Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

Roderic Noble: Alexis

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Quotes 

• Tsarevich Alexei : Why did you abdicate for me? Why? You didn't even ask.

  Tsar Nicholas II : I didn't want you to pay for my mistakes.

  Tsarevich Alexei : Am I not paying for them now? Aren't all of us? I should have had a chance. The right to live my own life, make my own decisions. I could have tried to help Russia, help Mother and my sisters, and perhaps even you. I could have been a Romanov. A czar.

  Tsar Nicholas II : It all went wrong. I hardly know why or how.

  Tsarevich Alexei : Instead, I just bleed. It's my fate. I bleed.

• Tsarevich Alexei : I've never known a heart without some murder in it. I made these men. They are our Russians. I am responsible for what they are. I let them starve. I put them in prisons, and I shot them. If there's hatred in them now, I put it there. But they are filled with love. And with mercy, too. We must remember that.

  Tsar Nicholas II : They are all murderers. I'd like to kill them all.

• Tsarevich Alexei : Alexei, Alexei, mustn't run and mustn't play, mustn't jump and mustn't climb, must be careful all the time.

• Tsarevich Alexei : Mother, I'm bleeding...

  Tsarina Alexandra : Oh, my God...

• [after Nagorny saves Alexei from falling off a rock he was climbing] 

  Tsarevich Alexei : It's all right, Nagorny. You'll always save me.

• Tsarevich Alexei : Father? There's no hope, is there, father?

  Tsar Nicholas II : Nonsense.

  Tsarevich Alexei : None at all.

• Yurovsky : No sun today?

  Tsarevich Alexei : No.

  Yurovsky : What a shame. I suppose you're not well enough. What's it like, being ill?

  Tsarevich Alexei : What's it like having grey eyes?

  Yurovsky : It can't be nice, being an invalid at your age. And they can't do anything to help one. What a pity.