Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Nikolai Okhlopkov: Vasili Buslai
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Quotes
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Amelfa Timoferevna - Buslai's Mother : [helping the wounded Buslai walk] You've shamed your mother. I wanted to celebrate your wedding.
Vasili Buslai : And so you shall.
Amelfa Timoferevna - Buslai's Mother : [grumbling] Why couldn't you have been first in battle?
Vasili Buslai : Well, I wasn't the last.
[he reaches out and takes Vasilisa by the hand, pulling her to him]
Vasili Buslai : Accept as your daughter-in-law this maiden in armor.
Amelfa Timoferevna - Buslai's Mother : [looks Vasilisa over, then smiles broadly] Eh! A beautiful maiden!
Vasili Buslai : We've always been able to take care of our own.
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Vasilisa - a Maid of Pskov : [in the middle of the Battle on the Ice] Should we move the baggage sleds back?
Vasili Buslai : No! Die where you stand!
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Vasili Buslai : I've had my fill of slaughter... one day fighting, two days moping. I thought of going down the Volga to give my ax some play, but melancholy overtook me.
Gavrilo Oleksich : [unimpressed] You should enter a monastery.
Vasili Buslai : [annoyed] I've an affair of the heart in mind! If nothing comes of it, then I will join the monks!
Ignat - the Master Armorer : [to Gavrilo] The bear enters the monastery to steal the offerings from off the altar!
[They both laugh at Buslai]
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Vasili Buslai : [sulkily because Alexander has previously scolded him] Who will command the vanguard?
Alexandr Nevsky : You will! You ran all night, now by day you'll make a stand!
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Vasili Buslai : [referring to women in general] They won't let a man live or die in peace!
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Olga Danilovna - a Maid of Novgorod : [she has found both Buslai and Gavrillo seriously wounded but alive] You're alive, my dearest ones! Both of you alive!
Vasili Buslai : Where are the Germans?
Olga Danilovna - a Maid of Novgorod : Defeated, all of them! Some have fled, some sunk beneath the ice!
Vasili Buslai : [slowly, with wonder] Then we've won the day. Glory to the Prince and to all of us! Our blood was not spilt in vain.
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Alexandr Nevsky : Isn't there enough space here for you to stand and fight?
Vasili Buslai : These parts are unknown to us and covered with darkness. It will be easier to fight on our side. Withdraw your forces from the lake, Prince.
Gavrilo Oleksich : Hurry, Prince, he's talking sense. We shall return to our side of the lake before sunrise. It will be easier to fight standing on our own soil. Every stone there is a friend, every ravine a brother.
Alexandr Nevsky : One who won't fight on enemy soil has no need of his own! We shall fight on foreign soil. Understood?