Gentlemen of Fortune (1971)

Radner Muratov: Vasya (Vasiliy Alibabayevich)

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• Vasily Alibabayevich : [Reading Khmyr's child's letter]  Dear dad! When mom and I found out that you were in jail, we got very excited. And mom also got very excited because we thought you were dead. Mom kept telling me that you were a test pilot.

  Fedya Yermakov : He's a thief pilot, stole everybody's money and blamed it on a cab driver.

• Troshkin; Dotsent : Why did you run?

  Vasily Alibabayevich : Everyone ran and I ran!

• Vasily Alibabayevich : I'm an animal. Stole the money from children. Robbed the preschool.

  Fedya Yermakov : Just look at him.

  [Turning to Vasya] 

  Fedya Yermakov : When you were mixing gasoline with donkey urine at your gas station, weren't you an animal then?

  Vasily Alibabayevich : That was gasoline. And these are children.

• Vasily Alibabayevich : It's so sad. Such a nice girl! And yet her father is a speculator.

• Troshkin; Dotsent : Vassia... Gavrila Petrovich... Fedya... Comrades! A brand new year is beginning, and I hope that in this year everything will be brand new for you! We can't tell what's in the cards, but I want you to know that wherever you are, wherever I am, I will always remember you, men. And believe me, I'll find you. Just a minute... I'll be right back. Just a second...

  Fedya Yermakov : Where's he going?

  Khmyr : The devil only knows... You can never tell with him.

  Fedya Yermakov : I know what he meant. He said he'd find us, and he'd bleed us, too.

  Vasily Alibabayevich : You mean he'll bleed us to death?

  Fedya Yermakov : No other way. Look what they say he did to Pockface! Took his razor and swish! Curtains!

  Vasily Alibabayevich : Nothing but a wild beast, a hyena!

• Troshkin; Dotsent : I know a good game called Cities. I start and say Tula, then you pick one that begins with A, Astrakhan. Then you think N, Novgorod. You got it? It's now your turn, Fedya.

  Fedya Yermakov : Why me?

  Troshkin; Dotsent : Name a city that starts with D.

  Fedya Yermakov : Vorkuta.

  Troshkin; Dotsent : Vorkuta? Why?

  Fedya Yermakov : I did time there.

  Troshkin; Dotsent : All right. You name a city starting with A.

  Vasily Alibabayevich : Dzhambul.

  Troshkin; Dotsent : Dzhambul? Why Dzhambul?

  Vasily Alibabayevich : Because it's warm there. There's my home and my old mama.

  Troshkin; Dotsent : All right. I think I know a better game.