WEBVTT 00:00:06.687 --> 00:00:15.230 Suddenly this merry chorus of voices is invaded by a sound that resembles the screeching of car brakes that they consider music. 00:00:19.240 --> 00:00:22.563 We are growing suspicious. 00:00:33.760 --> 00:00:38.520 It turns out that these youngsters who loiter in shady alleyways behind the GUM instead of going to school 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:42.371 are here to peddle a product of their own making. 00:00:44.278 --> 00:00:52.692 Foxtrot on x-ray plates that, instead of intricate anatomic details, capture a crude image of their intellectual poverty. 00:01:00.003 --> 00:01:06.644 Listen, Zhenya Garkun, what does the world look like to you through the tiny hole of x-ray rock-n-roll? 00:01:09.160 --> 00:01:14.761 It's a small, cramped world of shadows exchanging furtive looks. 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:21.134 Shadows whose nickname is fartsovshiki (smugglers) selling old junk with fancy foreign labels. 00:01:22.320 --> 00:01:26.862 They are little more than shadows even though they have names, like Gennady Baranov. 00:01:27.006 --> 00:01:30.265 And you, Gena, do you really believe that this is life? 00:01:31.240 --> 00:01:37.497 - I don't actually live, I'm more like waiting for something. - And what exactly are you waiting for? 00:01:37.633 --> 00:01:43.822 Do you expect hydroelectric dams to erect themselves or the desert to flourish without your efforts? 00:01:44.829 --> 00:01:50.388 But when your peers perform miracles, you won't be able to stand by them. 00:01:51.464 --> 00:01:55.929 - Ah, yes, by the way: when I was a Young Pioneer, 00:01:56.029 --> 00:02:01.758 back in primary school, I used to pick wheat heads. 00:02:02.077 --> 00:02:07.836 Wheat heads? And all your knowledge of bread is limited to a bun? 00:02:07.836 --> 00:02:13.257 And your mate Sasha Kriukov twice went to reap the harvest in the Altai. 00:02:13.357 --> 00:02:17.309 Go on, ask him about the true price of the bread that you eat. 00:02:17.309 --> 00:02:22.105 What other shadows are lurking in this suffocating world? 00:02:30.831 --> 00:02:38.206 Her name is Lyudmila, but she prefers a monicker. In restaurants where she spends her days and nights she is called out: "Hey, Sophie!" 00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:45.306 - But how is that possible? You don't even have a job, but you frequent restaurants, wear fancy clothes. 00:02:45.406 --> 00:02:51.939 - Don't you feel sorry for yourself? Do you want to steal from yourself, Lyusia? 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:57.827 Do you want to forfeit the simple joys of human life? The friendship of factory folk? 00:02:57.927 --> 00:03:02.585 The nervous tremor before an exam in a college? The loving stare of your husband' eyes? 00:03:02.685 --> 00:03:09.086 Or the happy mumbling of that charming tot, Seriozha? And Nina wants you to know all this. 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:14.318 Who's that crawling about next to you? 00:03:14.418 --> 00:03:19.860 Who's that other shadow for whom all the values of the world mean little more than money? 00:03:19.900 --> 00:03:23.609 Viktor Pakhomov, perpetually tipsy and unruly. 00:03:23.709 --> 00:03:30.900 Where is all that money coming from? - I'm given tips every day. - Ah, are you really? 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:36.121 - And you take them? - Yes, I do. - Splendid. So that's your income. 00:03:39.272 --> 00:03:43.049 That's life in the world of shadows, Garkun. 00:03:43.760 --> 00:03:48.451 But do you see that we want these shadows to become human beings? 00:03:48.885 --> 00:03:55.049 So don't bend over, Garkun. Look at the real big world that is breathing around you! 00:04:00.483 --> 00:04:05.923 A world where people wake up to new inventions. 00:04:06.988 --> 00:04:11.561 A world where cities are built and trees planted. 00:04:15.320 --> 00:04:20.480 A world where newspapers tell of our friends' glory. 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:23.784 A world where people buy flowers for their loved ones 00:04:23.784 --> 00:04:27.310 and debate Botvinnik's latest game. 00:04:32.875 --> 00:04:44.430 Our world is a place where a person can in his final days say: "I did it all for the people". 00:04:44.530 --> 00:04:48.985 "And that is why this world exists for me". 00:04:55.131 --> 00:05:02.393 It is a great luck to live your life as a human being and not turn into an empty shadow. 00:05:02.960 --> 00:05:10.515 This is our message to those who are beginning their lives in murky alleyways. 00:05:24.310 --> 00:05:31.615 And it doesn't matter what exactly a shadow is mimicking: a peddler of foreign rags 00:05:31.715 --> 00:05:36.615 or a priest of rock-n-roll. 00:05:38.080 --> 00:05:42.318 Or an overgrown idler. 00:05:43.440 --> 00:05:48.371 We, the people, make no distinction in shaming them. 00:05:48.471 --> 00:05:54.318 TITLE: Shadows on a sidewalk 00:05:59.001 --> 00:06:04.851 Because we are human beings and we have human emotions. 00:06:04.951 --> 00:06:09.283 We can laugh and marvel. 00:06:09.383 --> 00:06:14.281 Be outraged and uncompromising. 00:06:16.320 --> 00:06:21.422 We can despise and condemn. 00:06:27.056 --> 00:06:32.974 We don't want foul shadows to blemish our sidewalks. 00:06:33.074 --> 00:06:39.177 All of us who walk our streets, who live in our city, 00:06:39.177 --> 00:06:44.803 no matter if one wears a volunteer's armband or not. 00:07:00.833 --> 00:07:06.553 And let our sidewalks be only adorned with figured shadows of tree leaves 00:07:06.653 --> 00:07:11.015 that do not hide the world's beauty from us. 00:07:22.238 --> 00:07:27.653 THE END