His name is Ivan Kirillovich. Later he moved to us.įrosya: He’d been staying with you for a couple of days. Nikolai Vasiliyevich: In Zaporozhiye City!įrosya: That’s right! It was long ago surely. He was a custodian in your school too, when you went to school. (looking for a letter) Where is it? But it was, it was!įrosya: Have you known the person who wrote the letter?įrosya: He is a custodian in our school. Neighbour with his dog: You feel like accepting a guest?įrosya: What a big dog!. Nikolai Vasiliyevich: Good evening, Yuri Borisitch! Nikolai Vasiliyevich: What are you looking for? family name I’ve forgotten.įrosya: I must have put it in my basket.
I haven’t noticed.įrosya: Tell me if that person, what’s his name. Nikolai Vasiliyevich: Why to knock? There’s a doorbell there.įrosya: Really! But I had no idea. Frosya being not aware of any doorbells is knocking at the door with all her feet and hands. Voice: Who needs a carrier? Lemme help you! Oh my! You’ve loaded yourself up with heavy things!įrosya: Thanks, I’ll do without outside assistance.ĭoors of a Moscow flat. 1962, Moscow Railway Station.įrosya ( short for Efrosinia. Denisova, the Gnessin Institute Chancellor - Boris Kokovkin, Accompanist - Z. Zhivotova, Vadim - Alexandre Schirwindt, Volodya - Yuri Belov, Cloakroom Attendant - A. Maksimova, Kostya - Yuri Gorobets, Mariya Semyonova - N. Beniova.ĬAST: Nikolai Vasiliyevich - Anatoliy Papanov, Frosya - played and sung by EKATERINA SAV INOVA, Alexandre Alexandrovich - Boris Bibikov, Natasha - A. Sipitiner (Odessa State Philharmonic Orchestra), Manager S. Milyukov, Original Music and Arranger Andrei Eshpai, Sound E. Script by Evgeniy Tashkov, Camera Radomir Vasilevsky, Art Director O. RUSSIAN CLASSICAL CINE NOVELLETTEĪ daughter of a forester from a godforsaken place in Siberia is saying goodbye to her parents before leaving for Moscow to learn.