Gorky Park (1983)

Joanna Pacula: Irina Asanova

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Quotes 

• Irina Asanova : KGB have better cars, you know.

  Arkady Renko : Ah, but they don't always take you where you want to go, do they?

• Irina Asanova : KGB have better cars, you know.

  Arkady Renko : Ah, but they don't always take you where you want to go, do they?

• Irina Asanova : Well, are you going to arrest me for losing my skates?

  Arkady Renko : Perhaps not.

• Iamskoy : [enters]  I read your report, Arkady. And I can see that you are anxious for the KGB to take over the case. This is not like you, huh? Why? What's wrong?

  Arkady Renko : May I speak freely?

  Iamskoy : To me? Always.

  Arkady Renko : It is more than possible that KGB killed those three people.

  Iamskoy : I agree.

  Arkady Renko : Then, it is likely they are laying a trap for me.

  Iamskoy : Why?

  Arkady Renko : Two years ago, I tried to arrest Major Pribluda. I proved he was an assassin. Remember the two bodies by the river?

  Iamskoy : God, it's cold out here. You want to freeze my blood even more?

  Iamskoy : I proved KGB did it. I moved for the indictment. And I was arrested and beaten senseless.

  Iamskoy : And who got you out?

  Arkady Renko : I was grateful to you. I am grateful to you. But it's a poisonous farce.

  Iamskoy : Arkady, things are changing. Believe me, I have more power than used to be the case. They are more vulnerable. You're easily the best policeman in Moscow. I need your help. I need it badly.

  Arkady Renko : And you can protect me and my men?

  Iamskoy : Listen, our Soviet constitution is a noble piece of work. But only if honourable men and women respect it. Now, I'm determined to stand on legality. KGB must not, cannot, work outside the law, otherwise they're little better than the CIA.

  Arkady Renko : But how?

  Iamskoy : Support me. Don't try to unload the case. We mustn't give them a centimetre. And I promise you, Arkady... I promise you, I'll be behind you every step of the way.

  [Irina enters] 

  Iamskoy : Yes, my dear?

  Irina Asanova : [to Arkady]  You are the only one here who is going back to Moscow tonight... .

  Arkady Renko : It seems so.

  Irina Asanova : Will you take me with you?

  Iamskoy : At this hour? Is there something wrong?

  Irina Asanova : Please?

  Iamskoy : You'd better first persuade Mr Osborne to give you a fur coat, my dear. The investigator's car has no heater.

• Arkady Renko : [referring to her stolen ice skates]  You didn't know they were missing for four days?

  Irina Asanova : That's how it is. You don't miss something till you need it.

  Arkady Renko : They were found on a dead girl.

  Irina Asanova : There is justice after all.

• Arkady Renko : Think back. Any idea who took your skates?

  Irina Asanova : I suspect everyone.

  Arkady Renko : So do I.

• Irina Asanova : The director of that film promised me a pair of new boots if I went to bed with him. Think I should?

  Arkady Renko : Well, the winter's almost over.

  Irina Asanova : Exactly, and me a Siberian, I'm used to the cold.

• Arkady Renko : Irina, help me, please.

  Irina Asanova : How do I know the attack on me wasn't staged to make me trust you?

  Arkady Renko : [incredulously]  Irina.

  Irina Asanova : How do I know that you didn't plan it to make me betray my friends?

  Arkady Renko : Like Osborne, you mean. Your friend, Osborne. Let's talk about Osborne. Tell me about Osborne.

  Irina Asanova : Is that all you can do? Talk? Talk?

  Arkady Renko : Irina, listen.

  Irina Asanova : You don't have to talk so much.

  Arkady Renko : Irina, I am your friend.

  Irina Asanova : [caresses the side of Renko's face]  No, my enemy.

  Arkady Renko : Everything I've told you... is either an extraordinarily elaborate lie... or the very simple truth.

  Irina Asanova : It's a lie.

  [Renko exhales and exits] 

• Arkady Renko : What are you doing? You're insane! What are you trying to do? Kill yourself?

  Irina Asanova : Questions, questions.

• Irina Asanova : The director of that film promised me new boots if I went to bed with him. Think I should?

• Irina Asanova : It doesn't matter how ridiculous a lie is if it's your only chance of escape.

  Arkady Renko : No. Irina, no.

  Irina Asanova : It doesn't matter how obvious the truth is if the truth is that you'll never escape.

  Arkady Renko : Irina.

• Irina Asanova : I've learned to trust nothing. Nobody. Never.

• Irina Asanova : I slept with him. I didn't feel dirty. I felt as though a layer of my skin had been burnt away.

• Irina Asanova : I hate you.

  Arkady Renko : Irina, lies are not freedom.

  Irina Asanova : I hate you!