The Bottomless Bag

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«THE BOTTOMLESS BAG»

Company / LCC COSMOSFILM
Year
Country of origin / 2017
Russia
Rights / Kristel, Cosmosfilm, Rustam Khamdamov
Length / 01:45:02
Aspect / 2,39
Color/b&w / B&W
Original language / Russian
Titles / Russian
TC IN / TC OUT / TITLES / TEXT (Monologues, conversations, subtitles)
00:00:00 / 00:00:03 / Company KRISTEL
00:00:03 / 00:00:05 / COSMOSFILM
00:00:06 / 00:00:09 / ART, SCIENCE AND SPORTS
00:00:09 / 00:00:13 / With the financial support from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
00:01:04 / 00:01:08 / THE BOTTOMLESS BAG
00:01:11 / 00:01:15 / Based upon a story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ‘In the Woods’
00:06:37 / 00:06:38 / Madame,
00:06:39 / 00:06:44 / after the grand duchess’s death the duke is continuously grim.
00:06:45 / 00:06:48 / Please don’t scare him too much.
00:06:46 / 00:06:51 / One-two murders, not more.
00:07:06 / 00:07:09 / - I’m all ears, Your Excellency. - I would like
00:07:10 / 00:07:12 / to discuss some details.
00:07:28 / 00:07:31 / Madame, how much do you charge for reading? Your honorarium?
00:07:31 / 00:07:35 / Your Excellency, it’s 50 roubles as with everyone else.
00:07:37 / 00:07:42 / The previous readeress took extra money for every extra murder.
00:07:42 / 00:07:45 / Then she fancied to sink a ship.
00:07:45 / 00:07:47 / And because of a shipwreck and hundreds of victims
00:07:47 / 00:07:49 / she charged 50 for every dead soul.
00:07:51 / 00:07:54 / Naturally, I refused to and simply turned her away.
00:08:03 / 00:08:06 / Don’t worry, Your Excellency.
00:08:06 / 00:08:08 / It’s just a usual honorarium
00:08:08 / 00:08:12 / and only one single murder.
00:08:17 / 00:08:19 / - I am satisfied. - Wonderful.
00:08:26 / 00:08:28 / Just wonderful.
00:10:58 / 00:11:00 / Madame, are you German?
00:11:00 / 00:11:03 / Why on earth German, Your Excellency?
00:11:04 / 00:11:06 / Everything is too neatly arranged.
00:11:06 / 00:11:09 / Well, I’m just trying to subdue my inner chaos.
00:11:10 / 00:11:13 / with such things.Methinks you know what I mean. You must be familiar
00:11:23 / 00:11:27 / To arrange hidden bottles by their color and size, like all alcoholics do.
00:11:28 / 00:11:31 / - Go on. - I can see everything.
00:11:33 / 00:11:37 / I can see a massive book cabinet behind the wall.
00:11:37 / 00:11:40 / On the third upper shelf,
00:11:41 / 00:11:43 / behind the encyclopedia,
00:11:44 / 00:11:46 / the bottles are hidden.
00:11:54 / 00:11:56 / They are accurately arranged
00:11:57 / 00:11:59 / according to their size and color – like soldiers.
00:11:59 / 00:12:01 / Go on, Madam!
00:12:01 / 00:12:05 / There are seven of them.
00:12:06 / 00:12:08 / Pray, go on, Madam!
00:12:08 / 00:12:13 / Each one is smaller than the previous one. Two are uncorked.
00:12:15 / 00:12:18 / The smallest and the last one is half empty.
00:12:20 / 00:12:23 / - And what color is it? - Black.
00:12:27 / 00:12:31 / - Bravo. - The year 1866. Xeres.
00:12:31 / 00:12:35 / Bravo, Madame! You are ten-heads clever!
00:12:45 / 00:12:48 / Divine a dream... A disquieting one...
00:12:48 / 00:12:55 / On awakening, it’s this tense sensation in my head’s crown -
00:12:55 / 00:12:57 / a peg to hang your divination on...
00:12:57 / 00:12:59 / Birds were beating against the window pane.
00:13:00 / 00:13:02 / One of them flew in and was all aflutter near the ceiling. How many birds it was, Your Excellency?
00:13:03 / 00:13:06 / - Methinks, two, two and a half. - Be more precise.
00:13:06 / 00:13:09 / What color?
00:13:09 / 00:13:11 / - What color? - Yes.
