A character in The Peacemaker (1997)

Gavrich quotes from The Peacemaker (1997)

Marcel Iureș

3rd most-quoted character in The Peacemaker (1997): in 2 of its 10 quotes

Gavrich's lines

1 quote
Gavrich
[recording a message to the world prior to detonating his nuke]

I'm a Serb! I'm a Croat! I'm a Muslim! You will look at what I have done and say, Of course - why not - they are all animals. They have slaughtered each other for centuries. But the truth is, I'm not a monster. I'm a human man - I'm just like you, whether you like it or not. For years, we have tried to live together, until a war was waged on us, on all of us: a war waged by our own leaders. And who supplied the Serb cluster bombs, the Croatian tanks, the Muslim artillery shells that killed our sons and daughters? It was the governments of the West who drew the boundaries of our countries - sometimes in ink, sometimes in blood - the blood of our people. And now you dispatch your peacekeepers to write our destiny again. We can never accept this peace that leaves us with nothing but pain, pain the peacemakers must be made to feel. Their wives, their children, their houses and churches. So now you know, now you must understand. Leave us to find our own destiny. [makes the sign of the cross] May God have mercy on us all.

Scenes with Gavrich

1 scene
Gavrich
[wounded in a New York church to Thomas & Julia]

Who decided for my wife... my child, murdered? And for what? For what? For breathing? For smiling? And now, I'm left. Who decides for me?

Mr Gavrich, what is it that you want?

Gavrich

I want it as it was...what it used to be

Sir, it's not our war.

Gavrich
[glares at him]

It is now! [raises his gun to his head...]

No-! [...and fires]

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