"[Handing out execution orders] Shoot her before him, but make sure he sees it... oh, and this one, kill him, take him to his church and dump him in the pulpit... The rest I leave up to you."

"It's lucky we both now live in the new Soviet Union or you and your wife and your family would be a pile of dust on the floor of a crematorium toilet."

"[To Molotov, out of earshot] Goodbye, old friend. Goodbye forever."

"Rupert Friend - Vasily Stalin, Major General in the Soviet Air Force"

"Christopher Lee — Grigori Rasputin"

"Jason Isaacs - Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union"

"The Thick of It"

"It smells like a Baku piss house in here."

"What mystic power did this man possess that turned men into killers and women into animals?"

"Richard Pasco — Dr. Boris Zargo"

"Olga Kurylenko - Maria Veniaminovna Yudina (Pianist)"

"Adrian McLoughlin - Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party"

"Paul Whitehouse - Anastas Mikoyan, Minister of Labor"

"Francis Matthews — Ivan"

"Andrea Riseborough - Svetlana Stalina"

"Michael Palin - Vyacheslav Molotov, Minister of Foreign Affairs"

"Jeffrey Tambor - Georgy Malenkov, Deputy General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party"

"You don't look, you see. You don't hear, you listen. You taste the top of your mouth. Your nose is filled with fumes and death. But the veneer of civilization has dropped away."

"What I hope the film does is that it takes away 100 years and makes you think that those who fought were just the same as us. They were no different and yet what they experienced was something extraordinary in all sorts of ways, good and bad. Their human response to what they experienced is strangely familiar because we all go through times of hardship, pain, suffering, pain and pleasure. We hear these guys talking about the same things that we feel and you suddenly realize that 100 years has just evaporated and it makes it more immediate."

"We had so much stuff. Honestly, 600 hours of sound and 100 hours of footage. There is probably five or six films of this sort that could be made from that archive … Give me two and a half hours and sure, the nurses would have been there. You need to do something focused and intensely and do it justice, or you kind of spread yourself too thin. It was a decision I had to make."

"Jack Reynor as Gray Brother."

"Louis Ashbourne Serkis as Bhoot."

"Naomie Harris as Nisha."

"Eddie Marsan as Vihaan."

"Cate Blanchett as Kaa."

"Benedict Cumberbatch as Shere Khan."

"Tom Hollander as Tabaqui."

"Peter Mullan as Akela."

"Andy Serkis as Baloo."

"Freida Pinto as Messua."

"Christian Bale as Bagheera."

"The greatest journey is finding where you belong."

"[last lines before he retreats in terror and leaves Shere Khan to his fate] What's he doing!?"

"Witness the darkest telling of the beloved masterpiece."

"He was an outcast... a survivor... a legend."

"Akela's missed his kill! Akela's missed his kill!"

"Look at you, using a man's tool to do your killing. What would Baloo and Bagheera think?"

"But you permitted man to live among you! You pretend that he is a wolf! But we both know that is the one thing he will never be! He will always be a man! You poisoned the jungle! But you are no longer leader now, are you? You missed your kill. And by your law, your pack must challenge you."

"[last words before his death] You know, I can still hear... your mother's screams... the night I took... her life!"

"Sometimes, I dream I'm a tiger, but I always wake up a hyena."

"My, my, how you've grown. [slaps monkey aside] And how much chaos you've brought upon the pack. So much more... to come. Just a little taste..."