White Sun of the Desert (1970)

Kakhi Kavsadze: Abdulla

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• Vereschagin : [grief-laden after Abdulla killed Petrukha; climbs onboard a small trawler filled up with the loot pillaged by Abdulla and his pack]  Look, Abdulla... Ain't you got too much merchandise? I take it all was duty-free?

  Abdulla : [at shore]  But there is nobody in the Customs office! Would you like it - we can pay in gold?

  Vereschagin : You do know me, Abdulla: I don't accept graft - it is what is done to the Great State that insults me.

  Abdulla : [to one of his accomplices]  Aristarkh, negotiate with the Customs!

  [Aristarkh and a few bandits start out menacingly toward the trawler and enter water to swim to it] 

• Vereschagin : [from the distance]  Long time no see, Abdulla!

  Abdulla : Long time...

  Vereschagin : Still on the road? Still shooting?

  Abdulla : Grown old, turned lazy. But remember me as I used to be?

  Vereschagin : Yeah, there've been times...

  [nodds toward a huge crude-oil gasholder which surface the bandits are covering with oil carried in buckets] 

  Vereschagin : But what is that your men wanna do, not to set something on fire?

  Abdulla : Well, some dude got in and ain't wanna leave.

  Vereschagin : [approaches closely to the side of the gasholder and talks through the wall to Sukhov who is hiding inside with surviving Abdulla's wives]  Feodor, is Petrukha inside with you?

  Sukhov : [from inside, plainly]  Petrukha's been killed, Pavel Artem'ich... Stabbed by Abdulla.

  Abdulla : [to Pavel Vereschagin who wanders away grief-laden]  Off you go, off you go! A good house, a good wife - what else does man need to enter old age?

• Sayid : [Sayid, chasing back the last unkilled of three unidentified bandits who attacked him, over the next dune bumps into the whole pack lead by Abdulla himself] 

  Abdulla : [sincerely friendly and welcomingly]  Why did you kill my men, Sayid? I sent them to tell you not to seek Dzhavdet in Dry Creek - he's not there. Come back to Pedjent! Your father was a friend of my father's! A journey is easier if you meet a good companion traveler!