00:13:11 / 00:13:16 / - The two birds were... grey. - Specify - what shade of grey?
00:13:14 / 00:13:16 / Almost transparent.
00:13:16 / 00:13:19 / Then calm down, Your Excellency.
00:13:20 / 00:13:22 / You have no reason to get worried.
00:13:23 / 00:13:26 / Because transparent birds mean pickling of mushrooms.
00:13:33 / 00:13:35 / Bravo, Madame.
00:21:45 / 00:21:50 / He's that very robber I failed to catch last time.
00:21:52 / 00:21:55 / Only back then he was a total ragamuffin.
00:21:58 / 00:22:00 / But now he has a bow,
00:22:04 / 00:22:07 / a horse with a rich harness
00:22:09 / 00:22:11 / and a sword!
00:22:22 / 00:22:24 / Was it this man that I killed?
00:22:59 / 00:23:02 / Last afternoon I met in the woods a man and a woman.
00:23:05 / 00:23:08 / The woman looked back at me and it decided everything.
00:23:15 / 00:23:19 / I killed that man, but I didn't kill that woman.
00:23:20 / 00:23:24 / And the robber narrated his story.
00:25:28 / 00:25:31 / When the woman looked back, I liked her that very instant.
00:25:31 / 00:25:34 / I decided to possess her
00:25:34 / 00:25:38 / and began thinking how to cheat them into turning their horse…
00:25:38 / 00:25:40 / It hurts!' ...back into the wood.
00:25:40 / 00:25:43 / And he told them how he found a treasure not far away
00:25:44 / 00:25:46 / and if anyone would wish it,
00:25:47 / 00:25:50 / he would sell cheap ancient mirrors.
00:25:51 / 00:25:55 / They believed him and urged their horse into the woods.
00:25:57 / 00:26:01 / The prince hurriedly followed the robber, heeding his story, and the princess stayed waiting on the glade.
00:26:04 / 00:26:06 / The robber attacked him from behind,
00:26:06 / 00:26:10 / fell him on the ground and tied him up to the tree.
00:26:10 / 00:26:15 / What about a rope? There is no robber without a rope.
00:28:24 / 00:28:27 / On seeing her husband tied up to the tree,
00:28:27 / 00:28:30 / the woman pulled down her attire and grabbed the weapon.
00:28:51 / 00:28:54 / You will be mine all the same.
00:28:54 / 00:28:58 / 'You will be mine', said the robber.
00:29:38 / 00:29:40 / Never before had I met such a brave woman.
00:29:40 / 00:29:44 / 'I would dodge and duck,
00:29:44 / 00:29:47 / 'but she would brandish her sword,
00:29:48 / 00:29:51 / 'right and left and everywhere.
00:29:51 / 00:29:55 / But it's not for nothing that I am a great robber.
00:32:04 / 00:32:06 / Madame, I fancy picking mushrooms in the woods.
00:32:08 / 00:32:10 / But I understand nothing in mushrooms.
00:32:10 / 00:32:13 / Whether it's an edible one or a death angel.
00:32:14 / 00:32:18 / - And nevertheless you go a-mushrooming? - Yes.
00:32:18 / 00:32:20 / And when we enter the woods, I wander away,
00:32:21 / 00:32:23 / find the most beautiful mushrooms, shower them with kisses and throw them away.
00:32:36 / 00:32:39 / Kill him!
00:32:45 / 00:32:47 / - What do I do with her? Kill her? - Kill him!
00:32:47 / 00:32:49 / - Or pardon her? Tell me. - Kill him.
00:32:49 / 00:32:51 / Just nod your head, hey, you.
00:32:59 / 00:33:03 / What do I do with this woman?' shouted out the robber.
00:33:03 / 00:33:04 / What do I do with this woman?
00:33:05 / 00:33:07 / - 'Shall I kill her?' - Shall I kill her? - 'Have mercy on her?' - Have mercy on her?
00:33:09 / 00:33:10 / 'Just nod your head, and I will kill her.'
00:33:16 / 00:33:18 / 'I was disgraced!' - shouted out the woman.
00:33:18 / 00:33:20 / 'One of you should die.'
00:33:20 / 00:33:25 / Shall I kill her or not? Come on, just nod your head.
00:33:25 / 00:33:28 / Hey, you, what do I do with her?
00:33:28 / 00:33:30 / It's you that should die or him.
00:33:30 / 00:33:33 / One of you should die.
