Yuriy Solomin credited as playing...
Arsenev
- Arsenev: Thank you, Dersu. Thank you. What would I have done without you?
- Dersu Uzala: Walk together, work together. No need to say thank you.
- Dersu Uzala: Captain, give rice, salt, matches.
- Arsenev: What for?
- Dersu Uzala: Put it in bark, leave it in hut.
- Arsenev: Do you intend to come back? Why?
- Dersu Uzala: Others come this way. Find dry wood there. Food to eat. People no die.
- Arsenev: Dersu, maybe we should wait till the rain stops?
- Dersu Uzala: Time to get ready. Birds begin singing, you hear? Rain soon finish now. Sun shine soon.
- Arsenev: It's getting cold. Maybe we should ask him over to the fire.
- Dersu Uzala: No, Captain. Got to let him be alone. Now he think plenty. Dream of house, dream of garden. Garden all in flowers.
- Arsenev: How've you been all those years? How many sables have you got?
- Dersu Uzala: Plenty. Plenty of money too. Only Dersu lose all money. Rich merchant ask me to his house. Plenty vodka. Me give all money to merchant to look after. Then me not find him no more. Why he that way? Me not understand.
- Dersu Uzala: Captain, listen real good. Got to work and work good. We don't work real good, we soon be dead.
- Arsenev: Work at what?
- Dersu Uzala: Cut marsh-grass.
- Dersu Uzala: Please, Captain, me want to go away. Me can't live in town.
- Arsenev: Where do you want to go?
- Dersu Uzala: Me go back to mountains. Captain... Missus lady... Little captain... You all good fellows. Me go away bad. Sorry. But Dersu can't live in town.
- Arsenev: Very well, take this new rifle with you. It's a present. The sights on it are very good. Even if you don't see so well, you can't miss with it.
- Dersu Uzala: Me thank you, Captain.
- Arsenev: [voiceover] He also had - a beautiful spirit. He considered the needs of a person he didn't know and likely would never meet.
- Arsenev: We're exploring this region, the big hills, the valleys, the rivers. Do you want to be our guide?
- Dersu Uzala: Me, sleep on it.
- Arsenev: All right, you think it over. It's time that we turned in too. The next day, without saying a word, Dersu took his place at the head of the group.
- Arsenev: I couldn't help admiring him. He was so wise. He had a deep knowledge born of a lifetime spent in the wilds. He was goodhearted, generous minded. He could think of a man he'd never met, and that he probably would never meet.
- Arsenev: Sometimes the mountains and the forest look pleasant, welcoming. Sometimes though, they can be silent and forbidding. This wasn't just a personal feeling, every man in the survey group felt the same way.
- Dersu Uzala: We go back to dugout soon? Me plenty plenty bad scared.
- Arsenev: The lake's not far off. We'll go that far and come back.
- Dersu Uzala: Me do what you say. You say alright, Dersu say alright.
- Arsenev: A vast silence reigned over the frozen lake. The very silence seemed in a way to be menacing.
- Arsenev: We spent three months in the wilds, and spring gave way to summer. We explored a lot of country. But if Dersu had been with us, we would've explored a lot more. All the time I kept hoping that I'd meet up with him again. Where are you, Dersu?
- Arsenev: Will the fog clear up soon?
- Dersu Uzala: It clear very soon. Forest and earth are all sweating. Very soon be fine weather.
- Arsenev: This valley reminded me of a painting of the Witches' Sabbath. I could almost imagine them coming on their broomsticks.