Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita
PART FIVE
The articles, did not cease...
I laughed at the first of them.
But the more of them that appeared...
...the more my attitude towards them changed.
And then, came the stage of fear...
...especially as I was falling asleep when I turned the light off...
...I was imagining that through the shutters - even though they were closed...
...an octopus was stealing...
...with its very cold and pliant tentacles...
I began to be afraid of the dark...
...the stage of mental illness came.
Forgive me...
Forgive you what?
For having advised you to publish an excerpt...
Drop everything!
Go to the south, to the Black Sea...
...and spend all that was left.
Are you listening?
Very well, tomorrow I will buy a ticket.
I, myself, I myself will buy you a ticket.
Why so much?
I'm afraid of thieves...
Keep it until my departure.
It would be easier for me to die than to leave you alone...
...in such a state...
...but I am awaited...
...I must bow to necessity...
...I'll come tomorrow!
I beg you not to be afraid of anything!
You!?...
It's you!
God, how could you!
I came to hate this novel...
I'm ill. Frightened...
I'll cure you, I'll cure you
You'll restore it...
Why...
...why didn't I keep a copy...
This is how one pays for lying!
...and I don't want to lie any more!
I'd stay with you right now...
...but I don't want it to remain forever in his memory...
...that I ran away from him in the middle of the night...
I'll talk with him tomorrow
I'll tell him...
...that I love another man...
...and come back to you for ever!
Or maybe you don't want that?
Poor dear...
...my poor dear.
Things won't go well for me...
...and I don't want you to perish with me.
Is that the only reason?
The only one!
I'm perishing with you.
In the morning I'll be here.
And so, the last thing I remember from my life...
...is a strip of light from my front hall...
...and in that strip of light an uncurled strand of hair...
...her eyes filled with determination...
I also remember...
...the black silhouette...
...in the outside doorway...
...and the white package...
A quarter of an hour after she left me...
...they arrested me!
How did you?
...how did you get here?
In mid-January...
...in the same coat...
...but with the buttons torn off...
Hey, wacko... where are you going?
The driver took pity on me...
...and to my surprise, he was coming here...
I got away with having two of my toes frostbitten...
But they...
...cured that already.
But you could have let her know...
Besides, she has your money.
She did keep it, of course?
Of course she kept it!
But you evidently don't understand me...
Before her, there would lie a letter from a madhouse...
How can one send letters from such an address?
A mental patient...
You're joking, my friend...
No...
Why make her unhappy?
No, I'm not capable of that!
Poor woman... However, I have hopes that she has forgotten me
But you may recover.
I am incurable!
I don't deny, however, that I'm much better now.
And now this is the fourth month that I've been here...
...I find it not at all bad here.
One mustn't make grandiose plans...
...my dear neighbor...
I, for instance...
...wanted to go all around the globe...
...it turns out that I'm not going to do it...
I see only an insignificant piece of that globe...
...I suppose it's not the very best there is on it...
...but, I repeat,
...it's not so bad.
Summer is coming...
...the ivy will twine up on to the balcony...
The keys have broadened my possibilities...
There'll be the moon at night...
Ah, it's gone!
It got cooler.
...night ends soon...
Time to go.
Tell me...
...what happened afterwards with Yeshua and Pilate?
I beg you, I want to know!
Ah, no, no...
...I...
...cannot recall my novel without trembling.
And your acquaintance from the Patriarch's Ponds would do it better than I...
Thank you for the conversation...
Goodbye
Yeshua!
I save you and go with you!
I am Matthew, your faithful and only disciple!
Back off - I say!
Oh, God...
I am too late!
Oh, fool that I am, fool...
...senseless woman, coward!
I'm not a man, I'm carrion!
God!
Why are you angry with him?
Send him death!
I curse you. God!
You are deaf!
If you were not deaf, you would have heard me...
and killed him straight away!
You are not an almighty god!
You are a god of darkness... I curse you!
You are a god of robbers...
...their soul and their protector.
Yeshua Ha-Nozri!
...can you hear me?
What do you want?
Why have you come to me?
Drink!
Injustice!
Give me a drink too...
I'm a criminal just like him!
Silence on the second post!
Give him a drink...
Praise the magnanimous hegemon!
Hegemon...
He's dead!
Why are you not looking at me...
when you serve?
Did you steal anything?
Get out!
The darkness that came from the Mediterranean Sea...
...covered the city hated by the procurator.
...Yershalaim - the great city...
...vanished
as if it had never existed.
Yes, yes, yes...
...the same mistake!
Why did I leave him that night?
Why?
It was madness!
Yes, I came back...
...but like the unfortunate Matthew Levi, it was too late!
Margarita Nikolaevna what should I cook for the second course?
Husband is on a business trip for three more days...
...I don't care.
Yesterday in the theatre a conjurer began performing such tricks...