00:33:33 / 00:33:36 / And I will stay with the one alive.
00:33:53 / 00:33:55 / So the old man went a-hunting.
00:33:56 / 00:33:58 / Only he didn't bring any tangible matter.
00:33:58 / 00:34:00 / Except a fairytale.
00:34:01 / 00:34:04 / A fairytale with a very bad ending.
00:34:08 / 00:34:10 / Kill him! Kill him!
00:37:14 / 00:37:17 / And what happened to the woman? Where is she?
00:37:21 / 00:37:23 / You may subject me to a most vicious torture.
00:37:24 / 00:37:26 / I always knew that my head would be impaled.
00:37:26 / 00:37:29 / - 'What happened to the woman?' - What happened to the woman?
00:37:31 / 00:37:33 / I don't know...
00:37:35 / 00:37:36 / I don't know earnestly.
00:38:50 / 00:38:51 / One won't even see it in a nightmare
00:38:51 / 00:38:55 / that the prince will see such a sad ending.
00:38:56 / 00:39:00 / Indeed, human life vanishes in one instance.
00:39:00 / 00:39:04 / And do you believe
00:39:05 / 00:39:07 / in transfiguration?
00:39:07 / 00:39:10 / I personally heard a lot of life stories about it.
00:39:13 / 00:39:17 / One ancient Greek man wrote how he was a boy,
00:39:19 / 00:39:20 / and then a girl,
00:39:22 / 00:39:23 / and then a branch,
00:39:25 / 00:39:26 / and then a bird,
00:39:27 / 00:39:31 / and then a fish which for some reason was suffocating in water. One poet described
00:39:33 / 00:39:37 / even more wonderful versions of such life.
00:39:38 / 00:39:41 / He was a sword in a general's hands,
00:39:41 / 00:39:44 / he was a streetlamp on the bridge… On the bridge? When I happen to pass
00:39:54 / 00:39:56 / a bedraggled neighborhood in Petersburg,
00:39:59 / 00:40:04 / I see a dog there on the bridge, she's lame.
00:40:06 / 00:40:10 / People must have been stubbing out cigarettes against her,
00:40:10 / 00:40:12 / those stubs are entangled in her fur.
00:40:13 / 00:40:16 / She is shivering, looking at me
00:40:17 / 00:40:19 / with those lusterless blue eyes of hers.
00:40:21 / 00:40:22 / And she is crying.
00:40:24 / 00:40:26 / Madame, and it seems to me
00:40:28 / 00:40:30 / she is my mother the grand duchess.
00:40:32 / 00:40:34 / I once read about people
00:40:36 / 00:40:37 / who turned for 100 days
00:40:38 / 00:40:42 / into the sea foam
00:40:42 / 00:40:45 / or a book. But to turn into a dog,
00:40:46 / 00:40:49 / on the bridge? In a proletarian district?
00:40:49 / 00:40:51 / In the abode of drunks?
00:40:52 / 00:40:54 / The grand duchess?
00:42:12 / 00:42:15 / Yes. Your mother is a dog.
00:42:16 / 00:42:19 / But not the one you told me about.
00:42:20 / 00:42:22 / Are you sure you are not mistaken?
00:42:22 / 00:42:27 / What the devil for your dear mother the grand duchess would fare in this city.
00:42:27 / 00:42:30 / After so many years in Petersburg I still can't get used
00:42:31 / 00:42:34 / to its coldness, slush and continuous dusk.
00:42:34 / 00:42:37 / Besides, the city rests on human bones...
00:42:37 / 00:42:41 / No. Your dear mother is a dog.
00:42:43 / 00:42:46 / But she is definitely somewhere in the south.
00:42:46 / 00:42:49 / Maybe in Crimea, or even in Italy -
00:42:49 / 00:42:53 / in some blessed corner where it is so warm,
00:42:53 / 00:42:56 / and the air and the trees are so heavenly.
00:42:58 / 00:43:00 / Or, maybe, she is in Naples,
00:43:00 / 00:43:04 / where everyone is in love, where all men have continuous erection.
00:43:06 / 00:43:11 / But where has that woman disappeared?
00:47:54 / 00:47:56 / I can see her.
00:47:57 / 00:47:58 / It’s a woman...
00:48:00 / 00:48:03 / She came to a forest hermit in the princess's apparel.
00:48:04 / 00:48:06 / She says she had killed her husband.
00:48:06 / 00:48:10 / She wants to confess how it happened.
