Oleg Yankovskiy credited as playing...
Andrei Gorchakov
- Andrei Gorchakov: What are you reading?
- Eugenia: Arseny Tarkovsky's poems.
- Andrei Gorchakov: In Russian?
- Eugenia: No, it's a translation. Quite a good one.
- Andrei Gorchakov: Throw it away.
- Eugenia: Why? The translator's a very good poet.
- Andrei Gorchakov: Poetry is untranslatable, like the whole of art.
- Eugenia: You may be right that poetry is untranslatable. But music? Music for example...
- Andrei Gorchakov: We don't know what madness is. They're troublesome, inconvenient, we refuse to understand them. But they're certainly closer to the truth.
- Domenico: We need bigger ideas.
- Andrei Gorchakov: What?
- Domenico: I was selfish before. I wanted to save my family. Everyone must be saved, the whole world.
- Andrei Gorchakov: Don't be afraid of me. It is I who should be afraid of you. You could shoot me. Everybody shoots in Italy!
- Andrei Gorchakov: Smoke. When I don't know what to say I ask for a cigarette too. But I never learned to smoke. It's too hard.
- Domenico: You have to learn to not smoke, to do important things.