Stromboli (1950)

Mario Vitale: Antonio Mastrostefano

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Quotes 

• Karin : I don't care about your barley. Or, your vines! Or, your new terra! I want to leave this island and go away, far away! Like all the others who lived here and were born here and went away, far away!

  Antonio : ...Listen, this is my home! You are my wife! You stay because I want to!

• The Priest : San Bartolo, our patron saint, will bless you. It was San Bartolo who stopped the lava and the fire up there with his hands and saved our homes. You will be happy here, won't you? This is your home now.

  Antonio : Grazie a Padre.

  Karin : Good-bye, Father.

• Antonio : [singing]  Here we are, poor wretches, in this hell, Condemned to tyranny...

• Karin : What does that mean?

  [runs through different hand gestures] 

  Karin : I have learned this one and that. I know this one and that.

  Antonio : This means *here*.

  Karin : Oh, you'll spank me.

  [giggles] 

• Antonio : My partners got more money than me. They took advantage of me. Because you are different. They know I have to take care of you. They know I cannot get a better job. They give me a smaller share. But, I will work more for you. I will work more for you.

  Karin : Don't worry about it. We will manage.

• Antonio : I break your face.

  Karin : But what's the matter with you? I haven't done anything wrong. I went there to use her sewing machine.

  Antonio : You went to the house of a bad woman. I'll show you.

  Karin : Yes, yes, yes, you'll show me. But, you don't scare me!

• Karin : Look.

  Antonio : You change everything. The pictures?

  Karin : Yes, the pictures of your family, I put them away.

  Antonio : Madonna?

  Karin : The Madonna, too.

  Antonio : I Mama put the Madonna there.

  Karin : All right. I didn't throw it away. I just moved it. Look here.

  Antonio : A tree - in the house?

  Karin : Yes. You don't like it.

  Antonio : Yes. Maybe.