Olga Kurylenko credited as playing...
Maria Veniaminovna Yudina
- Maria Veniaminovna Yudina: But I'm confident of everlasting life.
- Nikita Khrushchev: Who the fuck in their right mind would want everlasting life? The endless conversation.
- Maria Veniaminovna Yudina: [v.o] Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, you have betrayed our nation and destroyed its people. I pray for your end and ask the Lord to forgive you. Tyrant.
- [Stalin, reading the note, bursts out laughing, then feels his stroke coming on]
- Joseph Stalin: Fuck... fuck!
- Maria Veniaminovna Yudina: I won't do it. You can't force me.
- Sergei: Can't we just get a another pianist?
- Spartak Sokolov - Conductor 1: Don't be ridiculous. The sound will be completely different. I mean, even Stalin...
- Maria Veniaminovna Yudina: Even?
- Spartak Sokolov - Conductor 1: I didn't mean...
- Maria Veniaminovna Yudina: Even Stalin? I hope this office isn't bugged.
- Sergei: Of course, Comrade Stalin would be able to tell the difference. He's a great man! With a great ear!
- Spartak Sokolov - Conductor 1: Two great ears.
- Andreyev: Sharp. Sharp.
- Spartak Sokolov - Conductor 1: Sharpest ears...
- Sergei: In the Soviet Union!