...that everybody gasped!
gave away two flacons of foreign perfume and a pair of stockings free to everybody!
And then, when the séance ended...
...the audience came outside and - bang...
...everybody turned out to be naked!
Natasha! You ought to be ashamed!
You, a literate, intelligent girl...
They tell devil knows what lies in the queues...
...and you go repeating them!
They weren't lying Margarita Nikolaevna...
And yesterday, the police arrested around a hundred people in the evening.
Women from this séance were running down Tverskaya in nothing but their bloomers.
I want to show a trick too...
Here, take this!
Just please don't run around Tverskaya in nothing but stockings...
...and don't listen to the rumors in the queues.
Thank you!
NKVD!
Call entire Variety staff to the office!
Keep working!
Keep searching!
Keep searching!... Keep working!
Keep searching!
Come back, come back!
Yes!
Bookkeeper Lastochkin?
What was this magician's name?
Wo... Woland, seems like...
Or maybe not Woland!
Maybe Faland...
Messenger Karpov?
There had been posters, right?
Right!
But during the night they had been pasted over, there wasn't a single one to be found now!
Accountant?
Where had the magician come from?
Ah, who knows...
But there was a contract drawn up with him?
I suppose so...
And if one was drawn up, it had to go through bookkeeping?
Most assuredly!
Then where is it?
Not here!
Everyone can go now...
...with the exception of bookkeeper Lastochkin!
But I have to deposit yesterday's receipts...
Accountant will do it!
Let's go!
...You know Fagott...
...that besides everything else...
...this building is famous for its marble columns in the round hall...
Let's go!
Commission on Spectacles and Entertainment
Attention, comrades, attention...
...collectivism at the base of our life...
.. even though we had succeeded in organizing a club of Lermontov studies...
...of chess and checkers, of ping-pong, and of horseback riding...
...still not everyone among workers participates...
...due to various circumstances and what staff is interested in!
...even though, as you know, we agreed to organize this summer...
...fresh-water canoeing and alpinism club...
...not everybody will be able to participate.
But I introduce to you comrade Koroviev...
prominent specialist in organizing choral-singing clubs!
Comrades!
I assure you that singing doesn't take much time...
...but the benefits derived from singing there is... a whole load...
I appeal to everyone... Don't despair...
...sign up please!
Scat!
What are you doing, citizeness, shouting 'scat' at visitors?
Where are you going?
Are you out of your mind?
Why do you barge in here unannounced?
I've come, to discuss a little business with you...
I'm busy!
You're not busy with anything...
What is all this?
Get him out of here...
...devil take me!
Devil take you?
That, in fact, can be done!
Moscow Army Choir
Are you free?
Show your money!
Here...
A tenner - I won't go...
I beg your pardon?
Got any threes?
Get in...
Let's go!
No change, is that it?
A pocket full of change!
It's my third case today...
...the same thing happened with the others, too.
Some son of a bitch gives me a tenner, I give him change - four-fifty...
...He gets out, the scum...
About five minutes later, I look: instead of a tenner...
...it's a label from a seltzer bottle!
Another one, beyond Zubovskaya. A tenner!
I give him three rubles change. He leaves.
I go to my wallet, there's a bee there...
...zap in the finger! Ah, you!...
And no tenner!
Yesterday, in the Variety some vermin of a conjurer...
...did a séance with ten-ruble bills...
'Nothing, nothing, nothing, my dears!
The jacket and trousers are there, but inside the jacket there's nothing!
Thank God! At least one brave man has been found!
Everybody ran away, everybody betrayed us!
...You see!... Come on!
...Let's go to him, I don't know what to do!
What is this?
Isn't it written on the door that I'm not receiving.
You see? You see?! He's not there!
Bring him back, bring him back!
I always, always stopped him when he swore by the devil!
So now the devil's got him!
Prosha! Where are you?
Who here is "Prosha" to you?
He doesn't recognize me! He doesn't!
Do you understand!
I ask you not to sob in the office!
No, I can't look at it, I can't!
Let's not cry now, citizeness!
You hear? They're singing
They don't want to, but they still do!
I hear!
We'll look around...
Take measures, doctor, I implore you!
Get hold of yourself! Stop singing!
Take this...
You see comrade policeman...
...we have a case of some sort of mass hypnosis.
Calm down...
get up!
Comrades, follow me, follow me...
...towards the exit.
Give me a deposit slip, please!
What do you need it for?
I want to turn over some cash. I'm from the Variety.
Do you have a lot?
Twenty-one thousand seven hundred and eleven rubles.
There he is, one of those tricksters from the Variety!
You're under arrest!
Turn right into the alley!
...we'll get to the psychiatric clinic faster this way!
Going for excursion, out of town!
For Berlioz From the MASSOLIT Comrades
There is no head?
There is no head!
There...There is no head!
Where is the head!
Police!