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Rudolf Nureyev: I can live anywhere. Remember, I was born on a train. I feel I will never return to my country. But I may never be happy in yours.
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[First Lines - dialogue entirely in Russian with English subtitles]
Interrogator: You knew.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: No.
Interrogator: You knew what he was planning to do.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: No.
Interrogator: You're saying he never spoke of defection?
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: The subject never came up.
Interrogator: He never spoke of it?
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: Never.
Interrogator: This is an attack on the Soviet Union.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: No, It's about dance.
Interrogator: Dance?
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: He knows nothing about politics. He's gone to the West because there he can dance.
Interrogator: He could dance here.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pushkin: Yes, but... I think it's likely he had an explosion of character. That's who he is.
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