The Garden
1983 · 31 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 63 VOTES · DIR. Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Overview
Soviet film based on Borges' ""Garden of Forking Paths."" The film tells about the events that occurred on the eve of the British offensive in Saint-Montauban on July 24, 1916. A screen version of the short story of the famous Argentine classic Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). Course work by Alexander Kaidanovsky, as a director, at the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors at VGIK. ""Pavilion"" for filming was chosen a room in a communal apartment on Vorovskogo street, where Alexander Kaidanovsky lived.
Dialogue Timeline - 164 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME - EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:47 I, the undersigned Doctor of Philology Yu Tsun, former professor at the Hochschule at Tsingtao
00:04:09 Speak. Who are you? Do you hear me?
00:05:41 I, having been left without father, I, having been a child, playing in a symmetrical garden of Hai Feng…
00:15:25 "The garden of forking paths"
00:16:38 War is the most stupid, most talentless of all times. Please.
00:18:31 Ts'ui Pen. Governor of his native province.
00:19:07 We still don't know the cause of Ts'ui Pen's death.
00:19:49 Thank God the manuscript survived.
00:20:20 I've been long asking myself why Tsui Pen should write such a strange book.
00:21:17 Yes, Ts’ui Pen had created a really infinite net.
00:22:20 And so. In the book of Ts'ui Pen, the characters choose simultaneously – all of the alternatives.
00:23:06 for example, you arrive at this house, but in one of the possible pasts
00:24:02 blue, yellow, red, white and black.
00:24:24 The last words are repeated in each version
00:24:55 He does not even use the word "time".
00:25:23 It is an image of the world with infinite series of times.
00:25:46 in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times.
00:26:15 for your re-creation of the garden of Ts'ui Pen.
00:27:03 Could I see the letter again?
00:28:33 They has deciphered this mystery.
00:29:22 I fulfilled my plan, because
00:29:45 that a yellow man could save the German Army.
00:30:39 Thus I proceeded
25:00:00 the departure of the Emperor.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed164
Dialogue density5.3 lines / min
First line00:00:47
Final line25:00:00
Production Record
DirectorAleksandr Kaydanovskiy
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes63