just looking around.
let's be honest. have we anything like it in russia?
can you imagine what the beds would be in a hotel like that?
comrades, if we ring nine times.  let's go in.
where is your courage, comrade buljanoff?
i don't want to go to the hotel terminus.
he wouldn't say that. what he would say is "buljanoff, you can't afford to live in a cheap hotel. doesn't the prestige of the bolsheviks mean anything to you? do you want to live in a hotel where you press for the hot water and cold water comes and when you press for the cold water nothing comes out at all? phooey, buljanoff!"
this is comrade kopalski.
oh, yes, but have you a safe here big enough to hold this?
that's even better.
we'll just say we had to take it on account of the safe. that's a perfect excuse. there was no other safe big enough.
yes, it's an idea, but who says we have to have an idea?
capitalistic methods.
do we give the impression of people who are pressed for money?
he's cutting our throat.
we don't want to be disturbed.
if you want to see us you must come later.
but you can't.
you know, monsieur mercier, this is all non-sense.
i give you my word! they were confiscated legally!
get out of here!
that won't help you! you can't intimidate us!
all right, go ahead, get her on the witness stand! what can she say?
i suppose you expect us to hand over the jewels?
what proposition?
what is it, my boy?
leon, my little boy.
razinin.
we don't like razinin.
and if we have to go to siberia.
comme ci, comme ca.
we'll manage.
yes, leon.  what is it, leon?.  you can't hurry such things.  you must give moscow a little time.  there's nothing we can do about it.  why don't you drop in later?.  au revoir.
what is it?
it is thursday!
a special envoy is coming from moscow. he'll occupy the royal suite. move our things to the smallest room you've got.
right away.  instantly!
i'm coming!
this is a fine thing. maybe we've missed him already.
that must be the one!
i am michael simonovitch iranoff.
comrade buljanoff.
comrade kopalski.
what a charming idea for moscow to surprise us with a lady comrade.
porter!
you see.  it is a little different here. they don't rent rooms in pieces. we had to take the whole suite.
two thousand francs.
a day.
a cow?
for ourselves.  we are much happier now since we moved to a little room next to the servants' quarters.
now look here, buljanoff. you never were in petersburg, you never owned a cart, and she never spat in your face. who are you trying to impress?
she says she won't be intimidated by parasites. she called the duchess a blood-sucking aristocrat and a blackmailer.
i think she covered you with the parasites.
and they might believe her in moscow.
we avoided luxury and extravagance and today.  well, if you were to offer us a glass of champagne, we wouldn't say no.
you found your way to us and we weren't easy to reach, were we?
what's wrong with that?
leon, how would you like to have three lifelong friends?
too bad we have to waste all that time.
they tell me it has a wonderful restaurant on the second floor.
that's right.  and we might as well face it.
brave.  that's right.
and that's something we owe to ninotchka.
let's do that.
if you close your eyes and listen to our voices we might be in paris.
what a lovely room you have here.
just three people in a room this size? whew!
she's right.  anyhow let's talk ourselves into it.
maybe that's the same swallow we saw in paris!
let's forget the future.  let's stop being sentimental.  let's start that omelet.
and here's mine.
come, ninotchka, let's make it in real parisian style!
des petites fraises des bois.  de la crme de bretagne.
sssh!
a man like that.  all he has to do is to walk through a room and the omelet drops.
bad news?
thank you for a wonderful dinner.
now, please, ninotchka, don't start figuring it out in cows.
buljanoff, she still has those old- fashioned bolshevik ideas.
we can say whatever we want. we can shout.  we can complain.  look.  the service in this hotel is terrible! see? nobody comes.  nobody pays any attention. that's freedom.
that was our idea when we first came. all we thought we would get out of this trip was a turkish bath, but.  we learned better.
ali baba and the forty thieves.  into one single hour you can crowd a thousand and one nights.
we have a wonderful electric sign: "dine with buljanof, iranoff, and kopalski."
the russia of piroshki.  people will eat and love it.
it is in the air.  it may come around the corner as you walk down the street.