Russian movie for third-year students

[ROBERT A ROTHSTEIN]

Following up Pat Chaput's comment on subtitled films:
        That greatest of all Russian-language teachers, the late and
much-lamented Alexander Lipson, used to show a film of excerpts from
Gorky's "Na dne," as performed by the Maly Teatr.  The first time
around he showed it with subtitles.  The film is relatively short, so
he was able to distribute a script (in Russian only).  After the first
time students -- first-year students! -- watched the film without subtitles.
I attended Alex's course as an auditor during AY 1958-59, and can still
remember entire fragments of dialog from the film, e.g.
                --Uidu, na kraj sveta!
                --Bez bashmakov, ledi?
                --Golaja, na chetveren'kakh popolzu!
                --Eto budet kartinno, ledi!

Perhaps not the most communicatively relevant Russian -- although I've
certainly found many occasions to use the line, "Eto budet kartinno, ledi."

        Bob Rothstein

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