Perestroika

2009 · 97 MIN · IMDB 4.3 · 164 VOTES · DIR. Slava Tsukerman

Perestroika poster

Overview

Top astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg has spent the past 17 years working in the United States. An invitation to speak at a Congress on Cosmology in his native Moscow brings him home for the first time to confront colleagues, and unanswered personal questions. As Russia undergoes perestroika, public and private lives are radically re-assessed and Sasha sees the social and sexual upheavals as a crisis

Dialogue Timeline — 1,272 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:36 Time and space are not homogeneous.
00:04:34 but have not even corresponded.
00:08:34 Oh, you don't recognize me!
00:11:38 Officially this word sounded like "An enemy of Russia".
00:15:07 He had come from America.
00:19:14 Was I really now back in Moscow?
00:23:21 But isn't there a law that says everyone graduating high school with a gold medal
00:26:59 So, where is the problem? Go work for Burkov.
00:30:09 Then you'll come to my place tomorrow first thing in the morning. Agree?
00:34:14 Now they're bringing men to the rooms... Oh, wait till I call the police.
00:38:48 Sasha, Jill, this is Elena.
00:42:15 You can go.
00:45:55 Because Sasha's destiny is not with me.
00:51:11 Reality!
00:55:05 It may have been a sixties' cliche.
00:58:41 Nobody, absolutely nobody forced you into any of it!
01:02:44 Don't come in here. I am not alone.
01:06:08 If you loved her even a little bit, you wouldn't make her sound like such a saint.
01:09:43 Repeat after me: "I am a dirty kike..."
01:13:31 why, he's just as revolting to me as a Jew profiteer.
01:16:59 Sasha, marry me!
01:21:10 I need a drink.
01:25:18 Who's going to buy it? Only another speculator, like themselves!
01:28:58 Let's all go see it together!

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,272
Dialogue density13.1 lines / min
First line00:01:36
Final line01:28:58

Production Record

DirectorSlava Tsukerman
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes164