Ninotchka (1939)

Alexander Granach: Kopalski

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Quotes 

• Iranoff : What a charming idea for Moscow to surprise us with a Lady Comrade.

  Comrade Kopalski : If we had known, we would have greeted you with flowers!

  Ninotchka : Don't make an issue of my womanhood. We're here to work, all of us.

• Iranoff : He is cutting our throat.

  Buljanoff : What can we do? We have to accept.

  Comrade Kopalski : Comrades, comrades. Don't let's give in so quickly. After all, we have to uphold the prestige of Russia!

  Buljanoff : All right, let's uphold it for another ten minutes.

• Ninotchka : What's that?

  Comrade Kopalski : It's a hat, Comrade. A woman's hat.

  Ninotchka : How can such a civilization survive which permits their women to put things like that on their heads. It won't be long now, Comrades.

• Comrade Kopalski : Even the swallows are back.

  Iranoff : Really? Yes, that's right. Maybe it's the same swallow we saw in Paris.

  Buljanoff : Yes, it is, Ninotchka, it is. He must have been in Paris. You can see it in his whole attitude. He just picked up a crumb of our black bread, shook his head, and dropped it.

• Iranoff : Can you imagine what the beds would be in a hotel like that?

  Comrade Kopalski : They tell me when you ring once, the valet comes in; when you ring twice you get a waiter; and do you know what happens when you ring three times? A maid comes in - a French maid.

  Iranoff : Comrades, if we ring nine times - let's go in!

• Buljanoff , Comrade Kopalski , Iranoff : [repeated line - drunkenly]  Why are you so good to us?

• Buljanoff : Just see how happy the people look from here.

  Comrade Kopalski : Can you blame them? At last the May Day parade is over.

• Ninotchka : Comrades, once and for all, we are in Moscow.

  Comrade Kopalski : Yes, there is no doubt of that. Just look out of the window and there it is.