“Gorky Park” quotes
(1983)
Michael Apted
directed this movie
in 1983
Title Gorky Park
Year 1983
Director Michael Apted
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Year 1983
Director Michael Apted
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Plot – Young inspector Arkadi Renko is called in Gorky Park on a frosty Moscow morning to investigate about three half-buried corpses in the snow, two men and a woman. Their faces are deliberately disfigured and their fingertips have been abraded. Renko finds on the site a KGB agent, a man with whom he has some reminders. Why KGB is investigating too? Renko begins however his difficult job patiently and starts investigating.
All actors – William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Joanna Pacula, Michael Elphick, Richard Griffiths, Rikki Fulton, Alexander Knox, Alexei Sayle, Ian McDiarmid, Niall O'Brien
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“- Arkady Renko: I always wanted to meet an American. You are so, so different. Forgive me for staring. Only once before did I ever meet an American, in the flesh, so to speak. A young student, Kirwell I think he was called. James Kirwell.
- Jack Osborne: Oh.
- Arkady Renko: But he was dead.
- Jack Osborne: That doesn't count then, does it?”“- Jack Osborne: There's a sliver of food on your upper lip.
- Arkady Renko: I'm just a plodding investigator, no style. Completely out of my depth. Oh, yes. Three bodies, three people, shot down and mutilated in Gorky Park, and me, I have food on my lip.
- Jack Osborne: Not even caviar at that. I somehow feel that the executioner, whoever he may...” (continue)(continue reading)“I'm used to dealing with the dead. The only emotion I feel about one of these is a faint hope it may be a Party official.”
“- Irina Asanova: KGB have better cars, you know.
- Arkady Renko: Ah, but they don't always take you where you want to go, do they?”“KGB decides what interests KGB.”
“- Arkady Renko: I'm trying to save a life.
- Anton: Whose?
- Arkady Renko: Mine! I'm on a case that reeks of KGB involvement.”“Girls like screwing foreigners, don't they? It's almost as good as travel.”
“- Irina Asanova: The director of that film promised me a pair of new boots if I went to bed with him. Think I should?
- Arkady Renko: Well, the winter's almost over.
- Irina Asanova: Exactly, and I am a Siberian, I'm used to the cold.”“Promise me I can have your face when the breath has left your body.”
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