A Spring for the Thirsty

1965 · 73 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 446 VOTES · DIR. Yurii Illienko

A Spring for the Thirsty poster

Overview

A parable centering on an old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs. His wellspring, once a source of joy and hope for thirsty passersby, is now rarely used. No longer able to find comfort in his memories, he turns all his photographs to face the walls.

Dialogue Timeline — 124 lines

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00:00:00 Dovzhenko Film Studios
00:00:54 Cast: Larysa Kadochnikova...
00:08:58 Devils torment you, fool!
00:09:14 why don't fix it up, why don't do it
00:09:24 Nobody will come to your funeral. Your sons all gone.
00:11:29 My water, my beauty.
00:13:13 Mother cursed me when I was a child.
00:22:48 Or Kyrylo Serduk?
00:25:18 Do you have nothing to eat.
00:25:37 And he still makes the coffin.
00:41:54 Dad, you feel aggrieved, that I wrote you on rare occasions
00:42:17 I shall get it for shure, I will seek it in every store.
00:45:08 Get up, Dad, get up from pit – it's a woe to live near mother.
00:48:24 Don't be crazy, a child might remain without head.
00:48:41 this water among with mother's milk!
00:49:11 You care only of your belly.
00:51:02 How with second one I came to blows.
00:51:30 Don't say a word about this bitch.
00:54:56 Child, wish you have no luck.
00:55:48 Mother, we will go to mountains and plains.
00:56:37 That you had children, no one you can give a look.
00:57:53 For citizen Serduk Levko Fedorovic
00:58:06 born in Skrizalivka village, Chygyryn District, Cherkasy region
01:07:55 The End

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed124
Dialogue density1.7 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line01:07:55

Production Record

DirectorYurii Illienko
LanguageUK
IMDb votes446