00:48:14 / 00:48:19 / How she took a bow and sent an arrow right into his heart.
00:51:34 / 00:51:36 / 'I raised myself from the grass with difficulty,
00:51:36 / 00:51:38 / and look into his eyes intently. 'His gaze had not changed at all,
00:51:40 / 00:51:45 / 'still bespeaking that cold contempt
00:51:45 / 00:51:48 / 'and that disgusting hatred.'
00:51:50 / 00:51:53 / I don't know how to describe what I felt at that moment: it was sadness, shame and anger…
00:51:54 / 00:51:56 / The woman told the starets
00:51:57 / 00:52:00 / that she saw indescribable anger
00:52:00 / 00:52:02 / and decided to kill him.
00:52:03 / 00:52:05 / Hardly suppressing the emotions
00:52:06 / 00:52:09 / from which my bosom was nearly bursting, I...
00:52:10 / 00:52:14 / ...began to look for his bow.
00:52:15 / 00:52:17 / I picked up the bow, the arrows
00:52:20 / 00:52:23 / and calmly told to the prince: 'Now I'm going to take your life
00:52:24 / 00:52:25 / 'and will follow you immediately.'
00:52:26 / 00:52:28 / On hearing my words,
00:52:28 / 00:52:31 / the prince made an effort to move his lips
00:52:33 / 00:52:35 / but he wasn't able to utter a word.
00:52:35 / 00:52:37 / His mouth was sealed.
00:52:39 / 00:52:42 / And then I looked at his lips closely.
00:52:43 / 00:52:45 / And I understood everything.
00:52:45 / 00:52:49 / He meant to say only this: 'Kill me!'
00:54:03 / 00:54:05 / It defies any words
00:54:07 / 00:54:11 / how woeful it all is.
00:54:21 / 00:54:23 / How can one bear through all this?
00:54:25 / 00:54:28 / That's why day can't last for long:
00:54:29 / 00:54:31 / that's why it longs to hide, to go away
00:54:32 / 00:54:34 / and to come to an end.
00:54:35 / 00:54:38 / And it takes away with itself all harm done,
00:54:38 / 00:54:42 / all grief, all human pain...
00:54:45 / 00:54:48 / And in its stead there comes the night darkness:
00:54:49 / 00:54:51 / it disperses everything
00:54:53 / 00:54:55 / and distinguishes everything,
00:54:58 / 00:55:02 / putting an end to all sins committed in the daytime,
00:55:05 / 00:55:09 / making everything invisible,
00:55:11 / 00:55:16 / so that everything stop existing for some time.
00:55:16 / 00:55:18 / At that moment I again lost my consciousness.
00:55:19 / 00:55:20 / When I came to,
00:55:21 / 00:55:24 / the prince who was tied to the tree, breathed nevermore.
00:55:25 / 00:55:28 / The arrow got him right into his heart.
00:55:29 / 00:55:32 / The setting sun shone over his pallid face: stifling my sobs I
00:55:34 / 00:55:35 / undid the ropes.
00:55:36 / 00:55:37 / And after that… What happened to me after that?
00:56:30 / 00:56:33 / - She'll drown herself! - No, she won't.
00:56:33 / 00:56:35 / - She'll drown herself! - No, she won't.
00:56:36 / 00:56:40 / Do you remember that story from Sheherazade's Arabian Nights?
00:56:41 / 00:56:43 / Fairytale number 295
00:56:43 / 00:56:45 / about the bottomless bag?
00:56:45 / 00:56:48 / The one who spins more words, wins.
00:56:48 / 00:56:49 / Let's make a bet!
00:56:51 / 00:56:53 / So, let me begin.
00:56:58 / 00:56:59 / Very well then.
00:57:01 / 00:57:09 / Oh, Ruler of the faithful ones, in so-and-so year I left my home city that is Baghdad
00:57:09 / 00:57:12 / and I carried with me but a small bag
00:57:12 / 00:57:25 / In a so-and-so town. I was purchasing and selling items at the market. All of a sudden rascaly Kurd grabbed my bag from me and said: "This bag and all its contents are most certainly mine".
