Then Silence...

Then Silence... (Russian: Дальше — тишина…) - Soviet television version of the performance of the Mossovet Theater in 1978.

According to Vigny Delmar’s script, “Make way for tomorrow,” based on the play by Henry Leary and Noah Leary, based on Josephine Lawrence’s novel, “The Years Are So Long”. For thirteen years, the production was accompanied by continued success. And in this performance Faina Ranevskaya took the stage for the last time on October 24, 1982.

According to actors, theater critics and spectators, a play with a banal plot was a huge success only thanks to the talented play of Plyatt and Ranevskaya.

Plot
The performance takes place in the United States, in the Cooper family. Arriving at a dinner with parents, the children will find out unpleasant news - parents are forced to leave their homes because of a debt to the bank. Children don’t want to give up on paying for housing for parents, and a showdown begins - where to put the mother and father. Old people become a burden to their children. A couple who lived 50 years together, have to leave forever.

A daughter from California, who has no place for her mother, “Neither under the stairs, nor in the closet”, takes the father. The actress's voice breaks, her lips shake, Lucy Cooper looks helplessly at her son, who told her the terrible news. She herself is sent to a shelter for elderly women, and the only thing that worries her is that her father does not know about it. She takes a promise from her son not to tell her father where she will be - “This will be the first secret in my life from your father.”

The final scene of the play is the farewell of the couple at the station before the train leaves for California. The last hug, Lucy's instructions, Barclay Cooper's tears. And a voice-over: “And then silence...”

Cast

 * Faina Ranevskaya - Lucy Cooper
 * Rostislav Plyatt - Barclay Cooper
 * Mikhail Lvov - George
 * Irina Kartasheva - Anita
 * Irina Muravyova - Roda
 * Boris Ivanov - Levitsky
 * Galina Dyatlovskaya - Mrs. Levitskaya
 * Irina Sokolova - Bark
 * Arkady Rubtsov - Bill
 * Nelly Molchadskaya - Nelly
 * Vladimir Sulimov - Harvey
 * Leonid Evtifiev - Robert
 * Boris Lavrov - Henning
 * Maria Knushevitskaya - Mrs. Thompson
 * Tatyana Novikova - Mrs. Hardy
 * Valentina Kholina - Mrs. Armstrong
 * Anatoly Adoskin - Doctor
 * Sergey Prokhanov - bartender