Dersu Uzala (1975)
Maksim Munzuk: Dersu Uzala
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Quotes
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Dersu Uzala : How can people live in a box?
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Dersu Uzala : Fire is people. When fire angry, taiga burn for many days. Fire get angry, it frightening. Water get angry, it frightening. Wind get angry, it frightening. Fire, water, wind - three mighty people.
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Arsenev : Thank you, Dersu. Thank you. What would I have done without you?
Dersu Uzala : Walk together, work together. No need to say thank you.
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Dersu Uzala : Sun is the most important people. This people die, everyone die.
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Dersu Uzala : Captain, give rice, salt, matches.
Arsenev : What for?
Dersu Uzala : Put it in bark, leave it in hut.
Arsenev : Do you intend to come back? Why?
Dersu Uzala : Others come this way. Find dry wood there. Food to eat. People no die.
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Arsenev : Dersu, maybe we should wait till the rain stops?
Dersu Uzala : Time to get ready. Birds begin singing, you hear? Rain soon finish now. Sun shine soon.
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Arsenev : And how old are you?
Dersu Uzala : How old, me not know. Me have lived plenty summers.
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Arsenev : It's getting cold. Maybe we should ask him over to the fire.
Dersu Uzala : No, Captain. Got to let him be alone. Now he think plenty. Dream of house, dream of garden. Garden all in flowers.
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Dersu Uzala : My home nowhere. Small hut in mountains where I can sleep. That my home.
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Dersu Uzala : Look around. All is people.
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Dersu Uzala : My nose sees better than eyes.
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Dersu Uzala : Why trap not looked at? Not right way to hunt. Kill animals for nothing is bad!
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Arsenev : How've you been all those years? How many sables have you got?
Dersu Uzala : Plenty. Plenty of money too. Only Dersu lose all money. Rich merchant ask me to his house. Plenty vodka. Me give all money to merchant to look after. Then me not find him no more. Why he that way? Me not understand.
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Dersu Uzala : Captain, listen real good. Got to work and work good. We don't work real good, we soon be dead.
Arsenev : Work at what?
Dersu Uzala : Cut marsh-grass.
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Arsenev : We're exploring this region, the big hills, the valleys, the rivers. Do you want to be our guide?
Dersu Uzala : Me, sleep on it.
Arsenev : All right, you think it over. It's time that we turned in too. The next day, without saying a word, Dersu took his place at the head of the group.
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Dersu Uzala : Please, Captain, me want to go away. Me can't live in town.
Arsenev : Where do you want to go?
Dersu Uzala : Me go back to mountains. Captain... Missus lady... Little captain... You all good fellows. Me go away bad. Sorry. But Dersu can't live in town.
Arsenev : Very well, take this new rifle with you. It's a present. The sights on it are very good. Even if you don't see so well, you can't miss with it.
Dersu Uzala : Me thank you, Captain.
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Dersu Uzala : You just like children. Have eyes but don't see. You try live in taiga, soon dead.
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Arsenev : They call me Arseniev. What about you?
Dersu Uzala : Dersu Uzala.
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[repeated line]
Dersu Uzala : Captain.
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Dersu Uzala : Soon sun go down. Soon night be here. We get plenty dead.
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Dersu Uzala : Young always walk on toes, old always walk on flat of heel.
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Dersu Uzala : We go back to dugout soon? Me plenty plenty bad scared.
Arsenev : The lake's not far off. We'll go that far and come back.
Dersu Uzala : Me do what you say. You say alright, Dersu say alright.
Arsenev : A vast silence reigned over the frozen lake. The very silence seemed in a way to be menacing.
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Dersu Uzala : Good shooting is good hitting.
Olenev : Have a try, granddad.
Dersu Uzala : Shouldn't break bottle. Not lot of bottles in wilds.
Olenev : Don't try to get out of it. Admit you can't hit the bottle.
Dersu Uzala : Me shoot at string, and then you give me bottle.
Olenev : If you shoot the string, the bottle is yours.
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Dersu Uzala : You great hunter. You shoot everything. Leave for us nothing to eat.
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Arsenev : Will the fog clear up soon?
Dersu Uzala : It clear very soon. Forest and earth are all sweating. Very soon be fine weather.
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Dersu Uzala : Money, Dersu not need. Me go hunt for sable now. Sable is like money to hunter.
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Dersu Uzala : Amba still follow our trail. Why you follow us? What you want, Amba? We go along our way. We not bother you. You not got enough room in forest?
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Dersu Uzala : Why you throw meat in fire? Tomorrow we go away, tomorrow other fellow sit here. They don't find no meat, so they no eat.
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Dersu Uzala : Why you do that? The sign say no ginseng here. You break sign, fellows no find ginseng in forest. You bad fellow.
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Dersu Uzala : You listen, Amba! Soldier get gun, they shoot. Better you go now!
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Dersu Uzala : Me do bad thing! Amba bad hurt!
Arsenev : The tiger ran away.
Dersu Uzala : No. Amba always run till him die. Me am now bad frightened.
Arsenev : A dead tiger won't do you any harm.
Dersu Uzala : Kongnga going to send another Amba after Dersu.
Arsenev : Kongnga is the spirit of the forest worshipped by the Gold people. From that day Dersu became moody and irritable.
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Dersu Uzala : Always me see animal first. Always Dersu never miss. Eyes gone bad. How me going live now in forest?
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Dersu Uzala : Weasel come here, woodchuck, crow come here, mouse too. Plenty other fellow in wilds.
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Anna : You're not allowed to shoot in town.
Dersu Uzala : Barrel of gun plenty dirty. Me shoot bullet, that clean it. Me clean with rag.
Anna : But there are people around. It'll be dangerous.
Dersu Uzala : Me shoot into the sky.
Anna : But it's not allowed. The town is not the mountain. Do you understand?
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Arsenev : Well, how are you, Dersu?
Dersu Uzala : Me sitting here like dead log in woods. Me no understand how fellows live inside box.
Arsenev : Well, I must agree, it's not a cheerful room. I think we might change the paper, make it more comfortable. In the meantime you can move into my study.
Dersu Uzala : No, thanks, Captain. Me go outside, make good tent. Sleep there, not bother no one.
Arsenev : In a town, that's not allowed.
Dersu Uzala : Why not? Not good?
Arsenev : How can I explain to you. That's the law.
Dersu Uzala : Funny law... Shooting guns not allowed, sleep in tent not allowed. Me not breathe. Need plenty fresh air.
