Farewell, America!
1951 · 70 MIN · IMDB 5.9 · 97 VOTES · DIR. Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Overview
An unfinished film by Aleksandr Dovzhenko, the film is a political lampoon based on the book entitled The Truth about US Diplomats, written in 1949 by the American writer Annabel Bukar. It exposes the underhanded actions of US Embassy personnel in Moscow at the onset of the Cold War. Dovzhenko managed to shoot only a half of the film, mainly the scenes that take place in the American Embassy.
Dialogue Timeline — 567 lines
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00:00:13 Mosfilm
00:02:29 Oleksandr Petrovych was offered to make a film. This book was just in time
00:04:42 Nikolay Gritsenko
00:07:03 Immense artillery preparation and air bombing preceded the attack.
00:10:17 Are you leaving?
00:12:04 - Excellent, yes, yes, yes - yes, yes, yes... Is Mr. Howard an old friend of yours?
00:13:59 - Miss Bedford. - Please.
00:16:47 - Cathy, I visited a true communistic house. - Alone? - Yes. - You are crazy!
00:19:59 - Peace is when there is no artillery, sir. Yes, yes, when shooting is done not by armies, but cowboys, hunters, gangsters and policemen.
00:23:09 What do we know about their nuclear bomb? They are making it somewhere. It can't be otherwise.
00:26:38 He announced his economy plans for the next twenty years. Five next years were described with all the details. - Oh! Ah!
00:29:50 - So what, if these billions should be now protected from the whole world. Or am I crazy, eh?!.
00:32:59 - Well, yes, are the photos of these forests ready? - No, I haven't... - In about an hour, ok? Fine. - Attach the report, please. Thank you.
00:36:40 - Four, sir. Besides, all of them are of military purpose. By the way, don't you think, especially considering
00:40:56 However, this was not what resentful diplomats were expecting.
00:43:26 that he can start packing and get lost to Budapest. Here is an order of his transfer.
00:46:08 - No, we can't run away from these questions. It is our reality. This is the force of things, that created us and which we create.
00:48:58 - Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam - all of them are mistakes. You'll see. - Something crazy is going on in the world!
00:51:53 - Bravo, bravo!.. - Mr. Marrow, you are a genius! He's a genius! Bravo! Bravo, Mr. Marrow!
00:54:36 - I'm off to Washington and I will reveal all the lies to American people and the government.
00:57:38 - What happened, Cathy? - Give me your word. - Well, tell me, what happened? - Your mother has passed away.
01:01:42 Well, tell me, Miss Bedford, what has impressed you the most in Thomas Committee? You kept worrying a lot, as we know.
01:04:50 - She's coming. - She's coming!
01:08:53 I. Kolotikova M. Bityukov
Cast & Characters
Vyacheslav Gostinsky
Francis Darlington
Liliya Gritsenko
Anna Badford
Nikolai Gritsenko
Armand Howard
Grigori Kirillov
Walter Scott, American Ambassador in Moscow
Nikita Kondratyev
Johnny Graves
Yuriy Lyubimov
Blank
Mikhail Mukhin
Morton
Janis Osis
Charlie Vincelli
Alexander Polinsky
Morrow
Lyudmila Shagalova
Cecilia Wong
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed567
Dialogue density8.1 lines / min
First line00:00:13
Final line01:08:53
Production Record
DirectorOleksandr Dovzhenko
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes97