Eastern Promises (2007) - Quotes

The Lasting Impact of Sin

Taglines: Every Sin Leaves A Mark.

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Respect Demonstrated Through Wealth and Authority

Azim: Show some respect!

Krill: (produces large amount of cash) This is respect!

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Ambition and Loyalty in Uncertain Times

Anna: Why are you doing this, why are you helping us?

Nikolai Luzhin: How can I become king, if the king is still in place?

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A Plan to Arrest for Rape Accusation

Nikolai Luzhin: I need you to take Semyon out of the picture. I want you to arrest him.

Yuri: Arrest him for what?

Nikolai Luzhin: Rape. The girl was 14.

Yuri: And of course she will testify?

Nikolai Luzhin: She is dead, but she had Semyon's baby. If you can prove baby was his, and girl was underage, that is statutory rape. You have baby, you need Semyon's DNA. For poetic reasons, I suggest you take his blood.

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Choices Between Exile and Death

Anna: My uncle has gone missing, since I told you about him translating the diary.

Nikolai Luzhin: Your uncle is fine, he is in Edinburgh, in a 5-Star Hotel. I was ordered to send him to Heaven with a bullet in his brain... instead I gave him a first class ticket to Scotland. He is old-school, he understands things... exile or death.

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Confronting Morality in a Dangerous World

Anna: So you've read the diary. How can you keep doing what you're doing?

Nikolai Luzhin: I'm just a driver.

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Open Doors and Hidden Access

Anna: How did you get in here?

Semyon: There are always open doors, Anna Ivanovna.

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A Conversation About a Missing Pregnant Girl

Anna: Have you ever met a girl named Tatiana?

Nikolai Luzhin: I meet lot of girls named Tatiana.

Anna: She was pregnant.

Nikolai Luzhin: Ah, in that case – no, I've never heard of her.

Anna: She died on my shift.

Nikolai Luzhin: I thought you did birth?

Anna: Sometimes birth and death go together. She came in with needle punches all over both arms. Probably a prostitute, at the age of fourteen. Do you think Semyon's son knew her?

Nikolai Luzhin: I am driver. I go left, I go right, I go straight ahead – that's it.

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Disdain for the Frozen Corpse

Kirill: [[w:Pederasty|Pederast] (In Russian) ] (Spits on a frozen corpse)

A Meeting of Awareness and Intentions

Semyon: So, you know where I am...and now I know where you are, Anna Ivanovna.

Clarity and Consequences After Breaking Rules

Semyon: I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my rules and I drank vodka. Tomorrow I will translate it, and then I will bring what I've done to your home.

The Importance of Trust in Business

Semyon: It's always good to have someone who I can trust, to do simple tasks. In this business, sometimes the biggest danger comes from the most stupid things.