The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

Svetlana Kharitonova: Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina

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• Fyodor Ivanovich : Irina, you should have been born a man!

  Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina : I feel pretty good as a woman.

• Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina : Disgraceful! Twelve o'clock, and he's still asleep.

  Varvara Kapitanova -babushka Borisa i Irina : He works a lot. He's tired. Let him at least get some sleep on Sunday.

  Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina : This work of his will end in a wedding.

• Veronika : Where's Mark?

  Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina : I don't know.

  Veronika : You're hiding something from me. Where did he go? You know, don't you? Where?

  Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina : Probably to see Antonina.

  Veronika : What Antonina?

  Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina : Ask Mark.

  Veronika : Tell me.

  Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina : Don't give me orders. Mark... visits her occasionally. You understand?

  Veronika : You're saying this to hurt me.

  Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina : Why would I?

  Veronika : Just to spite me! I'm loved. I have a husband. And you're still an old maid.

• Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina : Why didn't you tell us?

  Boris : To avoid scenes like this.

• Irina Fyodorovna Borozdina : Siberia. We can't retreat much farther. This is what's become of Mother Russia.