The Hummingbird (I) (2013)

Alex Marx: Alex Marx

Quotes 

• Anna Ilyushina : A number of pilots in the Soviet Air Force were trained specifically, then, to become cosmonauts and to go into outer space - this is before the success of Yuri Gagarin... None of them have come back but one.

  Alex Marx : [surprised]  He might be still alive?

• Nurse Inese Darzina : We call him "Ptitsa". It means bird.

  Alex Marx : [skeptical]  Mr. Ptitsin, is it true that you were the first man in space?

  Mr. Ptitsin : I'd rather talk about birds... There is a breed of South-American hummingbird. The males court the females in twos. The male who is rejected fluffs up his feathers for a second and flies away towards the sun - he flies, and flies, and flies until he dies from exhaustion.

• Alex Marx : [skeptical]  Is there any evidence that these stories are true?

  Mr. Ptitsin : [enigmatically]  Believing certain things is a choice.