00:57:26 / 00:57:31 / So we went to the magistrate and he said to that villain…
00:57:34 / 00:57:45 / …and he said to that villain: "If this nag is your property, as you claim, than describe to me its contents"
00:57:47 / 00:57:49 / And the villain said:
00:57:50 / 00:57:54 / "This bag conyains two silver needles, a handkerchief,
00:57:54 / 00:57:57 / two gilded pots, two chandeliers
00:57:57 / 00:58:00 / two carpets, two jars, a tray, two basins,
00:58:00 / 00:58:04 / two cauldron, two mags, a ladle,
00:58:05 / 00:58:21 / two nosebags, a cat, two dogs, and also a plate, a kaftan, two fur coats, a cow, two calves, a she-goat, two lambsa sheep, two green tents, a he-camel and two she-camels, a buffalo and a couple of bulls, a she-lion,
00:58:21 / 00:58:27 / a she-bear, two foxes, a stool, a palace and two gazebos
00:58:28 / 00:58:31 / and also two castrated cockerels, two chambers and the kitchen
00:58:31 / 00:58:42 / and two kitchen workers who will testify that this bag is mine!"
00:58:51 / 00:59:11 / Ii was so amazed by the Kurd's tall tale and said: "And I only have in this bag a dilapifated house and a small hut with no door and also a dog's kernel and children's school some tents and ropes, the cities of Basra and Baghdad, a blacksmith forge
00:59:11 / 00:59:20 / a fishing net, Sherzad's palace and lads and lassies and one thousand of whoremasters who will testify that this bag is mine!"
00:59:23 / 00:59:28 / And this junction the villain sobbed and cried out:
00:59:28 / 00:59:29 / "Your Honor!
00:59:29 / 00:59:45 / Thios bag is similar to me Forinasmuch it contains fortifications and fortresses, the cranes and lions, and people playing chess, a mare and two colts, a stallion and two horses,
00:59:46 / 00:59:51 / and also one city, two villages, and one whore and two lads relaxed by her,
00:59:51 / 01:00:00 / and also the judge and two witness who will testify that this bag is mine!"
01:00:01 / 01:00:17 / I was nearly stumped at this and said: "No! In this bag there is a whore and three lads relaxed by her, and also coats of mail, daggers, armories, a thousand of butting rams, a thousand of barking dogs,
01:00:17 / 01:00:20 / the beautiful brides and rich grooms,
01:00:20 / 01:00:30 / the weddings, the humdrum, joyful shouts, close brothers and faithful friends cages for eagles, tambourins,
01:00:30 / 01:00:37 / and pipes, fifty Persian girls, twenty Georgian ones, two laim lassies
01:00:37 / 01:00:38 / and two Indian beauties
01:00:46 / 01:01:00 / An old woman with a cracked mag, the Tigris and the Euphrates, a fire sticker, a flint a piece of wood, a nail, a clack Aran with a flute a tilt yard, mosquers, caravanserais, bath houses
01:01:00 / 01:01:04 / a mason, a carpenter, a master and his sunordinate,
01:01:04 / 01:01:14 / a lot of cities, and one hundred thousand dinars, twenty chests with silk and ouze cloth the land as far as Assuan, the Palace of Prince Khosrov,
01:01:14 / 01:01:18 / Samarkand, Isphahan and my underwear,
01:01:18 / 01:01:30 / an old woman with her mag glued together and a thusand of sharp razors to shave off the magistrate's beard if he dares to say that this bag is not mine!"
01:01:33 / 01:01:46 / On hearing these words, the magistrate felt puzzled and he exclaimed: "Both of you are scoundrels!
01:01:46 / 01:01:47 / I swear by Allah Himself!
01:01:47 / 01:01:54 / From China to the nearby village,
01:01:54 / 01:01:56 / from the land of Iran to the land of Soudan,
01:01:56 / 01:02:01 / from the valley of Namang to the land of Khurasan
01:02:01 / 01:02:03 / you can't put inside the bag all that you described.
01:02:07 / 01:02:11 / Can it be like the sea that has no bottom?
01:02:12 / 01:02:14 / Or maybe it is like the Judgment Day?
01:02:14 / 01:02:17 / which will gather all sinners and the pious ones?"
01:02:23 / 01:02:24 / Having said this
01:02:26 / 01:02:29 / the magistrate ordained:
01:02:31 / 01:02:34 / "Open the bag!
01:02:42 / 01:02:44 / And the man opened his bag
01:02:45 / 01:02:47 / And inside there was
01:02:48 / 01:02:49 / only one lemon
01:02:52 / 01:02:54 / And he threw the bag at the villains feet
01:03:02 / 01:03:03 / And he's gone.
