War & Peace (TV Series)

Fortunes of War (1972)

Angela Down: Princess Maria Bolkonskya

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• Alpatych : The peasants are in a strange mood. We should leave now.

  Princess Maria Bolkonskya : What do you mean?

  Alpatych : Well, you know, they're not like the serfs on the old prince's estate. They're a different kind of people.

  Princess Maria Bolkonskya : What are you saying?

  Alpatych : They're surly. You'd think that freeing them, as Prince Andrei did, they'd be grateful, but they're not. They're sullen. I don't like it.

  Princess Maria Bolkonskya : They wouldn't harm us. Don't be absurd.

  Alpatych : Maybe not, but there are no police in the village, no law and order. Princess, please give the order to move.

• Princess Maria Bolkonskya : What's the matter, Dron? What is it?

  Dron : Discharge me, ma'am. For god's sake, take the keys. I... I don't want to be village elder anymore.

  Princess Maria Bolkonskya : Dron, when we were children, you used to bring my brother and me special gingerbread each year from the fair at Vyazma. You carved wooden dolls for me, and carried Prince Andrei on your back all over the estate. We've always looked on you as our friend. Tell me what is happening.

  Dron : I wish... I wish to God those days had never gone.

• Amelie Bourienne : You know, cher Marie, we are not safe. It may even be dangerous to move now.

  Princess Maria Bolkonskya : Why?

  Amelie Bourienne : We could be taken prisoner on the road. Think what that could mean. Enemy soldiers are not the gentlest of people.