Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Andrei Abrikosov: Gavrilo Oleksich

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• Ignat - the Master Armorer : Vasily Buslai! And Gavrilo Oleksich! Your old friend greets you! I have Indian arrows, Tartar spears and sharp Saracen swords!

  Gavrilo Oleksich : [with good humor]  What lies! You forged them all yourself!

  Ignat - the Master Armorer : [unfazed]  Every bird pecks with its own beak.

• Gavrilo Oleksich : [to Ignat]  Vasily's thinking of marriage.

  Ignat - the Master Armorer : The nanny goat's in the yard and the billy goat wants in!

• 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] 

• 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?