The White Crow Quotes

[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.

Pierre Lacotte: We were wondering if you were allowed to speak to us.

Rudolf Nureyev: I decide to build the bridge. Rudolf Nureyev.

Claire Motte: You are with the company? Did you dance tonight?

Rudolf Nureyev: If I had danced, you would remember.

Rudolf Nureyev: I went to a concert instead.

Pierre Lacotte: A good concert?

Rudolf Nureyev: Yehudi Menuhin. He played Bach. Not bad.

Rudolf Nureyev: I took the... feminine. That's what I did. Hard to say in English.

Clara Saint: Try, Rudy.

Rudolf Nureyev: Before me, male part... boring. Man only stands, does nothing. The women leap, jump, turn. The man...

Rudolf Nureyev: [stands and poses with his arms in the air]

Rudolf Nureyev: I ask why not man be like woman? I took from the woman.

Rudolf Nureyev: Okay. I am a peasant from Ufa. I'm boy born on train. I play princes in theatre, but I'm not prince. Fuck him. Fuck Paris. Fuck you.

Clara Saint: You should apologise.

Rudolf Nureyev: Little girl, if you like apologies, you with wrong man.

Clara Saint: I decided to forgive you.

Rudolf Nureyev: Forgive me for what?

Clara Saint: Are you saying you don't remember?

Rudolf Nureyev: [shakes his head]

Clara Saint: I forgive you for being the most selfish man I've ever met.