Aleksandr Shvorin credited as playing...
Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin
- Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin: Watch out, Uncle Fedya. She almost has her doctorate and you're still just a physician.
- Fyodor Ivanovich: Well, if children don't surpass their parents, then the parents are bad and the children not much better.
- Fyodor Ivanovich: Do you think anyone wants to send his son to war?
- Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin: What are you talking about?
- Fyodor Ivanovich: Or do you think others must pay for your welfare, for your life, with their hands, their legs, their eyes, their lives, and you owe nothing to anyone?
- Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin: I have an exemption, Uncle Fedya.
- Fyodor Ivanovich: An exemption? Tell me, how did you get it?
- Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin: [singing] What use are words, Let lips fall silent, Sometimes, They tell lies, The eyes alone, Will never dare, To lie to other eyes, My eyes are now, Dark and sad, As though someone, Had blown out their flame...
- Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin: Here's the port.
- Fyodor Ivanovich: Drink it yourself. We'll have a real drink.
- Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin: Veronica, in wartime, it's important not to lose your head. Try to live a normal life.
- Fyodor Ivanovich: When our men come back, you'll envy us.
- Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin: The trouble is, not all of them will come back.
- Fyodor Ivanovich: For those who don't, we'll build a monument reaching to the sky, with every one of their names in gold.
- Volodya: Will you be at the birthday party tonight?
- Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin: Probably.
- Volodya: What will you take for a gift?
- Mark Aleksandrovich Borozdin: What can I give?
- Volodya: Yes. The war.