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?!
00:06:22 I'll go have a look, okay?
00:12:10 You and I, we can't allow ourselves anything. Or forgive.
00:15:33 EC, efficiency factor. - Oh.
00:19:09 Did I tell you Gorelova came to work with us?
00:23:09 So what's happened, huh?
00:26:01 Hello. Good morning, Ilya Semyonovich.
00:28:58 Wonderful.
00:34:12 I can see that.
00:39:20 Shut up! - Why not?
00:43:19 I'll send you abroad at home, you'll see! - Why are you fighting?
00:46:59 It's not a real conversation, Ilya Semyonovich.
00:50:38 Interesting. - Interesting, indeed.
00:55:09 You were saying, that things are boring, no social work, nothing.
00:59:02 Go on. Go.
01:04:06 Natasha!
01:12:13 where the leaves stream down from high branches in a transparent avalanche
01:17:19 No, I can't.
01:21:28 So... you know... there... what's it called...
01:26:35 But I invite Batischev and everyone else to think again
01:30:59 Just to be original. To show off.
01:34:25 It's not you... how can I explain so that you would understand? - One should have a soul to do that.
06:01:06 and I consider B (good) to be an appropriate mark.