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.

Drama1980s

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
00:23:57 according to the 5 basic colours accepted in the army of Tsao Tsao -
00:24:20 and they win the victory.
00:24:52 that is the only problem that does not figure in the pages of the "Garden"
00:25:17 is an enormous riddle, or parable, whose key is "time."
00:25:44 He believed in an infinite series of times
00:26:12 In every one, I am grateful to you and revere you
00:27:00 still I am your friend.
00:28:27 I have communicated to Berlin the name of the city they must attack.
00:29:16 the abjection of being a spy and a murderer.
00:29:43 I wanted to prove to him
00:30:33 he ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
00:31:04 my innumerable contrition and weariness.

Cast & Characters

Iosif Kavalerchik Vytautas Paukste Chin Go Pin Leonid Pleshakov

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed164
Dialogue density5.3 lines / min
First line00:00:47
Final line00:31:04

Production Record

DirectorAleksandr Kaydanovskiy
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes63