Boris Godunov
1986 · 130 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 299 VOTES · DIR. Sergey Bondarchuk
Overview
Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the Terrible had died. At first, things went well for Godunov (played by Bondarchuk), but when the Russian people began to believe he had killed Ivan the Terrible's son in order to gain the throne, an alliance sprang up against the new Czar. Events continued to spin out of control as a young monk was presented as the son Godunov had supposedly killed. Now he was openly accused of failing an assassination attempt, which seems to be even worse than succeeding. In addition to these woes, Boris Godunov began to suffer serious health problems. So much for the joys of kingship.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,040 lines
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00:00:01 First Creative Union
00:05:12 You are right; he is of lowly birth; we twain can boast a nobler lineage.
00:12:51 Our Lord, protect him within your sacred creation
00:20:47 Ay, my son, I well remember.
00:28:13 not power, not life gladden me
00:32:39 Thanks, my good friend. God bless thee.
00:38:02 All earthly beings have befallen to great sin
00:43:25 Really marvelous! And is that all?
00:48:24 Innocent one, for what art thou a sufferer?
00:52:16 Let not that trouble thee, prince
00:56:34 Could I deceive myself So blindly as not recognise Dimitry?
01:02:38 Approach Kurbsky
01:07:34 I merely hinted to her: "Now, be careful! Let not Dimitry slip" -- and lo!
01:13:27 was buried - and will not rise again
01:17:06 Now I leave thee
01:22:25 The son of Kurbsky, nurtured in exile, Forgetting all the wrongs borne by thy father
01:26:46 "In my young days," He said, "I lost my sight
01:32:23 Kva! kva! You like, you frog from over the sea, to croak at the Russian tsarevich
01:38:55 How do you do, Nick?
01:46:38 Again doth flash our old ancestral sword
01:51:52 But what then?
01:59:19 now slacken; But let them not slip from thy hands.
02:06:14 only this I know, that soon or late the son of Boris will yield Moscow to him.
02:11:15 People! To the Kremlin! To the Royal palace!