Everything Is Illuminated (2005)

Laryssa Lauret: Lista

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Quotes 

• [in Russian, referring to why Augustine never buried her ring] 

  Lista : In case someone should come searching one day.

  Alex : So they would have something to find.

  Lista : No, it does not exist for you. You exist for it. You have come because it exists.

• [in Russian] 

  Lista : May I ask you a question?

  Grandfather : Yes, of course.

  Lista : Is the war over?

• Alex : We are searching for Trachimbrod.

  Lista : You are here. I am it.

• Lista : [in Ukrainian] 

  [recounting the Nazis' torture of the Trachimbroders] 

  Lista : First there was Yosef. He was a shoemaker. They held a gun to his daughter's head and commanded him to spit. He spit. They all spit, and tore, and kicked, and whatever else they were told to do... except my father. And then my sister. She was pregnant. They put the gun to her pregnant belly. They said they would kill the baby inside her if my father did not spit. He could not... He did not spit.