We'll Live Till Monday
1968 · 106 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 1,760 VOTES · DIR. Stanislav Rostotsky
Overview
Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit...
Dialogue Timeline — 918 lines
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00:00:01 Maxim Gorkii Central Film Studio (Children and Young Adult Films)
00:03:19 You should be going. Your bodyguard will worry. Because of you?!
00:06:21 Maybe it's okay.
00:11:55 She's just a girl.
00:15:19 Our department treats its valued staff better than yours.
00:18:32 She's interested in her son's thoughts and his work.
00:22:50 It's hanging outside the window.
00:25:27 Whose lesson should they be at?
00:28:34 Hm, I thought it was Syromyatnikov.
00:33:25 Quiet, go on.
00:38:45 Don't worry. You wouldn't invent anything like that.
00:42:36 You called him out again yesterday, didn't you?
00:46:11 Ah, right. So what's up with you?
00:49:36 Right? - Okay, right.
00:53:25 and only sees thistles and hemlock grow. - Enough of this symbolism.
00:57:52 You know what, let's go to my place? I'm almost done with the tape recorder, you could help.
01:02:53 What? - I'm sorry, you won't understand that.
01:09:31 Voltaire said it, not me. Mom, he's not so dumb.
01:16:18 And the outlook is below average, dear Natasha.
01:19:45 He's kind of sick.
01:24:19 Most people only leave a dash between the two dates.
01:28:36 And at the crime scene - I'm not trying to joke here - he left this... this explanation
01:32:52 Give me a cigarette. - A glass of water, maybe?
01:37:30 The broken cage is just a handful of ashes