The end of the line, oh I did lie about my name, it's not really "Yuri Orlov" there have...
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Yuri Orlov:
[Narrating]
For the first twenty odd years of my life Little Odessa was to me what it was to the Q train: the end of the line, oh I did lie about my name, it's not really "Yuri Orlov" there have been a few occasions in the twentieth century where it's been an advantage to be a Jew but in the seventies to escape the Soviet Union our family pretended to be Jewish, little about my life has been "kosher" since, my younger brother was just as lost as me, he just didn't know it yet, my father took his assumed identity to heart, he was more Jewish than most Jews which drove my Catholic mother crazy
[Narrating]
For the first twenty odd years of my life Little Odessa was to me what it was to the Q train: the end of the line, oh I did lie about my name, it's not really "Yuri Orlov" there have been a few occasions in the twentieth century where it's been an advantage to be a Jew but in the seventies to escape the Soviet Union our family pretended to be Jewish, little about my life has been "kosher" since, my younger brother was just as lost as me, he just didn't know it yet, my father took his assumed identity to heart, he was more Jewish than most Jews which drove my Catholic mother crazy
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For the first 20-odd years of my life,
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Little Odessa was to me
what it is to the Q train.
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The end of the line.
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Oh, I did lie about my name.
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It's not really Yuri Orlov.
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There have been few occasions
in the 20th century
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when it's been an advantage to be a Jew.
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But in the '70s, to escape the Soviet Union
our family pretended to be Jewish.
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Little about my life
has been kosher ever since.
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- How's it going, brother?
- It's not.
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That's Vitaly, my younger brother.
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He was as lost as me.
He just didn't know it yet.
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Yuri, kouda prava, you're late.
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My father took his assumed identity
to heart.
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He was more Jewish than most Jews,
which drove my Catholic mother crazy.
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How many times? I can't eat shellfish.
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- It's trayf. • unfit to be eaten •
- You're not Jewish.
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I like it.
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I like the hat.
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To remind us there is something above us.
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I like that.
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- I'm going to temple.
- You're not going to temple.
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You go to temple more than the rabbi.
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Yuri, don't forget to check the specials
at the Palace.
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Growing up in Little Odessa,
murder was an everyday part of life.
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Russian mobsters had also migrated
from the Soviet Union.
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And when they came to America,
their baggage came with them.
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There was always some gangster
getting whacked in my neighborhood,
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but I'd never seen it with my own eyes.
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I had this knack of showing up
five minutes before something went down,
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or five minutes after.
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Not that day.
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Movie Summary
An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an INTERPOL Agent.
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Yuri Orlov
