Okno v Parizh

[Tatiana Amelina]

Yes, there is a difference.  In the subtitled video version, not the
Russian film version  that I saw in a Moscow movie theater, one scene is
cut out.
When the music teacher meets his school buddy in Paris they talk about
their good old days in the institute dorm.  They remember their
stimulating discussions (with vodka and herring) as opposed to the shallow
western style conversations.  At that point, the protagonist asks his
friend if he would like to visit St. Petersburg.  The answer was yes, any
time; he would give anything in the world just for a glimpse of his full
intellectual life in the past.  In an instant he gets this chance with the
help of the magic window, and what does he see?  The Finnish Station
Square and the statue of Lenin in the middle.  The guy realizes with
horror that it is not a joke but a reality.  He falls on his knees and
begs the music teacher to take him back to Paris.

Tatyana Amellina
Graduate School of Language and Educational Linguistics
Monterey Institute of International Studies

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