Smiley's People (TV Mini Series)

The General's Big Fish (1982)

Curd Jürgens: General Vladimir

Quotes 

• The General : I speak to you as your father's comrade in arms. As his general. His friend. Do you hear me? You arrive in Hamburg Wednesday morning. Understood?

  [Villem says nothing] 

  The General : I said, understood?

  Villem Craven : Vladi, I am sorry, I am English. I don't want. No! Positively!

  The General : [grabbing the steering wheel]  GET THIS THING OFF THE ROAD!

  [the lorry lurches off to the side of the road] 

  Villem Craven : You're crazy!

  The General : [grabbing Villem's collar]  Have you forgotten how the Russian monster raped out country? The deportations? The murders? The camps? Our best men, executed. Your father, one of them? Have you forgotten that, to your disgrace? You listen to me. In the making of history, God uses some very strange and inappropriate creatures. YOU are going to be one of them, yes?

  Villem Craven : Yes.

  The General : Repeat!

  Villem Craven : Yes.