The Self-Seeker
1929 · 78 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 61 VOTES · DIR. Mykola Shpykovskyi
Overview
An opportunistic Kyivan Apollon Shmyguyev, whose peaceful bourgeois life is interrupted by the civil war, decides to wait out the trouble in the South of Ukraine, which is under the rule of the Russian White Army. After gathering left off goods on Andriyivskyi descent in Kyiv, he goes on a journey with a camel, which somehow had strayed to his house. In the midway he is stopped by the Red Army: the camel gets confiscated for the needs of revolution, and Apollon appears in the disposal of the Bolshevik commissar. Zealous and cunning, Apollon quickly takes lead of the local commissariat. But the ingrained thirst for a profit once again puts his life in danger.
Dialogue Timeline — 137 lines
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00:00:00 Shkurnik (a person seeking personal advantage)
00:00:28 1st assistant director: M. Zgoda
00:01:25 ... those who are outside the classes and outside control
00:03:35 Stop!
00:07:40 Apollonchik!
00:14:08 citizen Shmygueva, Apollon. The analysis found: Sugar - 0.05 Protein - 0.4, other substances - normal
00:16:09 Protocol: emergency meeting of the county committee of emergency food Hearing: About a speculator with sugar on a camel and its distribution among the population Resolution:
00:19:21 1 can 5 million
00:21:49 Eat it, skinny beanpole!
00:24:38 Protocol: emergency meeting of the county committee of emergency food Hearing: About a speculator with sugar on a camel and its distribution among the population
00:28:09 Brothers, But I'm on your side ... White ...
00:32:38 some spy ...
00:34:11 Gentlemen, hey, this is my cousin
00:38:13 Part 5
00:41:21 Trains cannot be expected soon. The Station Master
00:44:56 Mademoiselle! And where is the Commissar?
00:47:40 Where did you learn to work this way?
00:48:58 travelling propaganda station
00:51:02 shaking the bootleggers
00:53:58 Cereal
00:57:30 And he won't run away?
01:01:02 of an unspecified number of camels are immediately ordered to appear at the next available Rayd. Prod. Koma (Regional Forage Committee) for draught animal demands within a period of 24 hours. Non-obeyance of the order implies the most harsh repression, up to execution on the spot. Deputy Head Forage Base KISLYTSA
01:10:42 Let's mount!