Madam Kitty (1976)
Helmut Berger: Helmut Wallenberg
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Quotes
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Helmut Wallenberg : What frightens you, what you see or what you don't?
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Helmut Wallenberg : You must be able to compromise all the way. You have to humble yourself, in order to be reborn.
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Helmut Wallenberg : To trust is fine; to not trust is better.
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Helmut Wallenberg : All of them have just one goal: power! There are no ideals, no belief system! You are the one who has illusions, Margherita. You, and millions of Germans like you who believed in us. It was a way to put all of you at our feet.
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Helmut Wallenberg : You see? You're nothing. A dog! Trained to obey my commands.
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Helmut Wallenberg : [strong ice-cold German accent] I want you to be in my private dreams.
Margherita : You need another ghost, like your wife?
Helmut Wallenberg : It's my wish. But your duty.
[grabs her, grunts]
Margherita : You want me to lose my body? My very being?
Helmut Wallenberg : [with contempt] Would you rather stay as you are now? With your pitiful love affair? My aims are higher.
[haughtily:]
Helmut Wallenberg : That's why I am a National Socialist. I have a goal. A hope. And with you, it will be complete,
[gesturing around him at all the trappings of his success]
Helmut Wallenberg : What does your pilot's ridiculous love-?
Margherita : It's not love.
Helmut Wallenberg : Here. I have a letter from him.
[offers it, and she comes forward, but then he pulls it away]
Helmut Wallenberg : I could destroy him.
[she grabs the letter]
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Helmut Wallenberg : You're my creation. I invented you. You're my accomplice.
Margherita : Do anything you want, anything! God knows when I'll see you again.
Helmut Wallenberg : [looks up] Very soon.
Margherita : Wait! I want to make it last as long as possible!
[sits up as she remembers:]
Margherita : Your wife!
Helmut Wallenberg : I've sent her away. Even the servant has the day off.
Margherita : She's still your wife.
Helmut Wallenberg : You might be powerful enough to get rid of her.
Margherita : Kiss me. Please kiss me.
[gasps]
Margherita : This house is no place for illusions.
Helmut Wallenberg : [dangered, gets up] I'm not illusions!
[storms off into next room, goes on rampage, upsetting chandelier]
Helmut Wallenberg : Look! My wife's grandfather was a Jew!
Margherita : [follows him] If they find out, that could be dangerous, even for you.
Helmut Wallenberg : Not when I have the power I deserve. The power of Himmler!
Margherita : [kneeling in front of him] You're mad...
Helmut Wallenberg : I have in my hands the bedroom secrets of everybody in Germany. Ribbentrop, Goebbels, Keitel, Jodl, even Himmler himself. I know the details of every single one of them. Their cocaine intake... their impotence, their perversions, their thieving, their betraying. Their rivalries... Defeatist cowards!
Margherita : What do your superiors think about it?
Helmut Wallenberg : They won't have time to think. The original idea wasn't mine... I admit. But I know how I can get rid of them all. At my convenience.
Margherita : [scoffs] You have illusions about your power.
Helmut Wallenberg : No, no, no.
[yanks her up]
Helmut Wallenberg : Every word is true.
[takes her by the shoulders, shakes her]
Helmut Wallenberg : It's true!
[shakes her violently]
Helmut Wallenberg : Get that through your head! I don't give a damn about National Socialism! Just as none of our leaders give a damn! It's a means to an end! Power! They have no ideas, no faith! You are the one with illusions, Margherita... you! And the millions of other Germans who believed in us. It's a way to get you all on our side.