Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Dmitriy Orlov: Ignat - the Master Armorer

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• Ignat - the Master Armorer : Even a small bird has a heart.

• 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.

• Ignat - the Master Armorer : [Observing Gavrilo and Vasili observing Olga]  The young bulls are frolicking, smelling the spring in the air.

• Ignat - the Master Armorer : A mother or a stepmother, it's all the same to the rich! Where they make a profit, there is their motherland. To us, the simple folk, the Germans bring certain death. We must invite Prince Alexandr and strike at the Germans!

• 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] 

• Ignat - the Master Armorer : The rabbit skips into a ravine, but the fox follows him. The rabbit runs into the woods, but the fox stays on his tail. So the rabbit jumps between two birch trees. The fox comes after him and gets stuck! It's twisting and turning but can't get free. What a calamity! The rabbit looks at her severely and says: "Now I will violate your chastity." "No, neighbor, don't put me to such shame! Have pity!" cries the fox. "I have no time for pity," says the rabbit, and violates her!