Before Winter Comes (1968)

Topol: Janovic

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• Major Burnside : What languages do you speak?

  Janovic : Russian, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, German, Romanian, Bulgar, Serbo-Croat, Romani, Italian, some Arabic, some Yiddish, a little Chinese.

• Lieutenant Pilkington : You mean, you encourage the men here and the - village women? Why, it's disgusting! It's like animals!

  Janovic : In the country, it's always like that.

  Lieutenant Pilkington : If-if the Major finds out what they're doing on his ban on fraternization, I-I-I don't know...

  Janovic : They do not fraternize! No, they do not fraternize! They - just - sleep - together!

• Major Burnside : The trouble is, you think you run this camp.

  Janovic : No, no, sir. What ever I do, you have the last blame.

• Major Burnside : You speak English and Chinese. You never wandered there?

  Janovic : Ah, they come to me, Major, sir. An English woman. A Chinese woman in Latvia. Live with a new woman, learn a new tongue. It's better than Berlitz.

  Major Burnside : An English woman and you?

  Janovic : Why, I speak English fine. Seven English women.