Paul Giamatti credited as playing...
Chertkov
- Vladimir Chertkov: [to Countess Sofya] If I had a wife like you, I would have blown my brains out! Or, gone to America.
- Valentin: Tolstoy does not approve of sexual relations. l know this.
- Vladimir Chertkov: He despises them, in fact. Well, l don't mean to belabor the point, but last summer l arranged for a manservant who proceeded to ruin two housemaids, just like that. He was very upset.
- Valentin: This would not be a problem with me. l'm a vegetarian. l am celibate. l'm also a vegetarian.
- Vladimir Chertkov: If we can encourage the spread of passive resistance, just think of it, Valentin. Thousands of ordinary Russians casting off centuries of political and spiritual oppression.
- Valentin: ln the name of truth and freedom.
- Vladimir Chertkov: Truth and freedom. Yes, yes.
- Sofya Tolstaya: Vladimir Grigorevich, what a surprise.
- Vladimir Chertkov: Sofya Andreyevna. l'm happy to see you.
- Sofya Tolstaya: And l'm happy to make you happy.
- Vladimir Chertkov: l hate to say it, but the Countess has become more and more dangerous.
- Leo Tolstoy: Oh, not dangerous. She's concerned for the welfare of the family.
- Vladimir Chertkov: And we're concerned with the welfare of mankind.
- Valentin: You say that the movement is about love.
- Vladimir Chertkov: And it is. The love that he teaches us. The love that binds all mankind together.
- Valentin: l've never met mankind. l've only ever met men or women. lmperfect men, imperfect women.