Silk Stockings (1957)
George Tobias: Vassili Markovitch
Quotes
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : I want to look somebody up. Does this office have a copy of Who's Still Who?
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Vera : Darling, I have looked it up. Comrade Yoschenko is a woman.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : That's your opinion.
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : Well, the Comrade Minister said, but, he didn't tell me - I'm not so sure if for this job a woman, well, physically a woman is not equipped...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : When the Minister sent me here, he did not say it was for a discussion of biology.
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : I am the new commissar of art. My name is Markovitch. Any questions?
Choreographer : Comrade commissar...
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : I will ask the questions. What are they doing?
Choreographer : Peter Boroff's tone poem, "Ode to a Tractor."
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : Peter Boroff? Do you not know that the great Peter Boroff may not come back from Paris, and if he does not, he no longer has any talent?
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : [On telephone] What? But comrade minister, how can I be in trouble already - I just sat down? The Boroff matter? I wasn't the one who sent those three idiots after Boroff, so why is it my fault? Oh, that is true, there is no one else.
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : Let us get down to business. You are familiar with Peter Ilyitch Boroff's music? You are a music lover?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Music is essential for parades.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : Of course.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : It seems to me that seduction can only take place when one is willing.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : Yeeesss. I can see that you would think that. Have you ever been to Paris?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : No! I have never been outside the Soviet Union.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : Welllll, heh, heh, I have spent many years in Paris. I got very close to the French people. In fact, they deported me three times.
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : A couple of months ago some idiot let Boroff get to Paris and naturally he wants to stay there.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : What do you mean: naturally?
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : I have made it. Finally I am commissar.
Vera : Now you can make me, prima ballerina.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : Oh, patience, little one.
Vera : But you promised me! As soon as you would become commissar, you would make me, prima ballerina. Throw out this horrible Kranivoska.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : Patience. Kranivoska has power.
Vera : She has nothing. She is fat and ugly and she cannot dance.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : I know. But, she is my wife.
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : But - you are a woman.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : The commissar has good powers of observation.