What languages the immigrants?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Heaven's Gate
bookworm345 — 12 years ago(June 02, 2013 11:20 PM)
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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col_rutherford — 12 years ago(June 23, 2013 10:30 AM)
Yes there was German, which surprised me a bit.
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alouette1977 — 12 years ago(December 05, 2013 08:13 PM)
Yes, 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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ridge-m-1 — 9 years ago(April 15, 2016 12:44 PM)
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.
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tseno_tanev — 10 years ago(August 17, 2015 07:01 PM)
It 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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RealGeronimo — 10 years ago(February 14, 2016 09:02 AM)
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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