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I've looked on quote sites and those who have partial movie scripts, but I can only find fragments, not the whole thing.

In 'Telefon', Nicolai Dalchimsky uses it to activate the sleeper agents.

The bulk of it is a Robert Frost poem. I know that part, I want the closing(s) with one or more of the Russian names: 'remember (name), miles to go before you sleep.'

IMDB doesn't even list the Russian names of the characters, only their American cover names.
 
I realized I cut that short. I'm looking for the whole dialog, from when he first gets them on the phone, how he verifies their ID, all the way to the end where they get that blank stare and drop the phone.

Hoping maybe somebody has it and can watch it and transcribe that portion.
 
Telefon (1977)

The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
Remember, Guriyeva.
Miles to go before you sleep.

Miles to go before you sleep.
Remember, Guriyeva.
Miles to go before I sleep.

Reminds me of a poem by Robert Frost.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
Remember, Melikyan.
Miles to go before you sleep.

http://www.subzin.com/quotes/M76925e4a/Telefon/And+miles+to+go+before+I+sleep
 
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42891
 
Telefon (1977)

The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
Remember, Guriyeva.
Miles to go before you sleep.

Miles to go before you sleep.
Remember, Guriyeva.
Miles to go before I sleep.

Reminds me of a poem by Robert Frost.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
Remember, Melikyan.
Miles to go before you sleep.


The web is a very weird thing. I searched and searched, and I could not find the key portions. Now I search again using part of the terms in there and I find other hits including this one: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=telefon

The funny thing is that I looked at that site a couple of hours ago and only part of the script showed. That's why I mentioned fragments. I have no idea what happened, but this is one of the full dialogs from that site with characters added:


Person answering phone: "Hello.
Yes, just a minute.
It's for you. Here."

Hassler/Sobolev: "Yeah."
Dalchimsky: "Mr. Carl Hassler?"
Hassler/Sobolev:"Yeah, that's right. Hassler Air charter."
Dalchimsky: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
Remember, Sobolev.
Miles to go before you sleep."

Hassler/Sobolev:"Remember, Sobolev.
Miles to go before I sleep."
 
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As I recall, this exchange was done in person when Bronson's character tracked one of the sleepers down before Dalchimsky:


Brozov: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
Remember, Melikyan.
Miles to go before you sleep."

Agent: "Remember, Melikyan.
Miles to go...
...before I sleep.
"

Barbara: "My God. That's how-"
Borzov: "That's how Dalchimsky's been doing it.
Even simpler. He uses the telephone.
Melikyan, listen carefully.
I am Major Grigori Borzov of the KGB.
The mission has been cancelled.
we are not at war.
"
 
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