Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

Alan Webb: Yurovsky

Quotes 

• Tsar Nicholas II : Taking someone's life, no man should have that power.

  Yurovsky : You had it.

  Tsar Nicholas II : Yes. And I have learned that a strong man needs no power, and a weak man is destroyed by it. He's like a child. You don't shoot children, do you? In your new world, are there penalties for innocence?

  Yurovsky : Sometimes. It takes a wise judge to know who is innocent and who is guilty. I wish I knew.

• Yurovsky : I kept their mail. I didn't know whether they ought to have it. Shall I give it to them now? Would it be cruel or kind? I don't know how to judge these things. I don't think anyone knows.

• [last lines] 

  Yurovsky : Wait in here, please.

• 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.

• Yurovsky : You don't approve of this, comrade?

  Goloshchekin : No, I quite approve of terror, arson, murder, any tool that serves the revolution.