Intermezzo (1939)
Leslie Howard: Holger Brandt
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Quotes
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Margit Brandt - His Wife : Please, you know how I'd love to come with you. But, darling, you must realize that our home is *my* responsibility. Just as concerts and practice are yours.
Holger Brandt : Yes, I suppose you're right.
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Anita Hoffman : It's late for me.
Holger Brandt : It's never too late for a glass of wine.
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Holger Brandt : Bravo.
Anita Hoffman : Thank you.
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Holger Brandt : There comes a night each year when one senses that Winter is suddenly over.
Anita Hoffman : Yes, that Spring has come. Oh, how I look forward to it through the dreary months.
Holger Brandt : Look, there goes the Winter now: broken, rushing to the sea. Don't you feel when Spring comes that the world is yours just for the asking? That there's nothing that you couldn't be?
Anita Hoffman : Tonight, I would dare anything. Or, perhaps, it's only the champagne.
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Holger Brandt : Yes, champagne's what we need. A couple of glasses of champagne - and two strangers have a rich and happy past.
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Holger Brandt : Do you know what you remind me of?
Anita Hoffman : No. Tell me.
Holger Brandt : A Viennese waltz. Smiling but melancholy. A melody of the days when Vienna was a happy city.
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Margit Brandt - His Wife : I hope it won't be a long tour.
Holger Brandt : But I've been home longer than I usually stay.
Margit Brandt - His Wife : For that very reason - the days are going to seem so much emptier.
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Holger Brandt : Sensible? That's a strange word from those lips. Love isn't sensible.
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Holger Brandt : Anita? What is it? You don't look real in this light.
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Anita Hoffman : What am I? Your shadow. I don't exist without you.
Holger Brandt : You're not a shadow. How can you talk such nonsense?
Anita Hoffman : But it's enough. Let me be with you like this - always.
Holger Brandt : And will that be enough? Always?
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Holger Brandt : As time goes on, I suppose the memory of her will grow vague in my mind. But always in my heart will remain the image of her loveliness.
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Holger Brandt : We're all human, tragically human, and that we, all of us, make mistakes right up to the end of our lives.