Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

Ian Holm: Yakovlev

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• Tsar Nicholas II : What are our chances?

  Yakovlev : Of what?

  Tsar Nicholas II : Of living til Christmas?

  Yakovlev : I haven't thought about it.

  Tsar Nicholas II : You puzzle me. You'd be happy to see us dead, and yet you help us get away.

  Yakovlev : I haven't your taste for murder, Bloody Nicholas. I've never had a chance to get used to it. How many men have you killed? Have you the least idea? God knows how many peasants died. Nobody counted children. You only know the number of soldiers because somebody counted them for you. Seven million. Six quarts a man times seven million. It's an ocean. Have you ever seen a battle? I'm wrong. You're not Bloody Nicholas. You're a man of no imagination.

• Avadeyev : I want the Romanovs. I have a legal order for them.

  Yakovlev : There's only one legal government in Soviet Russia.

  Avadeyev : One government? Where is it? What's it doing? They're losing to the Whites. They've taken Omsk, and they're coming here to save your czar. Can your Central Committee stop them?

  Yakovlev : He's not my czar. He's my responsibility. And I'm not saving him. I'm taking him to trial. We must stay inside the law. We're not the Okrana. That's why we had a revolution, comrade.