Departure eve...
Jun. 21st, 2014 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI spent most of the day translating, while the ladies took care of shopping and then started in on the job of packing everything away to within an inch of its life.
Once work was done for the day, we all had some watermelon and settled down to watch a film titled Dubrovsky, which is apparently based on an unfinished story by Alexander Pushkin, of all sources. The story has been updated for the 21st century, so instead of the story revolving around a young nobleman whose land is confiscated by a powerful aristocrat, it is about a successful banker whose father is bankrupted and has his land stolen by a powerful neighbor. I kept watching the film, hoping for the good guy to win the day and for the bad guys to lose big.
It didn't quite happen that way, not by a long shot.
Ah, well... gotta love those European films!
Once work was done for the day, we all had some watermelon and settled down to watch a film titled Dubrovsky, which is apparently based on an unfinished story by Alexander Pushkin, of all sources. The story has been updated for the 21st century, so instead of the story revolving around a young nobleman whose land is confiscated by a powerful aristocrat, it is about a successful banker whose father is bankrupted and has his land stolen by a powerful neighbor. I kept watching the film, hoping for the good guy to win the day and for the bad guys to lose big.
It didn't quite happen that way, not by a long shot.
Ah, well... gotta love those European films!
