Issues covered in the video:
1. Gender and religion
Q (Eugenia): Why do you think it's the women who pray so much?
A (sacristan) : I'm a simple man. But I think a woman is meant to have children, to raise them with patience and self-sacrifice.
2. The arts and the nation
Q (Eugenia): How could we have got to know Tolstoy, Pushkin and so understand Russia?
A (Gorchakov): You don't understand Russia.
Q (Eugenia): How can we get to know each other?
A (Gorchakov): By abolishing the frontiers between states.
Q (Eugenia): Why did your musician, Sosnovsky, go back to Russia if he knew he'd be a slave again?
A (Gorchakov): Read the letter from Bologna Conservatory, and you will understand.
3. Urban legend (?)
Q (Gorchakov): Why do you think he locked himself up for seven years? (Who?)
A (Eugenia): How would I know?
4. Happiness
Q (Gorchakov): Are you happy about life?
A (Angela): About life, yes.
5. God
Q (female voice): Lord, do you see how he's asking? Say something to Him.
A (Gorchakov?): But what would happen if He heard my voice?
A (female voice): Let Him feel your presence.
A (Gorchakov): I always do, but He's not aware of it.
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