THe immigrants in the skating rink scenes seem to be divided in groups that do not get along. What languages were they speaking? At first I thought Russian and German but then I saw Hungarian in the credits. Can anyone identify? And what were they disagreeing about?
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Yes there was German, which surprised me a bit.
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shareYes, it wasn't until I watched the miniseries Stephen Fry In America did I realize there are more German Americans than any other group. They just don't make it obvious, like the neighborhoods of big cities that are clearly marked as being Irish, Italian, Chinese, Greek and the like. Early on in the film I thought most were Ukrainian, Russian and Hungarian, but then I recognized many of them as German by the second half.
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Some words (and a couple of phrases) including a "4-letter word" were in Russian. Overall very inconsistent gibberish.
shareThe guy who gets shot in the opening sequence is speaking Latvian, but his wife is speaking some Slavic language. I wonder how they communicated?
shareIt was partially Ukrainian and Russian, but a lot of it was Gibberish.
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No doubt superior beings from another solar system would judge the noises that emerge from your pie hole as "Gibberish" although because of the huge gap in education between them and yourself they probably would not communicate in such a dismissive way.
shareIt might not be relevant but in the beginning of the film (around 35' through the long 216' cut) the woman that gets beaten up outside the shop whom Kristofferson helps is speaking Bulgarian, which is not credited.
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There is also Serbian spoken. The woman who shoots Charlie in the ear speaks it. The same woman earlier asks "Cija su imena na spisku?" which is Serbian for "Whose names are on the list?".So it is not really gibberish, because from the credits you can see they have actors who spoke their native languages.
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