01:03:04 / 01:03:07 / You have won. She won't drown herself. The Mushroom says the princess
01:04:11 / 01:04:14 / is going to drown herself.
01:04:28 / 01:04:33 / The Mushroom said the princess didn't drown herself but ascended.
01:04:37 / 01:04:39 / I decided not to die.
01:04:40 / 01:04:43 / So I stayed alive,
01:04:45 / 01:04:48 / but I have no reason to be proud of this.
01:04:51 / 01:04:55 / It means The Holy Mother has turned away from me,
01:04:58 / 01:05:00 / a useless one.
01:05:01 / 01:05:03 / What do I do now?
01:05:03 / 01:05:07 / After killing my husband, after being wronged by a robber, what
01:05:09 / 01:05:10 / do I do now?
01:08:25 / 01:08:28 / Tear away your anger and be at peace.
01:08:29 / 01:08:31 / Don't take into your head all evil and vicious things.
01:08:33 / 01:08:35 / Isn't the best thing to do
01:08:35 / 01:08:37 / is to leave everyone be
01:08:38 / 01:08:41 / with their good and evil, and just sit
01:08:41 / 01:08:44 / in the company with the beaming ones.
01:08:45 / 01:08:48 / Your Excellency, have you
01:08:49 / 01:08:53 / - ever been in love? - Yes.
01:08:54 / 01:08:57 / I once caught a mermaid.
01:08:58 / 01:09:00 / We lived nicely
01:09:01 / 01:09:03 / until I took to bottle.
01:09:04 / 01:09:06 / After this she swam away.
01:09:08 / 01:09:11 / - And are you in love, Madame? - No.
01:09:11 / 01:09:15 / In my age it defies things aesthetic.
01:09:39 / 01:09:42 / Madame, and what do you think about these bottles?
01:09:45 / 01:09:48 / They look like young women.
01:09:52 / 01:09:54 / They are clinging to each other.
01:09:56 / 01:09:58 / They feel cold and lonely...
01:09:58 / 01:10:01 / For once they were in love, too.
01:10:03 / 01:10:05 / They live in a province, so full of dreams...
01:10:06 / 01:10:09 / Dreaming to leave to Moscow. To Moscow.
01:10:13 / 01:10:16 / No, this dream will never be fulfilled,
01:10:16 / 01:10:18 / and it will remain just a dream.
01:10:19 / 01:10:22 / They will never leave anywhere.
01:10:24 / 01:10:27 / They will feel blue, suffering.
01:10:28 / 01:10:31 / It will be only their chores left for them.
01:10:32 / 01:10:35 / They will grow old, and their mind will become stiff.
01:10:36 / 01:10:38 / We are imagining things.
01:10:39 / 01:10:43 / Imagination is better than reality.
01:10:45 / 01:10:49 / Without fairytales, how would we protect ourselves from life?
01:10:51 / 01:10:55 / Moscow is so far away... far away...
01:10:56 / 01:11:02 / Such exquisite life is what provincial artillery officers are dreaming about, too.
01:11:03 / 01:11:06 / But history is growing darker and darker.
01:11:08 / 01:11:11 / There is nowhere they can run away.
01:11:13 / 01:11:14 / Madame, what do you think...
01:11:14 / 01:11:17 / You are asking about this lonely bottle?
01:11:20 / 01:11:21 / It's Catherine:
01:11:21 / 01:11:26 / she's standing on a high cliff, she's about to jump into the Volga.
01:11:28 / 01:11:30 / Are you sure?
01:11:32 / 01:11:34 / The Volga is a great Russian river.
01:11:35 / 01:11:36 / She will perish.
01:11:39 / 01:11:42 / Death is imminent.
01:11:45 / 01:11:46 / You made many a mistake, Madame.
01:11:47 / 01:11:50 / I remember how we went a-fishing to Tver gubernia,
01:11:50 / 01:11:52 / but the rivers were empty of fish.
01:11:52 / 01:11:55 / We wrote to you, and you said that
01:11:55 / 01:11:57 / the water-sprite had lost all fish in a card game
01:11:58 / 01:12:00 / and all fish had left to the Novgorod gubernia.
01:12:00 / 01:12:03 / We sent a wire there, and they said: no,
01:12:03 / 01:12:06 / - all fish is in Tver gubernia. - Well, I misdivined.
01:12:07 / 01:12:11 / I did make a mistake. I didn't know that all fish had gone to the bottom.
01:12:12 / 01:12:14 / But let me remind you