The Very Same Munchhausen (1980 TV Movie)

Oleg Yankovskiy: Baron Munchhausen

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Quotes 

• Baron Munchhausen : Smart-looking face is not a sign of intellect. All the dumb things in the world are done with that facial expression. Smile, gentlemen, smile.

• Baron Munchhausen : Why can't you understand that Baron Munchhausen is famous not because he flew or did not fly to the moon, but because he doesn't lie.

• Pastor : I've already noticed, baron, you've got rare books.

  Baron Munchhausen : Yes, many of them are autographed.

  Pastor : It must be so pleasant.

  Baron Munchhausen : Sophocles for example.

  Pastor : Who?

  Baron Munchhausen : Sophocles. This is his best tragedy "Oedipus Rex" with an inscription.

  Pastor : For whom?

  Baron Munchhausen : For me, of course. Here: "To dear Karl from his loving Sophocles to be warmly remembered."

• Marta : He

  [Pastor] 

  Marta : was the fourth, Karl.

  Baron Munchhausen : Don't care! We shall invite a fifth, a sixth, a tenth, a twentieth.

  Marta : The twentieth will come just in time for my funeral, Karl.

  Baron Munchhausen : Let's talk about something else. Is it worth spoiling such a nice evening?

  Marta : Is it evening now?

  Baron Munchhausen : [It's still light outside]  Of course... Look at the moon... the stars!... I am coming to you, my darling...

• Marta : [while visiting Munchhausen in Jail]  I am ready to return to you. I shall stand everything.

  Baron Munchhausen : Me? Never.

  Marta : You face imprisonment.

  Baron Munchhausen : A nice place.

  [Short Pause] 

  Baron Munchhausen : Here, next to me are Ovid, Cervantes. We shall be knocking at the walls.