The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

Vasiliy Merkurev: Fyodor Ivanovich Borozdin

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

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

• Fyodor Ivanovich : Stop it this minute! You're a still a soldier in the Red Army! Are you trying to get discharged? Are you afraid we'll heal your hands and send you back to the front?

  A patient in the infirmary : No, Doctor, he's not like that. He got a letter.

  Fyodor Ivanovich : I know. That's just an excuse. Big deal! So your bride ran off. You should be glad! She isn't worth a penny if she would trade a handsome guy like you, a real hero, for some rat sitting out the war at home! It's she who's forfeit her happiness, not you! And that's what she deserves. She's got a petty soul. People like her can't understand how much suffering we've gone through. You stood up to death itself. You looked death in the face. You approached it with your chest stuck out. And she couldn't even pass the little test of time. Woman like her deserve only your contempt. There can be no forgiveness for them!

• Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin : Watch out, Uncle Fedya. She almost has her doctorate and you're still just a physician.

  Fyodor Ivanovich : Well, if children don't surpass their parents, then the parents are bad and the children not much better.

• Fyodor Ivanovich : Do you think anyone wants to send his son to war?

  Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin : What are you talking about?

  Fyodor Ivanovich : Or do you think others must pay for your welfare, for your life, with their hands, their legs, their eyes, their lives, and you owe nothing to anyone?

  Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin : I have an exemption, Uncle Fedya.

  Fyodor Ivanovich : An exemption? Tell me, how did you get it?

• Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin : Here's the port.

  Fyodor Ivanovich : Drink it yourself. We'll have a real drink.

• Fyodor Ivanovich : What you want to say is: 'Comrade Boris, fight to the last drop of blood, and beat the fascists. And we at the plant will meet and exceed our production quotas.' We've heard that all before.

• Fyodor Ivanovich : When our men come back, you'll envy us.

  Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin : The trouble is, not all of them will come back.

  Fyodor Ivanovich : For those who don't, we'll build a monument reaching to the sky, with every one of their names in gold.

• Boris : I'm not her fiance.

  Fyodor Ivanovich : What are you, then?

  Boris : We're just...

  Fyodor Ivanovich : You're just what? That sounds suspicious.

  Boris : I don't mean it that way, Dad.

  Fyodor Ivanovich : Then what do you mean?

  Boris : Stop picking on me.

• Fyodor Ivanovich : I've told you already, we're full! This is a hospital, not a sardine can!

• Fyodor Ivanovich : Boris! Come over here. What is this about? You're 25 years old and you - forgive me - act like a fool! What are we? Children? Is this a game? Hide-and-seek? He wants adventure!