Young Catherine (1991 TV Movie)

Hartmut Becker: Catherine's Father

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• Catherine's Father : Now, have you finished your Geography lesson?

  Catherine : It's boring.

  Catherine's Father : Without learning, my dear, we are as beasts of the field.

• Johanna : Marriage? Sophie and the Grand Duke Peter of Russia. He will be Emperor. Our little Sophie will be Empress. I'll be grandmother to a future Czar of all the Russias. I'll be...

  Catherine's Father : You're getting rather ahead of yourself. It seems she - she's simply goods on approval.

• Catherine's Father : The Empress might not like her. Sophie might not like the Grand Duke. It might even mean she would have to change her faith.

  Johanna : That wouldn't be the end of the world.

  Catherine's Father : It might be the end of her soul.

• Catherine's Father : Johanna, we are talking about our daughter's happiness, not her corsets!

• Catherine's Father : If it is God's will, then it is your duty to go. Go you must. Duty before all things, as I have taught you. To your God, to your country, and to your family.