Poor, Poor Pavel
2003 · 103 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 310 VOTES · DIR. Vitali Melnikov
Overview
Lenfilm's most recent major production spins a kind of historical fantasy based on real incidents that's full of ominous implications for today. One night, a patrol rushes into the chambers of the Russian prince Pavel, son of the Empress Catherine; the Empress has died, and Pavel is to be anointed the new Tsar. Thought to be feeble-minded at best and crazy at worst, Pavel soon lives up to his enemies' fears: he dismisses long-serving courtiers, demands that peasants only work three days a week, and declares that state officials should start their days at 5 am. Soon, it seems that everyone who can is trying to hatch some kind of plot against him - including his own sons. Sumptuously designed, POOR POOR PAVEL constrasts the imperial splendor of the court with the sordid atmosphere of conspiracies and backstabbing that comes to define these characters' lives.
Dialogue Timeline — 923 lines
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00:01:45 Halt!
00:06:52 I'll take on you, cheats!
00:11:19 and to depart with you to a faraway place.
00:14:37 I pin my hopes on you, Baron! - Glad to serve, your Majesty!
00:17:33 Where should the cathedral be? Here it is.
00:20:43 Yesterday, sir.
00:24:15 and my duty is to honestly serve him.
00:27:24 our patient belongs to the breed of active madmen.
00:31:31 Everybody lie.
00:34:56 And everybody opposes my will!
00:40:33 It is high time
00:46:12 Your Majesty.
00:50:07 the Tsar of Kazan, the Tsar of Astrakhan, the Tsar of Siberia, the Sovereign of Pskov
00:54:19 A military campaign in India is about to start upon the decree of his Majesty.
00:57:20 I suddenly saw
01:01:01 And where is your intelligence, gentlemen?
01:06:31 Call the doctor!
01:11:03 I head the conspirators to know everything, to watch everyone
01:14:34 Hold on, Petr Alekseevich.
01:18:51 Will it be me, him or both of us?
01:22:29 have you ever cried?
01:28:05 Is it opportune for me to abdicate?
01:33:16 How will we show him to the people? -What for?
01:38:11 Camera: Sergei Astakhov