A Promise (2013)
Richard Madden: Friedrich Zeitz
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Quotes
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Friedrich Zeitz : We are parted by distance, but also by time. Little by little, the past feels more and more like a foreign country. Your letters are all that I have to keep it alive inside of me.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : Somebody once said, I can't remember who, that music can exist without the world but the *world* cannot exist without music.
Friedrich Zeitz : I believe it was Goethe.
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[last lines]
Friedrich Zeitz : We walked down this very same path with Otto. You remember?
Lotte Hoffmeister : Yes. He kept running on ahead and we'd almost lost him for the umpteenth time. I kept calling him to come back. But actually I just wanted to be alone with you. We were strangers then.
Friedrich Zeitz : As now.
Lotte Hoffmeister : [responding to his touch] Don't ever leave me again. Don't ever leave me.
Friedrich Zeitz : I will never ever leave you from now on.
Lotte Hoffmeister : It took us a long time to get here.
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Karl Hoffmeister : [having a suit fitted] Anyone would think it was made for you. I'll lend you a top hat too.
Friedrich Zeitz : Is that really necessary, sir?
Karl Hoffmeister : Indispensable.
Friedrich Zeitz : In that case, thank you.
Karl Hoffmeister : No, I thank you for relieving me of these dreary obligations - a Sunday in the country and then an evening in town listening to some fat woman take forever to die.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : Herr Zeitz? I'm Frau Hoffmeister.
Friedrich Zeitz : Herr Hoffmeister's wife?
Lotte Hoffmeister : Of course. I'm not his mother.
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Friedrich Zeitz : I have all the time in the world.
Karl Hoffmeister : Well, I haven't.
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Friedrich Zeitz : As Germans we know our industrial strength.
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Karl Hoffmeister : She wouldn't miss the 10 o'clock service if the world was on fire.
Friedrich Zeitz : Don't you accompany her?
Karl Hoffmeister : No time for all that humbug. But if you enjoy church don't let me stop you.
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Anna : So you're top dog now, are you?
Friedrich Zeitz : Don't be silly.
Anna : I asked the man on the gate and he said you'd taken over from the boss.
Friedrich Zeitz : I'm only his private secretary.
Anna : What about the car?
Friedrich Zeitz : He lets me use it.
Anna : What about his wife?
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Friedrich Zeitz : I do like your scent.
Lotte Hoffmeister : Thank you.
Friedrich Zeitz : What is it?
Lotte Hoffmeister : Young man, don't you know better than to ask a lady her scent?
Friedrich Zeitz : No, I'm afraid, I didn't. But if I don't ask how can I find out?
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Friedrich Zeitz : We can't keep doing this.
Lotte Hoffmeister : Doing what?
Friedrich Zeitz : Lying to each other.
Lotte Hoffmeister : Lying to each other? What on earth are you imagining, Herr Zeitz? Who do you think you are? And what do you think I am?
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Lotte Hoffmeister : I can't live without you.
Friedrich Zeitz : Why didn't you tell me?
Lotte Hoffmeister : Tell you what? You already knew.
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Friedrich Zeitz : I write to you, envying the sheet of paper which will soon be in your hands. Pressed to your breasts, perhaps even to your lips.
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Otto Hoffmeister : Will you see cowboys and Indians?
Friedrich Zeitz : No, Mexico isn't America.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : Friedrich, welcome back.
Friedrich Zeitz : I hope I haven't been too long.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : Nothing has changed. Everything's the same.
Friedrich Zeitz : No, nothing has changed. Except us.
Lotte Hoffmeister : I haven't forgotten my promise to you.